and we re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this regardless of the politics. meaningful action. well, today s tragedy in connecticut brings the issue of guns to the forefront of america s minds tonight, and president obama pledged to take that meaningful action at his white house statement earlier this afternoon. with me are two people with personal experience with gun violence u.s. congress won karl lynn mccarthy of new york, lost her husband in a 1993 mass shooting on that commuter train and collin godard is a sur jiver of the virginia tech shootings. he worked for the brady campaign. we called the nra hoping to get someone from that organization on tonight they said they re not commenting until more information is thoroughly known in this case. they re putting off any kind of comment. it s obvious. congresswoman, thank you four coming on. i any this must bring it all back. i thought it was great, i said we have to get carolyn
we don t know if it s the same one. sorry, different brian ross. mike: yeah, later on saying. right. mike: and i know it behooves media people to be able to get to the story quickly, but have we lost the sense that it s more important to be right than it is to be first? well, one thing i learned, you know, i was a press secretary when the virginia tech shootings happened. and i remember learning several times throughout the bush administration years, when a crisis breaks, first reports are almost always wrong. so, you need to hold back, wait a minute, let s see what, let s see what the facts are, rapid response from, even from a campaign side, on the other side of things, used to be the most important aspect of the campaign and now i think that s changed, you ve got to hold back. and brian ross peers, they should be policing one another and i would hope that there s a little bit of hanging of the head, you know, in shame this morning over this, because, also, abc news helped
of aurora. so the president can speak from the heart. and also, he is a man of faith. and i think he can speak from that standpoint, as well, and speak of his own faith and perhaps help the people of aurora as they try to get through this. this is a community that s still traumatized. you are out there, chris. you know better than i. but i remember i went down to the virginia tech shootings which is just for days afterwards, there was just this feeling of almost stunned silence that people didn t know how to react and didn t know what to say and the president can begin this process of being able, even just to verbalize and to talk it out. at a time when we are literally traumatized. is there any perspective that can be given to an incident like
jerry spoe dak. do you still stand by your support of this failed deal? you ratcheted it up and increased the debt ceiling. a senate debate and a conversation with tim cape and george allen. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. joining me is colorado governor john hickenlooper. governor, thank you so much for being here. catch me up now on the state of the investigation. well, the investigation continues now that we have had access to the apartment of the suspect. they ve got a lot more new information, and they will continue to put together the case. and what have they found in the apartment that might be useful? are they learning anything more about the suspect? you know what they have asked for me is to not talk about this, and they are learning more, you know, moment by moment. but like in any investigation like this, they are trying to make sure they are getting all of the information first before they release it publicly. sure. is there a
spch spodak. you still stand by your deal. highlights from the virginia senate debate and a conversation with the candidates, democrat tim kaine and republican george allen. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. joining me is colorado governor john hickenlooper. governor, thank you so much for being here. catch me up now on the state of the investigation. well, the investigation continues. we had access to the apartment of the suspect. they got a lot more information, they re going to continue to put it together in the case. and what have they found in the apartment that might be useful or are they learning anything more about this suspect? you know, they asked for me not to talk about this. i think they are learning more, you know, moment by moment. but like in any investigation, like this, they re trying to make sure they are getting all the information first before they release it publicly. sure. is there anything that you can tell me about that