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100-round ammunition clip to kill and wound as many people as he possibly can, our government believes that we should do nothing. are the media inflaming the issue? plus, with the london olympics underway, nbc news pulls out the stops to promote the network s coverage of the games. back here in london with tower bridge lit up so beautifully behind us, with less than 24 hours to go now until the opening ceremony is this promotion in the guise of news? we ll talk about that and more with veteran sports writer frank deford. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. it s becoming standard practice for a presidential candidate to buttress his dippic credentials by meeting with world leaders when candidate obama did it in 2008, all three network anchors flew overseas to interview him. [ applause ] i ll be reporting next week from the middle east. we ll have the first one-on-one interview with senator obama. the coverage of mitt romney s visit to britai ....
Morning. it s a fantastic cover story by joe klein called how guns won and basically how the republican party and the democratic party have advocating their responsibility ever since the assault weapon ban in 1994 on doing anything reasonable or common sensecle about gun regulation and joe, traces it back to that vote and back to the fact that bill clinton attributed his losses in that midterm election to the assault weapons ban that was part of the crime bill which also added 100,000 cops on the street and that the democrats and republicans learned the lessons of that and as a result you have you let president obama, until last night, had not talked about any kind of gun restrictions even though when he campaigned last time he talked about reinvoking the assault weapons ban. mitt romney signed a bill when he was governor of massachusetts which banned assault weapons and then now, nobody talks about it. ....
well, soledad, as soon as mitt romney landed here in london for his overseas trip he found the controversy surrounding basically what has been hoped by his campaign as what they re calling a listen and learn tour. it has been sort of who said what in the last 24 hours as you mentioned that quote that appeared in an article in the london daily telegraph apparently or allegedly we might even want to say from an unnamed romney advisor and even though the international press could not independently verify whether or not that advisor even uttered those comments, the vice president and the obama campaign jumped on those comments and released a statement from vice president biden and put it up on the screen for you. he said not surprisingly in this statement this is just another feeble attempt by the romney campaign to score political points at the expense of this critical partnership, this assertion is beneath a presidential campaign. for his part mitt romney was asked abou ....
there are reports that a letter was found inside of a package apparently sent by holmes. according to the cbs news, the letter talked about shooting people. the package was discovered in the mailroom at the university of colorado. in syria, the city of aleppo is bracing itself for major all out offensive on a rebel strongholstron strongho stronghold, and there are clashes through the country today leaving 91 people dead with 19 of them in aleppo. and then there is lots of excitement as you watch the torch there going through its last route of london. the golden torch making its victory lap so to speak. you are looking here at the millennium bridge. it is one of the iconic sites where the flame is being carried. the torchbearers took a pass through trafalgar square a short time ago and just past the prime min ster s residence at 10 downing street, and then off to big ben and a royal welcome at buckingham palace. mitt romney does damage control after his remarks of ....