work making a cruel form of punishment. they point out to a case in oklahoma last year. a prisoner woke up during his execution. it took more than 40 minutes to put him to death. oklahoma officials say that they ve since increased the dosage to make sure that the sedative worked. shannon bream is in washington. got pretty heated in the court today, huh? at one point justice alito referenced guerrilla warfare. they make sure the two drugs states used previously to induce the coma-like state won t be available and then when states are forced to use less reliable drugs they get sued. justice scalia jumped in saying to the inmate s attorney, quote you want to come before the court and say, well this third drug is not 100% sure. the reason it isn t 100% sure is because the abolitionists have rendered it impossible to get the 100% sure drug. well the question becomes if
was to try to get more information. that s often what happens in these situations. there is an emergency call number that has been set up and a call center that will be taking calls from those extremely concerned relatives at this point. of course, it s not known how much information they can actually give. we do know that the search and rescue operation is ongoing at this point so certainly the hope is that something will be nobody very soon. paula, i know the number of passengers on the flight has flukt u wractuated flightily si got word of the situation between 155 and 162 but at this stage what are we hearing about the nationalities of those onboard? well, this isn t 100% confirmed at this point. this is what we re hearing though is that there are 155 passengers. i think the discrepancy is the 162 may be including members of the crew on board. that s just my assumption at this point. we obviously have to wait for
so activism, a lot of activism going on right now, such as the pipeline is concerned. we have a lot of activism out there when it comes to the environment. i ll tell you where the activism has to be. the activism has to be on the unemployed in this country. the activism has to be on the vulture chart and the wage disparity that s taking place in america. but every time the democrats try do something about ihtimal s more roadblock, more roadblocks, more roadblocks. it s a broken record, isn t it? it s the republican party. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question do you trust john boehner or president obama? text a for john boehner, text b for president obama. 67622. if this isn t 100%, i don t know what will be. can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com and we ll bring results later in the show. now, the republicans over the weekend, their went off to this, you know, secluded place in cambridge, maryland, to figure out how we re going to talk to
and sounds of those parents, i arrived there within a couple of hours of the shooting, leaving the firehouse in sandy hook, learning for the first time that their children would not be coming home that evening. those parents are on the stage, in the audience today. they are witnesses who will drive this discussion very, very powerfully. i don t think we ve lost that passion or momentum. i want to come out to the panel. because you know, i think that is, that s the reason this just seems to, mind-bageling, when you see those parents and hear their stories, it s hard to believe that it isn t 100% of people who support the idea of sane gun control legislation. i want to play another bite from what the president said. he sort of started to frame the issue of gun control, of gun safety legislation in a political context we re now familiar with. by breaking it down by percentages. i want to play what the president said about the 90% and the 10%. how often do 90% of americans free on anyt
than talking about the specific choices that we could make, the limited legislation that we re talking about, they speak in these broad terms about freedom and demonize anyone that isn t 100% where they want them to be. thank you both for joining me tonight. thanks, lawrence. come up, senator ted cruz is in the rewrite because he seems to have absolutely no problem when you compare him to a disgraced former senator who was censured by the senate and drank himself to death. okay with ted cruz if you say he might be like joe mccarthy. and the coal better bump is working for stephen colbert s sister. i m telling you right now, the girl back at home would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle. (screams) i m really glad that girl stayed at home.