certain theater, you stand up. easier to do when you are sitting side-by-side with members of your own party. so i don t think you see that in a way. i think some felt that it was a good gesture in the moment. not something that needed to be specifically repeated. you see people sitting with their fellow state senior or a colleague across the aisle. that kind of thing. you can read politics into everything here tonight you mentioned the concerns of the navy personnel taken into custody. certainly we seen statements raising a lot of concern, from republicans running for re-election. not so much from democrats tonight. concerned there are going to be expectation for presidents. we will talk about his deal with irans and republicans in the room to show their displeasure. we are told not to expect an extensive section about the president s gun proposals. because that was rolled out very
december 2nd assault in san bernardino to have made false statements, and have purchased the weapons. and also a marriage to one of farook s relatives. so the idea is that it is very quick, and just to find out what he is pleaing, and then the move on the set the trial date, and so a couple of minutes if everything goes according to plan. and all of this while the investigation is still under way in san bernardino of what happened and the attackers and the time line and all of it. stephanie elam, thank you very much. and donald trump is the new owner of a custom rifle. we will speak to the new hampshire gun shopowner about why he gave trump a gun as a gift, and most importantly, what does he now think about the new gun proposals from president obama. phil!
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president obama just hours from now unveils new gun proposals to the nation. what are the details? we ll talk about what s inside. we ll discuss new controversy. presidential hopeful scrambling with less than four weeks to the iowa caucuses. market jitters around the world this morning. we have the close eye on the markets. how is china doing after the epic selloff yesterday? we have fresh reports from around the world. you have to stop the selling before you rebound. welcome back to early start. i m john berman. i m christine romans. 30 minutes past the hour. president obama will announce his executive action on guns in just hours. we know the general shape of this plan after meeting with the attorney general and fbi director.
accused of horrible activities. it is only poke to politicize the issue if you agree with the politicizer. i don t know if you read the saturday new york times editorial. i don t know if you ever do. ever are i moichg. they treated it like a theater review. the president had under stated fury. it was all a set fees not taking into account the fact that nine real people are dead. nor did they mention in september in chicago 59 people were killed by hand guns. 249 people 349 people in the entire year before that. in oregon they have had 90 murders. this is not a question of craze the white beta boys in their basements. that is a problem. it is much larger issue. every single solution on the left. there are 13 so-called common sense gun proposals not one of which would have done anything to int near with the last 12