Former president Ronald Reagan. He has endorsed a sevenday waiting period for the purchase of handguns, and president bush may follow. He looked and sounded like the Ronald Reagan of old, but what he said was far from it. This darling of the gun lobby endorsing a gun control bill. And im going to say it in clear, unmistakable language. I support the brady bill and i urge the congress to enact it. All this left the National Rifle association all but speechless. Day released a terse onepage statement which simply reiterated the nras opposition to the brady bill. It appears now that the nra has lost the white house on this one, but the powerful gun lobby is now expected to turn its sights on congress, where its enjoyed considerable success in the past. That bill that Ronald Reagan was supporting back then, that bill he supported in defiance of the nra, it was named in honor of james brady. James brady worked for the Reagan Campaign in 1980. He then came to the white house with reagan to s
Acres. That campus 300 acres. The floor space is more than 3. 5 million square feet. But you know what . If all of the things that you know and believe in the world are things you know and believe because you saw them in american political ads, that plant should not exist. That plant does exist. Its doing great. Theyre making jeep cherokees at that plant right now this very second. Theyre making so many of them, theyre operating even with a third shift. Theyre making them at night, theyre making them right now. Toward the end of the last president ial Election Campaign in this country, one of the signs things were getting desperate and weird in that campaign, when the republican nominee for president , mitt romney, went to ohio, he went to the football stadium at Defiance High School an hour outside toledo, an hour from that plant and he said something totally untrue about that plant and the jeeps that were being made there. I saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in th
Former president Ronald Reagan. He has endorsed a sevenday waiting period for the purchase of handguns, and president bush may follow. He looked and sounded like the Ronald Reagan of old, but what he said was far from it. This darling of the gun lobby endorsing a gun control bill. And im going to say it in clear, unmistakable language. I support the brady bill and i urge the congress to enact it. All this left the National Rifle association all but speechless. Day released a terse onepage statement which simply reiterated the nras opposition to the brady bill. It appears now that the nra has lost the white house on this one, but the powerful gun lobby is now expected to turn its sights on congress, where its enjoyed considerable success in the past. That bill that Ronald Reagan was supporting back then, that bill he supported in defiance of the nra, it was named in honor of james brady. James brady worked for the Reagan Campaign in 1980. He then came to the white house with reagan to s
At home to do more to confront isis. He heads to europe this afternoon to meet with nato allies to form a united strategy against isis in iraq and syria, and russian aggression in ukraine. Part of that strategy would include a nato Rapid Response force for Eastern Europe which would con consistent of 4,000 soldiers to strike hard if needed as nato secretary general put it. Meantime isis and ukraine. These two hot spots are colliding a new propaganda video proported to be from the Group Threatens putin. One manned said isis is expanding and coming to liberate chechnya and the caucus region. If those challenges were enough. The pentagon is reporting u. S. Drones launched hell fire missiles on al shabaab in somalia. The leader was the intended target. This is a group that claimed responsibility for last years Shopping Mall attack in kenya that left 67 dead and hundreds injured. We have three Foreign Policy experts to discuss the latest developments. But first, lets get the latest from the
Targeting the top leader. Six militants were reportedly killed. No official pentagon confirmation yet as to whether gadon was one of them. They were responsible for the Shopping Mall attack in kenya last year killing more than 60 people. Nbcs chief pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski joins me now. What do we know so far . Reporter u. S. Military groe drones or a single drone fired two hellfire missiles described at a small convoy, possibly only two vehicles. And that those two vehicles believed to be either trucks or suvs were reportedly obliterated in the attack. Now, u. S. Military officials were talking to have a high degree of confidence that al shabab leader was in one of those vehicles and that the missiles, those hellfire missiles struck and destroyed what they were aimed at. Whens vexing and somewhat frustrating to people here at the pentagon and others in the intelligence world is so far theres no chatter on the al shabab or usual al qaeda terrorist networks about, one, ga