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The Vice President meets in about an hour part of the Task Force Effort to come one gun control recommendations. He meets with advocates, theyre pressing the issue hoping they can get new restrictions before the public outrage fades. Because for anything to get done reporter later today Vice President joe biden meets with gun safety and victims organizations. Thursday he switches gears and meets with gun owner groups including the powerful National Rifle association, which claims 4 million members. The process is designed to get input and in the Vice President s group well assess different actions. Reporter the goal is for the Vice President to report to president obama by the end of the month, while memories are still fresh. 20 heartbroken families lost a child in the sandy hook shooting. Reporter gun control supporters have become more aggressive. New york mayor Michael BloombergsGroup Released this Television Ad tuesday. I have one question for our political leaders, when will you find the courage to stand up to the gun lobby . Whose child has to die next . Reporter two years to the day since she was shot and seriously wounded in a mass shooting former congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her husband, mark kelly, rolled out a new Internet Campaign and new York Governor Andrew Cuomo will call for his state to pass one of the most restrictive bans on assault weapons. Gun control, call it what you want, is a highly political, politically contentious situation. Reporter Connecticut Legislature is returning to work nearly four weeks after the Sandy Hook School shootings. The first order of business debate over tough, new gun laws and sarah brady is speaking out. I think its a very big moment, a huge moment. Reporter the wife of jim brady, press secretary to Ronald Reagan who was shot during the assassination attempt on the president in 1981. When something happens like what happened to these children that wakes up every mom and dad, every aunt and uncle, brother and sister in the country. Reporter the Vice President s also going to meet with entertainment and video game executives this week and the white house is considering recommendations that would include a ban on assault weapons and high capacity ammunition and also universal background checks for anyone buying a gun. They also would like a National Database to track gun sales and tougher Mental Health checks. Norah, charlie . Bill plante, thank you. Weve just heard from the governor of new york, with us in studio 57 is the governor of new Jersey RepublicanChris Christie. Welcome, governor. Good morning. You know theres a focus on gun control. You know that Governor Cuomo is out front saying what he wants to do. What does the governor of new jersey want to do in new jersey and what does he want the country to do . Well in new jersey, first off, we have the second toughest gun laws in america already. Is that enough . I think we have to have a conversation about it. But i think if all we talk about just controlling guns which we should talk about, were not doing enough. You look at what happened in connecticut. That young man was obviously mentally ill and he needed to be getting treatment and i think theres such a stigma about Mental Illness and Mental Illness treatment in our country because we dont talk about it and if that young man had cancer his parents wouldnt have been reluctant to take him to the doctor to be treated. Its an illness just like anything else. We need to talk about substance abuse. Woman in camden decapitated her infant child and killed herself high on crack. In new jersey what weve done is mandatory drug treatment, first time drug offenders we sentence to you one year of inpatient drug Treatment Facility that was my program last summer we signed in, and lastly the violence in the video games. I dont allow call of duty in my home. We have to talk about all of it as parents, and i think we need to do things in all four of the categories. You say talk about it. Why didnt you mention it in your address last night . You pick what you want to talk about and after weve been through Hurricane Sandy i thought that should be the focus of what we discussed yesterday as a state, where weve been and where were headed to get everybody back on track so were going to have plenty of time to talk about that stuff as we move forward through the legislative year and ill be a full participant in the conversation but in a halfhour address you pick and choose what you talk about. Lets talk about Hurricane Sandy because you really spanked the republicans in congress and said it was disgraceful that they didnt pass the whole relief bill. Some republicans said you went a little bit overboard criticizing fellow republicans. Was that the right thing to do . Sandy is and was above politics, and should be and if my party is not putting it above politics theyre going to hear from me about it. My job is governor of new jersey and people have seen over time whether its working with the president , criticizing my own party, my job is to be governor and advocate for my constituency. The question is, did awe chief the result you hoped you would have achieve and do you have the House Speaker now saying i hear you, governor and this is what im going to do about sandy, and funds coming to new jersey . I think more broadly even charlie, i think we have the whole house of representatives listening to us now and you need republicans and democrats to pass significant aid bills and what we tried to do is talk to both sides of the aisle but in the end, the decision that i criticized was one that the speaker made, and i made it clear to him and i also told him in a one on one conversation. Were you worried you might do yourself no favors within the Republican Party . I dont worry about that. Listen i believe that what the American People want what the people of new jersey want is people who come into office and do their jobs and if you try to calculate every one of these moves politically youre not doing your job and youre not going to be an effective politician anyway. Doing your job is the best way to get stuff done. New jersey is the model for reconciliation, compromise and bipartisanship. Yes, sir. And youre inviting the congressional leaders in washington to come to new jersey for a seminar . Im happy for them to come any time they want and look at what weve done for three