but apparently at least according to her words yesterday, there is a further example of president trump being tougher than obama coming. let s turn to the gun issue here and sort of changing of the gun laws. every time there is a shooting, there is this renewed call to get stricter controls on gun laws and every time we then move on and nothing actually happens. what are we do think if this time is going to be any different, first of all, and secondly, talking about bump stocks, do you think that they will actually be banned and is this a way to avoid having a conversation about banning assault weapons? you know, it is interesting. after the last several shooting massacres, there actually have been changes. this bump stock order from president trump is the latest example. the texas church massacre, there was revelation that the military was not adding to a list of people banned from buying guns. they were not doing that properly. that has been addressed.
mcdonald, quote, raised his right arm toward officer van dyke as if attacking van dyke. even the sergeant who recovered the video and reviewed it found it, quote, was consistent with the accounts of all of the witnesses, meaning six police accounts don t match the video. jason van dyke s attorney says his client acted in self-defense. as van dyke awaits to face a judge on first-degree murder charges, he has lost his badge, his uniform, and now that the police reports are out, his word and the word of five officers are also called into question. rosa flores, cnn, chicago. rosa, thank you very much. a plane carrying actor morgan freeman makes an emergency landing. ahead what led to that close call. also, in the wake of the recent shooting massacres in paris, a big concert is being
home with their families. reporter: what was interesting is that the president portrayed that the u.s. government still at this late date does not know where former fbi agent robert levinson is. and the president also today belatedly to many ordered the american flag at the white house lowered to half-staff in honor of the shooting victims in clath chattanooga. reporter: the white house promptly ordered flags flown at half-staff to honor the victims of a number of other shooting massacres in this country, some involving service personnel and some not, from ft. hood to virginia tech to sandy hook. but for some reason the decision to lower flags above the white house and above u.s. embassies and military installations abroad in honor of the four marines and one navy sailor killed in the apparent lone wolf attack in chattanooga took nearly a week during which time the states of massachusetts and tennessee and arkansas all ordered their flags lowered as did john bayoehner over the
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three-fourths of those ads were negative ads on mitt romney, they are so desperate to try to define mitt romney in voters minds right now because they realize the advantage they have is going to end by the end of next month, and the problem that we re seeing if you re at least looking at this from the obama campaign s perspective, when you look at the polls that came out last week particularly from the new york times and cbs news, the president s favorability which is typically and traditionally been his strong suit is now underwater, especially among independents. and i think the question we need to start asking really is, are these negative attacks if they re spending so promiscuously on now, actually hurting the president more than their intended target? megyn: understood. we heard their game plan was to kill romney, politically, of course. and apparently politically speaking it s better to do that early, meaning now, than after the conventions for the reasons you state. guy,