i'm john fuglesang. be here with you. >> we think she had some day-old ucci or something. -- day-old sushi. >> travis and i were there saturday night. we're claiming innocence. as far as you know. i ended up in the big chair by accident. that's my story and i'm stickin' to it. >> john: i hope steph feels better. i'm glad she's getting some rest. i told you this last week but the show we did in d.c., i was sitting in the audience for her set because i was helping the audio guy run cues. i have never seen her give a better set. she was so funny. when she brought that man up out of the audience and held him in her arms for three minutes, it was disturbing. i'm still sore from laughing. [ laughter ] steph is legally married to this guy in guam after the show the other night. >> i think you're right. >> one of the reasons why i guess i'm most happy to be here, i'm grateful to be around the smart people like jacki and chris. >> john: for the occasional brilliant guest you coerced into calling in. who would it b

i'm john fuglesang joined by jennifer granholm. we're thrilled to be with you providing play play by play brig you what's in the history and what's in the future. >> jennifer: thousands of people mobbing the capitol. >> john: former president carter and his wife, rosalyn showed up. it is a day of great history. it will be the first time the official invocation is given by a woman and by a nonclergy member as well at a presidential inauguration. it has been well documented that the president will be using two bibles when he's sworn in. one by abraham lincoln. one owned by martin luther king jr. those are the two men barack obama cites as his greatest inspirations. he's the fourth president to be sworn in using two bibles. likewise, the entertainment today as has been well documented, beyonce singing the national anthem. james taylor will perform as will "american idol" winner kelly clarkson. she was an outspoken mitt romney supporter now here to celebrate the president's inaugural. i kind of feel like i need extra help. let's make hi

stay right here because "viewpoint" with john fuglesang is up next. >> john: breitbart.com said obama's inaugural speech was an attack on liberty as we know it. oh gay people shouldn't be allowed to get married. the filibuster, the magical tool that proves democracy is when 45 senators get to control the other 55. and bill o'reilly said obama's desire for social justice was noble but it won't solve our fiscal problems because you know that requires an entire cable news propaganda network who touted the fake war. today is the birthday of the late great sam cook and steve perry who sang "don't stop believin'" before journey stopped him. this is "viewpoint." >> john: good evening. i'm john fuglesang. thank you for joining us this evening for "viewpoint." on today's 40th anniversary of the historic roe vs. wade decision legalizing abortion rights the pro-choice community has a lot to be thankful for and quite a bit to fear on another. let's start with the thankful stuff first. sure the mandatory anti-rowe protest took place in cities like huntsville, alabama. even in huntsville, pro-choice

more john fuglesang right after the break. what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. by 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough college graduates to fill them. that's why at devry university we're teaming up with companies like cisco to help make sure everyone is ready with the know-how we need for a new tomorrow. [ male announcer ] make sure america's ready. make sure you're ready. at devry.edu/knowhow. ♪ ♪ >> john: thank you, god for rush limbaugh and our friends at fox news. if it wasn't for them, the tyrant obama would get away with this whole fascist socialist kenyan agenda. when it comes to immigration nothing stands in king obama's way. well almost nothing. >> thanks to obama now you have amnesty unless you get convicted of a major felony. so i don't know that there's any stopping this. it's up to me and fox news and i think fox news has invested in this. >> john: it is not only immigration reform. they have worked tirelessly to protect us from equal rights for women and marriage equ

more "viewpoint" with john fuglesang right after this break. he 2013 ram 1500. ♪ ♪ engineered to move heaven and earth. ♪ ♪ guts. glory. ram. the new ram 1500. motor trend's 2013 truck of the year. >> john: wherever you stand on the divisive issue of abortion, if your views on abortion don't make sense then you don't make sense. new mexico state representative katherine brown proposed a bill that would seriously charge rape victims with tampering with evidence. if they got pregnant during an assault and later terminated the pregnancy of their rapist's child. i guess people can't test an aborted fetus's dna although fetuses do have dna. it would be considered evidence. they have almost nothing else but dna. brown says she meant to charge the rapist instead. this law may need to go for a longer gestation period before it is viable. fetuses aren't really people if they cost a nonprofit any money. this comes in a lawsuit after doctors in colorado didn't save unborn twins in a catholic hospital. catholic health initiatives says the family can't sue b

. >> john: good evening, i'm john fuglesang. thank you so much for joining us tonight. i guess some good things are worth waiting for. we won't know until wednesday what president obama plans to propose to stem the epidemic of gun violence in this country. white house press secretary jay carney apparently doesn't want to spoil the surprise. >> i will not get ahead of the president in terms of what his package of proposals will include. i will simply note that the president has made clear he intends to take a comprehensive approach. >> john: once again as has happened so often republicans are terrified of barack obama's package. we do have some idea of what's going to come from the white house included in that comprehensive approach. some or all of 19 measures identified by vice president's biden's working group that the president could order without having to go through congress such as sharing gun databases giving the centers for disease control the authority to do national research on guns and aggressivively enforcerring existing gun laws. some house republicans don't

