The format reflects the legislative reality for Obama’s final year in office. It was the second time he visited the base after a shooting. He visited Newtown, Connecticut, for example, after the mass shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead at Sandy Hook elementary school.
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July 2012: After the shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., where 12 people were killed, Obama met with victims’ families and local and state officials.
Fourteen people were killed in the shooting, which happened during a holiday party for government employees. He took part in a televised memorial and delivered a speech. The visit was slotted into Obama’s West Coast fundraising tour. “It’s very appropriate for a sitting president to do it”. The president, who has long criticized the nation’s gun policy, has also sought to reassure Americans that the United States can meet the risky and “evolving” threat of terrorism. Obama is adding the stop in Southern California to a previously scheduled trip to Hawaii for Christmas vacation.
At this point of time no media access to the meeting has been panned, Earnest said.
Federal Bureau of Investigation chief James Comey said Wednesday in NY that investigators have determined that in late 2013, Syed Farook and his future wife, Tashfeen Malik, carried on conversations, direct private messages on the Internet, “sharing their joint commitment to jihad and martyrdom”.
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“The President wants to work with Congress to get this done”, one aide said, pointing out several Republicans have advocated closing the prison in the past.
