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And address we are told that could last about 20 minutes. And we are told by the officials that the American Peoples safety and security remain his top priority. We expect the president to highlight increasing security abroad and hell call for sensible gun reform legislation. And we got a bit of a tip of the hand on that in listening to his weekly address. Right now people on the nofly list can walk into a store and buy a gun. Thats insane. If youre too dangerous to board a plane, youre too dangerous by definition to buy a gun. No surprise the New York Times walking in step with the white house on this writing in an editorial, its not necessary to debate the peculiar wording of the Second Amendment. No right is unlimited and immune from reasonable regulation. Meanwhile, the president S National Security team convened in the situation room yesterday breaking down, of course, the very latest intelligence on the attack. Though the white house in a statement said that they, quote, as of yet uncovered no indication the killers were part of an organized group or formed part of a broader terrorist cell. Although isis is claiming that the two is operating in support of their group. What is less clear, however, is why it took the white house so much longer for the fbi to determine that this was, in fact, a terrorist act. We could learn a lot more about that tonight. Chris . Kevin cork reporting from the white house. Thank you for that. Now lets bring in will carr in redlands, california, the scene of the investigation. Will . Reporter chris, authorities are trying to figure out how the two suspects terrorists flew under the radar into a Southern California neighborhood. On saturday they raided a home in california. We are told enrique marquette may have legally purchased semiautomatic weapons used in wednesdays shooting. Marquette has not been checked and he checked himself into a Mental Health facility. Now the focus of a terrorism investigation has checked into the 29yearold mother who collected cash, ammunition and ieds inside their apartment in redland. Neighbors noticed suspicious activity in the couples garage for a couple weeks but did not call the authorities because they did not want to racially profile. We are learning she may have been the one who radicalized faruque and she may have been the bombmaker. I think the female assailant at this point may have been angry to marry someone with a clean record so she could bring terrorism to the United States. Reporter malik was born in pakistan and spent time if saudi arab arabia. She was granted her conditional green card this past july. The Investigation Continues and the community is remembering the 14 lives lost. Well be listening intently to the president s address. Chris . Will carr reporting from redlands, california, thank you. Joining us now, congressman michael mccaul, chair of the House Homeland Security committee. Congressman, what have you thought of president obamas response so far to the San Bernardino attack and what would you like to hear him say in a speech to the nation tonight . Reporter well, first, he seemed to indicate going back to the fact that this could be an act of Workplace Violence. He has to get off this rhetoric. Make no mistake, this is not Workplace Violence. It was an act of terrorism and these occurrences are happening too frequently. I think the tentacles of isis are not just in europe but also in the United States of america. And the fbi stats show that. We have 70 isisrelated arrests, more than one per week. A thousand investigations in all 50 states. I wanted to tell the truth to the American People about what the threat really is and what the threat itself is, and thats radical islamist terrorism. It does exist in the United States. We didnt see this one coming. There were no warning signs or flags. And we need to do a better job identifying the signs of radicalization from within the United States. We also need to stop the foreign fighter from traveling overseas into the United States. Those are the two main threat vectors. And chris, were just not doing an adequate job to adequately protect the American People. Lets turn to the investigation. This is what we heard on friday from fbi director james comey. The investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the killers and of a potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organization. Chairman, is there anything more you can tell us about this couple and about their links to terrorists either in this country or overseas . Well, i think, yeah, the wild card here is the wife malik. They are both of pakistani decent, but she lived in pakistan most of her adult life, went to saudi arabia, they hooked up over the internet. Theres a Serious Investigation ongoing into what she was doing in pakistan and saudi, including if she attended the red mosque, which is a radicalized mosque. We think that she had a lot to do with the radicalization process. And perhaps with mr. Faruques radicalization in the United States. Im sorry, sir, let me can if i can go down a checklist that a lot of people are asking, your sense at this point, were they inspired or directed by isis or some other group to carry out these attacks . Well, at a minimum, inspired. We know malik, the female pledged her allegiance to al baghdadi, and isis in a computer, we have their devices, we are going through the forensics. They tried to destroy those computers unsuccessfully. And now the investigation is ongoing to find out what is precisely the connection between isis and raqqah and the United States and what was going on. I believe at a minimum inspired but could be directed by the Internet Communications which is this, come to syria or kill where you are. When you talk about the connections, one of the questions a lot of people are asking is where did they get the thousands of dollars that