another texas republican, state legislator steve toth is proposing legislation that would make any federal law banning semiautomatic firearms or limiting the size of gun magazines unenforceable in texas. his proposed firearm protection act would make it a felony to enforce a federal assault weapons ban in texas. so he would be sending out texas rangers to arrest fbi agents or atf agents or anyone who tried to enforce such a federal law. this of course, could never happen. and is patently unconstitutional. and again, the best thing that can be said about steve toth is that he is introducing the idiotic bill to get media attention, which we have just granted him. and the worst thing that can be said about steve toth is he is introducing the idiotic bill, because he doesn't know it is an

appreciate it very much. >> thank you. >> steve toth from texas. by the way, i'm from upstate new york, myself. >>> a new cnn/"time"/orc poll shows more americans favor gun control. 55% say they're in favor of stricter laws. 44% are opposed. here's a further breakdown of the numbers. 37% say they strongly favor stricter gun laws. 18% moderately favor it. 17% moderately oppose them. 27% strongly oppose stricter gun laws. we also polled americans on the president's performance. 55% say they now approve of how president obama is handling his job. 43% disapprove. we also asked how vice president

i bring you to texas and state representative steve toth. >> we insure that as texas we follow the united states constitution. if this government in tricks on our second amendment right giving us the right not only to bear articles but tells the federal government not to create any laws that infringes on those rights, we will do everything we can to push back against that. >> cenk: this is one of three lunatics across the country saying that we are not going to listen to federal law. so you've got representative joe carr in tennessee and wyoming state represent kendall kreker saying we are not going to listen to the federal laws, we're not going to listen to that. we are going to do whatever we want. >> that's one of the best accents i've ever heard. >> cenk: i remember that going down a couple of decades ago. how did that turn out for the south, tennessee and texas? >> it didn't work the way they

and the worst thing that can be said about steve toth is he is introducing the idiotic bill, becauseow it is an unconstitutional idiotic bill. and here in new york, a crazy republican said some crazy stuff about the new bill that governor cuomo just got through the legislature. republican leader steve katz really hates the ban on magazines that would hold more than seven bullets. >> i come to albany proudly and voluntarily as a citizen legislator. i leave my wife and three young daughters home alone for days at a time. to represent my constituents up here, far from home. after what happened to the young mother in loganville, georgia, who defended her two young children against an intruder, this bill -- there will be more than seven bullets in a magazine in my wife's firearm. >> okay, well, how about not taking a job where you have to leave your wife and three young daughters home alone for days at a time? how about that? okay, a couple of things here, first of all, the young mother in loganville, georgia, he was just talking about used a simple revolver against an intruder. a revolve

appreciate it very much. >> thank you. >> steve toth from texas. by the way, i'm from upstate new york, myself. >>> a new cnn/"time"/orc poll shows more americans favor gun control. 55% say they're in favor of stricter laws. 44% are opposed. here's a further breakdown of the numbers. 37% say they strongly favor stricter gun laws. 18% moderately favor it. 17% moderately oppose them. 27% strongly oppose stricter gun laws. we also polled americans on the president's performance. 55% say they now approve of how president obama is handling his job. 43% disapprove. we also asked how vice president biden is handling his job. he has an even higher approval rate than the president. 59% say they approve of how the vice president is handling his job. 38% disapprove. >>> we'll take another quick break. much more of our special coverage right after this. plugged it into my car, and got a discount just for being the good driver i've always been. i'm just out here, snap-shooting it forward. you don't want to have to pay for other people's bad driving, do you? no.

state representative steve toth is proposing legislation that would make it against the law to enforce on ammunition or assault weapons in the lone star state, nullification back again. here he is. >> this is a hardened state. it isn't a good place for a criminal to show up and start shooting. we want to make sure that this legislation protects the second amendment gun rights and the tenth amendment, which is state sovereignty rights of texans. >> yahoo. when we start hearing things like state sovereignty, it's like that old pre-civil war talk of nullification. >>> next, former senator jim demint has called obama care, specifically the individual mandate, inconsistent with liberty. demint retired from the senate to head up the heritage foundation, a conservative think tank. the group released this year's index of economic freedom. the top ten have government-run health care. hong kong at number one has a publicly run system with most hospitals owned by the government. and australia, number three on the list, everyone is eligible for a government-run health care provider. in chile, numb