his press secretary james brady was critically wounded in the attack. 12 years later, president billton signed the brady handgun violence prevention act into law, helping create the national instant criminal background check system that remains in use today. less than a year later after that the federal assault weapons ban was enacted. it would expire in 2004. 32 years after being shot in the head, jim brady remains bound to a wheelchair and has difficulties with his vision. he lives with his wife sarah in alexandria, virginia. jim, why does it matter whether gun control legislation passes or not? >> well, we want to stop the carnage. all the killing that's going on. >> woodruff: how do you compare the lobbying that you faced in the 1980s with the passage of the brady handgun bill with the kind of lobbying that you see going on today? >> we did it much more politically, i would guess, than they're trying to do now. i mean we actually went in to every district that needed going into and got editorial board meetings and visited different groups. it was a lot of footwork and individual

and kevin brady knows it. thank you, mr. brady, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> very much.folks, some more bad news. i don't know. a huge insider trading scandal broke earlier this month. a washington lobbyist tipped off some investors to an $8 billion increase in government health care spending. now, cnbc's eamon javers has new details about this grisly story. once again, good evening, eamon. >> good evening, larry. the new details are that the law and lobbying firm green and troutwig has received and is responding to a subpoena from the s.e.c. in this matter. they are involved in a situation here, because the allegation is that a separate firm called hight securities sent a tip to wall street clients that changes were coming to medicare. there was an employee involved in the chain of communication of e-mails of some of this information. now greenbergtroutwig also saying today they're going to get out of the business of so-called political intelligence. that's when firms in washington tip off hedge funds and others on wall street about things that are happening in washingt

representative brady? >> guest: i don't think it comes from sportsmen or hunting families, those that collect guns to those that have to have it for personal safety. excuse me. it's a broad issue than that and i think one of the biggest challenges, and this has become clear in new town in colorado with the shooting of congresswoman giffords we have to think what we have today very strict gun laws that are not being enforced, and second, we have huge gaps in the mental health system. we don't have the mental health system in america. while it is tough to do, we really ought to focus on how we can make sure, help people who are headed down this path with the mental illness and how we provide the resources to give them some health some help me for this occurs, and it is a big challenge to do that. >> host: donald you are on the washington journal. >> caller: good morning. i think that they are wasting time trying to pass the gun law bill. they need to focus more on jobs. i mean, children got killed but i real

kevin brady of texas and the democrat from new york. more about gun violence and regulations with a usa today reporter. first, calls, e-mails, and >> i to unconsidered criminal background checks to be done control. -- i do not consider criminal by crown to six to be done control. background checks gun- control. it is common sense. senator patns toomey of pennsylvania. our question for this first segment of "washington journal." the senate votes to bed on the gun control debate. if you want to call with an gun control.oday on you can continue the conversation on our facebook page. you can send us a comment on twitter, or send an e-mail. annie is the capitol hill producer for c-span. she sent this e-mail and it gives a precise explanation on what is going to happen. we will start by reading what is going to happen today. the senate adjourned last night at 6:45 p.m. will occur --te occur at 11:00 a.m. today according to harry reid. at 9:30 a.m., the senate will be in to considered the motion on the firearms bill. at 11:00 a.m., the senate

>> brady: you already know.kristen. >> kate: [scoffs] [sighs] [cell phone ringing] hello? >> rafe: hey. didn't think you were gonna pick up. >> kate: [sighs] i didn't think i would either. >> rafe: listen, we need to hash this out. not over the phone. >> kate: i can meet you. >> rafe: i'm at the square. >> kate: i'll be there. >> sami: hey. >> rafe: hey. >> sami: look, we can't tiptoe around this. >> rafe: around what? >> sami: you need to get your head straight about kate.