must have taken to assemble this huge arsenal of weapons and ammunition and material for bombs. Youre right. We are looking at the forensics in this case. I believe on his salary he could not buy this on his own. We know one of the suspects was provides the semiautomatic weapons to him as well. So thats all part of the bigger investigation in terms of who was providing, not only the finance but also the expertise. Its been reported they had a bombmaking factory, if you will, inside their home. They had already built 12 pipe bombs ready to use. And who knows what the next target could have been. As the house of homeland security, one of the questions you have to be asking is why didnt we find this out . Were talking about an american citizen. It seems to have come under the radar. As you look at this, several days into this incident, any sign of an intelligence failure, an intelligence gap that was exploited . Or is this just something that we couldnt find . Thats something well be looking at on the committee, the oversight, to see what could have been missed. Could we have done a better National Security check over in saudi arabia on the female suspect to find out what her background really was before we let her in on a fiancee visa . These are a lot of things in congress i came up with to strengthen foreign travel. But to deal with combatting islamic extremism in the United States, we have a little priority or focus on these programs. And i think we need to do a much better job trying to identify the Early Warning signs of radicalization inside the United States. But i guess at some point you just cant do it, and thats the question im asking as someone who is charged with protecting the homeland, is it possible to stop, hes an american citizen, he had no Law Enforcement record, no evident ties to terror, yes, there was the wife and thats certainly a question, is it possible that sometimes you just cant spot these terrorists before they strike . Thats right. You just cant stop it all. And we stopped a fourth of july plot and we stopped a lot of bad things from happening, chris, but you just cant stop it all when you have 2,000 isis tweets per day on the internet coming into the United States to kill. There were no flags, warning signs in this particular case, but the volume is so high and the chatter is so high that its almost impossible to stop it all. And i think that is what we are ramping up our efforts but you cant be right every time. Lets go through in the time we have left of a list of possible reforms, i want to get from you whether you think they are good ideas or not. As you pointed out earlier, the wife, malik, came in through a socalled fiance visa. Do we need to end those . Well, i think more scrutiny needs to be placed on the National Security investigation to get that visa. As you know on the floor on tuesday, well be voting to a Visa Waiver Program bill to tight up up the restrictions so that people who have basically have those visa waiver countries, for instance, the french attackers have a french passport wouldnt have to get a visa to come into the United States. Thats vitally important. And the majority of the attackers let me ask you about that because i think a lot of you may not know, well talk about the fiance visa. In 38 countries, in europe, theres a visa waiver. They can come into this country, a lot of them come, hundreds of thousands of them come without any screening at all. Does that have to stop . Well, it does. And thats what our bill fixes on tuesday. 5,000 of these foreign fighters that have gone to syria and iraq have western passports. And therefore do not have to obtain a visa before they come into the United States. Now chris, this is a huge security gap. It needs to be addressed and fixed and the congress understands that as does the white house, and we intend to do that. But if you think again about the majority of the paris attackers have french passports, they wouldnt have had to go get a visa before coming to the United States. Thats a threat to the homeland, its a threat to europe, obviously, but the bigger threat to the homeland is the ease of travel visa waiver to get into the United States. Another area you were one of the majority in congress who voted to end the nsas bulk collection of phone data, the fact that my phone number called your phone number and spoke for x number of minutes. And that program ran out last sunday, a week ago. As a result of that, that means that authorities are going to have access to only the last two years of farooks phone records, but now the previous three years because they have five years in their file, the previous three years, those years in their files are now off limits. Was it a mistake to end the nsa phone Data Collection program . Basically what we did is we took i was a former federal prosecutor, i did warrants, and what we did is would go to the phone companies to get that information. Rather than have all the information warehoused under the federal government. And so i think its coming back to a system that worked in the past. Its just going to the private sector to get that information and not taking all that data and warehousing it under the nsa. Im sure there will be debates in the congress further about this. I feel confident about our ability to track terrorists through court orders and getting into these phone records. What im more worried about, chris, is this dark space phenomenon of communications between terrorists from raqqah into the United States, or raqqah to paris or belgium. Even with a court order, we cant see the encrypted communications they are using. And if you cant see what the terrorists are saying, you cant stop it. And thats one of the Biggest Challenges before the fbi today. Finally, chairman mccaul, i want to end where i began because one of the things that struck me in your initial answer about what you want to hear from the president