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[ theme music ] stephanie hello. It is current tv hour one. Thanks jim for talking to us about your tech support. Thats important. Yeah. Stephanie good morning Jacki Schechner. Good morning. Stephanie were fine. Nobody help us. All right. All of jims emails are broken so stop trying to email him. Yeah, well what am i supposed to do thats a big part of my time is emailing love notes to jim. Stephanie you sent me a story about a guy who hacked into somebodys email account and convinced people to take their clothes off. Would you do that jacki . Yeah there was a nigerian friend who asked me to do that. Stephanie i just automatically go, oh jim, stop emailing me, how many times are you going to ask. You know he cant see you through the computer right . Stephanie if you have a little camera. Yes, with your permission. Its former senators chuck hagels turn on capitol hill today as he faces his confirmation hearing to be the next secretary of defense. Expect the toughest questions to come from his own party. He had made some marks and decisions in the past which have lead to concerns including he couldnt support sanctions against iran. There are 55 demes in the senate, and 45 republicans, so he can still make it through. The Armed Services Committee Gave hagel some questions to answer in advance. He says he understands what it is like to be a soldier at war and how important it is the troops get clear direction and intelligence from washington. Today he is expected to say he is in full support of the president s policies he will defend the repeal of dont ask dont tell and he will support women in combat. President obama setting a time line for Immigration Reform. Saying he would like to get it done by the summer. He emphasizes his administration has already done more on Border Security in the past four years than the 20 prior. And it should not stand in the way of creating a clear path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented People Living in the United States. Well be back with more steph after the break. By 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough College Graduates to fill them. Thats why at Devry University were teaming up with Companies Like cisco to help make sure everyone is ready with the knowhow we need for a new tomorrow. [ male announcer ] make sure americas ready. Make sure youre ready. At devry. Edu knowhow. [ theme music ] announcer ladies and gentlemen, its the Stephanie Miller show im walking on sunshine, woe ho im walking on sunshine woe ho its time to feel good hey all right now its time to feel good stephanie oh, every day is a wonder land around here. We were getting ready to do rightwing world i glanced down briefly and guess what was the first sound bite announcer Stephanie Miller. Stephanie im so excited. I made sean hannity again. My name was on the chyron too. Stephanie awesome. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. No one brought me flowers or a teixeira. You dont send me flowers stephanie exactly you never have. Stephaniemiller. Com you are email us all there. Representative joe courtney of the great state of connecticut coming up this hour. But first here he is [ circus music ] stephanie no. Oh that one. Karl Stephanie Karl frisch bullfight strategies. Com. Not since i cuddled him for a 2 00 am dinner in washington, d. C. All i know is i spooned with karl frisch. All the i know is right about now sean hannity has like a wall of cut outs for magazines of stephanie in his apartment in new york. He is getting a little obsessed at this point. Stephanie it is a little creepy. It is only me every week . Pretty much you and mike malloy and ed schultz. Stephanie what would he do without me . He likes you he wants to date you nah nah nah nah nah stephanie a little chaching, chaching, sean. With fox news ratings where they are it is only a matter of time before they try to get over there. Stephanie are you bringing up the fact that fox news ratings have hit an 11year low. [ world news tonight theme ] may hap. Stephanie the lowest day rating since june of 2008. In fairness the coveted 84 to 138 they do really well. Stephanie yeah, that is the sweet spot. Rachel maddow came in tenth. Rock on my sister. Beating studio b and the repeat of oreilly factor. If maddow continues to creep up the list it may need a change. Im i dont have any hopes up. Theres a reason why rational americans watch a variety of different outlets and programs. Stephanie right. And that crazy rightwing fat old white men watch fox news. When you segment up the population, and leave that one segment alone, they are always going to have fairly good ratings. Stephanie right. But what you are seeing is a result of their craziness. Stephanie right. When you tell your audience for months that theres no way barack obama can win, what do you think happens . Stephanie exactly. Thats the problem too damn many of us watch it just for entertainment. Oh, yeah, they should just rename it shoddenford tv. I watch it for work. You make me. Stephanie yep. Lets dive into the rightwing world. This is brian [ inaudible ] [ overlapping speakers ] the radio equalizer. Stephanie he was the guy on a radio show once. Exactly. He has been in radio for what 20some years. Stephanie im marginalizing people who want to protect their homes with guns. Then we have our good friend Stephanie Miller she is blaming talk radio conservatives fox news because people want to actually protect their homes, meanwhile we have a lot of crime in the country. Stephanie i get the Home Protection but to what degree are people just paranoid. They make it sound like its the zero dark thirty raid at their house every night. Yeah, its rightwing world and fox nows job to make people paranoid. Stephanie inneed. Home invasions, robbery, rape, murder these things really happen. They are really marginalizing anyone who believes in the Second Amendment. Stephanie okay. Not suddenly on the extreme fringe. Very good point, karl frisch. Im going to sue for liable on your behalf. Its not suddenly. And its a lot more fun to get caught by news busters. I know radio equalizer is just boring. Stephanie right. News busters has some spunk. Stephanie every time i hear it back i think oh that was funny. Yeah. They can take things literal, gee, i wonder why comedians are rarely conservative. But the reason they take it as literal when you are confronted with humor that is satire the reason you take it literal is because you are unwilling to confront the issues. Stephanie right, and Lawrence Odonnell talked about this, even these people who testified yesterday they dont have one case where anyone has protected their home with a military assault weapon. Right. Stephanie what if five guys come in and my babies are crying in the background. Yeah. And i once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger fighting for his daughter in his own home with a giant friggin assault weapon. Stephanie thats right. They make it sound like every night is going to be [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] stephanie if they had one case like that, they would have cited it. Oh we would know the person who did it intimately. Stephanie they are not accurate weapons. And by the way when i said that fox news was creating a nation of crazies, i was quoting bill oreilly. Stephanie oh make sure you write that down for next time. I think bill maroneys head just exploded. Stephanie bill oreilly will end up in the leftwing hate segment. All right [ inaudible ]. We tried this for ten years and it had no effect. What is going on here is a competition, because the emotional reaction of what happened in newtown which wears off over time, it always does, and the rational response of what can we do that will actually work. The more you look at this its not had an effect its not going to have an effect. Except when they had an assault weapons ban, which did have an attack. Stephanie and the number of incident with assault weapons have tripled. Thats affect with an a. Stephanie oh okay. I love that they always throw this emotional thing at liberals. If you cant have emotion after newtown, what is emotion for . What is emotion for exactly . They are trying to say were incapable of responding to a tragedy by using, you know, sense and, you know, common sense or whatever. I dont think the right is capable of doing either responding for emotion or with common sense. Clearly the only simple thing to do is to arm toddlers with ak47s. Stephanie right. Look at Wayne Lapierre yesterday. No emotion or logic. Thats ridiculous the background check criminals arent going to do that. Thats the point you moron. Thats why they cant get a gun lapierre made an ass of himself yesterday. I cant believe they still think he is a good spokesman for him. I know right . Stephanie and then they played the audio clip of him saying the exact opposite in 99. Yeah. Stephanie rush limbaugh. Hispanic immigrants are made to order conservatives. They think they are invested in hard work and using the cuban exile model, they are exactly right. But the hispanic population has shifted and the cuban exile model is no longer the model. The mexican immigrant model oh and they arrive with an entirely different view of america. He called mexican immigrants lazy. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] his socalled cuban exile model, who do you think won the cuban vote last time around . Obama. Exactly. Stephanie hispanics are not behaving properly. Rush limbaugh is not behaving properly. Rush limbaugh is a hold out because who happens to be his audio are the old crusty white guys who they dont have a rational thought about Immigration Reform they see immigrants and the only weird they hear is mexican. Stephanie yes, and might we go out on a limb once again out here in los angeles, every mexican person i know is the hardest working person i have ever met. Quite honestly jokes aside, karl, that stuff is just racist and horrible. Trying to divide between cubans and mexicans this coming from a man who used his housecleaner to get his drugs. Stephanie yeah. Clearly she was cuban. Stephanie go to meeting, kids i dont understand how anybody running their business out anymore. We were on the road for sexy liberal, we were on the road for inauguration we cant get off our couches. Stephanie right were lazy mexicans. Go to meeting right from your fat bastard barkolounger. We need to look at graphics for sexy liberal. We need to look at stuff for the radio show. With go to meeting you click on a link turn on your webcam and here is the feature that is cool its not one of those sub standard things you get all of that crystal clear, and you can collaborate on documents at the same time. Its magical like. Stephanie right . Power points documents. Im working on a book. Its incredible. Use your compute ore smartphone or tablet. You can even present from your ipad now. If you are watching these are the arm movements you can see on go to movement go to meeting. Go to movement . Thats different. Try it for free click on the promo code stephanie. Nineteen minutes after the hour. It looks like you are having a seizure or something. Stephanie right. And well be back with karl frisch and more rightwing world on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer making rightwing whackos everywhere hurl. Its the Stephanie Miller show. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the ten commandments, thats what youre saying. vo shes joy behar. Current will let me say anything. The boys are waiting announcer Stephanie Miller. My milk shake brings all the boys to the car, and its damn right better than yours damn right its better than yours stephanie we have reawakened william f butler. I debated on the television suddenly the girls damn right. My milk shake is better than yours. Stephanie wow. [ applause ] stephanie hi karl frisch. Hello. Stephanie somehow that song awakens the ghost of william f butler. [ inaudible ] has some thoughts on immigrants. It is very easy to live here and not speak english and not be a citizen, and still have a wonderful life and still get health care, you are assuming they are going to want to jump through those hoops, thats a big assumption. Maybe they want to continue living illegally and not paying taxes and enjoying all of the benefits. Being lazy and all. Right. There is a large portion of the fox news audience that doesnt speak english. And what is fascinating here is it shows as the immigration debate heats up i want people to read their coverage on fox news latino and you will see a news outlet at war with itself. Stephanie yeah, i karl maybe im missing the logic every time we get into this immigration debate i dont get it. If we do nothing, all of those same 11, 12 Million People are still going to be here. These are mexicans who mow our yards and clean our houses. And if they are citizens then we have to pay them more. And they are also brown and not deserving of benefits. Stephanie i see. Bill oreilly with colin powell. You being who you are, traditional guy, by supportingly as actively as you did barack obama you also put yourself in a category of intolerance on issues like entitlement culture, when you yourself were born in the south bronx and you made it on your own, the entitlement culture now extends to 50 of the american homes. All right . Huge rise in it. So you are putting yourself in that bracket by supporting the Democratic Party through barack obama who seems their values are different than yours, general. Stephanie wow. He just wanted to lecture him. Wow. I dont know why anybody of seriousness would ever go on oreillys show. This is the likely treatment you would get. Stephanie yeah. I liked all of those things that bill mentioned that make Colin Powells who he is there is nothing in bill oreillys character that is a match. Bill oreilly obviously doesnt know what he is talking about, but he is part of the same group of people at fox news that claimed that colin powell only endorsed that he only endorsed president obama because they were both black. Stephanie yeah. Yeah. Sean hannity on the radio. We have become europe. Obama seems to have succeeded in a large measure to transform america. A lot of talk these days about how the gop can come back politically. Ill tell you right now, the quickest way politically thats a recession. If and when that happens, sorry no more blaming bush. Well put a moratorium on blaming bush on this program. So he wants to caution a recession. Stephanie right. This is like after 9 11 saying there was never an attack like this under this president , and then when kerry ran it was oh, there is going to be another attack. Now they want to lay blame of their actions at the feet of this president. The same thing happened in europe. In europe they did all kinds of cuts and then they were shocked when they had to double dip. Stephanie yeah. Karl frisch in person to cuddle or on the phone. Have a good one. Stephanie love you. Representative joe courtney next on the Stephanie Miller show. Right have, about the heavy hand of government. I want to have that conversation. Lets talk about it. Really . Youre going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. Really . I want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and id like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. Out there history man as marvelled at the vast [ inaudible ] of the universe. Without a single unified voice he has been left searching for answers. Now announcer Stephanie Miller. Has the power to change that for all of man kind to hear. Really all of man kind. Stephanie uhhuh. Representative joe courtney of the great state of connecticut joining us now. Good morning, representative. Good morning, stephanie. Stephanie what a powerful day, i know your district borders newtown, but to see your former colleague Gabby Giffords its hard to describe the power of that isnt it . It is gabby was in the same class when we entered congress in 06. Every wednesday afternoon we used to have a meeting as a group, and it is still kind of surreal to see what has happened, but her amazing strength as a person is just you know its just words cant even really describe it. Its just so inspiring and so important that people the very simple direct short statement that she had that really framed exactly the challenge we have as a country. Stephanie and like you say its hard to underestimate the courage it took for her to come and do that. That really was a surprise appearance, wasnt it . Yeah the day she came in to vote on the debt limit, again it was just this is an incredibly good person with inner strength that, you know, continues to just sort of i think, amaze all of us, so and again her message yesterday was so important. Stephanie and i thought her husband mark kelly, incredibly powerful as well particularly in the moment that he smacked down Wayne Lapierre. It really is almost stunning what he said right . The whole exchange with dick durbin about what is the point of background checks. Dick durbin is like thats the point you moron. Yeah, and the other important point that i think rebuts that is that we have had now the brady system up and running since the late 90s, and actually 1. 5 million gun transactions have been blocked because of the system that is in place, which, again, is a very spotty system in terms of Mental Health records and states that dont really do a good job of keeping their criminal record but even with those handicaps it still works, and the notion that it just doesnt work this is one of the nra talking points. Its just fact rally false, and and again obviously, durbins point that its a deterrence to people to guy guns is also the obvious counter to that claim. But i come from a more rural part of connecticut, and obviously there are a lot of gun owners out here. Background checks is just not a controversial item. Stephanie right, 92 of americans are for background checks, right . Absolutely. And i have been meeting with Police Chiefs in my district lately, and they do the psi it will permit applications. And they have signing permits for people that they have no confidence that they really know their true nature. And thats the one item you hear over and over again. It extents not just to gun purchases but to gun permits, to have a stronger database of background checks. By the way it also fits totally within scalias decision on the Second Amendment, so the notion that there is a Second Amendment problem, just read scalias majority opinion. He explicitly states that society has the right to restrict gun ownership for people with criminal records and Mental Illness. Stephanie as you were talking about scalia dont you remember there was a conflict of interest thing he went duck hunting with dick cheney yeah. Stephanie i have heard many duck hunters make this point. You can only have three shots in your shotgun when you are a duck hunter, right . Right. Stephanie so literally people have made the point we give ducks a better chance than our kids. Why is there no outcry about you can only have three bullets in your gun before you have to reload, right . Yeah, the controversies in this issue are limitless. You can still see the caution that a lot of the senator were displaying there in some of the questioning, and this is still going to take a full court press by the president and advocates. Last night in connecticut there was a public hearing in the town of nowtown that the state legislature conducted, and family after family whos children were killed testified, the local police chief, and again, newtown voted for romney. Stephanie yeah. This is not some kind of democratic strong hold here. But obviously, you know, this issue now has just kind of spilled into a much broader main stream. Stephanie and you are right, the parents i have heard speak, again, how much more incredibly powerful can you get than that and they are all saying the same thing, right . They are. The notion that somehow this thing is just going to get brushed aside, or lost in the 24hour news cycle is something that you can feel that that they are so anxious that that not happen. Stephanie right. And talk about courage this has got to be the hardest thing in the world to be talking about this. Stephanie and representative their arguments honestly make logical sense when they talk about the only answer is more good guys with guns. The point of like how quickly this happens in 15 seconds how many shots you can get off, and wasnt that incredibly powerful with mark kelly saying this little girl would still be alive if he didnt have a 30round clip. It was the 13th shot that killed her. And look at fort hood there were a lot of armed people there. So obviously that is not the only answer. Thats right. President obama in his package did put out there that the cops program should be expanded to allow for School Resource officers, obviously, but you are not going to populate every school room with armed guards and thats why the issue of regulating smart regulations for guns has to be part of this. By the way the Mental Health piece is something that i think has some really good solid proposals in terms of theres a mental first aid kit which is to train teachers and counselors to start getting us better attuned to behavior that needs help. And schoolbased help senator which have clinical social workers, i visited one