on television for an hour and a half is hard enough. i have come close a few times. i have come close. in life 24 hours a day that s hard. really hard. doing it for the kid. i understand. that s a cool move. yeah, yeah, yeah. let s move on with this show shall we? we begin with the gun control debate. later on today in the house, two republicans and two democrats are sponsoring this bipartisan bill similar to one in the senate. today s house measure would make gun trafficking a federal crime and crack down on the so-called straw purchasers, the ones who purchase guns only to resell them to customers that are banned from buying them. a proposal backed by the senate and the president. with more on this, abc s john karl. reporter: faced with an uphill battle in congress, the president took his campaign for gun control measures on the road. we re not going to wait for the next newtown. a central component of the president s plan is requiring virtually anybody buying a gun
again seems too soon. the director could not have expected this to go over well. people say oh, sure, come in 2 months later and do something. seems weird. the director says the script focuses on a 13-year-old boy has a mental illness, coping with fears after the newtown shooting. maybe it was a story on how towns cope. even still it is it is too raw. it parallels what happens. makes it worse. it s hard. not yet. not yet. related news turning to the gun control debate. a bipartisan house bill to be introduced today to crack down on on gun trafficking. two republicans and two democrats are sponsoring the bill. similar to one already in the senate. house measure would make gun trafficking a federal crime and crack down on so-called straw purchasers, the folks who purchase guns only to resell them to customers banned from buying them. the senate and president both
young boys he allegedly targeted over a span of more than 15 years. let s go straight to nancy grace who s been all over this case to try to get a better understanding of all of this. nancy, was this a smart decision by sandusky and his attorney? it was a win-win decision. it was a win for the defense joe johns because otherwise they would have had the case laid bear for the public of the granted it s a closed courtroom to cameras but there are spectators and reporters that can hear what happened and they would have had heard every excruciating detail. to our count, we can identify five alleged victims there waiting in line to testify against sandusky. so they would have given their testimony. the win for the prosecution is that the defense did not get a dry run at cross-examination. this is what i predicted to you yesterday should go down. the state should under no circumstance offer up all of the alleged victims like a thanksgiving turkey, to get sliced up on cross exam.
pass a balanced budget constitutional amendment. a gop house measure that failed during the recent fight over the debt limit. rick: switching gears and talking about the weather and tropical storm emily, breaking up over the bahamas, but the national hurricane center says there is an 80% chance the storm reforms over the next couple of days. reappearing as a tropical depression as it moves into the open atlantic ocean. meantime, drought is now affecting an area over a million square miles, 32% of the lower 48 states, the situation is particularly awful in the south where they re in their 34th day of triple digit temperatures and the intense heat there also creating the threat of rolling blackouts. in midland, texas, the power grid reached emergency energy alert level 2. that s one step away from some real serious trouble. level 3 is where you actually
must pass bill to fund our troops and it should be fully offset. that s what this debate has been all about for a long time. not whether these are worthy items. 11 senate democrats joining republicans to reject that house measure. the vote was 46 to 51. the senate bill strips out those domestic add-ons. it contained $30 billion for the afghanistan war, plus funding for the war in iraq, also $5 billion for disaster aid, $6 billion in foreign aid and $13 billion for vietnam vets exposed to agent orange. defense secretary robert gates warned the lawmakers that if this funding was not passed before they went for their august recess, that he might have to furlough thousands of pentagon employees. the stripped down senate measure is expected to pass the house, but not without grumbling from house democrats. juliet: live at the white house, thank you very much. steve: that s what it looks like to get a live shot of