The Afghan People are terrified. Theyre scared theyre going to have their allies leave, their government is weak and that theres a chance they will slide back into not just taliban control but potentially civil war. Suarez on tonights daily download, we look back at the 2012 election and ahead to the inauguration with the obama campaigns internet guru, harper reed. We basically built what amounted to an adtech company, but instead of targeting ads on the internet, of course we did that, we really maximized the targeting thats physical. What that means is were not wasting anyones time. Brown and we examine the fallout from Tour De France champion Lance Armstrongs admission that he used performance enhancing drugs. Brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting.
I had to break it to all the folks who were assembled at the firehouse that their children or their loved ones were not coming home. Thats an exercise that i will live with for the most of my life. House Speaker John Boehner is now willing to consider a tax increase for those making more than 1 million a year. The nfl took a moment to reflect. Teams and players paid tribute to those affected by the School Massacre. If congress wasnt so afraid of the nra, wed all be a lot better off. A free people should be an armed people. Once you start drawing the line where do you stop . And all that matters. Silent snit. She was the best mother anybody could ask for. She was the type of person that could just light up the room. Im so blessed to be her dad. On cbs this morning. God has called them all home. For those of us who remain let us find the strength to carry on and make our country worthy of their memory. Welcome to cbs this morning. Im charlie rose in new york. Norah odonnell is in newtown
But to help build this country. This is our first task as a society. Keeping our children safe. This is how we will be judged. And their voices should compel us to change. And thats why last month i asked joe to lead an effort along with members of my cabinet to come up with some concrete steps we can take right now to keep our children safe. To help prevent mass shootings. To reduce the broader epidemic of gun violence in this country. And we cant put this off any longer. Just last thursday, as tv networks were covering one of joes meetings, on this topic, news broke of another school shooting, this one in california. In the month since 20 precious children and 6 brave adults were violently taken from us at sandy hook elementary, more than 900 of our fellow americans have reportedly died at the end of a gun. 900. In the past month. And every day we wait, that number will keep growing. So im putting forward a specific set of proposals based on the work of joes task force. And in the da
Taiwan, as they were both as they were both called. So there have been many times in our history when president s have had to do the hard work. Esident george h. W. Bush made a budget agreent for which he may have caused him to lose the election in 1992 because it angered a number of republicans, but it also helped balance the budget and gave us a period of time in the 1990s when that agreement plus a good economy gave us an actual surplus of funding. Sense that there is at the white house a feeling, two things that i would like to disabuse the white house of. Thfirst is tt the budget problem isnt a real problem. I cant believe that people at the white house think that. I mean, Everybody Knows it is. Senator mcconnell gave a very good explanation of what was going what was going on there, but let me say it this way in 2025, according to the Congressional Budget Office, every dollar of taxes we collect will go to pay for medicare, medicaid, Social Security and interest on the debt, and
Think, central to the next chapter in this transition. I just wanted to comment on that. The second question as it relates to afghanistan is one that senator boxer raised and her work on this has been exemplary, on women and girls and in particular, i have a an amendment that we got through the National Defense authorization act which would require both state and defense to file a report on the efforts to promote the security of afghan women and girls just by way of itemization monitoring and responding to changes in womens security that will be part of the report. Secondly, improving gender sensitivity and responsiveness among the Afghan Security forces and increasing the recruitment and retention of women in the Afghan Security forces. So both with regard to the election and women and girls. Senator with respect to women and girls, i had a conversation with senator boxer earlier and with senator cardin, in which i committed to the ongoing significant efforts of secretary that secreta