a life of its own and really have a strong chance. >> john: connecticut democratic congressman joe courtneyank you for coming on the program. >> thanks, john. >> john: for more now on the president's proposals i'm happy to be joined by john rosenthal. stop handgun violence and common sense about kids an guns, and by pam simon a staffer for gabby giffords who was shot at the tucson shop shooting where the congressman was badly wounded and six others were killed. she's now a gun control advocate advocate. thank you both for joining us, john, i want to begin with you. >> thank you. >> john: i want to know what you did think of the president's speech today? did hear of the talking points? did he go far enough. >> i don't think he went far enough but i was very proud to hear the president talk about guns in a very comprehensive and common sense way. if you're a march than martian, and you're up at 30,000 feet and you hear, gee, we need gun check of gun sales that have no purpose in a civilized society other than to kill people quickly including mental health records making it difficult for the m

representative joe courtney of the great state of connecticut joining us now.hat a powerful day, i know your district borders newtown, but to see your former colleague gabby giffords it's hard to describe the power of that isn't it? >> it is gabby was in the same class when we entered congress in '06. every wednesday afternoon we used to have a meeting as a group, and it is still kind of surreal to see what has happened, but her amazing strength as a person is just -- you know it's just -- words can't even really describe it. it's just so inspiring and so important that people -- the very simple direct short statement that she had that really framed exactly the challenge we have as a country. >> stephanie: and like you say it's hard to underestimate the courage it took for her to come and do that. that really was a surprise appearance, wasn't it? >> yeah the day she came in to vote on the debt limit, again it was just -- this is an incredibly good person with inner strength that, you know, continues to just sort of i think, amaze all of us, so -- and again her

i want to bring in democratic congressman joe courtney of connecticut now. good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon, martin. >> i wondered if i could get your immediate reaction to what you've just heard and what we're hearing about this shooting in houston. >> well, as chris said, the velocity of these events, one after another, just since newtown at the end of 2012 really shows that we have a very unstable situation in terms of the gun violence in this country. the president yesterday i think again powerfully mentioned the newtown situation and the need to make sure that we protect children, but we also need to extend that obviously to higher education. what chris said was well-said which is that campuses should be a place where a student like the one on that phone call should be able to go and study english and not worry about having to dive under her desk or, you know, behind corners of the building to avoid getting injured seriously. so, you know, i'm on the education and workforce committee. we actually just met this afternoon. the chairman of the commit

joining me now congressman joe courtney, democrat from kentucky. to see you, thanks so much for being with me on sunday -- from connecticut, i said kentucky. sorry about that. >> bad enough that louisville beat uconn but go ahead. >> president obama charged you and your colleagues this well with a set of gun proposals. among the proposals universal background checks, a ban on high capacity mag scene an assault weapons ban. stricter laws on gun trafficking as well. i want to play for you right now. this is a snippet from what chuck schumer said on "meet the press" this morning take a listen. >> this is the best chance of getting something done, and i think you're going to find much broader support than we've ever imagin imagined. >> what do you think? do you think at this point we'll get the broad support, congressman? >> i agree with senator schumer. talked to some of my colleagues from the other side of the hour. talked to some of my fellow democrats from rural districts. you know, the events that took place in newtown i do really think has change

. >> joining us now is democratic congressman joe courtney of connecticut.ernoon, martin. >> let me read a statement by one of your gop colleagues renee chalmers. president obama is once again exploiting a tragedy for political gain and eroding our constitutional rights for the sake of an extreme liberal agenda. could you explain the thought process of your colleagues after what the president said today? >> well, they're obviously looking at the hysterical reaction of special interest groups. not actually looking at the executive order which for example says we're going to crack down on people who lie on background checks. 10,000 people got caught lying last year in their brady background checks and only 44 were prosecuted. this order says you know what? we're going to step up enforcement of that. if anything thinks that's eroding people's constitutional rights saying we're going to prosecute people for vigorously for breaking laws then they are engaged in a dialogue that does not have any bearing on reality. what president obama did was keep his solemn prom

. >>> soon you could be getting your morning cup of joe from a well known hollywood actor. courtney reagan is live at cnbc world headquarters with your news before the bell. good morning, courtney. >> reporter: good morning to you. futures relatively flat right now. this is after stocks closed at five-year highs yesterday. traders may focus on bank earnings from wells fargo. first of the big banks to report. data today from the usda on crop production in 2012 and feed indicators for 2013. dow rising 30 points on thursday to 13,471. s&p gaining 11 points to 1472 and nasdaq adding 15. he play as doctor on tv but he may soon play a barista in real life. patrick dempsey making a successful bid to buy a coffee chain. it is set for today. the seattle judge expected to make the sale to an investor group led by dempsey official at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. he was also against starbucks so this time the relatively little guy won. back to you. >> that's right. i was telling laura that ellen did a story on. >> a cold start just as you said. >> i'm going to tune into whatever marla was talking ab

kelly kaufman, who runs the regulations team, ben olson, tom, priscilla, courtney, jennifer, joe devlinresearch economists who do such terrific empirical work that grounds this effort as well as others led by jesse, ron, iowa lex ya, tim clipfield, our mortgage markets team is helled by pete carroll and finish helled by pete carroll and, of course, roberto gonzales and steven and ann. all have put in terrific work on this rulemaking, and, you know, i personally could not be more proud or more grateful for the work that's been done. [applause] there's always a danger when you just try to come up with even, you inevitably miss someone, and then they're angry at you. i've always been very comfortable with people being angry at me, so i don't mind. let me, let me just talk a little bit about what it is we'd like to accomplish during this component of our, of our public hearing. as director cordray talked about, we're focused on solving real problem. real problems that when they manifested themselves had a devastating impact on the mortgage market and housing market and the real economy. to

courtney family. wave to the crowd. we have joe, loretta, maze zee, julia and hue we.we up loaded about 5 presents for each kid. they got that pick their top 5 toys. they made a list. we up loaded 1500 presents. there was about 300 families. >> 300? we got every single guest. >> talking it christmas in the rockaways. >> you live in san diego. what was it about the rockaways that struck you? >> i was born and raised there. my family also lived there. when i saw what was going on i knew i would be able to help out. i left a couple days after the storm and showed up with truckloads of generators and water pumps. >> how did you come up with the idea of christmas? >> christmas, we were working on the house i asked what they were getting for christmas melissa very quickly said they are getting heat and hot water. she was pretty serious. so i realized they weren't going to have much of a christmas and that's when i kind of put the idea together. >> so what was your reaction? >> yesterday it was christmas in the rockaways. the children got 5 gifts each. what was your thoughts?

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joe. >>> the biggest names in retail were gathered in manhattan last night at the annual ceo summit. courtneyin attendance. >> that's right, andrew. over 100 ceo ons were gathered last night. topics of discussion rage from digital and online innovation to creating value and how the unrest in washington is impacting confidence. i spoke to the evening's panelists ahead of the event and asked how they thought the recent increase in taxes will lead to discretionary spending? >> we will be watching that have been we have been closely. the change just happened. we have our finger on that pulse, for sure. >> if our good friends from washington have another one of these silly gun fights in the next couple of months, what is that going to do to our confidence, to our trust, to our faith in, you know, the whole system? my sense is the first couple of months could be skittish. >> the bottom line is that increasingly, people are more discriminating, more focused on getting value for the money and certainly to the extent they have a noticeable impact on their spending. that's only going to increase. >> fo