balance republican strategist was on a.b.c.'s this week yesterday one of the topics was the supreme court's decision to take up same sex marriage and while now it has previously defended traditional marriage she didn't this time there to look. for lines across forty eight percent approaching you know going above fifty percent now support gay marriage in the country right now because of american family common sense there are important constitutional dialogues go to your logical ontological questions relative to some essential marriage of people who live in the real world say the greater threat to civil order and heterosexuals who don't get married and are making babies that's an epidemic and crisis proportions that is irrefutable the more problematic for our culture. it seems malena certain live in the real world as she put it and understands that there are much more pressing issues facing our society than that of preventing two people who love each other from getting married just because of their sexual orientation so the rest o

go to school learn their a.b.c.'s on the basics of arithmetic but a growing number of young teens are getting a tough lesson in reality with more students headed to prison every day we're told the school to prison pipeline we'll tell you who's profiting from this phenomenon coming up. and we've heard of too big to fail but how about too big to cut d.c. lawmakers are fighting hard to protect against the military against sequester ation cuts we'll take you to the battle over funding and ask if the military is really worth all of the money being spent on it. it is monday december tenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you watching our team while if you haven't been dancing to gangnam style you're one of the few who didn't contribute to the song becoming the most watched you tube video of all time but south korean sensation side has a lesser known song that's caused him some grief in recent days in two thousand and four sign performed a song at an american themed concert around the same time the korean missio

a.b.c. news obtaining video of the suspected shooter recorded six years ago when holmes was eighteen at a summer science camp held at a college in san diego identifying forty year old army veteran wade michael page as the gunman who walked into a sikh temple south of milwaukee sunday morning and opened fire with a nine millimeter semiautomatic handgun killing five men and one woman and wounding three others including the first police officer to arrive on scene friday morning adam lanza shoots his own mother at home several times he drives roughly five miles to sandy hook elementary with guns and ammunition in the car state officials say it's a place he knows from childhood the why he goes there to kill remains a mystery and this kind of coverage is going on twenty four seven and no i'm not going to take the time right now to talk about gun control and whether or not we need to have more or less regulation of what i would like to discuss as whether or not the mainstream media does a disservic

dangerous moral precedent and a arguably military prison for the future of drone warfare washington post a.b.c. news poll shows that eighty three percent of americans support the bush obama drone policy. we can't imagine apparently that one day these same drones might be used against us by states nations or by well funded terrorist simply following our example or that our promises will probably spark a frenzy of drone wars around the planet the hysterical fear of terrorists and terrorism that bush and cheney hyped up for political purposes has so badly caused us to lose touch with that basic core guiding principle at the at the at the rock bed of american morality the golden rule. america needs to reclaim the high moral ground and stop or at least limit to genuine combat situations our use of what is' drugs. and that's the way it is tonight friday nov thirtieth two thousand and twelve for more information on any of the stories we covered this at our website to tom hartman dot com free speech to edward dot com and if you missed any of the night's show you can now watch an h.d. on hulu at hulu d

retirement age people with a raw deal during these so-called fiscal cliff negotiations in an interview with a.b.c. news president bush that's airing tonight president obama hinted that he may support raising the eligibility age for medicare from sixty five to sixty seven years old as though he was reading straight from speaker john boehner his talking points when asked about raising the retirement age the president said what is true is we need to strengthen social security we need to strengthen medicare for future generations the current path is not sustainable because we've got an aging population and health care costs are shooting up so quickly he didn't say no in other words in fact the major thing that's hurting medicare right now is the republican poison pill they put into it during the bush years medicare part d. which forces medicare to pay for pharmaceuticals at full retail the price of a single pill even though you're buying a million of them instead of negotiating discounts like the pentagon doesn't like walgreens does the result is that medicare is overpaying for drugs to the tune of h