. >> the two people selling so-called assault rifles are senator finestein and president obama and not us. they are the ones who are scaring american gun owners and it is not the nra, but we do say that one of the core mission, and the nra has been around since 1871, and from the 1970s on, we have emerged as the defender of second amendment rights, and that is a core part of the mission. >> sure. but in that, do you support gun ners or gun mfers? >> gun owners and our members and the people in the country who believe in the second amendment. with we have had our differences in the past, if you know the history of the nra with the gun manufacturers, because it is not our constituency. our constituency is twofold, the american people who want to own guns and use them legally, and it is the second amendment, itself. >> david keene, president of the nra, thank you for joining us this morning. >> any time. >> while washington debates gun control, connecticut's governor pays tribute to the fallen. >> in the midst of one of the worst days of our history, we also saw the best of our state. tea

this morning, senator diane finestein surrounded by police officers, mayors and crime victims, reintroduced an assault weapons ban on capitol hill. >> we should be outraged by how easy it is for perpetrators of these horiffic crimes to obtain powerful, military-style weapons. >>> no weapon is taken from anyone. the purpose is to dry up the supply of these weapons over time. >> the new bill would ban the sale, transfer, import, all man ewe factture of more than 100 million military assault-type weapons. it would ban imports from outside the country and it would limit magazines to ten rounds or less. the bill is just part of a larger push from the white house. today, vice president biden was keeping the pressure on with an online appearance to spread the word. this is a real plan for real change. the american people support it. a broad coalition is pushing forward. and the extremists who oppose it are out of step with the times. joining me now is congresswoman diane daget, democratic from colorado, whose district includes columbine. she's the co-sponsor of a house bill targeting high-capacity

. >> the president is urging congress to reinstate the assault band and senator finestein will band both assault weapons and ammunition clips. >>> getting tough on people and intending to have a range for health services and now we asked people what they had to say about the president's work on this. >> in general? >> we met and we all agree all should have background checks. >>> the movie theater where a gunman opened fire in aurora will be there and some families will not be attending the reopening event. >>> 35-year-old antonio is facing nearly a dozen felony charges. he was arrested after police arrested his home. he is being held on $250,000 bail. >>> and now people are being asked to take precautions. dozens of students in lafayette got sick. health officials think the norovirus is to blame. health officials say washing your hands frequently can prevent you from getting sick. >>> in the san francisco federal courthouse, it is set to take affect at first. they are claiming first amendment rights. exempts events such as the beta breakers. >>> we are starting off with no major problem

the nra responded to the bill saying they are confident congress will reject it and finestein herself said the bill faces an uphill battle to win approval. >>> the senate has approved moderate changes to its rules on filibuster. the procedural delays used to kill some bills in nomination. senate majority leader harry reid worked out a deal with republicans that will allow bills to be brought up your quickly. and not require senators to stay on the floor talking as some senators wants. >>> manti te'o speaks in his first on-camera interview since the girlfriend hoax story broke. thursday, te'o told katie couric he was not in on the prank. and he admitted to stick stog the story after the fact. te'o as showed couric a twitter message where the man who allegedly perpetrated that hoax apologized to him. and he addressed questions about his sexuality. >> one of the theory, many theories, manti, making the rounds is somehow you created this whole scenario to cover up your sexual orientation. are you gay? >> no. far from it. far from it. >> all right then. we'll be looking at stories develops

the nra responded to the bill saying they are confident congress will reject it and finestein herself said the bill faces an uphill battle to win approval. >>> the senate has approved moderate changes to its rules on filibusters. the procedural delays used to kill some bills in nomination. senate majority leader harry reid worked out a deal with republicans that will allow bills to be brought up for debate more quickly. and limit discussion on certain white house nominations. and not require senators to stay on the floor talking the whole time as some senators wanted. the changes were overwhelmingly approved. >> vice president biden and cabinet secretaries and members of congress traveled to virginia for a round table discussion on reducing gun violence. there's a new strain of a nasty stomach bug that's been called the ferrari of stomach viruss. it's caused by the new sidney strain of norovirus. north korea is hinting at a third nuclear test along with taking measures against south korea if it enforces sanctions. in washington today hundreds of thousands of anti-abortion activist fro