tonight is you said you want him to tell the truth. You dont think hes been telling the truth to the American People . Well, you know, before paris he said, isis was contained. Before San Bernardino, he said that america was safe from isis, was not an extend shl threat. He seems to downplay this throughout his Campaign Narrative into his presidency and i think the American People deserve to know what the truth really is. And we also want to hear from him a military strategy to finally defeat and destroy isis, drain the swamp to the swamps in syria so they cant come into the United States. And San Bernardino is an example of the swamp coming to the United States. Chairman mccaul, well have to leave it there. Thank you so much for your time today. Thanks, chris, thank you for having me. Up next, well bring in our sunday group to discuss the San Bernardino attack and how president obama will try to reassure the nation. Plus, what would you like to ask the panel about what we can do to protect the homeland . Go to facebook or twitter at Fox News Sunday and we may use your question on the air. No matter how fast the markets change, at t. Rowe price, our disciplined investment approach remains. We ask questions here. Look for risks there. And search for opportunity everywhere. Global markets may be uncertain. But you can feel confident in our investment experience. Around the world. Call a t. Rowe price investment specialist, or your advisor. And see how we can help you find global opportunity. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. We have a pattern now of Mass Shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world. It is possible that this was terrorist related. But we dont know. It is entirely possible that these two attackers were radicalized to commit this act of terror. President obamas evolving reaction this week to the San Bernardino massacre. Tonight hell address the nation about how he intends to confront the Terror Threat. And its time now for our sunday group, fox news senior political analyst brit hume, julie pace who covers the white house for the associated press, syndicated columnist george will and political analyst juan williams. Julie, as soon as you heard the president was going to be speaking tonight im sure you were busy working your sources at the white house. What do you expect him to say tonight and is there a chance hell announce the dramatic escalation on terror . To your last question, no, no major policy announcement. Nothing in terms of Troop Deployment or major shift in strategy for going after the Islamic State abroad or trying to track people radicalized in the u. S. I think that more broadly this is an attempt by the president to acknowledge that for a lot of americans after the attacks in paris and now in california that the Terror Threat feels much more real, much more closer to home than it has previously. So i think some of this is going to be him talking about it in a way that i think a lot of people hoped he would have talked about it previously. And also to show that he does take this seriously. The optics of this are important. The president hasnt delivered an Oval Office Address to the nation since 2010. He has often ashoed the optics of the job and this is a way for him to show people visually he understands that this is something that people are taking very seriously. To the degree that he was behind the curve of a lot of americans this week where he was talking about Workplace Violence and gun control and seen a lot slower than the average american to come to the conclusion this was an act of terror, is this a bea litta belated effort to get ahead of the curve . He thinks thats the right approach but over the course of a couple days or week the president will typically end up where americans are and where a lot of his critics frankly have wanted him to be from the start. We asked you for questions for the panel and we got this on facebook from renae trotter, she writes, we know there was a suspicious neighbor who was afraid to call authorities due to fear of being labeled a racist. Similar occurrences happen with numerous people at ft. Hood. How do you answer this Political Correctness and what do you hope to hear from the president. Its a good question. And in this politically correct culture in which we all inhabit, if you see something, say something. Doesnt work very well because people are afraid and understandably so. It would be good if the president could say, you know, were not going to be so exquisitely sensitive to every persons feelings that we are discouraging people from coming forward and reporting something thats worrisome so them. That would help a lot. I mean, if something has an apartment or house thats a virtual arm camp, people who notice such things should not be afraid to report to the authorities and find out what its all about. But that, im afraid, is where we are. You know, as the president was on his initial discussion of this treating it as another mass shooting, he raised the issue of gun control. And on saturday in the New York Times they ran a front page editorial for the First Time Since 1920 under the headline the gun epidemic. They write, it is a moral outrage and a National Disgrace that people can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill with brutal speed and efficiency. These are weapons of war. George . Your thoughts. Well, leaving aside the fact that some of us think the New York Times editorializes on the front page daily. And leaving aside the last time they did was june 1920 when they deplored the nomination of warren g. Hardy that won the population vote. Leave that aside. When they talk about weapons of war, i think the most readers of that editorial and perhaps the authors of it think that the weapons in use here what are called assault weapons fire more than one bullet per pull of the trigger in a constant burst. Those are called machine