calipers. is that a key place people can be politically active, because there is an actual political pressure there? oh, i think this is a this issue is prime for divestiture. we have been mourning the loss of, you know, amazing leader in south africa. it was die test at your that helped change politics in south africa. it will be divestiture that helps force, you know, really horrible business community businesses like wall street, cerberus, to change their ways. but until we vote with our wallets, i fear that steven feinberg, frankly, likes more massachusetts kerrs, because mass shootings, because gun sales go up. and we need to hold him accountable. yeah, i think in all fairness, that s not an accurate statement. you can be profiting off the industry without wanting the% use of the weapons. many of the people in that line of business have said that repeatedly on record.
0 yes, the season for wheeling and dealing, and not just bargain hunting at the mal. washington lawmakers face their first test since house republicans backed off the government shutdown. that deal, of course, created a new economic deadline, a congressional budget by this friday. so both houses of congress looking to strike their first agreement since 2011. the last two years haven t seen much consensus. the washington post is reporting the new deal may provide a cease fire. under one approach, the white house would push off demands for deficit cutting. the president has said the deficit should take a back seat to jobs right now. there are also tense negotiations over cutting hiking security fees. and lawmakers also talking about partially repealing the sequester spending cuts. proposals to extend jobless benefits for the long term unemployed have also hit a snag. the president says those benefits are critical for many and perry? key distinction, the republicans for a long time
counterweight to the nra. there are so few issues in washington that are so thoroughly dominated by a single group. and gun policy is one of those issues. steven feinberg is the ceo of the company that made the assault weapon. steven feinberg s father lives in newtown, connecticut where this occurred. and it is the kind of thing i find so strange, that for somebody like steven fineberg, who was perfectly happy to own this company that was churning out these assault weapons, suddenly, because it happened in his neighborhood suddenly has a different reaction to it. you have to wonder, what would the steve feinberg s do would they be happy to collect their
0 he is absolutely supportive of senator feinstein s stated intent to revive a piece of legislation that would reinstate the assault weapons ban. he supports and would support legislation that addresses the problem of the so-called gun show loophole. and there are other elements of gun law legislation gun legislation that he could support, people have talked about high capacity gun ammunition clips, for example. and that is something certainly that he would be interested in looking at. after the massacre at sandy hook elementary school, rupert murdock tweeted when will the politicians find the courage to ban weapons today, weapons designed expressly to kill human beings and then modified to meet the federal machine gun ban have limitation on high capacity magazines. the eliminating the gun show loophole. all of these things are very common sense things. actually things that the membership of the nra supports, which is ironic. most of these things are things that can have an
community doesn t trust him and members of his inner circle to not leak it. the white house saying this morning there is no reason to believe that any of this is accurate. any suggestion that the intelligence community is holding information and not providing the best possible intelligence to the president and its national security team is just not true. members of the house also wanting to look at this, jason chaffetz sending a letter to the inspector general saying they are concerned about national security. they want that looked into. the white house just on the cusp here of announcing a review of the intelligence community and other aspects of the executive branch. they are expected to appoint steven feinberg.