i mean, obviously two years ago his wife gabby giffords was shot in the head in a terrible gun massacre in which 19 people were shot, several of them killed. and one of the questions we talked about is the fact that public opinion seems -- or the public fervor for gun control seems to be distinguiminishing move further away from newtown, 100 days out -- right after newtown, a poll indicated 57% of americans supported stricter gun control, now that's down to 47%. and when this comes up before the snoot tenate the week after harry reid will not include a an assault weapons ban and limit on gun magazines, which is why you hear people like mark kelly pushing for the universal background check. that's something that seems to be the only chance of passage at this point. >> i can't wait to see the extension of that discussion. chris, did he talk at all about the 2700-page records released this week on that assassination aattempt on his wife? >> yes. we talked at some length about jared loughner, the shooter. one of the questions i asked him is the fact that loughner went out, bought a gun, pas

and jared loughner is the shooter who killed six people and wounded gabby giffords. his parents took away the shotguns and dabisabled his cart night so he couldn't leave. david, the white house has tried to use political capital to pass gun legislation. what are we expecting to hear from the president in the next hour? >> i think he's going to make the same statements as before and tie what happened in newtown to what he's trying to do and hammer home some of the main points, whether he may or may not get some of the biggest issues he's going for, like a ban on high-capacity magazines, a ban on assault weapons. it's not going to happen probably but he's going to push hard on background checks and make this a personal case again. with the family members. that's been his most powerful, you know, sort of point so far. he did it right after the shooting, as you nopknow, and i think the white house will hit home the same message. >> and you're reporting that senator chuck grassley is writing his own bill. with all these different things that are sort of out there, could i

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in response to this information, gabby giffords released this statement.released today regarding the shooting in tucson reaffirm what this country already knew, the mentally disturbed young man that shot me and murdered six should never have had access to a gun. joining me for an exclusive interview, two of the heroes from that shooting, patricia helped stopped the shooter from reloading, and daniel hernandez, the congressman's intern that helped save gabby giffords' live, author of the book "they call me hero." thank you both for joining me tonight. i see you're standing in the parking lot of the safeway. i think just about on the spot where the shooting happened, is that right? >> the shooting happened behind us against the wall. >> patricia, when you discovered some of these details today and realized that we've known for a long time it was your intervention that stopped this when he had to reload, you were able to make a move on him. we now know exactly how many bullets he had in his pockets that he could have gone to and how many more people could hav

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>> joy, speaking of gabby giffords, the right has gotten so ridiculous. giffords' husband, who i want to remind people, is an american hero, an astronaut, former captain in the u.s. navy. not a slouch, right? he went to try to purchase guns and the seller didn't like the idea that what kelly was trying to demonstrate was "a" how easy it is to get a background check and how easy it is to buy the gun. he's denying him the purchase. what about his second amendment rights? is it legal for him to deny him his second amendment rights? >> notice that the person who that gun was going to be purchased from, he has to have a license. you have to be a licensed gun dealer. you can't start up a gun shop and decide you're going to without going to government, the black helicopter guys to get your license. there are a lot of rights restricted by government intervention to protect the powerless. a first amendment right to free speech. if you want to broadcast, you need a license from the government. you have a right to free assembly. if you'd like to stage a protest acro

six people were killed and 18 others injured including former congress woman gabby giffords. the shooter's parents say they had to tick a shotgun away from their son after he was kicked out of community college. he made a statement about abortion so disturbing place were called into the classroom. on the day of the shooting he was pulled over by a traffic violation. he cried and said i've just had a rough time. he is serving life in prison. >> attorneys for colorado shooting suspect james holmes say they're client will plead guilty to enable holmes to escape the death penalty. he was in court last week to have a not guilty plea entered on behalf of him by the judge. >> still ahead at 4:00 bus driver's close call. what he did to save people onloordz after this happened to him. >> and a 2-year-old caught on video. the way he's breaking into locked doors. >> it's wet, dark, dreary. you'll see how this looks and some of the weather hitting other parts of the bay area. >> there is still sunshine in walnut creek, traffic moving well on 680 here. traffic heavier, but moving >>> a ch