yesterday, and they have a waiting list in an Elementary School for children who have Mental Health issues which is kind of unbelievable. But the bottom line is those programs work in terms of getting young people young adults adolescence into, you know, good outpatient voluntary care that is going to avoid these horrible situations like the adam landis. Stephanie yeah. Yeah. Representative take a listen to this, Wayne Lapierre and senator durbin yesterday. None of it makes any sense in the real world. Mr. Lapierre that is the point. The criminals wont go to purchase the guns because there will be a background check. You missed that point completely. And i think its basic. [ cheers ] i think you missed the point i didnt miss the point you missed the point. Stephanie oh my god im not wrong you are. Stephanie the majority of nra members are for this. Yeah, it is outside of the scope of even the most stanch interpretation of the Second Amendment in terms of scalia and its outside of the scope of what, you know, any person who interacts with these systems, these databases tell us there are huge gaps in terms of Social Security records, vas, there are government records of people who have been found incompetent that are not being shared with the database system. Stephanie it is huge. There is a terrifying piece about how the violently mental ill can guy guns. We couldnt even get Wayne Lapierre to say should there be a background check at our gun shows . Right. Stephanie how do you even invite someone like that to the table, representative when there is nothing reasonable he is willing to even start with. Yeah, or people who cheat with straw purchases. That somehow is protected by the Second Amendment. People who lie on their application. 10,000 people were caught misrepresenting their application to guy guns. Only 44 were prosecuted in 2010, and one of president obamas orders was to get the department of justice much more aggressive about punishing people who are lying. Stephanie right mark kelley really took it to Wayne Lapierre. A shooter was clearly mentally ill. And you look at case after case. The Virginia Tech shooter passed the background check. It is something that needs to be fixed need at itly doesnt it . It is. And ironically i think actually having lapierre up there displaying how completely extreme and ridiculous his logic and agenda is i think helps isolate him in this in this debate. Stephanie thats true. I did for a moment think is he working for us . You cant cast a villain any better than this. Yeah. Stephanie and like you say at some point i was saying rightwing world we they were talking about liberals being emotional, and im thinking if this is not a time after sandy hook when would be a good time to get emotional about this. Yeah, thats right. And the argument has always been about taking away peoples freedom in the past. And thats an emotional argument. Stephanie right. Because legalistically no amendment in the bill of rights is absolutist. You cant shout fire in a theater. Its all of the arguments. The fact is they have used emotion in the past to stop, you know, any ground swell or effort to have reasonable changes to gun violence laws and and so i think for the president and fore families if they have the willingness to to go out there and speak, good for them. Stephanie yeah. That they are appealing to americas conscience really. In terms of getting real change. I must confess i have housed red coats in my house. Stephanie at least jim is coming clean. All right. Representative thank you so much for checking in with us on such an important day. Appreciate it stephanie, have a good day. Stephanie the newtown dads are killing me with their testimony. Fortyseven minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. She was abandoned by wolfed and raised by republicans. Its the Stephanie Miller show. Going to do the young turks. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. What we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. By 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough College Graduates to fill them. Thats why at Devry University were teaming up with Companies Like cisco to help make sure everyone is ready with the knowhow we need for a new tomorrow. [ male announcer ] make sure americas ready. Make sure youre ready. At devry. Edu knowhow. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the ten commandments, thats what youre saying. vo shes joy behar. Current will let me say anything. Stephanie thank god my box still works. [ applause ] [ screaming ] stephanie fiftytwo minutes after the hour. Is that working too . My box is working. I have a working box. Wow, call riplys. Stephanie jim . Hum . Stephanie guess what Sean Hannitys favorite word is to call me . The c word. Stephanie yes. Yes. I get these emails and i always think what did i do. And then i get in and magically i found out that i was featured in Sean Hannitys leftwing hate speech. No subject line. Just c word. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] stephanie body of the email, all in caps, just the c word. How can you argue with that logic. Stephanie right. [ applause ] stephanie i should know by now, because i thought what did i do. And then i come in in the morning, and im like oh, i was featured on fox news last night. And he also i dont know jim, if this is just regarding me, or he uses this quote at every one of his emails but he just has in quotes give me liberty or give me death. So i dont know if he also is implaying that Patrick Henry also thinks i am a c word. Thank you thad. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Thoughts with quotation marks. Stephanie lets go to nole. Good morning. Caller good morning. I want to dividend a somehow out to Lawrence Odonnell because last night my boy peeled gail trotter like a rotten banana. Stephanie i liked the looks on the other two guys faces whoing didnt really get to talk. Caller thats right. But the representative from connecticut said that the senator were being very cautious. Thank goodness we have Lauren Odonnell who is not cautious. If these people want to come on tv and spew their vomit he is going to be there to be the filibuster buster. Stephanie yeah this is the woman that testified yesterday, what gail trotter. Caller yes. Stephanie he could not get her to answer the questions. They do not have one case where anyone has protected their home with a militarystyle Assault Rifle. Exactly. What they are arguing has nothing to do with what the issue was about. And she has nothing to respond with. Stephanie yeah, exactly. Caller so hats off to lawrence. Stephanie yeah, he said you dont go to the senate to testify about fiction. What if there are five guys and my babies are screaming caller yeah, he said dont bring your emotions bring your facts if you are going to testify in front of the senate. Seems like they are testifying on emotion there. Stephanie calm down republicans. [ cuckoo clock chimes ] stephanie remember the guy who wanted to protect himself with an assault weapon to defend against wild bores. Yeah. [ world news tonight theme ] Stephanie Hunter shoots at bore and bullet ricochets and hits a car. Hi richard. Caller we have no problem contending against Wayne Lapierre and his positions on background checks. I live in illinois so background checks are a norm. You cant purchase a gun without a background check. Lots of forms and a threeday waiting period. So we have to have a card and all sorts of horrible restrictions. Stephanie but one of the things that keeps getting cited is chicago has a strict gun laws and there are a lot of gun crimes there. But it is so easy to go to another state to get the guns. Caller yeah. There are people that are for the legalization of marijuana but you wouldnt want me to say people who are for legalization of marijuana, are also for crack users. But the people that do driveby shooting, there is something wrong with their hearts. I own guns and i dont have the slightest thought of harming people with a gun. Shooting into a crowd of people and killing a 15yearold girl, who thinks of that. Stephanie thats right. And thats why 92 of americans are fine with background checks. Caller thats true. You guys have our complete support on that. Its where democrats and republicans like you and me stephanie is there any way we can get you elected head of the nra. Caller i wish. Stephanie fiftyeight minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. [ theme music ] stephanie hello, hour number 2 tv world. Oh, Jacki Schechner. Yes. Stephanie its like clock work those cword emails i get. And i should know by now, its like what did i say yesterday . Oh, i was featured on fox news without my knowledge. Yeah you would think they could get a little more creative with the insults by now. Stephanie right. Its just a dog whistle. A call to arms and then they fire off the template email. Stephanie yeah, maybe its the same email they have to any liberal. I was wondering why i was called a bad name on twitter last night. Thats why. I love that chris couldnt figure it out. What did i do that caused me to be called a name. Which one of my indiscretions. Stephanie right. For a minute i thought it was my personal email, but no. Here is Jacki Schechner who is never that word. Oh, thank you. Good morning, everybody. Former senator chuck hagels confirmation hearing to be our next secretary of defense is now underway. Her is part of the opening remarks in which the chairman references one of the issues of concern he expects to come up today. Senators hagel reassurance to me in my office that he supports the obama administrations strong stance against iran is significant. And we look forward to hearing from senator hagel today in some depth on that subject. Im sure we will. Senator bob menendez paid 58,000 for two of three trips he took to the Dominican Republic he took. The fbi and the department of health and Human Services have been searching the office of the donor, but the search appears to be separate from the issues related to senator menendez. Local media has uncovered that he has also managed to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to various politicians. Senator menendez says he is a friend and donor and has denied any other allegations of improprieties. We encourage you to stay with us after the break. Well see you on the other side. Arguments to feel confident in their positions. I want them to have the data and i want them to have the passion. But its also about telling them, youre put on this planet for something more. I want this show to have an impact beyond just informing. An impact that gets people to take action themselves. As a human being, thats really