Agony and new activism with john stewart. i wanted to act and go down there and just do whatever i could. so yeah this has been in the works. the comedian s interview coming hours after she joined her cousin new york senator chuck schumer to call to states or the turn over the right records to better background checks can be had on gun buyers. i m not sure why this man chose my movie to end these two beautiful lives and injure nine others but it was very personal for me. unless something is done and done soon dangerous people will continue to get their hands on guns. we know what can happen when they do. after the shooting in lafayette, the daughter of a teacher who survived sandy hook wrote an open online letter to schumer urging her to take up the cause. sarah clemens, called her, this generation s epitome of what
school. and now the child s mother is suing. the decision for the debate is expected this evening. the criteria lasts with the most recent five polls. fox says there is never been a cap at 10 participants. there could be 11 or 12 in case of a tie. it could look like this. rick perry and rick santorum missed the mark. nothing s been finalize birthday we should find out soon. the republican front runner right now is undoubtedly donald trump. the nbc news recall street journal poll has trump in first place with 19%. scott walker in second with 15% and jeb bush in third with 14%. a new cbs news poll has trump at 24%. jeb bush at 13% and cotscott walker at 10%. donald trump will most certainly make for interesting tv on thursday night. he says americans are tired of politicians. i think people are tired, sick and tired of incompetent politicians. nobody knows the politicians better than me. don t forget three months i was on the other side of the ledger. i was the fair haired
climate change. plus, as senate republicans try to defund planned parenthood, hillary clinton stands up to protect it. we re going to fight back. i m proud to stand with planned parenthood. and senator chuck schumer brings his cousin into the fight for gun control. unless something is done and done soon dangerous people will continue to get their hands on guns. all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m alex wagner in for chris hayes. the first gop presidential debate just three days away the backlash against fox news over the rules of that debate is reaching a fever pitch. and new reporting tonight suggests donald trump s friend rudy giuliani is pressuring fox to keep megyn kelly from putting too much pressure on trump. first two new national polls today with more good news for the donald. both polls show trump leading the pack with 26% support among republican primary voters giving him a double digit lead over his nearest rival jeb bush. trump a
things. that s true. thanks rachel. if this week s presidential debate is anything like this week s sunday political talk shows, donald trump is going to have a very easy time. who s in and who s out, with three days to go until the first republican debate. the man who tops the leader board is trying to lower expectations. i ve never debated before. i m not a debater. i m not a debater. i ve never been on a stage debating. that s all these guys do is debate. i m not a debater, and they are. we ll see what happens. who knows. trump is leading the pack. everybody loves me. that means we d see donald trump right in the center, surrounded by scott walker and jeb bush to his left and right. i think to be on the stage thursday night is an important first step. only the candidates who rank highest in an average of the five most recent national polls will qualify for the debate. we ll see what happens. i d like to be there. we ll just have to wait and see how
Were killed were first grade classrooms. when the shooting started, a second grade teacher thought that the pop, pop, pop she was hearing were some folding chairs falling over. she looked down the hallway and saw that wasn t what it was. she saw the janitor sprinting toward the front of the building and realized it was gunfire. in addition to the janitor, there were two kids. because they were walking the attendance to the main office. i used to try to get that job, too. when she realized they were this danger, she pulled them into her classroom to save them. locked the door, read them stories and sang christmas carols to muffle the sound and keep everyone calm. that is abby clemens. her daughter sarah, her outside the box thinking has led her to start a whole new wing of the gun reform, anti gun violence movement. it s the junior naa.