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he loved to swim and play soccer. charlotte bacon, 6 years old, remembered as a go getter. and for her strong personality. also, victoria soto, 27-year-old teacher who officials say died while protecting her students. and we re also getting new information this afternoon on the guns adam lanza used in the attack and when at least one of them was purchased. let s get the latest of nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. what can you tell us about the purchasing records uncovered? frankly, tamron, i didn t bring them with me. i didn t have the exact dates at the fingertips. we all have been reporting here that all these firearms were bought within the last two years. and i just don t remember the precise dates. i apologize. the state police say it s going to be probably months before their investigation report is finished given the number of victims and the complexity of the crime scene. in terms of, you know, the latest on the investigation, i think it s fair to ....
john: today supreme court justice anthony scalia said continuing the voting rights act was, quote the perpetuation of racial entitlement. don t you hate those black people who feel they re entitled to vote because they re american citizens. also others won t change their mind on gun control until you pry them from their cold dead minds. stay is the bird of late john steinbeck, the very alive joann woodward and ralph nadar whose name we re finally allowed to say on this channel. on this day the u.s. supreme court rejected a challenge to the 19th amendment protecting women s right to vote, or as scalia calls it, perpetuateing female entitlement. this is viewpoint. [ theme music ] john: good evening i m john fugelsang. thank you for joining us. as washington careens towards friday s rendezvous with the sequester and it s trillion dollars plus in cuts senate senator mitch mcconnell drips with charm. mr. president, you honor us with your presence. thank you for ....
i m tamron hall. the news nation is following breaking new the. the had the going gold unveiling a sweeping and ambitious plan to fight gun violence and predicting a fierce fight ahead with gun rights advocates. there will be pundits and special interest lobbyists warning of a tyranical assault on liberty. not because that s true. the only way we will be able to change is if their audience and constituents and membership said this time must be different. saying he will put they weight of his office behind making a reality. he will have a series of proposals like universal back ground checks and assault weapons ban and strengthening penalties on gun traffickers. they re are common sense members. they have the support of the majority of the american people. yet that doesn t mean any of this will be easy to enact or impleme implement. if it were we would already have it. the high capacity magazines never would have been allowed to expire. more of our fellow america ....
conference of the first term, the president took questions on the debt ceiling and the gun debate. first, on the rising debt ceiling, the president took direct aim at republicans accusing them of using the nation s credit rating as a, quote, bargaining chip. the republicans in congress had two choices here. they can act responsibly and pay america s bills or they can act irresponsibly and put america through another economic crisis. but they will not collect our ransom in exchange for not crashing the american economy. the issue here is whether or not america pays its bills. we are not a deadbeat nation. and the debate over guns, one month after 26 children and adults were killed in newtown, and with the nra saying assault weapon ban would not pass congress, the president urged house members to, quote, examine their own conscience. the belief that we have to have stronger background checks, that we can do a much better job in terms of keeping these magazine clips ....
ask them what s more important, doing whatever it takes to get a a grade from the gun lobby that funds their campaigns, or giving parents some peace of mind when they drop their child off for first grade? over the line, the nra web video targeting the president s daughters. are the president s kids more important than yours? then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards at their school? what s wrong with these people? you have children that had no say in the decision on whether their father is going to step forward to be president of the united states, what the nra once was, it no longer is. this extremism is so frightening. msnbc s joe scarborough will be with me in a few moments to say more about the nra tactics, as well as his thoughts on the future of the republican party. and the gun fighters, inside time magazine s special report on gun control with managing editor rick stangle. p ....