i became friends with gabby giffords last year, my good friend, larine jobs introduced me to gabby and mark and we instantly became friends. my wife and i started doing work on gabby and mark's effort which was then the institute for civil discourse but has now converted to being more active on the violence issues in america. because we are friends, i invited mark and gabby to our home for our holiday party, which coincidentally was on december 14th. when gabby arrived at my home and in my home that night, were literally the leaders of all of the great tech companies in the bay area. and we had our two great mayors, willie brown and ed lee. and the minute that they saw gabby they said ron, get everyone's attention here. we can make 200 people be quiet. we have to make a tribute to what happened today in sandy hook, and a tribute to gabby. and during that tribute which was pallpable, i could tell that the tech community was going to do something. and we did. on december 15th, we started an ad hoc committee of tech volunteers, many of them luminaries in the industry. and we convened thre

mark kelly just released this video from the pro-reform gun group that he and gabby giffords formed.inted with odd camera angled. it was recorded in secret from mark kelly's pocket. he recorded this video to demystify the issue of background checks being debated in state legs tours across the country. in this video, he shows getting a background check doesn't take long, in his case, five minutes, 36 seconds, not very intrusive, and absolutely doesn't stop you from getting a gun if you legally should be allowed to get a gun. >> today we're going to demonstrate what the whole process is and how relatively simple it is. this will not be my only gun. i've got a 9 millimeter ruger, a hunting rifle, a shotgun, a .25 semi automatic pistol. >> you don't have that colt 45 any more, do you? i wanted to buy that colt 45 that was here. >> two important things. >> are you under indictment for a felony, no. have you ever been convicted of a felony, no. are you a fugitive, no. are you an unlawful user addicted to marijuana, no. have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective, no. ever had a restr

arizona congresswoman gabby giffords, of course, was shot in the head.in the 26 months since that awful day, we've watched her hard-fought recovery. loughner diagnosed with schizophrenia after the rampage is serving a life sentence. today authorities released thousands of interviews, police reports, containing details we've never heard before. for instance, just hours before the shooting loughner broke down crying after he was pulled over for running a red light. when the officer who didn't ticket him asked if he was okay, loughner said, quote, yeah, i'm okay, i was having a rough time and thought i was going to get a ticket and really glad you're not. loughner told an officer who handcuffed him, quote, i just want you to know i'm the only person that knew about this. the same officer said loughner pleaded the fifth repeatedly in the patrol car. some of the most chilling details come from loughner's parents. it's clear they were very worried about their son's mental state. jake tapper has more. >> reporter: the most haunting thing about the killer's face

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we'll ask a leading voice in the debate, former astronaut mark kelly, husband of gabby giffords. then, are how will the new pope change the catholic church? as the world celebrates easter pope francis must shepherd the church out of scandal. we will talk with the archbishop of washington. plus, north korea enters a state of war against south korea. we will ask our sunday panel have the firey threats reached the danger point? and our power player of the week, 9 untold story of how a doctor saved the life of ronald reagan. all right now on "fox news sunday." >> chris: hello again and happy easter from hannon: andnda ooton arom fox news in washington. after months of debate, the senate is finally ready to vote on new gun control legislation. one of the people at the center of the issue is mark kelly, retired astronaut and navy captain and the husband of former congress woman gabby giffords who was shot two years ago. captain kelly joins us from tucson, arizona. after newtown there was internationalout rage over -- national outrage over the acts of mass violence but that has begun to

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i'm going to turn the podium over to my wonderful wife, gabby giffords. [ applause ] >> be bold. be courageous. please support background checks. thank you very much. >> thank you, everybody. thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> i think we have time for just a few questions. i know there's a lot of you, so if we don't get to everyone, please, find us. you know how you can do that. first question. >> reporter: have you spoken to senators mccain or flake about background kmeks? >> we will be right back on "andrea mitchell reports." first kid you ready? [ female announcer ] second kid by their second kid, every mom is an expert and more likely to choose luvs. after thousands of diaper changes, they know what works. luvs lock away wetness better than huggies for a fraction of the cost live, learn, & get luvs. ♪ the middle of this special moment and i need to run off to the bathroom. ♪ i'm fed up with always having to put my bladder's needs ahead of my daughter. ♪ so today, i'm finally talking to my doctor about overactive bladder symptoms. [ female announcer ] know that gotta go fe

also have gabby giffords and her husband were guests at the state of the union.his is the guy we want on our side. when you look at the momentum, three months on since newtown, has it shifted? is it now in the balance of those who advocate for gun ownership? >> yeah, i would say so. some of that was inevitable. i don't know if it is fully in the hands of those that support gun ownership and oppose additional restrictions, but clearly the momentum has diminished somewhat. we see that in what susan mentioned, the dropping, all but admission there's no chance for any kind of assault weapons ban to pass, so they're focusing on incremental measures. as far as bloomberg goes, it is interesting, it is quite a test of the ability of a single donor, single wealthy individual in this new wide open campaign finance landscape to really drive a single issue and we see it as well on gay marriage, another issue that bloomberg supports where there are a number of very wealthy folks that want to spend a ton of money pushing an issue and they will have a voice because of new rules

