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o two nine zero four twenty one thirty four and mark neal and sam been kind enough to stick around get their takes on your questions and comments so the first caller of the night tom in san diego hey tom thanks for watching hey dummy. this question is for the panel ok i don't know your name i just watched all right all right just for the panel two things ok i'll gun control ok. and i for lack of better term i have to name the first one is mandatory liability insurance for gun ownership and the second one is certificate of responsibility making a registered gun owner response for any and all crimes that is that gun commits ok tom thanks a lot for the call this is what tom is doing is a variation on what i my suggestion for gun control which is that we should deal with guns the same way we started dealing with cars in the one nine hundred twenty one hundred thirty when we realized that they can go fast enough to kill people and that is register the car from the time it's made told times destroyed have liability insurance cheap minimal liability insurance so i mean i just find it so

ironic that if those twenty kids in newtown had been killed by a speeding car geico would be paying out a million bucks each one of their families but because they were killed by bullets they're going to get nothing and then the operator has to show proficiency has to have a driver's license a shooter's license market thought. first of all the the vehicle is a little it's not exactly the same because of a owning a car driving a car is not a constitutional right second amendment gives the right to bear arms one of our roads are mentioned in article one section who can have the roads are but you don't have a right to use the road you have a right to use the road you have a general under numerate a right to travel but do you have a right to use the road but so the right to bear arms is specific to the right to bear arms is qualified it's in order to have a lot right but i'm willing we only carry on that i see it differently but you know all that study means to show that they are equipped as regulars have the idea of deterrence i think the private sector should offer it i don't think you should have to do it but if you don't have the insurance you're liable to a tort suit anybody can sue you if you use a gun and also criminally you're criminally liable and there are already against

a lot of shooting penalties for the second thing i didn't quite understand but i don't really ended i don't understand about registering firearms to begin with so i probably would disagree with you but i didn't catch the whole thing in the second part of the question i think we need to get to gunmakers and sellers being held liable for the products they're making of it as tobacco companies were held liable in the late ninety's for the products they were making now have to fund an anti smoking ads for the next twenty years as a result of it it going to be fat. jurors were held liable when their products are used to kill people then they wouldn't be so gun ho started about their products is gone is it to get all this new saturday right because when i buy the trial lawyers association that's what it was about pride actually or why should they be penalize if i sued somebody that's on me that's a personal decision i make the fact that the gun went off fired the bullet and it went where i put it that means the gun manufacturer made a good product when if a five year old picked up a gun and killed in the five year old and the technology to have trigger locks was had was there all along in the gun manufacturers decided not to use it just like car manufacturers decided not to put on seatbelts or tobacco manufacturers decided

to make cigarettes that continue to burn even when they weren't being done and so couches caught on fire i mean you know congress or doesn't there i would in the chamber yeah exactly congress in two thousand five hundred solve gun makers of all liability neal you want to put last word we'll take the next call i just think it's dangerous any time you touch gun rights because it is something that specifically mentioned in the bill of rights yes yes hold. on a militia dana damon in columbus ohio a daemon about taxes. or. a little guy. they will want to do a little oh. ok yeah thank you damon for the call taxes actually did go up for working people people making under one hundred thirteen thousand dollars because they had gone down temporarily for a year was it a year or two years it was two to two years yeah i think obama kept the promises he

meant to keep. i mean you know federal income tax didn't go up what happened was that there was a two year suspension just daman see you know what happened. we've all been paying what is this spy point six percent six point two percent so whatever it is so when you talk about the payroll taxes payroll tax into into social security and for two years they dropped that by two percent. the amount that we pay into that i disagreed with it because it actually hurt the social security trust fund i think was a bad idea so it went back to where it was so if you recently got a job it looks like you got to pay there also taxes on taxing all those white twenty something taxes through obamacare or most of those have people making over a quarter million dollars not the tax on tanning tom if you're if you're if you're using i think this is already going to mean is the whole that's not going to kill us to some of us sam success they'll start this is the whole or does it ridiculous thing about this fiscal cliff debate is all the lawmakers oldtimer saying we're going to stop the middle class we're going to hit with taxes and of course the

middle class are the ones who got hit with taxes yes it was a payroll holiday but there could have at least been something put on the table to replace that tax cut or somehow not have working people get hit. reduce overall income taxes he wants to have thing was it was a dangerous gimmick that damaged the system and i thought it was in when people brought up that point they were criticized because they didn't want people to have forty dollars for pizza on a friday judy in upper darby pennsylvania you have a call about medicare. yes i have actually like to talk about a lot of things but i feel that congress senate specially the democrats are just cowards i feel that the president should have been out there fighting for medicare on the t.v. . programs because it is devastating to the hiring and to the jobs for the taxpayer to pay out for. industry has to pay for it to get medical i don't know how are you now i'm so tired right i want you to i to i'm trying to understand what you're

