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Of his only public event slamming republicans on budget matters. white house officials did delay the start time of monday's event, but aides say they never considered cancelling his remarks. it's not even clear what benefit the white house hoped to reap in launching a major fall offensive in the middle of a national and local tragedy. cable networks cut away from obama's remarks as soon as he finished talking about the navy yard. it did seem -- i actual lie thought his remarks about the tragedy itself were visually distracting because he was surrounded by people who were smiling. >> the timing...

Capitol. if you take your car into the garage, the raburn garage where joe used to work you show your i.d. and let you in your car. they do a cursory search. if you have that i.d. they wave you in. this individual had that i.d. hat the first step to get you through the door. you're seeing enhanced security all the folks starting to come in to the navy yard, the gentlemen from the navy are out there searching their vehicles and making sure they have the proper credentials. in d.c. for most of the government buildings you show the i.d. you're brought up to the next stage. >> thank you. we'll be ...

Tell us a little bit about that area, the community at navy yard, what the set up is, how he might have gotten in there. >> reporter: well good morning. one thing that's been lost on the american public so far when you hear the term navy yard you expect a base that's isolated from the community. and this is very much the opposite here. this is in the mid. a thriving neighborhood in d.c. that's experience ad rebirth in the last few years after the nationals ballpark has been built further down the street. you have workers here that number in the thousands. many of them are middle class folks, h...

Family our heart goes out to you. we apologize for lotion a loved one. >> with us on set this tuesday morning, mike barnacle, national affairs editor for "new york" magazine, john hilman and jim. >> reporter: officials are still shaking their heads what drove aaron alexis to do what he did and how did he initially enter that navy yard past armed security guard with at least one weapon? but all the focus yesterday was stopping the killing, getting the shooter, it was sheer chaos. morning rush hour in the nation's capital pierced by the wail of sirens. 8:15 the first reports that a gunman was on...

Advocacy group you've done with your organization and this question perhaps with the details we know right now. it is a valid one. what laws could have prevented this incident yesterday. this is still developing and does this show that there's this frustration because we see this lull, if you will, in the fight to continue to bring up newtown and reasonable legislation that might prevent a tragedy, perhaps not though in this case? >> after sandy hook massacre in december, what we did hear from the nra, the solution is arm every school teacher, custodian, volunteers at schools as the solution f...