on her. all of this on the heels of a scathing report this week that was highly critical of the state department in the terror attack that killed four americans. senator kelly ayotte sits on the armed services committee and the call for answers on libya and what happened to our ambassador. welcome back to the program you think you, megyn, it s good to be with you. megyn: this is why we are having hearings on capitol hill, of course and there were security breaches. what have we learned? would jump out at you? what has jumped out at me is what we expected from the beginning.
from florida where john hammer s from. and she says this is ridiculous, that s what you say. he writes to her saying, look, mexico has very strip gent gun control laws, and he says we ve reinforced their application as a result of the flow of weapons illicitly purchase inside the united states purchased in the united states and then trafficked to mexico in the hands of criminal organizations. so he seems to be saying you americans have sent down a bunch of illegal guns, and as a result, we ve had to get tough on guns, so you have no one but yourselves to blame for what we did to john hammer. absolutely ridiculous. and it was a .410 shotgun, that s what my 9-year-old daughter uses to hunt. it s a serious row buck .410 shotgun. they stopped selling them 30, 40 years ago. it s an antique shotgun. that s one of the most ridiculous letters and statements i ve ever seen. mexico would have crime and the violence it has because of their drug cartels regardless of any american guns going so
negotiate his release. what we need is for the obama administration to get involved with this. you saw the letter from the mexican ambassador. it was condescending, almost rid cuted our attempt ridiculed our attempts to get him out of jail. so we re just going to try to bring more attention to this and go down to that jail if we have to. this guy s an american patriot. he s 10 miles across the border. mexico has had over 49,000 murders in the last eight years. mexico is more dangerous than iraq or afghanistan for americans, and i would call on all americans, too, cancel your trips to mexico. if a product says made in mexico, don t buy it. we need to bring attention to this. i mean, this is just silly that he s right across the border with who was supposed to be a good neighbor, and they are not good neighbors in this case. megyn: we re just getting our first look at their explanation from the mexican ambassador to the united states, and he wrote a letter to your colleague in the hous
in chicago officials at o hare international airport report they ve had more than 90 cancellations so far. in iowa, state police say a 25-car pile-up has killed one person. we will continue tracking this for you, but you ve got to keep watching this, folks. this sounds like a dangerous one. on now to the showdown over automatic tax hikes and spending cuts that are going the hit americans beginning january 1st if congress and the white house don t act. yesterday president obama seemed to suggest that are playing hardball with him for personal reasons. it is very hard for them to say yes to me. um, but, you know, at some point they ve got to take me out of it and think about their voters and think about what s best for the country. and if they do that, if they re not worried about who s winning and who s losing, you know, did
in the senate and then drag it across the finish line in 994. this is a cause in his life. this is something gun control is something he is very passionate about. and what eric holder was talking about empowers joe biden to do the job. because if the president can threaten unilateral executive action, he can joe biden can then go over to congress and say, hey, look, give us what we want, or we ll do it on our own. megyn: we ll do it without you. when you put somebody like vice president biden who s been so dedicate today this issue, does it somehow send the message that the other issues that the vast majority of americans if you look at the polling on this want to see addressed which is the holes in our mental health system has somehow taken a backseat already in this? reporter: well, remember, we have a very liberal president who s just been reelected, more democrats in the senate than there were before. the house republican majority has shrunk a bit. the urgent feeling on the l