what were they? how much has been recovered. do we definitively know the level of threat they posed or lack thereof. bipartisan critics have been saying there s plenty that isn t classified that the american public has a right to know, and we are now waiting, as you see, for the president to come to that podium and begin. but in the meantime, let s talk to nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell, along with nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles and robert gibbs, former obama press secretary and an msnbc political analyst. robert, let me start with you, you know the criticism has been out there, the pressure the white house has been under, you have been in the white house when a president was under pressure. what does he need to deliver right now? well, i think the more than people want to know what level of new information we have about the three objects that have been shot down recently. i also think the president needs to outline what our post
missed the vote last night. he of course was in the hospital a week ago after feeling lightheaded after a democratic retreat. everyone of course is cautious about his health months after he suffered a near death stroke. of course that could lead to more episodes of seizures and other things that require urgent medical attention, but here it is his mind, his emotional state. here he is saying that he s been feeling depressed. he suffered from bouts of this during his life, his chief says. he met with the capitol physician on monday who urged him to go and check himself in and do some routine tests. at the end of the statement, it says after examining john, the doctors at walter reed told us john is getting the care he needs and will soon be back to himself. obviously a rocky start for the senator, freshman from pennsylvania who came off the heated victory in november, just in the senate for a little over a month now, but already having missed days of votes in the hospital, in
a lot of moving pieces. i got handed a statement from john fetterman s office, the senator from pennsylvania. he says he has checked himself into walter reid national medical center. what more do we know? reporter: this is coming out in the last few minutes. this is obviously really sad. it says in the statement from fetterman s chief of staff, he checked himself into walter reid medical hospital to receive treatment for clinical depression. he said he visited with the attending physician brian monahan earlier in the week on monday who advised him to do this, to check himself into the hospital. they said he will continue getting voluntary treatment on a voluntary basis, and after examining john, the doctors at walter reid told us he s getting the care he needs and will soon be back to normal. it s been a rough start for the senator who came off a heated victory in pennsylvania. a week ago he was in the hospital after not feeling bell, feeling lightheaded after the democratic retrea
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connecticut. it has removed all guns from its stored close to newtown and it s suspending the sales of some semi-automatic rifles nationwide, out of respect for the victims and their families. the shooting at sandy hook killed 20 children and 6 adults. late u.s. senator daniel inouye will lie in state in a capitol rotunda on thursday. the 88-year-old democrat died on monday at walter reid national medical center. he served 50 years in the senate, making him the longest running senate member ever. i m anita vogel, now back to greta and on the record. for all of your headlines, go to foxnews.com. journalist and his crew kidnapped five days ago in syria, but there s good news. they are free tonight. abc s richard engel and his crew were traveling with a group of syrian rebels when gunman