As washington prepares to duke it out over the debt ceiling, one said we should get rid of it all together . Does ben bernanke have a point . The nra releases a new target practice ap for kids as young as 4. We have a packed show for you this morning. Mike thompson joins us and greg walden is our guest. The congressman and newly crowned miss america, Mallory Hagen will be joining us. Tuesday, january 15th and starting point begins right now. Welcome to starting point. After years and years of lying to the world, Lance Armstrong is finally coming clean. There report hes confessed to Oprah Winfrey and he used drugs to win his titles. Sources say he is in talks to have some of the millions he was paid by the Postal Service to sponsor the tour. Cnns ed is live in austin, texas. Lets talk about what he told oprah and what the next steps are for Lance Armstrong. The big question will be to what extent did he confess and how much detail is he going to offer . Also from the standpoint of how did he offer it and what was the body language there . Lance armstrong is an athlete who is vehement in his denials going after the people for criticing and over the years and will he be apologetic and contrite . We will have to see highway it plays out. And we have the interview with Lance Armstrong that is gone over two and a half hours. He came ready in all caps. That was such a great tweet. Ready for what . Ready to apologize and advice for his people and ready to do what . They are watching the interview when it happens. There of course is stories about what he told the folks at live strong. They had to step away in the wake of the scandal. He did not apologize, but what did he say . He apologized for the stress he put the staff, the Live Strong Foundation under for the last few years. He was on his way to the interview with Oprah Winfrey and it lasted about 15 minutes and he was at times tearful and the Spokes Person for the Live Strong Foundation in the meeting said it was emotional and he choked up for a moment, but we were glad to see him. At no point did he talk about performanceenhancing drug use or anything like that. They had to continue to do the work they are doing. The apology for doping. Ed, appreciate the update. Turning to washington, d. C. Where president obama is looking over the Vice President s recommendations on preventing gun violence. The ideas include these things proposing background checks on all gun sales, making certain weapons off limits and keeping guns away from the mentally ill. Taking on pro gun groups saying they are using fear to sell more firearms. Following those for us, lets begin by Digging Deeper for the Vice President s recommendations. The Vice President was to have made those recommendations today, they are now reviewing these because he sat down with the president and went over the recommendations and the president is pointing out that later in the week they will be spelling out the details. The universal background checks and the high capacity magazine clips. They still support a ban on assault weapons. Some of these things will need congressional approval, but the president noted she willing to act alone. Im confident that there steps we take that dont require legislation and are within my authority as president. Where you get a step that has the opportunity to reduce the possibility of gun violence. I want to go ahead and take it. One of the thing that is the president hinted at is in tracking the weapons used by criminals. This is not something happening on the federal level, state and local governments are trying to come up with ways to tackle gun violence. There is a summit in the second day in the baltimore, maryland area where mayors and governors and other officials come across in needing to come up with solutions and you see states like maryland and new york taking some of these steps or considering taking the steps as well. Strong push back from the nra saying they will fight any attempt to restrict their Second Amendment rights and raising doubts as to whether they can make their way through congress. Thank you, dan. John berman has the other stories. You heard dan talking and in a few hours, new york may be one of the first state to enact tougher gun laws. The changes proposed by andrew cuomo puts new measures to place to keep guns away from the mentally ill. This is a surge on society. People had to live through these tragedies. Tragedy after tragedy after tragedy and people are saying at what point do we get it . At what point do you say enough, we understand . No one else has to die. No more innocent loss of life. The governors bill includes a webster provision, a life without parole sentence for anyone murdering a first responder. That was included in response to the fire and shooting in webster, new york that killed two firefighters. The organization at sandy hook promised for a conversation about guns and school safety. They voted to name a new School Building after slain teacher victoria soto. She died after trying to shield her children from the gunman. Fresh off the fiscal cliff, president obama digs in his heels raising the debt ceiling. He will not trade what republicans want in exchange for the borrowing limit. That can be a completely different discussion. Even to entertain the idea of this happening, of the United States of america not paying bills is irresponsible. John boehner said the American People do not report raising the debt sealing without lowering spending at the same time. The u. S. Consulate in benghazi a week from tomorrow, she will be before the House Foreign Affairs committee. At some point she will appear before the senate Foreign Affairs committee. That day is yet to be determined. They are set to testify and sidelined by illness. Ann romneys dance card is full apparently. Tmz said she was approached to compete on the next season of dancing with the stars and say she was very interested, but the onetime first lady hopeful ultimately declared. She did appear as a greft they tweeted overnight he would have loved to have seen it. That would have been fun. The transformations that people do on the show im struck by how much work they go through. Maybe you should do it. Maybe not. You have your afternoons free. You would be done by 10 00 in the morning. Lance armstrong apparently admits to doping and gives a tearful apology to the staff of live strong. We will look at the interview with oprah up next. They blame video games for the violent massacre. Why does this new ap kill children as young as 4 . Congress prepares for the fight over the raising of the debt ceiling. Tim geithner is urging action. All of what this means for you and your bottom line. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. Executor of efficiency. You can spot an amateur from a mile away. While going shoeless and metalfree in seconds. And you. Rent from national. Because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. And go. You can even take a fullsize or above, and still pay the midsize price. Now this. Will work. [ male announcer ] just like you, business pro. Just like you. Go national. Go like a pro. Welcome back to starting point. An op ed columnist, editorial director for the national journal. The former u. S. Representative. Nice to have you with us. We are talking about Lance Armstrong following the reports about his interview with oprah. Not exactly clear what we said. That is what we call the deep tease. I left you out. Anyway, Lance Armstrong apparently admitted to doping, contradicting a decade of statements where he denied use of performanceenhancing drugs. If he does the come clean with Oprah Winfrey, what does it mean . Does it work . He has to apologize to all of the people who have been reporting this for a long time and people who have been saying this guy has been doing this and attacking them and saying they are lying and something is whereon with their character for saying that about them. Its bigger to adjust them saying they did it. We actually dont need to you say anything at this point. Your coming clean has to be about absolving other people that you accused and have done wrong. Its the apology and outside of all of that and on the other side of that is the legal jeopardy issues. That could mitigate a strong apology if you are worried about being sued. Motivate to some extent and we think about where the unraveling has been as long. It feels like it has been going on year after year after year to finally get to this point. I cant believe they reversed the decision. Many people that he would like too to compete against, he cannot until there is a step that removes his time ban. Heres what jeff toobin said in terms of perjury. Lets play that. Look at the date. 2005. That was pushing years ago. The statute of limitation is three years. He is completely safe from perjury prosecution. The whole matter of civil litigation is different. For criminal, i dont see how it could be. The bad news is completely not safe because there is a list of people who could sue him civilly. They want money and Lance Armstrong accused of lying. Australia that wants money. The daily mail and Postal Service. There is a lot of people who want money from Lance Armstrong. He is worth about 100 million. Heres the cover of the new york post. Its never good when they photo shop and say lies strong. He talked about the betrayal he felt in the charity that now Lance Armstrong backed away from. Lets play that. Do you feel betrayed . I think yes, i do. I think hes got a lot of apologies and crawl over a lot of broken glass, but i think the one thing they cant take away is his cancer survivor. That are is true. You cant take that away, but can he rehabilitate his image . Im a big believer in the american way. You apologize and you write the book and you move on to the next phase. You seem to say i dont think so. The fact that he did all of these virtuous things while still spewing such vile things against people who were telling the truth about him. Thats the problem. Here he has been doing and live strong has been an inspiration to millions of people. Thats been a force for good. But presumably it will be up to the folks who worked with him now to make amends, if you will, and restore the image of that organization. The most famous wrong thing ever said about america, there no second acts in american lives. There always second acts in american lives. It feels like this is going on so long, this is already the second. You wonder is there a third act that would be a redemption. The other thing is it doesnt always get you back to zero. You can rehabilitated and forgiven and have a that you move on, but dont get back to zero before it happened and you cant expect that to be. You will never be atime Tour De France player and never again be a hero. If you want to be a spokesman against lying and cheating. You need a strong apology with that and you think its he hasnt. I wouldnt say she is rehabilitated. No nominees. I dont think anyone can say marion jones is back where she was. He never is back to zero, but talking about things and what she talks about is performanceenhancing drugs. Absolutely. It will be interesting to see and its a great tease for oprahs interview with him. Everyone likes that interview a lot. Thead morning we have everyone weigh in. Go to our Facebook Page on thence armstrong apology. Coming up next, a month after the shooting massacre at sandy hook elementary school, the nra released a new target practice and it is recommended for kids 4 plus. I thought they blamed video games for the shooting at sandy hook. That made the cover of the daily news. Ak 47 to shoot targets shaped like coffins. We will talk about that story straight ahead. What are you doing . Nothing. Are you stealing our Daughters School supplies and taking them to work . No, i was just looking for my stapler and my. This thing. I save money by using fedex ground and buy my own supplies. Thats a great idea. Im going to go. We got clients in today. [ male announcer ] save on ground shipping at fedex office. [ male announcer ] end your long week. With a weekend getaway. Save up to forty percent on all Weekend Hotel stays. Book by january thirty first at hiltonanyweekend. 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It could be a new search imagine that will tap into friendss suggestions and take on google. What the world needs. Another smart phone. Thank god. We all have our smart phones. We need a bigger table. If its good and it takes my friends suggestions, buy it. I take my friends suggestions. I want to take them. We have been talking about the cover of the daily news and talking about the new ap from the National Rifle association. Just a month after. Here came up with this. Completely missing the onemonth anniversary. That are we were talking about and in newtown, connecticut. Nra practice range. Its a free ap for ages 4 and over. It includes a 3d shooting game with targets that are in the shape of coffins. Would you want your 4yearold doing that . Are you kidding me . Crazy. The nr as ceo singled out vicious violent va games and thats a quote with him from sandy hook elementary school. I dont get it. I think there is something behind United States thaw dont understand. They think a lot about what they do. It could have been an accident. This debate i think has been a boom for them. The memberships shot up and sales of guns shot up. The mayors against illegal gun sales. They tend to help the people. On the hand, i look at this as the nra sees this. The more people that have a culture they are comfortable with the guns and the voices they have on their side. Its easy to see why people who are not on the team would be outraged by it. They were talking about First Person Shooter violent video games. After columbine, there was a big part of clintons response. A lot of households were on a tablet. The way it fews our culture is very difficult. People argue about it and they dont keep their kids from playing the games. We dont have enough data. We are not allowed to keep data on guns and not able to look at how guns may overlap with violence and culture. We are just not allowed to do it. Partly because they have pushed hard to make sure we cannot keep data on guns. If this were a public issue, we are able to keep track of how transmission is without names. Without peoples names. Without identifying. We are able to keep track of how many so we can target messing and intervention and things like that. We need it do the same with guns. That is apparently in from the president now. With Vice President biden making his recommendations at handling that. We will talk more about that ahead as well. There is a lot of questions about the president and theus of executive order. Cant create new gun laws. He can strengthen the gun laws. We will talk more specifically about that in the wake of the former colleagues in congress that were saying. Also thompson got an early look at the recommendations on curbing gun violence. Cocacola is launching an antiobesity ad. All calories count no matter where they come from. Including cocacola and Everything Else with calories. 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