or gun violence. just like i never cut out imagined that i would be standing here in the wake of 20 little kids having died in sandy hook or six adults who protected them. but sometimes issues find you. so here i am. i am pleased to have the majority leader and majority whip and so many of my colleagues on the floor with me here today. i want to start with the unpleasant parts. i take it is important for all of my colleagues to understand why we're having this debate in next week about gun violence. why for the first time we were able to break the logjam and started doing something about the gun violence that has plagued this nation. to just box your ears and pretend it did not happen. just pretend it did not -- it is not here. it is here. the next new town names are does waiting to be added to the list if we do nothing. here is what we do. sometime in the early morning hours of december 14, a very disturbed, reclusive man named adam lanza went into his mother's arms and shot her dead in her sleep. a

guy to have a gun. an extraordinary video of a store owner wielding a bat at the gunman. he had enough with robberies and he had to do something. he most certainly did and good for him. thanks to my audience, that's all for us tonight.

has a very high number of guns. therefore, there is going to be more chances for somebody to be killed with a gun. >> right. right. >> right. >> right. that's my point. the senate might think living in a society with dramatically reduced gun violence is eye who-dee-do, and people in australia couldn't agree with him more. >> whoop-dee-do. >> whoop-dee-do, mate. >> whoop-dee-do, whatever that means. >> whoop-dee-( bleep )-do! right: weight ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight a pulitzer prize-winning correspondent for the "new york times." his new book is called "the way of the knife: the cia, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the earth." please welcome to the program, mark mazzetti mazzetti. how are you. nice to see you thp this is "the way of the knife" the c.i.a. and secret army" which i'm guessing is really not so secret anymore. >> not so much. >> jon: how did you get access to this information? >> it was hard. there were a lot of people who don't want to talk. and there were sour

guns.reporter: what? the city actually pays the company to destroy guns, fully automatic assault weapons, short-barreled rifles, short-barelied shotguns >> reporter: you see, gun termination happen right in heller's backyard when two town councilmen organized a gun buy-back program to take old existing guns out of the community for destruction. and when heller witnessed the gun carnage, it was just too hard breaking. >> what a waste. reporter: what a waste. mmmm. >> that one makes me think about what happened in the warsaw ghetto in 1943 >> reporter: it does shades of what helped lead to the holocaust. >> reporter: very definitely not overstating it. >> nope. it's not. >> reporter: nope. i couldn't bear witness to this horror any longer. so i went to confront gun hitler himself, steve >> we gave people a legitimate opportunity to get guns out of their homes that they simply didn't want there anymore >> reporter: give me your guns. that is an order. so i can melt them down >> right. in the l

whether or not they're buying them from a gun sale from a gun seller a licensed gun dealer a gun show or someone or some guy off the internet this is their property first of all i wish i still had that naive belief that the government is good and can be trusted this has nothing to do with the government will they do with these background checks it creates the defacto congress do you think we should have no background checks you think in ninety four when the law was created to prevent background checks i would have is against the next you're going to say that i know you're a soldier you're high that the one point eight million people who've been turned down trying to buy guns as a through background checks i would say to those two million syrians are those are false positives very small percentage i would say seventy five percent. well the numbers there and you can have your numbers i can remember my numbers here but do you agree that there are mentally ill people in violent criminals out there who are trying to do you think they should have guns do you think they have already been adj

gun store.m another state and i call pat's state in pennsylvania, i'm in west virginia, they send the gun. they have it send the gun to an ffl dealer, a licensed dealer and i have to go there and do a background check. all we're saying is no matter where you buy the gun, in state or out of state you have to go through the same process. >> i would say three simple things here. our legislation strengthens background system and makes it work efficiently and quickly for a law abiding citizen to get the approval and it makes it more difficult for the criminals and mentally dangerous to obtain weapons and, thirdly, better secure second amendment rights in a variety of other areas for law abiding citizens. which of those three do we disagree with? i understand people on the left want to ban categories of guns and ammo i would never support. our bill does none of that and if it did i wouldn't support it. >> let me interrupt you, pat. >> yeah. >> how does your bill strengthen second amendment rights? wha