guns and they have been illegal in this country since 1934. In fact, the American People assume by voting at the polling booth for dedefenders of the first or Second Amendment, but they also voted with their feet by going to gun stores. And what they want is control of their own guns. This year on black friday, the day after thanksgiving, 185,000 americans got background checks for firearms. Thats a oneday record in this country. The American People have made clear what they think about the Second Amendment and the usefulness of owning guns. And this was before San Bernardino, we should point out. Juan, the fact is, when you talk about gun control, california has some of the toughest gun control laws in the nation, but Law Enforcement says that all of the guns, all of the ammunition that this couple assembled, and it was an arsenal, was all bought legally. In fact, it was bought legally. Two were bought by the friends, not by the couple, so they had four guns in all, but the guns more modified in such a way to allow them to fire repeatedly in a socalled bullet button thing where instead of being able to do it manually they just push a button and can we load so quickly. In response to what george was saying, though, george its clear to most americans including most gun owners favor some kind of background checks for all purchases. And in california they have almost universal background checks, but in this case youre looking at a situation where these folks were able to amass so much in terms of the ammunition and guns. You know, without people understanding what they were doing even their relatives. And i think thats troublesome to me. Im troubled by the idea that even in the senate last thursday they proposed what you heard the president mention in the soundbyte that people in the nofully list shouldnt be able to buy guns. And the senate cant deal with it and gun checks. The republicans totally tied up with the nra and Political Support coming from the nra refusing to do anything about background checks. Brit, some would argue this was not a mass shooting, this was a terrorist attack therefore you shouldnt judge it as the president seemed to initially like another new town or another shooting at a movie theater. Having said that, there was a fascinating debate over Mass Shootings that we saw this week. According to one definition, we have more than one mass shooting a day. There were 355 in san bern dee know in 337 days. Another analysis says that we are eighth in the world when it comes to being behind lawless countries like norway and belgium. Gun violence has gone down dramatically in this country. Thats the critical point here. As gun ownership has blossomed and the Second Amendment seems to have collected more and more adherence, gun violence overall gun violence is down. And not only is that the case, it is also the case that the prescriptions for, quote, sensible gun control that are being advanced now in the wake of these shootings, do not include anything that would have, as far as i know, would have stopped this attack. So people are coming forward with unpopular solution that is have proved a dead end repeatedly for the Republican Party that wouldnt solve the problem. Dont you think thats the case, most states that have stricter gun control have lower incidences of death homicide by guns. Theres some relationship there, and chris, isnt it a relationship that the United States among all western industrialized countries has this outstanding rate of murder by gun . Well, actually, it turns out in terms of Mass Shootings, which is what were specifically talking about here, it doesnt. If you look at it per capita and take out gang violence, which is well, its a different deal. Im just saying. Its a different deal. Were behind norway and belgium, so it is not clear theres a pattern here of such rampant gun violence. I think if im dead i dont care, if its a terrorist or the kid on the corner, i dont want to be dead. All right, panel. I think we all agree, we dont want to be dead. We have to take a break here. Well see you all a little later. Up next, republican president ial candidate ben carson takes a tumble in the polls as he defends his Foreign Policy knowledge. Plus, what do you think . Which president ial candidate would best handle the war on terror . Let me know on facebook or twitter foxnewssunday and use the hashtag fns. Done. Doers built this country. The dams and the railroads. John henry was a steel drivin man hmm, catchy. They built the golden gates and the empire states. And all this doin takes energy no matter whos doin. Theres all kinds of doin up in here. Or what theyre doin. What the hecks he doin . Energy got us here. 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Well, i would say, first of all that traditionally our unity has been our strength. And we have to stop listening to the per sayers of division and hatred and recognize that. I would also say that we are a very exceptional people. You look at what we have done in the past, you know, we declared our independence in 1776 and less than 100 years for the number one economic power in the wompld and look at the positive influences we have had throughout the world since that time. So now is not a time for fear but a time for rational thought processing. As far as the radical islamic jihadist terrorists are concerned, we need not count to them. This is america. And we need to have a definitive and powerful strategy to defeat them, which will include understanding how they work and why they have been successful. And then attacking those things. For instance, having established a caliphate. Where do they get their money from . We have to take that away from them. Their ability to transfer money, we have to take that away from them. And looking at where their command central headquarters is in raqqah. For four ways in and out of raqqah, we need to take advantage of being able