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The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. This just in from the prophetic Andy Borowitz, with midterm elections a few days away, a new poll indicates that billionaires are likely to retain control of the United States government. Proxy candidates of billionaires are likely to win 98 of next tuesdays races, with the remaining 2 leaning billionaire. Now Andy Borowitz is one of our leading humorists, and i figured he was joking. But now im not so sure. And neither, id guess, is United States senator Bernie Sanders. Because a couple of weeks ago, Bernie Sanders was in richmond, california, a small
[ theme ] yeah, its the Stephanie Miller show. This is chris. That is jim. Chris is sick as a dog and stephanies not here. It will be a wonderful show today. We only had a day off the fiscal cliff. So theres that. Representative john boehner told senator reid to go f himself. Twice. Really . According to the folks at politico. So im shush well be talking about that if stephanie gets here. Hoping and praying she gets here. Happy new year to everyone out there. Yeah, Jacki Schechner happy new year. Happy new year to you too. Some things dont change. You like to step all over my news before i start. Oh, geez, did i do that . Oh god okay. Theres stephanie. Stephanie happy new year. Lets go to Jacki Schechner in the current news year. Whatever, steph. Thanks for joining us good morning everyone. Happy new year to you. Not only did Congress Wait until the very last minute to come to a deal to stave off the fiscal cliff but by all accounts, nobody is generally thrilled with what they came to
[ 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
Now. But im still im still trying to understand what we as the u. S. Are now supposed to do with all this given what is going on internationally. I think about it a lot. I never come up with any answers. It is like im debating myself. I feel like i could do a good job on both sides of the debate, which shows you that it is a quandary for anyone trying to deal with it. I got to say, i dont i feel a little bit of empathy for the president on this. Even though i dont i think we put ourselves in this position. We put ourselves in a box. Everybody agrees we put ourselves in a box. If it is that we feel like we have to do something to just keep our credibility, thats not necessarily a great reason to go get involved somewhere. I still if we were going to do it, i kind of am with Richard Engel and others that say, if youre going to do it, have an objective. Shut down his air capabilities, maybe tip the scales in favor of, you know, the devil you dont know. Maybe there is good people in maybe