as promised we were having a conversation with joe johns in washington about specifically the executive action that the president will be making at some point with regard to gun control in this country, he was just meeting with u.s. he were to loretta lynch in washington. here s a look at that. happy new year, everybody. before the new year mentioned that i had given charge to my attorney general, the deputy director at the atf and personnel at my white house to work together to see what more we could do to prevent the scourge of gun violence in this country. i think everybody here is all too familiar with the statistics. we have tens of thousands of people every single year who are killed by guns. we have suicides that are
democrat. reporter: despite their differences, the two men do share some common ground. on taxes, for example, both have said they would eliminate a loophole that allows hedge fund and private equity managers to avoid paying millions to the irs. bush and trump have also agreed in the past that the iran deal should not be torn up on their first day of office, even though they have harshly criticized the agreement. joe johns in washington. out front tonight, rick wilson, a republican strategist who worked for george h.w. bush, and katrina peterson, spokeswoman for the tea party fund. you saw jeb bush poking fun at his plans for a wall on the mexican border by joking he d build a wall between the u.s. and iran and have mexico pay for it. is he starting to get the better of trump? no, these recycled remarks aren t really anything. this was just jeb bush s attempt to get out there in the mainstream and try to be more personable, have more fun with people. i thought it was a bit of a w
good morning. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we want to begin this hour with this image. police in waco texas, are just about to hold a news conference comes amid a chilling warning to law enforcement outlaw motorcycle gangs are gathering weapons and possibly planning to retaliate for sunday s deadly shootout. we ll come back and join this news conference as soon as it begins. i would like to start with the fight against isis. right now shia militias are bracing for a counteroffensive against the terror groups in ramadi. iraq s military unleashing a punishing round of air strikes in fallujah. we re getting new video of a dramatic rescue operation in ramadi after a group of iraqi soldiers had to be evacuated after getting trapped by isis. let s bring in cnn s senior washington correspondent joe johns in washington with more. good morning. reporter: good morning.
defense of these six officers gets going. all right, joe. thank you. staying on baltimore, very soon 2016 republican presidential candidate dr. ben carson is expected to be in the city. he will be there to meet with faith and community leaders. he s had a very close connection actually to the community in baltimore. he spent more than three decades of his life there, having served as director of pediatric neurosurgery at john hopkins. there is something that went wrong. somebody did something inappropriate, and therefore she understood i believe, that she was sitting on a powder keg and needed to do something to calm the situation down. do something, he says.
differences between the two that could allow defense attorneys to undercut the prosecution. those defense attorneys are already seizing upon the opportunity to file motions on behalf of two of these accused officers. one major difference in these two cases, the police investigation doesn t support some of the serious charges like second-degree murder. let s begin, first, with joe johns in washington with more on this. tell me about these two different cases and how they don t overlap. right, yeah. i think that s the important thing to say to the viewers right now. there were two investigations into the death of freddie gray. the first was by the baltimore police. the second was by the prosecutor. so what you re going to see is the emergence of this narrative that suggests there are differences between the cases. so the baltimore police investigation, some say, could end up undercutting the prosecution because these things