. >> and in hebrew it's -- >> rabbi chaol praver learned noah posner was dead, the youngest victim of lanza's rampage. the shooting at sandy hook elementary thrust them into the national spotlight. >> these darkest days of our community shall not be the final word heard from us. >> reporter: and the massacre transformed them both into advocates for stricter gun laws in america. >> it connected me in ways to other communities and other people who have been impacted by gun violence and made me more aware of that impact and a real emotional human level. >> it's the ticket that we've been handed and that we have a responsibility to put into the game, you know? that's the newtown card, you know? we didn't ask for it but we were served it. so i feel like that's a commandment from god for me to do something with that. >> reporter: the rabbi and the reverend were acquaintances before but the sandy hook mack massacre forged anew position. >> they call us the god squad. notion gets pasnothing gets pas. >> they went to washington for a back on assault rifles but couldn't muster the votes. but th

. >> right now we want to introduce you to gerald posner, author of several books, his most recent is this one for, god spankers, history of money and power at the vatican. his published by simon & schuster. who is god spankers? who are? >> who are. they change every 20 years or so. the one person who runs the vatican bank is the pope. the only shareholder of the vatican bank. they hire laminar in the details of the internet's of money, but the person, the people responsible for the finances of the vatican are the same people who run the religion. >> how big is the vatican bank to allow, how much money does it hold and who has access? >> sort of reverse order. who has access is a small group of people. by its charter was created in world war ii and is only been around for 70 years. the onlythe only people that are supposed to have access are citizens of vatican city , let's sores and catholic charities. in practice it has been manhandled and misuse for years. that aside, who hasaside, who has control over it, not only the pope was the only shareholder but in addition it is about the s

. >> one thing i found interesting is there were some words from eric posner, university of chicago law professor and a very well known one. decidingly not a trump fan. what he says donald trump is proposing is not constitutional and he supplies all the legal precedence and says the security doesn't like to get between the president and the congress on these issues. there's been a history, the chinese exclusion act and the supreme court let it stand. there are plenty of grounds, he says, for this to be constitutional. >> but i think it's what i was talking about earlier. a lot of false choices being presented on national security. donald trump on one hand saying we have to ban all muslims from coming into the country or risk a national security attack. there is a third wave, ted cruz has talked about it. maybe we should look at just refugees coming from countries that have a lot of terrorist population. that is a practical response to the terroria terror we face. a smart-target approach that allows refugees from other countries to be welcomed. >> we'll talk more about this ahead. i want

noaa posner, caroline pervidi, jessica ricos, evial richmond, benjamin wheeler, allison wyatt. now, there are a hand full of hs that aren't on that list because there were children in victoria soto's classroom that were able to escape. likely, as investigators belie believe, when adam lanza had to reload his weapon to put another 30 bullets in it. and so three years later, as we grieve those 26, we are still having these awful, seering questions to ponder. what would have happened if lanza didn't have an assault rifle? would he even have had the perverse courage to walk into that school if not aided by the security of having a high-powered killing machine? would less kids have died? what if his cartridges had six or ten bullets instead of 30? would more kids be alive? would someone have been able to stop him while he fumbled with another reload? the facts of sandy hook are hard to hear over and over but they're important because they should have educated us on ways that we could come together to make another mass shooting less likely. but we ignored sandy hook and it happened a

for those of you who read marks posner german question it's taken lock stock and barrel from marks theea that technology allows us to realize our species , that we have this network 2 billion people in all this data, dna. we are all becoming information we can share that information and become community. but of course it's nonsense and worse than nonsense it's dangerous nonsense. c-span: why is it dangerous? >> guest: it's dangerous because it's not true. it's dangerous for two reasons. firstly as he realized in his great work it's the interior that's so important and the role of government, is to protect that interior. i am the book at the museum in amsterdam gazing at the great artists of the interior. i'm a believer in that liberalism and i'm a believer in now and the idea of protecting the individual to think for themselves and the social tends to lead itself to conformity. that's the first thing. the second thing is that the social, i don't think being social is a bad thing. don't think we should lock ourselves in our rooms. i'm not in favor of going back to the cave and separatin

we think it's very attractive. >> jordan posner from matrix asset advisers. more "power lunch" in just two minutes. hey work all the time. sup jj? working hard? working 24/7 on mobile trader, rated #1 trading app in the app store. it lets you trade stocks, options, futures... even advanced orders. and it offers more charts than a lot of the other competitors do in desktop. you work so late. i guess you don't see your family very much? i see them all the time. did you finish your derivative pricing model, honey? for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. >>> welcome back, everyone. i'm sue herera with breaking news on the hotel fire taking place at the address hotel in dubai. we have officials making some comments saying that there are no injuries at this point and that the new year's celebrations will take place. we're waiting for more comments from the media. the fire started reportedly outside the 20th floor of the hotel. it has spread considerably since we went on the air with this story about an hour and a half ago. right now they're sa

. >> and this is eric posner of the university of chicago, and he said as you do, probably not.reme court has held consistently for more than a century that constitutional benefits that apply to americans do not apply to congress when they can decide who to admit and who do not. >> and religion has a special place in the constitution, and i would say it would be a broad prohibition. and john adams in a letter to thomas jefferson said that he was hoping to keep all of the catholics out, and can any free k country survive without catholics and he said, quote, never theless, we are bound by the system of of constitutional laws to admit them with asylum. >> and now, what about members of a suspect group has never been woven into our fabric of the nation like this. >> we all know that, don. and the puritans came here to escape religious persecution in europe and every other group, quakers and all of colonial american history is about how america got formed in the revolution, and was about this, and allan just mentioned thomas jefferson and one of the most moving documents i have ever

the case but i thought very hard together with the judge to make sure we got the majority opinion posnerhe became a partner at the law firm in 1998. can you talk about what the law firm culture was like for gays and lesbians at that point? just generally and what it is like now. >> guest: talk about a revolution. paul weiss truly kind of a beacon in this area. there have been openly gay partners of paul weiss. but it's a place that was kind of sounded based on principles of the diversity and openness. that was the foundational dna of the firm for lack of a better term. it was never an issue but paul weiss was certainly influenced by the rest of society. and back then in 1998 they were very few gave people who felt comfortable in all stacks -- aspects of their life. you might be out as i was to your friends. you may be out to close colleagues at work, but i wasn't out for example, to my adversaries. i don't think i was out to judged i know it wasn't out to judge kaye went to the adoption of gays. and it was kind of this halfway in have without kind of life where you all the time really we

and on america posner non-recession, recession, lakshman achuthan. "bloomberg surveillance." from our world headquarters in new york. jon ferro is in london. what have you learned in the last 24 hours? jon: what we thought was cheap is not necessarily cheap. trying to figure this out. we do not know where the bottom as, and you know what? went on think we will know for quite some time yet. it is a big deal. us onaul gate will join the state of write-downs and balance sheet adjustments. right now, our first word news this morning from london. 's call to banp muslims from entering the u.s. is being widely been announced, even by fellow republicans. jeb bush calls him unhinged, john kasich said it is an example for why he is unsuited for the presidency. the shooters in the california massacre practiced firing their guns at ranges in the los angeles area, according to the fbi. authorities say the couple went shooting days before the attack in san bernardino that killed 14 people. transatlantic flight got diverted to canada overnight after the carrier received a threat. the jet wa