Thats completely inaccurate. 1 of the things i do, in fact, is represent victims of gun violence, victims of, for example, the aurora movie theatre shooting a, and nobody feels more strongly about the responsibility about the sheeter. In that the case, the shofamily lost their daughter and many clients, many Law Enforcement officers have been shot dead by criminals. We believe tremendously that the shooter is responsible. However, we cannot make it harder for dangerous people, criminals and others, to get guns and thats what we need to do. So everyone has some responsi e responsibility for their actions. Everyone in our society should behave reasonably to prevent crimes in whatever way thing. If you are selling guns, you should do so in a responsible manner which most gun sellers do. Unfortunately, there are a small group of bad apples and they supply virtually all crime guns. Host the. Host conversely, there is a point of view that says my guns are not for killing people but stopping criminal act orders. Guest assuming, as i will assume, that listener is legitimate and lawabiding, they have a constitutional right to do exactly that, have their guns in their home to protect their fami family. Thats completely consistent with background checks, cracking down on badapple gun dealers and locking up guns to prevent access by kids and other da dangerous people or people who shouldnt have access to guns. Host mike, good morning. Akron, ohio, you are next. Caller good morning. Thanks for cspan. I want to let you know, what you ought to do, one thing you should do is to explain the history of the nra. People who debunk that dont know their history. William c. Church in 1971 and wyngate. The first was ambrose burnside. These were proud to be prounion. They put their lives on the life for the union during the civil war. Somebody from the nra to say i am proud to be prounion. The founders were willing to put their lives on the line for the union. 1938, Carl Frederick praised congress for the gun control act. I have never believed the general practice of carrying weapons in the public. In 1. 971, a man named william leob, editor of the manchester un yun newspaper in New Hampshire referred to treasury agents as gestapos for killing a nar member. Host we are short on time and we have an open invitation for wayne la bierre to come on this program any time to talk about the nra but to the callers point, your response . Guest the nra has changed a l lot. A lot of good, decent gun owners who maybe grew up with nra gun Safety Training and have that sort of image of the nra they feel disconnected. Going back george h. W. Bush resigned from the nra because of their extremist comments. He was no he was a goodman but no great liberal on gun issues. The nra really has gone too far. They have had this desperate position to fight for profits for the gun lobby, which disconnects from what lawabiding gun owners want, and in some case, the nra takes positions that hurt gun owners. They fought for a bill which protected and protects negligent gun sellers and manufacturers and inhibits safer guns from being made. These are policies that would help law abiding gun owners and their families make their products more safe. Host where does your funding come from . How does the brady center operate . Guest from listeners, from mostly small contributions from people who believe strongly that we need to do more to keep guns out of the wrong hands and are generous enough to donate to us. Host the website is on the next washington journal, Steve Clemons talks on thehis Senate Report cia interrogation techniques. Scott patterson, executive director of the National Association of state budget officers discusses the fiscal situation in 50 states. And political senior staff writer shares his investigative report on the size and scope of the u. S. Customs and border patrol. We will take calls. You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Monday night on the communicators, mary gray on the ethics raised by Internet Companies harvesting personal data. The creepy question that is a great question because i think for all of us, as somebody who uses a computer every day, we have certain expectations when we fire up our computers about who sees what we are doing , who we are sharing information with. Moment, if the are shifted i have because i realize that there might be another party who sees what im doing, say, if a message pops up and asks if i would like some help making a purchase, there are certain wees that we do not know have cross them until it is too late. That is trooper for researchers, true for companies. There is not a clear sense of what is creepy. That is so culturally specific. One person talking loudly on the cell problem in a park has no problem with somebody standing next to them on a bench and list into that conversation. On the same time, you can of someone trying to have a private conversation and they will go to Great Lengths to be somewhere that is secluded. So we are not just dealing with the cultural context. We are dealing with preferences and experiences around privacy. Monday night, at 8 00 eastern on the communications on cspan 2. A Senate Hearing on efforts to reduce Sexual Assault on College Campuses. Then the Senate ForeignRelations