well there is a very powerful gun lobby as you pointed out the national rifle association has a tremendous amount of power in the united states it's interesting that a majority of americans the vast majority support more gun control the majority of americans more than sixty percent want to ban assault weapons want to ban these high capacity magazines but the people who love their guns really love their guns it's kind of interesting thing in political science if you feel very strongly about the issue you could have more power than the majority if the minority is going to vote only on that one issue and the people who love their guns in america really love their guns go to you david a marquee was another contradiction in your go ahead real quick going to go ahead. that i just wired job and we're just a quick clarification that the assault weapon ban expired so it was set to expire and then would have to be renewed it wasn't repealed so what's happened is there's an inability on the part of congress to renew the assault ban weapon dianne feinstein our senator in california tapped it and got n

look, the national rifle association and others say, well, it's not time to be political. but it's they, the national rifle association and their kin that are making a public safety issue a political issue. they don't want to see any kind of legislation that would not only keep guns out of the hands of crazy individuals, but why does any individual need an automatic weapon? why do they need to buy 6,000 bullets? why do they need to have a high capacity magazine, the ability to shoot off 100 bullets in just a few seconds and kill so many people? i think that most americans, even those, i imagine, that are part of the national rifle association, think that there are some limits that are reasonable and still protect second amendment rights. >> sure. you know what strikes me here, of course, is that when you hear the epithets being hurled on either side about politization of the issue, we know if that kind of amassing and stock piling of that kind of potential to hurt people through that, you know, through though bullets and guns and gases and the bombs and the like, if this ha

and frankly no one does it better than the national rifle association of america. the newspapers have dubbed him the subway vigilante the man was riding the subway saturday when for use apparently began hassling him neatly dressed suspect pulled out a gun and calmly shot all for the rifle association so what's the. right for citizens to obtain firearms lawfully the first day i ever ended up on the national media as a lead story was a pretty big news conference and that was kind of a fun high visibility day on citizens to prevent crime the thing about ridge is he took risks he took risks that. nobody get in or a war to take the greatest single deterrent to crime is an on citizen national rifle association was a group of basically retired military and police who love to shoot holes in paper. they were like walking around on eggshells oh my goodness oh my goodness somebody is use the gun for self defense richie went in there he says look the guy is somebody we should defend. he's there it became a civil rights issue the right of people who were victims to have the mean

now the dangers in a movie theater, with the kinds of demands by the national rifle association for more and more ability for people to carry guns everywhere and anywhere. and i really do think that, you know, if you really look at the agenda of the national rifle association, that wanted to protect $3,000 worth of weapons in bankruptcy, that people should be able to maintain those and keep them safe from certs. that kind of ridiculous legislation and the ridiculous idea of someone buying 6,000 bullets, i think maybe there is a tipping point. i hope it's now. yes, we mourn for all those whose lives were lost. it's a very serious issue. but you know that in ten states, gun hocide exceeds traffic accidents right now. vehicular accidents. so we have to do something about it. there's no reason in the united states of america, the land of the free, that people have to be afraid to go to the movies. >> congresswoman jan schakowsky of illinois. thank you for your time and your honesty this morning, i appreciate it. i want to bring in our monday morning power panel. we have keith boykin, republi

the nation's college professors. you can watch the classes here every saturday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern and sundays at 1:00 p.m. this week, david keene, president of the national rifle association, talks with the modern political conservative philosophy of william buckley jr. mr. buckley was the founder of the national review magazine. david keene was a guest lecturer at the citadel military college in a course called the conservative intellectual tradition in america taught by professor mallory factor. this is just over an hour and a half. >> thank you very much. let me begin by thanking mallory and indeed, the citadel for this opportunity to talk to you about my old friend and mentor, bill buckley. you should know that the opportunity to attend a course like this is almost unique in american higher education. i'd like to just begin by reading a reference to this sort of thing from the chronicle review, the chronicle of higher education written not too many years ago by a columbia professor. he says the unfortunate fact is that american academics have until very recently shown little curiosity about conservative ideas. even though those ideas have utterly transformed american

the national rifle association in many ways owns the united states congress. spending over $7 million in the 2010 election cycle, close to $3 million on its lobbying activities. it says that it will score legislation, meaning it will rate legislators on how they vote. any kind of a crazy bill, even one that says in bankruptcy $3,000 worth of weapons will be protected, passed the house of representatives with over 300 votes. the threat that the national rifle association says that worked. any kind of rational debate about gun safety legislation... >> ifill: let me ask mike dimock about that. i'm curious as to whether this debate boils down to two lobbying arms fighting with each other or or whether there is a common agreement among americans about what the agreement should be, what the middle ground should be. >> it's hard to say. i mean as with many issues, most americans have a gut reaction, whether it was health care, social security. they have an medicines of how they feel. but when you get into the details you'll find all sorts of gradations. you'll find v

