[ theme ] stephanie hello current tv land. Here we are. Good morning Jacki Schechner. Do we look unprepared in any way . Dont be ridiculous. Representative John Yarmouth coming up on the big show today. Were getting a serious gun control debate in this country. How about that. We are. Were going to have the conversation. The idea is to keep the momentum going. People are outraged after newtown that it is time to do something. We have to keep the momentum going in order to get something done. Stephanie i thought wow Gabby Giffords and her husband a lot of the stuff they said powerful. Stephanie both gun owners, both Second Amendment people but just who more powerfully can make that case . 11 Mass Shootings since tucson. Stephanie i know. Well get into all of it. Here she is, Jacki Schechner in the current news center. Good morning, everybody. Vice President Biden is holding a meeting at the white house today with victims groups and gun safety organizations. This is the next in a series of meetings. That Administration Officials are having with stakeholders as they look at recommendations to hand to the president by the end of the month on how we can curb gun violence. Heres white house spokesman jay carney. It is a not a problem that can be solved by any specific action. It is a problem that enchances issues of Mental Health, education, as well as access to guns. He will meet with various stakeholders. Tomorrow, vice President Biden is going to meet with executives from the National Rifle association which has some gun control advocates wondering why since the nra has made it clear it has no interest in supporting legislation or executive action that might help keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. The Washington Post would argue that the Administration Needs the nra because of the power, at least the perceived power it still has over members of congress and ultimately it going to be a vote to turn a bill into law. This is a friends close enemies closer strategy. While the white house and Congress Work to craft some sort of legislation on a national level, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants his state to be the first to enact new gun laws in the wake of the shooting at newtown. Today, he plans to propose a new restrictive assault weapons ban which would strengthen the state law already in place by covering more guns and magazines. New york one of seven states already has some sort of assault weapons ban in place. Hes also looking at proposing expanding the use of Mental Health records and background checks and requiring recertification. Were back with more after the break. Stay with us. Going to do the young turks. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. 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I was yelling. Stephanie all right. Hal sparks had to cancel today. Hes got a thing with a guy at a place. Rick overton oh, my god, he has the most hilarious stories hes going to tell us. Thats right. Stephanie he was in d. C. And i think he held the torah for alan grayson when he was sworn in just to make people crazy. Rick was actually there with boehner. Oh, wow. Stephanie his orangeness. Hes going to tell us stories in hour number three today. He smelled like bourbon. Well find out from rick overton. Stephanie in the meantime, by the way the sexy liberal cause in d. C. , of course, the brady center to prevent gun violence. Get the last remaining tickets. It will be a big show. I was saying to jacki at the top of the hour, were going to have us a debate on gun control. This country. Who saw that comin . Is it today . [ world news tonight ] today. White house trying to keep the momentum for Gun Legislation. Vice President Biden has invited the nra and other gun owner groups tomorrow. Now is not the time. Dont be politicizing it. We cant do that now. Stephanie the Vice President will meet with victims organizations and the game and entertainment industries. Obviously they plan to forge a consensus over how to curb gun violence. The president says he wants biden to report back to him by the end of january. Hes vowed to move swiftly on the proposals. We were talking about how powerful Gabby Giffords and her husband. You know, who better to speak to this . That was just powerful. She took a prominent role in the gun debate on the anniversary of her shooting. Her and her husband wrote an oped, americans for responsible Solutions Initiative would help raise money to help support greater gun control efforts to balance the influence of the gun lobby. He and gifts want to become a giffords want to become a prominent voice for gun control. The things initially were hearing that are making the you know, gun nuts freak out if you watched alec bennett on piers morgan this is what this is alex jones. Alec bennett . Stephanie pardon me. What are you talking about . Stephanie how long does it take to get all of the spittle off him . Thats what i want to know. Tyrants guns stephanie and that guy reportedly has 50 guns. Great. Stephanie is that not more of a case for toddlers ought to be armed stephanie okay. So the president reportedly wants congress to reinstate a ban on militarystyle assault weapons, close loopholes that allow gun buyers to do background checks. Gangnam style. Stephanie why arent there things we could agree on at a minimum . Why cant responsible gun owners . I dont understand. Getting the department to call it lying and ordering federal agencies to send data to the National Background check database. Anybody the nra arguing against that is just craziness. It is hitler argument. They go right to the hitler argument. Oh, well register, thats the first genocide. Stephanie sure. Some of these steps interestingly could be taken through executive action with the approval of congress. Ahha. Stephanie obama will not finalize any actions. Jay carney said it is not a problem that can be solved by any specific action or single action. It encompasses issues of Mental Health. Gun trafficking would be a nobrainer. Assault weapons yeah, youre good. Stephanie yeah. Guns dont kill people. Stephanie and despite alec whoever his name is alec Jones Stephanie we played the audio yesterday