other cities lying philadelphia and and pittsburgh vowed to fight the nra in court. in allentown randy gill hall. >>> more than 20 cities and towns have started to repeal their gun laws because of legal threats from the nra. in is coming to a head now because a new pennsylvania state law allowing groups like the nra to file lawsuits against local gun ordinances even if they can't prove any harm was done. >>> in new jersey drunk drivers could be allowed on the much sooner than before. the state senate introduced a measure that would change the penalties for first-time offenders. some would lose their licenses for days instead of the current three month penalty. they would have to install an ignition device that measures their bac. >>> delaware has an extra $37 million on their hands. the question is how to spend it. >> one state leader made his pitch for the money today. tim furlong is live in dover tonight. what are some of the proposals for the money? >> reporter: to be clear, it's not really extra money. that would be nice. it's money from financial penalty settlem

. >> what is your view of the nra? feedback the nra is less interested in public safety and more interested in a particular ideology. i think that unfortunately they sell themselves as a group that is principally looking out for the interest of gun owners. but if you actually look at practices, and they really are more in line with the gun sellers. one of the things we did in our boat is weak in a national survey to in essence take the pulse of the nation about a pretty broad range of gun policy. over 30 specific policies we asked people their opinion, their support or opposition to those. we oversampled gunowners. we know it will be hard to get anything done on this issue if you have a really stiff opposition from gunowners. what we found that might be surprising to us tom is almost every policy re-examined to strengthen our thomas to keep guns out of the wrong hands gunowners supported a fairly large majority of gunowners supported and in many cases, nra members support of those such as comprehensive background check

found is almost every policy that we examine , gun owners supported a fairly large majority and even nra members supported those measures. more often than they and not those policies that gun owners for for our very much out of step with the nra line gore policy agenda. so i think they have not truly represented gun owners in what they want to. they do value the second amendment rights but they also value public safety. data when dangerous people to get guns. they're perfectly fine with many measures to achieve the goal. too often in the nra has muddied the waters of what the question on the table is should we have comprehensive background checks? it changed the subject to retake the way everybody's guns? that is not the question. people will say no but that is not the policies there designed to identify those that had the highest risk for committing violence into in some cases only temporarily like restraining orders for a misdemeanor conviction for violent crime. many times those are short-term provisions with the individual gets the opportunity to demonstrate they can live crime free

our party will never be the choice of the nra -- and i'm not looking to be the candidate of the nra. today, i ask all of you to enlist in a mission that is bigger than any of us. for each of us has extra days -- not just for ourselves but to share. and i hope to be the president who asks all of us to serve -- because in the end, the ideals of the nation will not be realized by presidential decree, but by the national service that can only be measured in countless acts of individual commitment to do what's right for america - every day, in every community -- in many different ways -- from helping a child learn to read to giving senior citizens the chance to give more of their talents and strength. and the force of all those extra days joined together can open a new era of concern for others and not just ourselves, of community and not division, of opportunity for the many and not just the few. i believe the courage of americans can change this country. i believe the idealism of americans can match our power to our principles - so that this nation will advance the best hopes of the wor

the groups like the nra have threatened to file lawsuits against many cities in the state and most are caving to pressure by repealing gun laws. >> literally, people would be able to attend city council meetings packing heat. and i think that's a terrible idea. >> now a few cities like philadelphia and pittsburgh are pushing back against the lawsuits and are vowing to fight the nra in court. in all, more than 20 cities and towns have started to repeal their gun laws because of the legal threats from the nra. the changes are all tied to a new pennsylvania state law which allows groups like the nra to file lawsuits against local gun ordinances if they cannot prove harm was done. >>> meantime in washington, d.c. legislators from both chambers called attention to new gun violence prevention efforts on thursday. new jersey senator bob menendez announced a bill limiting high-capacity magazines. senator menendez was joined by families from newton connecticut. >>> health officials in north new jersey are looking into a suspected case of measles. the patient is a 1-year-old baby who has not bee

