doug smith, former assistant director of the homeland security.hank you for your time today. >>> today marks the 15th anniversary of a shooting at columbine high school in colorado. back then, the shock of a mass school shooting stunned the nation. in the years since, close to 350 school shootings have taken place. the new security measures school districts are implementing to try to prevent shootings. >> unlocked. >> right now, there are a lot of security and cops everywhere >> for students at arapahoe high school in denver, security now goes hand-in-hand with learning. gun men last december >> what happened in iraq, the security was so good. i trust it >> even at schools security, a priority >> they can't just walk into our schools like you could .10 or twenty years ago. >> uniform staff. littleton colorado, a wake-up call we will never forget the 13 that lost their lives >> frank deangeles was the columbine principal in 1899. my wort nightmare became a reality. >> repeated at scores of schools and colleges around the country. virg tech, 32 stud

exactly should we be doing it here for joining me right now --douglas holtz eakin, doug former cbo director and dan smithbudget advocate. me like we need a real overhaul of the corporate tax code so we can get all of the offshore money north of $1 trillion back here working for us in the united states of america. >> i think that is exactly right. we have the trifecta and problems. raise much revenue. time to take a look at the competitor nations and recognize we are out of step with the 21st century. basically countries have moved away from taxing worldwide income. instead, those companies that are making money in brazil, the u.s., you pay the you -- brazilian tax and bring it back and a second layer attacks. i keep the money offshore. companies do not want to do that. we need to fix the problem and do it quick. >> live the highest corporate taxes of any country in the world. where is the breakdown politically? -- we have the highest corporate taxes of any country in the world. >> the biggest problem with our corporate tax code is that many large us-based multinational corporations are able to use a vari

but the prosecutor says that smith planned the killings and was waiting in his basement with two guns, a book, and some snacks. lis wiehl is a fox news legal analyst. dougformer prosecutor. here to discuss this very strange case. so this fellow, byron smith, 65 years old. his place was broken into time and time again. he hears glass breaking upstairs and two teenagers wind up dead. >> right, is it before that he is waiting down in the basement for them, waiting with a snacks and power drink and all that with a gun ready to go. the teenager comes down, shoots the boy, teenager, not dead yet. goes off, a good clean, quoting here from him, a good clean finishing shot to the head. then drags that body to another room so he doesn't mess up his carpets, get blood on the carpets. the girl comes down, apparently according to him is laughing at him. he shoots her twice in the head. she is dead. she brings, he brings that body over and places it on the boy. that is not self-defense in any state, especially minneapolis or minnesota. jon: lack of a better term prosecutors are charging overhill here, doug? >> the thing is, jon, the law is different in your home than

doug burns are here. brian, how do you defend that? >> i would have had smithofound here he had the weeks and months leading up to the shootings to throw the jury the lens he was looking. the other option i would have chosen after hearing the tapes would be a possible mental illness as a mitigating factor to reduce it down to possible m manslaughter. hearing those tapes he sounds like a man who is mentally ill. >> as a prosecutor, these tapes, is this what did it for the jury? it only took three hours. >> no question about it. he convicted himself in this case. and i say that because if he had not had an audio type of what happened and made the statements he did to the police where he buried himself and described he removed the threat they presented. and he talked about a clean, final kill shot. once the threat was gone he had no further right to use deadly force. >> liken to that of a deer hunter. even went on to say once he shot someone he didn't want them to suffer trying to explain why high continued to shoot. in the state of minnesota it is legal to do thi

"givenrna smith, gridlock in congress, is a time to think about term limits, some other means to kick them out for poor performance?" but a contrasting view from dougho said, "why is division that? i am happy when congress is in good luck because america safe." [laughter] you >> we found both of these points of view in a national poll. we will talk about some of the poll results and some of the comments gathered from a range people. let's watch. [video clip] for the past year, usa today and the bipartisan policy center have joined forces to look at the nation's political polarization. this has contributed to washington's or and fueled happiness on how government works or doesn't work. institution center philadelphia, ohio state university in columbus, and now at the jfk library in boston. we cosponsored four national polls taken by whit ayres and mark mehlman. in our new survey, americans 2-1 say the government has gotten off on the wrong track. strongly approve of the job that congress is doing, nearly half strongly disapprove. when we ask people what they liked about congress, the top response was we can kick them out if they don't do what we wan

verna smith, given an ending gridlock in congress, is seriously think about term limits, some other means to poorthem out for performance? but a contrasting view from doug why ist who said division bad? i am especially happy when congress is in gridlock and on vacation or recess because america is safe. )laughter we found both of these points of in the new u.s.a. today bipartisan policy center justnal's poll that was released on monday and in this short video we're going to talk about the poll results and the comments we gathered from a range of people, a mayor, governor, two senators, a white policy maker, about what's going on and about possible solutions. let's watch. page, i'm susan washington bureau chief of u.s.a. today. for the past year, u.s.a. today the bipartisan policy center have joined forces to look at the nation's political polarization. this divide has contributed to washington's gridlock, and it americans' unhappiness with the way their government works. or doesn't work. held four national town halls at the reagan library in california, constitution center philadelphia, ohio state university in columbus, and now j.f.k. library in boston