senator finestein's bill and president obama and joe biden's comments. >> but you can appreciate gunsithout appreciating magazines that shoot a hundred rounds. you're talking about legislation that clearly talks about person types of weapons, certain types of magazines. . not all guns. let's not distort what the legislation is saying. >> well, in diane finestein's bill, in the summary that i read, you know, she lists handguns that are semi-automatic, which are the majority of handguns that are sold in this country. in her proposed legislation. so we are talking about, you know, the guns that people use on a regular and everyday basis to defend their homes and families. >> well, it hasn't been introduced yet. we don't know what the final bill will say. but are you supporting on saturday, on gun appreciation day, automatic weapons and magazines that go with 30-100 rounds? is that part of appreciation day? >> i believe that right now, any ban on a semiautomatic weapon would not have, you know, changed the outcome of what happened in newtown. it would not have changed the outcome of what

. >> what the president is talking a and now president finestein is embodying, and this is the right, most americans would agree that yes, we should have background checks. but this idea to think that we're establishing another law or a regulation somehow is going to make america safer. >> you're not telling me how it violates constitutional law. he appointed the head of the atf by executive order. are you telling me that's unconstitutional? >> not at all. >> so you're going to decide what executive order the constitutional right has to do. it's all right with you that he did atf. but it's not all right with you it becomes something you disagree with and you hide behind it's unconstitutional? >> here's the difference. the most important person in the land is that of private citizs . when we have guaranteed liberties and freedoms, when the president believes he can infringe upon those rights and opportunities, that's unconstitutional. >> tell me the executive order u again, i'm asking for the second time, that vie lates that privacy. he doesn't in those 23. >> why are you writing him

dianne finestein said she and others will ban military assault style weapons but senate majority leader senator harry reid does not believe it will pass and they started putting together a ban and it's likely the senate will hold up or down president barack obama's plan. pat trilahey is the senate jew disks area -- judiciary chairman. >> spare me symbolic arguments and let's have a discussion about how to better protect our communities from mass shootings guaranteed by our supreme court. >> and president barack obama knows he needs to win over members of his own party before he can begin to target republican support and don't forget, the n ra has a lot of pull here on capitol hill. and the n ra is not backing down after releasing an ad attacking president barack obama's gun policies before they were even announced. i will have more on that kyla campbell, ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> now we are hearing who may be president barack obama's next chief of staff. it will probably be dennis mcdonald. he would replace jack lew who the president nominated to be the new treasury secretary. >>

but senators finestein and mccain said that is not what the cia told them.id that torture is not justified and they gathered outside the emery theater yesterday. >> to put all of this weight on this movie, i think it is silly. >> some movie critics said that zero dark 30 is a fate of to win an oscar for a best picture. >>> president obama is expected to nominate his defense secretary and cia director next week. former senator john hagle is the front-runner. but he could face opposition in the senate for disparaging comments he made about israel and gays. >>> house minority liter nancy pilosi is under fire -- leader nancy pilosi is under fire for this doctored photo. this is the official photo released by nancy pilosi's office. there were four additional women photo shopped into the top of this picture. nancy pilosi is defending the photo as quote and accurate historical record not everyone was able to get there on time. >> it's an accurate record it was freezing cold and the members were waiting a long time for everyone to arrive. they had to get back into t

