they give law enforcement a way in, scott, eventually, hackers will find their way in, too. >> nancy cordes on capitol hill. thank you, nancy. >>> connecticut is about to become the first state to ban anyone on a government watch list from buying a firearm. that is something that congress has not done, despite a request from the president. governor dan malloy announced today he'll do it by executive order. >>> supreme court justice antonin scalia is under fire tonight for comments he made during oral arguments yesterday. the court was hearing a challenge to affirmative action at the university of texas. here's our chief legal correspondent, jan crawford. >> reporter: justice scalia was describing an argument made in court papers by opponents of affirmative action. "there are those who contend it does not benefit african americans to get them into the university of texas where they do not do well," says scalia, "as opposed to a slower tracked school where they do." scalia was referring to the mismatched theory that minorities admitted through affirmative action tend to enter at the bottom of

suggestions from democrats and republicans. >> reporter: nancy cordes, cbs news, washington. >>> "cbs this morning" co-anchor norah o'donnell interviewewe president obama just after yesterday's attack. the president said, again, it's time this country take steps to try to reduce the number of mass shootings. >> we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no peril anywhere else in the world. and there's some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to prove the odds that they don't happen as frequently. >> we will have more of norah o'donnell's interview with president obama coming up on "cbs this morning." >>> britain's parliament has voted to strikes in area. the air force took off from the island of cyprus to start the attacks. attacks after more than a ten-hour debate. opponents say britain's entry into crowded air space over syria would not be effective. >>> two army pilots were killed when their helicopter crashed in rural tennessee. the apache chopper went down wednesday night during a routine training exercise about 12 mi

as nancy cordes reports, it appears that capitol hill is still not ready to take accession. >> reporter: california democrat barbara boxer is one of the biggest opponents of gun laws. >> it's heart breaking to see country. looks like a war zone and it's not enough to keep lamenting these things. >> reporter: mass shootings have clinton was actually talking about guns in orlando minutes before. >> it is time for us to say, we are going to have comprehensive background checks and we are going to close the gun show loophole and the online loophole. >> reporter: most republicans say there is no proof that more gun laws would do any good and some want even more firearms. former arkansas governor mike huckabee. >> in most every case in this country, one is a mentally unstable person, two, a gun-free zone. >> reporter: most of his fellow presidential candidates stay clear and say they were praying for the victims. on capitol hill, gun legislation. any gun legislation is a nonstarter, after the paris attacks, democrats revived their push to ban gun sales to those on the u.s. terror watch list.

here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: this is where terrorists turn these days when they want to talk undetected, a messaging app, called "telegram," available for free on any smartphone. >> it's the go-to application for terrorist communication. >> reporter: elliot zweig is deputy director at the middle east media research institute. >> "telegram" has set it up that even they themselves don't retain the information. they cannot monitor the content. >> reporter: and there are dozens of other apps just like it, featuring powerful crack. >> that is a big problem. we have to grapple with it. >> reporter: fbi director james comey revealed wednesday that one of the two men who tried to attack a garland, texas, conference center in may communicated with an overseas terrorist 109 times that morning. >> and to this day, i can't tell you what he said with that terrorist, 109 times the morning of that attack. >> reporter: so congress is considering legislation that would compel tech companies to unscramble and hand over suspicious and encrypted messages, but many of these companies operate outside of the

nancy cordes sorts this out. >> we need our data which has been stolen by the d.n.c. >> reporter: the sanders campaign filed the federal complaint after the democratic national committee cut off the campaign's access to a key voter database, a move the sanders camp says could cripple their operation, costing them more than $600,000 a day in lost donations. sanders' campaign manager jeff weaver. >> this is taking our campaign00. we have a exwras-roots campaign so when we have people come to campaign headquarters to call voters we can't generate phone numbers to do that. >> reporter: the d.n.c. blocked the campaign from a shared democratic database after a glitch enabled sanders staffers to view voter data gathered by the clinton campaign for about 45 minutes on wednesday. sander's data director josh trying to snoop. >> reporter: but the d.n.c. tells cbs news the breach went far beyond that, and that four different users examined clinton voter files from 10 states, saving and even exporting some of the data. the sanders campfired josh uretsky and is investigating the other staffers. can

law enforcement a way in, scott, eventually, hackers wilil find their way in, too. >> pelley: nancy cordes on capitol hill. thank you, nancy. connecticut is about to become the first state to ban anyone on a government watch list from buying a firearm. that is something that congress has not done, despite a request from the president. governor dan malloy announced today he'll do it by executive ororr. supreme court justice a aonin scalia is under fire tonight for comments he made during oral arguments yesterday. the court was hearing a challenge to affirmative action at the university of texas. here'e'our chief legal correspondent jan crawford. >> reporter: justice scalia was describing an argument made in court papers by opponents of affirmative action. , "there are those who contend it does not benefit african americans to get them into the university of texas where they "as opposed to a slower tracked school whererehey do." scalia was referring to the mis-matched theory that minorities admitted through affirmative action tend to enter at the bottom of the class. then they have trouble c

here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: this is where terrorists turn these days when they want to talk undetected, a messaging app, called telegram, available for free on any smartphone. >> it's the go-to application for terrorist communication. >> reporter: elliot zweig is department director at the middle east media research >> telegram has set it up that even they themselves don't retain the information. they cannot monitor the content. >> reporter: and there are dozens of other apps just like it, featuring powerful encryption law enforcement can't crack. >> that is a big problem. we have to grapple with it. >> reporter: f.b.i. director james comey revealed wednesday that one of the two men who tried to attack a garland, texas, conference center in may communicated with an overseas terrorist 109 times that morning. >> and to this day, i can't tell you what he said with that terrorist, 109 times the morning of that attack. >> reporter: so congress is considering legislation that would compel tech companies to unscramble and hand over suspicious and encrypted messages but many of these companies