the national rifle association. which if it had its way, there would be no restrictions at all. ple could literally own nuclear weapons if they had their way. and this is the worst kind of junk science. it just makes no sense at all. use just a little bit of common sense. obviously, if you look at countries all over the world, from japan to great britain to india you see a direct correlation between the ease of obtaining guns and the ease of using the guns to criminal other people. it doesn't take a lot of intelligence or social science to understand this. this is the worst junk science. if he ever tried to introduce this in a court of law, he would not only be laughed out of court, he'd be held in contempt and probably citeded for obstruction of justice. there is no truth to anything he's saying, zero. >> i have to directly respond, please. >> wait a minute. let me ask you this question. why would a member of the american public, a nonmilitary regular civilian, need to have a smith & wesson mmp-15? a civilian version of the u.s. military's m-16? strapped to the shooter's back. i

effects on campaign spending moving forward and running one reason may have died is because the national rifle association in a letter to senators last week the n.r.a. threatened those who support the disclose act by writing due to the importance of the fundamental speech and association all rights of the national rifle association is four million members and considering the blatant attacks on those rights that has thirty three sixty nine represents we strongly oppose the disclose act and will consider votes on this legislation in future candidate evaluations as in if you support it we'll use our secret donors to destroy you so is this the way our democracy should operate completely in secret before we get to the panel let's first bring in adam skeggs he is the senior counsel for the brennan's center's democracy program and head of the center's money in politics team adam welcome. thanks for having me thanks for joining us from our new york studios first of all what exactly would this legislation have done and would it have applied to the five a one c. fours who are spending most of the money so far this

the national rifle association remains one of the nation's most influential lobbies. and there are plenty of gun owners in swing states like ohio and florida, states which are key to winning the presidency. >> jeff: bill, thank you. hollywood studios are officially withholding their final box office numbers until after the weekend in the wake of what happened here in colorado. "the dark knight rises" took in up to 162 million dollars, according to estimatesment that is below studio expectations but still a record for a two-day movie. coming up on the cbs evening news, joe paterno's statue is removed aspen state awaits punishing sanctions is removed aspen state awaits punishing sanctions from the ncaa. t. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. last season was the gulf's best tourism season in years. in florida we had more suntans... in alaba

richard feldman spent two decades working with one of the nation's most secretive organizations the national rifle association his new memoir ricocheted confessions of a gun lobbyist chronicles his time with the n.r.a. and other gun groups you write that the n.r.a. often likes to draw lines of us versus them do you think they're unwillingness to compromise has contributed to the success now that's a fair very fair question yes if. define success is fundraising it certainly has been very successful when you do fund raising you want to have an identifiable enemy you want to keep the issue black and white the word compromise to the n.r.a. is a dirty word never give an inch is the slogan fighting is good for the n.r.a. doing battle is good but they have to make issues sometimes when issues don't really exist just to keep that fund raising going well when they were asked to comment on your book a spokesperson told the washington post we don't comment on works of fiction. we all know that the n.r.a. is powerful and that the n.r.a. is really what's but when they turn on one of their own and he decides to turn back o

both parties are afraid of the national rifle association. 't say afraid. the republican party more or lessen dor less endorses all the position. the democratic party is afraid of the national rifle association. i am sure your viewers saw in romney's statement and president obama's statement, no mention of the word gun. no suggestion that we should now be discussing the question of the availability of these guns at all. >> no mention but had either of them put something in there and said, something has to change, people are dying, what would the reaction have been? >> you know, there would have been a lot of supportive reaction. i think there is no question about that. i think your average person sort of feels that this is a big problem and that something needs to be done about it. but the opinions of average people don't really measure up to the power, the lobbying power, the muscle of the national rifle association. >> did all that come since the early '90s since we had the legislation of the assault ban? is that what has changed in these 20