few cities are not backing down including philadelphia and pittsburgh that have vowed to fight the nran court. >>> in lancaster county a new welcome sign designed to curb crime is sparking controversy. more than a dozen of the new road signs are greeting drivers as not a gun-free zone is what the sign says there. the township supervisor hopes this will deter people from creating crimes but one person who lives there says this is ridiculous. other towns are doing something like that. inevitably there's always someone who says this is a bad idea and other people say this could bring down crime. let's try something different. >> i'm pessimistic that thieves read signs. >> and pay attention to them right. >> but if it works, let's all put up signs. we'll see what happens. thank you, chris. >>> you're watching "nbc 10 news." "nbc 10 news today" at 6:00 a.m. starts right now. and the tractor-trailer there has been uprighted and both lanes are back open on 495 in delaware. that happened in the last few minutes. >>> and bundle up. bitter cold temperatures hit the area but the weekend's warm up

they don't feel the need -- the nra, i don't think they're wrong not to do this.o say the nra has to come forward and condemn every horrible thing with a person done by a dungun, but they don't play the game. they say that guns don't kill people, people kill people. they target by that statement the individual shooter, or the group of shooters. so they don't need to do that. it is a brilliant strategy. but we folks who are human beings. who believe that i cannot do well unless my fellow brothern does well it was a scarey time. it was beautiful to hear the brother of one of the shooting victims say of course we know not all atheists are hateful people and what not. the fact that someone is an atheist or christian and does a hate crime does not imcriminate us all. >> there is a difference, i want to say, between violence done by someone that has a background and violence done in the name of that ideology right? >> true. when we talk about the waive of terrorism in iraq the red brigades, it was not like they happened to be of the left and murdering people it was terr

i hear them say, what the economy needs is its own nra. and what our nation's military and police deserve is their own nra. they're all saying, here's what they're saying. they're saying we need someone to stand up for the things we care about and consider most valuable in our lives. for the nra that always includes our firearms and our freedom to own them. but to defend firearm freedom, we need more than just firearms freedom. one right depends on another. they're all cut from the same cloth of what it means to be free people. so the nra fights for freedom of speech freedom of assembly and the right to privacy, too. we fight for the entire bill of rights because it's all connected. where do you think america's safest place is? in the news media? the "new york times"? msnbc? one of the political parties? the safest place for american freedom is the national rifle association, the safest place for american freedom is in the hearts of our members. so take back our country from the liars, the cheats the press and the political elites who want

or if the nra wanted to, would we have a policy to prohibit it. those are things you need to think through which i don't think we need for a while, bit do. >> our advertising policy would do anything to prohibit on positions of neutrality that are not related to the transbay programs. >> some people are pushing 1st amendment rights when you have a policy and when they have a political message. does that mean your ad policy would have to accept it. it's dynamic right now. >> it is the item no. 1 on our list of shall not, consider political campaigns. it's great. i don't think any of us have a problem with the concept. it's the idea of all the factors involved. good luck. >> thank you. that concludes my report. >> okay. go ahead and move to your next item. item 6 is the citizens advisory committee update. >> chairman and members of the board, executive director. i'm happy to give you the report of our citizens advisory committee. it will be in two parts. first on vision zero and secondly on the rfp for naming rights and stuff like that. i was not ab

all to avoid a costly lawsuit from groups like the tea party and the nra. as of today, it's now legal to bring an assault rifle inside city buildings, to open carry inside city council. you can even bring guns into city-owned parks. >> it's just a safety factor of it. at this restaurant this hot-button issue is getting a lot of talk from the lunchtime group. >> it's very scary. >> some see the repeal as a safety issue but a long time gun owner said allentown's local laws were more strict than the state. making it confusing. >> it was just another law that is probably unenforceable. at any given time you may be breaking the law and not knowing it. >> tea party groups and the nra have been targeting city across pennsylvania threatening costly lawsuits. it's working. many cities voting to repeal. >> this is a matter of public safety. >> reporter: gun control supporters worry people will bring guns to city meetings like in 2013 when a gunman killed three people at a council chambers in ross township pennsylvania. >> literally people would be able to attend city

