joining me now, gloria allred, buzz bissinger, and abby house abby hunt.z, let me start with you. do you believe that sandy hook represents any kind of tipping point in favor of new gun legislation? >> no, i think america is a country that revels in violence, that was born in violence, that loves the image of the frontiers men and the cowboy and having guns. you know, i think there was a lot of protest, i think the only politician that was trying to do anything was michael bloomberg. i don't see president obama doing very much. we had another incident at aurora, colorado, where he did nothing. mitt romney did nothing. it's a ridiculous argument. how can we possibly have assault weapons and why do we need guns? we don't need guns. we have 10,000 murders a year, as you tried to tell that big, fat idiot last night, how many murders were there by gun in england? what, 33? it's pathetic, but i don't see any change. >> gloria, it's a debate that is very hard to have without people getting very angry and very exercised. how do we try to move forward to a point of

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joining me is "the daily beast's" buzz bissinger and sports editor for "the nation" dave zirin. buzz, in august of 2012, just five months ago, you wrote a cover story for "newsweek" entitled "i still believe in lance armstrong," and yet last night his interview with oprah winfrey began with a series of yes and no questions. >> did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance? >> yes. >> yes or no, was one of those banned substances epo? >> yes. >> did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance? >> yes. >> did you ever use any other banned substances like testosterone, cortisone, or human growth hormone? >> yes. >> yes or no, in all seven of your tour de france victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope? >> yes. >> buzz, you are a pulitzer prize winner, you're a smart guy, friend of mine. how was he able to roll you so recently as a couple months ago? >> well, you know, i cringe when i see that cover, and i say that honestly. i think he was able to roll me because i did not do my due diligence, and i

joining me is "the daily beast's" buzz bissinger and sports editor for "the nation" dave zirin. buzz, in august of 2012, just five months ago, you wrote a cover story for "newsweek" entitled "i still believe in lance armstrong," and yet last night his interview with oprah winfrey began with a series of yes and no questions. >> did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance? >> yes. >> yes or no, was one of those banned substances epo? >> yes. >> did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance? >> yes. >> did you ever use any other banned substances like testosterone, cortisone, or human growth hormone? >> yes. >> yes or no, in all seven of your tour de france victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope? >> yes. >> buzz, you are a pulitzer prize winner, you're a smart guy, friend of mine. how was he able to roll you so recently as a couple months ago? >> well, you know, i cringe when i see that cover, and i say that honestly. i think he was able to roll me because i did not do my due diligence, and i

fourth, bissinger also pointed out that corbett took close to $202,000 in gubernatorial campaign donations from board members of the charity started by sandusky. and in the meantime there were all of two state investigators, some even say it was just one, assigned to the case of that predatory animal until corbett became governor in 2011, and its with it was only afterward that the investigation expanded into the scope it always deserved. finally, many legal experts are opining that the lawsuit is unlikely to succeed. lester munson at espn today noted that the only apparent legal theory is based on antitrust laws that govern monopolies that use their prices to fix prices or to manipulate markets. the ncaa might be a monopoly but doesn't appear to be conspiring to manipulate any market. a worthy lawsuit or a political missive? voters will be the ultimate jury. that's "hardball" for now. thank you for being with us. "the ed show" with ed schultz starts right now. >>> good evening, americans, and welcome to "the ed show" from new york. the republican propaganda effort on the debt ceiling ends

. >> buzz bissinger is the author of "friday night lights" and a contributor for "newsweek" and the dailyeast. and last august, he wrote the cover story for "newsweek" entitled, "i still believe in lance armstrong." now he says reading that makes him cringe and he is "outfront" tonight. thank you for having the courage. so you were saying, look, i'm embarrassed, but you know what, so many people. so many people believed him, because they wanted to believe in the inspired story. i wanted to read a quote from that article. you wrote, "i was diluted to believe lance armstrong when he denied doping." that's what you're saying now. but what was it, when you wrote that article, so late, so many people were saying, maybe it's not true, why did you still believe him? >> i really thought he was a hero. to me, the premise i took was this. people were saying he was blood doping, he'd been blood doping throughout all the tour de frances that he won all seven of them. i'm sure that was true, but that sport was so rife with doping, so rife with cheating, so rife with the use of performance enhancers, i

as buzz bissinger noted in today's daily beast, kane insists that in normal circumstances a predatory been arrested after the first allegation was proven to be founded. that would have gotten sandusky off the street and nothing would have precluded the state police from further investigation. but instead a grand jury was impaneled. it went on for more than three years, which kept the predatory animal free to

here on the "imus in the morning" program we're going to talk a fascinating conversation with buzz bissinger coming up and coming up, i-fave dwight yoakam and his band on monday and here is a great song, almost my favorite, from his brand new album "waterfall". ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ imus in the morning ♪ >> good morning, everyone, friday, january the 18th. have you checked your 401(k) today? maybe you should. without much fanfare, stocks have climbed to near all-time highs. all right. the financial headlines have told a very different story. the fiscal cliff, debt, unemployment high. we're just like europe. the top stories about your money have been negative and not likely to improve that much. here comes another pathetic debt over the debt ceiling and another downgrade, true. may have we have been distracted by that, put the bad news aside and see the dow jones industrial average within 6 points, 14,164 in 2007. and in a few minutes, the dow starts well above 13-5. and here is more good news, your house keeps going up in value, not by much for most people, but up is up. so, cheer up, everyone,