john from the brady campaign was in studio with us.s their chief counsel head of the legal action project and he told us that one most important thing we could do, assault weapons was important high-capacity magazine clips are important. the one most important thing we could do would be background checks. that's been their sole focus. he'll join us in the next segment. we'll get his take on what happened yesterday. >> announcer: on your radio and on current tv, this is the "bill press show." they thinking? you know who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? this show is about being up to dat

reagan found that james brady for whom the brady center and the brady bill were named, the press roomthe white house named after him. let's listen to this. he came outed in favor of background checks, and now they're using that in ads for gun patrol. >> 32 years ago this week armed service secret agents could not protect ronald reagan from being shot by a man with a gun. but president reagan believed something to have prevented the attack. ten years later he wrote that the assassination attempt would not have happened if gun control checks would have been law. >> michael: you hear this and his daughter patty saying my father would have been in favor of gay marriage. it's hard to imagine him other than a moderate republican right now. so many of those people from gerald ford to ronald reagan, i think ford might even be a democrat. is reagan today are the people in love with reagan still today are they totally misguided? >> i think ronald reagan has become all things to all people in a sense. the conservatives who hold up ronald reagan as an icon ignored the fact that he raised taxes he

paul helmkey, former president of brady campaign and, indiana university professor. the supreme court took up the first major examination of gay rights in a decade. the court hearing arguments over california's proposition 8 which band same sex marriage. it is the first of two days of hearings on the subject. fox news supreme court correspondent shannon bream with our report. >> reporter: following argument today, the supreme court must now decide whether or not to uphold the wishes of california voters who, in 2008, ratified an initiative known as prop 8. it amended the california constitution to limit valid an legally recognized marriages to only those between 1 man and one woman. a number of the justices today asked why individual states shouldn't be able to make their own decisions about the relatively new concept including samuel alito who said the idea of same sex marriage is newer than cell phones and the internet. >> on the question like that, of such fundamental importance, why should it not be left for the people? either asking through initiatives and refer

. >> reporter: that goes, too, he said for friend, family and doctors. >> no disrespect to tom brady, i love him. but he can't hold a candle to the people i just mentioned. >> reporter: and he says he might go back to watch the marathon next year. >> i'm not scared of crowds. i think that's part of boston and boston strong, you know. >> as for how intelligence was handled before the bombings, president obama said today that based on what he has seen, the fbi and department of homeland security did what they were supposed to do. brian? >> pete williams in washington. these victims continue to be remarkable people, all of them, pete, thanks. >>> our health news story tonight is about caffeine, specifically the number of products it shows up in and the concern that causes especially for children. now with yet another new product that boasts a jolt of caffeine, the fda says it is time to take a closer look. our report tonight from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: for years, the concern has been the effect of those highly caffeinated energy drinks on kids and teenagers. now food manufactur

congressman hutchinson, i also want to quote what the brady campaign founded in the name of jim brady, of course, who was terribly wounded the day president reagan was shot back in 1981. the brady campaign said, this is an effort that is missing the point because what the american people want, they are saying, is a comprehensive, broad-based approach to reduce gun violence. in other words, more than just something that is focused on adding armed guards in schools. >> i would agree with part of it. what we need is a comprehensive approach to school safety. and you can pass all the laws you want in washington in terms of restricting guns. bad guys are still going to have access to guns. they're still going to be a danger to the school. >> woodruff: you're saying there's no place for any additional restrictions on guns in this country? >> i don't think it's going to solve the problem of loss of life in schools. so if you want to address the problem of safety in schools, you have to have security measures in place. that's what schools all across this country are doing as we speak. >> wood

brady is hypnotiiypnoti people?ght you would have loved it so much you would have had her on it. >> jimmy: guillermo, we should get mrs. brady to make you pee on yourself. did you know you can't hypnotize people on television? >> you can watch online. >> jimmy: they made it a law because people were watching tv in the 50s and 60s and they were becoming hypnotized in their homes. and on the radio. >> do you remember the number that was in the film that says easily suggestible people? >> jimmy: the number? >> percentage of the population? 5% of the population is easily suggestible. >> jimmy: okay. i don't think i'm one of those people. i tried very hard, maybe too hard and it never seems to work for me. have you been hypnotized? >> i have been. it was great doing all the research. and i remember getting this cd from a woman. it said do not operate heavy machinery or any of those different things when you're listening to it. so i was off having, you know, going to sunday dinner, which which is an amaze thing they have

