Number three today. Heres what i know about my bff Jacki Schechner. Shes always perfect in every way. Melissa fitzgerald and jacki and i have a thing. You send me ambien texts. It is a thing. Melissas are all misspelled. Jacki sent one yesterday spelled with perfect grammar. What does it take to get you to loosen up, Jacki Schechner . I think youve seen me loosen up from time to time. I think jim and chris have seen it too. Oh, yeah, youre fun when youre loosened up. Stephanie lets just go with fun [ laughter ] here she is. Perfectly compose and coifed, Jacki Schechner. Time magazine has named president obama its person of the year. Time points out the president has weathered four of the most challenging years in our nations history and he still has the opportunity to leave office in four years with an enviable legacy. Also in consideration for that honor were molalla the teenage girl who spoke out against the taliban in pakistan. Apple ceo tim cook. Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi and gee natty who coordinates one of the worlds biggest science experiments the search for the particle. Also Time Magazines particle of the year. We first mentioned this yesterday. Today president obama is officially announcing the administrations coordinated effort to put forth new policies in the wake of fridays tragedy at sandy hook Elementary School. Vice President Biden is going to be in charge. At the same time, the Administration Says it is now fully supportive of senator Dianne Feinsteins plans to sponsor legislation that would ban certain assault weapons and is also open to getting behind policies that would limit highcapacity magazines and also close gun show loopholes. Meanwhile, the National Rifle association which has been silent since friday says it is going to hold a Major Press Conference this coming friday. It released its first statement yesterday saying that it was shocked, sadden and heartbroken by the murders in newtown and says it has been laying low out of respect for the families. And as a matter of common decency. The gun lobby is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to make sure this kind of tragedy doesnt happen again. We dont know yet what that means. Were back with more steph after the break. Stay with us. Jennifer its these talking points that the right have about the heavy hand of government. I want to have that conversation. Really you know, id like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. [ singing Christmas Carols in background ] aunt sallys singing again. Its a tradition honey. [ singing Christmas Carols ] mmmm. [ female announcer ] make new traditions with pillsbury grands cinnamon rolls. [ female announcer ] holiday cookies are a big job. Everything has to be just right. Perfection is in the details. Get to holiday fun faster with pillsbury cookie dough. She gets the comedians laughing. Thats hilarious . And the thinkers thinking. Okay, so theres wiggleroom in the Ten Commandments is what youre telling me. Shes joy behar. And current will let me say anything. Only on current tv. [ theme music ] announcer ladies and gentlemen, its the Stephanie Miller show. [ theme music ] im walkin on sunshine im walkin on sunshine and its time to feel good hey, all right now and its time to feel good uhoh. Stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. Chris gets automatically nervous when i come in and say im in a foul mood. Six minutes after the hour. For once, no. Do i need to prepare a statement . Stephanie you might want to. Six minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number. Stephaniemiller. Com the web site. You can email us all there executive producer chris lavoie, voice deity jim ward. Jim had too much liquor on tuesday night. What else do you do on a tuesday night . Stephanie i should have switched to brown liquor last night. It sounds awful. Stephanie it is in my world. Sexy liberal hal sparks in hour number three. Yesterday i came in and said i hate everyone except you two. And your new puppy. Stephanie thats why i hate everyone even more today. Okay. I was saying this is the third time i live right next to a big park and i hike there every day with my dogs. People tend to dump their dogs there. Third one ive had to rescue from the park. You know when they dont have the collar. You can see his ribs. He wasnt fixed. You knew somebody had dumped him. So i rescued him. Two days ago. Right. Stephanie he followed max and fred and i on the hike. I brought him home. I told the story. Handsome romantic. Snuggled with him. I went to work yesterday morning. Right. I live in a big enclosed, gated with max and fred. I bought him a collar like my dogs have. I bought little baby hot dogs so baby hot dogs to gain a little weight back on. I came home and he was gone. Pool guy left the gate open. So i went to the park three times looking for him. Hes gone. Jesus. Stephanie i know. Im sorry. Stephanie fired him. Hes fired anyway so left the gate open . Just wide open . Stephanie when he was there working. Max and fred are still there. Stephanie yes. Anyway, so yeah, then i went on the shelter near me, you go to the web site to see if anyone has turned in it is immersing yourself in a Sara Mclaughlin commercial. By christmas ill empty the shelves. Ill take them all. You cant look online. It is horrible. All right. So thats why im in a foul mood and you had nothing to do with it for once in your life. [ applause ] my job is still safe. [ laughter ] unless i leave your gate open. Stephanie you remember the clintons dog got killed because the repairman left the gate open. Oh anyway i keep now im like hallucinating. I thought i saw him this morning. I