he would support diane feinstein's bill just like he did in 1994.anite position is to support feinstein's assault weapons ban. but self proclaimed reaganite newt gingrich has not been talking about the assault weapons ban in the aftermath of the killing of children and women in newtown, connecticut. newt gingrich doesn't blame the easy availability of assault weapons in this country for the murder of 26 at the sandy hook elementary school. he blames this. >> an anti-religious secular bureaucracy, and secular judiciary, seeking to drive god out of public life. >> newt gingrich was one of the members of congress who received that letter in 1994 co-signed by president reagan, asking him to vote yes on a ban on the domestic manufacture of military-style assault weapons. and newt gingrich voted no. there are many words i can think of that accurately describe newt gingrich, and yes, some of them are positive. but when newt gingrich calls himself a reaganite, there is only one word. liar. >> i am a reaganite, i am proud to be a reaganite, i'm proud to be a

. >> reporter: an area of possible agreement is snator diane feinstein reintroducing a ban on assaulteapons, one specific carney says the president supports. the president and ice president met with cabinet secretaries this afternoon to begin the work of figuring out what specific legislation they may come up with to deal with the aftermath of this tragedy. lou? lou: thank you, ed henry, fox news chief white house correspondent. first guest night says gun laws are a critical part of the national discussion, but the country also needs, he says, to respond to the ment health issues when it comes to mass shootings as well as the corrosive influence of the digital world and a culture of violation. joining us, former homeland security secretary, form earn governor of pennsylvania, tom ridge, who also served on the review panel to study the virginia tech shooting which claimed lives of 32 people. governor, glad to have you with us. let's start with, first, the call for legislation here, senator diane feinstein is putting forward something that looks, i'm sure, very familiar to you, and that

why diane feinstein is outraged. vze=< >>> a moving tribute in oakland for victims on the other side of the country. more than 200 people gathered to pray at cathedral of christ the light for the sandy hook shooting victims. a group of kindergarten through eighth grade choir students sang before and after the services. the archbishop placed a wreath of 28 yellow roses for those who were killed last week. >>> tonight a religious community that has also experienced a shooting rampage is remembering the victims mourners say this tragedy transcends all religions. >> reporter: this is a sikh congregation of a thousand members which paused to reflect on connecticut's loss. their language not understood by all, but the emotions are universal. members of the sikh community tonight mourned the young ones just like god himself. they are not political. they don't pick fights. that what makes you grieve even more. more painful. >> reporter: prayers for the connecticut families were woven into tonight's weekly wednesday service. >> i watch the news and i'm crying. i don't feel good. my son is 6.

that initial ban from tea 90s was mixed and you wrote an article in bloomberg about this about diane feinstein's bill by labeling her forthcoming legislation and updated assault weapons bill and harkening to the misbegotten 1994 law feinstein undercut her credibility right out of the box. i was wonder if you can unpack that for us? >> yeah. i'm afraid this was a political misstep by the democrats, the assault weapons ban while significant to many people, in fact, there isn't any social science evidence that it had any significant effect on crime. and the focus needs to be if you're going to worry about types of weapons that are sold the focus needs be tightly on ammunition capacity not the type of rifle but the number of rounds that it can fire and i think democrats would be well advised to focus on that rather than talking over and over about assault weapons. >> but, you know, paul, we can take the legislative feasibility aside for a second so we can establish the solutions that might work. the reason why assault weapons didn't work you left weapons made before 994 left on the streets. all the

>> reporter: diane feinstein who is proposing a new assault weapon ban says she's upset the nra didn'ther about restrictions >> it's inconceivable after what they said to me today that they don't think people who have guns should have background checks or that they should be registered. >> it's a horribly poor choice to say that the answer to gun violence is to put more guns out there. >> reporter: andrew is a parent of students. the district employs 20 armed police officers in all of its high schools and middle schools at a cost of $2 million a year. the district has put no cops in its three dozen elementary schools and has no plans or money to do so. >> i'm glad we're having that conversation. i we think have experience in it. i think it's an overreaction. if you want to know my position as a school board member, how am i going to put armed police officers at 50 schools? >> reporter: on top of that $2 million, the district spends $5 million a year on security overall, money it would rather be spending on educating children. >>> congress has left town for the holidays. and president o

