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>> well, you know, i think steves exactly right. he has to be. i dont think hes got a kinder, gentler gear. steves been watching him more closely. he was terrific after sandy. thats true. if he could go an hour at a town hall meeting and not call one of his own constituents an idiot, ill be impresses. hes a real political talent. he has terrific talent. the fact hes being sidelineded. i went to florida. the governor is up for re-election. would not appear with him. he present to the texas. barac...

He wants it to cost 150 bucks to fill up my suv and its costing 110 bucks to do that now and i dont want to pay anymore. >> well, that may be, but compare the cost to all of us for repairing the damage on the new jersey shore from sandy. compare the cost to all of us for repairing new orleans after katrina. compare the cost just right now of the car wrecks in atlanta, in atlanta, in the winter, where theyre completely or nominally unprepared for all of this ice and snow. these have direct econom...

Its not as if the economy was chuging back at a growth rate, as tracy was saying, we are barely out of a recession. >> the current administration will say look at all those shovel-ready jobs in the storm, those snowplow hires. i do agree, its going to be a hit, obviously, its going to be a hit. people werent able to get to the supermarket or restaurants or didnt see a movie. we have seen time and time again, we have been doing this show long enough, we were here for katrina, for sandy, for so ma...

Them. 74% of the nra wants them. >> weve stopped over 2 million people already through the brady bill already. over 2 million people that should not have been able to buy guns have been stopped. >> ive talked to hundreds of veterans -- gun owners. >> sandy and lonnie, i could talk about this a lot longer with you both. im a huge admirer of the work that you do. your know that. well continue to try to have this debate in a rational way. i just cant get past that figure, 44 shootings in schools an...

For 34 years. in australia, they were today they did a big report which re-emphasized they havent had a massacre, a mass shooting in australia since 1996, since the port arthur massacre which led to them bringing in tuough gun control. when the gun protagonists, i dont mean ordinary law-abiding citizens who have a gun for self-defense at home. im talking about the more extreme gun protagonists. when they say the only answer, sandy, to any of these outrages is more guns, what do you think can be ...

History of jamming. so hes saying its probably a good thing he had that. >> he could say this, sandy. but the reality is he managed to fire off 70 bullets and struck people. >> yes. >> its a completely twisted logic. i also want to talk to you sandy generally about where we are with guns. because weve had so many incidents recently. there was another movie shooting, the retired policeman who shot somebody who was texting in front of him while they moved a movie. there have been 44, the "wall str...

To hear that. i know what he was talk about. and he was referring to the 100-round magazine is notoriously a weapon attachment that jams. and thats what he was referring to. its a good thing he had that 100-round magazine because it jammed. if hed have had five or six 15-clip -- round clips he could have switched out and kept killing people. but that is really stupid logic. it takes at least -- even for a professional to change clips, you have at least a three or four or five-second time period ...

Re-emphasized they havent had a massacre, a mass shooting in australia since 1996, since the port arthur massacre which led to them bringing in tough gun control. when the gun protagonists, i dont mean ordinary law-abiding citizens who have a gun for self-defense at home. im talking about the more extreme gun protagonists. when they say the only answer, sandy, to any of these outrages is more guns, what do you think can be done to try and change that mentality? >> oh, of course you know that sin...

Anyone who works in the governors office isnt allowed to testify. >> tonight governor christies office says despite what he was told by the governors office, the governors office tells us tonight that there is no policy in the christie administration of preventing the governors staff testifying before the legislature. the governors spokesman told us tonight. the new jersey spotlight story is wrong. governor christies spokesman tells us, they couldnt attend a specific hearing held yesterday on th...

>> well, theres no doubt this is one of the more closed administrations that i have ever seen. and when i served on the committee that had the hearing yesterday on sandy, and when i sit across from advocates who had to go to court to get basic documents to find out how the money is flowing, and sandy is so frustrated, i happen to be a great believer in open government, i have been the sponsor sometimes successfully, sometimes not so successfully to sit there, it is so frustrating to deal with a ...