saying are you suggesting that the president should have been fighting for medicare to be basically a public option be part of obamacare or i think it should have been medicare for. care right ok so you want to single payer health for medicare part d. medicare for a but i got it thank you very much for that i so it's. a fuse that basically this this blog is about to go off the just the solar bamma care or is it is this crazy system that in five to ten years everybody will just be in a single payer i agree vermont going to kick it off something major happens i think we will see a single payer system obamacare one of the main problems with it and not just ideologically and i don't think it will work is that it creates so much uncertainty in my opinion that both in the near term and the far term and that uncertainty when businesses don't know how much it's going to cost to hire somebody and i think we can agree on this they don't hire people as readily so i don't agree with single payer but i think that's where we're headed i think obamacare is confusing it's hard to implement and i don't think it's going to cure any uncertainty that the

market has and that i really like about obamacare is that twenty fourteen or twenty sixteen that states can just do their own yeah and the law has already passed the law montana wants to so i think i think you're going to get what you want to say you know say i think it's inevitable too but i don't think it's because of some secret ploy obamacare that was set up i think it's inevitable because we've created such a health care crisis in america by letting the for profit corporations run it for so well and they'll be hundreds of thousands are going to be just like your kratz that will be working these different exchange and it's going to be just going to be more the statue on scatch one tried it it worked really well and people in other states or other provinces said we want that too i think one of the last guys it is a big in freedom it is and i think we're in vermont. one hears of new york is going to want to see what you're going to want to do dennis in albany new york you want to talk about gun violence or via yeah i really enjoy your show thank you yes before we get to get rid of the second amendment right to bear arms isn't there

a law that we can do. for example controlling the weapon so they don't get a hand to pitch and also the way mainstream media right now is causing a lot of this to happen when these kids come home from school and turn on some of these programs to me some of these things should not even be on until after ten pm or midnight when the students or the kids should be asleep does that make any sense dennis thank you for the call but what dennis is talking about are the valve all of these other cultural things beyond just guns that we can do to stop gun violence is a decent this dissent this is a sense of this size so that people think and what happens is you know and i go i went through my own like army training you know you you go around shooting even with blanks in these sort of mock ups and all of a sudden it it's more reasonable to show more comfortable it becomes more

comfortable i don't think video games or movies have anything to do with it i mean the same extremely violent movies are being shown all around the world the same video games are being played to even higher degree in other parts of the world that you don't see this sort of gun violence going on. but i think i mean i think where you can find common ground is some somewhere on universal background checks and i think you'll going to come out on the show today in support of one hundred percent background checks on gun purchases just because it's so reasonable megatron. coming to market and i think we have a violent society i think it's ingrained ever since sort of the wild west field it's nothing new we've always had violence obviously wasn't graphic because the technology but i think it's a problem i do think it's a promise i think something the government should get involved with now i think this comes down to the pair. and what they let their their children be exposed to the market will if people won't let their children see certain movies if they won't let them buy certain video games those markets will dry up and won't be profitable to make them but i see is that i think there is a connection between a violent culture and how people act but i don't think that. criminal are and

really taking away from second amendment rights or a vast censorship program by the government is the answer here and pick up mark in clearwater florida on extension ninety seven. there are you know a guy a mark if i start on you want to talk about freedom. yeah you know the word gets thrown around. you know if we have another regulation we're going to lose our freedom you know what exactly does that mean because you're by apple our constitution we are not free we have a great free for a long time. one of these men can point to a crime where we actually were not appreciate very interesting question thank you mark for the markets freedom into you know absolutely we've never been one hundred percent free you can have any government without without giving up some freedom it would just be totally law of the jungle but the bottom line is that it's it is a limited document it limits the government it limits the federal government that's why the states demand of the bill of rights are we absolutely free no but we give up freedoms each time we creep away from what the constitution guarantees british