intimidate state and national gun makers at lawmakers excuse me sympathetic to gun control gun control supporters one victories in connecticut and colorado the n.r.a. has used its lobbying weight to ensure that republican lawmakers in congress toed that party line and has been the case throughout the obama administration republicans have used their block anything the president supports strategy to kill ideas like the new assault weapons ban that most of the country supports but out of the families of gun violence victims feel about the senate's going to control initiative what the law enforcement officials think needs to be done to stop america's plague of gun crime i'm now joined by emily nottingham son gave an aide to congresswoman gabby giffords was killed in tucson arizona when the congresswoman shot in two thousand and eleven in our face of itoh chief of police for austin texas welcome to both of you thank you joining us tonight family first of all as the mother of a victim of gun violence what's your sense of what's going on here what what i don't want to get into the kind of wat

have guns? >> anyone that's permitted and goes through the right training, sir, i think should be able to carry a gun. long as they go through the proper government safety laws, sir. >> and get the training. get the certifications that all gun owners are required to have to have a concealed hand gun permit on their person. >> on their person. >> dan patrick, let me come to you. do you agree with this? >> yes. in fact, i thought you were going to have a new issue tonight, piers. i thought you would want banning of knives all over america because you have wanted to ban guns and let's in a very serious mode, piers -- >> why would you start the conversation by being so completely facetious? >> because actually, the way you've been thinking about the whole gun issue, i found just totally out of touch with reality. >> i know. it's crazy, isn't it. it's crazy that i think 100,000 americans being shot a year is out of control. crazy, i think the 30,000 americans who kill themselves every year or shoot o

opponents of actual guns or the gun laws.th one with bill o'reilly at the beginning of this debate. one was suggested a federal law that had already passed post virginia tech massacre with 98 percent of the senate behind it so he had no idea what laws were already there. and i had to say you know, that all are basically semi-automatic, right? they said why would you ban those? i said okay. explaining that and pointing that out if you want to make new laws you should learn what the ones are that are in place. also to echo civilians who stop these incidents to become a household name to make our job to make that happen. it is disrespectful. he is not looking to be obeyed hero i am sure and not wanting a ticker-tape parade but these are the people who do protect us. their stories are ignored. plainly, willfully. on purpose. bringing those to light using that data right after newtown that no civilian had never stopped a man shooting but they classified it it had to be four or more people died but they stop them before they kill f

reduce gun violence and reduce senseless gun death. law enforcement officials across the country need this legislation to protect our communities from illegal weapons, and if you are a responsible law-abiding gun owner watching this, you should support this legislation, too. and i could tell you my friends who are second amendment supporters and are gun owners and are hunters, they support this commonsense legislation. so i'm urging all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join us. stand with families in our communities all across the country who are looking to us to take action, to prevent the next senseless tragedy, to prevent the next death, the next naisha pryor yard. i urge you to stand with the brave men and women of our law enforcement at every level who are asking us to take these critical commonsense measures needed so that they can do a better job for us and to keep our families safer. i yield the floor. mr. blumenthal: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: thank you,

>> well, it is not about gun control anymore but gun violence prevention.hat support in the u.s. congress, as well right now. no. i think the reason it is a package, the democratic leadership made the determination we will go together, all holding hands on these and all of them to get to the governor's desk. >> what would you say to those in the cross roads of the gun control show in san francisco today, controlling or taxing the ammunition they buy. >> that is the debate. we see the horrific tragedy that is occur and the daily gunning down of so many americans. the gun violence in this country is off the charts compared to trading partners. so, what good are guns without ammunition? we are not implying sport's people can't enjoy their sport, but as diane feinstein argued so articulately, why do we need semi-automatic weapon, weapons of war, on our streets. i mean, it is easier to buy ammunition than sudafed. what sense is that? >> that is your message to the people of the cross roads today as they stack up the ammunition in record numbers in anticipation o

more guns out there.inder most crime happens within families. i want to bring out a point about separating the dangerously mentally ill from criminals. criminals belong in prisons and mentally ill people need treatment. and i think underlying it all is a lack of accessible treatment for most individuals. >> we also need good ideas. i want to bring in lauren sorge, you have a great idea, called the life plate. and you designed this because you had relatives caught up in school shootings, not personally, but were there when they happened. and you thought enough is enough. what is the idea you came up with? >> okay. so this right here is the life plate shield. this is kind of an example of what it looks like. and this one specifically was shot close-range with a .44 magnum. and you can kind of see where the bullet penetrated. but it does not go through. and most bullet-proof shields or protection, for that matter, are made out of kevlar, which is like the universal material. but this isn't made out of kevlar

