a paper lantern into the river to honor the people of the hiroshima atomic bombing in world war ii and 70,000 people died instantly, and today is the 67th anniversary. the next hour of the the next hour of the newsroom starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m john berman filling in for suzanne malveaux. and this hour, we are learning more about the white supremist background of a man who gunned down six membersof a sikh temple in wisconsin, and we are hearing from the relatives of the people killed. he left this world protecting the people and the world, and now we want to know who is going to protect our hearts from this pain. the police say that the gunman ambushed the officers and gunned down people during their sunday services. he was identified as wade michael page, and some sources say he was a army member and discharged because of patterns of misconduct, and the gunman was killed in the rampage. brian todd joins us from oak creek, wisconsin,
of osama bin laden and what difference will that make for the president politically this year? it is a strong platform to take foreign policy off of the table as a traditional republican advantage, and it is the first election since the 19770s where a democratic president or nominee can actu actually say we re stronger on foreign policy, and as you said previously, melissa, in every democratic republican rather primary debate, there were one or more candidates up there saying that the president was appeasing and weak and repeating a lot of old stuff that is just not true. i think that he s, the president has to hammer home this message now and take this issue offf of the table. he is a strong leader. no one is going to get to the right of him or to be tougher or more constructive on foreign policy than president barack obama has been. and so, let me go the you, spencer, on this, because it is
fight counter terrorism which is what we recommended at vets.org and he is trying to split the difference on, that and governing through compromise for domestic policy is acceptable here in the united states, but commanding through averages is no way to command a conflict. let me ask you though when we look back ten years and billions of dollars and $120 billion spent on that war in 2010. countless lives. many who are back injured that we see everyday whose lives will never be the same, has it been worth it at this point? you continue to hear this, that these polling numbers out there that are saying that the americans feel it was not worth it and they want the troops to come home as well, but we know that there was a mission from the start, and one that troops on the ground would like to finish, and would like to call a success. well, i think that afghanistan was definitely a worthy fight at some point, but 4-wqqáeriorated mostly as a res of us taking the eye offf of the ball and
the fact that he did win the popular vote was a keyey political component of his ability to stretch this out to 36 days. everybody was hungry, angry, lonely, tired and pissed off.f. everybody wanted to win and go home. go home. the preem court s landmark decision in 2000 helped determine the the 43rd president of the united states. hello, i m bret baier. welcome to fox news reporting, 36 days that decided the presidency. the 2000 campaign between george w. bush and al gore was a tight race. as a result, election night coverage was filled with mistakes and blown projections by all of the television news networks. that let to endless legal battles in the courts of florida and finally the u.s. supreme court. join me as we look back as the suspenseful 36 days as the fight for the white house