. >> like a marsha brady.e true prom date because charlie liked her with the bad nose, remember. >> i am obsessed with the brady. >> and i want to thank everybody for wishing my mother best wishes. i was out there visiting her. mom, listen to your daughters and eat your food and stop not eating. that's the only way to get better. >> we send her hugs and kisses . jimmie fallon in february . after the clouds of the olympics. moving home to the original home of the tonight's show and be the sixth host of the show. >> delta airlines decided in its wisdom to put four more seats in the plane and have to take the - lavaatory smaller. >> i can't get out of the damn thing and now you are making it smaller, are you kidding me. and president obama opening his library in dallas, texas and four living predecessors wi

w45* is your problem with tom brady? you said i hate tom brady. >> he cheated and beat the raiders with a stupid tuck rule. he was a smug a-hole in the interviews afterwards and he is a big jerk. and he broke bridget money gnaw han's heart. >> and he picked the wrong girl. >> he was a cad. >> dan, you said athletes should just stop tweeting. no one said anything about be a homophobic. >> bill, jackie robinson, i thought it was a torch and an analogy you were making, but wouldn't it be more appropriate, jackie robinson, you are making a joke, but jackie robinson didn't have to come out. he was started by the brooklyn dodgers and everyone knew he was black. wouldn't it be not an nfl player in the nfl coming out, but actually an nfl team signing an openly gay player? know what i am talking about? >> i was talking about jakay in 227. remember the sassy one? loved by everyone in the neighborhood but mary. mary didn't like her. everyone else did, especially the old lady in the window. >> next story and dems less critical than

>> i think brady has probably called ten of the last two bull markets.ever coming out and being positive and perhaps he's speaking more to corporate ceos and finance directors who might see him on the show. that clip will be replayed over the next three weeks. >> that's not the nature of this television business, simon. we don't replay things like that to an aggressive extent. >> that's right. brady is sending a very positive message to his client base. >> that's what you would expect a ceo to do frankly. >> he's done a great job there. they have stuck to their knitting under tremendous pressure. if we look at our screens that show many months credit suisse was at the bottom of relative valuation. people would say ubs brilliant restructuring and credit suisse what are they going to do? it's now coming good. another interesting fact for you. credit suisse delivered 14% today as did handles bank yesterday. all stocks are up 19% to 20% year-to-date. these are strong performers not affected by what's going on in peripheral economies. they are delivering a de

brady. >> thank you we're the independent partner. the proposed legislation before you is limited to its impacts on parks. how to improve our parks is always challenging to balance the priorities. we do have a gap in how residents can appeal certain decisions made under sequa. president chiu i am encouraged by your proposed amendments. supervisor wiener's legislation has been thoroughly vetted. we believe this legislation officer a significant improvement over the statue quo. we believe that gid sequa mrojz will be able to proceed in a timely manner. we've heard from commits about parks and other issues impacting our systems. and we look forward to continue to work with constituents as those projects are selected, designed and implemented. supervisor wiener's proposed sequa reform is in the right direction. >> i'm with the sadly commission. i want to ask you wait until supervisor kim's and wiener's legislation are side by side. and from i don't know if two weeks is enough but we definitely need more time. it's not just about developer

charlie brady just told me there is a slight of quality, yield to the treasury are going lower.ill say this, we don't know exactly what this is. but if you factor in some of the things that occurred, two explosions right by the finish line, we should also point out the pressroom covering this, boston marathon is locked down, so we're not getting a lot of fresh information, but it looks and smells like as the market is pricing in. the ceo said why are you companies slow to hire now? why are you hoarding so much cash? one of the things he rattled off with the notion of terrorism could come at any time in the new world we're living in and has a visit to pac two business, economic impact. i can tell you, the market is pricing in the worst and guys like jeff hamilton now there's any impact on the market and the business and society at large are now post-9/11 is a new fear. this is part of that. you know why they are hoarding so much cash. liz: we're hearing through law enforcement sources that three people have been killed, there are three dead and multiple wounded. we knew there wer

