senator dianne feinstein has been leading the charge for decades and joins me now.enator, as you know better than anyone, this was actually one of the issues that propelled you into the limelight tragically as the mayor of san francisco through the shootings there, and then the series of mass killings, the 101, the stockton, california, all of the assault weapon issues that arose in california made you the first advocate really. tell me about the history and what happened when you first went to the senate. >> it's a little bit more than being an advocate. we actually wrote that assault weapons bill. i came here. we set about writing a bill. i talked to senator biden about it. he was then chairman of the judiciary committee, and he laughed at me, and he said, diane, you're new here. wait until the gunners get hold of you. i said, joe, i'm going to do this as an amendment on your crime bill. i did. it wasn't -- there was no -- it was debated. there was a motion to table. we won the motion to table. chuck schumer did the bill in the house. both bills went through uname

you had dianne feinstein saying there will be 900 exceptions.hat do you think -- since you've looked at our laws in the u.s. as well, what do think new thinking could bring? and the fact the politicians and the nra have gone silent, at least publicly, are people thinking in a new way? are they going to move forward or simply get what they think they can conceivably get perhaps the day before sandy hook? >> it does seem to be different. something seems to have changed -- i hope something has changed in the u.s. i suppose what people all over the world are asking, if the u.s. cannot do something about guns now when a tragedy like this has occurred, it is difficult to imagine in what circumstances it could. the ban on assault weapons is one of the most important changes that is needed in the u.s.. i have not seen the list of guns that are exempted, so i don't know how that will be defined. 900 does sound like a lot of weapons to exempt, so i hope that it will be genuine assault weapons ban. but the other thing that -- the other fundamental problem

dianne feinstein had her ban and columbine happened. we have a mental health system in this country that's completely collapsed. we have no national database of these lunatics. 23 states -- how long ago was virginia tech? 23 states are still putting on a small number of records into the system and a lot of states are putting none. so when they go through the national instant check system and they go to try to screen out one of those lunatics, the record are not even in the system. i talked to a police officer the other day, he said, wayne, every police officer walking the street knows some lunatic out there, some mentally disturbed person that ought to be in an institution is out walking the street because they dealt with the institutional side, they didn't want mentally ill in institutions so they put them all back on the street and nobody thought what happens when you put all these mentally ill people back on the streets and what happens when they start taking their medicine? we have a completely cracked mentally ill system that's got

dianne feinstein it was i mean she was in it wasn't george moscone administration when he was assassinated by he and harvey you know he and harvey milk were assassinated in a white as i recall and it's been it's been a lot of years when she was actually in the office and i think that's been a formative part of her legislative advocacy and you know she's been a champion for so many years but what's really exciting about this moment always brought by tragedy but still it's an important thing is that there are now all sorts of other people joining her and saying this is you know and so it's not just dianne feinstein or chuck schumer we have now you know across the political spectrum people are saying enough is enough it's time to it's time to time to get something done and you know that and that and that's going to the hard work what do you do how do you can you know you talked about movement earlier in the show and sustaining this over time is what is what's going to be difficult because the n.r.a. won't be quiet forever they will come back with some type of advocacy campaign and we need all

and on nbc's meet the press, california senator dianne feinstein promised he will have a bill to workh. >> a bill to ban assault weapons. it will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession. >> feinstein said that bill will be introduced on the first day of congress, both in the house and in the senate. more bill press is coming up after the break. live in our chat room. you can join us there at current.com/billpress. come away armed with facts and the arguments to feel confident in their positions. i want them to have the data and i want them to have the passion. but it's also about telling them that you're put on this planet for something more! i want this show to have an impact beyond just informing. an impact that gets people to take action for themselves. as a human being that's really important. this is not just a spectator sport. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] [ music ] broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv this is "the bill press show." >> will we finally have the courage to stop this? hey, good morning, everybody. it is monday, monday december 17th.