they give law enforcement a way in, scott, eventually, hackers will find their way in, too. >> nancy cordes on capitol hill. thank you, nancy. >>> connecticut is about to become the first state to ban anyone on a government watch list from buying a firearm. that is something that congress has not done, despite a request from the president. today he'll do it by executive order. >>> supreme court justice antonin scalia is under fire tonight for comments he made during oral arguments yesterday. the court was hearing a challenge to affirmative action at the university of texas. here's our chief legal correspondent, jan crawford. >> reporter: justice scalia was describing an argument made in court papers by opponents of affirmative action. "there are those who contend it does not benefit african americans to get them into the university of texas where they do not do well," says scalia, "as opposed to a slower tracked school where they do." scalia was referring to the mismatched theory that minorities admitted through affirmative action tend to enter at the bottom of the class. then they have tro

here's nancy cordes. >> i am convinced that was a terrorist attack. >> reporter: on one thing, >> we are dealing with an act of terrorism. >> reporter: but everyone has their own approach to the threat. g.o.p. front-runner donald trump wants to step up surveillance on mosques. >> you know, i have friends that are muslims. they're very nice people but they understand there's a big problem. >> reporter: republican chris christie is pushing for the reinstatement of the bulk phone data collection program that was revealed by edward snowden. >> we need to do these things because if we don't do them we are putting you and your families at risk. >> reporter: democrat hillary clinton pushed today for more bombings on isis in syria and more gun restrictions here at home. >> i gotta tell you, if you're too dangerous to fly in america, you are too dangerous to buy a gun in america, in my opinion. ( applause ) >> reporter: the always-heated gun debate has gotten personal. the "new york daily news" news" today called the head of the national rifle association a terrorist. but republicans insist t

nancy cordes has that. >> and we will defeat these new enemies. >> reporter: clinton argued the u.s. should start scrutinizing the social media postings of visa applicants. >> anyone who has traveled in the past five years to a country facing serious problems with terrorism and foreign fighters should have to go through a full visa investigation, no matter where they're from. >> reporter: clinton unveiled her proposals in minneapolis because it's home to the nation's largest somali community, a top target for isis recruiters. a quarter of americans who have tried to join isis came from minnesota. >> i don't think this reflects our community. >> reporter: city councilman abdi warsame is part of a new local task force that's trying to counter extremist propaganda. how hard is it to pinpoint who is being radicalized? >> they are usually young. they were either born here or gree up here or came as toddlers. they're unemployed. >> reporter: today, clinton called out republicans like donald trump and ted cruz who she'd accused of "shallow sloganeering." >> promising to carpet bomb until th

nancy cordes reports from capitol hill. >> reporter: he had a very ominous warning for lawmakers.government's ability to track terrorist communications is not keeping pace with their ability to evade detection. >> increasingly we are unable to see what they say. >> reporter: fbi director james comey provided a chilling example wednesday. he said the two men who attempted to attack a garland, texas conference center in may communicated with an overseas terrorist 109 times that very morning, using powerful encryption the fbi can't crack. >> to this day, i can't tell you what he said with that terrorist 109 times the morning of that attack. that is a big problem. we have to grapple with it. >> reporter: encrypted apps, he said, are now standard tools for terrorists. the paris attackers likely used them to plan secretly, conspirators in france, belgium, and syria. now top lawmakers are considering legislation that would compel tech giants like apple, google and facebook to hand over encrypted data to law enforcement. along with tools to crack the code. >> even simple commercial produc

they give law enforcement a way in, scott, eventually, hackers will find their way in, too. >> nancy cordes on capitol hill. thank you, nancy. >>> connecticut is about to become the first state to ban anyone on a government watch list from buying a firearm. that is something that congress has not done, despite a request from the president. order. >>> supreme court justice antonin scalia is under fire tonight for comments he made during oral arguments yesterday. the court was hearing a challenge to affirmative action at the university of texas. here's our chief legal correspondent, jan crawford. >> reporter: justice scalia was describing an argument made in court papers by opponents of affirmative action. "there are those who contend it does not benefit african americans to get them into the university of texas where they do not do well," says scalia, "as opposed to a slower tracked school where they do." scalia was referring to the mismatched theory that minorities admitted through affirmative action, often from disadvantaged communities, tend to enter at the bottom of the class. then they

candidacy with "face the nation" moderator and cbs news political director, john dickerson and nancy cordes. >>> a french official didn't name the man but he says he is from france and left for syria two years ago. all of the attackers identified so far are french or belgian and spoke french natively. at least 89 people were killed at the hall last month. >>> back at home. the house voted overwhelmingly to tighten controls on travel to the u.s. the bill was approved 407-19. requirements for citizens of syria and iraq and other countries considered a terrorist hot spot who want to visit the u.s. the current program allows citizens from 38 countries to travel to the u.s. without obtaining a visa. >>> senator ted cruz is proposing a bill that would allow states the right to reject a refuge deemed a security risk. it has the backing of texas' governor greg abbott who wants to make sure syrians who pose a danger to his state are not allowed. >>> the san bernardino attackers borrowed $28,500 two weeks before the deadly rampage. farook got the money from an online lending service. it's reported th