. >>> diane feinstein says she will introduce a bill next month to been a assault weapons. >> in this elementary school, look what happened. six-year-olds with three to eleven bullets from this bush master in their body. 20 of them. is this america? i don't think so. >> feinstein also wants to been a the high capacity ammunition clips that hold more than 10 rounds. grace lee shows us she's not the only politician who's speaking out. >> reporter: the connecticut shoot something a wake up call for all of us in america. >> senator leland says it's time to stop the mayhem. he wants to re introduce the bullet button ban. getting around the state ban on detachable magazines because you can use a bullet to release the magazine. >> it's as if we do not have an assault weapon ban in the state of california with the bullet button assault rifle, what you can do is buy a magnet and easily load and unload these magazines. >> senator ye wants to go further by adding yearly background checks on owners and mental health evaluations and limit ammunition and increase safe gun storage requirements. >> p

. >> the newtown killings have prompted senator diane feinstein to update or 1994 assault weapons ban. >> it will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession, not retroactively, but prospectively and it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips of more than ten bullets. she says her bill will exempt nine hundred specific weapons. >> the gun controls will comply with the second amendment. bloomberg says he closed the gun show loop hope hole. they have evolved from one being sold to me to having five and ten or 20 coming to to buy guns like me. >> the control ad vets know they face a formidable faux in those of the second amendment. >> the question is how do we control violence. there is no violence in a knife. >> guns are not the problem, people are. >> there's no solution where new found innocence are shot down. >> no, up held what the cause is, the basic cause is the fundamental weaknesses of man kind. if you wish, the seeds of several destruction of man kind. >> he is not optimistic a solution will ever know found. he says guns in the u.s. are not going to

senator diane feinstein. >> the nra's blanket call to arm our schools is really nothing more than a distraction. >> reporter: the nra's leader did condemn the attack in connecticut but he was adamant in storage the blame away from guns or gun law. >> the idea of putting armed police officers on school campuses came under fire today by some who say it would only make a penalty dangerous situation worse. >> all of a sudden we'd be introducing thousands and thousands of additional guns on to campuses. we're not sure that that's really a viable solution. that could escalate the problem. >> reporter: >> there are already some schools in california that have armed guards on campuses. among them school districts in oakland, san francisco, san jose and west contra costa. you can join the conversation if you like. ktvu viewers are debating the proposal. tell us what you think. we'd like to hear. look for ktvu channel 2 on facebook. >>> the nra also took aim at violent video games today. john fowler is talking to mental health professionals about the conflicting research on that issue. >> christmas is no

he always encouraged people who wanted to do something because he had the backing, diane feinstein has been there, willy brown has been there, some -- i think sammy davis junior went there once. so it's not famous people haven't visited it and it's not that sam jordan was very well known. i think in this case it's what has been happening and how his spirit has been kept alive by serving the poor. that's what we need, that's what we need in the bayview. we need people who are compassionate, people who do not forget their roots. people say they represent, if you represent and you know your people, especially the people who came from the south, i'm talking to the people at home, then your representatives should be those that represent the poor, much like phillip burton did, much like other good representatives did that you respect in city hall. so if sam jordan was here i think he would have said that his work was something for the community, that working for the community, that working for uplifting somebody, that would bring joy to his heart. i think that's what he would have said and i

that makes sense to him with lawmakers like diane feinstein in california promising to renew legislation to ban certain weapons and limiting the number of bullets a gun magazine can hold. no millions of smokers are resolving to kick the habit, just like they do, they are trying to do it again in 2013. the cdc estimates less than 10% will end up being successful at it. doctors say it takes the average smoker five or six times before they are able to actually give the cigarettes up for good. >>> every school should have a nurse and every district should have a physician. that is the opinion of the american academy of pediatrics. doctors and nurses can promote nutrition and physical activities in the schools and manage chronic condaleezza rice like diabetes. >>> recess can be a big part of that for students. the american academy of pediatrics says it is vital. physicians say recess should never be withheld for punishment. lack of activity can lead to poor health and lower grades. >>> we are going to hear reacts from redskins fans a big win over dallas. and to becoming nfc east champions. >>