groups like the nra threatened to file suits against many cities in the sate. most are caving to the pressure by repealing gun laws. >> literally people would be able to attend city council meetings packing heat. >>> washington, d.c. legislators called attention to new gun violence prevention efforts. new jersey senator bob menendez announced a bill limiting high capacity magazines. >> why does anyone need 20 40 50 100 bullets to be fired off? >> senator menendez is joined by families from newtown, connecticut. they're pushing congress for safer gun laws. >>> jury selectionway in the trial against the man accused of killing american sniper chris kyle. >> i can't see him. i can't shoot them. >> this movie based on kyle's life has already grossed nearly $250 million and nominated for six oscars. 12 potential jurors will be asked whether they've seen the movie. out of the 85 potential jurors who showed up this morning, 14 were excused for legal reasons. six others say they've already formed opinions. prosecutors say eddy ray ruth shot and killed kyle and another i

oh, my god, is that an nra sticker on your car? is that an obama sticker on your car?go, then i'll go. >> hunter the you go then i'll go it was new jersey poetry. i was watching it on c-span that day and the monitors were up and the video of the cars you could watch the cars making that decision every time he said you go then i'll go. it was really beautiful. and kevin, you'll like this, i spoke to a writer friend i know. he said that was all jon. jon wrote that. >> i had so many friends that were at that rally. for my generation they've really had an emotional connection to jon stewart. one thing we haven't touched on yet today, we saw this new media revolution in the middle part of the last decade. this so-called fake news where he brought in his opinion, he brought in his personal perspective and some humor, he was doing that before the blogosphere and the other news media followed suit. >> and we're joined by harry enton. you didn't have to live through the decades of tv that didn't have this jon stewart that i lived through, which is being played against constantl

in the first four years, the roosevelt administration launched the nra, ccc, wpa-- a virtual alphabetp of programs to relieve unemployment. newly employed workers spent more money creating more jobs. by 1936, it appeared that the depression was ending. it was time for a balanced budget. central revenues are increasing. emergency expenditures are decreasing. a balanced budget is on the way. does that sound like bankruptcy to you? roosevelt won a landslide re-election, but the celebration was brief. he cut spending. in october 1937, the stock market took another dive. unemployment began to rise once again. suddenly it appeared that the past four years' progress would unravel. president roosevelt may have been an economic conservative but he was a social liberal. he saw rising unemployment and responded by resuming government spending. this government intervention stimulated the economy the way keynes had urged since 1933. if franklin roosevelt was not a keynesian, by 1938 he'd surrounded himself with plenty who were. one of those economists was walter salant, a student of keynes turned

gerry stoudemire is president of the gun owners club of south carolina, and works closely with the nra here. >> ok, right now it is loaded and ready to fire... >> it's empty. there are millions of guns sold every year in the us that never hurt anybody. and the people don't intend to hurt anybody. the purpose for buying it was not for doing harm to another person. but for shooting. >> so you think that the laws that are in place right now are the right ones? no more laws are necessary? >> i feel that we have plenty of laws in effect that are not being enforced. >> for example? >> people that are prohibited from having guns or shooting people everyday with them. what's the penalty for getting for doing it? are we enforcing the penalty, or are we having a revolving court system that just puts them right back on the street and they do it again the next day. this is what i've see the problem to be. we've got to make... every crime has got to have a penalty and it's got to be enforced. >> but in a majority of states including south carolina officers aren't required to seize a gun if someone

tokyo electric power company officials met with members of the nuclear regulatory authority and the nraembers approved a plan to delay the project until later this month. tepco tried to create ice barriers to stop water from leak out of the reactor buildings. workers were supposed to remove the highly radioactive water that has collected in the underground tunnels and after that they would have filled in the tunnels with cement. however, efforts to block the flow of water failed. engineers need to fill in some gaps that may be left in the area where the tunnels and reactor buildings meet. the setback will likely affect a separate project to build an ice wall around the four damaged reactor buildings. tepco officials say they're two weeks to a month behind schedule on that work. three reactors at the daiji plant. experts are trying to determine the state of melted fuel inside. they need that information to make progress on decommissioning work. so they're planning to take a new approach using elementary particles called muons. these flashing streaks of light show traces of a muon. the pa

