they quickly shook off the loss to purdue winning convincingly over ohio state state at assembly hall. two old partners going at it. thad matta and groce. illinois pulled away in the second half. abrams had 13. the rest is icing on the case. egwu, huge game. gets the flush here. career high 16 points for egwu. i will i -- illinois wins to make their big ten mark 1-1. notre dame old their big east schedule against seton hall and also were dominant. scott martin had a career high six three-pointers. and the number five notre dame women on the road against number one uconn. the upset was brewing in the second half. thee sealed the upset, the irish winning against number one, 73-72. oliver purnell and depaul meeting providence. depaul in command, they go on to win 87-73. and loyola losing to young stoun state earlier. and jabari parker scores in simeon game. just two days before the national title game in miami, things getting intense monday but kind of loose today. brian kelly and the staff doing the best they can to keep the irish nice and loose for the game. dan roan has a story on med

states adopted this new vote counting scheme mitt romney would be our president today despite losing the popular majority vote in every single battleground state ohio wisconsin florida virginia pennsylvania michigan all those states romney lost but he would have ended up getting votes for them the way that the republicans are proposing changes the way congressional districts and several blue states are drawn today means it would be virtually impossible for a democrat to win the white house should all of these states adopt this new method of counting electoral college votes at least until two thousand and twenty when the next census comes due and congressional districts are redrawn again as stalin said it's not about who votes it's about how the votes are counted now you might imagine an idea like this is explosive it would hand the white house over to republican one party rule and any political party that truly believes in a democracy that reflects the will of the people were never in bay embrace an election rigging scheme like this where republicans have no shame this exact idea was first proposed in two thousand and eleven by pennsylvania's republican governor tom corbett. again that's a governor proposing it a

state of ohio, the president carries it with 51%. mitt romney carried 12 of the 16 congressional districts in the state of ohio. so this stateing a bill that says, not winner take all, do it by congressional district. the state of virginia, the governor says he dent support this law. not enough state senate republicans support this law. the state of virginia, president obama narrowly carries it. if you look at it here, it's 7 of 11. mitt romney carried seven of the 11 congressional districts so he would have won the majority of the electoral college votes. the country, if you did it by congressional district, in all 50 states, mitt romney would be the president today. what about this appears now to be dying but what makes it fascinating is if you had a change like this, look at it. if you did it that way what would change? democrats would be down campaigning in places like alabama. places like georgia. any of these voting rights states that have african-american congressional districts. we'd have a presidential campaign in which republicans would be out campaigning in california. we haven't seen that since that bush campaign

state of virginia has received three. the honorable west of the state of florida has received two. the honorable powell has received one. the honorable jordan of the state of ohio has received one. the honorable david walker has received one. the honorable cooper of the state of tennessee has received two. the honorable amash of the state of michigan has received one. the honorable dingell of the state of michigan has received one. with one recorded as present. therefore, the honorable john a. boehner of the state of ohio having received a majority of the votes cast is dually elected speaker of the house of representatives for the 113th congress. >> as you hear, the cheers going up. john boehner, definitely a divided vote. powell, colin powell. walker, david walker. you don't have to be a member of the house to be voted for for speaker. luke russert, when you look at that breakdown, it's clear that the democrats pretty much hung together behind nancy pelosi and there are there were a few other protest votes. >> they did, yeah. >> the leader is john boehner. >> the real story here is boehner, and while he is re-elected here, andrea, we have to tell you this was

states have passed some kind of voter suppression measure since early 2011. some of the toughest laws came out of swing states with republican governors, states like ohio, pennsylvaniand florida. in ohio, early voting hours were cut and new rescriptions were put on absentee ballots. down in florida, republicans put reskriks on early registration, banned felons from voting for five years. luckily after public outrage, the voter purge failed. meanwhile, states like pennsylvania and wisconsin put in place strict voter id laws. pennsylvania's law was eventually struck down, but misleading signs and billboards like this one were put up to try and trick voters. these suppression efforts directly targeted minority in low income areas there is no doubt they were meant to help elect mitt romney as president of the united states, and republicans admitted it. >> voter id, which is going to allow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania, done. >> ohio county gop chair doug price put it this way. he said, quote, we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate urban red african-american voter turnout machine. not accommodating all voters led to record long lines on

