cut his throat and shot him should go home? no, i don t think so. good point. jon: our viewers might not recognize it in new york, here in new york city you re something of a celebrity attorney. you re, your photo appears in the tabloids. he is. jon: with some celebrity clients from time to time. is it different though for a prosecutor. it is. i mean, definitely is. i know fred will agree with me. i am now, i work for an individual, i don t work for the government. you want a quick war story? i secured the first murder in the 1st degree conviction in the state of new york almost, 17 years ago. they interviewed me. all i said, jon, was, and it was a horrible crime, i said we are ecstatic at the verdict. the, the district attorney, joe heinz called me, said you ever say anything like that again you re fired!. this is after i won the biggest case he had. you re never ecstatic as a prosecutor. you did justice. you presented the evidence. the jury found him guilty
to be pro gay marriage it s very hard to say at the same time that you re covering this issue objectively, and yet many journalists are making that kind of astonishing claims. i don t disagree with that. no, no i don t look you asked a question whether someone should be an advocate or something or whether they have that position. people who claim they don t have positions on things are just being dishonest. i m just saying that i think they need to have an honest debate between other people and let people present their views and have a debate about it. jon: there is a column called mediaite which us in the media read a lot not necessarily the folks at home. a guy named joe contra wrote in a column that he believes that the coverage is just disproportionate, that this is an issue that faces, what, you know, maybe 3 or 4% of the population is actually gay, and that the coverage is disproportionate to the impact
the 16th of january of this year. i will put everything i ve got into this and so will joe, but i tell you, the only way we can change is if the american people demand it. jon: here is what chris stirewalt said about this in his column yesterday. he said that the obstacle, the primary obstacle to the sweeping gun control legislation he demanded in the wake of the horrific december-school shooting in connecticut is currently a dozen or so democratic senators who have balked at the president s plan. is that the case in do you see it the same way? there is so much attention on marco rubio, rand paul, mike lee, ted cruz who may filibuster any bill that comes to the floor of the senate. they are not the real obstacle. the real obstacle are themocratd to this gun control.