a lot of nasty criticism and death threats on him from nra supporters. so i think it's something we have to talk about. we can't act as though our scholarly lives are separated from social media lives because actually, all the young scholars coming up are on social media now. and so i think it has to be part of the training, not just to think about the multiple venues that will help you get your work out, but what does it mean to actually be a responsible member of a social media community, and i would include facebook. i see things on facebook that i actually think are deeply and profoundly unwise, and i love facebook. so. >> i'd say in terms of mentoring grad students or junior faculty i think the biggest thing has to be, one, to do the academic and scholarly work because i mean, we're not being trained to become public intellectuals. so it's just growing out of you being a professional, trained historian. if anything, i would recommend, if you're in grad school, to focus on your research, turning the dissertation into a book and really honestly not wr

we should be terrified of the nra, how many of them are in congress? if they came in the closet, we might have a different discussion. to keep our ban on travel to cuba, paralyzed by the fear of negative attack ads. the majority of the people in this country wanted normalization of those relationships. >> the reason we are terrified of the nra, they are so big. >>we do not get to them in the beginning. i would've thought about that -- we have good science. we have good information, we do not need to wait 50 years to make this lobby so large we cannot combat. reasonable conversation today is through tag lines. quick, easy --now is a time. engage anyway you want to, but we need to have these discussions with the tobacco industry, the booze lobbies. we have the opportunity to do this right. let's have a smarter conversation about it, and not let business interests rule the day. >> i am going to respectfully ask you -- we need to wind up the program. i want to thank everyone for their participation, i want to thank the speakers in particular for their eloq

the nra can go to -- if you can't write a twitter post that your mom would be fine with, i would say, don't write it. if you can't write something that you can't proudly show your mother, don't write it. that is what is getting people into all kinds of trouble. >> i've done that. i have done this miller center thing. i generally dissuade people from doing it, both because they need to now become scholars and get the job, and two, it is so polarized out there. when you send, you just don't know what is going to happen. something that seems kind of monday and or interesting but not explosive can turn can hurt you career-wise. i have a graduate student -- some of my graduate students have heard this from me -- i will help, but i'm also very cautious. i had a graduate student who started recently. i met him for the first time in person. i said, you've got to get off her twitter. i looked it up. it was fine, the twitter. there was just a lot of it. i don't know. it's nerve-racking because this stuff survives. i don't know how it is going to work with jobs and publishing. i don't know if th

what you try to regulate guns without allowing the nra to have a voice?i find myself at odds with the industry very often. i think what we can agree on is prohibition has failed and criminalize individuals for their views is not a good idea but question is westerners if you don't believe in prohibition and you don't like what is happening, we can agree that somewhere along that line of regulatory line to the left or to the right is the question of where and not if. we agree that it's failed and we shouldn't criminalize the the individuals for doing this. if we can agree on that and it's a question of regulation and the devil is in the details and i'm willing to talk to anyone to figure out what are the best regulations, but not shutting down altogether and going back to the old drug war. >> legalization, how would that affect for-profit prison system and the three strikes you're out especially around the country has it going to effect that affect that and how many of the last five presidents have smoked marijuana illegally that might not have been preside

you go, i'll go, you go, i'll go, is that an nra sticker on your car? an obama sticker on your car? that's okay, you go then i'll go. >> that was jon stewart at the rally he had a couple years ago, that ended up being kind of a political rally of his own. i interviewed jon stewart in 2010 after that rally and we talked about the difference between news and fake news, and how he fit into that. this is what he had to say about what he has been trying to do every night. >> i feel more of a kinship to jerry seinfeld to what you do, cnn dose or nbc dose. he is able to articulate an intangible for people. people say it's been in my head, i know it's been in there, but i never put it together with that kind of rhythm, and that's hilarious that you were able to articulate that. he is the best at crafting those moments. we try to do the same thing, but with a more political and social avenue. but it is still, if you were to look at our process, he is much more our process than the news is. does that make sense? >> what i know of your process seems similar to the way i put my show together. >

