Page 3 - Hendrick Smith News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

that's the culture. i don't know how you disconnect that from the accountability of command. breaking his silence, edward snowden tells a paper he is no traitor as he promises to reveal even more nsa secrets. after closed door meetings tuesday, they want more of the secret program to be made public. >> i think it's important that there be public hearings, that there be an opportunity to get straight answers. >> we have an obligation to watch them carefully. >> the government spooks are drunk on power and it's time for congress to intervene. an uneasy calm today in turkey after ...

the chair: on this vote, the yeas are 384, the nays are 482 and the amendment i agreed to. the question is on engrossment and third reading of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. , the yeas have it. the clerk: the bill to amend the fair labor standards to provide compensatory time for employees n the private sector. the speaker pro tempore: the -- for what purpose does the gentlelady seek recognition? >> i have a motion to recommit at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: is the bill? ady opposed to the >> the clerk: ms. she porter moves to ...

0 of people killed. how do you stop from doing it? >> ill all comes so pervasive in our society. >> how do you stop it? >> i think events like this, tragedies like this, we've all been changed by this to some degree. we find it too easy to accept one child being shot here and being shot there. events like this make us wake up. >> you going to stop people from seeing "django," the tarrantino movie, or "jack reacher" the idiot movie by tom cruise? how do you stop people putting out idiot movies one person being killed after another? >> you can't. but the people suffering from mental illnesses so...

0 bury as many children year after year after year from gun violence. >> governor rendell, what would be a good record for the president and vice president -- i know you've given thought to this. put your own brew together of ideas. you think there are ideas that could pass 50-some votes in the senate. something that would actually get done in honor of these kids and their parents who have had their lives permanently lost or permanently made miserable. what would be good that they could say come september at the end of this year. at least something good came out of this. >> ban assault rifles ...

And if you just pull back from the immediate political battles, if you kind of peel off the partisan war paint, then we should be able to get something done. >> redskins. welcome back to "hardball." that was president obama this afternoon, actually, speaking about the fiscal cliff. on the other end of pennsylvania avenue, house speaker john boehner plans to send his so-called plan "b" for a vote tomorrow. plan "b" would keep bush tax rates for everyone making under $1 million a year. how does this deal get done? joan walsh, there she is. and hendrick smith is author of "who stole the american ...