important. This is not just a spectator sport. [ theme music ] announcer ladies and gentlemen, its the Stephanie Miller show im walking on sunshine, woe ho im walking on sunshine, woe ho its time to feel good hey all right now its time to feel good stephanie yahoo it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. Six minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. This is like a home for the domestically impaired right here, isnt it . This is only for the current tv people this is my breakfast for this morning you are dripping all over the place. Stephanie i know. It was not microwaveable the upper wear as it turned out. Thats a melted ball of plastic. Stephanie right, so chris has to give me his cottage cheese for breakfast. Im going to atrophy now because im not getting my protein intake. [ wah wah ] he actually sit in the center seat in coach now. Stephanie all right. Stephaniemiller. Com the website, you are email us all there, executive producer chris lavoie voice deity jim ward, or me. Like this one. Steph, i love the new app. Because im a woman and an app. There might be another huge announcement tomorrow. Sexy liberal announcement. You kept saying there was going to be something this week and this weekends tomorrow. Stephanie right. I did get an unsolicited testimonial. Other than all of my cword letters from fox news viewers. Fox news viewers please a couple of more thoughts. Did sock send anything . Stephanie ever since we had to contact the fbi, sock had been nowhere to be found. I was a c word that deserved to have an ak47 shoved many any glory hole but he was a retired insurance man. Stephanie yeah, and do i have a glory hole . Im a chick. I think we all know what that means. Stephanie im not certain. I dont get out much. But thank you fox news viewers. Welcome this morning. Howdy. [ applause ] stephanie the cword show. Okay. Mrs. Hatcher writes i dont think its terry. Lets see, steph i recently discovered your show i had the same problem as the woman that is darning socks, the woman who never gets out of her chairs for three hours, so i plugged my wireless headset into my tv, and i can listen. Last week i wore the head phones to clean and my husband came home and said who is coming to dinner . And i said no one, i just listened to the stephanie while i was cleaning. I have become a 50s cleaning commercial. Debbie and alex. I played the steph cast for a whole week in my yard. This would be the audio podcast. 795 a month if you are afraid of commitment. I played steph cast for the whole weekend in my yard while i was working. And it drove my republican neighbors nuts so they put a 60foot privacy fence between us free of charge. Thank you. Youre welcome. It appears they are fixing our commuter remotely i have nothing on my screen right now. Stephanie your life has been erased. All of our audio is not there. So please dont ask me to play anything. Stephanie how about nothing right now. Dead air. Stephanie lets a moment of silence. I hope its fixed by the time we have to take a break. Stephanie so many things can potentially go wrong, that when you have a bad face im like what . Did someone Say Something online, what is happening . I have to blue screens. Stephanie okay. Steph my beloved wife and sadly Chicago Bears fan sheila received a football autographed by dick butkus. Im not making this up. You dont suppose she is somehow related to your brother, do you. [ applause ] stephanie my brother called it a game. I called it running for my life. He would yell butkus and that was my queue to run for my life and then my brother would tackle me and frequently i would get gushing head injuries so enjoy the butkus game. Its really fun. Lets go to lisa in arlington. Caller hi, i just wanted to make a comment about the issue of Mental Health. Folks with Mental Illness getting and guns. I used to live in illinois home of [ inaudible ] university and they had the shooting there the year of the shooting at Virginia Tech. And that young man was undergoing private Mental Health treatment so it didnt come out or disclose for a gun so im just wondering about the need of not just public Mental Health treatment, but private Mental Health treatment being disclosed too when they are doing these background checks. Stephanie right. Thats the thing. I do understand lisa privacy concerns, and i think there is a line with all of this stuff but a lot of these recent shooters were so far over that line. They had been the Virginia Tech shooter you know caller yes. Stephanie im just saying i think there is a line there. Because i understand peoples concerns if you are a psychologist you still have a really bad look on your face and you are distracting me. Im fine. Stephanie has something blown up . [ explosion ] . Im fine. Stephanie ill just look at jim. Im just trying to. Stephanie hi donna in florida. Caller oh, my god, i got through. Stephanie yes, hello. Caller do you know how hard lobster fishing season comes to the keys, and the regulations we have to go through to get lobsters and my cousins friend who hunt, they tell me new rules every day about hunting. They check their cooler for beers, they are not allowed to shoot from their buggies, the rules go on and on and on. Stephanie yeah exactly. And i dont understand why these gun nuts think that that analogy doesnt make sense. Caller my husbands friends are totally, totally, totally against this Assault Rifle thing. They said theres no reason anyone needs one for anything. Stephanie exactly. Mike thompson has been talking about this. He has been charged with crafting gun policies. He said federal law prohibits me from having more than three rounds in my gun for duck hunting. Were fine with protecting water fowl. But not humans. Stephanie right. He said when people say how dare you talk about putting limits on how many shells i can put in my gun, that somehow this is an front to god and apple pie, it is important to point out this is something we already do. The government felt it necessary to protect migratetory birds. Price of freedom having kids killed. Stephanie yes. Hunters enforce this stuff. And you are telling me we cant somehow fix your entire background check and Mental Health system. Read some of what we posted. Yes, its up on your facebook page. Stephanie thank you. Annette in chicago. You are on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi, annette. Caller good morning. Hey, the thing that totally befuddles me. I grew up in germany thats the country where according to bill maher, the police in the entire country shoots less bullet in a year than the l. A. Police shoots in a weekend. Im not sure where he gets his facts from but people there have Health Insurance and here you cant you know, people dont want to be checked if they want to buy a gun, but if i want to get Health Insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, i have to go through a background check. Stephanie yeah. Caller its just that whole backwards thing i really dont get. Stephanie yeah, i think to most people and thats why at least im hartened to hear those statistics that 92 of americans are for background checks. You think is this just common sense . Caller absolutely. Stephanie since you are in chicago, they said the majority of guns come from mississippi and indiana. Stephanie yeah, its all the things they try to say see theres gun laws there and that doesnt work. Thats a red herring. Where in germany are you stephanie oh sorry. Were out of time. Seventeen minutes after the hour right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer she is the life of though Democratic Party. Ignore the lamp shade. Its the Stephanie Miller show. He was a hollywood golden boy fighting a losing battle with his dark side. Of all the hours in all his days, these are the ones youll never forget. Announcer Stephanie Miller. Watch what you say, theyll be calling you radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. They will be calling you the c word thats for sure. When you are featured on the fox news. Wow. Howedy new fox news viewers. Wow, this this gun thing really brings the oh lets just say emotion to the floor. And all of the boys to the yard. Stephanie right. Right. [ sighs ] stephanie okay. I i dont know how you could not feel emotion when you saw Gabby Giffords show up in congress. I was just waiting for someone at fox to say she was faking it. Stephanie exactly. And i guess that was a surprise appearance to speak to her former colleagues. Speaking is difficult but i need to Say Something important. Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. Be bold, be courageous americans are counting on you. Stephanie you know, we were just talking about this, when she mentioned too many children are dying. It doesnt matter what statistic you look at. How about this one, among the 23 richest countries the u. S. Accounts for 83 of child gun deaths. A bill introduced in 2011 would have made it a felony to have a gun that could hold more than ten rounds of ammo. The New York Times just had a piece about what the cops some of the details of what the cops found when they got there. I dont want to imagine. Stephanie there was a little girl standing alone in a classroom covered in blood she was the only one that survived with all of her dead friends around here. This article goes on to point out about Wayne Lapierre talking about good guys with guns. There was an armed guy at columbine. Fort hood there were plenty of trained people with guns there. Lapierre would have us believe that guns in the classrooms would make our kids safer, yet the u. S. Accounts for 87 of all childrelated deaths. And more guns is not the answer you would think. But that implies that you think. Stephanie david in chicago go ahead. Caller every time i listen to these gun advocates the one thing they bring up is the Second Amendment and the melissa as if they actually believe that them having a gun is somehow a force to counter balance the government, and they need to be prepared to attack the government at any moment. Stephanie right. Im a lawyer, and i believe the world militia is defined in the constitution and its not the average joe putting a rifle over his shoulder. Stephanie yep. Caller and they need to arm themselves to the teeth. To destroy the government. Caller right. Stephanie the the guy whos wife was a School Psychologist that was killed in sandy hook. He testified yesterday, and he said i have no idea how long it took to rebode and refire a musket, i know the somebody of bullets fired at sandy hook was almost incomprehensible even todays modern age. And thats the thing you have to apply some modern logic. Mark kelly yesterday. Im a strong supporter of the Second