. >> john: good evening, i'm john fuglesang. thank you for joins for "viewpoint." is it possible, could both house of congress and the white house actually come together and find a solution to one of our country's most contentious issues? according to president obama in las vegas today the timing couldn't be better. >> obama: the time has come for common sense comprehensive immigration reform. [ applause ] now is the time. >> john: actually it's way pastime for the 11 million undocumented immigrants already living and working in this country. and way too ahead of its time for tea party republicans who never heard of an undocumented immigrant that they didn't want deported but thanks to the president's overwhelming support from latino voters last november, republicans now seem willing to at least pretend to deal with the issue. as we reported last night a gang of six in the house is work on an immigration bill. one they hope to release before the state of the union address february 12th and a gang of eight in the senate has put forth its principles for immigration r

i'm john fuglesang. thank you so much for joining us this evening on "viewpoint." vice president biden says president obama will get hig working group's recommend ailses on curbing gun violence by tuesday. around the time joe biden was making the statements, news broke on the latest american school shooting. a male student was shot in the chest allegedly by another male student armed with a shot gunn at the taft union high school in kern county, california, about 120 miles north of l.a. the alleged shooter is said to be 16 years old. he's alive and in custody. his victim is said to be in critical but stable condition. a teacher who reportedly helped convince the shooter to surrender was lightly wounded with a shotgun pellet and refused treatment at the scene. now, back at the white house vice president biden sat down today with hunters sportsmen and gun owner's groups including the nra the real victims in all of this gun violence, as part of his fact-finding mission for the president. before the doors closed, he told reporter what's heard from gun control groups an

." >> john: good evening, i'm john fuglesang. thank you so much for joining us this evening. now for nearly 20 years despite massacres at schools theatres and malls and tens you of thousands of gun deaths overall there have been no new gun control bills signed into law. the last was in 1949, assault weapons ban supported by carter, reagan and ford and clinton. that expired after a decade. now it may change. senator dianne feinstein is leading the charge with a new bill she introduced at a press conference today. >> of some us have been working to prevent gun violence for decades. together we are introducing legislation to help end the mass shootings that have devastated countless families and terrorized communities. >> john: the bill would ban the sale, transfer, manufacture or importation of 157 types of assault weapons currently available for purchase by civilians and ammunition magazines holding more than ten rounds. then there is what the bill doesn't do. >> it will not affect hunting or sporting firearms. we have tried to recognize legal hunting rights. we have tried to

>> stephanie: i think john fuglesang snuck on fox news and just them having to say sexy liberal numberes because this has to be a new low. the fact that they're mocking and laughing at what is clearly a serious health issue for secretary, right? >> this was two-fold. hillary clinton wasn't able to testify about benghazi because you know, she caught a virus became dehydrated, fainted suffered a concussion. first, the right wing crazies were she's faking it. she's a clinton. she must be lying. where is the medical report. just really unseemly stuff. but then it morphed into this is a big joke. bill owe -- o'reilly went on when he called it an immaculate concussion. dana perino was laughing out loud because her cohosts on the five were making hillary head comment jokes. god, that's just awful. but then the blood clot news comes along. something that in theory is potentially life-threatening. it really highlights like -- honestly, what is -- something incredibly bad had happened to hillary clinton and they were like laughing about her health! clinton crazies people might not have forgotten

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two days before obama's second inauguration the sexy liberal comedy tour starring hal sparks, john fuglesang of liberals, stephanie miller will perform life at the warner theatre in washington, d.c. tickets are available at ticketmaster.com and if you want to skip the fees, stop by the warner theatre box office at 511 -- the tea baggers lost in november. so stephanie is going to do her thing before the inaugural ball. >> that means two things. >> that's the stephanie miller sexy liberal comedy tour live in d.c. inauguration weekend. for more information, go to sexyliberal.com. >> stephanie: all right yea! story. calling audibles. speaking of sexy liberals. comedian rick overton live in studio in hour number two. >> inaudible. i was yelling. >> stephanie: all right. hal sparks had to cancel today. he's got a thing with a guy at a place. rick overton oh, my god, he has the most hilarious stories he's going to tell us. >> that's right. >> stephanie: he was in d.c. and i think he held the torah for alan grayson when he was sworn in just to make people crazy. rick was actually there with boehner.

. >> where is the john fuglesang religious truth squad when you need it? >> stephanie: my bad. antonin scalia, personal favorite he emphatically rebutted the notion the constitution is a living document. he said it is not a living document. it is dead dead, dead. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> but if a document is designed to have the ability to be changed, then it can be considered a living document. if it can't be changed, if it is set in stone then sure, it's dead. you can change the constitution. >> stephanie: right. it just worries me, jacki. marriage equality and other stuff coming up. he's like cuckoo bananas. >> it seem to me as the people get older, they start to lose it. it doesn't make any sense. they're not changing with society. that's problematic. social norms change and what we learn and grow with as society changes, then so should the opinions of our justice system, i would imagine. at least in a reasonable society. >> stephanie: that's so cute and hopeful. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] plucky, cute little news girl. >> like waking up on christmas morn all blinky. >> step