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Potentially take over the nominating process from what they consider the moderates. we'll see how they do on that. thanks for your time today. we are now going to check the news feed, as we like to do. staying in washington where one focus today is on gun violence. 30 minutes ago, nancy pelosi joined sara brady and relatives to mark 20 years since the brady bill passed and are renewing a call for stronger background checks. in connecticut, a state panel is reviewing the newtown school shootings and hearing about something they call incident management. the panel is expected to submit recommend...

Decisions, to raise the uncomfortable topics, to require responsibility and accountability. to be willing to stand hard when principles are being violated. and to be willing to compromise to find common ground with all of our people. >> chris christie, his inaugural address. he clearly looks a lot better than he used to. obviously, he's lost some weight, got a nice haircut. but he's got some political problems right now. on the investigative front, the new jersey state assembly and the senate announced today, they will now form one committee to look into the allegations against the governor. t...

There's a split among the democrats and an election coming up. >> that's right. maryland one of the bluest of blue states and the state attorney general fired a big shot across the buoy of one of his opponents and called the state's rollout akin to a skit on "saturday night live." the lieutenant governor is the guy who heads up the state panel on the state change rollout. so, a lot of really bad blood there. none of this is good news for the democratic governor in the state of maryland, martin o'malley, a presumed presidential candidate in 2016. >> thank you very much. signing up is just the b...

Probably crashed and then as we were getting farther away i realized it was fire training. >> probably today is not the most appropriate day. >> shepard: probably not. the massachusetts port authority which operates the airport later issued a statement that reads in part mass port apologizes for conducting the fire training exercise and understands that it may have offended many of those touched by the events of september 11th. teachers and school staff in arkansas can still arm themselves. that ruling from a state panel today despite warnings from the state's attorney general that the teacher...

Writing something sensitive. as you know, anne frank was famous for the diary she wrote while hiding from the nazis from world war ii. >>gretchen: a state panel passed a bill in oregon requiring schools to recite the pledge of allegiance each day. right now students are only given the chance to say the pledge once a week. we had a guest last week on "fox & friends" explaining why they wanted to make the chang. >> most schools do a pledge but there are some schools that do not do pledges. there are some schools that have no flags whatsoever. the flags are actually free with organizations around...