Shooting in newtown, connecticut, communities across the nation and around the world pay tribute to the victims. And the National Rifle association speaks out for the First Time Since the attack. It proposes a controversial plan to prevent similar mass shootings. Lets go out front. Good evening, everybody. I am Soledad Obrien in forever inburnett tonight. Out front this evening, lowering expectatio expectations, just ten days until we fall off the fiscal cliff and no deal in site. Tonight president obama urged congress to broker a scaled down deal. I just speak to speaker boehner, and i also met with senator reid. In the next few days a asked leaders of congress to work towards a package that prevents a tax hike on middle class americans, protects Unemployment Insurance for 2 million americans and lays the groundwork for further work on both growth and deficit reduction. Thats an achievable goal. That can get done in ten days. Yesterday the House Speaker john boehner failed to garner e
Was blind but now i see Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me outfront next as we quickly approach the fiscal cliff, president obama makes a new proposal to congress. One week after the Deadly School shooting in newtown, connecticut, communities across the nation and around the world pay tribute to the victims. And the National Rifle association speaks out for the First Time Since the attack. It proposes a controrsial plan to prevent similar mass shootings. Lets go out front. Good evening, everybody. I am Soledad Obrien in for erin burnett tonight. Out front this evening, lowering expectations, just ten days until we fall off the fiscal cliff and no deal in site. Tonight president obama urged congress to broker a scaled down deal. I just speak to speaker boehner, and i also met with senator reid. In the next few days a asked leaders of congress to work towards a package that prevents a tax hike on middle class americans, protects Unemployment Insurance for 2 mil
Outfront next. As we quickly approach the fiscal cliff, president obama issues a new proposal to congress. Plus, one week after the Deadly School shooting in newtown, connecticut, communities across the nation and around the world pay tribute to the victims. And the National Rifle association speaks out for the First Time Since the attack. It proposes a controversial plan to prevent similar mass shootings. Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im soledad eye brine in for erin burnett. Outfront, lowering expectations ten days before we fall off the fiscal cliff, and there is still no deal in sight. Tonight, president obama urged congress to broker a scaleddown deal. I just spoke to Speaker Boehner and i also met with senator reid. In the next few days ive asked leaders of congress to work toward a package that prevents a tax hike on middleclass americans, protects Unemployment Insurance for 2 million americans, and lays the groundwork for further work on both growth and deficit reduction. Tha
Any town. There are many difficult days, weeks and months ahead. Starting tomorrow, parents will begin burying their children, trying to imagine its almost unthinkable. Its impossible to find the words. All the words that we can say in this hour are going to seem so small, the face of the tragedy that has occurred here. Now, is a time to lean on one another or the parents and the loved ones and the families here to be the ones to lean on. They came together for a convince il, crowding into the local High School Just behind me. The local High School Auditorium to listen to spiritual leader offering any words of comfort they could. President obama spoke as well and said that we as a nation are simply not doing enough to keep our children safe. He promised to work, to put an end to future tragedies like this one. Well play you his call for action shortly. But we dont want to focus on the killer. For the last several days we havent said his name. I dont want history to remember him. We and
I wish to god she had had an m4 in her office locked up so when she heard gunfire she pulls it out and she didnt have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands, but she takes him off, takes his head off before he could kill those precious kids. Saying something Many Americans are in agreement with. Frank bruni, when i hear that, i just despair, but it is a view Many Americans have. Polls suggest that if the teachers had all been armed, one would have shot the guy and if Police Officers cant fire with an accuracy, they cant fire. Why would we believe teachers in schools would have wonderful marksmanship and would make this a better thing. It defies common sense. It cannot be true. America has the most guns of any of the civilized world. And the most gun related deaths. Twice as many as anybody else. The penny doesnt seem to drop with many people. Ive been writing on and off about gun control. Since then 15 years, states have gotten more lax. The federal government has done anything.