Connecticut. White House Press Secretary jay carney also said the president will announce comprehensive action including assault weapons ban, a ban on high capacity magazine clips and closing big loopholes in back ground checks. All of as governors of new york, delaware and maryland take action to pass some of the strictest laws on guns in our nation. Let me bring in our political panel. Former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, a nbc news political analyst and molly ball, reporter for the atlantic and Chris Van Hollen will join us here shortly. Governor rendell, the announcement is coming down tomorrow. The president promised that he wanted to act fast. Is he at least timewise living up to what he said . No question. And this is good news for all of us who believe we need sensible gun control laws in the United States of america. The president is putting the full weight and prestige of the white house behind this. This is a big event tomorrow. The 19 things he can do that are executive
Inside a look at the founder. He flew to the site immediately. Fox friends begins right now. And right to that fox news alert. Marine Sergeant Andrew tahmooressi a free man this morning after 214 days in a mexican prison. Tahmooressi has been released and is back inside the United States this morning. Peter doocy is live in washington with how it all went down. Good morning, peter. Good morning. You just a heard anna say this marine spent 214 days in a mexican prison for what he says was an innocent mistake. A uturn across the border with three guns in his car. But now Andrew Tahmooressi is back home a private jet picked him up just after 9 00 last night. A a few hours after a judge released him on humanitarian grounds because he has posttraumatic stress. The tahmooressi family has a lengthy statement out this morning. To all those across the country who walked shoulder to shoulder with us as we fought for andrew, it has reminded us that at a time of much discord americans can come tog
It is not just the northeast, folks, also in the deep south. We will tell you the areas hardest hit. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is tuesday, february 24th. New this morning, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell trying to break the stalemate over funding of the department of Homeland Security after a fourth failed senate vote monday night on the houses vote of the funding bill. Mcconnell announced a separate vote on executive orders on immigration. Democrats and republicans expressing doubt if mcconnell can get that vote done by the end of the week. If not, Homeland Security funding runs out sunday. Forcing employees to stay home or work without pay. Cnns Michelle Kosinski has more on the possible shutdown. Reporter john and christine, for the first time we hear the administration say that yes it looks like this political showdown is heading for a shutdown for the department of Homeland Security. For the first time we are hearing the a
Carry, Bruce Jackson and john. So, john, just take a look at federal spending over the past sa years. It has increased enormously and of course, president obama has his proposed budget of 4. 1 trillion. Which is off of that chart. Havent the past 15 years told us that more Government Spending just makes it worse . Of course they do. Because government can only spend what it taxes or borrows from us first, so it misallocates it and its got to be suppressed these policies arent just bad for the middle class, theyre bad for all income classes. I think most americans would agree theyd prefer to work for someone whos prosperous. Sanders hates the rich. If you go after the rich, you go after the opportunities of everyone else. And you know, Bernie Sanders, bruce, is not, its not just republicans saying hes spendinging too much. Hillary clinton on thursday night said that. Take a listen. I think that the best analysis that ive seen based on senator sanders plan is that it would probably incre
We will take a look at live pictures of where he should be speaking. He will be taking the stage in miami rallying for Hillary Clinton, of course. He will be at Florida International university, where where you are looking at right now. We will bring you the president s remarks when they begin. President also has an event in jacksonville later, where he may bump into donald trump, who is about to speak there as well. You are looking at live pictures of the donald trump event in jacksonville but theres another trump event today thats getting a lot of talk. Melania trump with her first solo rally in pennsylvania. We just got an advance look at excerpts of the speech. Thats in just a moment. In another first, ted cruz out on the trail today for the republican ticket or should we say, lyin ted cruz because thats what donald trump called him. Of course, cruz called trump a sniveling coward. Unlikely to come up today. Remember that . When ted cruz appears with mike pence. That happens shortl