but when you see the video it is terrifying youre literally like thank god hes not armed. As far as we know. Stephanie i mean at the moment. I feared for piers morgan. We didnt know if alex jones was armed or not do we . Youre a red coat im gonna shoot you, red coat get off my land. Stephanie were going to have the revolution again. I thought he meant right now. Piers morgan is british. No no, its all over now. Were not a colony of Great Britain anymore. Relax. Stephanie another very powerful voice yesterday was retired general Stanley Mcchrystal saying and again, you think would be common sense. These kind of weapons that he used in afghanistan do not belong on the streets of america normal citizens do not need these weapons. Anyway thats the thing is that all of the arguments are just so hollow. It is like no, were not going to solve every one and yes some bad guys will get guns. Why are we making it so easy . Why do we think you know what i think is the gun buybacks. Worked in australia. Stephanie no one is coming to get your guns for gods sakes. Of ahh proof that theyre trying to get our guns but they havent done it yet. Thats how you know. Stephanie dont you think anything that would help that would chip away at the problem might be good . Argument about arming everyone showing pictures of people at the firing range. Incredible kickback. Hitting themselves in the head. Stephanie shot themselves. They didnt shoot themselves. The kickback was enough to knock them out. Great. Yeah, maybe this is not your thing. Stephanie exactly. All right. So anyway, i have to say and this is i have to warn you graphic but i thought so powerful in the l. A. Times. By the way, this is a new day chris. [ magic wand ] i was able to figure out how to download my own story from the l. A. Times. Com. I sometimes ask you to send me something. I figured out how to get it myself. How can i get the newspaper into the machine . The thing about the l. A. Times is the actual paper quite often does not match whats on the web site. So shell ask me for a story just like a keyword here and there. And im like you know, on page 7 there is no page 7. Stephanie next to where i clip the coupons and do the crossword. And because of rights issues, there are some opeds that are in the paper but not online. It is a mess. It is right next to the Burlington Coat factory ad. [ laughter ] stephanie tried to get on the couch. It is on the opposite page of the pennys ad. Stephanie im sure these stories are everywhere. Because obviously the testimony started yesterday in james holmes trial, the aurora shooting. You know this is the thing. It is not to politicize it but this is what happens when stuff fades, when you forget the horror of sandy hook and you just when you start to hear details of this kind of stuff it brings it all home again. Thats why we cannot let this fade. You talk about Mental Health being an issue, how about the Mental Health issues the policemen are going to have that had to go into sandy hook first or the aurora theatre. Colorado Police Officers testifying about what they found. Thats the thing is they think oh, well dont talk about that stuff. It is politicizing it. It is not politicizing it. It is what is the reality of this . And you look at that guy. Youre like how did that guy Jared Loughner, how did that guy get a gun . Thats all of the background check you need. Just look at him anyway youre discriminating against the criminally crazy. Stephanie i apologize i debated whether i should read some of it but it is on the paper and im sure a lot of people heard it and heard the testimony but this is the reality were talking about. You remember that was the first thing we said, chris about sandy hook, imagine what the Police Officers saw. Thats what that looked like. I cant imagine. Stephanie two veteran Police Officers were first to arrive at the movie theatre. Monday they described the carnage. These are 20 year cops who have seen everything that are crying openly in court because theyre having to recount what they remembered most was the blood. There was so much of it. Aurora Police Officer grizzell said some people were crawling for safety. With a waiver voice he slipped on something slick only later realizing it was blood. Officers described victims shot in the face. Some of the wounded were so badly hurt, it was impossible to tell their gender. This is a reality of this kind of military assault weapon. This is what mcchrystal was saying. Grizzell recounted how he sped people to the hospital in his police car. There was so much blood in the car, he could hear this slosh. At times officers broke down on the stand yesterday. Im not going to read all of the details. One woman told him somebody handed him a 6yearold girl. Shes got no pulse. Rushing the mother to the hospital who was shot in the face and the chest. I mean is this the america we want . When you go to the movies . Some people. Stephanie when your kid goes to first grade . One woman told him during a hostile interview she felt a Burning Sensation on her side. When she looked down, she saw her internal organs spilling out and she caught them. She survived. Grizzell told of rushing someone who had been shot in the face. The officer testified he yelled in the backseat dont you [ bleep ] die on me. The words seemed to help him rally. He survived with a brain injury. I think youve gotta look at the reality of this. When you think about it. But the gun nuts would say if only they had been armed then everything would be fine. Stephanie right. In a crowd dark theatre. If only there had been more people shooting wildly and trying to they were even saying when they caught him, a lot of officers thought he was a s. W. A. T. Member because he was armed. He was dressed like a s. W. A. T. Who knows whos who . He had better body armor. Stephanie incredible. 19 minutes after the hour. Right back with more on all of this. We continue on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer the only place in america where dissent is still allowed. Its the Stephanie Miller show. Guts. Glory. Ram. The new ram 1500. Motor trends 2013 truck of the year. 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