Historically been a progressive state, they passed the first assault weapons ban in the nation, these giant. 50caliber militarystyle rifles are legal for sale in new jersey. The legislature this year passed a bill to ban this specific gun in the state. That ban passed overwhelmingly in the legislature. It was supported by editorial pages throughout the state. But, again, tonights breaking news, in an august friday night news dump, traditionally a time when politicians do things that they hope wont get too much notice, new Jersey Republican governor and presumed president ial hopeful Chris Christie has vetoed legislation tonight that would have made militarygrade. 50caliber sniper rifles illegal in the garden state. Now, governor christie also partially vetoed a change to the states medical marijuana laws tonight, sending that back to the legislature. And he did the same thing, a partial veto, with a bill that would require background checks for all gun purchases in new jersey. And hey,
Reaching for a dinner roll or something. Stephanie thats when you know you are old. And well talk about how Mitch Mcconnell got his shell handed to him on the nuclear option. Oh, that sounds impressive. Stephanie here she. Good morning, everybody, president obama is going to talk about the Affordable Care act from the white house today and publicize the fact that Insurance Companies are now sending checks back to individuals and employees. 8. 5 million households are set to receive an average of about a hundred dollars. This is the part of the law that says that Insurance Companies have to spend at least 80 of your premium dollars on medical care. The president also going to emphasize reports we have seen lately that premium rates are going to drop considerable. Competition between plans is going to drive down costs as anticipated and an new report to be issued today will show that in 11 states the silver or middle plan will be on average 18 less than anticipated. The good news also co
Now we have a National Consensus that we can move on. Thats all ahead. Plus, the political right all at once, all in unison gets very vocally angry with karl rove. Poor karl. Frank rich from new York Magazine is here on the show tonight. Weve also got the latest Conspiracy Theory about the terrifying photo shopped secrets of president Barack Hussein obama. Did you know his middle name is hussein . The conspiracies about the president get even more conspiratorial than they have in years past. Were beginning with a big deal, a story you will not see anywhere else, because it is an nbc news exclusive. Nbcs National Investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff has uncovered something that is not classified, but treated as one of the biggest secrets of this administration. Its something the administration has been fighting over with newspapers and with congress and with all different sorts of groups suing them who have been trying to contain what mike isikoff has gotten closer than anybody e
Very vocally angry with karl rove. Poor karl. Frank rich from new York Magazine is here on the show tonight. Weve also got the latest Conspiracy Theory about the terrifying photo shopped secrets of president Barack Hussein obama. Did you know his emotional name is hussein . The conspiracies about the president get even more conspiratorial than they have in years past. Were beginning with a big deal, a story you will not see anywhere else, because it is an nbc news exclusive. Nbcs National Investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff has uncovered something that is not classified, but treated as one of the biggest secrets of this administration. Its something the administration has been fighting over with newspapers and with congress and with all different sorts of groups suing them who have been trying to contain what mike isikoff has gotten closer than anybody else to naming. And it is happening right in the midst of really big changes happening right now in National Security in washin
Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. Two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in cuba. But the crisis didnt start on october 16th because something happened that day, because there was some overt act by cuba, there was some provocation there or some announcement by them, it didnt start because on october 16th there was some act by the
soviet union or some announcement by the soviets that kicked off this crisis. The reason we can be so specific about when the Cuban Missile Cris