gun debate added urgency. four firefighters held who is damage by barricaded gunman are safe after an ordeal that lasted for hours. the suspect exchanged gunfire with s.w.a.t. officers and is now dead. the firefighters had superficial injuries. cnn's david mattingly is live for us in suwanee, georgia, with more tonight. david? >> reporter: piers, this started as a standard sort of medical call. firefighters got the call that there was someone in medical distress. they showed up at this address, came out with their equipment, had a gurney, went inside the house. and at that point they realized there was something very wrong here. they encountered a man with some kind of weapon who then held them hostage for several hours. we were able to hear the voice of one of the firefighters after they encountered this man. this was from scanner traffic that was overheard as he was radioing back, telling everyone what the situation was that they ran into. listen. >> we are in a situation where we have a, uh -- an armed pers

guns than have dogs.t's a statistic we just found from the nationwide children's hospital. more guns than dogs in america, pets in america. so you think about it that way, we don't ask these questions. i think newtown has changed that. look, a colleague today told me it would be offensive to ask someone if they had guns in the home. it would be like asking if they had a pedophile in the family. it's not really the same. newtown has changed everything. we're asking more questions because we're worried and because we've changed the way we think about -- >> we need to ask those questions, christine. thank you so much. kyra, i will baby sit. i've baby sat them before and i will bring the checklist, okay. >> i don't worry about you. i do not worry at all about you. i would let my kids live with you if i needed to. >> i'll borrow them, how's that? >> that's a deal. >> of course, you can follow kyra. she continues to tackle all these issues when she talks about "raising america," her show airing weekdays on hln.

their gun. and they didn't buy it from a federally licensed firearm dealer. they bought it from one of us. and the very fact that we're going to have a piece of legislation go through here that will not solve the real problem of keeping hands out of the mentally impaired and felons is a shame. and there are ways that we can do that. i haven't talked to one gun owner that i know that doesn't agree with the fact that they would like to be able to know that if they sold their gun, they didn't want it to go into the hands of a felon or somebody mentally impaired. and yet, we get hung up on records, and the proposal that comes from senator toomey and senator manchin and senator kirk is a step forward, i won't deny that, but tell me how a record, which is only going to be looked at after a crime is committed, is going to help anybody that's a victim of that crime? it's not. so if you really want to solve this problem, what you have got to do is put in the hands of us americans who are law-abiding the

to buy a gun. the obama administration has refused to prosecute them. so you have a system that actually picked up 70,000 people who are convicted felons trying to buy a gun inside the system. nothing was done. i understand there's this passion for somehow checking everybody every time. the question i would raise for you is you think any of the kids in south side chicago who are parts of teenaged gangs are going to go out and go through a gun check? >> but when you sell a car, newt, when you sell a car, you have to register it, you have to know who has sold it and to who. why would a gun be deemed less significant for a background check than a car or registration? we register all sorts of things in this country. why not guns? they're the most dangerous thing out there. >> actually, i think cars kill an awful lot of people. but the objective fact is that in this country, if i were to buy a gun from one of my son-in-laws, do i go through a background check? what does that mean? >> yes. yes. you do. >

when you say we are going to put guns in schools to stop other guns in schools, their immediate thought is contamination. and that is fine. but what really is a contaminant is when someone goes into a gun free zone which is like a diversity zone. when someone goes into a victim zone and kills a bunch of kids. there is another thing that guides gun control advocates too which is the view of prohibition. i talk to a lot of crowds and i ask them two crowds, who is disgusted by guns and i get a lot of hands. and who think that is a civilized society would have guns in private hands and you get a lot of hand. that is a culture war which we are fighting a trust in government that the left has been growing over the years and a trust in the fact that people don't need the right to defend themselves and we can rely completely on the police and also we can rely on obama care and the public school system and all the things the government fails us in and taking away our ability for preferences. the talk is not like it used to be in the 1960's. and i think there are a lot of people who say shot guns

guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun?>> it doesn't work. it doesn't work. >> reporter: realistically, had she not been shot would the pro-gun congresswoman have been open to voting for stricter gun laws? candidly, would you have said yes? >> yes. yes. >> i think it depends on what those measures were. >> yes. >> gabby was middle of the road. >> middle of the road. >> she was -- >> straight in the middle. >> reporter: there is no question the gun culture is deeply ingrained in giffords. it has to be to still expose herself to guns, even after her near fatal shooting. what's it like to sit and hear the gunshot go off? does it startle you? >> no. no. >> i think that's because gabby doesn't remember the gunshot going off the day she was injured. you don't remember that? >> no. >> reporter: if you could, would you shoot a gun today? >> yes. >> we've talked about it. gabby's actually held it. hasn't shot one since she's been injured, but a few days ago she was actually trying to aim with it with her left hand. >> reporter: is y

director of the gun owners of america. followed by exit interviews with outgoing interior secretary ken salazar and transportation secretary ray lahood. >> this week on "newsmakers" we want to welcome to larry pratt. thank you. we have to reporters with us to help with questions, david sherfinski and ginger ibson. let me have you tell us the difference between your group and the national rifle association. > the easiest way would be two points are how we were organized. after the war between the states, they organized the nra. a hundred years later when you organized not to help the government but to oppose the government because of the growing flood of legislation we were facing. that shapes our attitudes from the very beginning. >> how would you say you are different? > we have maintained a position opposed to the background checks from the get go. the nra now agrees with us on that. we are very happy that is the case. it makes it much more likely that we will prevail in stopping the background check from getting put on

i think that people that sell guns and buy guns should take this cost, not me.mmigration, the budget, the three big items in washington this week. reporting that some republicans and conservatives are sending a warning to senator marco rubio. conservatives in south carolina and iowa say that the senators on the verge of stepping into an immigration trap. "one south carolina republican saying it remained a divisive issue among folks who support us." ath an early look at 2016, lot of attention on hillary clinton, covered last friday in new york by "the daily beast." early line for 2016, joe biden is not the favorite. a picture of secretary of state clinton as she spoke to the gathering. tracy, lacrosse, wisconsin, open phones on this tuesday morning. go ahead, please. caller: you have to ask yourself about -- of 90% of the voters are so -- are for some kind of background check, why would the gop not simply to allow a vote? why? themselves that question. for the call.u larry, covington, georgia, good morning. caller: i feel sorry for the parents of their that had k

are you a gun hoe -- a gun owner own?- gun am not. i made that choice. we have a sophisticated handgun with this approach. it is a safe environment. i live at home in montgomery county. i worked up here in washington, d.c., which is a gun free community, which says so by law. i feel so much safer in texas than nine to working here in washington. i feel so much safer in texas than i do working here in washington king host -- here in washington. storyyou have a personal related to guns. what happens when you are 12 years old? a gentleman threatens my father and our family. my mother had to learn to use a gun for safety. when the trial began, this gentleman in the courtroom shot and killed my father. the judge survived. i was 12 at the time. my mother raised five of a spy herself. we know the impact of gun violence on families -- my mother raised five of us by herself. way: does this affect the you feel about his background checks? guest: i do not know the pain of losing a child. i know the opposite of that, losing a parent. they stoposals, will another sho

it already takes place in gun shops, licensed gun dealers. so what they don't like is that now this also creates more paper work and there is, yes, this concern that this is just the beginning and that eventually even though it's not federalized it's not hooked up in one big information system it can to be done. >> they essentially believe the government is not going manage it properly which is why when you had this, this compromise today on guns specifically they had, to they spelled out what the bill will not do and one of the things the bill will not do is it will not create a national registry and makes it illegal. >> the big fear is if there's a national registry the federal government will knock on everyone's door. there won be a national registry. >> the white house is making a major push this week. the president, vice president, the first lady. the debate will go on for a while and then move on the house. will the president continue to be out front? >> yes. the president and the white house will continue pushing, wolf. we can try to d