we should be terrified of the nra, how many of them are in congress? if they came in the closet, we might have a different discussion. to keep our ban on travel to cuba, paralyzed by the fear of negative attack ads. the majority of the people in this country wanted normalization of those relationships. >> the reason we are terrified of the nra, they are so big. >>we do not get to them in the beginning. i would've thought about that -- we have good science. we have good information, we do not need to wait 50 years to make this lobby so large we cannot combat. reasonable conversation today is through tag lines. quick, easy --now is a time. engage anyway you want to, but we need to have these discussions with the tobacco industry, the booze lobbies. we have the opportunity to do this right. let's have a smarter conversation about it, and not let business interests rule the day. >> i am going to respectfully ask you -- we need to wind up the program. i want to thank everyone for their participation, i want to thank the speakers in particular for their eloq

do americans need to arm themselves in the face of new terror or is this nra-fueled paranoia? >> hot tea in your eye paranoia. the reality is there have always been bad guys out there. i think the mall has to go back and say that there was high school interpretation of the concealed carrying law in minute men because they were telling people at the door don't bring your guns apand patientsly people are allowed to do that. but my point is you and i are not coming up against isis over here on 6th avenue. what we come up -- >> you never know. >> i think it's now half of most of the killings in this country are done by families. and another third are people involved with drug deals and robberies. so there was story in the paper today about a guy who was a policeman out in white plains, he shot both daughters and then killed himself. so it's like that is what goes on with guns. that's why i think it's -- >> can i jump in? >> first i want to point out that you are suffering from ocean privilege because you live over here, not over there will. >> you started the comment with the real

don't forget the nra -- it's been two years since the sandy hook or whatever and the president failedn the congress, no doubt about that. but it's under congress's law he has the ability and atf is doing this, not the administration so far to say this bullet is a threat to law enforcement. >> this is a bullet that a lot of hunters use, target shooters use it as well. ban the bullet, ban the ar 15. >> he doesn't want to win this fight. he wants to have the fight. president obama is our first troll president. do i have to explain what that means? a troll is someone who is purposefully on the internet to try to get a reaction. this kind of thing is right up his alley. he loves fighting with the right. he raises money off of it. he gets attention. he doesn't want results. he wants to attempt to do something and then blame republicans. >> you know what people use this for? the reason it has a tip is it pierces targets for people who do target shooting. it's not for people running around shooting on the street. >>> i wrote a piece on this on foxnews.com. second amendment, the most important

the power of the nra and the gun lobby is such, and it's like this all over the country, look at the laws on guns repealed left and right. if they ban the ammunition, hard to think they would ban the ammunition. kennedy: jillian, will and steve, thank you for being here, fine discussion as always. >>> you might soon get a head transplant. that might be good news for some people or might mean zombies, i hope my body gets neil cavuto's head next time around. sexy, sexy, stay right here. neil. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. we're reinventing inhow we do business, so businesses can reinvent the world. from pharmaceuticals to 3d prototyping, biotech to clean energy. whether your business is moving, expanding or just getting started... only new york offers you zero taxes for

i see the nra and i see you. where does the movement come? if you want more blacks in media, if you want more stories in media, it comes to you. you have to make the change. thank you. >> my wife is an educator. media, if you want more stories one of the people she is educated during her career has been teachers. one of the things she does is equity training. she tries to make teachers who are not from the minority community aware of their white privilege, so they can teach children who are not like them. i think would probably be a good idea if reporters had equity training. [applause] to become aware of people who are not like them. listen, we can't be what we are not. we are all born a certain way and have certain experiences but we can become aware of the things we are not. and that is what we might be able to bring about through some kind of concerted effort at training ourselves. >> ok, finally, thank you for having me. i think the thing that we have done at "the american" for nearly 90 years is, not only do we report the stories and en

