know that, as governor, he didn t have that authority. but the local government has that authority, and they refuse to do so. and our attorney general couldn t do some of those things either because he doesn t have the authority. he would be disbarred. so we re actually a nation of laws, a state of laws, and so we re expecting the local government to help. now, where justice clarence thomas lives, it ises a private street, so he can block there. but, hook are, this is about protecting the innocent. it s always about that. that is role of government. if it s not anything else. so we have to insure that we protect the lives of the elderly, we don t say, no, they ve lived all the good years and it s time for them to move on and so we pull the plug, and we don t do it for children who are born with disabilities. no. we protect them. every life is important. and so that s what this is about. and i don t want it to go down in history that i as the lieutenant governor did not
roads, it s many different things that have made driving safer. the same is true of gun violence in our country. today flying is much safer than it was 30, 40 years ago but airplanes still crash and people die. when that happens, we find the black box, we investigate the accident, we figure out what we can do to make it safer. we don t say, oh, safety measures don t work, throw all the safety measures out. no, we improve the safety measures for flying and over time it gets safer. that what we need to do with gun violence in our country. we need to take a look at what works drk. i m sorry, i didn t mean to cut you off. i don t need to hear your reaction to steve scalise saying there needs to be more prior in school, but if there are republicans in the senate that
fighters stick to the cease fire agreement. the american ambassador to the united nations says so far, syria is not holding up its end of the bargain. the regime has unleashed yet another wave of horrific violation against its own people. resulting in the deaths of scores of syrians daily. the government s use of shelling and heavy weaponry in particular in homs has reached levels that surpass those before the cease-fire. syrian government troops in armor have not been withdrawn from cities and returns to barracks. protesters are still being intimidated and murdered by government forces. the status of thousands of detainees remains unclear. and pressures little progress has been made on the issue of human terrier access with an estimated 1 million civilians still in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. the united nations security counsel has called upon the government to take concrete action. the syrian government has ignored this counsel. in the united states, our patie
yp you juyou just heard to tax returns. mitt romney released histax returns 30 minutes ago. it s no surprise. mitt s a rich guy. here s a look at just how rich. he made more than $21 million in 2010. almost all of it came from incompetent vestments, not wages. he payed $3 million in taxes that year or 13.9%. christine romans is digging deeper into the 1040s. let s start with his offshore funds, christine. we had talked a little bit about that this week, and now we re actually seeing it in this, what is it, 200 something pages i ve got on the table. let me show you. i have it too. this is from 2010. willard m. and ann d. romney. they ve blocked out their social security numbers just in case you re wondering. so it s actually brad malt who handles all their blind trusts and their investments. he s on the phone talking to reporters. he s saying to call these overseas accounts is not right. these are funds. he s got all kinds of foreign stocks, american stocks, foreign bonds,