states have passed some kind of voter suppression measure since early 2011. some of the toughest laws came out of swing states with republican governors, states like ohio, pennsylvaniasin, and florida. in ohio, early voting hours were cut and new restrictions were put on absentee ballots. down in florida, republicans put restrictions on early voter registration, cut early voting, banned felons from voting for ten years. and attempted to purge thousands of voters from the state's public rolls. luckily after public outrage, the voter purge failed. meanwhile, states like pennsylvania and wisconsin put in place strict voter id laws. pennsylvania's law was eventually struck down, but misleading signs and billboards like this one were put up to try and trick voters. these suppression efforts directly targeted minority in low income areas there is no doubt they were meant to help elect mitt romney as president of the united states, and republicans admitted it. >> voter id, which is going to allow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania, done. >> ohio county gop chair doug price put it this way. he said, quote, we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate

state of virginia has received three. the honorable west of the state of florida has received two. the honorable powell has received one. the honorable jordan of the state of ohio has received one. the honorable david walker has received one. the honorable cooper of the state of tp has received two. the honorable amash of the state of michigan has received one. the honorable dingell of the state of michigan has received one. with one recorded as present. therefore the honorable john a. boehner of the state of ohio, having received a majority of the votes cast is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives for the 113th congress. the clerk appoints the following committee to escort the speaker-elect to the chair. the gentleman, mr. cantor, the gentlewoman from california, ms. pelosi, the gentleman mr. mccarthy, the gentleman from maryland, mr. hoyer, the gentlewoman mrs. mcmorris rodgers. the gentleman from oregon, mr. walden, the gentleman from california, mr. becerra, the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. lankford, the gentleman from new york, mr. crowley, the gentlewoman from kansas, ms. jenkins, the gentleman from new york, mr. israel, the gentlewoman fr

ohio state. they're underway right now with michigan state. sparty up by 8 early on.ichita state was something to behold. a classic matchup. dougy getting it down early on. this time inside the painted area. >> yeah. big play. how about williams with the nice finish. put the shockers up 2. talked about doug mcdermot. he showed up. williams here again with the finish and the foul. and they just could not do enough down the stretch. you can see her with the opportunity to get the three from ethan groggy. the shockers shock the blue jays. >> the iron unkind at the end. the three-point win for wichita state. oklahoma and kansas state. rodney mcgruder will get the three-pointer. they're off and running. >> he had 20 points today. 4 for 9. and mbuai, what a game. as i mentioned, the jayhawks coming to town tuesday. >> you sure you mentioned that? >> okay. >> north carolina today at home against a maryland team coming off an n.c. state victory. loosing 62-52. the tar heels with the win. pittsburgh beating uconn 69-61. they're even in conference play. that will just about do

republican state leadership council the party brags about how it's spent thirty million dollars in two thousand and ten to put republican majorities in state legislatures in blue states michigan ohio wisconsin pennsylvania those majorities went on to gerrymander the constitution requires every ten years even numbered years to do a census of the new redraw your cost your congressional districts so by the time the two thousand and twelve elections came along republican house seats were already well protected as the republican report notes twenty twelve could have been a repeat of two thousand and eight voters gave control the white house and both chambers of congress to democrats instead republicans enjoy a thirty three seat margin in the u.s. house having endured democratic successes atop the ticket and over one million more vote. it's cast for democratic house candidates then republicans and quote from the republicans yes the republicans admitted that voters want to democrats control in the house but republican gerrymandering prevented that from happening so isn't this basically a simple strategy if you can't win an election reveal lection hope now if it's ok if i can use a visual