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>> california senator dianne feinstein who wrote the assault weapons ban which was signed by president clinton in his first term and expired under president bush announced on "meet the press" yesterday that she will introduce a new version of that bill on day one of the new congress. >> it's a first day bill i'm going to introduce in the senate and 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 retroactively, but perspectively, and it will ban the same for big clips, drums, or strips of more than ten bullets, so there will be a bill -- >> today senator feinstein told andrea mitchell that in 1993 when she introduced her bill, the politics were difficult then, and everyone thought passing that bill was impossible. >> i came here. we set about writing a bill. i talked to senator biden about it. he was then chairman of the judiciary committee, and he laughed at me, and he said, diane, you're new here. wait until the gunners get hold of you. i said, joe, i'm going to do this as an amen

dianne feinstein had her ban and it didn't work. what will work. we have a mental health system in this country that's completely and totally collapsed. we have no national database of these lunatics. 23 states, my gosh, how long ago was virginia tech? 23 states are still putting a small number of people into the system. so when they go through the national check system and go to try to screen out one of the lunatics, the records are not even in the system. i talked to a police officer the other day. he said, wayne, let me tell you this. every police officer walking the street knows some lunatic is out there, mentally disturbed person, that ought to be an institution and is out walking the street because they dealt with the institutional side. they didn't want mentally ill in the institution so they put them all back on the streets and nobody thought what happens when you put all these mentally ill people back on the streets? and what happens when they start taking their medicine. we have a completely cracked mentally ill system that's got these mo

democrat dianne feinstein and republican lindsey graham. also, with 2012 it in the rear view mirror we look ahead to 2013. our sunday panel weighs in on what we will be talking about in the coming year. all right outrage now on "fox s sunday." >> chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. well, it turns out the fiscal cliff is going to be a cliff-hanger with less than two days until the new year, senate leaders are still trying to work out a deal to avoid tax increases on almost every american. but any compromise will do close to nothing about our debt problem. joining us now to discuss what kind of deal they will and won't vote for are two key senators. democrat dianne feinstein and republican lindsey graham. and senators, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> good morning. >> thank you. >> chris: senator are graham, a couple of days ago you you said you thought we were going to go over the fiscal cliff. now, we are in the midst of a lot of last ditch pa bargaining between the senate leaders reid and mcconnell. what do you think o

. >> senator dianne feinstein plans to present a bill banning assault weapons when they reconvene. there was a ban in place from 1994 until 2004. >> it hasn't worked. dianne feinstein had her ban and columbine occurred. >> others point out there was also an armed guard at columbine. now, rather than creating new laws, the nra says the federal government needs to do a better job enforcing the ones already on the books. >> thank you, tara mergener, in washington. >>> now, there's one week till the fiscal deadline. the president and congress are on holiday break. the last best hope for a deal may rest in the senate. yesterday senator lindsey graham said he would vote for a revenue increase including a tax hike, but doesn't like it. >> hikes are part of the solution driven by the president but he's going to get tax rate hikes. to my republican colleagues, if we can prevent 99% of the americans from a tax hike, that's not an increase in my book. >> households between 50 and $75,000 will see a an increase of $2,399. meanwhile households of. >>> overseas an attack on americans in afghanis

dianne feinstein says she will introduce a new law on gun control. some say the better idea is to arm teachers. >> so when she heard gunfire she pulls it out and she didn't have to lung heroicically with nothing in her hands. >> just the way we want america to go. in other words the rights of the few overcome the safety of the majority. i don't think so. >> feinstein successfully pushed through an assault weapons back back in 1994 but expired ten years later. democrats have tried several times since then to renew the ban without success. students at sandy hook elementary will return to class but if they do they will go to an unused school. that school will be ready by wednesday but no date has been set for the children to resume class. and police will be stationed outside that school. one official says he doubts students will ever attend sandy hook elementary again. >>> a local church is planning an interface service tonight to reflect on last weeks mass killings. the service will be at 7:00 at first presbyterian church in burlingame. local religious

. >> ifill: we talk with california senator dianne feinstein, who hopes to revive a law banning assault weapons. >> they aren't hunting weapons. you don't need them for defense. they are military-style weapons and they don't belong in the streets of our city. >> woodruff: we assess the public policy questions raised by the shooting about access to guns, mental health issues, and more. >> ifill: hari sreenivasan reports from newtown on a community in mourning. >> woodruff: and as parents around the country nervously dropped their children off at school today, jeffrey brown talks to a psychiatrist and a school psychologist about what to say and not to say in times of crisis. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the

please welcome to the stage senator dianne feinstein. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much mayor lee, leader pelosi, jackie spear, david chiu. most importantly i think the finest secretary of transportation we have had, and nancy said what he has done for san francisco. i can tell you this is a secretary for california as well. [applause] whether it's riverside county, whether it's los angeles, whether it's the central valley, whether it's the san francisco bay area secretary lahood has been responsible. he's been available for phone calls. he's listened to the reasons for projects and he has moved ahead. would you give him a big round of applause please. [applause] >> well, it's time to say a prayer. it's bottom of the ninth. they have two on and one out, so everybody -- if the giants win this i think they can win the series but they need to win this so let it happen please. i can't tell you how important i feel this project is. i also can't tell you how hard it is to build anything

