those athletes who are sick and tired of this, i think this is their civil rights campaign. to get guns off the street. i m a sportsman. i have firearms. i hunt deer and pheasants and all that kind of stuff. you want law-abiding citizens to give up their rights to own firearms at this point? that s a fair question. it is a fair question. and i take every opportunity to emphasize. i m glad you asked it again. absolutely not. well then you have a law-abiding citizen who happened to be an nfl player who gets a great deal of visibility because of this tragic incident. should he have not been able to own a firearm? the 2nd amendment has been decided by the sue supreme court. it s within his right to own a firearm. he should have been aware of the risks associated with it. i think there s an education job we need to do there. we need to have an honest conversation about the risks and dangers associated with firearms. and we need to do what we can
to get guns off the street. i m a sportsman. i have firearms. i hunt deer and pheasants and all that kind of stuff. you want law-abiding citizens to give up their rights to own firearms at this point? that s a fair question. it is a fair question. and i take every opportunity to emphasize. i m glad you asked it again. absolutely not. well then you have a law-abiding citizen who happened to be an nfl player who gets a great deal of visibility because of this tragic incident. should he have not been able to own a firearm? the 2nd amendment has been decided. it s within his right to own a firearm. he should have been aware of the risks associated with it. i think there s an education job we need to do there. we need to have an honest conversation about the risks and dangers associated with firearms. and we need to do what we can from a policy perspective to keep the guns out of the hands of people that are known
i m a sportsman. i have firearms. i hunt deer and pheasants and all that kind of stuff. you want law-abiding citizens to give up their rights to own firearms at this point? that s a fair question. it is a fair question. and i take every opportunity to emphasize. i m glad you asked it again. absolutely not. well then you have a law-abiding citizen who happened to be an nfl player who gets a great deal of visibility because of this tragic incident. should he have not been able to own a firearm? the 2nd amendment has been decided. it s within his right to own a firearm. he should have been aware of the risks associated with it. i think there s an education job we need to do there. we need to have an honest conversation about the risks and dangers associated with firearms. and we need to do what we can from a policy perspective to keep the guns out of the hands of people that are known dangerous.
with you and that question. candidates are going to be crisscrossing the state today. talk to us about this day a week before the caucuses, joe. oh, yeah, you can call this crunchtime for sure, hala. a time when the candidates really bear down and iowa truly gets focuses on the caucuses. mitt romney starts out his day in inp. the. however, he like many of the other candidates will end up here in iowa. he s going out on a bus tour and so is newt gingrich, in fact. he is another guy we re watching very closely and he is supposed to show up in an interview with wolf blitzer on the situation room later today. notably, one of the candidates who is expected to get back out here until tomorrow is ron paul and he and mitt romney and newt gingrich are locked up in a three-way statistical tie for the caucuses here in iowa. very busy days ahead. and we re looking forward to it, hala. okay, yes, we look forward to your reporting, as well. mark, romney, gingrich and ron paul, all lo
you. then one after another it would go on and on for hours i would fill note books. once i got them talking they remembered a tremendous amount. but it was really then i would ask them for letters and documents. i became obsessed. do you feel like it s lift ad burden to have written all this down to discover, to reach out to family members in a way that your reporter instincts had you do? traditionally people say to understand it s to forgive. i point out sometimes have to forgive before you can understand. there was a certain amount of forgiveness that had to take place before i embarked on this journey. my long trip home. you came up with this title. it has a couple of meanings. the first meaning i took a lot of trips as a young child. there were a lot of new homes where i didn t know anybody or what await immediate. the second meaning, obviously, is that the reporting of this book and the writing of this book was a long trip. a journalistic and emotional trip. t