the 55 year old daughter of diane feinstein was the presiding judge in the san francisco superior courtshe has been on the bench for more than 12 years. feinstein said she is open to running for office after retirement. she is downplaying the possiblity of vying for her mother's seat if diane feinstein does not run in 20-18. >> a secret settlement has been reached in the dispute between thomas kinkade's widow and girlfriend over the late artist's multi- million dollar estate. it's unclear who will inherit kinkade's monte serrano mansion and his warehouse of paintings. the dispute between his widow nanette kinkade and amy pinto erupted after the artist's april 6 death, due to a mix of alcohol and valium. pinto began dating kinkade 6 months after his marriage of 28 years ended. she later produced two disputed handwritten wills which stated that kinkade would leave her $10 million and his home. and his home. party. >> richmond has put the brakes on repairs using chromium 9.. it is insufficient in terms of the regulatory process. there are other steps that need to be taken. >> the approval

diane feinstein as i mentioned earlier vows to interview a bill that would ban any new sales, transfersmportation and possession of assault weapons and ban these high-capacity clips of more than ten bullets. in addition new york senator chuck schumer has also called for action to make it harder for people who are quote mentally unstable to get guns. john larson from connecticut wants congress to close the gun show loophole. so has the newtown shooting changed the political climate for gun safety in america. here is robert reich the author of "beyond outrage." he is joining us tonight from berkeley, thank you so much bob for joining me today. >> well good evening, jennifer. i'll tell you this is something that only tangentially touches on my normal topics but goes to the heart of the moral understanding and ability of americans to take action. i think we have reached a tipping point here. i think the normal approach we take as a country, because of an at attention deficit disorder that we have in the media is when some horrendous thing like that happens, we talk about gun control and cha

i've reached out to joe crowley and congressman manzullo and my friend diane feinstein, john mccain and mitch mcconnell. i went to see senator mcconnell in his office. i said what do you think about seeing whether there is any opening whatsoever? i was so pleased when he said let's get given a try. let's proceed judiciously, the way out is his office, showed me a letter. we knew at some point, change would have to come but whether it would be a year or decade or longer, no one could predict. that very carefully and close consultation, we began sending assistant secretary campbell and created by the congress and special envoy. listening, probing, seeing whether they are seeing something happening and slowly change started. when the house arrest was lifted and the voice of this remarkable woman could be heard more broadly, we knew the united states had to be not only supporting the change but carefully nurturing it with -- to ensure our did not end up being detoured. today we are joined by a representative from the president of burma and we welcome the new ambassador from burma and we are

republican lindsay graham and diane feinstein to see if there is time for a deal. >> national hockeye does making a new offer to the players in hopes of breaking the stale mate. it was presented to the players on the thursday . players and owners have not discussed the lock out. and nhl season is cancemed through the franth. they had said they don't want a season with fewir than 48. >> fbi and marilyn monroe . was there a link between the movie star and communist party. correspondant ixplains what new documents were released and say about the late actress. >> the fbi released new information about actress marilyn monroe. they were monitoring for ties to communist. >> she had a lot of high profile friends and under media scrut ninny . some of these people were possibly connected to the communist party. they focused on the trip to mexico in 1962 and her association with frederick. and that is it the guide. and she was spending quite a bit of time. she was spending time with frederick vanderbillt hills. he had extreme leftist views and put her in a light that suggested that maybe she di

diane feinstein was the first to announce an update on an assault weapons ban which she introduced in congress and will introduce it early next year. >> i intend to introduce a bill. and i intend one way or another, no matter how long it takes, to get that bill through. there's one thing i'm sure of. that in the absence of doing something, that is sound, that is practical, that is workable, these incidents are not going to stop. i've watched them now since the texas bell tower in 1967. >> feinstein was author of the weapons ban which was allowed to expire under george w. bush. it would include semi-automatic rifles, handguns and shotguns. it bans devices capable of carrying more than ten rounds of ammunition. it also exempts more than 900 specific weapons. it's not a ban on all guns. it's a ban on unnecessary guns. today, senator frank loutenburg of new jersey also introduced a plan to ban the sale of high-capacity magazines. senator palin the senate judiciary committee says he will hold hearings on gun safety issues early next year. democratic lawmakers were holding action. the mayor

