show. joe klein talked about it in a slap at the administration this week when he mentioned the president s implementtation problem and giving a great speech, that he must have known from the beginning were doomed in the senate. i think if he had acted more quickly, if he had acted immediately when people were still very upset about what happened in connecticut, the school shooting, he might have stood some chance, but i think at this point it s just kind of cynical speech giving to suggest that he really cares about this. jon: the n.r.a. held a news conference on tuesday, what it calls its school shield program, the idea of putting armed guards in schools. you know, talking about enhanced mental health screening and so forth this this country and didn t get a lot of positive press, should it?
show. joe klein talked about it in a slap at the administration this week when he mentioned the president s implementtation problem and giving a great speech, that he must have known from the beginning were doomed in the senate. i think if he had acted more quickly, if he had acted immediately when people were still very upset about what happened in connecticut, the school shooting, he might have stood some chance, but i think at this point it s just kind of cynical speech giving to suggest that he really cares about this. jon: the n.r.a. held a news conference on tuesday, what it calls its school shield program, the idea of putting armed guards in schools. you know, talking about enhanced mental health screening and so forth this this country and didn t get a lot of positive press, should it? i don t find the n.r.a.
are alarmed by this and say it s a clear violation of that 2009 law. in a letter to defense secretary leon panetta, they write, dod, that s the department of defense s implementtation of the voter on base system has been at best a hollow exercise. many of the based assistance offices that do exist are grossly inadequate and at least half of them are either closed or completely unstaffed. the pentagon says there s a simple explanation for this. the contact information that the inspector general was use to go contact the bases was out of date. we have joint bases that we have, other kinds of things that happen so that in any military environment, whether the subject be voting or anything else, phone numbers change and e-mail addresses change. secretary panetta has the not responded publicly to the senator s larry, but a
receiving preventive health services. we know already that young people who would otherwise be denied, who have pre-existing conditions, are being covered. we know young people up to age 26 are now covered on their parents health care plans and that seniors are going to have their medications covered and they won t have to reach into their pocket with that doughnut hole. i think in maryland, we ve said, you know what, this is the law. the constitutionality has been decided. we re going to embrace the implementtation. don t miss politics nation weekdays at 6:00 eastern right here on msnbc. the place for politics. u.s. markets are closed for the holiday but here s how they ended yesterday. the dow closed at 12,943 after adding 72 points. the s&p was up 8. the nasdaq gained 24. taking a look at overseas trading this morning. in tokyo the nikkei edged up 37 points. in hong kong the hang seng lost 25. stocks closed near session