On the Hagel, non-controversy, this from the Israeli daily Haaretz …
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told Jewish leaders in New York on Thursday that President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, is a “decent and fair interlocutor who believes in the natural partnership between Israel and the United States.”
We’ve now had a clarification from the CEO of the firearms instruction company in Tennessee who says he’s going to have to “start killing people” if President Obama issues an executive order tightening gun control legislation. He now says he’s not planning on killing anybody “unless it’s necessary.”
Fox News thinks the $1 trillion platinum coin would have to be made of $1 trillion worth of platinum, which would weigh a lot, don’t you know. Watch.
Gun Training CEO who threatens to “start killing people” over possible Obama gun control executive order lists phony firearms training credentials on his website.
In today’s edition of Not The Onion, CNN interrupts coverage of Biden on the NRA with news of another school shooter. Video after the jump … Read More
Our firearms beat reporter Evan McMorris-Santoro is doing a Live Chat at 4 PM at TPMPrime to answer your questions on just whether there’s going to be real movement in Washington after Newtown or whether it’s just going to be the same old same old. Get your questions in now.
We reached out to Tactical Response, the company whose CEO said he was going to “start killing people” if the President goes ahead with an executive order on gun control. They aren’t talking. They say the CEO, James Yeager, is going to have to answer questions about what he meant.
President Obama’s announcement of his nomination of chief of staff Jack Lew as Treasury secretary. Watch.
Our Evan McMorris-Santoro has been covering the guns and gun policy beat since the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut last month. So he’s been talking to the White House and the Democrats and Republicans in DC as well as the different advocacy groups as the issue evolves and moves into the legislative terrain. And today at 4 PM he’ll be doing a Live Chat at TPMPrime to answer your questions about he’s hearing and what comes next. So get your questions in now and then join us at 4 PM.