Amendment as anybody on this panel. My wife would not be sitting in this seat, she would not have been sitting here today if we had stronger background checks. Stephanie the Washington Post did a piece perhaps the most important moment in yesterdays Senate Hearings when mark kelly directly confronted Wayne Lapierre over the shooting of his wife and another one involving dick durbin. Lapierres argument was completely unmasked. He repeatedly voiced the talking point there is no need to expand the background system because criminals dont cooperate. Kelly said he said his plan was to assassinate my wife. But because of the gaps in the Mental Health system those we would have likely failed a background check. If we require private sellers to complete a background check and we get those records into the system we will prevent these kinds of crimes. Good for him. Mark kelley again yesterday. He did not have access to a high capacity magazine and the same thing happened christina tailor green would be alive today. I certainly am willing to give up my right to own a highcapacity magazine to bring that young woman back. Stephanie and we have been talking about this all morning, that chicago everybody uses that as an example now. When you take a look at where these guns come from 25 plus are sold in outside of the city. Almost one of ten gun crimes in chicago the gun comes from indiana or mississippi, because of the background checks. They drive them right up to chicago from mississippi. Stephanie right, and somebody was mentioning the specific gun store where a huge volume of guns come from that go to chicago. And its right outside its not even that far of drive. And they were saying new york is different because the surrounding areas also have different gun legislation. Right. Which shows we need more universal stephanie thank you. Yeah. Stephanie it needs to be said. Twenty nine minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer call stephanie now. Shes easy. 1800steph12. Going to do the young turks. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. Announcer Stephanie Miller. I could not be more turned on. Stephanie right . It is the Stephanie Miller show. This hour brought to you by go to meeting with hd faces. The powerful way to meet and collaborate with your team online. Now you can even present from your ipad. Woe. Stephanie you saw this thing, literally wow, Gabby Giffords, and mark kelly were testifying yeah. Stephanie right. Right. And oh, this made me really they all make me really sad, but the 15yearold girl that just performed at the inauguration gunned down in chicago a week after she performed at president obamas inauguration. She was at a park, someone jumped a fence, ran up and opened fire. She was a majorette, and that was the one that sasha and malia were dancing to. Yeah. Probably from indiana or mississippi. Just overwhelmingly sad. Stephanie chris murphy yesterday. We need to wake members up to the fact that if they want to do the right thing here there is not really a political price to pay at the hands of the nra like there were a decade or two ago. Stephanie yeah, 92 of americans want a background check. Cant we get that done. And the nra he is sitting there facing all of these republican senator who he gave money to. Yeah, oddly the question not quite as tough from republicans. Republicans have benefited from at least 700,000 in various forms from the nra the nras pac or im sure a coincidence. Stephanie yeah. Don in oklahoma welcome. Caller hello. Stephanie hi, go ahead. Caller i just wanted to say first of all that i am 100 supportive of background checks for everybody buying guns. I do have some concerns im a psychologist, and these Mental Health reporting laws. Im not sure what people are talking about reporting, but what we know from the statistics people with serious mental disorders are much more likely to be victimized as opposed to being perpetrators. Stephanie senator franken made that point yesterday. He said not all mentally ill people obviously the vast majority is not violent. Caller i think its much easier and much cheaper just to put it on the backs of Mental Health practitioners to do this reporting. We already have to report if we think somebody is a danger to themselves and others but we also dont want to discourage people from actually seeking treatment. Stephanie i hear you. And don i encourage you we posted the peace from cnn how the violently mental ill can buy guns. All im saying there is a lot of pieces of this problem need to be fixed, but you cant read this and say this seems fine people who have been violently mentally ill in the past how easy it is for them to get assault weapons. Oh, yeah i agree with background checks 100 . [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie this is i mentioned this case yesterday. I was a little fuzzy on the details, but because you were stephanie drunk. Drunk. Stephanie right. Last november Oklahoma City polices went to check on an elderly woman after relatives reported they hadnt heard from her in a while. She lived with her adult son gerald. This has erie parallels to adam. What police discovered was a horrendous case. One of and again thats what i mean theres a fine line between oh you told your psychologist you were depressed once to this guy. Right. Stephanie and like i say this is not like the Virginia Tech shooter same thing had been adjudicated violently mentally ill. And police even if people like gerald hume who had a history of violence friends said that his mother said he recently bought guns. They went in found think mothers body in addition to a handgun and three rifles police also removed a reciprocating saw, a white plastic trash bag authorities found parts of her body in the freezer, he is a known schizophrenic. He didnt steal his guns or borrow them. He bought them like any normal person would. He got them at walmart. Hume bought the rifles at walmart in oklahoma and the glock at gun world in a nearby city. Both are federally licensed gun dealers that conduct background checks. Many merchants are frustrating with the system, but what can the retailers do if a person passes the background check . We dont have the ability because Mental Health records are kept in each separate area. It is far too easy to pass a federal background check. So even the background system needs to be fixed. Sure. Stephanie and Wayne Lapierre is not even for doing them at all. But federally licensed gun shops must use the National Check system and as we talked about private gun show sellers, nothing. Yeah. Stephanie even in the nics Mental Health records are concerned investigations found its because of a huge legal loophole in the background laws that put guns in the hands of killers, according to a new study the mayors against gun crimes. Literally millions of Mental Health records are missing from the background system. All they care about is cutting the deficit, the republicans, so they dont want to put the money into this, and then they scream the guns arent the problem. Its not about guns. Its about all of it, frankly. Uhhuh. Stephanie its sad but sometimes it takes a National Crisis to get people to notice. So the Virginia Tech killer killed 32 people as we know using guns he bought at a federally licensed dealer. He passed the background check even though a judge declared him mentally ill a year earlier. The mentally ill may still easily buy guns. This whole article is just chilling. The only cases oklahoma sends to the federal system are people who have been forcibly committed. Hume did not meet that criteria. No one seems to know of any [ inaudible ] that have been handed out. Karl mccarthy. The law has never acted the way it was designed for. It has never even had close to the full amount of money it should get. Now we have these deficit cutters that arent what is important in this country . I mean really . The secondarily relates to states privacy laws. Many states felt they may need to erroneously felt there was privacy issues. There is not for this kind of stuff. There needs to be a federal data base. They hope the new fixed gun checks act will increase funding to put some real teeth into the law. Nelson, the Oklahoma City police chief, he said we used to have good Mental Health systems here but when they took the money out of Mental Health especially in a state where we like our guns, these people became our problem. Its a good article, but its terrifying. Not good bedtime reading. No, but its posted on your facebook page. Stephanie thank you. Tony welcome. Caller all right. Quick, the two things that im concerned about is we keep moving the goal post here on what we want to have happen. We already have an assault weapons ban on the books stephanie it expired. Caller right, but my point is we keep talking about background checks but we should be talking about reactivating what was expired but it didnt work. It did work. Stephanie i agree and put more teeth in it tony. Caller exactly. Every show i listen to its like were just trying to get background checks stephanie that and the gun show loophole, there are things that should be such lowhanging fruit in this debate. And thats why to me the Wayne Lapierres they dont even deserve a seat at table, because they are not willing to do anything. All right, fortyfive minutes after the hour. Well continue on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. You know who is coming on to me now . You know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials . Those types are coming on to me all the time now. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the ten commandments, thats what youre saying. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. Absolutely. And so would mitt romney. vo shes joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . He was a hollywood golden boy fighting a losing battle with his dark side. Of all the hours in all his days, these are the ones youll never forget. Oh announcer stephfy youre so fine youre so fine you blow my mind hey announcer stephfy. Stephanie uhhuh. Senator Chuck Schumer yesterday. Not including guns when discussing mass killings is like not discussing cigarettes when discussing lung cancer. Stephanie yeah we talked about cigarette advertising. And senator diane feinstein. The nra is venal. They come after you. They put together large amounts of money to defeat you. Stephanie yeah exactly. But they have a lot less power than they did ten years. Stephanie yeah. Here she is with Wayne Lapierre. I want to thank everybody for being here particularly our witnesses, even you mr. Lapierre. Its good to see you again. I guess we tangled what was it 18 years ago. You look pretty good actually. [ laughter ] stephanie but it doesnt make any sense, somebody was showing the testimony in 1999 when he was for background checks. And here he was yesterday. None of it makes any since. Mr. Lapierre thats the point the criminals wont go to purchase the guns because there will be a background check. You missed that point completely. [ cheers ] senator i think you missed let there be order the point is you can buy guns illegally out of the back of a car. Stephanie yeah, so lets just not do anything. We need layers of things. And hopefully, one, two, or three of those layers will catch the criminals who want to get guns. Stephanie yeah. Angie welcome. Caller i love you guys. Can you say hi pup and pepper. Stephanie hi pup and pepper who is handsome and romantic. Caller thank you. Im in school to be a teacher. But i was calling because in virginia they just tabled that measure where they were going to try to fund to fund or guns in school basically for teachers and training fire all of that stuff. Uhhuh. Caller i dont know if you have seen that mean with the skeptical black kid, you mean you have enough money for training teachers and using guns but not enough for supplies . Stephanie yeah, thats right. And you better have it on you all the time, and be sure to protect it from kids he said i have one, and its an awesome responsibility. And he said teachers are there to teach. Caller exactly. Stephanie but literally think of even just the visual of that. You would have to have it on you. He said you cant have in your purse or in your desk while you are at walmart picking up School Supplies pick up an ak37. Caller exactly. Stephanie albert in milwaukee. Caller ill be as brief as i can. I wanted to tell you that i have a cousin and my family is from the Dominican Republic and if you have never been there, you dont know what you are missing. You can have a handgun. And my cousin he is in the dominican navy. He was here visiting. We web to a gun show first time i had been to one. He was shocked what he saw in there. And he even could have bought an automatic rifle. He told the guy, my dominican pass port is in my cousins car. The guy was ready to give it to him without it. Stephanie albert now that this debate is in the news you see a lot of these clips of gun shows, and im like any of those people can just buy a gun with no background check . Pretty much all of them look like they shouldnt be able to buy a gun. Caller he was shocked. He said anybody terrorist could walk in here and buy guns. Stephanie yeah, yesterday, the nra apparently they dont even want people on the terrorist watch list to not be able to get a gun. Caller but they are beholden to the gun manufacturers. Stephanie right. Caller and that is what is happening here. And im wondering why if people want an automatic weapon in this country, why cant they be kept locked down at gun ranges. Have your military style Obstacle Course over there, keep it locked down stephanie somebody made the point that adam lanzas bother was a, quote unquote responsible gun owner, and apparently even kept them locked, and boy they sure helped her, didnt they . Caller they helped her a lot. Stephanie yeah. Caller she died from her own guns. Stephanie somebody was talking about that statistic on cnn how much more likely you are if you have a gun in your house to have it used against you. John you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Caller hi, stephanie. I watch your show all the time. And i would like to point out one thing. I used to be a a member of the nra. No longer. I gave it up. I think they are off the wall. But i think why they resinate with people is that, you know theres something missing from the dialogue and that is the government. What after we get these laws in place and i do believe that we should have these laws in place and background checks and get rid of the high capacity magazines, but what is missing and maybe you heard it i havent heard it yet, is that what are we going to do when we catch these criminals . What are we going to do with the drug traffickers or the people smuggling the guns in . Theres no dialogue about is it going to be ten years . It is going to be no parole . This is what and i direct your attention to what happened here in webster, new york where we had a heinous criminal beat his grandmother to death with a claw hammer and the government turns him lose after new york state spent thousands of dollars to convict, 12 people of his peers, and they turn him lose and then they tell us they lost track of him stephanie how long did he serve in prison . Caller i dont know. He served some time, but the fact is is there any wonder why people are arming themselves when government is turning their criminals out like this. Stephanie yeah. Caller he is not just a guy that has cheated on his taxes stephanie obviously theres some flaws in the legal system. I cant speak to why that guy would ever get out. You would think that that would not be that wouldnt be a paroleworthy offense. No, im sure something happened that were not privy too. Stephanie yeah, but in my opinion it still doesnt justify us all having military assault weapons. Somebody was talking about some of these guys had body armor. What is the point of having body armor if you are not in the military . Right. Unless you plan to be in a combat of some sort. Stephanie yeah do you go in bed with it . Fiftyeight minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. [ theme music ] stephanie hello tv world, hour number 3. Jacki schechner lets drag you into the body armor discussion. Okay. Stephanie why would one need body armor . Thats what we were saying hum. I dont know. Unless you are in the military. Stephanie right, if you are not a cop or in the military role play . [ laughter ] well. Wow jackis mind defaulted to that. No. Stephanie if you are paranoid at being attacked. Maybe because im menopause sal, im already sweaty enough. Your body armor would have like puppies and feet on it. Stephanie exactly. Here she is Jacki Schechner. Good morning, everybody. We are continuing to listen in on former senator chuck hagels confirmation hearing. And his opening remark hagel alluded to some of the controversy he has been facing up to todays session. He heyed there is plenty to analyze and criticize, but that he is and always has been committed to the United States maintaining a strong defense. No one individual vote no one individual quote no one individual statement defines me my beliefs ore my record my overall world view has never changed. He goes on to emphasize his commit to veterans rights and making sure our policies are worthy of the service and sacrifice of americas men and women. After yesterdays highprofile hearing the Senate Judiciary Committee Says it plans to have a gun bill ready by the end of next month. It likely will not include an assault weapons ban. It would likely call for universal background checks gun trafficking, and include some sort of Mental Health screening or enforcement of the current laws we have in place. Were back with more steph after the break. Stay with us. Right have, about the heavy hand of government. I want to have that conversation. Lets talk about it. Really . Youre going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. Really . I want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to is saying, and id like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. [ theme music ] announcer ladies and gentlemen, its the Stephanie Miller show im walking on sunshine woe ho im walking on sunshine, woe ho its time to feel good hey all right now its time to feel good stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome it to. Six minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Stephaniemiller. Com, check it out, Stephanie Miller on facebook. Check it out we have an article on how easy it is for the violent mentally ill to get guns. Not good bedtime reading. Joe biden would be 74 if he runs and Hillary Clinton would be 69. And everybody made a big deal that john mccain was 74 and he was extra grumpy. I dont think joe biden would chase kids off of his lawn with a garden hose. Stephanie thats right. I woke up one morning to turn on the tv and i found sadly somebody took you off of the air, and now i sit in my car with my eyes closed seeing you in my living room. Oh, henry. He is a sad panda in tampa. They have pandas in tampa . No a sad python. Stephanie youll be able to see me, dont you worry were working on magic. Even before current you could see us on the you stream thing. Stephanie people are used to the eye candy now. In all else fails just throw us up on the youstream. Stephanie right. Kathy. Were going to be on for a few more months first of all. As time gets closer, will you please let us all know how to stay in touch. [ applause ] stephanie yes, dont worry. Were on it. Oh lets see, i think people are writing parities, because i was featured on fox news last night in the leftwing hate speech segment on hannity. I should just know from now on when i get the cword emails i should have an auto reply like thanks for watching fox news. They said i marginalize people who want to protect their homes with guns. Should we play that again. Stephanie oh fine. We have our good friend little old steph. She is blaming talk radio conservatives and blaming people who want to protect their homes. Watch this. Stephanie i get the Home Protection but to what degree are people just paranoid. They make it sound like its the zero dark thirty raid at their house every night. Yeah. Stephanie navy sales and drones. Its right wing talk radio and fox news job to make people paranoid. Right. Home invasions, rape, robbery, murder. Things really happen. Suddenly they are all on the extreme fringe. The reason there is so much gun violence in chicago is because of all of the unregulated guns coming in across the border. Stephanie right. Any way, thanks for the publicity against sean. Stephanie oh i think i did my sauerkraut recipe. A letter from skeeter. This is clearly the sign of a terrorist. Im skeeter, hip hop communist, rachel [ inaudible ]. [ applause ] stephanie thank you skeeter. That was a fake skeeter letter. You are not a real skeeter. Come on now. Bill maher referred to skeeter yeah, as a gun yahoo. Stephanie thank you as a tribute. Look at this. Jon stewart [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie im sure well get the check in a minute. Glen beck is building this new city, and i guess jon stewart called it the same thing we did. Are you tired of your government taking aliberties and freedoms you cant quite name . Welcome secede or succeed with us in the tea becker utopia glen Becky Becky Becky stan stan. Your hard earned money is yours to keep. There are no taxes, roads bridges, police, fire protection, teachers hospitals, libraries, garbage pickup or suage treatment in glen Becky Becky Becky stan stan. But they, that doesnt matter. Who needs government . Its overrated. Join us in glen Becky Becky Becky becky stan stan. We have freedoms with none of the responsibilities. You want to lock your wife and children in the basement . Go ahead, nobody is asking questions. Freedom isnt free but for a small down payment it can be yours. Our future is in the past. Stephanie and this just in were getting ripped on the left and the right. [ world news tonight theme ] i would like to point out that kenny pick and shaf wrote that in the november of last year. Stephanie yes. A comedian mocks glen becks freedom town on glen becks own network. He dubbed becks planned town i need some comedy music. [ circus music ] stephanie he put a fake advertisement together for glen becks thing. The park features a roller coaster, the freedom coaster where safety harnesses are optional. Libertarian island where food is cooked in an unregulated shack. The whimsical its a smaller world theme. The haunted mansion, riders are given a spinning right to relive glens topsy turvey years when he was an alcoholic. Thats kind of funny. That was on the blaze. Yes. They allowed him to make fun of glen beck on glen becks own network . Stephanie apparently. Glen beck probably didnt get it. I remember whenning Steven Colbert referred to Mitch Mcconnell as a turtle after i did it. Stephanie huh, weird. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie a story we were talking about earlier, federal authorities have arrested a california man who they say hacked into hundreds of social media and email accounts to coerce more than 350 women in showing them their naked bodies. This is the part i dont get. He then poses as a friend persuading the women to strip while he watched. Wow. Stephanie if a friend said this would you do this, really . Oh, okay jim. Here. What . 350 women in california are just that dumb. I must obey the internet. Stephanie okay. Oh its a friend of mine, sure. Have you been to the west side . There are that many dumb women. Stephanie apparently there are. I would just write jim stop it. I am not taking my top off. Okay. Stephanie yeah. Yeah. God, i cant believe i fell for that. Stephanie its for my friend kathy. Here. I didnt mean to disparage the west side. Stephanie we apologize to the entire west side. Stephanie what do you name the most beautiful dog in the world announcer Stephanie Miller. Stephanie she named a his stephanie. Bandit said hes call her stephanie and she likes sitting on peoples laps and licking their faces. Thats you. Stephanie here is a picture of her and her older dog. What kind of dogs had to get together to make a golden terry poodle. A golden retriever and a poodle should never ever a great dane and a chihuahua should never Stephanie Scott in Salt Lake City wants to go after my first love alcohol. Good morning, scott. Caller i have a question about a relationship between alcohol and drugs. Stephanie yes. Caller my my my brotherinlaw shot himself with a pistol i dont think he ever used. The first time. He was drunk at the time. Stephanie uhhuh. Caller were going to do background checks on people buying alcohol. My wife said if he did not had that gun, he would be alive today. Stephanie right. Caller and i say what if he didnt have alcohol. Stephanie so we should outlaw alcohol . They tried that. Alcohol kills a lot of people too. Innocent people. Stephanie right, but alcohol used in moderation does not kill. Guns are designed to kill. What is a gun for . Caller its for a lot of purposes. Its not meant to kill people. It is meant to kill alcohol is not meant to kill people. Caller well lets say a person is getting treated in a rehab center for alcohol abuse, and a background check shows that. At what level if a person had mild alcohol abuse or repeat rehab, where does somebody draw the line on background checks . My brotherinlaw has depression as well, but he wasnt seeking any kind of treatment. Stephanie okay. But what i guess im missing what your point is. What is your conclusion that you think alcohol should be illegal . No, im saying im not sure that just outlawing or making background checks forguns, we still have other problems like alcohol. Stephanie i dont think anyone think guns and alcohol are a good combination. But as chris points out alcohol itself is not designed to kill. Cars kill people all the time too. Caller right. I understand. But i dont understand where you draw the line stephanie thats why we dont think guns in bars is a good idea. Because they are historically not a good combination. I really think you are not going to outlaw alcohol and it does have other uses whereas guns thats exactly one of the reasons. I think its 43 times more likely you are more likely to kill an acquaintance or loved one if you have a gun in your home. Caller lets say the person received treatment for alcohol abuse, and they can still go to a liquor store and buy alcohol. The background check is there for that person and yet maybe they have already i think were talking past each other here. Stephanie yeah. 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They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. All i want to do is have announcer Stephanie Miller. I got a feeling, im not the only one all i want to do is announcer Stephanie Miller. Until the sun comes up over santa monica boulevard. Stephanie [ inaudible ]. On the tv. Twenty six minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Starring john mccain as the cranky old man. Stephanie he is very troubled by the latest nomination. Why do i get the vision of too close for comfort. When you say hagel on the hill. Stephanie wednesdays at 8 00 [ bell chimes ] [ laughter ] stephanie can my life get any better. I guess im featured almost every week on hannity, and then i get a lot of cword emails. And that is just going to increase. Stephanie miller one of the most popular and funny liberal radio hosts in the country. Thanks for the promo. We use that all the time. Stephanie he will be appearing on the hannity show. Something tells me he was being sarcastic. Stephanie sarcastic. Lets go to mark in washington. Hi, mark. Caller hi. Stephanie hi. Caller i gov you guys. Granholm, whole network. Stephanie thank you. Caller all of the people that think their un is going to come take their woody . Stephanie yes. Caller how . They are not going to go door to door and take your guns. Caller yeah. Stephanie the big un hand. Caller yeah, it seems to me you would have to systematically go over every square inch of this country with metal detectors. [ knocking ] stephanie hand it over. Wayne lapierre yesterday. We see a dramatic lapse of gun prosecutions in the last years. That means violent fallens, violent gang remembers and drug dealers with guns, and the mentally ill who possession firearms are not being prosecuted. Stephanie this is the red herring they bring up every time. This is the reason for not having any new laws of any kind. Right. Stephanie or fixing anything, not a loophole background check Mental Health records, its well talk more about hard. Twentynine minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. To me now . You know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials . Those types are coming on to me all the time now. vo she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. Ok, so theres wiggle room in the ten commandments, thats what youre saying. You would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. Absolutely. And so would mitt romney. vo shes joy behar. And the best part is that current will let me say anything. What the hell were they thinking . Announcer Stephanie Miller. You are one of the most beautiful women i have ever seen, and thats not saying much for you. [ laughter ] stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. Thirtyfour minutes after the hour. Chris you were looking up we were just playing Wayne Lapierre talking about federal gun prosecutions are down. And thats blah blah blah. Right. The argument that the problem is weak enforcement is exposed by the efforts to undercut what enforcement there is. The atf lacks the Legal Resources to handle it properly. It bars the bureau from putting gun records in a database. So its a self fulfilling prophecy. Stephanie exactly. Wayne lapierre yesterday. Lawabiding gun owner will not accept blame for the acts of violent or deranged criminals, nor do we believe that government should dictate what we can lawfully own and used to protect our families. Stephanie rocket launch or, drone, why not . Tank. Stephanie yes. Senator ted cruz that guy he was talking about hagel and kerry. He said they dont feel like we do about the military. Meaning they served and were injured but you didnt serve. How did texas collect that guy. Stephanie this guy. The tragedy in newtown reaction is to rush to reenact a law that did nothing to reduce gun violence. If it doesnt ban machine guns what does it ban . And what it bans i would suggest to you you would suggest. Are scarylooking guns. I would suggest a you are a moron, and b, that gun violence went up when the assault weapons ban expired. Stephanie yes. And in addition you are a lying sack of crap stephanie as jim suggests. Just suggesting. Stephanie okay. There was almost almost yesterday, we talked to representative joe courtney earlier on the show, and we was talking about they just had a hearing in newtown as well. And a lot of parents of kids that were killed at sandy hook got up were they heckled today . There was a little bit of creative editing with that. That video appeared first on the martin sheer show and they ed edited out a part where the father was asking a question stephanie i saw that. He asked the question. But if you saw the tape you could hear the tone of it. Yeah. It was a rhetorical question and they started screaming at him. Stephanie yeah. Nicole who lost her 6yearold son said dont give up because its too hard or difficult, make a promise to honor the lives losted at sandy hook and elsewhere in this country. Make the change that benefits us also. And a father a person could live in a home where he had access to the most dangerous guns in america is unacceptable. It was far to easy for an unbalanced person to have easy access to powerful weapons. And further restrictions on gun rights, leave good and lawful citizens at risk. Huh . Stephanie that does not believe good lawful citizens at risk. You cant have an m16 or whatever these military assault weapons are. Susie said her daughter escaped from