to shut those off and create difficulty for them. When they flee from there, we chase them wherever they go. We keep them on the run. But dr. Carson thats what we do. Well, let me ask you specifically about this, this case, i understand thats a broad strategy against isis, but youre talking here about an american citizen, his wife came in on a visa, she had been screened, some say effectively, some say not, they bought all the guns legally, so how do you stop this couple from being able to go into that Christmas Party and slaughter everybody . Well, first of all, you need to recognize that there is no magic bullet. Its going to be a conglomerate of things were going to have to do. First of all, we have to teach everyone the importance of vigilance. And not being afraid to report something. Even if you get nine false alarms, if one of them turns out to be positive, its worth it. And we have to stop demonizing people who are trying to be good citizens. I think the other thing that we are going to have to do is do a much better job of monitoring the internet. And things that cause people to be radicalized. Theres absolutely no reason that we shouldnt be putting out counter messages and no reason that we shouldnt be attacking their servers and trying to disrupt their messaging when we see that it is radicalizing people. Some people say thats dirty pool. But were playing against dirty people, so dirty pool is okay in that situation. But we have to be just as tough in our resolve as they are. Doctor, as i said in introducing you, you have seen a dramatic slip in the polls. And the reason seems clear. I want to put one up. In a quinnipiac poll a month ago, this was before the paris attack, 64 of republicans said you have the right kind of experience to be president. 30 said you didnt. But now 42 say you have the right experience and 46 say no. Thats a 22point drop on this issue in just in less than a month. And i guess the question is, how do you persuade the American People that at a time of terror, at a time of domestic threat youre fit to be commander in chief . Well, by continuing to talk about what ive been talking about for months. And that is logical policies for how we work things out. If people actually listen to what i have been saying, they will see that it makes perfectly good sense. But the nice thing is, this is a marathon, its not a sprint. Otherwise it would already be over. So we have plenty of time to get messages out and to talk to people. And i believe that the American People are smart enough to recognize that were in a very different time right now. And its not necessarily the one who shouts the loudest. Its not necessarily the one who claims to have all this great experience. The fact of the matter is theres nobody running that has a great deal of International Experience except for Hillary Clinton and you see where that has led. So thats not necessarily the thing that has to count. You have to look at a persons lifetime experiences. Have they been a person whose been able to solve complex problems . Have they been a person whose able to work with a lot of people and make wise decisions . Because it is critical that the next president be the right person. They are going to get two or three Supreme Court picks. Its going to determine the direction of our country. We, the people, are going to have to make that decision. But dr. Carson, heres an example of the problem that you now face, whether its fair or not. You spoke this week before the Republican Jewish Coalition and heres how it began. I normally am a spontaneous speaker, but i want to make sure i get all my points in today so i will actually be using a script. You then read from prepared remarks for half an hour. You were the only candidate who didnt take any questions. And then there was this. Fattah and mohommad rule in constant slate of conflict. Afterwards a member of the rc board and a former Bush Press Secretary tweeted this, someone should have told him how to pronounce hamas. He sounds like hes not familiar with the group. Question, how do you respond . And you read it over the last couple of days, how do you respond to all the credit similar of your speech, sir . Well, i expect everything that i say to be criticized. There are also some very positive remarks about it. I dont expect anybody to hear about that. We need to get to the point where we start looking at the substance of what is being said. Not the style in which its being said. You know, thats the sign of maturity. And i actually believe that the people of this country are going to recognize that. They know what has happened traditionally when people try to manipulate everything and steer the conversation in their direction and try to manipulate peoples opinions. But, you know, all i have to say is, lets wait and see. I have always been told, and i have said this on the air many times that you and i are friends, and i have Great Respect for you, but ive always been told a good doctor is never threatened if you ask for a second opinion. He welcomes that because he wants to do the best for the patient. Is it possible that with the change focus of this campaign, with the attacks in paris and now in San Bernardino and the increased emphasis on Foreign Policy experience and being commander in chief, that maybe youre not the right fit at this point . Well, you know what i would say to that, chris, is i think of all the people running, ive probably had the most experience making critical life and death decisions. Probably far more 2 00 a. M. Calls than anybody else. And i have a record of solving complex problems. But lets let the American People decide whether that is the right combination or maybe the right combination is somebody who has spent a lot of time talking about stuff. Well see. Finally, with the two terrorists in San Bernardino having assembled an amazing arsenal with semiautomatic rifles, semiautomatic