Courts opinions which revealed the agency was broadly collecting americans internet communication here in the United States, and misrepresenting the scope of that effort. Cnn justice reporter evan perez has the story, and he joins us with details. It has points inside the United States where it can look at and monitor emails and other internet traffic, and what it was doing was beyond doing the collecting of foreign intelligence, is what theyre supposed to be doing, trying to prevent terrorism, there were also incidentally, mistakenly they say, collecting domestic information. This is a big nono. This is not what theyre supposed to be doing. The court ruled that not only had they been violaten the law, but misrepresenting what they were supposed to be doing for three years. So the judge is very upset. They cant just say, oops, our bad. How do they explain why this was happening . Well, you know essentially what the nsa had come up with, in their own minds and in their own perhaps far a
Since 9 11. These horrific events have in some ways come to define the United States. Every day in 2014, 92 people were killed with a gun, on average. In total, there were almost 11,000 gun murders, more than 21,000 gun suicides and over 81,000 nonfatal gun injuries that year. Compared to other rich countries, americas gun violence is on another planet. In 2011, the United States had over seven times as many as gun homicides per 100,000 people as did canada. Over 50 times as many as germany and almost 60 times as many as the united kingdom, according to gunpolicy. Org. So can americans learn something from other countries on this crucial issue of keeping its citizens safe . In this hour, were going to travel the world to look for solutions. Gun violence rates in one country are a fraction of americas levels. Well visit another nation where liberals and conservatives reached agreement on gun control and afterwards, shootings plummeted. But first lets visit a country where the people are
In total. There were almost 11,000 gun murders. More than 21,000 gun suicides and over 81,000 nonfatal gun injuries that year. Compared to other rich countries, americas gun violence is on another planet. In 2011, the United States had seven times as many gun suicides as canada, over 50 times as many as germany and almost 60 times as many as the united kingdom. According to gun policy. Org. So can americans learn something from other countries on this crucial issue . Of keeping its citizens safe . This hour, were going to travel the world. To look for solutions. Well individual sit a country that shares the countrys love for gun. Well visit another nation where liberals and conservatives reached a conclusion about gun control. But first lets visit a country where people are obsessed with violent video games. Is gun violence a big problem there . Lets find out. In the weeks following the new town massacre, a clearer picture of the shooter adam lanza began to emerge. Alienated and alone,
Once and for all, what are the luckiest numbers . Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night, and we begin with President Trump going on the attack in front of those supporters overnight. A welcoming crowd where he defended his handling of charlottesville, a test of leadership. It was a Campaign Rally just seven months into his presidency in phoenix, looking to reelection. He was defiant, standing by his decisions and his words, and then today, another speech and a starkly different tone. Abcs senior white house correspondent, cecilia vega, leading us off. Reporter at the American Legion today, President Trump calling on the nation to come together. It is time to heal the wounds that divide us and to seek a new unity based on the common values that unite us. Reporter it came just hours after his own divisive rhetoric in phoenix. For 75 fiery minutes, he unloaded. Defending his response to charlottesville, pulling from his pocket the statements he made in
Countries . What does the Second Amendment actually say . What could the United States government do to keep its citizens safer . Call this the stop the madness show. And now heres my take. He was a sick man a demented man. That was donald trump trying to explain the latest mass shooting in the United States. We hear this view expressed routinely after every new incident but it is a dodge, a distortion of the facts and a cop out as to the necessary response. Theres no evidence that the las vegas shooter was insane. Youll notice by the way i prefer not to use his name and give him publicity. We wont show his photo either. He did not have a history of Mental Illness that we know of nor reported for behavior that would suggest any such condition. He was clearly an evil man. But evil is not crazy. If we define the attempt to take an innocent human beings life as madness, then, of course, every murderer is mad. If not we should recognize it is a meaningless term that adds little to our unde