Week In The News: Newtown, Fiscal Cliff, Benghazi Report -- Tom Ashbrook, On Point

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/12/21/week-in-the-news-226

It was a week of anguish. It was a week of no Plan B. In Newtown, Connecticut and across the country, stunned grief at the killings of so many – little children, teachers. A terrible national wake-up call. Maybe a call to action.

In Washington, the glimmer of a fiscal cliff deal, then nothing. House speaker John Boehner went another way, for his own Plan B. Was embarrassingly rebuffed when his own House Republicans said no way to a tax hike on millionaires. So now what? Robert Bork is gone. Daniel Inouye.

This hour, On Point: our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

-Tom Ashbrook