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Personally affected by gun violence, people who lost their child or another loved one, more than 30 people with that connection to gun violence were in the gallery, were in the audience watching the speech. people who lost loved ones in mass shootings like aurora and newtown and tucson or in the kind of one-off gun violence that happens every day in our country. accidental shootings, drive-by shootings, workplace shootings. the parents of one of the little girls killed at sandy hook, grace mcdonnell, her parents were there at the state of the union, along with the younger brother of vicki soto...

Audience watching the speech. people who lost loved ones in mass shootings like aurora and newtown and tucson or in the kind of one-off gun violence that happens every day in our country. accidental shootings, drive-by shootings, workplace shootings. the parents of one of the little girls killed at sandy hook, grace mcdonnell, her parents were there at the state of the union, along with the younger brother of vicki soto, a teacher who was killed at the school that day. two sandy hook teachers were in the audience including one who survived gunshot wounds to her foot and leg and hand. she was i...

0 great to have you here tonight. thanks for being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> what happens next year? does leon panetta stay on as defense secretary even after he's gone through the motions of stepping down and going back home? >> yes. we've had all of these farewell speeches. the most recent today. then he went off with his wife sylvia for a valentine's dinner and was hoping that he wouldn't have to come back. but now he will come back because the senate is in recess. you know, when these things happen, they don't change their plans for recess. and so he, leon panetta, is going to have to le...

0 security it's time to stop playing politics with our department of defense and to move beyond the distractions and delay. allow this war hero an up or down vote and let our troops have the secretary of defense they deserve. remember when the top democrat in the senate harry reid declared just a few weeks ago the democrats would not change the rules in the senate? remember that? wouldn't change the rules. to stop senate republicans from abusing the process there. harry reid decided he would just instead make a hand shake deal with the republicans' top senator mitch mcconnell. he said he was s...

0 republican senators john mccain, ray blunt, roger wicker, lindsey graham, susan murkowski, all these republican senators said before today they might vote no on chuck hagel but they wouldn't block a vote from the minority. they wouldn't filibuster. well, today when push came to shofr it was only susan collins and lisa murkowski who kept their word. all the others said that they wouldn't filibuster, that that would be wrong, and then they did it anyway. john mccain, roy blunt, roger wicker, lindsey graham all said they wouldn't do it, and then they did. senator graham for his part says he doe...