. >> reporter: i contacted dianne finestein's office and she said she wants to work with hagel to make wants to secure the middle east and make sure service workers have a quality more on the opposition and more on the reaction when i see you next. ktvu channel 2 morning news. >> all right, now the next nomination president barack obama is expected to make is white house chief of staff jack lou to replace tim geithner. if he is confirmed, he will work with congress to raise the debt ceiling and also the president will have to work with a new chief of staff. >>> they have approved new zephyrs pay -- severance pay under the done ask done tell law. the settle -- don't tell law. the settlement comes after the vote last fall. >>> the two electronic's company are fighting on several fronts. today it will lead to selling it here in the u.s. and it includes gallon lassie includes 8 of its parents and they are not being compensated. the battle -- 8 of its patents and they are not back compensated. >>> we now know the name of a woman who crashed into a pond and died. she lost control of her car

. >>> senator dianne finestein in just a few hours will introduce a new bill on the floor of the senate. it is designed to stop the transfer and manufacturing of weapons and she delivered a similar bill after a mass shooting in san francisco. >>> they built 14 assault weapons to pretext students -- protect students in the event of an attack. some parents are worried students can access the guns and district funs should -- funds should not be used on weapons. >> sometimes students come with plastic weapons or real weapons and does that put them at risk of being neutralized and killed. >> reporter: the weapons cost $1,000 each and they have the ability to peers body armor. >> reporter: today the house of representatives in rode island is expected to legalize same sex marriages and the state senate is unknown and rhode island is the only state that still prohibits same sex marriage. >>> lance armstrong admitted to performance enhancing drugs and now they have a class-action suit against lance armstrong. they say they never would have bought his books if they knew his story. he strongly den

as senate intelligence committee chair diane finestein pointed out last week, the come is a place where she's been able to work in a true by bipartisan manner. >> one of the best experiences of my senate career has been the ability to work in a bipartisan way in this committee. to really put things together between both sides. to have staffs working together on both sides. sometimes, that isn't possible. but most of the time, it is and i think it's the way the intelligence committee was supposed to function and the fact that i does function that way. i think is real testimony to vice chairman chambliss and the work we've done together. >> vicious partizanship of the 112th congress on anything domestic often overshadowed the broad consensus seen on matters of national security and that complicated not only the story of the 112th congress but our conception of bipartisanship and its value as a whole. joining us now is the codirector of the liberty and national program and president and ceo of the naacp and the host of wviifm steve ellis is still here. liza, if you had to sort of sum up fr

>> a lot of reaction on twitter to the new proposed gun ban by dine finestein. let me know,@megyn kelly. and her is shep smith. >> shepard: women will serve on the front lines in combat and he's lifting the nearly two decade ban on women in combat and the move is not without controversy. you might think twice before pulling out your credit card. starting this weekend, stores can start charging you extra to put it it on plastic instead of paying cash and a nanny accused of killing a one-year-old baby. coming up, what neighbors heard just before the child died, as we learn all about that nanny's now troubling past. it's all ahead unless breaking news changes everything on studio b. first, from fox at three o'clock in new york city, defense secretary leon panetta announced the united states military will no longer ban women from serving on the front lines of war. and open up hundreds of thousands of fighting jobs for women service members. the decision reverses the 1994 rule that restricted women from combat roles, even though women frequently found themselves in d

diane finestein is introducing an assault weapons ban in congress.e's what she told me about that. >> there's no second amendment right to bear every type of weapon that you know of. these are a certain class of weapons. they are designed to kill large numbers of people in close combat. i don't believe the second amendment covers them. >> many americans agree, but many others do not. including my next guest, formerly marine, joshua boston, who wrote a scathing letter to senator feinstein that went viral on the internet. welcome. >> thank you, piers. >> just to clarify your credentials, you served in afghanistan twice and iraq twice between 2004 and 2011 with the marines. you're no longer in the military. thank you for your service, first of all. some of the members of my family would have been out there fighting with you in both iraq and afghanistan and i know what you guys went through. it's very tough. talk to me about guns and why you felt the need to write to the senator, in the way that you did. >> senator feinstein's legislation is essentially

so though senator finestein got a lot of attention today, what i'm really watching is senator leahy.what is his role? >> he has another piece of legislation but it's different i. it's all about enforce. . this enforcement issue of making the laws tougher, of helping out cops to enforce the gun laws, this is something republicans behind the scenes are already working with democrats. >> steve, do you believe the united states will pass a bill that the house will have to swallow? will they do something real that they can take the conference and possibly get signed by the president? they're goichk ng to take the l. i think the senate will pass something. pat leahy is a great example of the challenge here because he's from a state where people value their guns. but once hunters understand, and most hunters do understand, that this isn't a threat to their ability to hunt. this is a threat to those people who hunt other people with assault weapons and kill dozens at a time very quickly, if they want to. and it will get to the house and the house is going to have a tough volt. by the way, ch

