in this country, in terms of folks out there buying bushmasters and the people who think there ought to be a ban on such guns. obviously there is a huge division in the country about this. and i think there is good faith on both side between people who believe that the second amendment says what, means what it says and, that people have a right to bear arms including semiautomatic weapons and people on the other hand who feel that, you know, we need to stop these, what some are calling weapons of war which can fire so many round so quickly. in terms of the assault weapons, what, i m, some of my reporting has indicate is that one, they think it would be very hard to get through congress and if they got it through congress they would have to have all kinds of exceptions. that is one of the problems with the assault weapons band back in 1994, there were so many exceptions it still allowed a awful lot of weapons people would consider to be semiautomatic
sort of three stools here, the gun aspect of it, the mental health aspect and in the society and cultural aspect of movies and videogames. let me quickly put in a plug and say on sunday, we re going to have a really interesting debate because there will be a political campaign over this, martha. the nra as you say, other gun groups will start a very active lobbying campaign up on capitol hill but for the first time the administration is going to start its campaign in a large way, sort of pick up from right where they left off after election day. we ll have the head of the center for american progress, a liberal think tank, and a big supporter of obama, and they will get a lot of gun control groups together to try to persuade people on capitol hill that the politics of this actually favors, don t oppose more gun control. nra will have larry pratt, gun owners of america, on fox news sunday . martha: have a great show. we ll be watching on sunday. thank you, chris. you bet. bill: break
whether or not the person who is buying the gun, that is not an attack on weapon. that is going after the person to find out whether or not they meet the right qualifications in terms of criminal record and mental health and all of that. another thing i think that they re going to go after which will be controversial would be high-capacity magazines, 30 rounds, 100 rounds. those kinds of things. but, the indication in the times today they may be pulling back in terms of an all-out fight to try to ban assault weapons. martha: and i think that may surprise some people. i mean the polls show that a lot of americans are in favor of an assault weapons ban. we know the background of it is the last time they tried it didn t make a difference in the numbers in terms of murders in this country but it is interesting to me that the bushmaster weapon that was used in connecticut is one of the most popular weapons in america right now in terms of gun sales and semiautomatic handguns, also very, v
so-called birthing issues are common for new airplanes but the faa is obviously concerned about the rash of electrical problems all at once. there were three separate problems in december. the dreamliner is the first to use a lithium ion battery and generates the four times the amount of power than any other jetliner out there, bill. bill: it is the future and the future is here. what does it mean for boeing, dan? reporter: this review is obviously a setback. boeing sold 800 dreamliners before even one was in the air. there was about, there was a lot of buzz about the plane because it was sold as a revolutionary design, a lighter composite plane that will use about 20% less fuel but this week s fire threatened to erode confidence in the plane and that is why boeing immediately called a videoconference with all of its customers. we have not heard about any cancellations at this point but certainly everyone is going to be watching to see what the faa comes up with. as a company boeing