Powerful military style weapons. The proposal bans more than 150 specific firearms, including semiautomatic weapons and magazines holding more than ten rounds. Despite the aggressive approach, some democrats argue that an assault weapons ban could be a heavy lift for congress. Yesterday Vice President joe biden said hes more than concerned about high capacity magazines. Im much less concerned quite frankly about an assault weapon than i am about magazines and the number of rounds that can be held in a magazine. But the point is that the fact that Violent Crime is down and theres been a proliferation of assault weapons quote unquote as was defined up to now on on the street does not suggest that taking as suggesault weapons wot in fact make it safer particularly for the cops. A shot gun will keep you a lot safer. A Double Barrel shot gun than the as saelt weapons in somebodys hands who doesnt know how to use it. You know. Its harder to use an assault weapon to hit something than as a sh
Cantor said they support the president s plan but this was the reaction today if from syrias ambassador. From the United States of america, how could they act unilaterally speaking from outside the context of the United Nations . Who asked barack obama to be the bully of the world. Breaking news out of asia, reports that a 6. 5 magnitude earthquake has hit japan, located in the azu islands 400 miles south of tokyo. Thats the news this hour. As i said, america tonight is next. We will see you back here at 11 00 eastern. News we begin tonight with breaking news from an inclusive report from an aljazeera Investigative Unit. It contains a detailed report of security failures in benghazi and other areas in the world. It comes almost a year after the tragedy in benghazi. Here with more details, certainly this is something that the people have been wanting to hear. At diplomatic posts around the world, the report calls for overarching change. Dozens of men armed with rocketpropelled grenades
Guest many democrats, very few republicans. Host we have another caller from ohio. Caller good morning my younger brother grow up without video games. We had a stall solid christian family. He is schizophrenic, im a few years older than him. We had paid for services and help. There is no way he contributed to the society. He cannot work. He is totally medicated, excuse me. I respectfully disagree with the republican congressman who says with accounting we can do a better job. [talking over each other] caller excuse me, and what we can do is tell her parents do a better job. There were no video games when my brother was growing up. [talking over each other] guest i said many times these problems to emerge. I named a host of things that can be done. There have been a couple of shootings in my own district. One of them by a gentleman who was diagnosed with different. In another who had psychological problems. Im not blaming this on the parents. Im staying with these situations, you do hav
Gold. As all of us in this country were starting to see people coming out and talking about their experiences, this phenomenon, that so many of us had experienced in one way or another, and had no words for. Other than adolescence, other than growing up. We finally people were starting to stand back and say, hold on. This isnt actually a normal part of growing up. This isnt a normal rite of passage. I think there was a moment where there was a possibility for change. And director lee hirsch and i decided to start the film out of that feeling that voices were kind of bubbling up. Coming up to the surface to say this isnt something that we can accept anymore. A normal part of our culture. Film maker Cynthia Loewen has followed up her Award Winning film by gathering essays and personal stories in bully. Hear more tonight at 10 00 on after words on cspan2 and more book tv online, and like us on facebook. Next chiefs of staff to the governors of virginia, colorado, and oklahoma talk about t
This is the hearing of the Senate Relations committee will come to order. Good morning ms. Power and welcome to the Senate Foreign relations committee. Your nomination as ambassador to United Nations has come with much fanfare and with some criticism which at the end of the day means he must be doing something right. But without fanfare or criticism i dont believe anyone can question your credentials nor can anyone question your service. And certainly no one can question your willingness to speak your mind. Often forcefully, always passionately and usually without hesitation and i commend you for your willingness to speak out particularly on human rights issues around the world. Where there is a war correspondent in bosnia or in yugoslavia are one door sedan as you said in your Pulitzer Prize winning book genocide witnessed evil at its worst. Youve been in on balancing voice when it comes to human rights and crimes against humanity and i know that boys will be heard around the world sh