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lindsey graham knows full well, wayne lapierre knows full well, gayle trotter knows full well and sheldon whitehouse a question which lapierre ducked. if you talk to hard core members of the nra, they will admit, as senator whitehouse said, they will admit you don't need an ar-15 to defend your home or go hunting or go target shooting or anything else. they want those guns because the police have those guns. and they believe that they will have to fight the police, and they want to be as heavily armed as the police when that happens. that is the underlying philosophy. >> so they think in terms of a barricade situation where it's them against the law. >> absolutely. >> congresswoman, that is new. it used to be they would say we're sportsmen, we're hunters, and then they would say whatever, self-protection if you live in a tough neighborhood or whatever. now they openly say we have to fight the government. that's pretty close to insurrection time, isn't it? we have to be ready to fight the government? >> this is what we've been hearing for a couple months, to be very honest with you. we heard these ar

speakers include sheldon whitehouse, van jones, and representatives from the sierra club. but coverage begins at noon eastern at c-span. >> he thought she was the smartest person he ever knew. he knew how much she loved him. he knew that she would tell him the truth. she was not going to sugarcoat. one of the tapes i love that came out was the one where she is analyzing his speech. he asked her to do it. she was really tough on him. she started out nice. mother always would start off nuys. -- start off nice. he atomic of the time, your mother has the best judgment of anybody -- he would tell me all the time, your mother

give it up for senator sheldon whitehouse. make some noise. [applause] >> thank you. thank you.elcome. welcome to our nation's capital. welcome to our peoples mall. there is a lot of history here of americans coming to this place to make their voices heard. so thank you for coming and and joining that history of american voices. your voices can make a difference. your voice is a need to make a difference. because congress is sleepwalking through this crisis and it's time to wake up. [applause] help wake us up. add your voice as a citizen of the climate change taskforce with me and congressman waxman of california. sign up at wakeuptoclimatechange.com and make your voice is heard. you know, the polluters do not want you here. they do not want you here. they do not want your voices heard. have the lobbyists. they have the super pac's. they have this town in their pockets. they have the situation under control. and then you show up. and then that we show up. and we change the game. you brought your voices. are you going to be heard? [applause] you know we need to hear you. are you

and the health of the humanity i want to play a clip that you got from rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse who's been at the forefront of this issue about the pipeline for quite a while so let's listen to what he had to say. the state will be. very responsible just a game over for our country on climate and i think also game over secretary kerry and president obama's credibility on this issue too. these big speeches and that the first thing out of the box is the project that it's game over. you know i really like what it does say but you know it certainly is game over because we really expect obama to act i mean here he is he has the oil companies in his pocket i mean they funded his campaign not to mention the koch brothers are really poised to really profit immensely from this pipeline going to regularly has their oil fields what do you think i think you know it's difficult to say you know there are a lot of skeptics out there who say you know it's really going to be hard for him to turn his back on these big oil companies the lobbyist to just you know fossil fuel industry huge industry

many of the folks at the rally, including senator sheldon whitehouse were there to show their support for president obama in hopes that he will make good on his promise and take action. >> it's not just us. there is a man over there in the white house. he has found his voice on climate change. are we going to have his back? >> well, the words "climate change" were not said during any of the three 2012 presidential debates. the majority of the republican party refuses to accept the scientific reality of climate change. ignoring the issue didn't stop. record temperatures, droughts, rising sea levels, super storms, and extreme weather events. and let's not forget that bobby jindal says republicans need to stop being the stupid party, anti-woman, anti-worker, anti-science. >> if this endeavor becomes a bidding war to see who can come up with the easiest, quickest, and cheapest pathway to greencard possible, this is not going to go well. >> republican hypocrisy is on full display as marco rubio trashes his own policies because the president agrees with him. >>> and luv gov mark sanford is

[applause]>> today, rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse, author and former white house advisor, and representatives from the sierra club will be among the speakers at the forward on climate rally. coverage beginning at noon eastern here on c-span. >> i think the women themselves in many cases, were interested in politics but had no vehicle to express that in their own lives. they were attracted to men who were going to become politically active or were already politically after if -- active. >> each of them i find intriguing, probably half of them, precisely because they are so obscure. half of these women would probably be totally unrecognizable to most men and women on the street. >> this presidents' day, c-span premieres its new series "first ladies, influence and image." with historians, chief of staff, social secretaries, and curators exploring the lives of the women who served as first lady from martha washington to michelle obama. in a first of its kind project for television. season one begins monday night at nine o'clock eastern pacific on c-span and c-span.org. >> senate j