. >>> gabby giffords and her new organization, americans for responsible solutions, have launched ancific republican senators, messrs. flake of arizona and grassley of iowa, to support universal background checks. >> we have a problem where we shop, where we pray, where our children go to school, but there are solutions we can agree on. even gun owners like us. let's get this done. >> on monday in colorado, giffords' husband mark kelly gave testimony along with relatives of those shot to death in the aurora movie theater as the state considers a ban on high capacity magazines. but outside it was pro-gun activists who staged a protest against a series of gun control measures expected to reach the governor's desk by next month. goldie taylor is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of the goldie taylor project. all this activity comes as democratic senator pat lee hey and republican senator susan collins introduced a bill that would make gun trafficking a federal crime and crack down on straw purchasing. this is a rare bipartisan effort in the senate on guns and gabby giffords campa

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we mentioned gabby giffords and her group video that just came in from her group that shows that youto complete a background check. here she is with her husband. let's take a listen. >> there. look at that. >> okay. >> what do you think? want to go out and shoot it sometime? >> yes. good stuff. >> very easy to do. took five minutes. >> five minutes. >> that's what we're here to do. make sure everybody has to get a background check to try to get a gun. >> the other gun he was trying to buy the gun owner denied him. in that video it's kind of startling. i've heard them talk about the fact that they are, as you talk, responsible gun owners. they own guns. they believe in the second amendment. there's something about seeing them, you know, talking about how easy it is to get a background check that just makes you think, why are we fighting about this? >> we're fighting about it because the nra -- the nra is determined to win at all costs. and they believe that, you know, any concession is a slippery slope to more gun laws. but this is a terrific video. and the reason is that the -- the e

and i do believe gabby giffords was hit. >> that was a 911 call from the day congresswoman gabby giffordshot at a rally in tucson, arizona. well, now more than two years later authorities have released new information about that day. they released thousands of documents that offer vivid details about the gunman, jared lee loughner. and our brian todd has actually been poring over these documents. here's what he found. >> reporter: early morning, january 8th, 2011, jared lee loughner is stopped for running a red light in tucson, arizona. state fish and game officer alan thorny lectures loughner on his driving. loughner seems to break down. i said i won't write you a citation for this forney says later in a statement to investigators and when i said that to him his face got kind of screwed up and he started to cry. forney asks if loughner is okay. loughner replies, yeah. i'm okay. i've just had a rough time, and i really thought i was going to get a ticket. loughner is sent on his way. just a couple hours later -- >> he went in, he just started firing, and then he ran. >> jared lee loughner

. >>> today former arizona congresswoman gabbi giffords returned to the site where she was shot more than two years ago. >> be bold. be courageous. please support background checks. thank you very much. >> it was an emotional scene. 16 people killed and 13 others injured during a meet and greet in 2011. background checks, the national gun registry and restrictions will also be discussed tomorrow. coming up at 6:00, sam brock from nbc bay area will put the objections to those ideas under the reality check magnifying glass, learn about the history of gun grabs by the government in the united states, that's tonight at 6:00. >> they like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. >> these are live pictures now. a scene from mr. smith goes to washington. rand paul is staging a filibuster on the senate floor. he's been talking for quite a while. he started at 8:45 this morning. that's our time. the only time he stopped is to allow for questions for other senators. he's been going the whole way there. senator paul is against the drone program. the nominee for the director supports the prog