. >> even presidential candidates cannot speak out against the national rifle association. >> reporterrs of renewing the ban say that since it expired there's been an increase of deaths related to assault weapons. however opponents say that we have seen tragedies in recent years that have nothing to do with these kind of weapons. in san francisco, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the theater rampage has yet claimed another victim after a pregnant survivor suffered a miscarriage. ashley moser lost her unborn child, she also lost her 6-year- old daughter veronica. veronica was the youngest killed. >>> the justice made a comment in a rare on camera interview. >> the amendment does not affect arms that can't be carried. i suppose there are hand held rocket launchers that can bring down airplanes that will have to be it'll have to be decided. >> reporter: gun control advocates have renewed their options to challenge the amendment. >>> republican presidential hopeful mitt romney met israeli leaders. romney said if elected president he would stand with israel in a preemptive strike aga

though i am today president of the national rifle association, i served for many years as chairman of the american conservative union, was a follower, a friend, and an ally of bill buckley, and i'm here today for that reason. as i was accepting this invitation i was reminded of what bill's brother jim told me he asked of his colleagues in seeking permission to attend the 40th anniversary banquet of the new york conservative party some years ago. jim as mallory pointed out, served a term in the united states senate as that party's nominee. and when i left the nixon white house, he asked me to be his executive assistant. jim eventually got a steady job as a highly respected federal appeals court judge. judges, you know, aren't supposed to participate in partisan activities. and he had to seek his colleagues' permission to attend the celebration. he told me i prevailed because i told him i wasn't being asked as an activist but as an artifact of their successes in an earlier day. i resemble that remark. i am here today as an artifact or more properly perhaps as a witness to the developmen

obama, is perceived as being anti-second amendment, the numbers of people flowing into the national rifle association as members shoots up incredibly. now, when that stops, or when the challenge is overcome, a lot of them twogo away. they were there in reaction to something that was wrong. now, in a political movement, it's a little different because they come in reaction. they come in. your numbers swell. you know, and then they're there and they realize that they might get a job. you know? and so when they get the jobs, or when they, you know, rise in a political movement, if they didn't know why they were getting the job, then what value does it do from an ideas perspective to have them in the job? we had -- i mean, one of the important things about the reagan administration, and reagan was not a hands-on micro manager the way jimmy carter was. but the people he tended to appoint knew what it was about. i mean, they knew what reagan wanted. they got -- i worked in the nixon administration. you could not get up in the morning knowing what the heck it was the president wanted. because i don't know i

he won election despite the opposition of the national rifle association, the pro gun lobby that hasampaigns of like minded candidates. president obama has talked very little about gun control. in 2010 the brady campaign, the most prominent group advocating further gun restrictions, gave the president an "f" for leadership on the issue. mitt romney signed an assault weapons ban as governor. he opposes it now. and as of last april, almost anything else in the way of gun control. >> we need a president who will enforce current laws, not create new ones that only be to burden lawful gun owners. >> about the courage thing, congress passed a ten-year ban on more than a dozen kinds of assault weapons in 1994. months later the democrats lost the house majority. in 1999. >> the vice president votes in the affirmative and the amendment is agreed to. >> then vice president al gore broke a tie in the senate to pass a bill restricting gun show sales. gore lost his presidential bid for many reasons but by 2000, democrats had condition included that gun control was bad politics. in the past decade

. >> even presidential candidates cannot speak out against the national rifle association. >> reportersupporters of renewing the ban said there has been an increase in deaths related to assault weapons. in san francisco, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> he granted a rare on camera interview today. with the aurora shooting he spoke about how the right to bear arms might be modified. >> the amendment does not apply to arms that cannot be hand carried. it is to keep and bear so it doesn't apply to canons. >> gun control advocates renewed their attempts to chance the right to keep weapons in the wake of the aurora killings. the man accused is expected to be in court tomorrow to be charged. coming up in 5 minutes, experts weigh in on what is next for james holmes. >>> protesters want the anaheim police chief to step down after three officer involved shooting this week. they gathered outside disneyland today where one shooting claimed a man's life last week. 250 gathered outside the police station. they want department put under a microscope. the fbi plans to investigate. >>> in elect

rifles, insist that the hundred-round clip is the very definition of american freedom. wayne lapierre, the blood-drenched lobbyist who diverts $1 million of national rifle association duess own income every year never mentions hundreds-round ammo clips in his stirring speeches, but does mention freedom a lot. >> we, the majority, see the soul of the nation, of our individual freedom, and we see it on the brink of being destroyed, and gun owners are answering the call, all across this country, to fight back. to save america. >> the nra's mouthpieces in congress insist that it's all about freedom. >> it's really an issue of freedom. >> and you know that whenever someone brings up the hundred-round ammo clip that was used in our most recent mass murder murder, the defenders of mass murderers' right to use hundred-round ammo clips will talk about freedom. >> let me ask you, i mean, we're not talking about handguns. does something that would limit magazines that can carry a hundred rounds, would that in infringe on the constitutional right? >> i believe so. people will talk about lethal weapons, that could be the discussion you could have. but there are 30-round magazines th