. >> stuart finestein, this is his book, ignorance, how it drives science. there is a web site associated with this book, ignorance ignorance.biology.columbia.edu. >> the author of five previous books, her new book is guest of honor, booker t. washington, theodore roosevelt and the white house din that's right shook a nation. why did this dinner drive the nation nuts? sunrise dinner is a remarkable moment in history that has been completely forgotten and it's because we just don't know about scandals like this. our meter has changed. when booker t. washington walked up the five steps of the white house he the very first african-american to be invited to sit at the president's table. it had never happened before. african-americans had been invited to meet with presidents in their offices. they had business meetings all the time. but no one ever sat at the president's table, and the nation was outraged. it was really astonishing. >> host: why was he invited? >> guest: well, booker t. washington had a very, very successful working relationship with theodore roo

also on the agenda, diane finestein has said she will introduce a bill today day 1, that will be an assault weapons ban and a ban on some of the magazine clips. but we do know that will also probably come down to a partisan fight. back to you. >> lots to do on capitol hill. thank you, melanie. >>> the local delegation contains two new members. one a political newcomer. the other a familiar face. john delaney beat rosco bartlet in november. and tim kaine will be sworn in taking the seat vacated by jim webb. >> it is back to school for the kids of sandy hook elementary school in connecticut. >> less than three weeks after the massacre students are returning to class. sarah simmons is back with more on what the kids can expect. >> tony and allison they are going back to class starting this morning. but they are now going to a different school. moving trucks yesterday brought the furniture and school supplies from sandy hook where the shooting spree occurred to nearby monroe where a former middle school has been formed into the new sandy hook. students came in for an open house and greeted by t

a pair of ovary, because maybe you can woman up and be like your colleague diane finestein, because likeshe sees the challenges ahead, and she has the courage of her convictions an instead of retreating, she is charging ahead to introduce legislation to reinstate the assault weapons ban, because she knows what you have forgotten, that quote, you have to try, and you can't sit back and let the gun organizations call public policy. even when those gun organizations are your friends, and that is right, senator, we saw you in 2010, buddying up to the nra leader wayne la pierre opening up a gun park in nevada and we saw you fire a few shots to open up the occasion, and you have been so supportive of them, they have awarded you a b-grade on the supportive report card and la pierre championed you as a supporter of the second amendment, and we get it. but right now your country needs you to be a champion of the cause, and because right now at this moment, we want history to record that harry reid took a stand when the people were willing and ready to follow, harry reid led. sincerely, melissa. i

and that is such an important point to underscore, wolf, that a big part of the problem for diane finesteinst don't see themselves supporting it, because of the opposition in their states, and from the nra. in fact, the nra released a statement today, saying feinstein is, quote, once again focused on curtailing the constitution instead of protecting criminals or fixing the broken mental health system. and it went on to say that they're confident that congress will reject senator feinstein's wrongheaded approach. >> an uphill fight for dianne feinstein. thanks very much, dana, for that. and kate has some new information about a story. >> a very interested day in this convoluted tale, as heisman trophy runner-up, manti te'o, is trying to explain to the world why he lied about falling in love with woman who doesn't exist. te te'o's extended interview about the scam just aired with katie couric. he was very emotional at tiles, george. >> kate, it was an interesting interview. at first, he insisted that he did not lie about it. then he backed off that a bit and admitted that he did, kind of, sor