states. excuse me. republicans in these states, virginia, michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, they control the state legislature, they're trying to move legislation that would make it so it's not winner take all in the electoral college. that it's proportional, so that if you have -- you win via the congressional district, which a lot of republicans are saying, well, it means local control, but take virginia, northern virginia would get the same vote as out near tennessee, which has much less population. what is the purpose behind this? >> look, it's all about giving the republicans a significant advantage in these battleground states that they've lost in the past two presidential cycles. your example of virginia, president obama won the state by four percentage points, won it by 150,000 votes. but by allocating the electoral votes by congressional district, mitt romney would have won nine electoral votes in virginia to barack obama's four. if you take that entire system nationally, emory university pointed o out that mitt romney would have won 272 electoral votes to barack obama's 276 electoral votes to barack

nixon might fit into it, and also i can't resist asking your impressions about ohio and the state of -- >> that's my home state, yeah, yeah. my wife is guilt-tripping me for not being in ohio right now, and working on the campaign, which she is doing a lot of work on right now. it's a good question. a great question. one that i think -- you often -- as a historian, you're often -- well, tell us what this tells us about today and there's part of you that says, i'm glad that question has been asked. and you get a little uncomfortable because we live in very different context, and i give that as my forewarning. i personally think that this sort of aggressive cold war foreign policy that is central to this book, the kind of language that liberation -- the kind of characterization of containment as being wimpy and defensive. i think that was the central underlying but suppressed element in that debate between obama and romney on foreign policy. i think romney -- i read a few -- about that debate and one of the things i went back and read was romney's speech in virginia where he made the most -- the kind of boldest

internationally results in jobs in the united states. 20% of our jobs in the united states rely on international business. 40% of our jobs in the state of ohio, our home state, rely on international business. so that international business and being globally competitive is incredibly important to the growth of our company and to the growth of the economy in the united states. we have the world's best global companies in the united states, but right now we're putting them at a disadvantage with our tax policy, with our fiscal policy and with many of the things that i've already talked about. thank you. >> thank you. um, i actually agree with you strongly that we have to do a tax reform, and we can't have taxes that make our companies uncompetitive. and i agree with you that we've got to reform entitlements and bring down the cost of entitlements. but as a leader in the business commitment, you have a bit of a pr problem, don't you, in selling that message? so i'd like you just to face that a little bit. how does the business community sort of frame it message to be part of the debate about what to do? >> well, i think, i think any american wh

state of ohio has received 220. the honorable nancy pelosi of the state of california has received 192. >> eliot: while pelosi got solid support with five democrats voting against her a dozen conservative republicans either abstained or lined up against boehner casting votes instead or candidates including majority leader eric cantor of virginia and tea party firebrand allen west. perhaps nobody told them west lost his election. when pelosi handed boehner a symbolic people's gavel boehner resisted the temptation to use it on the rebels in his own caucus. he returned to his favorite topic, reducing the national debt. >> at $16 trillion and rising, our national debt is draining free enterprise and weakening. in our hearts, we know it is wrong to pass this debt on to our kids and grandkids. now we have to be willing truly willing to make this problem right. >> eliot: with rest of house conservatives threatening to hold the debt ceiling hostage to force cuts in social problems, gridlock appears to be underway. for more on the state of the house, i'm joined by congressman jerry nadler, a good friend and congressman from new york. congratulations on starting this process all over again. good luck. >> thank you. we'll need it. >> eliot: you will, indeed. it was striking at the end when the fiscal cliff vote did occur. speaker boehner did something that some people actually admire. he brought the bill to the floor and got it passed with 85 republican votes and lot more democratic votes. what does that portend, do you think, for legislating as we go forward? is this the unique example that will somehow be the outliar or does this suggest some sort of convergence of interest is possible? >> i don't know. if we're going to get any kind of deals done that will stop government lurching from crisis to crisis, we're going to need to put together coalitions of democrats and republicans and you won't be able to allow the 75 or 100 hard right tea party types in the republican party to dictate the outcome. the only way you're

ohio. ♪ now advancing, the illinois state float celebrates the home state of president obama and the birthplace michelle obama. the land of lincoln float features american flags, the state flag, and a panorama of the capitol. the state seal adorns the front of the float. the float is approximately 20 feet long, 8 feet wide -- >> the south shore drill team from chicago. the president's hometown. the first lady's hometown. they've come here. two major gifts allowed them to come here. from walgreens. they raised the money. they are here. attending this inauguration. you can see the president, he's pretty excited to see what's going on. >> special because they were unable to attend the first inauguration because of lack of funds. so this is very special for them this time. >> they're going right in front of the reviewing stand right now. you see the president and the first lady. the vice president. >> there's a huge set of speakers heading our way. we'll see that right behind them. >> they're moving. >> here we go, here we go. >> the president's moving too. >> how can you not? >> that's right. ♪ >>

