and mary katherine said, "dad, you're not going to find her." and lois came over here to where the light switch was. >> i just flipped the whole panel of lights on. i looked and i saw the screen had been cut. >> she just screamed. i mean, it was just -- she knew at that moment what was happening. >> gripped with fear, lois knows her daughter is gone. the screen to a kitchen window left ajar earlier that night is sliced open. and lois realizes someone has cut that screen to get into their house. and take their daughter. and now 14-year-old elizabeth smart is gone. as police swarm his home, ed smart pleads for his daughter's life. >> please let her go. >> the abduction of elizabeth smart quickly becomes national news. >> lois and edward smart are elizabeth's parents, mr. and mrs. smart, good morning. >> i remember both of us were just sick. i know lois was, you know, to be able to get on in front of the tv was nearly impossible. it was just pain and, you know, heartache. >> please let her go. >> please, please let her go. >> going through somethin

you say what, mary katherine? >> i say nobody has yet pointed out the law that would have prehave noted this incident. if it were that easy, we would probably pass that law. but for instance, connecticut and new jersey, the place where is these guys may have been buying or hanging out, or the perpetrator was, have some of the stricter gun laws. there is an assault weapons ban in connecticut, like the 1994 one. so i'm not sure how nationally enforced one would change the fact because an ar 15 which was legal under that ban. so i'm just concerned, i think you were very right, bill, to point out when we're reacting as society, it's not because we're not caring. it's because we have these freedoms which we prize very highly. >> bill: that's right. that's an excellent point. we have a structure here. we have a constitution here that's different than great britain and canada. and there is a reason for it. historically. but that doesn't solve the immediate problem. the immediate problem is basically that you, any america

gregg: mary katherine, no way to run a government but we've been saying that for 200 years.o. but, mary katherine, look, what does it say about boehner's leadership, when he can't even get a vote on his own plan? >> no, i think that was a good opportunity for republicans to pass something. i think many of them made a mistake in foiling that plan because i think it was a decent one that had good points even though they obviously didn't get everything they wanted. i still think this could go either way. you guys point out this is no way to run a government and hasn't been for 200 years. i argue part of the reason we get into these situations a lot more often past couple years, one, we're running out of the money. two because democrats in the senate have failed to engauge even semblance of a regular budget process. i would like to bring that back sometime in the near future. regardless i think this could go either way next couple days. it is encouraging they're meeting. it he is couraging the president has not put forth a plan publicly, if he announce as plan he doesn't have ch

what about this now, a great panel, juan williams, fox news political anal hr*euts, mary katherine ham "hot air.com, a fox news contributor. how are you two tkofplgt merry christmas, whatever applies. i was thinking about the polling number here half the people responding says the government does too much. think about the deadline today for these health exchanges. put those two together if you can. >> look it seems obvious to a lot of people that the federal government especially is very bloated. you talk in these numbers of trillions are really hard to put in perspective because it's more than any person will ever see in their lifetime usually. so i think that is part of where this is coming from. when you get down to the nuts and bolts of cutting certain things, people say hey i don't want that cut, or that cut, that's why we have problems with that. as far as the healthcare exchanges go i don't think anybody should under estimate where you like the bill or don't like the bill how much really intricate tough work is ahead for states and the federal government that they are quite behi

katherine hubbard, ann marie murray, benjamallison wyatt and benjamin wheeler lauren rousseau. >> they told us all along they have many witnesses to interview and they have a lot of good evidence. now we are learning about the kind of evidence that might not be so helpful to them on what made add dlanl sglau tick. adam lanza's cell phone records reveal he made few cell phone calls. he destroyed his computer in some way to figure out who he is talking to and who he may have warned if any one on-line about the deadly plan. it might be tough to figure out who he was playing violent games with on-line because the new york post shows he likes to play call of duty first person shooter game in his mother's basement where he lived until last friday. >> beater doocy, thank you. >> if you didn't go over board on the christmas shopping you are not alone. sales would not be as good as originally expected. the other business headlines is lauren simonetti. >> good morning patti ann. the frantic start to the hole sdooin ended pretty fast. holiday sales would rise that's down from the forecast of 3.3.

katherine hubbard this morning. six-year-old benjamin and allison were held today. in services mourners remember the teachers ann marie murphy and lauren russo. teams continue to search the home where adam plan s&a lived with his mother for -- police believe the 20-year-old tabunman spent most of his time playing video games in the week before the shooting. they're trying to retrieve information from the damaged computer and trace the history of the gunned used purchased by his mother. >> today joe biden met with law enforcement from around the country to reduce gun violence. the task force is considering ideas including reinstating a ban on assault weapons closing the gun show loophole and restricting clips. president obama has asked for the press to be readyby next month. bay area students mourning the students who died in the tragedy. students are talking about the violence. >> it happened about half an hour ago, dozens of teening all about a decade older but not much younger than the gunman himself, determined to prevent such a tragedy here. ♪ oh how he loves us. >> songs and prayer echo over the quad at heyward h

katherine hubbard, ann marie murphy, lauren russo, benjamin wheeler wheeler and allison. shooter and perhaps a motive. peter doocy live with the latest. >> good morning. there is a report in today's dan did bury, connecticut news times that says a few years ago, adam lanza really wanted to join the marines, but his mom, nancy, shot him down when she reminded him he didn't like to be touched and at the got hurt, a medic or doctor would have to touch him to help him to make him better. now, this is coming as authorities are telling us they really might not have that much of a digital foot print to follow in this case. the hartford current is reporting adam lanza made few, if any calls from his cell phones and destroyed his computer in a way that will make it hard to get anything off it so they may never know about any potential warning on-line or what he was looking at on his computer before friday. authorities right now are looking for scammers, some criminal set up a phony charity and first grade victim noah pozner's name and illegitimately profiting off people's goodwill

katherine hubbard. chaste kowalski. jesse lewis. james matoli. grace mcdonnell. ann marie murphy. and it looks that she was one of the faculty or teachers in the building. another child, first grader, emily parker. jack pinto. noah pausener. carol previti. jessica ricos. lauren russo, who, again, is either a teacher or faculty in that school. mary sherlock, another faculty or teacher or staffer, in that school. victoria soto, another member of faculty or staff. and benjamin wheeler, a boy in first grade. and allison wyatt, also in first grade. so it appears that most of these kids, what we are told by the medical examiner and confirmed by connecticut state police is that most of these children were in first grade, craig. we heard some pretty gruesome details during this press conference. some details about the gunshot wounds. the medical examiner telling us that he has been at this job for a third of a century and that he has never had to deal with anything like this before. as well as his staffers, he was convinced that this was also their worst experience and he tells us that on

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