sign up for your free trial today at constantcontact.com/try. >>> hadiya pendelton was me.princeton and harvard law school and have a career and a family and the most blessed life i could ever imagine. and hadiya, oh, we know that story. >> an emotional michelle obama speaking about 15-year-old hadiya pendelton shot and killed in chicago. will a gun deal in washington keep americans safer? senior legal analyst and new yorker writer jeffrey toobin. let's go to one of our audience questions here. because linda, you have of a question about background checks. >> in regard to the background check, i really don't see where we're going to be able to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally able to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally disturbed. >> what is your view of the call for universal background checks? >> i think we should not restrict women's rights to have access to firearms. the more restrictions we put on law abiding citizens being able to have access to firearms? >> why just women 1234. >> 90% of violent crimes happen without the use of firearms. in that situa

is it a hit it and >>> last week, i brought you guys this story of a road rage incident near camp pendelton, california, involving a driver and a marine sergeant. the marine sergeant is joshua brightman. the driver, 19-year-old mike mccurdy kintana. "inside edition" recently caught up with mike to get his side of the story. mike talked about how he was able to remain so calm during this incident. >> i knew if i would have given him any satisfactory of me looking at him, he would have just got more enraged. so i just listened to the music and just blocked him out. >> which was tough. we were all very impressed with his patience. but it worked. he dent get injured in this situation. i think if we would have engaeged the sergeant, the guy would have gotten even more crazy, which is hard to imagine. he also talked about how he got most upset when the guy went around and started yelling at his sister. it was uncalled for for the words and what he said to my sister. >> take a [ bleep ] video you [ bleep ]. >> his sister was the passenger in his car. he's an injured marine that right now is confin

." >> except the defense department employee who allegedly called himself the godfather of camp pendelton didn't get away with it. prosecutors say he took cash since 2008 in exchange for helping contractors win business on that base. the man who received free remodeling work on his condo was caught in an f.b.i. sting. >> louisville guard kevin ware could be released from the hospital in a few hours after that horrific leg injury. he is now on crutches. he remains positive, calling it a minor setback to a major comeback. coach rick pitino and his son stopping by to lift his spirits. >> the doctors have been tremendous. the hospital has been tremendous. they operated right away on him. he's not in any pain. we're pleased with that. >> nfl legend joe theismann who had a similar injury in 1985 called ware to offer his support and theismann will be on "fox & friends" this morning at 7:30. >> amazing to see ware walking around already. >> later on this morning we'll get an up close and personal look at a state-of-the-art observation deck on top of the new world trade center. we got a peek at th

i stand with americans like the family of hidea a pendelton, gunned down just weeks ago in a park. she had been out here for president obama's inauguration. she was here with her high school friends and classmates. this a matter of two weeks she was gunned down in a park. i stand with sandra worthhearths whose brother, a chicago police officer, was shot and killed by gang members when with a straw-purchased gun when he stood in the driveway of his father's home. the gun lobby would like us to forget about these victims but there is no way we can. sandra worthham testified and talked about how her brother, a policeman, was armed and shot back but it didn't save him. she told us there's nothing antigun about doing more to keep guns out of the hands of the people who will misuse them. it was powerful testimony. well, the n.r.a. described the hearing as "an attack on guns." they described the testimony given any five of our six witnesses, but they said nothing about sandra worthham who lost her brother. they pretended her testimony never happened. they didn't want people to remember he

and as i visited with the pe pendelton family, i couldn't get over how familiar they felt to me.e my family. she was me. and i was her. but i got to grow up. her family did everything right. but she didn't didn't have a chance. >> with this this morning is maya whooi lee. and university lisa cook. also with us in chicago is dennis johnson, a student at chicago state university and a member of the black youth project. hi, dennis. >> hello. how you doing? >> i'm so please that had you joined us this morning. can you start by telling me about the role of guns in your own life? >> the role of guns here in chicago. they are pretty available. everywhere you go you can find a gun depending on what neighborhood you are in. and they are cheap. i don't know one black engineer or creator of guns. so the supply here in chicago's low-income community seems to be unlimited. >> i saw the video that you made for the black youth project. >> yes, ma'am. >> where you talk about the experience of your own brother being shot. talk about that. >> a couple of years ago, my oldest brother got shot seven

stricken us but also go beyond that and find a way to make the streets safer for h implete idea pendelton, we out for the inauguration and then 10* 10 days later was gunned down in a park in her city. i thank the senator from connecticut. mr. murphy: thank you very much. i thank the majority whip and just add to his last comment, my constituents are amazed that we don'don't have a federal law bag drug trafficking today. they are amazed if you go into a store and buy guns legally and sell them to people who are prohibited, that you haven't committed a federal crime. there is an asum on this that the federal government would disallow that. we haven't. but hopefully at the end of this debate, we will. i thank senator durbin for all of his work on that issue. mr. president, let me tell a few more stories here. i want to get to senator durbin's point and tell some stories about the vick tige vicu are bon -- of urban gun violencs well. dawn hochsprung was the principal at sandy hook elementary school. she was perhaps the first to die day because when the bullets started flying, when she heard t