. >>> senator diane feinstein is outraged at scenes of torture. she along with two other senators say the interrogation scenes that involve torture are grossly inaccurate and misleading. they sent a letter to sony insisting that the scenes of water boarding are based on fictional narrative. the movie is set to be released next month. it's already being mentioned as a strong oscar contend per. >> they've been called a noisy nuisance. how one bay area man inspired his hometown. >> standing guard, how >>> connecticuting coverage now of last friday's school massacre in connecticut. today family and friends said good-bye to four more children and two brave adults. the victims who were laid to rest today ea is doing and why the media has been asked to stay away. >> reporter: processions of sorrow for victims of the sandy hook school shooting continuing. >> we haven't had to look too far to find sadness. we're finding it again today. >> reporter: mourners saying a final farewell to victoria soto. the 27-year-old is believed to have died trying to protect

the law, senator diane feinstein pushed through congress in 1994 made large capacity ammunition delivery systems illegal. wayne lapierre made them legal ten years ago. wayne lapierre made no public statement whatsoever after the movie theater mass murder. after that mass murder, so successfully used the weapon systems that wayne lapierre made available to him. instead, wayne lapierre simply sent out a letter, a letter asking for money. asking for contributions to the nra over and above dues. and as with every solicitation of money, wayne lapierre lied to every poor fool who fell for it. he said in his letter "nothing less than the future of our country and our freedom will be at stake." wayne lapierre did not announce today a national shopping mall parking lot shield program. because wayne lapierre has no suggestion about how to prevent or even in some way inhibit, maybe just somehow reduce the possibility of what happened to 9-year-old christina taylor greene, who was murdered because she chose to stand in a parking lot in tucson, arizona, and listen to her congresswoman, gabrielle giff

senator diane feinstein had this reaction from capitol hill. >> the nra's blanket call to arm our schools is really nothing more than a distraction. >> reporter: during the press conference the nra also criticized violent video games and the national media and it says it rewards killers with wall to wall attention. mike mibach. >> state senator released a statement in response to the nra's proposal. it read quote, more guns are not the answer to protecting our children as evident by the fact that armed guards weren't enough to stop the tragedy at columbine high school. the nra's response is pathetic and completely unacceptable. >> it was one week ago today that 26 people were massacred at that elementary school in newtown. >> dawn hochsprung, principal. [bell toll] >> bells rang out at connecticut at 9:30 east coast time. the names of the 20 children and six school employees who were killed were read allow followed by bell tolls. a church in newtown also rang its bell 26 times. there was an unlined moment of silence. some major websites went dark for a minute and posted green ribbons to r

senators john mccain, carl levin and diane feinstein sent a letter to sony.avidson is a senior editor at "the new yorker" magazine and wrote a column about it. good to have you here. so the senators, they came out staunchly against the film after seeing it saying it's perpetu e perpetuating a myth. your assessment of the film? are they right that the movie takes a little creative liberty with the tortures a sne s s ss? >> it did and there was an open letter saying the head of the cia had deep troubles with the ill families and not accurate in the description of what torture did for the united states. the reason they felt the need to speak out was because this was billed as the big movie that the cia cooperated with and the pentagon. opens with recordings of people dying in the world trade center and saying it's based on actual accounts and saying it has that and then make the case we needed torture to keep us safe, that torture got us bin laden, you could see why that's department lie disturbing if as people who have seen the intelligence say it's not true. >