. >>> caroline kennedy will award the jfk profile in courage award to former congresswoman gabby giffords, the survivor of gun violence, mass shooting in tucson, arizona back in 2011. the ceremony is may 5th. >>> a jury in los angeles today awarded $8.3 million to a man who accused a subsidiary of johnson & johnson of knowingly marketing a faulty hip implant that was later recalled. it was the first of an avalanche of lawsuits. there are nearly 11,000 similar cases involving this implant, which was pulled from the market two years ago now. jurors found that the all-metal asrxl implant was defectively designed and caused metal poisoning and other ailments. >>> more trouble on a cruise ship. 108 people came down with the norovirus during a caribbean cruise that became something of a gastrointestinal nightmare. tonight, the royal caribbean "vision of the seas" is docked back home in florida. >>> they say kraft mac-n-cheese is the cheesiest and also the orangest, a color worn by road crews. tonight some food bloggers from north carolina, both moms, are pressuring kraft to take the dye numbers

. >> gabby giffords deserves a vote. the family of newtown deserve a vote. the families of aurora deserve a vote. the families of oak creek and tucson and blacksburg and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence, they deserve a simple vote. >> well, in a letter to senate majority leader harry reid, five republican senators disagreed. they write, "we the undersigned intend to oppose any legislation that would fringe on american people's constitutional rights to bear arms or exercise this right without being suggested to government surveillance. we'll oppose the motion to proceed to any legislation that will serve as a vehicle for any additional gun restrictions." a filibuster declared. ron reagan, they're not going to fight this thing but make sure nobody gets to vote on background checks. they consider it a privacy matter, apparently. >> there are a couple things going on here. on the political side, of course, and the least important side, you have marco rubio, rand paul, and ted cruz, three of the five musketeers here, who are really gran

. >>> former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords today went back to the safeway supermarket where she shot. she appeared with her husband, spoke just 15 words to the crowd, but delivered a powerful message just by being there in support of expanded background checks for gun buyers. that shooting in tucson by jared loughner was just over two years ago now. gifford's husband repeated he and his wife are both gun owners and strong supporters of the second amendment. six people were killed in front of that supermarket, 13 wounded, including the congresswoman. >>> time warner appears to be getting rid of "time" magazine, the cornerstone of the henry luce media empire. the company, now mostly electronic media, is, according to the "new york times," spinning off all of its magazines, including "time," "fortune," "sports illustrated." it's unclear what will happen to the company name once "time" is gone from time warner. >>> very sad news about the actress valerie harper. so well-known to a generation of tv viewers as rhoda morgenstern on the old "mary tyler moore" show and her own spin-off s

. >>> and it was an emotional moment in tucson, arizona, for former congresswoman gabby giffords. she returned to the place where she was gunned down two years ago. speaking just 15 words, giffords along with her husband mark kelly urged washington to pass background checks for gun purchases. >> be bold, be courageous. fully support background checks. thank you very much. >> giffords and kelly placed a bouquet of white roses and daisies at a memorial honoring those who died in the attack which nearly killed her. >>> all right, coming up, america's favorite place for clothing results in a new survey that might surprise you. >>> and it's a big day for facebook. get ready for some more changes. >> oh, boy, i hate when that happens. >>> plus the warning for spring breakers heading to florida. you won't be alone in the water. >>> welcome back. the stock market again opens in new territory this morning after hitting another record high yesterday. the dow gained 42 points to close just below 14,300. so far this year it's up more than 9%. investors were encouraged by a better-than-expecte

. >> gabby giffords deserves a vote. the families of newtown deserve a vote. the families of aurora deserve a vote. the families of oak creek and tucson and blacksburg and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence, they deserve a simple vote. >> in his state of the union address, president obama made an impassioned plea for gun control. >> they deserve -- >> this was backed up by a white house task force headed by vice president joe biden. biden's goal was to pressure congress to vote yes or no on full gun control legislation. this includes senator dianne feinstein's proposed ban on 157 models of assault-style weapons. this week senate majority leader harry reid stripped feinstein's gun ban from the bill for strategic reasons, so that the senate will take it up next month. the pared down legislation focuses on school safety and gun trafficking. at new york's city hall mayor michael bloomberg who heads mayors against illegal guns implored congress for an amendment to the stripped down legislation. >> the only question is whether congress will

our colleagues on board at tucson and injured with gabby gifford, he's now a member of congress, he was injured. he worked for 30 years in the mental health community and then he was her assistant and now he's a member of congress. and he said, i had really -- and he represents sun country. he said, i had concluded after thinking through and listening that the only way to keep guns out of the hands of the resident assault magazines out of the hands of those who shouldn't have them is to keep them out of the hands of everyone, of everyone. (applause sxwrierx. >> we do have to address, and i think it's really important, it's a moral imperative to create jobs, moral imperative to reduce the disparity in income and equity and the rest and it's only getting worse and we have to address that. we have the affordable care act which will implement this and we need more, we need more funding and the rest and we have to do all of that but right now we have to keep these guns out of the hands of people for all the reasons you describe, the poverty and how it has contributed to lack of options. i ca

