Shooting in newtown, connecticut, communities across the nation and around the world pay tribute to the victims. And the National Rifle association speaks out for the First Time Since the attack. It proposes a controversial plan to prevent similar mass shootings. Lets go out front. Good evening, everybody. I am Soledad Obrien in forever inburnett tonight. Out front this evening, lowering expectatio expectations, just ten days until we fall off the fiscal cliff and no deal in site. Tonight president obama urged congress to broker a scaled down deal. I just speak to speaker boehner, and i also met with senator reid. In the next few days a asked leaders of congress to work towards a package that prevents a tax hike on middle class americans, protects Unemployment Insurance for 2 million americans and lays the groundwork for further work on both growth and deficit reduction. Thats an achievable goal. That can get done in ten days. Yesterday the House Speaker john boehner failed to garner e
Down after a threatened boycott by the Football Team and a grad students Hunger Strike. Are they rewriting the playbook for fighting racism on campus . There is a lot to get to tonight. I want to begin with athena jones live for us from springfield tonight. Big crowds for donald trump tonight in springfield. And he took some shots at his opponent. Tell us what he said. He did. Hi, don. It was a big crowd, a boisterous crowd, very enthusiastic. Trump seemed to be eating it up and he had a lot to say about his rivals both within his party and outside of the party. Weve heard him talk about Hillary Clintons private email server issue. Today he hit her on that again calling it a crime. Take a listen. And you better remember theres a sixyear statute of limitations on that crime. So headlinery is running for a lot of reasons. One of them is because she wants to stay out of jail. The crowd really enjoyed that. Trump said that if he wins the election, he is going to look at that crime very ser
The two most qualifying people that when you look back on this presidency to have ever been associated with donald trump, hes spending this day instead of letting the spotlight be on brett kavanagh, who very much animates the kinds of voters hell need to attract if he wants to stand for reelection thats a known unknown at this point by continuing to rapidly respond like a oneman band, like a rodeo dee jay, radio dee jay, to this book which depicts him as we often cover him, a loose cannon, someone who is undisciplined, but not only distrusted by the closest advisors around him, but someone who the closest people to this president fear what he would do without the checks and balances provided by men like general mattis. So, it was a stunning juxtaposition which you just played. And note the two references in those comments, number one, he noted the quote about him that mattis had delivered. Number two, he noted the book he has generated during the time of his presidency, which is why we