of this tragedy right away is you've got mayor bloomburg, you have senators chuck schumer and diane feinsteingher gun laws, and you look at connecticut, they're number 5 when it comes to the strictest gun laws in the country. >> carol, the nra, we're talking about a big tough powerful lobbying group, more than 4 million members strong, and this is a group that does everything from running conventions to hosting gun related activities, and they're also strong when it comes to money. think about this. they spend $17 million in federal political race this is year along and we know they contributed more than $700,000 to individual candidates. that's a lot of money mostly going to republican candidates. >> george howell, thanks so much. i want to talk more about this and i would like to speculate, we are a country, a whole lot of gun lovers, 270 million guns in the hands of private owners right now. that's around nine guns to every ten people. let's bring in the director of the university of virginia center on politics. i know you have studied the nra for a long period of time and in response to l

stores that were in the castro and once again though, the city came together and again because of diane feinstein readership in part, the daughter of the doctor who had a medical background herself, was married to a doctor. and the medical community and the city that based on her weekend.yours and nurses at the age toward, dr. paul wilbur dang and others. and they didn't know it at that point whether they were taking home the infection to the children's come in to their families, but they stood their ground and began to treat the sick and the ailing president he were our children, the brothers were part of san francisco family. and that msn is the san francisco values his solo. we take care of our own here. and the rest of the country was rejecting aids patients, dumping them in the city, putting them on airplanes to be flown to san francisco in their dying days, san francisco took been in and took care of them. so we take care of our own. that's the value here. one of the key people who get that going back to the 1960s and very glad he's here with us today, dr. david smith who is the brave, youn

senator diane feinstein vowed today to introduce gun legislation at the start of the next congress. the bill would ban the sale, transfer and importation of assault weapons. and would also prohibit high-capacity magazines, like the ones used in newtown. there will be those who say such legislation will be impossible to pursue. that the country won't be able to get it done. but there are already signs that this time is different. prominent people say this tragedy have changed their positions. both senators have "a" ratings from the nra. senator manchin famously used a rifle to shoot legislation in one campaign ad. but that was before newtown. today, he said this. >> never before have we seen our babies slaughtered. it's never happened in america that i can recall ever seeing this type of carnage. anybody. anybody that lives in america, anybody that's a proud gun owner, anybody that's a proud them ber of the nra, they're also proud parents and proud grandparents. they understand. this has changed, where we go from here. everything has to be on the table and i think it will be. >> now

there but also the reliability of that information given what else was out there including from diane feinstein and others, let alone the pdb to which she had access. >> senator din feinstein already admitted that al-qaeda was probably involved. >> she is nowhere to be seen when an emergency security council meeting over the tur yirk floarish float flo. when she cast a ret resolution against the israeli for building against a settlement in their own capital, she cast a veto but said she agrees basically with the resolution and goes so far as to say they shouldn't build on any territory. she's got a long, long record. >> you know what's interesting about the record is that we haven't heard about her, have we? i believe the president talks about her accomplishments and she's done an exemplary job at the un. what has she done that you can point to? >> beats me. >> all right. well, why do you think she was called upon and not hillary clinton to go on those television shows to talk about this make believe video that, you know, and the spontaneous protest. why wa ps she picked? >> two reasons, i woul

california senator diane feinstein plans to introduce new legislation next year. the president would also support new rules for gun shows. attendees can buy guns from private dealers without a background check. >> bay area residents are banding together. ktvuu's health and synced core john fowler here now. >> reporter: what difference with a book make? two bay area grade serials created this one. that may help hundreds cope with their loss. this afternoon 11-year-old tatiana oliver and her 9-year- old sister signed copies of their book, it's okay to cry. a remarkable child's take on grief. >> dealing with your feelings and how to deal with when someone you knew or loved has died and passed away. >> reporter: tatiana wrote it after her father died of a heart attack in front of her. she and her sister plan to send books to sandy hook school children. >> it would make them feel better. >> reporter: kyra rate created the art work. >> therapy is okay to go to. it's not like a bad thing. >> reporter: their mother says grief shared is grief eased for her children and tho