among the people demonstrating was sheldon whitehouse, the senator from rhode island. there were other big heavy hitters there. it was not like president obama did not know we were throughout and doing this on this freezing cold day that we trudged out there on that day. but it says something about i think, the nature of this white house. that he would go out there with jim crane, on this day of all days. jim crane, as you said, not just an investor in natural gas in oil, as you said but also an investor in the very thing we were protesting which was the keystone pipeline as well as an investor in the offshore drilling operation that led to the british petroleum disaster of several years back. it says something pretty horrible about what it takes to get the president's ear. it is like what can i do? can i organize 30,000 of my closest friends to go out on a frigid day and march with my 8-year-old and my 4-year-old who are screaming at me as being the worst dad in the world for dragging them out on this freezing day? should i do that or just make a million billion dolla

give it up for senator sheldon whitehouse. make some noise. [applause] >> thank you. thank you.ome to our nation's capital. welcome to our peoples mall. there is a lot of history here of americans coming to this place to make their voices heard. so thank you for coming and adjoining that history of american voices. your voices can make a difference. your voice is a need to make a difference. because congress is sleepwalking through this crisis and it's time to wake up. [applause] help wake us up. add your voice as a citizen of the climate change taskforce with me and congressman waxman of california. sign up at wakeuptoclimatechange.com and make your voice is heard. you know, the polluters do not want you here. they do not want you here. they do not want your voices heard. have the lobbyists. they have the super pac's. they made the campaignthey have this town in their contributions. pockets. they have the situation under control. and then you show up. and then that we show up. and we change the game. [applause] you brought your voices. are you going to be heard? [applause] you

. >> stephanie: as you note, sheldon whitehouse pointed out the gun was not subject to any demands --, it is only a shotgun. i'm going to proceed. >> right. there was actually a -- somebody stopped a shooter -- a coach that stopped a shooter at a school just this last -- on friday or something. he was using a legal gun. he was using a gun that would not be banned under the assault weapons ban. so, it is not as if these guns -- lindsey graham talking about -- >> stephanie: i was just going to say -- weird things you wrote about lindsey graham, i can't repeat on radio. >> go to rude pundit to read them. >> stephanie: told a story of another woman using a gun. shot an assailant five times. she had twins. would i be reasonable american to want a family to have a 15-round magazine in a semiautomatickic to make sure if there's two intruders she doesn't run out of bullets? does that make sense? you say yes but what if there was a shark driving a helicopter, would one be unreasonable in asking for a launcher? this is what i mean. it is the imagined scenarios that don't happen. >> we're living

sheldon whitehouse, senator from rhode island pointed out -- i think you mentioned earlier, in everyun we used in every single case was not one of the ones that would be banned by the assault weapons ban. >> that's right. >> bill: there were not weapons of war. >> she couldn't come up with one example of an ar-15 being used by a woman to protect herself. >> bill: this is a woman who is a spokeswoman for more women to have more guns. laura bassett covers women's issues particularly in the congress. we've touched on a lot of them. your comments, questions welcome here as we continue on the "full court press." >> announcer: radio meets television. the "bill press show." now on current tv. agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. they think this world isn't big enough for the both of them. but we assure you - it is. bites. little greatness. wh

now i'm working with sheldon whitehouse in the senate to make that a piece of our solution to this problem part -- it will be part of the senate bill passed today, do you believe? >> it will be. and you know, it's part of our strategy to say we've got to have balance as we move forward and you know, it recognizes that our country faces two challenges. getting our economy back on track and responsibly reducing our deficit. so we have to make sure that everyone has a fair shot and that everyone does their fair share. that's what the buffett rule is all about. >> bill: absolutely is all about. senator tammy baldwin from wisconsin, our guest here on our news line this morning on the "full court press." senator, we learned earlier today on the show from congresswoman donna edwards that john boehner has said congress is going home today. they're done. they're not going to be here tomorrow so even if the senate acts today the house won't be here to act tomorrow. so we're going see the sequester, aren't we? >> you know, i fear that will be the case. i was beginning to predict that in the last coup

give it up for senator sheldon whitehouse! make some noise! ♪ >> thank you.elcome to the nation's capital. welcome to our people. there is a lot of history here, and americans coming to this place to make their voices heard. so thank you for coming and joining that history of american voices. your voice his can make a difference in your voice is needed to make a difference. because congress is sleepwalking through the crisis and it is time to wake. [applause] held a week -- help to wake us up, as a member of the climate change task force with me and the congressman west of california. [cheering] lineup at wakeuptheclimatechange.com and make your voice heard. you know, the polluters don't want you here. they do not want to hear today don't want your voice is heard. they got the lobbyists, they got a super of pacs. they've made the campaign contributions. they got this town in their pockets. they've got the situation under control and then you show up and then we show up and we change the game. and you brought your voices. are we going to be heard? if so, we ne