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2.8 million background checks up from 2 million in november and up 49% of december 2011, which itself, was a record high at the time. you should also know while gun sales have been spiking up and setting records, the percentage of american households with guns has been declining. we are increasingly headed toward an america where a smaller and smaller number of people have a larger amount of guns. i want to find out what the guests think we should know. >> that bmi news wasn't good for me. evidence based introductions -- >> that's bragging. that's bragging. that's a humble brag right there. al...

We knew the examples of the carter presidency and we understood what happened there. but i tell you, the only thing that i was thinking about throughout this entire enterprise was, i really want to get those guys back home safe. >> there were people who had said, let's not do this. let's wait. let's give it a little more time. so he had made a really tough call, and i think so much, so much hinged on that. >> as the world now knows, the mission was a success. >> tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin...

Charlene lam in charge of the physical infrastructure. the embassies across the globe. she was critical about what security they would get and not get. even going back to potentially ambassador kennedy who also might be a witness tomorrow. he laid out in a december 2011 memorandum what he thought the security would look like. we didn't even reach the goals laid out in the december 11 memo. we are talking about five people here. six people there. in baghdad president obama has 15,000 private security personnel in baghdad. 15,000. it's president obama's own private army yet we couldn't get two d...

To get a close look at that one, but we appreciate all the numbers there. let's listen to john senunu who was talking about this quite a bit yesterday. i want to get your thoughts on what he had to say. >> contrast that with a president that seemed -- not seemed, that was uninformed, detached, and demonstrated that he has been lazy and disengaged and has no idea, not only of his own policies, but has no idea what mitt romney's real policies are. the president last night showed us why the country is in trouble, and it's because we have a pwhrupl pwhre bumbler in the white house. martha: pretty ...

A truck crashes through a gas station convenience store injuring the store owner. it turns out this is no accident. december 2011, columbia, tennessee. in a desperate attempt to escape an angry man in a pickup truck, a woman runs into a convenience store but the store is no refuge. the man drives right through the glass doors destroying everything in his path. he misses the woman but store owner cannot get out of the way in time. >> translator: when i saw the truck coming towards me, i tried to run but it happened too fast. it hit me by the coin machine and i fell backwards. i was so scared. i...