Nras power. Mayor Michael Bloombergs right hand power. Will real america come around on common sense gun laws . John nichols on the conservative push to keep common sense gun laws out of the middle of the country. Plus, republican obstacles to reduce violence with jonathan and alex wagner. And dr. Gail saults on the role Mental Health professionals need to play to reduce the vie lensz. No single law. No set of laws can eliminate evil from the world or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society. But that cant be an excuse for an action. Good to have you with us tonight. Folks, thanks for watching. Almost 24 hours ago, president obama called for a change in this country. Now, its up to all of us to make sure changes come to pass. The community of newtown connecticut is still deeply mourning the lives of 26 people, 20 of them children. The president struck an almost impossible balance of heartfelt emotion and out rage. Clearly, president obama feels the weight of the moment. N
Monitoring the situation. Whats the latest . Reporter as far as we know the u. S. Embassy has not been evacuated. They have not felt the need to do that. Unclear how many personnel are there now. Theres obviously a marine guard there and the iraqi forces are maintaining security for the many Foreign Missions in the green zone. As you know, this is the most fortified part of a very violent city and its been that way for the better part of stefrl years now ap and yarl another situation where this fortress has been breeched, let alone breached by hundreds if not thousands of protesters who are demanding fundamental change and a complete overhaul of the government, corruption about waste, not providing basic services to residents, and these are protests that have been building for weeks and months and culminated in this led by a popular local cleric who is inciting and encouraging the masses to just basically try to take down this government. There was supposed to be a Parliament Meeting t
To lead the cray doesnt matter. He is dying anyway. There was strong rejection of Kelly Saddlers compensates but not a single word from donald trump or the Trump White House. In a normal white house mocking a veteran over a cancer diagnosis piet get you fired at the very least there would be a public apology. But the Trump White House is not a normal would you say. So instead we got this. Does the white house not think you need to condemn the remarks. Im not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. Are you saying she didnt say it. Im not validating a leak out of an internal staff meeting one way or another. Why not apologize to mccain. Im not getting into a back and forth people want to create issues of leaked staff meeting. Does kelly stadleer work at the white house. She does yes. More broadly does the president set the tone . Does he pare responsibility for the tone set here at the white house and all of the of aers working here frankly certain
Yes great to see you too. You have a great evening joy thank you. You too. See you tomorrow morning. Im ali velshi. The truch white house is showing us something weve never seen before from nee white house. Today the deafening silence from donald trump and the administration after the white house official Kelly Saddler mocked senator john mccains brain cancer saying mccains opposition to the Trump Nominee to lead the cray doesnt matter. He is dying anyway. There was strong rejection of Kelly Saddlers compensates but not a single word from donald trump or the Trump White House. In a normal white house mocking a veteran over a cancer diagnosis piet get you fired at the very least there would be a public apology. But the Trump White House is not a normal would you say. So instead we got this. Does the white house not think you need to condemn the remarks. Im not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. Are you saying she didnt say it. Im not validati
Volker. Washington post reporting george kent testified about the meeting in his under oath closed door adopti door deposition. George kent met with investigators despite being directed by the state department not to do that. According to officials familiar with the investigation, the state Department Directed george kent not to appear and sought to limit his testimony. The House Intelligence Committee issued a lastminute subpoena organized him to appear, and he complied with that subpoena. George kent is the second current Top State Department official to defy a request not to comply with the houses impeachment inquiry, a request given to him by his employers is he state department. The first was marie yovanovitch, former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine who President Trump ordered to be removed from her post. She is still state department employee, but she did testify. The New York Times reports george kent raised concerns to colleagues early this year about the pressure being directed at