he offended the nra when he was in congress by not being a tow the line gun rights guy.ter schools are not performing well. privatization has been kind of a disaster over many many years now in ohio. let's not judge them too harshly. sometimes students have problems that can't be fixed. >> turning to wisconsin, wisconsin governor scott walker is leading the pack among likely iowa republican caucus participants, 25%. this is interesting. are you a caucus goer? yeah i am. who do you think? scott walker. >> this has been walker's drive along. forget about wisconsin. everything he has done has been a test to see if a republican leads into the politics of austerity and complete warfare, if that is a winner. people in the very right wing base in iowa like this bold politics of walker's which is very aggressive and divisive. >>> still ahead, chewing tobacco is a baseball tradition. no one should be doing it is what the american cancer society says. there's a city out there who wants to ban it from the big leagues. wait a minute. this is america. that's coming up. stay with us.

these kinds of accidental discharges but yes there are still the anecdotal few who have this happen but nraches kids stop, don't touch, tell an adult. >> reporter: some children are just too young to understand. just after christmas last year a toddler accidentally killed his mother with a gun she kept in her purse while they shopped today in idaho. >> accessed a concealed weapon that was inside the victim's purse and discharged it striking the victim. >> reporter: and on january 31st a three-year-old shot both his father and mother in their hotel room in albuquerque. >> that is what happens when you don't secure a firearm and unsafe around firearms children have easy access to them like the case yesterday and people got hurt. >> reporter: a child cannot use a cell phone locked with a pass code but nothing in the gun design prevented children from simply pulling the trigger. >> owners can unlock their gun in under a second when they need it. >> reporter: gun manufacturers have been wrestling with the design problem, one company has built a trigger lock that requires the owner's fingerprint

the last debate we had on gun control, a lot of compromise even within the nra enforcing the currentl health. >> is that his authority. >> look, i think, you mentioned the president going alone. i think that's what's going to prompt is the same sort of vehement reaction from congress. having trouble homeland security stuff on spending bills. this is the exactly the smaller issue that congress will use the spending power to stop the president from doing. they will attach an appropriations ride tore next year's justice department bill that would stop, this is exactly what congress i'm -- you know, i predict that will happen by the end of this year. >> the talk tonight about bullet thing will enrage them further on the dhs thing on immigration. we are in for bigger trouble. anyway, panel, thank you. of course we are following the breaking news. only four hours left or about four hours before a partial shutdown of the homeland security♪ department. live report from capitol hill is next. for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protectiontm. apples may fall, but the a

you may contribute to the sierra club or the nra. you may go to protests and rallies but those groups have to get people are interested in guns interest in the environment, they have to organize to make their case. they don't get to collectively bargain with the government, too. and private sector unions, for example, they get to collectively bargain with their employers for pay benefits, and working conditions and they do certainly participate in politics but the private sector unions participation of politics is, or is in a sense a broader set, a broader agenda not necessary but things are going to immediately affect the livelihood of their members. they may in the long-term improve society, improve things for the members but it's a much more long-term project than lobbying the government for a pension sweetener that would change the formula that is going to allow people to benefit. i guess i would come back to michael in a couple of points. i think he's being a little unfair to both -- to say that not citing the most sophisticated

you make contribute to this year -- to the sierra club the nra but those groups have to get people who are interested in guns, in the environment, they have to organize to make their case. they do not get to collectively bargain with government, too. private sector unions, for example, get they get to collectively bargain with their employers for pay, benefits, and working conditions, and they do certainly participate in politics, but private sector union participation in politics is more in a sense a broader sense, a broader agenda, not in areas that will immediately affect the likelihood of their members. they may improve society can improve things for their members, but is a much more long-term project and say lobbying the government for a pension sweeteners that will change the formula that is going to allow people to benefit. i would come back to michael on a couple of points. i think he is being unfair to say that i am not citing the most sophisticated empirical studies. i think they're in there. there are other stutters than the ones he wants to look like. i tried to parse them

