a story in five words greg: we re short on time so here s the story in five words. how many friends do you need? all right. skunk, friendship in america has been in decline. now it s 12% people say they have no close friends. thought? skunk: first of all, how do you actually gauge that? greg: i don t know. skunk: i mean, okay. i guess, you know, when you with co-individuals and everything, people don t want to be near people and they re afraid. but i do have a quote for you. i have a quote. that air sotle oh pounded that in poverty and other misfortunes friends comfort and enable to old and those in the prime of life to noticeable deeds. now the question is, in times of trouble, which we are in the middle of, i m wondering if maybe friendship might actually be a solution to the problem
and if she fails, it could potentially be her last. this report from our paris correspondent, lucy williamson. the candidates say this election is about democracy, even civilisation. many voters say they are being offered a choice between cholera and the plague. marine le pen s promise to slash immigration and taxes and ban the muslim headscarf in public, or emmanuel macron s plan to strengthen the european union and make the french work more. except many people here are not voting for a candidate, they are voting against one. i don t vote for marine le pen, i vote against macron and it s a problem in this country now. the people don t want marine le pen and they don t want macron, so what do we do? the friends of marine le pen may be fascist, i don t know,
just minutes from now, ohio s school shooting suspect, t.j. lane, will be in court, and we now know just in the last hour we have found out that the weapon used in the shooting was a ..22 caliber handgun, and authorities said he told authorities he stole the gun from his uncle. more on that in a moment. witnesses say teenager t.j. lane has shot five people in the chardon high school cafeteria. this was monday right around 7:30 a.m. students daniel parmentor, russell king and demetriu demetrius hewling were killed. two other kids are still in the hospital. we don t know where the shooter is. there is a four one down in room 200. i want to bring in ted rowlands. he s just outside that courthouse and will be seeing this young man appear in less than half an hour. tell me, do we know specifically what the purpose of today s court appearance is? i m sorry, brooke, i think you asked about the hearing coming up, and that is expected to be very short. the purpose of the hearing
explained his plan today. we have to prioritize. both parties agree that we need to reduce the deficit by the same amount, $4 trillion. so what choices are we going to make to reach that goal? either we ask the wealthiest americans to pay their fair share in taxes railroor ask seno pay more for medicare. we can t afford to do both. either we gut education and medical research or we ve got to reform the tax code so that the most profitable corporations have to give up tax loophole that s other companies don t get. we can t afford to do both. this is not class warfare. it s math. so let s take it this a step further. let me explain his reference to class warfare. a lot of top republicans say that s what the president is, they say that asking the wealthiest americans to pay more taxes is just simply unfair. and they reject any tax increase saying it it s bad for our fragile economy. the president sent his treasury secretary out to sell his plan. the first question he faced?