ohio and these were the last two key battleground states. around 11:00, the network finally called it for florida and that meant there was one crucial state outstandingio. whoever won ohio would be the electoral college. the exit polls were in and they showed kerry winning ohio by 4.2% and suddenly millions of people started logging onto the secretary of state computer in ohio. traffic went through the roof, it went up 700%. that meant the computers in tennessee had to be kicked in at 11:14:00 p.m.. suddenly in county after county there were striking anomalies and in the next 10 counties in a row. this raises a lot of serious questions about who actually won the election. i went about as far as i could in tracing this down, and the terms of pinning it down conclusively, unfortunately, there were still some unanswered questions. the reason for that is that again and again, all the evidence was damaged and there was a court order as a result of one of the lawsuits to impound all the ballots. but suddenly over a million ballots were damaged or disappeared. in 2006, new secretary of state, democratic secretary of state was elected in ohio and she was abo

state, the state of kentucky? >> well, the ohio river is pretty tough to draw -- >> jimmy: you don't have to draw top graphically, just the outline of the state. >> i can get the gist. >> jimmy: okay, get the gist. okay, jordan now. earrings. you don't expect that from kentucky. seems kind of like an l.a. thing to me. jordan is drawing kentucky. either that or -- okay. i'll be honest, i don't know what kentucky looks like. oh, that's not bad at all. that's pretty good. [ applause ] >> welcome to the prize globe. take something. >> jimmy: jordan, what kind of prize do you got there, jordan? >> oh, man. fantastic. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: nicely done. do we have another pedestrian there? all right. what is your name? >> hello. i'm mary mitchell. >> jimmy: where are you from? >> i'm from brooklyn, new york, where you're from. >> jimmy: oh, very nice. now, mary, do you think you could draw the state of new york? >> uh -- i don't know, i'll try. >> jimmy: all right, give it a try, mary. there's the pen. go ahead and draw it right there on that piece of paper. we'll take a look at it. we'll evaluate it. who knows, maybe you get to put your

states have passed some type of voter suppression law. some of the toughest laws came out of the swing states, like ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin and florida. in ohio, early voting hours were cut and new restrictions were put on absentee ballots. down in florida, republicans put restrictions on voter registration, cut early voting hours, banned felons from voting for five years. and attempted to purge 180,000 voters from the state'sing rolls. luckily after public outrage, the voter purge failed. meanwhile, states like wisconsin put in strict photo id laws. pennsylvania's law was later struck down, but misleading signs and billboards like this one were put up to try and trick voters. these suppression efforts directly targeted minorities and low income voters, no doubt this was meant to help them vote for mitt romney. >> he is going to win the state of pennsylvania, done. >> ohio county gop chair doug price put it this way, he said "we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate urban red afternoon-american turning out machines. not accommodating voters led to record-long lines on election day. in the state of florida there were reports of people waiting in line as long as seven hours to vote. these voter suppression tactics must stop, and president obama said he wants action on it. >> whether you voted for the first time or waited in line for a very long time, by the way, we have to fix that. >> yes. >> i

might fit into it and also, can't resist asking your impressions about ohio on the state of the election. >> that's my home state my wife is guilt tripping me for not being in ohio right now i'm working on the campaign, which she is doing a lot of work on right now. it's a good question. it's a great question and one that i think about a lot and as a historian you are often asked, tell us what -- tell us about the day and there's a part of you that says you get a little but a comfortable because it's a very different context. i give that as my forewarning. i personally think this sort of aggressive cold war foreign-policy that's central to this book, the language rollback, liberation, the kind of characterization of containment is being wimpy and defensive, i think you know the central underlying buts of pressed element in that debate between obama and romney on foreign-policy. i think romney, you know i have read in salon about that debate and one of the things i went back and read was from the speech in virginia where he made the kind of bold a statement on foreign-policy. that is a rough speech. that is the s

