he leaves behind a wife and children. heather: molly, thank you for the details. gregg: key figures on both sides of the gun control debate appearing on the sunday morning talk shows, national rifle association ceo speaking out against so-called universal background checks. the husband a former congresswoman gabrielle giffords voices support for banning assault weapons. it s universal background checks become the law everyone that buys a gun would be subject to a full criminal and mental health screening. this is something gun control advocates favor, but this morning the ceo of the nra says universal background checks won t work. it s fraud to call it universal. the criminals aren t going to comply with it. you are not going to computerize the mental health record.
optimism but adults in recent memory have so many things that have been going bad, it s tough to be optimistic. gregg: throw the next one up. i think it is interesting. it breaks down among gender. look at this. actually better life, homes, better education, girls are more optimistic than boys? that is very interesting. we have seen women and girls make tremendous inroads in terms of education. they are graduating more and greater percentages than and boys and get better grades. for girls for optimistic that is good sign. take a look at, i think it was ages six through 12, those are not the kids that are living at home in their parents basement. they have not gone to college and faced unemployment. so it s good for them to be optimistic. really good thing is what you believe about your future will have an impact on your current
gregg: ministerial distinction prevails. the ministers and teachers and not ministers. so it doesn t necessarily prevail. second of all, a minister versus a teacher. do i need to answer that question. don t ministers teach? and teachers provide that. gregg: especially in religious schools. they weren t in a religious school when they started off. gregg: arguing a losing argument but you are so good. thank you. what we re talking about, they start their classes with prayer and they end their classes with prayer. they have to prove they have to prove they are christians so can teach? gregg: so lis loses and mercedes wins and by the way
bottom line, chug hagel demonstrated why i believe he is not qualified to be secretary of defense but, yet, there are a couple of republicans who will vote for him and i predict that the entire democratic caucus in the senate, some 54 or 55, will vote for him. he will be confirmed notwithstanding he had misstatements about iran and would not answer senator mccain on the surge in iraq and demonstrated he doesn t know a lot about the job he is most likely going to get. gregg: did he rise to the legal of incompetence? that is where he landed, incompetence. i loved the containment thing. it was unbelievable. he will proposal get con filled but the issue is, our partisan
unimpressive and unprepared on the questions that he knew were coming. watching the testimony it appears weak and very unconvincing. the senate judiciary committee could vote on hagel s nomination by thursday. gregg: weak, unimpressive? we will put those adjectives to our political panel coming up. thanks, steve. heather: israel is giving the strongest hint it was ninety an airstrike on syria last week according to the country s defense minister. however, he stopped short of actually confirming it. officials of the united states say the strike targeted truck convoy with anti-aircraft missiles to hezbollah, the group based in lebanon. syria has vowed to retaliate. gregg: the national gun debate, now. this week, former congresswoman gabrielle giffords testified on a senate hearing on gun control. today, her husband and n.r.a.