read of the most important thing is the question i mean we've already accepted that yes we don't have all the unlimited freedom we've already made restrictions on freedom i mean where does the equality fit is unequality extremely ill in israel well i think liberals and progressives don't fear a strong government because they control the government and that's part of the problem but when we talk about freedom a lot of his just don't want to be three don't want to be told what to do in terms of me means that if i get sick i'm going to have access to health care if if i try starting a business in a fails i'll have x. access to bankruptcy laws and you know that if i'm homeless or is destitute that that somehow i will get caught that safety net when then standing on that spot i can go out and start businesses and. i think freedom means a certain minimum amount of the commons but you know we got to go so thanks a lot mark neal sam that's really appreciate it but that's it for your take my take alive thanks for all your calls we didn't get your call tonight tries back next week. coming up as president obama heads the inaugural balls tonight what will top

congressional republicans be up to a lady secretly plotting out of sabotage the president's second term in office i'll tell you that i'd still only take. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of each and over sixty two percent in some species i diagnosed with aids this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about there were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you know you certainly should be able to have a lot less h i feel a lot less human suffering. let me let me respond i wouldn't let me ask you a question. here on this network is what we're having a debate we have our knives out. through the roof is

this really just about staying there to get here in this race would be an ideal way to talk about surveillance. so.

and welcome back today we also honor the reverend dr martin luther king jr a fitting tribute as the nation's first african-american president is sworn in for the second time and obama did not let dr king's legacy and contributions go unmentioned during his inaugural address the south. we the people declare today that the most evident of truths that all of us are created equal is the star that guides us still just as it guided our forebears through seneca falls and selma and stonewall just as it guided all those men and women song and unsung who left footprints along this great mall to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone to hear a king proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of

every soul on earth. and well president obama's ascendance to the highest office in the land is without a doubt a consequence of martin luther king's jr's legacy the nation would be better served if both president obama and the rest of our democratic leaders acted a little more like dr king today we should remember that dr king was a radical revolutionary who marched and spoke out against war against wealth inequality and against the evils of unfettered capitalism he was also a strong defender of organized labor fact he was gunned down while supporting a striking sanitation worker a group in memphis a union dr king wasn't just or an attempt to united's dr king wasn't just focused on racial justice but economic justice as well and a nation plagued by wealth inequality mired in endless wars abroad and an increasingly hostile war against organized workers at home our nation desperately

needs a voice like dr king again. just . it's the good the bad of the very very hot valley and show is slowly ugly the good president obama of course president of course was sworn in earlier today as the forty fourth president of the united states in his speech the president touched on a variety of issues from immigration to l g b t equality and even climate change take a listen. it is not our generation's task to carry out what those pioneers be good. for our journey is not complete until our lives our mothers and daughters can earn a living people to their efforts our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. i for if we are truly

granted equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving hopeful immigrants who still see america as a land of opportunity right let's hope that over the course of the next four years our nation works to complete that journey and that we continue fighting for principles like equality the right to vote and the ability to go to school without the fear of becoming a victim to senseless acts of gun violence the bad senator john barrasso interviewed on c.n.n. state of the union this weekend the republican senator told candy crowley that gun safety is not a major issue in america today here's what brasso had to say when asked if congress would pass universal background checks and limits on ammunition magazines. do you

think congress should pass a ban on the use of clips it with ten and a universal background check is not going to happen no no i don't think it will and candy that gets beside the major issues that face american families which are you gonna argue and i'm looking at debt and spending that's where people are are focused that's the big anxiety of this country should maybe senator barrasso should try telling that to the millions of american parents who are now worry about the safety of their children in school or the relatives and loved ones of the more than one thousand americans who have been killed by gun violence just since the newtown massacre. and the very very ugly rush limbaugh's radio show friday limbaugh tried to advance the pro-gun agenda by tarnishing the civil rights movement limbaugh said quote if a lot of african-americans are going to search through their guns in the late or i do use them for self the friends you think they would have needed so no i don't know i'm just asking if rep john lewis who says he was being. side the head of john

lowe is it out of god would have been been upside the head on the bridge. the beauty of the american civil rights movement was that it preached progress through . and by the way that approach ultimately worked by arguing that those who fought for equality could have done so better with guns limbaugh has completely discredited to the hard work and struggle that so many went through in order to change america actually he hasn't completely discredited it he's completely discredited himself in trying to discredit and that is believe. as soon as the second inaugural of barack obama was finished the newly reelected

president walked back into the u.s. capitol and sat down behind an ornate ochre or at least look like desk to sign some papers now it was mostly a photo op but there was some rather substantive legislative business to attend to namely the nomination of four cabinet posts which the president had to officially sign his name on to his right he was flanked by joe biden harry reid and chuck schumer and to his left and see pelosi and stiffen awkwardly smiling john boehner and the cameras flashed the papers are signed the president rose to embrace his fellow leaders in government it was a message to the country and everything is just fine look we're all cooperating and governing together so you. except for this guy eric cantor he was also there and one of the most important things we've learned over the last four years watching eric cantor lead the insurgent republican party is that things aren't just

