and joining us now is senator angus king from maine. you know it won't make it out of the house, but what happens when it hits the senate floor? >> well, it won't get the votes, and based upon the fact that what is the functionality of the weapon? does it shoot further, faster, and more frequent bullets, and an assault weapon is really a semiautomatic rifle like thousands of hunting rifles in maine, but it looks different. i don't think that -- i just think that a ban that focuses on what amounts to the appearance of a weapon is going to be very effective. the other piece as mayor bloomberg pointed out last sunday is about 4% of the gun homicides in the country are committed with rifles, whether they are assault rifles or other rifles and the real issue is handguns. that is why my focus is on background checks. i think that the key thing is to keep the guns out of the hands of the people who shouldn't have them. criminals, people with mental illness that makes them prone to violence, terrorists, and those kinds of things, so i think tha

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. >> jeffrey -- [inaudible] from senator angus king's office. given that the general mentioned how war often doesn't turn out the way we want it to that if the air/sea battle concept would be, perhaps, too much tending towards that direction and towards mr. brzezinski, sir, i was wondering how the vast investment we put into iraq has sort of possibly shifted priorities away from, say, the asia-pacific and europe during the 2000s. >> we'll take one more. go ahead. >> yeah. i'm -- [inaudible] from the arab league. this is to the general. you said regarding one of the conduits of history, three decades of -- [inaudible] that's correct, but the iraqis were doing this for three decades. it's only at the end when the united states realized that iraq on that sanction that they owned weapons of mass destruction threatening one of your allies there upon forced information. -- false information. so it was not that regime was brutal all the time. thank you. >> where okay. well, we've got the whole world on the table, but maybe briefly here if you can -- [l

but first, joining us now is senator angus king from maine.dependent and you represent the middle. now, i want to talk about the budget, because ron paul writes he's made serious concessions with spending and tax increases. on the other end of this how do you suggest that president obama somehow come and meet him in the middle? >> i'm not sure the budget is coming out of the house as much as any new revenues to solve the budget problems. by the way, i think we could learn something from the vatican if you lock everybody in a room with 500-year-old plumbing, we might get a deal here. charles: you know what? i tell you what, i'm for it. i thiik that's the most bipartisan thing that will be said all day long. on the budget situation, you know, it's interesting because obviously the president has taken a different tact here recently going into the sequester deal and sort of went to the people to make his case and the country's not falling apart. sequestration might have been a ploy, if you will, to sort of put the g.o.p. in a box, but seems to be

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable angus king, a senator from the state of maine, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: my understanding is that we are on the budget resolution. that's true, isn't it. it has been reported. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 28, s. con. res. 8, concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the united states government for fiscal year 2014, and so forth. mr. reid: mr. president, until 11:00, there is going to be conversation here on the senate floor. at 11:00, there will be six roll call votes. offices, senators should understand, the first vote will be 15 minutes, after that, ten minutes. as we said yesterday, we enforced it yesterday, when the time's up, we're closing it. if the republicans aren't here, too bad, if democrats aren't here, too bad. we're going to have a lot of votes today. so make sure everyone's here.

now, senator paul did say over the weekend that angus king an independent who organize with the democratseak but he came in at the filibuster. first of all. another thing is a letter he received last monday from attorney general eric holder which said under some circumstances it would be legally justifiable to kill an american on american soil has he -- what is this story there now? did he change his mind or what is our policy on that? >> this is the most absurd part of it all. senator paul like lots of the other people who were concerned about this in the senate were had lots of questions k 4,700 people, lindsey graham said have been killed by this program. >> that's his estimate he said he has heard in briefing. so again, lots of different conservatives, senator paul latched on to the most simple question of all, are mr. president, do you claim the authority to kill an american citizen on american soil? the president was asked in a google hangout. he dodged the question. they would say we haven't done it. we plan to do it but they wouldn't answer the basic question. until the filibuster

we introduced last week, in fact, and pleased to point out that on the floor with us is senator angus king from maine, my neighbor from maine who is also a sponsor of the biennial budget legislation. you know, i appreciate that we have a budget resolution before us. its think it's an important step towards returning to regular order, but the fact is, as you have pointed out, since 1980, we have only had two budget processes that have finished on time, according to schedule. we have had every president since that time, since ronald reagan who has endorsed a biennial budget. as you said, i have been there and done that as governor of new hampshire like the governors of 19 other states. we have biennial budgets. it's worked very well, because as this amendment would do and as the biennial budget process would do, it would give us the chance to spend the first year of the budget cycle working on the budget, looking at programs and preparing for the budget, and then the second year in oversight so we can make sure that what we're spending our money on is effective, is doing what we want to. it

civilian and military national security personnel in the basement of the white house acting as senator angus kingting as the judge and jury and executioner, the starting for themselves americans who shall live and who shall die. by standards, no one understands. our government and speeches given by the attorney general makes official disclosures of information about the efforts. but it is never enough because the public doesn't know what it doesn't know. but knows that there are things that the government is still withholding. the revelation 11 days ago that the executive branch does not claim the authorities that is a noncombatant. it is big news and trumpeted as a major victory for congressional oversight. a senator who filibusters this compares an iconic terms to that of jimmy stewart. at the same time, through continual unauthorized leaks of sensitive information, our government looks for the american public is undisciplined and hypocritical. one federal court has talked about it as neither logical nor plausible. in an anonymous paper linked to nbc news, the government finds itself and fails