Address the guncontrol issue, sidestepping congressional approval. 2025853882 for all others. You can post your comments on facebook or send us a tweet. Or send us an email. President obama later this morning will be outlining the recommendations put forth by Vice President joe biden. Part of them will be some executive action. This is from our website, c span. Org. The president may also announced several executive orders which will take effect immediately to curb the violence. So, the assault weapons ban and those sorts of things need congressional approval. President obama will take some sort of executive action and we will talk about that later this morning. 11 45 a. M. Eastern time as when we expect the president. Look for our coverage. On coverage on the executive orders, do you support that idea by the president to do action on his own . We want to hear from you this morning. Here is the arizona republic, courtesy of the newseum in washington. Do you support executive action on guncontrol on some gun control measures . I want to know what you think about president obama using the executive order. This is from the Washington Post blog. The vast majority of actions he can take are relatively minor in nature, it says. Its unlikely obama can significantly alter gun lost through executive order. What is your take on this . Stephan pittman simcom indiana, republican caller. Stephen, from indiana. Caller good morning. The problem is congress can steer funding from the atf or fbi on whatever executive action is taken. I understand bush had an executive order dealing with guns as well, so it is not unprecedented. But 19 is kind of high, so you can see this may help the Republican Party in the midterm elections. You may also see a 2 3 majority vote in the senate and in the house if there is some kind of aggressive stance towards guns, because democratic constituents live in some of the most dangerous districts in america. Host a twothirds vote to undo executive action . Caller if the democrats believe it will hurt their midterm elections, i could see that happening, because i had been getting phone calls from unhappy democrats that live in dangerous districts and they want to be able to protect themselves. Host why are you getting those phone calls . Caller i know democrats. Democrats and not been talking about it on television. The house or senate members. Its because they have constituents that support and control, like harry reids district, so its a major issue. I believe the background checks at the gun shows, i believe that could Pass Congress without using executive action. But the fear is there for the people. George bush did it as well, but we have to relinquish the fear. I think, by going through congress and getting it passed by congress, it will be less drama and try to strip funding from the atf through congress, through the continuing resolution. Host do you think if president obama does executive orders, the that poisoned the well for even the background checks, let alone the assault weapons ban . Caller the background checks, there are federal background checks already, so he may expand that law. Host take a look at what the Washington Post says president obama is expected to say later this morning. Background checks for all firearms buyers, as did the assault weapons and high capacity ammunition clips. Some of those or most of those would have to be done through congress. But perhaps he does some other enhance the database and other things by executive order. Caller defining who is crazy and who is not or maybe someone is distressed because they lost their job, it is going to be very difficult to define Mental Health. How do they get access to those records. Is it a federal . That is the thing. People will say, is my doctor or psychiatrist spying on me . There may be less people going to see a therapist or a psychiatrist because they are afraid they will spy on them and report information back to the federal government. Host lets go back to what you said at the beginning when you talk about the politics of this. This headline that was in reference to what harry reid had said. Some democrats backing down from an assault weapons ban. Dianne feinstein but to introduce her assault weapons ban in the 113th congress. Chris in washington, independence. Independent. Caller im against any more legislation on guns. Its nonsense. We are back to demonizing inanimate objects. If we want to get rid of things that are deadly, ban the automobile. This is nonsense. Brady. Ed this with a g it did not work. It did not lower crime. Thats not the issue. Host what is the issue and where do you see compromise . Caller i dont see compromise. Why should this even be an issue . It is a mediadriven emergency. Other than that, there is none. Host the New York Times front page story we will go next to dennis in upper marlboro, maryland, democratic caller. Caller good morning. Thank you for the opportunity, first of all. The gentleman just before me is the perfect example of why we need everything coming out of the white house with these executive orders to get rid of these bushmasters, these automatic rifles, and whatever. The people on the far right that are pushing this madness, they are paranoid, first of all. You can hear it in their voice and in their arguments and in the way they walk. I do believe that everybody in should be able to protect themselves in their homes or whatever. You should have a weapon. But if you are sitting there with an ak47 Assault Rifle in your home, theres something wrong with you. It is perspectives. These people sit back and a lot of them play violent video games and whatever and they get all j juiced up and especially the kids. They cannot see the difference between the video games and the real thing. I am behind the president 150 on this. Anyone who witnessed what happened with those children in the school a month ago, anybody that can see that carnage and still want to carry weapons of mass destruction, i call them, theyre lunatics. Host all right, we will leave it there. President