some of your tweets that have come in on gun control and on gun legislation kim tweets, your gun rights stop at my child. americans are looking to us for solutions. senator lea i'm not. and david, tweets want to watch me alienate everyone. we own guns. i'm also a giant supporter of increased gun control. it's possible. your tweets coming in at hash tag gun control. remieshed coming up at 1:15 eastern we'll have live coverage of john boehner's briefing and following that will be house minority leader nancy pelosi. we'll have live coverage at c-span2. >>> while we wait earlier today jeffrey the acting districter of office and management budget deafed about the 2014 budget. >> i want to commend the president for bringing a budget that however was 65-days late, the law of the land states the president presents a budget on the first monday of february, and the president of his administration did not do so. one would have thought had he taken that much time he would have presented a budget that actually balanced. he had the extra time to do so. sadly, that's not what the budget does. it incre

>> these guns guns were illegal. are we really going to say, america, we will disarm you, legal, law abiding citizens when these thug assembly lines are going on? please, let's have more people on the other side of the door, on the good side of the door armed so the criminal does president -- doesn't know and he goes ding dong you are dead. maybe it is ding dong you are dead. >> or a transition into a different policy and set of laws which would be legalization. interesting. >>> coming up, in the white house are they -- i am not going to say that. afraid of mat drudge? one of the president's key advisors says what the drudge report does is, quote, very damaging to what they are trying to accomplish. how the white house deals with one of the fiercest critics when we come back. >> matt drudge is is a legend on the internet. he is a power house and reports to no one. regular folks are big fans as well. check out these numbers. about 33 million visits in the last 24 hours alone. almost 900 million in the last month. get

by gun violence? i think on this particular -- ring this particular debate, post-newtown, post-aurora that gun advocates have gone done this that road and second amendment advocates have done a asking on repeating them you show me how this helps? ask me how this helps. if you ask him on piers morgan on cnn he crushed him because he made logical arguments. the fact is, doing something, which is say the assault weapons prevent id not columbine when it is as piece of legislation. looking a the situation saying we must do something, this is something. let's do it. that is not sufficient. in fact, i would argue that when you look at chicago or washington, d.c. that enacting the same laws that have failed and do not protect the people that you want to protect that you're edging from sillyness into criminal negligence. you're disarming people, you're taking people's freedoms away and you're doing nothing to help the people you claim you want to help. don't tell me i don't care. you tell me what you're doing

one a day men's 50+. >>> talking about guns and guns culture and gun training.was something you wanted to stay. >> i was really struck by what you said about how we need to go back to the regulations. we need to talk about the regulations and what is the solution about who can and can't own a gun. and i think it bothers me we're not having more of a conversation about what gun ownership looks like and what -- every tool is a weapon if you hold it right. so what guns as tools look like and what guns as weapons look like. and it bothers me that -- my husband, who had never had any experience with a firearm, has now had more experience with firearms than i have because he went out shooting with me, and then he went out with a bachelor party and shot multiple handguns and multiple -- an ak and a bunch of things that had recoil modifications. he's just as pro-gun control as he ever was, which is much more than i am, but the fabric of hissening completely changed about what the difference was from firing my shotgun, which he fired and was comfortable firing, to an ak.

and they want a gun and get a gun. >> i see. i thought the guns were waiting to get over here. >> let me ask you this. where are the gun manufacturers in d.c.? >> there's not a gun store. >> they're not made here. they come in here. i want to go back to my moral question which may work with you or not. if you're a moral gun salesman, do you want to sell to criminals? >> i don't think anybody wants to still -- >> how do you help a person not sell to a criminal? >> we're not helping -- >> no, how do you help a gun her hasn't from not selling to criminals? >> because the criminals are not being thwarted. the tradeoff -- >> in other words, guns on demand? >> national gun registry, that's unacceptable. >> your argument is guns on demand. walk into a store, i'm a citizen, you got to sell me that gun. i don't care how crazy i look, you have to sell me the gun. >> that actually will not impair the ability -- >> you don't have a good argument. let me tell you how good your argument is doing. >> all you want is control. you want to know w