pistols, thousands of rounds of ammunition and about a dozen pipebombs, theres a renewed debate, at least in the case of the guns about gun control, is there anything dr. Carson that you would do to restrict peoples access to semiautomatic weapons or to these highcapacity magazines . Well, you know, california has some of the strictest gun control laws. And the semiautomatic weapons that were used were banned. The magazines were banned. It was a gunfree zone. And yet it still happened. You know, we need to start looking and thinking about things that preserve the right of americans, their Second Amendment rights, but then have a positive effect in terms of getting hands out, guns out of the hands of terrorists. And people who are mentally unstable. Thats what we need to be looking at. And whenever we have these discussions, we need to put the two things up side by side, Second Amendment rights, ability to screen and keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of unstable people. Put those together and then work toward a solution that accomplishes both of those goals. Dr. Carson, thank you. Thank you for joining us. Always good to talk to you, sir. You, too. Thank you, chris. Next up, the San Bernardino attack shakes up the race for president yet again. Well bring back the panel to discuss it. Rowe price, we can help guide your investments through good times and bad. 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Thats the only way youre going to stop terrorism. Donald trump talking tough about taking out the terrorists and their families and seeing a dramatic spike in the polls. And were back now with the panel. Well, take a look at the latest survey, which is pretty striking in a cnn national poll, donald trump now leads with 36 . Thats more than double anyone else in the field. And when it comes specifically to the issue of fighting isis, trump is at 46 trumping all the other candidates. Jornl george, with intense focus now on taking out the terrorists, why do you think the voters are flocking to trump . We are now in an expectant stage of trumpiness, at first he was naughty and entertaining and people would say, you cant say that in Polite Society and its wonderful that someone would talk like that. Now the American People are more frightened and looking for strength and they intend to equate naughtiness with strength. Its not naughtiness, its toughness. Thats what im saying, now its taken to be kind of synonymous, that they are effectively the same thing. What this means is in this volatile year, usually the republican race comes down to sort of conservative base candidate and the centerist establishment candidate. What if this time there are three candidates . Then youre going to get a plurality winner. And the plurality path is trumps path to nomination. Juan, it is striking, though, that trumps tough rhetoric is winning out at this point, at least in the polls over senators who have had Foreign Policy experience and governors who may not have had Foreign Policy but handson experience dealing with crises, the rhetoric seems to be whipping out. I dont think theres any question it speaks to a deficit on the part of president obama. I thought that press conference he had in turkey, i was just talking about this with julie, i thought he missed the since of the American People, which is fear. You dont want to feed fear, im not designing that, people can exploit that to a negative end, but you have to reflect when the populists feel theres a real reason to feel, i dont think he did that back then. I think the republicans have been thoroughly critical of him on this point. I think hes out of line when he speaks to the republican candidates. I think thats really not the concern here. But when you come to donald trump and just what george was saying, this kind of strong approach, lacking with specifics or anything new, theres no specific plan that he has, that he would execute that the president , the fbi, the agencies arent doing, but hes seen strong, confident and capable in commanding. So in the same sense that some people think that obama was the opposite of bush, and thats why they elected him in 2008, youre nodding that trump is the opposite of obama . Absolutely. If you look at obamas election as somewhat of a reaction to not only george bushs policies but also his style, then trump seems to be a reaction to obama. We are veering back in another direction. Whether it is relevant to the war on terror or not, we are also seeing a renewed debate this week over gun control. Take a look at this. I can tell you that Hillary Clinton was very much for gun control and that ted cruz was very much against it and said, instead of taking away the guns to fight the bad guys, we should be using the guns against the bad guys. Brit, its interesting, ever since al gore in 2000, democrats in the National Elections have stayed away from gun control, have not found it to be a winner. Do you expect Hillary Clinton to play gun control hard in the general election or is she just going to use it against Bernie Sanders who comes from a conservative hunting state like vermont, to use it in the primaries but not necessarily in the general election . As a republican strategist, i would hope per recently she carries forward her crew said for gun control right into the general election. It is a political loser for democrats. And its gotten them in trouble nearly every time they have tried it. Even after newtown when there was supposed to be a new National Consensus fur sensible gun control as it was called, the measure introduced never went you are in the congress and was an utter failure by president obama. It was a striking failure on his part. So these are measures that, if you look at most of the ones being talked about, they wouldnt have solved the problem that led to what happened in San Bernardino. And people they cant pass anyway. So and why do you think that gun