Shooting victims’ families hug, talk with Obama, first lady

As for Ryan, the President said the Wisconsin Republican “has been professional, he has reached out to tell me what he can and cannot do”. “Many were interested in how we can prevent shootings like this from happening in the future.”, he said.

In addition to consoling the families, the President also met with first responders to the massacre.

President’s Obama’s motorcade returns to the San Bernardino airport after he visited with families of the shooting victims. Obama agreed, he said, and told Kaufman’s loved ones that he hoped the United States could “work together to eradicate the problems that cause tragedies like these”, Reyes said.

After finishing the meeting, Obama said speaking with the families was a reminder “of what’s good in this country”.

Even though Obama has been all over California many times in the past, this was his first time in San Bernardino County. Congress has consistently moved to block Obama from transferring Guantanamo detainees to the USA, but Obama said he is going to present a plan to close the facility and is “not going to automatically assume that Congress says no”.

The White House added the stop so Obama can meet privately with relatives of those who were killed December 2 when a married couple opened fire on the husband’s co-workers at a holiday party. We choose to laud him for meeting with families of the 14 laid to rest, rather than criticize him for failing to meet with the others whom Mr. Hagman suggested.

“I’m not going to take anything on or off the table”, she said of options including closing the so-called gun-show loophole for background checks and a proposed ban on gun purchases by people on the federal “no-fly” list.

The FBI is investigating the case as an act of terrorism. “It shows a big commitment on the president to show his support for San Bernardino County and the families who are facing this horrific event”.

When Obama approached the table where Mandy Pifer was sitting, he said, “Words aren’t enough”. Suspects Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik were killed later that day in a shootout with police.

President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 95 people, mainly for non-violent, drug-related offenses, and pardoned two others, the White House said in a statement on Friday. For the protection of AP and its licensors, content may not be copied, altered orredistributed in any form. So far, authorities have said they have no evidence that the American-born Farook and his Pakistani wife were carrying out orders from an overseas terrorist group or that they were part of a domestic terrorist network.

At his year-end press conference Friday, Obama vowed he’s “not gonna be forward-leaning on what I can do without Congress before I’ve tested what I can do with Congress” – referring to his executive actions “on a whole bunch of issues, like immigration”.