fine. four years ago inaugural day as the new president barack obama was making the rounds of the inaugural balls with his wife eric cantor had gathered powerful members of the republican party at up still steak house in washington d.c. in the penn quarter neighborhood in a private room in a restaurant called the caucus room their agenda was straightforward sabotage the american economy blame it on the young president and then retake the white house in four years paul ryan who four years later would replace the vice president would be chosen to play replace the vice president and thus fulfill this agenda was also in attendance at night as was newt gingrich and one of only two people who are elected newt gingrich and frank luntz and over a dozen prominent republicans including kevin mccarthy the number three republican in the house of representatives jim de mint now heading up the heritage foundation

but the senator and john kyl the republican senator from texas as robert draper discloses in his book do not ask what good we do inside the u.s. house of representatives republicans at that meeting committed themselves to what i would call political treason and unwavering opposition to the coming obama presidency every single legislative priority coming out of the white house they agreed would be vetoed obstructed filibustered or sabotaged this also meant forcing the american middle class into basically an economic suicide pact our economy at that time when they had that meeting was hemorrhaging seven hundred fifty thousand jobs a month and was in desperate need of prolonged government intervention and stimulus . by vowing to block these federal law lifelines which by the way they had all voted for twice during the bush administration just months before but by vowing to

block them going forward with obama as president these republicans knew that they were condemning millions of americans to joblessness poverty homelessness and suicide but the prospects of stopping the obama revolution in its tracks and reclaiming government on behalf of reagan's billionaire class in their mind was worth whatever means were needed to achieve it congressman kevin mccarthy reportedly told fellow fellow republicans of the meeting that they must quote show united on yielding opposition to the president's economic policies congressman pete sessions said that republicans should take on an insurgency mindset as in the taliban in fact to use that phrase and on my radio show a new game bridge confirmed that he was at the meeting and justified this insurgent mentality pete sessions actually wrote for for the national journal but that you guys decided that you were going to become the taliban insurgency he said you have

to understand we will become the insurgency i think insurgency is a mindset the taliban taught us this we need to understand that insurgency is going to be required when dealing with the other side and you were quoted in the book as saying that. after this dinner you'll remember this is the day the seeds of two thousand and twelve were sown is that all accurate plan party line the first or taliban i think is not a term i would have used as their terrorist so were you guys insurgents against the obama presidency well the fact is not the opposition party ought to sit down and try to figure out how to get back in power and that's why they're the opposition party. we know the republican lawmakers followed through on their plot house republicans unanimously voted against every noteworthy piece of democratic legislation and senators de mint kyle coburn and sitting corker were all at that meeting combined together to filibuster over three hundred bills in the sun together these men crippled our economic recovery and thus won big victories in the

house of representatives in two thousand and ten but ultimately they failed at their number one goal which was making barack obama a one term president and so here's eric cantor four years later after plotting the first conspiracy against the president at another inaugural ceremony and again on the receiving end of an exaggerated handshake from barack obama who was still the president we know the president has a busy night ahead of him attending the inaugural balls and such but what's eric cantor up to tonight which republican operatives are gathering right now in smoke filled private dining rooms at upscale d.c. steak houses plotting the destruction of the president's second term. who knows. what we do know is that despite the republican shellacking last november something is afoot on the right their commitment to achieving one party rule for the billionaire class remains absolutely unshaken and though president obama may no

longer be their sole target the american middle class still is you can see it on the state level as michigan's shocking descent into becoming a right to work for less state which will break up the unionized political base of the democratic party there's the attempt of pennsylvania republicans to change how their state doles out electoral college votes so republican presidential candidates will have a huge advantage in future national elections even when the majority the people of pennsylvania vote against them and of course as a result of the supreme court's citizens united decision the likes of karl rove sheldon aid olson and the koch brothers are learning from their mistakes last november and will continue their efforts to steal future elections the billionaire class and its front men in the republican party are hard at work again just as they were four years ago today we saw the second democratic president since f.d.r. to have a second inaugural but just underneath the revelry conspiracies abound in the billionaire class won't rest until they're assured that what happened today never

happens again and that's the way it is tonight monday january twenty first two thousand and thirteen and don't forget the mock receive begins with you get out there get action take your seat. the be. suborning news today violence is once again flared up see these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada asked sunshine corporations are on the day the book. you are.

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