obama later today announcing what he wants congress to do and what he would support, and executive action. Heres the wall street journal. The nra put out a new ad yesterday. [video clip] are the president s children more important than yours . Why is the skeptical of putting Armed Security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards and their school . Mr. Obama demands the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. Hes just another elitist hypocrite when it comes to a fair share of security. Protection for their children and gunfree zones for our kids. Host that the latest ad by the nra, put out yesterday, getting a lot of feedback about the ad invoking the president s children. The Washington Times has this headline this morning about president obamas event this morning. That is our question for all of you. If president obama acts on his own with executive action, do you support that idea . Were getting your take on that this morning. We will go to sandra in sulphur springs, texas, a republican. Caller how are you . I just have a question to ask the rest of the people listening. What about the fort hood shootings . Has anybody thought about how many guns were there . The man walked in, he was a psychologist, he walked in and killed our soldiers at fort hood. What is the gun ban going to do on that . What does obama think about that . Host what do you think about the president taking some actions on his own . Caller i dont think anybody ought to take our guns away. Host sandra, you think any action by the president would be taking guns away . Politico reported yesterday about 19 executive actions, one of them could include giving the cdc in authority to conduct a National Research on guns, more aggressive enforcement of existing gun laws, and pushing for larger schering of existing gun databases among federal and state agencies. Do you see that as taking away guns . Caller i just do not think he ought to have the power to do that. That is just not but im curious what other people think about before the shootings because nobody talks about the soldiers. Host rick is a gun owner in pennsylvania, independent caller. Caller hi. I think its pretty crazy. Your caller who said the gun owners are the ones that are going play and the shooting games, i think we are the exact opposite. We are responsible parents and responsible gun owners and were not the ones playing shooting games and having a false sense of confidence. It is not us at all. The ar15, the assault weapons supposedly used in connecticut was left in his car. How are these people saying that is the weapon that was used when it was left in his car . There is video footage that they found it in his car. He used a handgun. So what is going on with that . Host what about compromise . Do you see any . Caller for the Second Amendment there should not be compromised. It is absolutely ridiculous that we are even talking about compromise. It is not meant for hunting. Its meant for our personal protection. These people that are saying you have to do everything the government says, why are they so trusting in the government . Our Founding Fathers founded us to do the exact opposite, not to trust the government. Not saying we have to be crazy conspiracy theorists, but theres a reason why i believe it was Thomas Jefferson said we dont need our guns until they take them and we dont need the Second Amendment till they tried to take it try to take it. Host now an independent caller in tennessee. Caller the people that think about this understand the Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting and everything to do with protecting yourself against a tyrannical government of which this one is far more tyrannical than most governments in the past 30 years. Yet people will tell you that the high magazines only are used for hunting. Taunting has nothing to do with this. This is protect you from an invasion from people to do us harm. One or two inches at a time to its five people tried to break into your place. You need a highcapacity magazine with 20 or 30 rounds. Host interior secretary ken salazar is set to resign, fox news confirmed. Also, this morning, watching what the president might say about other cabinet appointments this week. Treasury secretary tim geithner air, as we know, will step down, as well as the labor secretary. Secretary of state hillary clinton. And the defense secretary. So ken salazar will resign and president obama will have to fill that post. Back to whether or not you support executive action on gun control measures. Senator rand paul talked about this recently. He said that president obama is acting like a king. [video clip] ive been opposed to executive orders even with republican president s, but one that wants to infringe on the Second Amendment, we will fight tooth and nail. I promise you there will be no rock left unturned as far as trying to stop them from usurping the constitution, running roughshod over congress. You will see one heck of a debate if he decides to try to do this. Host that was banned all. Jerry and san pedro, california. Caller how are you . I am not in favor ofs president executive action against gun ownership. Im not in favor of president obamas action against gun ownership. I support what rand paul said. People should be able to defend ourselves and defend our country against tyranny. I believe the Founding Fathers made that a key theme when they put that theythere. When they put that amendment there. They believe taking away rifles will reduce crime. If we look at countries like england and australia where they have totally banned weapons, the crime rate increased. Host where did you hear that . Let me read this from the New York Times this morning. What do you think . Caller i think that is just comparing gun for gun. What about stabbings or beatings or robberies or burglaries . England has the highest crime rates in europe. There are warnings for americans not to give up their gun rights, from over there. Theres an individual who had a selfdefense case in england to defend