of protests out this weekend. folks that are affected by sandy are saying look how the government handled katrina and let s compare that to what s happening now with us. let s listen to some of these protesters. here we stand, victims of sandy, 75 days later, still waiting. we are suffering. families are homeless. people are without johns and struggling. where the heck is the red tape being cut? because i sure haven t seen it. my neighbors haven t seen it. my friends haven t seen it. we are still fighting. perry, how s this going to play out with the sandy relief bill? do you think the gop s going to block it? i do not. i think after chris christie made those very blistering remarks a couple weeks ago about what s taking so long, why is this happening, this money will go through. a lot of house republicans view this kind of funding as some kind of stimulus money and this money as being wasted but that s not a majority view at this point, in part because they realize this is pol
safe. a lot of things are involved in that, jake. so making sure they have decent health care. making sure they have got a good education. making sure that their parents have jobs. those are all relevant as well. those aren t just, sort of side issues but there is no doubt that this has to be a central issue and that is exactly why i m confident that joe is going to take this so seriously over the next couple months. thank you, everybody. jon: so after taking full advantage of the bully pulpit there, the president made a statement about gun violence and his proposal that the vice president head up a commission that will deal with and issue a report next month in january about ways to prevent gun violence of the kind that we saw in newtown, connecticut, last week. but then he launched into an explanation of his position on the fiscal cliff and took some pretty direct shots at speaker of the house john boehner and his republican