gun store. subjected to background check. and if you go online you will be subject to the same as your if you buy a gun online in another state. so those are all the things we're doing but yes, we got everybody to the table. we have spoken to the nra and i cannot tell you what the position is but i can tell you we have done the things that pat said we just did. we strengthened basically the rights of the law-abiding gun owners to be able to exercise our second amendment rights, but we've also i think in a tremendous favor to the citizens of our great country on background checks, expanded into keep people's guns from people should have been. people have been criminally adjudicated, and mentally adjudicated. >> senator, are you worried that -- [inaudible] >> what matters to me is human rights. i think this is the right thing, and i think most pennsylvanians will agree that making it more difficult for criminals, mentally ill people to obtain guns is the right thing to do, securing the rights of l

you sell him 12 guns, he comes back a week later, guys another 12 guns you probably ought to noticehat these weapons are probably not for the soul use of that gun owner. so why should we let the seller off the hook when if they were in any other industry a bar tender, or a grocer selling cigarettes to minors we don't let any of those people off the hook, but we do let the gun industry off of the hook and that doesn't make sense. >> michael: yeah, i totally agree, and i think people don't know about this which is why your legislation is so important even in starting the conversation, and it's a very small minority of gun sellers that are irresponsible. why is the gun industry and lobbyists so resistant to changing this law? >> well, again, it's where the money from the nra comes from. but holding the industry accountable is something that they are simply and diametrically opposed to and any industry that could get a free pass that negligently, wouldn't get the free pass, unfortunately this industry has gotten their will through congress in part because of the weakness of some of the

nancy lanza probably thought she was a sick gun owner and then one day or guns were taken by or doraine son turned on her and turned on twenty little kids and their teachers at newtown elementary school and who's responsible for all this while knowing if a car was responsible for all this carnage someone would be liable to compensate the victims but since it was a gun nothing so shouldn't we take some of the same precautions with gun ownership that we do with car ownership congressman carolyn maloney from new york thinks so should reduce the firearm risk protection act requires gun owners to purchase liability insurance just like car owners in case their gun is used to kill or injure someone if gun owners don't want to purchase insurance well that's ok but they'll have to pay a ten thousand dollars fine so they can cut it so that they can cover whatever damage their gun may cost to society in the future this simple measure will make people think carefully about buying a gun in the risks associated with it just as people think carefully about driving a car in the risks associated with th

gun grabbers.nwhile back in washington the senate is opening debate tomorrow on a second amendment crushing gun control bills that may not include restrictions on semiautomatics for magazine capacity but does include background checks and a complete ban on holding your gun sideways because you saw it in a movie once. >> i'm giving a wag of my finger to the senate republicans. last week kentucky senator and home birth cautionary tale rand paul promised woe filibuster this bill. now the republicans have cold feet because 85% of the gun owners favor universal background checks. well, of course owners are okay with background checks. they've already got their guns. [laughter] the same reason i support a mandatory herpes vaccine. i've already had mine. besides the issue is gun violence. why do we keep talking about guns? no one has the courage to talk about the real problems, and when i say no one i usually mean joe scarborough because this morning he hit the head on the nail. jim? >> why don't you say

gun dealers without background checks. and even before the vote came up they stripped out two of the most important aspects the assault weapons ban and the ban on high capacity ammunition magazines which would have prevented another new town from happening. no universal background checks. no ban on military style weapons. no ban on high magazine clips which is the common denominator in mass shootings. we see how broken the it is when they have manipulated our congress in high fiving because criminals, terrorists can continue to buy guns without background checks or detection and that is absurd. >> indeed. kim, what did you make of the president's speech following the vote? i thought it was one of his finer speeches but probably the angriest that i've seen him in quite awhile. >> he has every right to be angry. what a disappointing day for all of us. i would like to think that our senators work for us. today seem to say maybe they don't. you know, it's just disappointing when 90% of americans want to see something happen. m

gun control advocate, gun violence victim and gun owner. also, we will talk about the death of margaret thatcher with former first lady nancy reagan. i will talk with mrs. reagan in just a few minutes. >>> later this hour, beyonce and jay-z in cuba for a wedding anniversary vacation. the question is are they actually breaking u.s. law by being there? again, we begin with the breaking news that could drastically affect president obama's big push on gun control legislation. bipartisan talks tonight on background checks. if you look at the polls, extending background checks to cover all gun buyers is popular, very popular among democrats, republicans, gun owners, even some members of the national rifle association. yet dana bash reporting tonight that congress which came back today from a two-week recess shows little sign of doing what as many as 90% of americans say they want in that regard. so tonight, after speaking in hartford, connecticut, president obama brought a number of newtown families back to washington on air force one to spend th