states like ohio and nevada. the home state of the senate democratic leader harry reid who it is significant today basically said the president's proposals were today in his words thoughtful but harry reid did not promise any dramatic action on all of this. a sign that democrats on the hill still may be skiddish in some of these swing states that it could back fire on them if they push too hard on gun control. >> getting reaction from the gun lobby. what are we hearing from. >> they the nra said they think this was an assault on firearms by the president. they got personal today. they put out an ad that basically talked about the president's own daughters and the security they have at their school and suggested in their words the president was an elitist hypocrite. take a listen. >> are the president's kids more important than yours? why see skeptical about putting armed security in their schools when they have armed guards at their school. jay carney immediately said this was completely out of bounds. he put out a statement most americans believe a president's childrens should not be used as pawns in the political fight. to go so far to make the children subject of attack ad repugnant. clear sign of day one of the president's proposals being laid out here that he has a major showdown on his hands, bill. >> bill: big batt

do internationally results in jobs in the united states. 20% of our jobs in the united states rely on an international business. 40% in the state of ohio our home state relies on international business. so that international business and being globally competitive is incredibly important to their growth of our company and to the growth of the economy and the allied states. we have the world's best company in the united states but right now we are putting them at a disadvantage with our tax policy, with our fiscal policy and with many of the things i've already talked about. >> thank you. >> i agree with you strongly that we have to do a tax reform and we can't have taxes that make our companies competitive. i agree that we have to reform entitlements and bring down the cost of entitlements. but as a leader in the business community, you have a bit of a problem, don't you? i would like you to say is that a little bit how does the business community for and its message to be part of the debate about what to do? >> i think any american that knew that we had the highest corporate tax rate in the world second to none would agree that is pro

states as well are going to be up in 2014. this really is that golden window of opportunity in these states. it's a lot of states, michigan, ohiong some efforts at the state legislative level. i do think if these rules were change thad lot of these states it could have some big repercussions. certainly democrats are already pretty vocal on this and coming out against it. i think it's just worth bearing in mind the unintended consequence it could have. you'll have candidates focusing on individual districts like president obama did back in 2008 when he won omaha's one electoral vote from their second congressional district. the only time in any state the electoral votes have been split. you'd see a lot more concentrated efforts in that way. state-wide races are not won by congressional district congressional district. if these seats go back to democratic control or if they shift between democratic and republican it could have -- >> a mess. we'd have another make of this and that the republican party are having all kinds of strategy sessions talking about how they're going to move forward and trying to be a more open and inclusiv

ohio state. scott with the transition, one- handed slam thompson. and it's good. ohio beats michigan state. the cap to the women's basketball team they beat stanford in pac-12 play first loss for stanford in 81 games. >> it was an upset. >> yes. it's the first time stanford has lost since 2009 in the pac- 12. so nice win for the bears. >>> it's 6:26. coming up, outrageous overtime. how san francisco's muni managed to go $18 million over budget. >> and following a bloody weekend, oakland plans to take drastic measures to curb gun violence in their city. >>> another very chilly morning in the bay area with some freeze warnings in effect. just how cold is it in your neighborhood and when can we expect things to finally heat up? we'll have that for you coming up. [ male announcer ] e career landscape of america is changing. new jobs are here, and by 2025 we could have millions more that demand qualified college graduates. many in the bay area. at devry university, our market-responsive bachelor's and master's degree programs can give you what you need to succeed in today's careers and the ones o

state were issues that were totally marketable around her candidacy. on the other hand, in other states they were not equally as marketable. in the state of ohio for an example, it was clear that the incredible number of racial minorities who turned out did so for barack obama. they didn't do so just for the democratic party. so i still think the democratic party at the moment has to rely upon the incredible personality of the individual candidacies before they can even get to the part of where they talk about a party agenda. >> john nichols, an interesting development today. the administration has announced that its transitioning its campaign apparatus into a tax exempt group called organizing for action. that's the new name for what was once called obama for america. the goal, according to politico, is to play an active role in support of the president's agenda. >> the president has the most exciting campaign apparatus ever built. it's time to turn that loose. it's time to turn that loose for something more than just an election, right? if the nra has got a list, then obama for america has a bigger list. >> i'm not sure what they think of th