. >> i have to apologize for sounding like peter brady from "the brady buncbunch" this morn. so bear with me. >> i just thought were you getting emotional. >> let's get to immigration and the so-called gang of eight. if we were to sum up this proposal it would be to beef up border security, at the same time create a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants now in the country. why would you support this given the obvious political risk that this carries in your own party? >> well, three

decision and opinion of the court gideon against -- vindication for 20 years of dissent from -- against brady. they said we were wrong when we designed it and now we are making it right. >> it was complete. not only did this belief in the 14th amendment, the court decide d in gideon's favor. this system which he fought for so long in the justice. the decision was law of the land. equal justice under law. >> when a supreme court decided the gideon case, they really brought light to that phrase. it doesn't matter if you are rich, it doesn't matter if you are poor, you get the same equal chance. >> just look at what happened to gideon. the supreme court didn't set gideon free but it gave him a fair trial with a competent attorney. >> not guilty. >> clarence earl gideon was a free man. the man who won a landmark supreme court case went to live a normal living with a job pumping gas. >> when i read where it says equal justice under law, i'm very inspired by that. i'm very comforted by that. but i know a lot of people are treated unfairly. i see it as something encouraging but i don't see it yet. >

michael eric dyson, ari melber, katon dawson and dan gross president of the brady campaign to preventyou about it this week? >> every bit as angry as the president is and the american people are. you have a situation where 90% of the american public supported this measure. the majority of gun owners. that doesn't happen any anything, no less legislation and gun policy. we were bow trade by the government, betrayed by the people we elected to represent us. every one of the people who voted no, the constituents of theirs backed this. that was reflected in president president's tone, that's the disconnect we need to close to create change on this issue. >> explain that to me. that's the part that perhaps more than any other thing makes me desperately nervous here. it's one thing if we're having a debate about a policy and it doesn't pass. okay. we seem to not be having a debate about this policy. >> you got it. >> we have absolute uniformity of opinion, 92%. many americans thinking it's already the law. what is the disconnect in our democracy that allows this? >> it's not even the will.

so she called these 3 boys over, about my complexion, curly hair, and this is barry, brian, and brady. you expect jose jimenez, you know. what's your last name? murphy. murphy? si, si, murphy. very close to the way the irish pronounce murphy. i said, that's amazing. did you marry a serviceman from the -- military person who came to puerto rico. no, the family has been here since the 18th century. and i said, really? so we began tracing -- we still haven't found the actual person, but evidently it was an irish conscript in the irish navy that came to puerto rico. puerto rico was owned by britain, as they liked to do with their colonies, and efficient evidently the sailor came there and said palm trees, warm weather, and look at the girls. and he remained. that's the end of the second part. the third part is in response to the op ed piece that margaret mcpeek wrote in the chronicle and the letters, i don't know if you've read them -- you should pick up -- the letters that a couple of, you know, irish americans wrote in response accusing cousin mcpeek of not having a sense of humor. it h

. >> but you know, the reality is that the brady group, the group name for secretary james brady, gave president obama an f during the course of his first term in office. and but for this spate of shooting incidents, i suspect we wouldn't be having this conversation. and this administration would not have taken the initiative. so to assert that all of a sudden, it is obama coming for your gun reminds me of radio talk show hosts in the first term saying there was going to be a ban on ammunition. and all of a sudden they caused a run on weapons as well as ammo. there is so much fiction being spread out there. i'll be kind with the word choice. but it play indicates the base. that answers your first question of joe and the 7%. the 7% believe that sort of a commercial. >> and quickly, at the bottom of the skraen, we say chances are. we don't know which way this will go. you have for example, john mccain saying he kneads to read the amendment. he needs to soak it all in. he gives them credit for at least trying here. what are the chances here right now tomorrow, what we'll see. >> they're m

no disrespect to tom brady. i love him, you know. people i just mentioned. >> a powerful story. but the survivors of the attack still face a long road ahead. to find out how you can help jared and other victims affected by the tragedy, visit onebostonfund.org. we cannot be epidodal and just react for a week or two. we must remember the long road ahead for them and help them every step of the way. don't let the headlines dictate your compassion. don't let the headlines dictate how long you have interest and concern. even when it's no longer on the front page, let's have it in the front of our minds to help fellow americans that, for no fault of their own, have a long road of trying to recover. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> stop the guillotine. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. there are people in this country, believe it or not, who believe the best way to get rich people to work harder is to give them tax benefits. that t

