Murder nine people. F. B. I. Agents met with the victims families today to explain what happened, and we asked kris van cleave to explain it to us. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey called the mistake heartbreaking and said we are all sick this has happened. We wish we could turn back time. On april 11th, dylann roof went into this South Carolina gun store to purchase a glock handgun. The transaction triggered an automatic federal battleground check. An f. B. I. Examiner pulled roofs arrest shed and saw an earlier arrest, but she did not see this incident report where roof admitted having the drugs. That confession should have disqualified him from buying a weapon. The examiner never got the report because she couldnt track down the Proper Police department, so she marked roofs case as pending and proved on to other cases. Under the law, if a background check remains unresolved after three day, the sale can proceed and thats exactly what happened. Roof completed his purchase on ap
Murder nine people. F. B. I. Agents met with the victims families today to explain what happened, and we asked kris van cleave to explain it to us. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey called the mistake heartbreaking and said we are all sick this has happened. We wish we could turn back time. On april 11th, dylann roof went into this South Carolina gun store to purchase a glock handgun. The transaction triggered an automatic federal battleground check. An f. B. I. Examiner pulled roofs arrest shed and saw an earlier arrest, but she did not see this incident report where roof admitted having the drugs. That confession should have disqualified him from buying a weapon. The examiner never got the report because she couldnt track down the Proper Police department, so she marked roofs case as pending and proved on to other cases. Under the law, if a background check remains unresolved after three day, the sale can proceed and thats exactly what happened. Roof completed his purchase on ap
Fundraising. They were part of this years net roots nation. We will get started here in second. Thank you for coming to this panel. Today we will talk about Online Fundraising which was a big part of the last election, and i believe will be a big part of coming elections. Let me introduce our panelists. With tobyrt fallsgraff. He was the email director for the Obama Campaign in 2012. He oversaw email and messaging strategies. Of 18 e led a team mail writers. Digital director and organizing for action. Next, we have lauren miller. She was the digital director for the Elizabeth Warren senate campaign. She again used to manage senator warns online adjudication senator warrens online medication. Communication. Ext up we have ilya sheyman know, he ran for congress in illinois 10th Congressional District and gardner nearly 40 of the vote. He got support from nearly 20,000 individual donors, most of which are online. Have reigned in english. Brandon english. In the 2010 cycle, the district ra
Sequestration. Over 650,000 furloughs begin today for civilian workers. This morning, we want to hear your reaction and your thoughts on sequestrations impact on the military. We have a special phone line open for Defense Department employees. Otherwise, the rest of the numbers arent your screen. Are on your screen. You can also catch up with us and all your favorite social media pages. Or you can email us. A very good monday morning to you. Congress is back in session this week but also today, 650,000 civilian defense workers are set to begin their furloughs. Want to hear from you. We have a line open for dod employees. We want to hear how sequestration is impacting you. Our other phone lines are open but lets start with this story from the Washington Post. We will be covering that story in our first 45 minutes. The phone lines are open to get your thoughts on the matter. Let me read you a bit of the letter that secretary hagel sent to the department of defense staffers at of these fu
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