politician who's speaking out. >> reporter: the connecticut shoot something a wake up call for all of us in america. >> senator leland says it's time to stop the mayhem. he wants to re introduce the bullet button ban. getting around the state ban on detachable magazines because you can use a bullet to release the magazine. >> it's as if we do not have an assault weapon ban in the state of california with the bullet button assault rifle, what you can do is buy a magnet and easily load and unload these magazines. >> senator ye wants to go further by adding yearly background checks on owners and mental health evaluations and limit ammunition and increase safe gun storage requirements. >> people are being reactionary. but the problem is these laws have had no impact. >> he fights for gun rights but does not believe bans on assault weapons are the way to prevent violence. >> if we're serious about trying to make these things stop happening we have to notice they happen in gun free zones. why can't with have tazers for administrators and teachers. >> part of the reason his bill failed last year is becaus

shows father and me visit in jerusalem i was eight years old here i'm three years old for this is us in america. and i remember the incredible job with the arrival of new comers here comes the girl nobody knows where she going to call them father and mother like we do father says this girl's name is he she will stay with us i fly into a rage how come she's going to live with us and call the mother and father. father nicholai knows perfectly well how to settle conflicts among the children of the well i talk to each of them separately and i tell them i understand where they're coming from i tell them i'm on their side and then the next child comes and i told them the same pop and this way conflicts will settle themselves. the family focuses on raising the children that they have but some come on their own accord maria a distant relative a father nikolai asked to join his family the i came here when i was sixteen years old the other girls were about the same age if we had been raised in the same family there would be no conflict we simply didn't know each other i wasn't here for sixteen years they

. >> the connecticut shooting is a wake up call for all of us in america >> reporter: until now with 20 children shot and killed in newtown, connecticut, they say it is time to stop the mayhem, wanting to reintroduce the bullet banned that failed last year. they allow them to get around the state banned on detachable magazines because you can simply use a tool in this case, a bullet to release the magazine. >> it is as if we do not have an assault weapons banned in the state of california. with the bullet button, assault rifle, what you can do is buy a magnet and you can easily load and unload these magazines. >> reporter: senator yee wants to go much further by adding yearly background checks on gun owners and mental health evallations, but limit the ammunition. >> look right now people are being reactionary about passing gun control laws, but they have no real impact. >> reporter: he is the chairman for the gun rights, but he does not believe that bans on assault weapons or other gun parts are the way to prevent violence. >> if we're serious about trying to make these things stop ha

. >> give us over schools and the rare in america we will outperform the other schools in five years. how good our charter schools? >> unions say they are four problem kids. >> up until now the adults have run the show and make us stupid in america. school spending has tripled over the past 40 years. three sped much more than other countries but what do we get? student learning? no improvement. look at it. there is the line. 40 years the scores have been flat much more money no improvement that there is good news and around america very cool things are starting to happen. >> school is boring. >> knollwood is not. >> as it is. i went to school. grade school was boring so was high school and so was princeton except for the party part of fourth grade? we have to learn reading and writing and that is work. >> reading is work but it is rocking also. >> they say school is fun? how is it fun to learn? >> they teach us enough on ways to make you look forward to going to school in the morning? >> yes. >> the attend a new charter schools the charter lets them escape the bureaucracy of regular s

. >> if the results were that we were going to eliminate serious drug use in america, it hasn't workedfer: many would say it's easy for out of office political leaders to stand against the war on drugs. are there any current or future leaders who have spoken out? >> obviously it is easier for ex-politicians to come out in support. but the president of columbia has come out recently in making this the forefront of his agenda, and i think the point of the film is to start the global conversation, once politicians realize this is an issue that people care about, they will want to get involved. >> jennifer: with the legalization of marijuana, are you optimistic that the war on drugs may be at least -- there's a crack in the armor that it may be starting to end? >> i think it's a start to the end of the war on drugs. i think what it is showing is that people have been progressive in their thinking in understanding that the current laws aren't working. if you look at cigarettes and the education campaigns around cigarettes we have dropped cigarette use nearly 50% in the last generation and a

