Of the tucson assassination attempt that left her partially blind and partially paralyzed. You must act. Be bold, be courageous. Reporter giffords and kelly, both gun owners, Want Congress to expand background checks to gun shows and private sales to make it harder for criminals and the mentally ill to get weapons. My wife would not be sitting in this seat. She would not have been sitting here today, if we had stronger background checks. Reporter but this first hearing on guns since the newtown massacre had another center of gravity. The National Rifle associations ceo, wayne lapierre. Should we have mandatory background checks at gun shows . If youre a dealer, thats already the law. Reporter of all the gunrelated ideas on the table, democrats believe universal background checks has the best chance politically. Well stop them from the original purchase. You missed that point completely. And i think its basic. Senator, i think you miss let there be order reporter the nra says adding new
Good evening. Two years after the arab spring swept through egypt ushering in a new government and setting that country on a path to democracy, things could hardly be more chaotic. The last 24 hours have been some of the bloodiest since the start of the revolution, claiming 41 lives over the last two days. A day after nine people died in antigovernment street demonstrations in cairo 32 were killed today rooted in the protest over the outcome of a mass murder trial but rooted in the countrys still deep Political Division. Weve been in the thick of some of those protests and start off tonight from cairo. Good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. You were here two years ago and saw the scenes back then. This was a country united behind one goal, to topple the dictator Hosni Mubarak but two years on this country is divided, polarized and for the first time many people here fear the violence is actually threatening the countrys very stability. The chaotic moments when anger turned deadly
Back into head start. What you get are our National Parks and monuments open again. What you get is the economy not stalling but continuing to grow. What you get are workers continuing to be hired. Thats what you get. Thats what you should be asking for. Take a vote and end this shutdown right now. The president s remarks came after a closed door meeting last night with congressional leaders yielding no results. That meeting lasted for over an hour and was described by republicans as, quote, polite but unproductive. Today both sides sticking to their positions with republicans refusing to fund the government unless obama care takes a hit. The white house insisting that the house pass a clean bill that funds the government. We start our Coverage Today with nbcs kelly odonnell, whos on capitol hill. Kelly, i know there was at least a little bit of a bipartisan lunch with senator rand paul. Then you have two members of congress, one democrat, one a republican, coming out with some kind of
What they reveal tonight. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. And that major development. What we learned from the fbi today. Top u. S. Officials confirming tonight they believe they have now identified the man behind this mask. The killer from those horrific isis videos, killing those american hostages. Lets get right to abcs senior justice correspondent pierre thomas, who was at the fbi today. Pierre, what did you learn . Reporter david, i spoke with the fbi director today. And he said the u. S. Now knows who that man is. The barbaric video is haunting. A masked man standing above doomed american journalist james foley. The man in the mask known by the nickname jihadi john. Sources say authorities have used a variety of techniques to try to learn his true identity. Listen. The isis radical speaks in a british accent. You have plotted against us. Reporter that voice has been compared to known recordings and intelligence officials have been allowing
The United States and around the world. Im George Howell at cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. Im max foster in london, and we are following breaking news for you this hour. Max, good to be with you. A big loss for the u. S. President and his controversial travel ban. The decision came down thursday. A panel of three judges on a u. S. Appeals court ruled to keep the ban on hold. As a result, people from seven mostly muslim countries can continue coming to the United States. The president signed the executive order two weeks ago. He says it is necessary to keep terrorists out of the United States. Mr. Trump reacted to the decision almost immediately on twitter. You see the reaction here. See you in court, the security of our nation is at stake, he says. Its a political decision that were going to see them in court and i look forward to doing it. You believe the judges we have a situation where the security of our country is at stake, and its a very, very serious situation. So we look fo