internationally results in jobs in the united states. 20% of our jobs in the united states rely on our new national business. 40% of the jobs in the state of ohio, our home state, rely on international business. that international business and being globally competitive is incredibly important to the growth of our economy and to the growth of the economy in the united states. we have the world east best global companies in the united states, but right now, we are putting them at a disadvantage with our tax policy, with our fiscal policy, and with many of the things that i already talked about. thank you. >> thank you. i, actually, agree with you strongly that we have to do tax reform, and we can't have taxes that make our companies uncompetitive, and i agree with you that weave got to reform entitlements and bring down the cost of entitle ms -- entitlements, but as leader in the business community, you have a problem relaying that message. how does the business community sort of frame its message to the part of the debate about what to do? >> well, i think -- i think any american who knew that we had the highest corporate tax rate in the world,

state of ohio so far six hundred people have signed up from states including ohio but also arizona california florida illinois west virginia and new jersey it also is not just futures it is traders principal superintendents you know office staff guidance counselors. that for food service people transfer to should people the pilot training program would include a cross-section of those who already have a concealed carry permit to those who have little to no experience with guns it will be extensive and tailored to help school officials prepare for school violence like what took place in connecticut. so i want to talk more about this idea with jim hansen a military blogger with black five dot net jim going to say on the show i just want first get your take i mean what do you think about this idea of arming teachers and also about the fact that so many people have signed up for it first of all amidst a cornucopia of really bad ideas to try and solve this horrendous problem i think this is actually a good one i mean not all teachers are in any way going to be suited for this but the ones who are i think given the choice between unarmed victims and armed people who may as well in here said be able to actually stop a shooting like this why not and we you know we should mention this is a voluntary program but when you look at the facts and you look especially at history i mean arming people isn't necessarily a disincentive for shooters and might actually put passers by in more danger we saw of course what happened with the times square shooting back in august in new york city and nine people injured because you know the police got involved and they had their guns and you know accidentally shot people who they thought may or may not have been suspects we had you know the fort hood shooting this took place on a military base where there's plenty of weapons and that didn't stop so many victims none of those people of fort hood had their weapons with them because they were essentially disarmed by the u.s. military the problem is if you look at three of the four last mass shootings they occurred in gun free zones no you know we think about the victims they were definitely gun free they were bullets filled there was no women are criminals don't follow laws crazy people don't follow laws so the idea that you can put a sign on the wall this is gun free zone what you've done is create security theater you've done absolutely nothing as far as making people safe so the idea that disarming victims and creating pools of people who can't defend themselves is a good idea isn't a good idea what about though the notion i mean that this would change the face of the society that we live in i think we have to think about you know where. what kind of future we want for our children do we want them to attend schools with armed teachers that you know what happened in newtown certainly was tragic it was devastating and disgusting but but is this the kind of country that we want to live in that has armed teachers in our schools if i have to choose between armed teachers or dead school children i'll take on teachers every single time it may not solve the problem it's definitely not a panacea there are plenty of other issues related to this mental health probably being a more prevalent problem but if you're going to say that having an armed teacher is somehow putting the children at risk we already trust them with our children's lives why not given the opportunity to protect them if that were in the situation occur i think you have to look at what you know having armed teachers with bring on i mean i think it would bring on the fact that many of these teachers could be slightly mentally unstable and after a rough day with the first grade class could go reach for the gun you know how do we prevent that is that going to involve you know boat loads more paperwork and things that you know for a teacher or a chemistry teacher obviously is small enough to make cyanide and could lock the door and kill all the kids if you wanted to anyhow so i don't think the idea that guns are the issue creates a bigger problem the problem is if you create gun free zones if you create places where you disarm the law abiding citizens and innocent victims without offering