carney said for the first time president obama would support the assault weapons ban senator diane feinstein plans to introduce on the next day of congress. >> he is absolutely supportive of senator feinstein's stated intent to revive a piece of legislation that would reinstate the assault weapons ban. he supports and would support legislation that addresses the problem of the so-called gun show loophole. and there are other elements of gun law legislation -- gun legislation that he could support, people have talked about high capacity gun -- ammunition clips, for example. and that is something certainly that he would be interested in looking at. >> after the massacre at sandy hook elementary school, rupert murdock tweeted "when will the politicians find the courage to ban weapons" today, weapons designed expressly to kill human beings and then modified to meet the federal machine gun ban have no legitimate place in american society. time to get rid of them. here is republicanscarb scarborough. >> do they want to be seen two years or four years as the party of glocks, the party of bushmaster

senator diane feinstein says she'll introduce an updated version of the ban when the new congress gets to work next month. the national rifle association late today released its first statement since the massacre. james rosen live in washington with that. james? >> good evening. the nra broke its silence a few hours after fox news reported exclusively that the gun advocacy group was soon going to begin, quote, pushing back against the gun control lobby which has been quite vocal since newtown. the nra statement promised to hold a major news conference this friday. the national rifle association of america, the statement said, is made up of 4 million moms and dads, sons and daughters and we were shocked, saddened and heart broken by the news of the horrific and senseless murders in newtown. the nra is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again. around senator feinstein, the democrat who proposes to ban more than 100 kinds of firearms, the nra is preparing to draw red lines, a key provision in the feinstein bill would limit the number of rounds

the bill's sponsor was senator diane feinstein of california. >> we, as a country, decided to let it expire. remember how i said the vote on the ban on plastic guns back in the 80s was a very lopsided vote. it was 413 votes in favor and only four votes against? dick cheney was one of the four designed to slip by airport x-ray machines when he was in the congress. he also voted against the reagan ban on bullets designed to pierce body armor. and when the assault ban came up in 2004, bush and cheney made sure it expired. this year, she said she's going to bring the assault weapons ban back. >> the same bill will be introduced in the house, a bill to ban assault weapons. it will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession, not retro actively, but perspectively. and it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips. of more than 10 bullets. so there will be a bill, we've been working on it now for a year. we've tried to take my bill from '94 to 2004. and perfect it. we believe we have. we exempt over 900 specific weapons that will not fall under the bill. but the pur

senator diane feinstein said she's going to propose an assault weapons ban when the next congress returnshe is. >> the purpose of this bill is to get what mayor bloomberg said, weapons of war off the streets of our cities. >> of course the question is, would banning guns stop people from killing people. that's a central question. brianna keilar shows us how the new debate on gun patrol is putting new pressure on barack obama. >> reporter: just hours after the connecticut shooting, a promise from president obama to tackle gun violence. >> we're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this. regardless of the politics. >> reporter: but what exactly does he mean by meaningful action? critics of the president's record on the issue are pressing for specific proposals. new york mayor, michael bloomberg said calling for meaningful action is not enough. we need immediate action. we have heard all the rhetoric before. what we have not seen is leadership. not from the white house, and not from congress. gun violence has not been a priority for the oba

check your -- diane feinstein. >> heather: new york city police have a woman in custody who they believe killed a man by pushing him in front of an oncoming subway train. they released this video of the suspect fleeing the scene. police say she is 31-year-old erica menendez of the bronks and she made statements incriminating herself. she told them she mated hinn bow dues and muslims. wins say that she was muttering to herself before shoving the victim onto the tracks. he was a 46-year-old man who lived in new york city, but originally from india. however, it's unclear whether he was hindu or muslim. criminal charges are pending against menendez. but no word if she will be charged with a hate crime. >> kelly: thank you. meanwhile, overseas in france, a court striking down a 75% income tax rate on its richest citizens, saying it's excessive, unfair and unconstitutional. the ruling is a big blow to the president who had promised during his campaign to raise taxes on the wealthy. katherine field is a correspondent for global radio news and joins us live on the phone from paris. thank you for