Committee reviews legislation authorizing the use of force against isis. Kentucky senator Mitch Mcconnell outlines the republican agenda for the next congress. Studies indicate that one in five women experience Sexual Assaults on College Campuses. On tuesday, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing on campus Sexual Assaults and the role of Law Enforcement. Ofators Claire Mccaskill missouri and Kirsten Gillibrand from new york testified as advocates of Sexual Assault victims. Other witnesses included Southern OregonUniversity Assistant director of Student Support and intervention angela fleischer, Cornell University police chief cap these owner, and the executive director of the Sexual Assault and trauma center. This is two hours and 45 minutes. We will be joined shortly by senator gillibrand as well to make brief remarks. And senator graham is expected to join us. He is the Ranking Member on this committee. Senators Mccaskill Angela Brent have worked tirelessly to shed of sexualhe scourge violence both on our College Campuses and in our military. Senator mccaskill and senator cosponsorse the lead and had works very very hard to develop, along with senators gillibrand, grassley, and others , legislation that makes comprehensive changes in the area of campus Sexual Assault. We hope this hearing will help inform their work. I would like to acknowledge as well the commitment of chairman leahy who last year shepherded the violence against women act through this committee and into law. Know, it requires colleges to be more transparent about Sexual Assault and other offenses committed on campus. In my home state, attorney general Peter Kilmartin and Rhode Islands universities are working with me on developing best practices and advising me in a legislative efforts. I want to express my appreciation to our very robust Higher Education community and rhode island into our attorney general. Finally, i would like to thank all are Witnesses Today for joining us. I know you work a in and day out to help survivors who are seeking closure and justice. I look forward to hearing more about your efforts. Campus Sexual Assault is not a new phenomenon. In the last two years it has shed light on just how pervasive it has become with some estimates suggesting as many as one and five women may experience Sexual Violence in college. Reports of sex offenses on College Campuses rose 50 from 2009 to federal data. Offenses,ajority of up to 90 , are believed to go unreported. This issue has risen from whispered hallway conversations to an impassioned national debate. It has rightly become a priority for university boardrooms, Police Departments, even the white house with its dedicated task force and it is its its on us campaign. Innovations in the private sector include products to prevent surreptitious drugging and video games and smartphone apps to encourage bystanders to step in. Brentrs mccaskill angela s campus accountability safety act proposes an array of reforms. Hearingose of todays is narrower. The role of Law Enforcement in response to Sexual Assault on campus. As a former United States attorney and as the attorney general for my state, i am concerned that Law Enforcement is being marginalized when it comes to the crimes of campus Sexual Assault. I am concerned that the specter of flawed Law Enforcement overshadows the harm of marginalized Law Enforcement. Badly. G can be done but Law Enforcement done right make sure forensic and electronic evidence is properly collected and preserved. It empowers the victim. It informs her of her continuing power through the stages of investigation and prosecution. Also brings professionalism and tools like subpoenas and grand jurys in the place of amateur university investigations. It removes the builtin conflict of interest in the university that once the Sexual Assault problem minimized or hushed. And it sends an important societal signal when after a rape, the crime scene has police tape up and evidence bands and officers taking statements. A signal that what happened was serious. At its best, Law Enforcement response is victimcentered and well coordinated with both medical, mental health, and advocacy professionals. When a rate victim is steered away from Law Enforcement based on uninformed choices about proceedings, or because the relationship between the university and Law Enforcement is so weak that contacting Law Enforcement is a step into a dark unknown, and the victim later loses the chance for justice, she has been victimized all over again. The student has the right to anw that delays in opening investigation and collecting evidence could mean the disappearance of evidence altogether and could open up devastating questioning by a future defense attorney. Until we are willing to put more information and control right away in the hands of victims, they simply will not trust the system enough to report Sexual Assaults in the first place. We know this, sadly, from experience. A way to introduce victims to Police Officers before they have to make the fateful decision to file criminal charges, uninformed fear and uncertainty will remain a crippling barrier. And when there is no Law Enforcement response at all, that silence is deafening. That sense the message that what happened to the