anyone a chance to stop it look at virginia tech how long did that guy around the campus shooting people because nobody had a gun. so i mean i guess what do you think i mean do you think not only elementary schools but colleges and everywhere i mean is there anywhere that that you know people there shouldn't have guns bars drunk people probably shouldn't have guns but i think law abiding people should give the last time i read it the second amendment says the right to keep and bear arms that doesn't mean in a locked cabinet at home or it doesn't do any good downtown d.c. where we're sitting right now is one of most dangerous places on earth and yet i don't have a right to carry a weapon around here because the d.c. city council doesn't trust me with a gun me with a gun is a safe boo for the rest of society there are other people like me and if they're trained if their background checked and authorized to carry weapons they make the world a safer and better place and for the most part i mean i would think that you know a lot of people do have the best intentions in mind but it only takes you know one person as we saw in the case of newtown. you know to make these bad decisions i mean is there a way to even begin to regulate this there is no way to make perfection we expect perfection in this society and we think you can take any problem and remove all the risk and make the world perfect can't do it so you do the art of the possible the art of the possible says if you disarm people you create a pool of victims if you allow people who've been properly vetted to go ahead and exercise the right we all have the constitution you at least have a chance to defend yourself i want to go back to something you were talking about as far as washington d.c. you said it's one of the most dangerous place that has one strict strictest gun laws in the nation at work i just ended the year with the lowest crime rate since one nine hundred sixty one so it is in fact not the most dangerous just because it had five hundred thirty two gun homicides this year and yet they have completely restrictive gun laws in chicago you can make laws you can't make criminals and crazy people follow so i mean the idea that you can regulate this away is a farce just last question for you jim i mean what. we saw three weeks ago with newtown we saw a december that saw some of the highest gun sales in history we saw you know more people buying guns than ever and then this program the arms teachers program we saw at least so far six hundred people signed up why do you think that is people assume that brack obama the liberals in congress are going to do what they promised which is make some extremely dumb rules which have absolutely no effect on people's actual safety so try to get ahead of the power curve by going now because you may not be able to get one later right always interesting to talk to you i think it's important to get all these perspectives out there jim hansen a military blogger black five time at. well when we hear the term burden of proof we usually associate it with prosecutors trying to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone is guilty of a crime most of us wouldn't think about this term in relation to nine eleven first responders we know of we know who is guilty and what occurred on september eleventh we have seen the faces of the al qaeda members responsible for claiming the lives of some three thousand men women and children but it turns out that the volunteers who surrendered their time and health to help a city in need are now being asked to do something they've never been asked before in order to access financial help with their medical bills as part of a funding stablished in congress in two thousand and ten volunteers must now prove they actually were on the scene helping out the document according to the law must be quote witnessed or sworn but in the resulting chaos of the tragedy and cleanup it's not an easy task to talk more about all of this i'm joined now by jamie hazen ground zero volunteer hey there jamie thanks for being on the show i know you were a volunteer first responder at ground zero what drew you to volunteer and what kind of work did you do yes christine thank you so much for covering this is such an incredibly important topic and it means an enormous amount of thousands of people that descended upon ground zero in new york so i was a former new york state e.m.t. i was certified for six years so i wasn't actually certified at the time of the attacks but there were only so many people in new york state on manhattan island at that time so you did what anyone else would have done you went down to help out your city so that's what i did i volunteered initially on day one at chelsea piers doing triage work and then i headed downtown the next day to volunteer at ground zero doing rescue and recovery work obviously jamie no way to know that when you did that when you kind of stepped up and to step in that you were you know no way to know that you were a risk for you know illness talk to me about your story what kind of illnesses you can contract and you know how did you know for sure that they're actually a result of you volunteering at ground zero. well the truth is at first i really didn't know christina had no clue why i couldn't breathe happened you know a lot of the physical the psychological symptoms they sit in fairly quickly and i suff