in america christmas. the amazing things you've told us you're doing, and buying, to help create american jobs. >> made in america! >>> good evening. we begin tonight with another shooting, another safe part of american life shattered by violence. a photograph was released today of 22-year-old jake roberts. he worked at a deli outside portland, oregon. police say this is the person who opened fire on holiday shoppers at a mall, firing at families in the food court. he killed two people and then himself. tonight, the shooter's family and his girlfriend are speaking out to abc news, and here's abc's neal karlinsky. >> reporter: chaos amidst the christmas shopping rush. lines of shoppers, even children, could be seen streaming out with their hands up while a shooter was still inside. a day later, police now say the gunman was 22-year-old jacob tyler roberts, a young man with no history of serious trouble, who they say stole an assault rifle from an acquaintance and set off, alone, on a deadly rampage. >> we do not understand the motive of this attack except to say that there's no apparent relationship between

in decades. so it is a tough decision. >> fewer people are using cigarettes in america today. >> in america, but the world which is why tobacco companies are still doing incredibly well. >> more people using guns. >> yes. >> the trends are different for those two. interesting. henry, thank you very much, nice to see you. "business insider." >>> 47% of americans say they have at least one gun in their home. america, what are we so afraid of? why do we need these guns? i'll rant on that next. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it... in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. mmm... [ male announcer ] sounds good. it's amazing what soup can do. [ nyquil bottle ] just reading your label. wait...you relieve nasal congestion? sure don't you? [ nyquil bottle ] dude! [ female announcer ] tylenol® cold multi-symptom nighttime relieves nasal congestion. nyquil® cold and flu doesn't. >>> america, what are we so afraid of? there are mo

to jail for drug use, but wi spend an average of urnld $12,000 for a public school student. >> it's terrifying. there are 800,000 people in prison for smoking marijuana today in americale. it would be so much better if they were out of prison being useful members of society. we just put out a film tomorrow, my son made called "breaking the taboo" which puts across alternative ways. >> if legalizing or allowing as part of the solution here, what would you legalize? just pot? other drugs as well? >> look, i think what the commission is saying and these are people who when they were in power did not have the bravery to do something about it, and they all accept that. now they're out of power. they've realized they made a big mistake not doing something. >> jimmy carter, bill clinton? >> exactly. so what they're saying is, first of all, treat drugs as a health problem and not a criminal problem. anybody who uses drugs, you know, do not lock them up. if they use them in excess like if somebody uses alcohol, then help them. >> there have been studying done on marijuana that show among younger people that use it that it is often a gateway drug, that people who use it and ge

most of us in america including gun owners agree on things that would stop the carnage going on in allrica. let me agree with grover. all the shootings in my city only one was done by a law-abiding citizen who bought a gun. buy the guns you want. but the problem is in america right now is that a terrorist person who is on the no-fly list could go into the secondary market today and buy a weapon. we need to shut down these secondary markets and when you poll nra members you poll nra members, 74% agree that nobody in america should be able to buy a gun without doing a background debate. let's stop the false debate. >> cory is right. this is a false -- >> shut down -- >> part of what happens, this is so many things in washington, it's built on myths. and it's not reality and the nra and the leadership of the nra is built on myth. i would not have guessed that anybody who of diminished credibility could do more than what wayne lapierre did friday. average folks like cory said, average folks know you have to do something about this and know how comprehensive. i live in texas. i own five gun

. >> well, obviously, if the expected results were to have -- eliminate serious drug use in america and cool of you to do. always come back whenever you are in town. spaceship, whatever, however you get here. sir richard branson check out his son, sam branson's documentary "breaking the taboo" this friday, youtube.com/breakingthetaboofilm tan lines perform next, everybody. come on back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: our next guests are making their tv debut with us tonight. to perform the song "all of me" from their album "mixed emotions," please welcome tanlines! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ worn out faces hanging on the wall foreign places names you still recall ♪ ♪ you said laugh to yourself why you just don't care say the things no one else will ever dare ♪ ♪ so pardon me for asking pardon me for thinking pardon me for asking pardon me for thinking ♪ ♪ all of me is asking all of me is thinking all of me is asking all of me is thinking ♪ ♪ so say it loud when you need it we've got tough emotions do what you don't do ♪ ♪ so say it loud when you need it w