sandy hook when the shooter caused. Emma and her friends emma saw her friends and teachers slaughtered before she ran past life less bodies the fact that my daughter survived and others didnt haunts me. This testimony was its you cant it is just so powerful. And i wonder how they are even able to do it. That comes from a place of not wanting other people to go through the pain you are going through. Lets go to keith in texas. Caller hey how are you doing . Stephanie good go ahead. Caller do you really dont know why its gd lobster. Stephanie pardon me . Caller do you really know why its gd lobster. Stephanie oh. I dont. Caller it is in the same section that it talks about a man laying with another man. Oh of course. Its leviticus. Would your mom be quoting leviticus . Stephanie not to me. Carol in iowa you are on the Stephanie Miller show. Go ahead. Caller i called in to tell about my sister and her husband are fox news lovers. And they recently bought each bought a gun to protect themselves, and they have never used a gun in their lives. And its terrifying and they have to take lessons. Shes like we have to take 50 bullets to learn our lessons and its just terrifying and i said where are you going to leave this gun at . And she said by my bedside. And i said are you willing to shoot a person that comes into your house . And she said if they are in my house im going to have to kill them. And its just fox news lying all over the place. Stephanie yeah, did you hear the story about the guy who pulled into the wrong driveway and the homeowner came out and shot him dead. Can i just say, people pull in my driveway all the time to turn around. Yes, and they wear glasses and cant see well. Her husband may wake up to go to the bathroom and what if she thinks he is a shooter. Stephanie i know. As quoted by chris lavoie on the Stephanie Miller show, and then on the sean hannity show, fox news is selling paranoia. Caller they are. Stephanie and again, 43 times more likely to kill yourself or a Family Member if you have a gun in the house. I dont think there is any advice we can give you stephanie elderly people nearsighted people with no gun training who is there let me reload stephanie oh, boy. Its not funny. Katherine in illinois. You are on the Stephanie Miller show. Hello, katherine. Caller california . Stephanie oh california, sorry, sorry, sorry. Caller yes, love you guys you kept me sane throughout the election. I have called my representatives in corona california, the representative three times since sandy hook and asked where he standings on magazines and assault weapons and background checks and they told me three times he hasnt stated his position, and i said well you know what, i am a constituent and i want to know because i want something done, and two weeks before christmas i live in a gated community of 500 homes, we were put in lockdown at 9 00 on a saturday morning because they said a Domestic Violence situation he was chasing his wife in the street and shooting at her, for five hours 500 families were in lockdown while s. W. A. T. Tried to find this guy and get him to come out of the house, but what im saying is were suffering, and were in lockdown, and it was a gun he purchased at a gun show, and my representative wont even tell me where he stands. And they he will respond to you in the better and the letter was were out here keeping taxes low, and i said i want an answer, i pay your salary. You are responsible for me. Stephanie good for you. My sons doctor was just shot and killed stephanie oh the urologist that was just shot and killed. I heard about that. Caller yeah, this is crazy, im looking at the names of these children in newtown, and i see one was born on the same day as me, except i was born 51 days before she was, and i said every year on my birthday im making a donation to the Brady Organization in this childs name. Stephanie katherine great call. Thank you. I appreciate it. Caller thank you. Stephanie i was just thinking i was out with Food Poisoning monday and a friend of mine brought me pedialite pop sickles, and i was asleep so she did climb over the gate that is a hard gate to climb over. Stephanie yeah if i had a gun i would be been like right, just saying [ gun cocks ]. Stephanie pop sickles going up like clay pigeons. All right. Well be right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Have the passion. But its also about telling them, youre put on this planet for something more. I want this show to have an impact beyond just informing. An impact that gets people to take action themselves. As a human being, thats really important. This is not just a spectator sport. What we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. By 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough College Graduates to fill them. Thats why at Devry University were teaming up with Companies Like cisco to help make sure everyone is ready with the knowhow we need for a new tomorrow. [ male announcer ] make sure americas ready. Make sure youre ready. At devry. Edu knowhow. He was a hollywood golden boy fighting a losing battle with his dark side. Of all the hours in all his days, these are the ones youll never forget. Yeah this is the story of announcer Stephanie Miller. Nasty dog bow wow, wow, yippy yo yippy yay stephanie guess what max and i were playing in bed yesterday . Scrapple . Stephanie no polar bear on the lose in the zoo. [ laughter ] stephanie polar bar got lose in the zoo. What about the children . He loves it. He loves the game so much. [ applause ] stephanie you grab his mouth and he is like be careful somebody is going to shoot him. Polar bear on the lose stephanie no, its a game its a game its good i didnt shoot my friend who brought me pop sickles the other day. Because i was asleep and she just let herself in. Hopefully this girl is expected to survive this. Grandpa fears intruder shoots granddaughter. 16yearold was in Critical Condition after her grandfather shot her. He said he and his wife were awakened by a noise outside, he saw someone at the back door fired two shots one of which hit her in the upper body. The girl had beenlying with her grand parents but they thought she was already inside their home. This is what the nra does create paranoia. Stephanie it was just our point. That fox news and the nra are creating a nation of crazies, gun nuts. Gotomeeting. Com, click on the try it free button and type in the promo code stephanie. My close personal friend road flair mary from chicago. Hi, mary good morning. Caller hi, good morning. I just had a comment you keep talking about guns fox news sean hannity well, sean brought up stephanie first. Nbc stands for negro broadcast channel, because they edit everything to their liking . Stephanie im sorry, how did that become racial . Its not racial. Thats what it stands for. It stands for National Broadcasting company. Stephanie is that a joke . Caller no ask al sharpton that scum bag. Stephanie oh okay. Caller but with the gun thing, okay. It is never going to go away like i say before. Its these gang bangers, all of these people that have been murdered in chicago stephanie right and they get their guns from elsewhere caller that 15 year old that got shot in the back just for standing with her friends, but i dont think were after these people. They are useings this tragedy in sandy hook stephanie they are going after those people as well. Caller are they really . I dont know. Stephanie marys i have hah enough conversation. So they just let them go. Stephanie wow just let them go because they are all black. Stephanie right. Right. Here is another headline [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie cop shoots self in foot talking gun safety. Wow its not just a metaphor . Stephanie right. Right. All righty then. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie Barbara Walters is home although she has the chickenpox chickenpox. She had a head injury she fell so now shes watching the view with chickenpox. Hum. Okay. Stephanie all right. We wish her well. [ inaudible ] kids on rocks. Stephanie right. Old hot dog commercials are playing in my mind too jim you are right. Hot dog commercials never mind. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie girl fight everybody. Where . Stephanie Anne Hathaway and katie holmes are bitter rivals. Get the pillows. Stephanie jim would love to see that. Hathaway apparently does not like cruz she think she relies on her marriage to tom cruise to get roles or something whatever stephanie and Anne Hathaway impersonated indicatetive on saturday night live. And she said if you read the newspapers youll find that siri and i spend an inordinate amount of time at the zoo. [ world news tonight theme ] Stephanie Lindsay and dena lohan were rejected by two hotels. They tried to check in around 1 00 am lindsay is on the blacklist there after allegedly trashing a room. And were turned down up the road as well. Just like baby jesus. Did you just compare lindsay low hahn to baby jesus. [ wah wah ] stephanie i was talking to rolland sexy liberal tour director last night. And i feel bad im like oh i already told you that, right. I tell you things and you say you already told me that. [ world news tonight theme ] stephanie this story makes me feel better. Actor jason london. Yes. Stephanie he apparently [ censor bleep ] himself in the back seat of a cop car sunday after he was punched in the face in a bar fight. He called an officer a [ censor bleep ] hill billy. And guess what [ censor bleep ] i [ censor bleep ] love this [ censor bleep ] im rich and mother [ censor bleep ] famous actor. Look me up bitch. He then said your car smells like diarrhea, he leaned to the left and [ censor bleep ] his pants. The next day his wife said yes, he is a [ censor bleep ] ball when he drinks. [ laughter ] stephanie he also has no recollection of the events. [ applause ] stephanie i had a bar fight and [ censor bleep ] myself in a cop car, i dont really . [ world news tonight theme ] Melissa Gilbert is engaged. Good for her. After you broke up their marriage. Stephanie right. She is now engaged to timothy busfield. Who is no longer 30 something. Stephanie no he is not. None of us are. Stephanie yeah thats the only time for you Stephanie Miller show aficionados, the only time i made the tabloids was for aledgedly breaking up her marriage back in 1985. Because im man hungry. Is Ashton Kutcher okay . I have only had fruit this morning because i cooked my tupperware. And this has not been a good morning for me. [ farting sounds ] stephanie he was following the steve jobs fruitonly diet and now he has pancreas problems. Stephanie yes, and he ended up in the hospital. We wish him well. I hear that