the brady bill as you mentioned passed seven years.eep going the way day are going right now, the nra sand castles will quickly blow out to sea and we'll think of nra in a couple years as standing for not relevant anymore. >> okay. this is a very good issue if you are ted cruz. take a listen to how he describes bravely standing up against his own party on gun control. >> right. >> we've had probably five or six lunches with a bunch of republican senators standing up and looking at rand and mike and me and yelling at us at the top of their lungs. i mean, really upset. they said, look, why did you do this? but as a result of what you did, when i go home, my constituents are yelling at me i have stand on principle. i'm really not making that up. >> julian, what's good for ted cruz may not be good for the republican party. true? >> that's exactly right, martin. that's the lesson that i think republicans should have learned during the last election cycle when they actually tried to tee up many of these social conservative issues on women, o

law, you remember this, you were covering some of this, the brady law had, i think seven votes before became law. some of these things take years to accomplish. and while you know, when you watch the news and you see grieving parents, not just the newtown parents, but in cities like chicago and other cities every night you can see a parent grieving the loss of a child. it's hard to be patient. but the nature of the process is it takes time. and i would think that by next spring, you might have another opportunity here to move on this, the other thing i would say is there's been an awful lot of criticism of those democrats who didn't vote for most democrats did for that didn't. but if i'm sitting in their shoes and i see that we can't, you can't get to 60 votes, do you want to cast that vote in a losing cause? i would think some of those democrats might be willing to reconsider. if they thought the law had a chance to pass. >> david axelrod, thank you very much. our msnbc analyst and former obama white house top adviser. we'll be right back. he's not gou some labradoodle, he's gonna se

. >> i have to apologize for sounding like peter brady from "the brady buncbunch" this morn. so bear with me. >> i just thought were you getting emotional. >> let's get to immigration and the so-called gang of eight. if we were to sum up this proposal it would be to beef up border security, at the same time create a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants now in the country. why would you support this given the obvious political risk that this carries in your own party? >> well, three things. first of all, even if we didn't have a single person in this country in violation of immigration laws, we could still have to do immigration reform because our legal immigration system is broken. it's not good for anybody the way it works right now and this bill modernizes it in a way that will get broad based support. we also have to be able to enforce our laws. and this bill will pass -- this bill once introduced as we've agreed to, i think, will show a broad base of enforcement measures unlike anything this country has ever seen. and what it does, it creates a way for us to addr

. >> i want to bring in dan gross, president of the brady campaign.t's good of you to be with us today, and i just want to get your reaction to what happened. >> i think the president had it right. i think the survivor who spoke in the chambers had it right. shame on congress. it's a shameful day in washington, d.c. the will of 90% of the american public, the safety of the american public was undermined by the votes of a few senators who were doing the bidding of the gun lobby. i think it's very important that we take great solace and heart and inspiration from how far we've come. i mean, the fact that there was a vote at all, the fact that it was even close, the fact that the filibuster didn't happen, the fact that there was a bipartisan agreement, these all happened because the voice of the american public is starting to be heard by congress. we haven't come far enough yet, and the american people should take inspiration from where we are, how far we've come, and like the president said, we can't -- we can't give up. this is too important. 30,000 pe

political reporter at politico, maggie haberman and assistant director for legislative affairs for the brady campaign, colin goddard. colin, you're in washington. i think the fact that john mccain called out members of his own party for standing in the way of the democratic process seemed to be a powerful moment. if not for the nation, then at least for the republican party. how much pressure do you think that ultimately exerts on these 13 angry men? >> i think it's a great amount of pressure coming from someone from their own party. and that's only, that's in addition to what we've seen from other senate republicans who have come out in favor of this, of possible compromise, on background checks and other issues, like senator isaacson, senator toomy, they understand that their purpose is to vote on this. >> for the newtown families coming to make it real, this is what we need, to always remind us why we're doing this the senators take a vote on this, they're voting to protect the lives of their constituents directly. that needs to be at the forefront of this conversation moving forward. >>

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