themself against two burglars. He shot and killed one of the individuals and he was convicted of murder for defending his own home on his own land. The individual who burglarized his home with 28 prior convictions, was released in two years and sued the man. The homeowner was not imposing any harm to anyone else and had to go through life in prison while the criminal was released. Host on facebook so those are some of the comments on our facebook page. The front page of the daily news this morning, this is the headline and inside the newspaper it shows the governor, who could possibly be considering a run for president in 2016, in the legislation. These are new rules to live by, is what they say. The New York Post has this headline sky in columbia, missouri, is a gun owner. Scott. What do you think about president obama taking executive action . Caller i support it. Ive been a gun owner since 1957, a hunter, a sporting rights person i have 19 guns and all. I owend a gun shop 10 years i owned a gun shop 10 years. I think that Wayne Lapierre is a case. I had my gun shop under president clinton and every other day are rightwing person would come in the store and talk about their rights being taken away. No democratic president has ever talked about taking away our guns at any time. They want to get rid of these black guns. I am totally for that. I told my wife when i walk out the door with two 30round magazines fitted together, and knocked me out and call the police. Host you owned a store 10 years. Describe what it was like to have people come in there . How did you form the opinion you have, given that you owned a gun store . Caller it was a daily thing. I live in a small enough down here than i knew a lot of the people or knew of the people. Almost every day i would have these rightwingers coming in and they would start running down president clinton, that he wants to take away all of our guns. Host so it was the conversations. Let me ask about background checks. How did that work . Caller i dont know how it works, but i dont have a problem with background checks. When i had my gun store, i would go to some of these off site and sales that theyre talking about, these gun shows. They would be in the parking lot dealing with guns with no registration whatsoever. Those types of things are what is causing all this to happen with the gun lobbyists and what not. It is these rightwing nut cases, if they were not out with these ar guns killing people, and the leftwing people would not be doing what they are doing. Host the Washington Post has a piece written by someone who was in las vegas at a gun show. Next, an article about senator patrick leahy, whose heading the Senate Judiciary committee. Eefe says bob in michigan, republican. Caller that last caller, what a piece of work. How did he get the idea all of these killers were rightwing conservatives . There were young kids. Most of them are liberal democrats. So i dont understand that at all. As far as the president goes, he swore to uphold the constitution. How can he put his hand on the bible and thats where the oath of office, if the constitution is an impediment to him doing what he wants to do . Host about senator patrick leahy, he will give a speech. This morning at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. We will bring coverage of that to you here on cspan. He will talk about the judiciary committees agenda for the 113th congress. Also, he will be our guest this weekend on sunday at 6 00 p. M. Eastern time. Steve in georgia, a gun owner. What are your thoughts . Caller good morning. One of the things i would like to see the president talk about is, under the First Amendment, and that is hollywood. , in i grew up in the 1950s used to what the lone ranger and gene autry and all the westerns. I grew up playing with guns. But the problem was the movies back then and the tv shows did not have the violent graphics that you have nowadays. If a bad guy got short, he fell off a horse. You did not see any blood and gore. It was always the good guy winning. Nowadays with the graphics and all the way that theyre going about it, they have just blood and gore and brains shooting all over. That along with the video games is adding to the culture of the younger people nowadays. Host on twitter i want to show you an ad that was put out by the mayors against illegal guns, a group set up by new york mayor michael bloomberg. Over 800 mayors have signed on. [video clip] my son. My daughter. Was murdered with a gun. It can happen to your child. A line has been crossed in newtown. Demands a plan to reduce gun violence. They need to hear your voice in washington. Weve heard enough from the gun lobbys. Demands a plan. Demand a plan to reduce gun violence. Host an ad put up by a group set up by michael bloomberg, who was at an event on monday a Johns Hopkins and he talked about this issue and he said he wanted president obama to sidestep congress. If youre interested in watching an old thing, go to our website, cspan. Org. We covered the two days at Johns Hopkins university about gun control. Were asking all of you this morning, do you support the president taking executive action on guncontrol measures . We want to get your thoughts. We will keep going for about 15 more minutes. Some other news as well, here is the state newspaper this morning, courtesy of the newseum. It says former governor mark sanford is planning a return to politics with a run for congress. Thats in south carolina. And this headline in the aiken standard then, on the debt ceiling debate, the ways and means chairman has announced there will be hearings on this on january 22. They will be taking a look and that. Also in the newspapers this morning, heres the Washington Times with this headline he will be our guest coming up, the top democrat on the ways and Means Committee in the house. Later, we will talk to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, representative goodlatte, on the washington journal this morning as well. Two members of congress. Continuing with the debt ce