. >> well, obviously, if the expected results were to have -- eliminate serious drug use in america andery cool. very cool of you to do. always come back whenever you are in town. spaceship, whatever, however you get here. sir richard branson check out his son, sam branson's documentary "breaking the taboo" this friday, youtube.com/breakingthetaboofilm tan lines perform next, everybody. come on back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ boy 1 ] hey! that's the last crescent. oh, did you want it? yea we'll split it. [ female announcer ] made fresh, so light, buttery and fle ey. that's half that's not half! guys, i have more! thanks mom [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents. let the making begin [ female announcer ] holiday cookies are a big job. everything has to be just right. perfection is in the details. ♪ get to holiday fun faster with pillsbury cookie dough. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: our next guests are making their tv debut with us tonight. to perform the song "all of me" from their album "mixed emotions," please welcome tanlines! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ worn out faces hang

. >> the connecticut shoot something a wake-up call for all of us in america. >> you have to allow tos protect ourselves. >> why is this your problem? >> why is the murder rate around the country? i'm an american. what is your question! >> two bay area kids caught with a stolen rifle and a disturbing plan. >> police say the boys were planning to shoot a cop. >> there was a momentary scare tonight in a very busy mall. somebody spotted sparks on the roof and called the fire department. >> from across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on "eyewitness news this morning." >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >>> good morning, everyone. it's tuesday, december 18. i'm michelle griego. >> i'm brian hackney. frank is off this week. it's 31 minutes after 6:00. >>> happening right now, a car smashes into a gamestop store in the east bay. >> the driver of the car is nowhere to be found along with some pricy electronics from the store. cbs 5 reporter elissa harrington is at clayton valley shopping center with

. >> well, obviously, if the expected results that we eliminate serious drug use in america and eliminate trafficking networks, it hasn't worked. >> maybe he regrets not inhaling. president clinton appears in a new documentary and one of the film's backers joins me. branson is also a member of the global drug commission and i poke to him and asked him why he thinks the war on drugs is a failure. >> basically because fact yur of prohibition of alcohol in the '20s and '30s when the under world and al capone, every was disobeying the law and it became almost more fashionable to drink with prohibition than it would have been without prohibition. over the last two years, i've become part of something called the global drug commission. the it's got in ex-presidents on it. we've examined all the facts an the commission as a whole have said that we believe drugs should be treated as a health problem and not a criminal problem. >> well, you have an amazing statistic. in the op-ed you wrote saying we spend about $30,000 billion a year to incarcerate an inmate, but we spend under $12,000 for public

win the grammy but he did win the big one on election night and that's what counts to a lot of us in americaks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> knives out on the right. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. when a party loses an election, the knives come out. right now we're watching the night of the long knives on the right. these stories breaking tonight. right wing senator jim demint, the man behind too many failed right wing senate challengers, christine "i'm not a witch" o'donnell, richard mourdock announced today he's quitting the senate to run the hard right heritage foundation. meanwhile, in the republican house a purge is under way with speaker boehner dumping uncontrollable right wingers from prize committee assignments. they're out because they're too right. so what is too right for the republicans following the defeat this week or their defeat last month? is voting nay in the senate against a handicap rights treaty because it carries the nightmare dread of blue helmets riding bla

. >> the connecticut shoot something a wake-up call for all of us in america. >> you have to allow usect ourselves. >> why is this your problem? why is the murder rate around the country -- i'm an american! what's your question?! >> two bay area kids caught with a stolen rifle and a disturbing plan. >> police say the boys were planning to shoot a cop. there was a momentary scare tonight. a very busy mall. somebody spotted sparks on the roof and called the fire department. >> from across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on "eyewitness news this morning." >> touchdown! >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >>> good morning, it's tuesday, december 18. i'm michelle griego. >> i'm brian hackney. frank is on vacation this week. the time is 31 minutes after 5:00. >>> this morning, in newtown, connecticut, students return to class at all schools except for sandy hook elementary. >> that campus will remain a crime scene indefinitely after friday's mass shooting. investigators are still trying to determin

in the party use ethnic dog whistles. listen to some examples. judge for yourself. >> president obama is the most effective food stamp president in american history. >> the men and women all over americae worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses, from the ground up is how our economy became the envy of the world. it is the american way, and i wish this president would learn how to be an american. >> people have birth certificates. he doesn't have a birth certificate. now, he may have one, but there's something on that, may be religion, maybe it says he's a muslim, i don't know. maybe he doesn't want that. or he may not have one. but i will tell you this, if he wasn't born in this country, it's one of the great scams -- >> these aren't exactly cheerleaders for black participation in the republican party. donald trump, mitt romney genuflected to that guy in the campaign. let the congressman talk. let j.c. talk. i don't know how you react to that. i want to know. >> chris, on the birther thing, i think that's a losing issue. >> why do the republicans push it? >> i can't speak for republicans. you don't hear me talking -- >> i think you want to chair the party. >> that's th