vice president joe biden will discuss gun control and gun safety as well. connecticut's new gun control laws are apparently to blame for one gun manufacturer's plan to leave the state and with others threatening to follow as well. the 20 to 50 employees will follow to the new location, which has not yet been announced. they posted on facebook, the new gun measures trample on citizens's rights. they can no longer survive in the former constitution state and invites other vendors to join is them in that move. >>> now, here's your "first look" at scrambled politics. nbc news/wall street journal poll showing president obama's job approval rating has fallen below 50%. more than two-thirds support a pathway to citizenship for undocumented workers. >>> anthony weiner is eyeing for run for new york city. he resigned after being cut in a sexting scandal. >>> and no leftover money from his failed campaign to sarah palin. the unspent $1.3 million was put in an account for future mcclain political runs >> the official dedication ceremony will be held next month. >> ran

dealer and buy a gun. have you gotten any republican support yet, senator toomey? >> yes, there is republican support. mark kirk has been actively engaged in this process, fully supports this approach. let me sess a couple things, bob. first thing is, there is not a single word in this legislation that in any yfringes on the second amendment rights of a law-abiding citizen, but we think the laws that make it illegal now for a criminal or a potentially violent, dangerously mentally ill person to have a weapon-- that's the law of the land-- we think that makes sense, and we think a background check to help increase the likelihood that we'll be successful in keeping guns out of the hands of very dangerous people, it just makes sense. it's common sense. i think when people see the bill, they're going to support it. >> schieffer: you just heard senator rubio, i think you're going to have a problem with him. he does not seem to think any gun laws, really, as he put it, works. >> marco is artic lace raitt saying

to gun sales.oining us is state senator mark leon of san francisco for an update on these various efforts. >> i understand, first off, you something that could affect things like the gun show we are seeing this weekend. >> it's about local control. have the decisions made by those closest to the people affected by the sessions made. >> how so? >> we have cow palace, on state property, but straddling county lines. both counties have passed resolutions to not have shows on county-owned property, but because this is state property, uld just say, if ntrol. there's going to be a gun show, let the local legislators approve that. >> gun shows would need the approval of the counties where they will be taking place before they could go on? >> repr: that's right. los angeles county and others ban gun shows on county-owned property, but because it's state-owned, the county has no say in it. it's imposed on them, and no one wants the gun show there. >> on other issues, concerning gun control in california, the

at gun shops. to show all of you what was going on what it takes to buy a gun. >> chris. >> mike, what can i do for you? >> i'm looking for home protection shotgun. >> okay. i'm going to bring you down to our shotgun section. >> reporter: seems simple, but there's more to it than you might think. every purchase from a licensed dealer requires a federal background check. are you under indictment? no. have you been convicted of any felony? no. 20 personal questions including mental health history. thousands across the country and it could feel like an obstacle course. >> there's a background check for the rifle. if you live in the city, there's a rifle shotgun card, if there's a pistol, there's also a pistol license. >> reporter: but this pails in comparison to the pain the nation felt on december 14th in newtown, connecticut. the most vulnerable victimized by dangerous weapons in the wrong sick hands. cnn's latest poll shows people want it to stop. calls to do something resulting in demands for expa

violence and number 7 in gun homicide, and the top ten states in gun violence have the least gun control practically all of them are in the south. >> stephanie: that's absolutely right. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: speaking of the carolinas, guess what north carolina did. they declared an official state religion. >> what it is voodoo? >> stephanie: yeah. >> karl ford backs a religion bill that allows the state to declare an official state faith. it's like a bird. republican north carolina state legislator -- it says each state a sovereign and the government cannot block a state -- >> i think the constitution begs to differ. i even think scalia would beg to differ. >> stephanie: yeah. wow. everybody stop trying to out kansas, kansas. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: speaking of levels of d-baggery, member that judge who sent the racist obama email? >> yeah. >> stephanie: he has retired. richard siegel -- you know dick -- who sent an email suggesting that president obama's mother had sex with a dog -- has retired. this is the racist like i just forwarded the