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Martha: does he lose steam on stuff? >> his standing up and using the bully pulpit. he's not a legislator. if he were executive action, brad and people who agree with him would now criticize him for doing something using his executive powers. he can't win with certain people who will never like anything he does. i hope he likes what he can do within the power of his office to address the issue. martha: when you look into this shooter's life, he and his mother had a lot of guns, they talked about guns and wrote about guns online a lot. everyone talks about mental health. nobody has the guts to ...

Few weeks ago in a federal -- in a prison in maryland, i was there with the attorney general, loretta lynch. and essentially what they did is decided if congress is going to be paralyzed on some of this stuff, they can see what they'll do with the executive powers. in that case, what they did was brought college education back to the criminal justice system for thousands of people who are serving time. and as someone who earned a two-year liberal arts degree while i was serving six years in prison, i understand the value of education as a tool for people to really turn their lives around. >> g...

Politics and bad policy. i also said to him, there's so much more work to be done. i talked about some of the things he can possibly do, including signs an executive order to ban the box. not just for positions within the federal government but to pull in people who contract with the federal government. which would mean be hundreds of thousand of jobs around the country would suddenly give a chance for qualified job seekers with a criminal record to compete for employment and then i mentioned a few other things he could do within his executive powers. >> glen, stay with us. i want to come out ...

>> and joe, what do the protesters want? i mean, of course, we know they want answers, but who do they hold responsible here? >> it depends on who you talk to. this morning a group held a news conference and they called for the resignation or termination of the police commissioner here. they also asked for an apology from the fraternal order of police for likening the demonstrators to a lynch mob. so later today, we're expecting to hear from a group that is calling on the governor of the state of maryland to use his own executive powers to try to change some of the issues that have arisen in t...

Militants relied heavily on twitter and other media networks to communicate. there are hundreds if not thousands of twitter accounts linked to isis. while enforcement are investigating along with the security team on that. >> we've just got word from our capitol hill producer that speaker boehner is calling on the house to pass a clean d.h.s. funding bill. we understand that that vote could happen as early as today. on the bill on cap top hill a lot of controversy to that and the link to immigration and whether the immigration elements of it should be stripped out. many believe the president o...