welcome, made in america. >> come on in. >> reporter: thank you. this inventor taking us into the factory, where they are making protect tv cases for your iphone. they hold your credit cards, too. her own made in america ads on youtube. water resistant. they can take a beating. when we asked her why make it in america? >> to -- it's so weird. why am i crying? >> reporter: he said similarly her father was a veteran. it's that important to you. >> yeah. >> reporter: you can do better? you're convinced of it. pitching her product to me, too. >> reporter: as you can see, her pitch worked. bought another american made product. her company, you can look it up, you can find a link on our list of made in america companies. she would spend hours in the middle of the night skyping to china, but was determined to make it here. so was tervis. and the fairbault mill. merry christmas. i didn't wrap it. >> christmas comes early. thank you, david. and thanks to all of you, our viewers in this g to. it's great. thank you. >>> and still ahead on "world news," the story of the millionaire m

what european shelves are still being stocked with goods produced in areas by israel illegal lang grabs. and used cashing in on america's story in prison population we explore the cheap labor market remain behind bars. unnamed u.s. officials are reportedly suggesting the syrian military is preparing to use chemical weapons against rebels and is awaiting final orders from president assad those quotes in the american media come as washington says that that would be a reason to intervene and as artie's middle east correspondent policy reports the growing frenzy around. may not be a coincidence. these rumors are verified as of yet they are just allegations what they do suggest is that syria's military has been mixing chemical weapons and loading them into bombs the allegations suggest that the syrian president bashar assad is reportedly planning to use these on his own people now the reports say that syrian forces has been unloading bombs with components of salman gas which is a deadly nerve gas and that they have sixty days in which they can use these bombs until the chemical mixture expires and has to be destroyed this co

us on the shoulder pad and saying what was done speaks for itself. don't stoop to that level. mr. coats: so we need to set that aside and go forward in the interest of america and the families and the people that we represent in our states and look at this very carefully, and every one of us is going to say we haven't begun to address the spending, we haven't begun to address what we need to do. that has to be our charge in 2013 relentlessly. and i would say, mr. president, i think probably people on the other side of the aisle were embarrassed also by that speech. it was a campaign speech and the campaigns are over. the president doesn't need to run for office anymore. it's time to lead. and so let's all get together. we have been working together -- i would ask unanimous consent for one more minute. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coats: i want to say this. to make a laughter out of this, to ridicule it, it addresses all of us because i have been working with senators across the aisle and they have been working with us. many of us, we all take this very, very seriously. this is not a joke. this is not something to make fun at. this is not so

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and we've actually made huge strides forward in reducing illegal drug use in america. espite some of the increases in drug use over the past several years, over the long term the rates of drug use among young people today are far lower than they were 30 years ago. but we have to continue a downward trend, and we have to work on that very hard. and we have some troubling signs, as dr. volkow mentioned. we have to continue to educate people, particularly young people, about the risks that are associated with drug use. and just as we've actually educated people about the harms of tobacco and the dangers of alcohol-impaired driving, that information needs to be communicated not in a threatening way and not in a scare tactic way, but it needs to be communicated in a very direct way by parents and others, other adult influencers as we like to call them that can provide that kind of leadership. as the president has noted, we've successfully changed attitudes regarding smoking and alcohol-impaired driving, and we very much can do the same when it comes to the findings around dr

why i appreciate so much the work that you're doing and the fact that both of you and many of us in our americato talk about these issues, because... >> listen, this pairing... this pairing represents cross-ethnic cooperation. ilan and i have been friends for a long time. he watches what i do, i watch what he does, and look, the reason that i got the idea to do the norton anthology of african american literature is that they published the norton anthology of women's literature. so i was watching the feminists, think, "well, if they can do it, we can do it." then ilan saw that... >> they did exactly the same. >> yes. >> 10, 12, 13 years ago... >>m-hmm. >> ...skip did, and i thought, "it is time for latinos to do it." he was a role model, he was a mentor, and i said, "this is a moment that some... in which i have to assume my own responsibility and do something that skip has already done. >> which is why you've got to give me a royalty. ( laughing ) >> hinojosa: right now, in this moment, though, when the reality is that our demographics have changed so much, you know, we have to name it, right?