state redrew their legislative decline tw. in many states the majority party gets to do what they want. you have states like michigan or ohior wisconsin where president obama won the states. you might typically think of them as democratic states. republicans were in charge of redistricting. they helped sustain their majorities with redistricting. host: here is a question on twitter -- aren't most states going to face issues with the lavish pensions and benefits they have given four years? guest: most have liabilities looking into the future. what states have been doing is they have been reducing the generosity of the benefits. they have been requiring employees to pay more. they have been contributing more of their own money to help pay for the benefits. one of the deepest problems as illinois. they have over $100 billion in pension reliability. there was the debate over the changes to the pension system. it was something that will continue to come up. host: 2011, we see illinois topping the list. the jersey, arizona, and that the following as states with tight lists. caller: i have been washington journal for a long time a

states that they targeted including pennsylvania wisconsin ohio and michigan once they got charge of those state legislatures and the governors' offices the republicans gerrymandered the congressional districts to increase the number of safe republican seats and fracture this a safe democratic seats that's one reason why house democratic candidates received more than a million votes more than house republican candidates around the nation last november it republicans still hold a majority in the house of representatives and republicans are now using these gerrymandered states to push their bold a step yet to read the next presidential election. looks like it's going to happen first in virginia instead of a winner take all system or whoever wins the state wins the states vote for president republicans want virginia's electoral college votes to be doled out based on which presidential candidate wins each congressional district with an extra two votes going to the states popular vote winner republicans in wisconsin ohio pennsylvania and michigan are considering similar changes and r. and c. chair reince priebus recently threw his support behind the idea just how big of an advantage will republicans get thanks to these kind of changes consider this president obama swept the six battleground states florida michigan ohio pennsylvania virginia and wisconsin in the last election since the winner take all system president got one hundred sixty electoral college votes and romney got zero . but had this new scheme been in place before the last election then the presi

ohio state because the registered. -- a student graduate from ohio state because they registered. need to make certain that we have a culture of change in flexibility, opportunity, but we maintain the quality standards. one of the great issues in this country which is positive is that the 50 major universities in the world, 40 of them are in this country. we still leave the world in terms of higher education. this issue of as making certain the students do have an ability to attain a degree and to move on to life is very important. i like to think of this as a continuing. -- continuum. we have 315 million souls in this country. china has 1.3 billion. they're growing their irritation system very fast. -- higher education systems very fast. host: next up is adamant in california. -- adam in california. caller: thank you both. i just wanted to ask a couple questions. and what would you all consider to be the defining moment of the decline in education in general and america -- in america? i think it would be when my beloved country decided to treat its children's education differently

state that takes longest to close. it includes florida, new york, new jersey, connecticut, illinois, ohio. and those are the states in 2012 where we saw some pretty substantial increases in foreclosure activity from 2011. and so those are the statesstruggling with foreclosure crisis because of that long foreclosure process. >> do we have any idea at all nationwide how many homeowners are currently seriously under water on loans and in danger of forclosing? do we have that kind of data? >> yes. on top of the people in foreclosure, we have an even bigger pool of homeowners under water. that's 10.9 million nationwide. which is about 26%. >> that's a lot. >> the good news there is that 10.million is down from 12.5 million a year ago. that slowly is getting better but that 10.9 million is a huge pool of potential risk in the market. >> it is slowly getting better. how severe do you think the problem is in five years. how many of those 11 million under water homeowners will have positive equity in five years time? >> i think we will see probably at least half -- at least worth 5 million of the homeowners in five years time will have positive equity. >> wait it out, right? have the patience or fortitude to make the payments. even though

then there was the current ohio secretary of state, john huestead, who tried to change the rules for early voting in his state. that didn't work. in other states the changes to early voting rules caused massive voting problems. >> the lines for early voting are long, and for many time-consuming. you were in line how long? >> for an hour and 55 minutes, to be exact. >> reporter: at the alafaya library on east colonial the line was out the door and down the street. the neighborhood looked like a sea of cars. >> if i had waited until tuesday, i think that probably would have been more stress and the lines are definitely going to be longer. >> today the "orlando sentinel" newspaper reported more than 200,000 people in florida did not vote because of the long lines. those lines were engineered by republican governor rick scott, who made last-minute changes to early voting schedules. republicans in florida jammed the ballot with initiative after initiative, creating a very long voting experience. these efforts all fell flat because the american people were wise to the republican tricks. it got a lot of media covera