a little bit of a media frenzy much everybody lined up. people want to say people in public life, politicians, religious figures want to get on record now before these arguments, where they stand. hillary clinton this week, rob partman last week, a real moment. a historical, seminole moment where people feel the need to get on the record now. if you make a statement after next week, is that too late? i don t think so. if the catholic church is going to show movement, now would be the time. i think it s probably unlikely and certainly the majority of republicans in elected, political office are not yet supportive. but there is definitely much less polarization around this. and also a seminnother impor moment. john berman turned another year older. zoraida has the cakes. i took my mike off and i need
reporters. here is an exchange with a local guy in detroit from the abc affiliate in flint. have a gun problem. this country has a crime problem. not a gun problem. no, i mean, if you look at the gun laws we have, i don t even think president obama is proposing more gun laws. we have good strong gun laws. we have to make sure we have to make sure we enforce our laws. we have lots of laws that aren t being properlien forced. we have to make sure we enforce these laws. but the best thing to prevent violent crime in the inner city is bring opportunity to inner city. gretchen: that s all the interview because that station not supplying the video of what happened. at that point, the reporter continued to try to link that discussion about gun violence to tax cuts. so here was the question from the reporter and you can do all that by cutting taxes with a big tax cut. and paul ryan says, those are your words, not mine. and then he takes the mike off
the investigation has already had consequences for his career now as an athlete. he s immediately banned from competing in triathlons which he s taken up since retiring from professional bike cycling. . he said i have been notified usada intends to dredge up discredited allegations dating back more than 16 years to prevent me from competing as a triathlete and try to strip me of the seven tour de france victories i earned. these are the same charges and same witnesses the justice department chose not to pursue after a two-year investigation. these charges are baseless, motivated by spite and advanced through testimony bought for and paid for by promises of joining me now is new york sports reporter. lance armstrong has never tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs before, but the doping agency said they collected blood samples in 2009 and 2010 that were, quote, fully consistent with blood manipulation, including epo or blood transfusions. what do you make of that? c
taking his mike off and leaving the interview. ron paul said listen, this is years ago and i disavowed this and i didn t actually write the articles even though it was on his newsletter. is that enough? right now i don t think it is enough because it boils down to a question of moral character. if you think about the statements made in the previous newsletters and you go back to the debate that took place one year ago over and over and over again, ron paul seems to be a person who is apologizing or taking the side of countries like iran over the united states who sort of said that 9/11 might have been the fault of the united states government. he said the comments and since then he really improved his number in iowa. these are things that have come up. the newsletter that are back new in the headlines right now, his comments regarding iran and the other things not wanting a
are going to be making some statements i suspect as well. at least the president will talk about what s at stake for them. john, you and i have covered these games of chicken for a long time. president will be walking out in a moment. can t believe personally that they won t work out a deal between now and december 31st, because the stakes are too enormous. the stakes are enormous. i think you re right they ll try to work out a deal. if republicans this morning didn t think they d wake up and make a deal, the president of the united states is winning the optics of the political war right now. now he s going to add some rhetoric to it as well. let s listen in. thank you, everybody. please, please have a seat. good afternoon to all of you. merry christmas. happy holidays. we ve been doing everything we can over the last few weeks to make sure that 160 million working americans aren t hit with a holiday tax increase on january 1st. we ve also been doing everything we can t