and this is state of the union. four months ago one prominent beltway blog said of newt gingrich s troubled presidential run he looks a lot like the bruce willis character in the sixth sense, everyone but him thinks he s dead. but at last week s washington post/bloomberg debate gingrich remained very much alive and kicking. all of the spending cuts that are built in the debt ceiling bill, all of them are acts of congress. they can all be repealed at any moment. it is nonsense to say we re going to disarm the united states unilaterally because we re too stupid to balance the budget any other way. former house speaker and republican presidential candidate newt gingrich joins me now. very much alive and kirking. good to be with you. let me talk to you first about some things that are in the news. let s pretend that president gingrich is in the white house. you received word and uncover a plot to kill the saudi arabian ambassador to the u.s. in the u.s. there is a
the mainlanding geek like this, but the crew followed the correct procedure. pilots always carry reserve fuel so there was not a pressing time line that we have to land now. if they land with the nose gear up it will cause damage. it s going to be out of service for a period of time. there s going to be an investigation. out of this 1972 tragedy came crew resource management, a training requirement that now ensures that someone must always monitor the airplane flight path. if there is a problem today, that manager means that the captain has to designate someone to stay in control of the plane while they try to resolve the problem whether it is in the cockpit or whether it s in the cabin. improvements have been made to the auto pilot. the warning system is louder and more force is required to disengage it. many survivors have stayed in contact and are working on a proposed memorial.
background investigation before you enlist. you are supervised constantly. you don t get to use your firearm in service until you actually train many, many, many hours. when you buy a handgun in texas on the other hand, it s an instant computer background check, it search as database that unfortunately is missing millions of disqualifying records. there are not mental health records in that database. and there is no training requirement of course to buy a handgun. on several websites they have a picture of james and the one we just showed, he s kind of dressed in this mob style outfit. he reportedly has sent out questionable posts on facebook, things that have raised a few eyebrows to say the least. are you aware of any of these postings reportedly from this kid? i am aware. he s been making them publicly available for the past three years. what is he saying? a couple are i will stare into your eyes as i pull the
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be used by folks who have no training. signs say to be used only by trained responders. in virginia where there is no training requirement, there is no such prohibition against the use by untrained responders. because the laws are so different, corporations don t know what to do with it. you can bay aed from wal-mart if you have sudden cardiac arrest in wal-mart you are going to wait until the paramedics come. liz do we need to make sure people across the country have access to these? we need a law. this is something in our group at gw we ve been working on now and had preliminary conversations with members of congress. we need a congressional preemption law. as you know the constitution gives congress the authority to preempt state laws. every state has a law, but every law is different. so, a congressional law would homogenize the laws governing