control, particularly talking not on an individual race or state, but in a race for president , nationally, why is it a loser . Its a loser because of the fervor with which people who support the Second Amendment as it has been interpreted by the Supreme Court and used guns or own guns or believe that guns should be freely owned, basically, is greater than the fervor of the gun control advocates. And these people will vote on a single issue basis. The lobby that supports these rights is effective. And the democrats just dont have the firepower on this issue, no pun intended, to make it work for them. And they havent for a long, long time. You dont think its the nra . Thats what i said. The nra and the gun manufacturer. Well, you know what makes them powerful . The sentiment of the American People. No, its the money that they raise from from people answering polls that they dont want this, they are doing so because they are paid. The polls indicate most americans want background checks. I want to bring in julie because it is clear that president obama is going to raise the issue of gun control in every case, whether its a mass shooting where it seems very applicable or a calllated terror attack where it may not be so applicable. Do you expect him to do anything more than talk about it in the rest of his presidency . And at the white house, do they think that this is a political winner, particularly lets say if Hillary Clinton is the nominee in 2016 . I think in terms of action theres a definite effort to look at more executive action the president can do. They have given up on congress, theres not going to be a push for legislation, but hes going to look at trying to expand background checks, trying to close what is the socalled gun show loophope, online purchases. There will be legal questions about that, you wont see it this year, maybe next year. It will be brought up in the courts exactly. On the politics they look at it differently. They think that its a base motivator for democrats in the same way its a base motivator for republicans. If its hillary or whatever, the republicans do have a platform to stand on. George . Its not just the fervor or the gun manufacturer who is are a trivial part of our economy. Gun culture is a signal mag fier. Theres a whole plethora of indicators that people take from forcing gun control. And we should point out that the president at Liberty University this week suggested he carry the gun and maybe everybody else should as well. Interesting times. Thank you all, panel. See you next week. Up next, our powerplayer in the week. Cooki kids cooking in the kitchen and gaining skills for life. As a kid i can remember my mother serving me fish and calling it brain food that made people smarter. Well, theres an organization here in washington thats based on that same general principle and helping a lot of young people. Here is our power player of the week. Food is a terrific magnet. Its how we all socialize, its how we hang out with our friends, how we hang out with our family. Paul don is an executive director of brain food teaching kids about food and life. 250 young people sign up for after school and summer programs. But the first lesson is not about food. Showing up on time, being responsible and accountable, being a good member of the team and the community. And building on that for an entire school year. Soon enough theyre in the kitchen. The initial assignment, baking a cookie. Its how to read and do math and follow directions and work in teams and manage time. So all kinds of skills that frankly arent necessarily food related that we all use in our jobs all the time. Part of the process is learning from what you do wrong. Every year somebody puts two cups of salt in a cookie recipe and it doesnt taste very good. That person is never going to make that mistake again. By the end of the year the cookie makers are using sharp knives. The Graduation Ceremony is an iron chefstyle cooking competition. The students with the best attendance break up into teams and cook in front of judges under a time limit with mystery ingredients. How are these skills translatable as life lessons . At the most basic level its about making a commitment and showing up every day that youre supposed to show up. Perhaps most importantly it gives these kids a sense of accomplishment. We made it. Now i have a passion for cooking. Im usually home alone and have to cook for myself. So the things i learn here i bring it back home. How much is it about making sure these kids get a few good meals a week and that they know the difference between a good meal and bad meal . There have definitely been times when students initially were most interested because theres never any food at home. My mom is always working, we dont have any money, whatever the reason is they come here, because they are hungry and realize they get to eat really good food. Brain food started 16 years ago, but this spring they launched a new program called home grown where graduates who want to get into the Food Industry make healthy snacks that are sold at local markets. And this, too, teaches a lesson. Theyre capable, they can add value. They can create Food Products that people are willing to pay for and are willing to compete in the marketplace. Paul dahm has been hat brain food 13 years but still loves coming to work every day. We see young people that maybe had struggled in traditional learning settlings come into the kitchen and are rock stars. I call it the light bulb moment when they go, ah, im good at this. That gives them confidence to try Something Else and thats really what we are trying to do. Brain food gets most of their funding from private sources but dahm says with charitable donations slowing down in general, he wants to make home grown a viable business and stable source of revenue. Before we go, two Program Notes up. 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