rights and liberals don t want you to have handguns or shotguns. they will let you have one hunting rifle and one bullet you have to lock up. that s basically his view. i think he makes a great view that we have to start demanding more responsibility of gun guys as he kept calling it but i think he, like myself, is saying let s have background checks so people who have committed violent crimes in the past can t walk into a store and get a gun and go home and cull their estranged wife and five kids. let s make sure he hasn t had domestic abuse. let s at least try. let s make sure this guy hasn t been arrested and sent to jail and out oral on parole for violenting raping a woman and he has a handgun. let s give ourselves a chance to keep our children in school and our teenagers when they go off to college or even go to the mall or go to a movie safe.
destruction. welcome to a brand new hour of america s newsroom on this good friday. i m bill hemmer. welcome here. nice to see you. alisyn: nice to see you too, bill. thanks so much, i m alisyn camerota in for martha maccallum today. this is confusing case. they arrested 30-year-old army veteran eric harroun. they arrested him in virginia plotting to use a rocket-propelled grenade against syrian president bashar al-assad. this could give him life in prison. doug, how did this army veteran end up in syria? reporter: good northerning. by all indications he wanted to join the fight and after he went. this is 30-year-old eric harroun who hails from arizona. he is charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. was in federal court outside of d.c. yesterday. this guy hasn t exactly made the secret of the fact he joined syrian rebels to overthrow syria s president bashar al-assad.
who are out smashing pope francis were smashing benedict xvi, when i mean the same people, i mean the same malcontents mostly on the left, people who have their own agendas. now to make it it clear, i know a lot of ex-priests and semarians and ex-nuns, many wonderful people. unfortunately there s a segment of ex-nuns, and ex-priesses are living in the past, not able to move on and call themselves progressives and they re the first out of the box smacking pope francis. in one sense i m glad, the mask is off and the guy hasn t had a chance to have a cup of coffee and they re out there. and we know the agenda is out there? and hasn t had the first holy communion. and cnn waited minutes before of talking about female priests be added to the order and cbs news their
were drug problems in america and they don t lose their kids because of it. if you can show that he is actively using taking care of kid. if you are a parent and you are caught with heroin and cocaine, grade a felony drugs, okay? that s okay? you don t automatically lose your child. no, you don t automatically lose your child. there are standards for conviction, first of all a. just because you are caught with it. second of all drug addiction is a disease and you don t automatically lose your child because you suffer from it they have to investigate. a lot of good people. listen, bill, a lot of good people have drug problems. and people who want to be good parents are suffering with drug problems. i m not excusing it. they don t necessarily deserve to lose their child forever more because they suffer with it they will look into the particular circumstance to see if there is abuse or neglect. that hasn t been shown yet in the case. bill: the investigation into this because a lot
problem and apparently the chronic neck problem is for looking the other way so many times. he may have been the first pope to tweet but as the leader he tried to hold back the forces of refusing to expand the role of women. pope-out. [ laughter ] naturally, i was shocked. the pope came out of the closet? i mean, it makes sense, the guy hasn t had a girlfriend in like forever. bill: joining us now from new york city laura ingraham who is a convert to the catholic church. and i guess the essential question here is is the american media using the pope s departure to just batter the whole thing? i think you stated it right. the catholic church is still paying for grievous sins committed sometimes 20, 30 years ago against