interesting and intelligent conversation between lindsey graham and dianne feinstein. not a lot of talking points, a lot of serious conversation between two patriots. we had on the panel senator evan bayh. >> good to see you, happy new year. >> even under these circumstances good to see you and happy new year to you and everybody out there. >> fascinating and serious conversation as you you say, something that, of course, is the major topic in our country today. what do we do about the debt and the economy. lindsey graham and dianne feinstein both on "fox news sunday." check your local listings. and right here on the fox news channel so just keep it right here. >> stay right here all day long with us. >> exactly. >> and coming up now, the doctors in for their sunday house call. looking ahead to 2013 and the breakthroughs that doctors are hoping for in the new year. what kind of medical advances do you hope for in 2013 for you and your family? go to fox news .com/sunday house call and join our chat. the doctors will take one of our questions on the air. stay tuned. this

intelligence committee chairs in the house and senate, congressman mike rogers, and senator dianne feinstein. on page two, we'll get analysis on where the argument over the fiscal cliff goes. and the consequences if congress fails to get agreement. we'll talk to maya macguineas, head of the campaign to fix the debt. mark zandi of "moody's "analytics. and our own john dicker sen. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: and good morning again. treasurer treasury secretary tim geithner laid out the emotion's opening offer on how to fix the debt. it wasn't what the republicans want to hear. basically geithner said no waw to cut a deal without raising taxes on upper income americans. even though, he said he's optimistic some kind of deal can be reached by the end of the year, and he said 98% of americans will not see a tax rate increase. here's what he told us when we sat down with him. >> i do think we're going to get there because the only thing that stands in the way of an agreement that's good for the economy is if a group o

the senator dianne feinstein of california was asked by reporters about the findings in the report where we were so far and also how enhanced enhanced interrogation related to exactly how osama bin ladin with sound i want to play for you her response. they have gone through more than three million e-mails cables pieces of paper just looking for this today. the answer to your question is no nothing has been found to indicate that this came out of guantanamo. now as far as what else is in this report well there are a lot of things there and. people also call. fortunately we as you can see we are having technical difficulties that was our political correspondent christine for. going to move on now to a mysterious plane's space plane the air force launched just a couple hours ago here it is the man plane looks like a mini space shuttle the x. thirty seven b. launch from cape canaveral air force station in florida top at an atlas rocket and the blast off was delayed for about two months as they worked out some technical glitches and today's launch is the third in three years so so far it's be

jay carney has just said that the president does support dianne feinstein's assault weapons ban, theewritten ban that has expired. she was the original sponsor of that amendment back in 1994. speaking about the budget deals and all the negotiations back and forth, the president has put on the table a new plan that would raise the level of those exempted from $250,000 to $400,000. the speaker says that that is not good enough. the president has also put on the table several other items which includes changing the way the cost of living increase is calculated. the so-called chain cpi. already knocked down by a whole number of more progressive or liberal groups sending out emails just in the last couple of hours, so the cost of living adjustment, also the payroll tax cut extension is not in this offer. there will be a two-year debt ceiling increase, an extension to give them a two-year window on that, and the extension of unemployment benefits. what about this latest white house proposal because already we hear from a lot of democrats that it's a nonstarter. do you think you could sell

as kyla campbell reports dianne feinstein is is leading the way. >> reporter: pam, senator feinstein took to the sunday morning tv shows vowing to ban assault weapons. now that we have learned the shooter in friday's deadly attack had an assault rifle, feinstein says it's her top priority in the new year and plans to reintroduce a bill next month. senator feinstein led the charge back in 1994 when president clinton signed a ban on assault rifles but that expired in 2004 and they have not been able to renew the ban. >> is this the way we want america to go? in other words the rights of the fur overcome -- of the few overcome the safety of the majority. >> president obama signaled he would support a change but some lawmakers say gun rights are vital to americans. more on that in my next update. live in washington kyla campbell. >> stay with us here for continuing coverage of the connecticut school shooting. we will bring you the latest details as they emerge on air and online. >>> time is 5:14. the port of oakland is making reforms following the ktvu investigation of questionable spend

