country to do that i'm joined by jim stokoe yank and kevin powell author of the new book barack obama ronald reagan and the ghost of dr king blogs an essay so jim i'm going to start with you i know that you're going to say that gun control is not the answer but i want to show you a chart before i get your answer i mean this this chart that we're showing right here is a list of just a few of the shooting massacres that we've seen in twenty twelve alone so if gun control isn't the answer what is well what's really and truly on the chart is this shooting back the mass shooting the last twenty years virtually all of the big one at the democratic national convention which might as well be gun free zone have occurred and what we call target rich environment to go where the victims of mass shootings were able to defend the. idea that the common denominator in all the.

that was kevin powell activist and author of the book barack obama ronald reagan and the ghost of dr king blogs and essays and also gems to co-ax constitutionalist and freedom advocate. and we have left off earlier today the russians built of solar use spacecraft blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan it's mission to carry a new crew to the international space station the additions including the u.s. astronaut mash tom mashburn russian cosmonaut roman romanenko and a canadian agency flight engineer chris hadfield once there the crew will join three others who have been manning the one hundred billion dollar research center since october this launch marks a bright spot in a recent rough patch for the russian space program just last year a profile meant to collect soil samples from mars successfully launched but failed to make orbit story and another mission involving a cargo ship carrying supplies headed toward the space station failed to leave earth crashing into siberia instead for the next five months the crew is scheduled to undertake two spacewalks and continue re

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jon: if ronald reagan and tip o'neil could work together maybe barack obama and john boehner can too. we'll see. >> well you know it is the holiday season. you would hope. i think that's another reason for optimism, jon. these are human beings. they want to go home. jon: don't we all. juan williams. good to have you on. thanks. >> thanks, jon. jenna: we'll turnover seas now as questions remain in syria just how close we are to the fall of the assad regime there. the government is there in syria is carrying out broad attacks against rebels in the suburbs of damascus as the u.n. appeals for one billion dollars, one billion dollars to help support rising numbers of syrian refugees, almost half of them children. leland vittert is live in our middle east bureau with more on this. leland? >> reporter: jenna, the term humanitarian crisis now really applies not only what is going on inside syria but the conditions at refugee camps where hundreds of thousands of people have literally showed up with the clothes on their back. the latest video out of damascus shows people leaving with whatever t

the federal government and the president, every president since ronald reagan has signed on to the war on drugs to my dismay. even barack obama product. >> bill: he of anybody would understand. >> how do we start? first of all we've already started. the trend is shifting. it has been shifting for quite some time now. so with colorado and washington states with marijuana we've already started. absolutely. but let's go back to 1933 when we ended alcohol prohibition. i don't think you had a whole lot of people sitting around saying how do we start? how do we end alcohol prohibition. you know what they did? they ended it. you know what? and then they managed it from there. what happened when they did it, immediately, al capone went out of business. he was no longer, you know, traveling where -- his cronies traveling the streets of chicago shooting up the place and you know, it was moms, mothers that really band together and said let's save our children. let's free our children from this bootleg industry. and become a part of it. and they also realized that alcohol had become much more dangerous because there were no quality contr

want to say this before this committee, that barack obama was no more responsible for what happened in benghazi than george w. bush was during 9/11 or ronald reagan was when more than 200 marines were murdered in beirut. it doesn't happen under anybody's watch. terrible things happen and we have to again try to fix them. i look at this report and the accountability review board is something that makes an attempt to do that. i don't care if the administration officials call it terrorism or didn't call it terrorism but i have seen things where president obama use the word terrorism the day after it happened. but that's not important. what's important is that there should be no more benghazi and that is why we are having this hearing and that is why we have the plan, 29 points and the secretary clinton has accepted them all and good for her. and she has of course appointed a new person mr. nides and i know that's you and you are really going to look at this. i am very very happy that you are going to leave this task force. but you know congress has its obligations too and we have to put our money where our mouth is and we are going to want to make s