office, i can tell you when you get your candidate questionnaire from the nra what it actually is asking about mostly is not the rights of citizens. what it is asking about is the rights of gun companies to sell guns. it is about selling guns. that s not accurate. it will do that even if it means selling guns. go ahead. let me say this. have you been to an nra meeting of any type at any point in your entire life? no. okay. so i have. i have never been to an nra meeting but i come from a state i have been to about 75 of them. let me finish my point. i ve been to about 75, my dad is in law enforcement, i grew up around guns and used a gun twice to save my life from people who shot at me. i was in the united states army. i ll stipulate we both know about guns. don t act as if somehow you know what the nra does when you have never been to one single meeting. the nra and the millions of members they have would say yeah, i will will
office, i can tell you that when you get your candidate questionnaire from the nra what it actually is asking about mostly is not the rights of citizens. what it s asking about is the rights of gun companies to sell guns. it is about that s just not accurate. it will do that even if it means selling guns let ben respond. go ahead, ben. have you ever been to an nra meeting of any type at any point in your entire life? no. okay. so i have. i ve probably been to about 75 of them. let me finish my point, then. i ve probably been to about 75 of them. my dad is in law enforcement. i grew up around guns, used a gun to save my life against two people that shot at me. i know a little bit about guns. when you say that the nra i was in the united states army. i ll stipulate we both know about guns. don t act as if somehow you know what the nra does when you ve never been to one single meeting. i ve also never let me at least finish. would actually say that they do
first, a quick update on what we learned last week about dodd-frank. we learned on thursday that jpmorgan chase lost $2 billion, that s billion with a b, from the derivatives trading desk. jamie dimon has been the vocal rule of which is still being fought. in which properly implemented would have saved jpmorgan $2 billion by preventing them from engaging in those trades in the first place. the securities trades commission says it is focused. so what do we know now? we know that the president s evolution has brought him to the point where he publically proclaimed his support for marriage equality. he filled out a candidate
that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. it s interesting because back in 1996, then candidate for higher office barack obama filled out the candidate questionnaire. in 1996, he supported same sex marriage. then in 2004, he said he no longer supported same sex marriage and then, of course, now in 2012, he supports it. so he was for it before he was against it. before he was for it. here s what bugs me about the whole it s not just president obama. it s politicians in general. when you listen to this interview that he gave yesterday, every single line has been thought about, parsed out, who does this affect? who am i appealing to? who am i not? i spoke to michelle about this, think wife and she s the one who convinced me. i looked at my daughter s friends and saw some of the parents of their friends are same-sex couples and the one thing for sure that was sought out that in helping him decide, michelle and he both decided