go running out. Okay. Im losing it. Oh. Im sorry. He might come back. Stephanie there are a lot of coyotes that live in the park. If he got some love from you you know, i think hell remember that. Stephanie in the meantime for some reason, coincidentally, two different friends send pictures of great pyrenees that need a home. Literally, it will be like whoever house sits, for me over christmas will be i thought you had two dogs. What happened . Theres like 17 now what happened . Theres a woman trying to another kitten on us. Stephanie how many do you have . We have four. We did have five. Stephanie oh, boy. Right before christmas. All right. So all right we have a lot to get to. Annie borowitz tweet the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one. Thank you [ applause ] the nra poked their little head out. They were shocked. Stephanie who could ever have seen this coming except everyone . Yeah they although i dont know. You have to hope this is hopeful. Joe manchin the senator yesterday i hope that they will have a place at the table. Who knows whether this means anything given their history. But they said they promised to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again. Well see. Stephanie well have a News Conference on friday. To answer questions. All right. That being said, our sexy liberal cause for the washington, d. C. Show, the 19th is the brady center because again, i was looking at the numbers of how the degree to which theyre outspent by the nra. And thats what usually drives the debate in washington, right . This is good news. The president [ world news tonight ] is actively supportive of the assault weapons ban. I was saying this yesterday, a lot of people are using the terms Tipping Point and i really hope so. Actually, that should be a minimum. That should be a minimum. The assault weapons ban. You know. Youve got to get to all of it, dont you . The gun show loophole, the magazines. Anyway, all right. So i think at a bare minimum the assault weapons ban. Even the New York Post, did you see that . Up Rupert MurdochsNew York Post. Stephanie whats going on . There is a disconnect between murdoch and fox news. Even though oreilly said we may need to look at some sensible gun control. Stephanie maybe. Hannity didnt think so but oreilly did. Stephanie yeah. This is a question weve been asking. The New York Post says has technology rendered the Second Amendment to the u. S. Constitution obsolete . In the wake of the new shooting to reform gun laws. The application of modern laws. The post offered an answer, yes. Weapons designed expressly to kill human beings and modified wink wing to meet the federal machine gun ban have no legitimate place in american society. Echoing Rupert Murdoch. They said time to get rid of them. After the shooting, murdoch tweeted when will politicians find the courage to ban automatic weapons. Again, seems like thank god is there really a minimum a place that were starting at least . And again like whats to dispense with the arguments . No, youre not. Make it easier. We can move toward it. Does anybody not agree that mentally ill people should not have assault weapons like that combination . I was looking, you know, yesterday, when you were looking at coverage, you look at the picture of Jared Loughner or the redhaired guy and the latest, youre like really . Does anyone think that guy looks responsible. Sure have another gun stephanie on the other side, the more guns everybody was talking about this story yesterday and you go is this sixth grader brings a gun to school. Says parents told him to carry it for protection. After newtown shooting, things that you think you know, there were some of those pictures like with kids with automatic weapons as like not a joke but is this where were going. Youve seen those not cartoons but and im going and this is and now its coming true . Really . Hes 11. A sixth grader in utah told classmates his parents encouraged him to bring a gun to school in wake of the sandy hook tragedy. His teachers apprehended him. He was found with a 22 caliber gun. He took it out of his backpack to show classmates. Isabel a fellow student said he pointed the gun at her head and said he was going to kill her. Wow. Stephanie you know, thats the thing i believe that children are the future stephanie am i just so on one side of the spectrum or arent there reasonable people. Im looking at whether it is tennessee or rick perry this more guns lobby im going do you really practically think this is a good idea . [ world news tonight ] tennessee considers training an army of schoolteachers to protect against shootings. Thats not what their job is for stephanie it is almost like the federal air marshal thing, this idea. Tennessee has emerged as the center of the answer is more guns in schools. A member of the republican theres a shock. Republicancontrolled Legislature Plans to introduce a bill that would allow the state to pay for secret amid all of the cutbacks for everything. This is taxpayer money. To pay for secretlyarmed teachers in classrooms so potential shooters wont know who has a gun and who doesnt. Shoot them all then. Great. Teachers are hired to teach. Theyre not hired to be marksmen. Stephanie this guy, the republican he echoed this thing, ive heard everywhere, you know in the rightwing world this week. Look at it this way. You never see one of the wacko shooters go to a gun show and start shooting. They dont go to a Police Station and start shooting. They go to places we advertise as gunfree. I have two words for you. Fort hood. Wouldnt be anyone there with weapons training . I believe there was an entire armory there. Stephanie yeah. Asked