background checks on their customers. all across america, survivors of gun violence and those who lost a child or a parent or a spouse to gun violence, are forced to mark such awful anniversaries every single day. yet, congress still hasn t done anything to prevent what happened to them from happening to other families. reporter: the president will review the slate of pending changes with loretta lynch monday. the white house says it will be in line with polls that show broad support for tightening background checks. change is always going to take all of us. the gun lobby is well organized and loud in its defense of easily accessible guns for anyone. the rest of have us to be as passionad and well oregon passionate and well organized of our defense of our kids. that s the work of citizenship, to stand up and fight for the change we seek. reporter: vowing to fight the
sources say it will be a package of executive acts on gun control. expected before the january 12th state of the union, and aimed at the gun show loophole, which allows some firearms sellers to avoid conduct backgrounds checks on customers. all across america, survivors of gun violence and those who opt a child or a parent are forced to mark such awful anniversaries every single day. yet, congress still hasn t done anything to pre vent what happened to them from happening to other families. the president will review the administrative changes with attorney general loretta lynch on monday t. white house argues it will be within his executive authority and show broad support for tightening background checks. change is going to overtake all of us t. gun lobby is loud and well organized in its defense of effortlessly available guns for anyone. the rest of us are going to have to be just as passionate and
was first celtiset in motion by lame duck president before the current president was even born and now being over hauled by another lame duck president that s because there is no political calendar when it comes to american leadership. president obama prove that today. it is a lesson this congress still hasn t learned. that does it for our show. now with alex wagner starts right now. an achievement over half a century in the making. this is now. today the united states is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. allen gross leading cuba after 65 years in prison. released on humanitarian grounds. it was crucial knowing i wasn t forgotten. there s going to be a lot of mixed feeling in the u.s.a.
he has done more thing. there s more he could do and more we re looking forward to him doing. thanks to all of you. eight senators are leaving today for ukraine, but congress still hasn t settled on one consistent plant to help and probably won t before they recess. just last hour the ukrainian prime minister was back at the white house talking to vice president biden. at this point what will help? and was it a stroke of marketing genius or unpresidential? everybody it seems to have a funny or die video. we ll check in on how it s plays outside the beltway, later in the reputation report. hello? hey, i notice your car is not in the driveway. yeah. it s in the shop. it s going to cost me an arm and a leg. that s hilarious. sorry. you shoulda taken it to midas. get some of that midas touch. they tell you what stuff needs fixing, and what stuff can wait. next time i m going to midas.
but cnn newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. speak of washington, we have a busy two hours ahead. randi, thank you very much. hello, everyone. are you ready for this? the debt deal is done, right? not exactly. we still need to see votes happening both in the senate and the house. on the house side, it looks like some democrats could be holding things up. we ll speak with one of them. we expect to hear from speaker of the house, john boehner this hour. we ll carry that live for you. so stay tuned for that as well. let s begin here. as the clock continues to tick, nine hours now remaining until a potential default of the u.s. government. and congress still hasn t voted on the debt reduction agreement announced last night. we heard the senate would be voting first. then we heard the house would be voting first. but the house still hasn t voted. that tells me there may be a problem rounding up some of those votes. we have just heard from vice president joe bide