victim did not matter. Unfortunately, this message fits with the pressure administrators may feel to downplay Sexual Violence. New evidence that most college Sexual Assaults are committed by men who are serial offenders, and thus a threat to Public Safety. That should make it an even higher priority for us as lawmakers, law enforcers, and School Administrators to create systems that will increase reporting, root out those who would commit such acts, and see they are brought to justice. Marginalizing the men and women who are trained professionals in the task of investigation is a move in the wrong direction. If we do not increase and improve the role of the criminal Justice System in these cases, the victims will pay the price. Improve because equally important to early Law Enforcement involvement in these crimes is the quality of the Law Enforcement response. If i said anything could be done badly as i said, anything could be done badly but there are best practices and i look forward to hearing from some of the witnesses about those best practices about how we as legislators might be able to advance the goals of Public Safety and dignity and justice for survivors. Hearing, let me thank my Ranking Member for his courtesy during our time when i had been chairman and i look forward to continuing the bipartisan spirit when chairman graham takes over in the next congress. Grassley, do you have any opening remarks you would like to make . As you know, i am not a member of the subcommittee. So officially im a member. This issuenterest in as im a cosponsor of the bill. I do not understand the sensitivities that universities campus. Ut rape on i think a crime of rape off onpus or crime of rape campus ought to be treated the same way and the sooner it is treated the same way the sooner that the message is going to get out that you cannot get away with something on a campus that you could not get away with someplace else. And i hope that there is a real effort in the next congress to work on this bill very seriously and move it along. And i appreciate the remarks of chairman. It would be things that would associate myself with at this point. But i think it is high time crime is ae that a crime where ever is committed and treated the same way and when it is treated universally the same way, we will have less rape on campuses. Thank you. Thank you, senator. I think it is significant that the incoming chairman of the andittee made that point made that statement. So i thank you, sir. I turn now to senator schumer. I will be brief. You, mr. Thank chairman, for hosting this hearing. My colleagues for being here. I want to thank two of my dearest friends and the senate for leading the charge senator mccaskill and gillib rand. I want to wish senator gilli brand a happy birthday. On a more serious note i want to thank both of them and many others for bringing this whole issue to light. This has been a sort of dirty little secret for a long time on College Campuses, that women were abused and afraid to come forward. And now because of the efforts of two senators that we are going to hear testify and so many others, that is not happening anymore. To do is talkve to people, relatives, children of friends, women who were on colleges how serious is this . Most say it is far more serious than you know. So to get to the bottom of this and do something about it is something that we can do in a bipartisan way. We can show that government when we putrks well our minds together and come up with careful, rational, but strong solutions. And i look forward to hearing the testimony and working with the sponsors of this legislation to make that happen. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Senator franken, anything questioh . Im looking forward to hearing from my colleagues and then from witnesses. Terrific. Lets begin with senator mccaskill, the lead cosponsor of this legislation along with senator heller. We appreciate very much her efforts and your commitment in this area. Senator mccaskill. Thank you for holding this hearing. First, i want to go the birthday wishes to my friend and colleague Kirsten Gillibrand. And i want to thank her for her passion and her focus on this issue. United, i think an objective evaluation would say we are forced to be reckoned with. We are united on this effort, along with senator heller. A and i want to implement senator grassley and his topnotch staff who have worked with us tirelessly to put together what is truly a bipartisan bill. There has been a lot of giveandtake that has only gone into the development of this legislation. And i know all of us look forward to introducing it and moving forward and for its passage next year. In that vein, it is important that we hear from this committee as to your input as to how we can make this bill even better. And i know this hearing will be helpful in that regard. This iso say that complicated, first, because we are dealing with two systems. We are dealing with the title ix system and the criminal Justice System. And the two systems have different goals. Is title ix system, while it there for the redress of victims, it is there primarily to force College Campuses to provide a safe and crime free and discrimination free campus. That is the purpose behind title ix. The cr