senator dianne feinstein said she would introduce a bill to ban assault waweapons. >> as you heard reneetion gun-control is in the spotlight. on the sunday morning talk show meet the press. since turning feinstein . says she would introduce a legislation to get what she called weapons of war off of the street. >> the rights of the few overcome the safety of the majority. i do not think so. it will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation, and the possession not retroactively but prospectively. it will ban the sign for big clips drums. >> the measure signed by president bill clinton expired. democrats have tried to renew the band without success. >> the repercussions of the school mascot are being felt in the bay area. school safety is something many took for granted is not in question. >> school districts are addressing with parents and students. >> while tragedies are rare when they do happen our concern for the victim bring worries about our own children and their day-to- day safety. >> we wanted to know all berkeley schools have said the plant and we run through drills frequently.

and california senator dianne feinstein has a bill in the works. >> 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 10 bullets. >> democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia, a member of the national rifle association, says it is time to discuss gun policy and move toward action on gun regulation. >>> for the very latest and continuing coverage of the story check out our website, cbssf.com. >>> more now on a developing story we first brought you this morning. investigators are still at the scene of a home invasion robbery in san francisco's sunset neighborhood. police tell us that a family was tied up with duct tape and robbed at their home on sloat boulevard just a few hours ago. the family tells us that three men entered their home through a bathroom window. the victims were not hurt. >>> and the other big story this morning is the weather. we are talking about a little bit of rain and cold. >> a lot of bad hair days in the forecast. here's meteorolo

news comes one day after white house spokesperson jay carney said obama would support senator dianne feinstein's bid to reinstate the ban on assault weapons. >> he is actively supportive, for example, 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 a gun legislation that he could support. >> the original assault weapons ban expired in 2004 in the national rifle association has succeeded to date in blocking the renewal. on tuesday, two more students killed in the newtown attack were laid to rest. jessica rekos and james mehdi ali, 06 years old. another six funerals are being held today. classes have resumed at most schools in the town, while sandy hook elementary school is still considered a crime scene. the newtown massacre continues to prompt action at the state level. michigan republican governor rick snyder veto the measure allowing firearms into schools and other gun-free zones. yet another ne

works for three years now the senate is finally voting to approve it but according to senator dianne feinstein who heads the commute committee the report the public may never get to see it from our two political correspondent christine freeze out joins us now from capitol hill hi christina so can you tell us more about what's in this report. well really was one of the central goals of the reported to find out the extent to which these so-called enhanced interrogation techniques led to valuable information levy's intelligence offers officers the information that in turn led them to terrorists and a lot of those on inside of you i have spoken on the condition of anonymity have said it's not much that the hanssen derogation methods really were not that effective in leading to any information as much as it may have produced good bits of information here and there it also produced a whole lot of bad information about one of the really interesting things here live is what you mentioned and that is that this report is not fair payer funded six thousand page report may not be published anytime soon if

you need to know this the suicide mass killing in newtown has provoked senator dianne feinstein to propose going back to the assault weapons ban that george w. bush let lapse in two thousand and four that's a nice start but increasing numbers of americans are calling for a ban on all guns except for those carried by people who actually need them and there's a strong argument to be made for the charles koch foundation which was founded in one nine hundred seventy four and then changed its name to the cato institute two years later i would like you to know something about gun control in a commentary titled gun control myths and realities their director of publications david lamp oh right the facts show that there is simply no correlation between gun control laws and murder or suicide. it rates across a wide spectrum of nations and cultures in israel and switzerland for example a license to possess guns is available on demand to every law abiding adult and guns are easily obtainable in both nations both countries also allow widespread carry of concealed firearms and yet admits dr arthur kelle

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democratic senator dianne feinstein of california has pledged to revive a law banning assault weapons. she is chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee. welcome senator >> thank you very much ifill: with the members getting an r-rating from the national rifle association, do you have any sense that things will be different now for the assault weapons ban than it has been in the past >> i have every sense that it's an uphill road. it was in the past when we did it in the past. i wrote that bill. my office wrote that bill. it went through. it was not amended. it went through the senate. the house. it was signed by the president. it was the law for ten years. i think what is unique about this is it's really just one class of gun. the assault weapon. the assault weapon is developed for military purposes, to kill in close combat. and it doesn't belong in the streets of our cities. it doesn't belong where it can be picked up easily by a grievance killer who can walk into a workplace, a mall, a theater, and now an elementary school and kill large numbers. >> ifill: explain to our viewe