the nra is urging congress to stop the president. figure skating. a female dominated sport. women skaters paid more than their male counterparts? christiano to cheat joins us later. the blacklist now says we should close all zoos. [laughter] >> including this one? >> that was good. very good. okay. now to vice president biden. a lot of wealthy white and lack people are not that, but they control 1% of the economy and this cannot stand. it is not fair because the business experts are saying it is stunted growth. let's bring in star parker in washington. let me get started here. are you offended? >> first i want to thank you for promoting my new book. i really appreciate that. >> i did not promote it. >> you had me on when it came out and it helped a lot. i appreciate that. stuart: did you follow amazon? >> yes. that is why i am letting you and your public know that you rock. joe biden should, instead of spending his time telling black man in america they are still in chains. instead of doing that, he should hopefully come to washington, d.c. and put his heart in this chair fo

but it's no different than what the nra and the sierra club and all those groups do.or their electorate. martha: you have written about the equal pay issue and made an evident to debunk it. -- made an effort to debunk it. equal pay and contraception are two areas republicans would say there is not a big argument over. >> of course everyone should get equal pay for equal work and equal hours depending on the profession they are in. when they cite that women make 70% of what men do. it's been debunked because it doesn't account for things like hours worked, what kind of occupation you are. if you are a partner in a law firm in new york city working full time and a school teacher working full time whether that woman -- whether that lawyer is a woman or man the lawyer is going to make more. those are the kinds of things the figure doesn't adjust for. >> time and time again we have seen whether it be the lily led better case. you have seen republicans deny the vote. when it comes time to actually vote, they don't allow the vote. >> the legislation is not helping trial lawy

your work has been so successful, i have received the nra defender of freedom award.thank you very much. mississippi's automotive industry remains strong. nissan has expanded its canton facility by 1,300 jobs and rolled off the new murano_one of eight different vehicles made in canton. in february, toyota in blue springs will reach the half million mark for the corolla. this has outpaced all other toyota plans in the world. other important projects include a baseball stadium in biloxi, a mississippi history and civil rights museum in jackson and yokohama's tire factory in west point. nineteen movies were made in mississippi last year while the grammy museum in cleveland and the arts and entertainment center in meridian are being planned or constructed. as the football world watched the sec, a few other things occurred in our state that demand recognition. alcorn state university's football team won the swac championship and east mississippi community college became national champions for the third time in four years, making football history. [applause] >> legendary un

need to have more backbone and stand up to what is a distinct minority, even within, for instance the nraly want to have happen. >> when ferguson happened the position that should have been filled by the president's nominee was not filled. it's a civil rights division. he was blocked by the u.s. senate, some of whom many of us think was highly qualified for the position. >> i will say that his unsuccessful nomination fight is something that bothered me then and bothers me now. he is a great lawyer who should be serves as the assistant attorney general of the civil rights division. weft bonita gupta who will step in and do a great job, but he did what a lawyer is supposed to do take on tough cases. the fact he got penalized i think sets a very back precedent. >> that is something you are -- >> welcome to my world, okay? [ laughter ] >> do you hate them all or just some of them? >> i don't hate any of them. i understand where some of them are coming from, and i think people have to understand there are a good number of people want been to make progress. despite the fact i've an interesting

civic life and i assume many of you are subject engaged and may contribute to the sierra club or the nra. you may get to protesting rallies. but those groups have to get people who are interested in diamonds and the environment they have to organize to make the case. they don't get to bargain with the government to. they get to collectively bargain with their employers for paid benefits and working conditions but they do certainly participate in politics but politics the private sector union participation in politics is for in a sense a broader set of agendas not necessarily for things that are going to immediately affect the likelihood of the members. they may in the the long term improves society and improve things for their members to do much more long-term project and say lobbying the government for the pension that is going to change the formula and allow people to benefit. so i would come back on a couple of points. i think that he's being a little uncharitable to say that i am not fighting the most sophisticated and period studies. i think that they are in there and i think that t

