it s all clear. and peter, you have written something about this as well. part of the story is that at the time nela was born, you had a 13-year-old son who was doing great, and it had been an uncomplicated pregnancy and delivery and all of that and you two individually and collectively struggling to find out what does life look like if it s not a life like this one? i think that s one of the most powerful things in deanna s book. this is something she certainly taught me. part of the things he were struggling was, one of them was this is a sense of how it s not supposed to go. you re in a better place to talk about that but i will say our 13-month-old son just saved us because he took us out of all that and reminded us there was more than this vigil we were keeping inside the neonatal intensive care unit. the book like i said is
because this is what happened last year when aol s tim armstrong justified his decision to slash employee retirement packages by saying on a companywide conference call quote, we had two aol-ers that had distressed babies that were born that we paid a million dollars each to make sure those babies were okay in general. so when we had the final decision about what benefits to cut because of the increased health care costs, we had the decision, and i made the decision, to changely changebasically change the 401(k) plan. what followed was a firestorm, with mean tweets. it was the joke for the next week. but for people who worked for armstrong at that time, this story was not a joke. it was an invasive and human spectacle surrounding their daughter nela.
systems of law. in other words, where it all revolves around two sets of lawyers who are going at the witnesses through cross-examination but it s a fine line, isn t it? a fine line that so that you don t it doesn t seem as if you re beating up on someone who we ve seen in court time and time again unable to keep his emotions in check. reporter: absolutely. and there needs to be that line adhered to from aggressive cross-examination, a natural feature of our system, toward badgering a witness and coming across as gratuitous or disingenuous. we have seen the last few days the judge has found it fit to step in and essentially give nel a warning and say, look, you re stepping over the line at this point. nel does have to walk that line carefully going forward. what is your sense of pistorius handling of nel s
measures that the senate looked at earlier this year. and also to think about why the president worked on over 20 executive actions to address gun safety. there are human lives at stake, whether it s from a school tragedy or a near school tragedy with miss tuft when you think about what she did. what if someone doesn t have that type of courage? it shouldn t be up to individual citizens to defend ourselves. it s time for the elected officials of this country to act. nela, the freedom group is the company that made the rifle that adam lanza used in the newtown massacre. it said at the time it was going to sell the firearms company. but to date, that has not happened. mother jones magazine says, judging from the fortunes of similar publicly traded gun companies, selling the freedom group in the aftermath of the sandy hook massacre would have meant leaving a lot of money on the table.
captor and that siege in the oil plant is over. we can now confirm the algerian army stormed the complex and ended the siege. president obama stands ready to provide the assistance for gerl - algeria in the aftermath. so many conflicting reports as we got word of the terrorist attack. we know that lives have been lost, but the question is how many. defense secretary leon pan nela speaking today. since 9/11 we made clear that, that nobody is going to attack the united states of america and get away with it . for that reason we have made a commitment that we are going to go after al-qaida wherever they are and wherever they try to hide . we have done that. obviously in afghanistan, in pakistan, we have done in