@cspanwj. span and facebook to weigh in. you can also e-mail us. here is the front page of the new york daily news this morning, quoting president obama yesterday, the president said shame on us. inside of the new york daily news, it says let s take a lesson to president obama in his own words. [video clip] . i read an article in the news hasother day, wondering, washington missed its opportunity because as time goes on after newtown, somehow people start moving on and for getting? people hereyou, the do not forget. grace s dad is not forgetting. has not forgotten. the notion that two months or three months after something as horrific as what happened in newtown happened, and we ve moved on to other things? that is not who we are. that is not who we are. i want to make sure that every american is listening today. days ago that happened. country was shocked. the entire country pledged we would do something about it and at this time would be different. shame on us if w
hearings, there have been certain people on all sides talking about his past. and there are lgbt rights groups who are not so fast to back off their criticism of senator chuck hagel. the group log cabin republicans recently took out a full page ad or ads, that is, the latest one appearing in today s washington post. the other first appears new york times in the saying hagel is wrong on lgbt rights, israel and iran. gregory angelo is the interim executive director of the log cabin republicans and joining me here in studio. great to have you here. congratulations on your new post as you just took over. thanks for having me this morning. absolutely. one of the first things you guys have been able to do under your watch so far is having to deal with chuck hagel and talking about why he s not right for this job. i want to go back to showing, if we could, the the ad that you took out and the 15-year-old statement that you guys reference in that. if we could show it again. where you
really quickly, one of the things you put out that you are disappointed john boehner has recently enacted funding for 2013. the money you spent on an ad to go after chuck hagel, are you going to spend that kind of money, that kind of capital to go after john boehner and the rest of the majority gop that still want to go after doma and enforce it where the president has said they don t want the department of justice to do this anymore and waste taxpayer money? they re going to waste taxpayer money during this time where we re all fighting and squabbling it s always been our work and our mission to hold republicans and democrats accountable. would we be placing an ad? all i can say is that right now the ad campaign that you see going on against chuck hagel is part of a broader communication strategy we re working on at the organization to raise our profile. you re going to see a lot more work from log cabin republicans. so you ain t seen nothing yet is all i m going to say to this.
0 unless a republican senator puts a hold on his nomination. let s talk about that. that fringe characterization. we had senator chris murphy speaking out earlier about the republicans and just how much they re itching for a fight. take a listen to this. republicans are spoiling for a fight. i think they recognize that this guy s coming into his second term with a head of steam. that he s very well regarded on issues of foreign policy. the republicans used to hold an advantage on that mantle. have lost it to an extent. so they just want to pick a fight. hogan, here s the thing. are they truly itching for a fight on this especially given the optics of how they were able to, the right that is, kind of sour the test balloon that was that of susan rice? and now they re trying to sour the test balloon that is chuck hagel. we re just a couple hours away from the fact that he will be put up for this appointment. doesn t it look funny to have the right kind of eating their young, eating