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in america gifts this year. those neighbors waving outside st. louis, missouri, that sign, welcomed made in america. >> come in. >> reporter: thank you. >> inventor arianna russell took us into that factory where he makes her own protective cases for your iphone. her own made in america ads on youtube. a little humor. but when we asked why she's determined to make it in america? >> to -- that's so weird. why i am crying? >> reporter: she said, simply, her father is a veteran. and when you heard that, you bought 4,121 iphone cases. her biggest month ever. she's hiring five new workers. >> thank you, "world news"! >> reporter: then, the viewers determined to find american-made toys. showing us k'nex. the company telling us tonight, more than 7 million boxes sold. >> made in america! >> reporter: entire towns joining in. vernon, vermont, that town hall cheer. >> you bet we're in! >> reporter: and at the vermont wood studios, they've hired five new workers tonight. at spooner boards in california, they're spinning, all right. after our first report on the company, five new employees. they're riding a wave. >> made in america! >> reporter: and you'll remember who we found in

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and nothing is happening and the rest of us in america are suffering because nothing is going on. >> land they say the folks 10 to be happier. it depend on what your choices are. i don't know how happy the people would be if our cities were full of the sex boxes. whatever that is. >> your thoughts on that? >> we just found out the 3.8% surtax will be on our investments and houses. we are not used to government being this intrusive into our lives. one of the reasons we are not happy in america is because finally we are seeing this intrusion into our lives. our daily lives of more and more and more government. you wake up in the morning. walk outside your door. you will be taxed for it any more in this country. we like the freedom to take care of ourselves. we are no longer getting that freedom at all, whether it's locally or whether it's nationally with our national government. look at california. for every 100 workers in california we are supporting 139 people who are not working. same thing going on in new york. in new mexico it's 100 to 153. the takers outdo the makers anymore and w

in motion. >>> tonight, we have been reading all you are writing us, the conversation in america about gun violence abc news news w rejoining the search for solutions. tonight, we want to take to you doctors who want you to know what they are seeing every day. in the last survey, 31,000 americans were killed by guns that is 60 times more than the troops killed in iraq and afghanistan that year, 2010. so we asked the doctors to tell us how they think it could change. matt gutman was with them. >> reporter: skyler davis was shot before she was born. >> it was through her arm here and the exit came up here. it shattered her elbow bone. >> reporter: a four-pound victim kougt in her mother's woem. one of the small victims. and in in hospital in miami. jackson center is ground zero in a national crisis. >> eight months pregnant, shot in the uterus and in the brain. >> reporter: 600 gunshot victims treated here last year. more nan all of britain in ten years. what must change now? who would want to see guns get rid of entirely in the country? but the surgeons on the front lines say the real problem is not

they'll just use it for dividends to buy stocks and he said at least they'll be using it in the united states of americaead of sticking over there. >> jon: or thaidged of they could use it for bonuses. >> they'll do all that. >> jon: between and you i, and you're a republican, between and you me, they really are the crazy people in this one. are they not? >> no, the aarp spss are the crazy people. >> jon: don't say that because i just joined. you can stick around a little bit. we're going to talk more with senator capitol hill kennedyicism. we'll be right back. Ñ ( cheers and applause ). >> jon: that's our show. join us tomorrow night at 11:00. new jersey governor chris christie will be in thedi

in 1970. people don't steal tvs as much as they used to because they're so cheap now. [inaudible] last night are not made in america anymore like they used to be. but in actuality, the things most important is which your book is about trying to capture. the most important in people's lives in terms of family retirement security, health care, access to education have all become much more difficult for working people to obtain. and the quality of life -- the quality of life is great pressure and has been for a long time. now, it can be very challenging to have an argument about this larger politics coalition. i want to be very pointed about one aspect, which i find very challenging. the afl-cio is always on record expressing the highest level of concern about climate change. president trumka gave a speech -- >> imposing a 50% marginal tax rate on income over 250,000. these are hard to us, but to me solving the equity issue that damon talks about his fundamental to environmental success and affects environmental outcomes and therefore is an environmental issue. i did talk a little about this earlier. john, yes -- i th