if the guns for the trained teachers would be part of taxpayer expense, he laughed. He said well, thats a minor detail in tennessee. We hope the teachers would have them already. We dont go into the details. Details shmetails. We should let tennessee secede. See if the germans have any bricks left from the berlin wall. Stephanie oh, jim [ buzzer ] theyve all been turned into souvenirs. Concrete that claims to have been part of the wall. Stephanie governor oops from texas. Encouraging more guns. [ world news tonight ] let teaches carry concealed weapons. Rick perry tells a tea party meeting. He is for allowing teachers and administrators to carry concealed handguns. And the nurses should so they can fix them up after the shooting. Stephanie local School Districts should decide their own policy but if somebody has a concealed carry license, you should be able to carry a gun anywhere. Perry says he believed lawmakers should consider Mental Health issues as ways to make schools safer. He repeated his opposition to establishing Health Insurance exchange. Hes not going to help in any way. No. Were not going to pay them. Stephanie overhealthcare backed by president obama. Hes not going to, of course, literally, we ought to look into whats going on with this Mental Health situation. Oh pay somebody. Stephanie im not doing that oops god stephanie i cant remember two of the three brain cells i have left, what theyre called never mind. Oops. This stuff drives me insane sometimes. I forget, oops. Stephanie so theres that. All right. Wow. Thats a lot to open with. 17 minutes after the hour. We roll along on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer sweet lady gaga, that is good. Announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ music ] announcer Stephanie Miller. Were going to rock down to Stephanie Miller avenue and then well take it higher we have to rock down to Stephanie Miller and then well take it higher oi Stephanie Best of christmas being canceled. Times are tough right now. 22 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. You know one thing that makes me happy. John yarmuth of the great state of kentucky. I love him. Hes one of our personal favorites. He said i just, you know, god bless him. [ world news tonight ] he said he wouldnt regret losing his seat over tighter regulations on guns and invited the nra to spend money to oppose his reelection. Thats the kind of courage we need. He told the washington post, the power of the nra was greatly overstated. He asked the gun lobby to please spend money to oppose him because it would be wasted. Guns are more likely to be used to harm the innocent than protect them. I was reading all of the statistics. Melissa fitzgerald was here yesterday. You keep going online whether it is the brady center or wherever. I cant remember the incidents of when a gun is used to protect or stop this is like nil compared to the times people have been accidentally or purposely killed. He said i think it was the Tipping Point and it was the last straw. After aurora, columbine after all of the incidents you say okay, we have to keep up the drumbeat because it is when the drumbeat stops that we lose our opportunity to make changes. Chase in the chat room has a good point. Dems can and should run against them now. Great point. Stephanie i saw a lot of people you know, had been protesting and all of that. And the nra thats why theyre scared. They know this is you know, i think one of the moms was saying these are babies now. Now it is choosing between guns or kids, you know. Somebody tweeted repatriot act passed 54 days. Senate needs to move now. The whole nation. We cant do it. They wont really pass it. We cant do it this time. I think we can. Melissa says it is on us now. Call write your congress penn. Lets go to carol in pennsylvania. Caller hi, how are you . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller congress is only going to answer to the special interest people such as the Koch Brothers who have done nothing and will continue to do nothing but evil. And this shooting will probably go unanswered. I dont know what we can do about the Koch Brothers but somebody has to stop them and i dont know who that might be because stephanie carol, this is becoming less and less partisan if you listen to the Joe Scarboroughs and the people on both sides at this point saying weve got to have again it is reasonable gun laws. Thats all were talking about. Jay carney yesterday at the white house. Hes actively supportive of, for example senator feinsteins stated intent to revive a piece of legislation that would reinstate the assault weapons ban. Stephanie see. Becoming more and more my Favorite Movie the american president. Im sending the assault weapons ban to the floor. Watch the movie okay. Then he also talked about the loophole. He supports and would support legislation that addresses the problem of the socalled gun show loophole. And there are other elements of gun law legislation Gun Legislation that he could support. Stephanie james in pennsylvania. Hi james. Caller hi, stephanie. Stephanie hi. Caller im calling just about im getting fed up about how sick this country is. This country you get people like glenn beck on tv. Now theyre going to lay low for awhile and then theyll start talking. But this country is sick. It is sick to be able to allow this thing to go on forever and ever. Stephanie you know james it is interesting and again im not trying to pass a finger this way or that way weve talked about the mom here. A lot of the stuff she believed in is stuff glenn beck talks about. Sometimes there is a price to be paid for selling fear and paranoia. You have