and i don't mean the nra or right to life but you touch mortgage interest and you've got -- you touch charitable contributions and you've got every organization in the country opposed. and the problem with the -- the house bill is that they had enough of these barnacles attached to the bill when they finally came out of committee, that there were votes on the floor to pass it. it would have failed but for the fact that ronald reagan literally came up on the hill. met with the republicans and said, please vote for this bill i will veto it if it passes in this form, but send it to the senate and see what they can do. with that enough republicans changed their vote and the bill passed. although you'd never know if they changed their vote because it passed on a voice vote in the house. comes to the senate. and in those days the senate didn't get going as quickly as you've gotten going now, and going till mid-february or march. i finally started having some hearings on this bill but we didn't need many hearings because in the summer of 1985 we had about 30 hearings on the subject of tax re

and i don't mean the nra or right to life but you touch mortgage interest, and you've got -- you touch charitable contributions and you've got every organization in the country opposed. and the problem with the -- the house bill is that they had enough of these barnacles attached to the bill when they finally came out of committee, that there were votes on the floor to pass it. it would have failed but for the fact that ronald reagan literally came up on the hill. met with the republicans and said, please vote for this bill, i will veto it if it passes in this form, but send it to the senate and see what they can do. with that, enough republicans changed their vote and the bill passed. although you'd never know if they changed their vote because it passed on a voice vote in the house. comes to the senate. and in those days the senate didn't get going as quickly as you've gotten going now, and going till mid-february or march. i finally started having some hearings on this bill but we didn't need many hearings because in the summer of 1985 we had about 30 hearings on the subject of tax

and i don't mean the nra or right to life but you touch mortgage interest, and you've got -- you touch charitable contributions and you've got every organization in the country opposed. and the problem with the -- the house bill is that they had enough of these barnacles attached to the bill when they finally came out of committee, that there were votes on the floor to pass it. it would have failed but for the fact that ronald reagan literally came up on the hill. met with the republicans and said, please vote for this bill, i will veto it if it passes in this form, but send it to the senate and see what they can do. with that, enough republicans changed their vote and the bill passed. although you'd never know if they changed their vote because it passed on a voice vote in the house. comes to the senate. and in those days the senate didn't get going as quickly as you've gotten going now, and going till mid-february or march. i finally started having some hearings on this bill but we didn't need many hearings because in the summer of 1985 we had about 30 hearings on the subject of tax

chamber, i believe the nra, those count like state level spending, too. an untold story that a lot of money is being spent on the federal level to elect a congress. but the amount of money in governors races and state legislature races has exploded, as well. and is increasingly rapidly, too. so, you know, 70% of americans support raising the minimum wage, but the u.s. chamber, the national restaurant association and national federation of independent businesses and low wage employers are spending millions to silence the workers who are organizing for minimum wage. and so, you know, it's really wrong when the walton family and walmart can pour money into politics every year and pay their workers poverty wages with no benefits. it not only creates a crisis, it creates an economic crisis that we're still feeling. the latest poll shows that congress has a 16% approval rating, and that is -- and congress is literally the best congress money can buy. and it just goes to show that while the american people have such a low approval rating of congress, to block th

when you complain about the bullets, know that you have the nra on the other side saying no we're not going to change , things. how do you effectively change? that is what we report on. where does the movement come? if you want more blacks in media, more stories in media, it comes to you. you have to make the change. thank you. >> my wife is an educator, and one of the people she has educated during her career have been teachers. one of the things she does is equity training. she tries to make teachers who are not from the minority community aware of their white privilege so that they can teach children who are not like them. i think it would probably be a good idea if reporters had equity training. [applause] two become aware of people were -- to become aware of people were not like them. we can be what we are not, all born a certain way with certain experiences, but we can become aware of the things we are not. that is what we might be able to bring about through some kind of concerted effort. >> okay. finally, thank you for having me. no problem. but we have done over the past near