details about jared loughner, the gunman in that shooting rampage in tucson that nearly killed gabby giffordsin newly released documents after the shooting loughner's parents tell police they had been worried about their son's increasingly erratic behavior. they say he acted strangely for a year and often spoke to himself, but he had refused to see a doctor. >>> in ohio a fire captain has just released from the hospital after a terrifying accident. check out this dash cam video that shows the moment when barry cron was sent flying 30 feet into the air in a chain reaction crash. he just stopped to help when he was hit. there were numerous crashes on the road because of icy conditions. amazingly, he's okay. >>> some dramatic scenes from a fiery rescue in ohio. one officer captured it all on his uniform's recording device. he broke a window to ventilate the cab of a burning truck near cleveland. the driver was still inside. he had lost control and slammed into a building. eventually the officers were able to pull him to safety. >> i wouldn't consider myself a hero. it's our job, and i'm sure tha

former congresswoman gabby giffords is being honored with this year's john f. profile in courage award. it was announced on cbs "this morning" today. giffords was chosen for her campaign against gun violence and for "inspiring the world with her recovery after being shot in an assassination attempt two years ago." there was such a beautiful ceremony this evening we have been eager to show it to you. two american sailors were laid to rest 150 years after their ship went down during the civil war. the flag-draped coffins of the unknown crewmen were carried to their final resting place at arlington national cemetery. in the funeral procession were descendents of crew members from the doomed ship. as david martin reported here yesterday, their remains were found when the gun turret of the u.s.s. "monitor," the navy's first iron-clad warship-- was raised from the waters off of north carolina. thousands of strangers came together to save the life of a boy in trouble. steve hartman "on the road" is next. next. [ male announcer ] this is kevin. to prove to you that alev

like i said the gabby giffords shooting had nothing to do with us deciding to go into tucson.he anti-gun crowd. we've made the decision to go there and i'm not going to change my mind because some people choose to misinterpret what we're doing. >> the rest of the week i'm reporting out in parts of the country and speak with police chiefs and they will tell you and they've told me that many of the gun crimes occur using stolen guns, so if you increase the number of guns in a community, do you not also increase the potential for those guns to be stolen and then increase the possibility of gun crimes in these communities you're trying to protect? >> so we are training and arming responsible new gun owners. so if you're going to operate on the premise what we're doing is inherently a bad thing because the guns can be stolen then you're just anti-gun to begin with. lot of the people that come out and use that as our criticism, it's obvious they just don't believe in personal use of firearms for protection, and that's completely counter to the american history of the firearms and th

gun is that legal that's a really important point that it is going to ask mark what's his name gabby giffords was marcus i'm sorry kelly three more kelly made which was that seven that little girl who died when his wife was shot that i believe she was the seventh person who was shot and you know that was like the ninth or tenth or eleventh or twelfth or thirteenth bullet or something like that and i had he not been able to have a high capacity clip because he had to reload and in fact that's when they dragged him down to the ground there woods there would be a few more people alive and there might not have been ten to twenty dead kids and in sandy hook so what about cameron what about limiting these high capacity sure and. but i want to make the overarching point that this again and emphasize that this again is about we're talking about expanding background checks when private sales transfers private from private citizens non-licensed dealers right the problem with that is there's no way to know that these people are going through some sort of background check system unless what unless the go

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think about what happened out in -- when gabby gifford was shot and wounded. about when that young man had to try to change the clip, had he only had a 10-round clip and fumbled. how many more people would have been alive? >> tell me how it violates anyone's constitutional rights to be limited to a clip that ords 10 rounds instead of 30 in aurora, 100? that isa false choice being presented to the american people by those who are taking on our position here. host: that was a vice president biden yesterday. here is the front page of the "daily news" -- what is the impact of this? guest: ever since the shooting in newtown, they have tried to use that moment to gather support as this debate has gone on a month after month, to maintain the emotional momentum. that is the vice president tried to do yesterday in new york. he was in connecticut a couple of weeks ago, one town over from .he town every time president obama gives a speech, he brings up newtown. they see this as critical in wants the american public gun measures. host: how much power does the vice preside