years, charlie, we have a democratic legislature, significant majority, passed every one of the initiatives in a bipartisan way. Its interesting because a lot of what you recommend sounds like what has been part of the democratic message. Youre asking for spending some money, youre asking saying people ill raise taxes if necessary for the people of new jersey. Ive also vetoed three income tax increases, we are spending less in the state budget today than jon corzine spent in 2008. We have passed a number of conservative measures in our state that ive gotten democrats to go along with as well but the idea of divided government is that youre not going to get everything you want. And so yeah i have to compromise on certain things but raises taxes isnt one of them charlie. You would if necessary . What ive said is i will always listen but you know thats the art of compromise is you got to be willing to listen but then you stand for your principles. Can a republican like you win the republican president ial nomination . Can you have the views you have and win the nomination . I think that if you have views where youre being effective and youre getting things done for the people then anybody, not just me but anybody who does that could win and heres what i think. I think whats going to happen in the future is that governors, 30 republican governors out of 50 now theyre going to be the ones who are going to be dictating what the agenda of our party is because were actually getting things done. Youve got a reelection coming up. Yes, sir. Did you scare the mayor of new jersey cory booker out of the race . No. Hes looking to the senate not the governors race 73 popularity coming out of all of the things following sandy. No listen i think cory made the decision that he could best serve the people of this state in new jersey running for the United States senate. That was his call and his choice. Hes a friend. Do you agree with him . Do i agree with him, you know what the other candidates . Corys been a friend and weve worked well together all the time. My daughter follows cory on twitter and said to me you need to tell mr. Booker if he runs against you im unfollowing so im glad sarah doesnt have to unfollow cory on twitter. Im glad she doesnt have to do that. Glmpbovernor christie thank you. Breaking news out of new york city this morning, a ferry accident near wall street injured 30 to 50 people. Emergency crews are treating some of the victims on the dock at south street seaport in lower manhattan. One of our own cbs employees was on board. He said the ferry slammed into the pier without any warning, as it was trying to dock. It threw him and other passengers to the floor. You can see the damage to the front of the ferry. Most of the people hurt were standing on stairs waiting to deboard. One of them had critical head injuries. And this morning the head of the u. S. Antidoping agency is accusing Lance Armstrong of trying to bribe his organization and intimidating witnesses during the investigation that found armstrong used performanceenhancing drugs. In an interview with scott pelley for the new series 60 minutes sports travis tiger talked about the evidence of doping. Six samples taken from Lance Armstrong were retested in 05, and they were positive. In 99 when the tests were originally taken was it reported that they were negative . There was no test for epo, they were not tested for epo at that time. And when you tested for them in 2005 you discovered all six were flaming positive. Flaming positive. Flaming positive. Reporter tygart told us throughout the investigation witnesses were intimidated to try to keep the code of silence from breaking. Was Lance Armstrong personally involved in intimidating these other riders to keep them quiet . He was. It was tough. All these witnesses were scared of the repercussions of them simply telling the truth. What could Lance Armstrong do to them . Incinerate them. Ladies and gentlemen reporter former teammate levi felt the heat. He came to a cycling dinner after he testified to the grand jury. He says armstrong was there and sent his wife a text that read run dont walk. What did she take it to mean. Its a veiled threat knowing her husband had just testified, truthfully, in front of the grand jury and it told citizens of this country about this great fraud, that it was a message, you better run. Your investigation showed that there were personal threats made against riders who had decided to come clean. I wonder if there were any threats against you . There were scott. These threats came from where . Emails, letters. Anonymous . Yes. Can you remember any of the lines from the emails of the letters . The worst was probably put putting a bullet in my head. Did you take that seriously . Absolutely. Turned it over to the investigator which theyre doing. Tygart believes armstrong had undue influence over the International Cycling union. Lance armstrong made a generous donation to the International Cycling union of 100,000. Do you think that was meant to influence them . I dont know. Obviously totally inappropriate. Why inappropriate . Lance armstrong is trying to support antidoping in a sport, thats what he would tell you. Its an inherent conflict of interest. Reporter a conflict that tyagart also faced. He told us for the first time in this interview that armstrong tried to make a donation to the u. S. Antidoping agency in 2004. What kind of donation was he interested in making to usada . A significant financial donation. What . Which came through his representatives offers to us. It was in excess of 150,000. More like a quarter of a Million Dollars . It was around that ball park. When you heard that what did you think . I was stunned. Did you feel like you were being bought off . It was clear conflict of interest for usada and we had no hesitation in rejecting that offer. Now in a statement, his lawyer says armstrong never made any such contribution or suggestion and we may soon hear from armstrong himself responding to these accusations. Oprah winfrey will have an interview next week and you can see Scott Pelleys entire interview with Travis Tygart on tonights premiere of 60 minutes sports at 10 00, 9 00 central, only an showtime. Today to be the final day of the pretile hearing for colorado shooting theater suspect james holmes. Prosecutors played chilling 911 tapes yesterday with desperate cries for help from the scene as Manuel Bojorquez reports, holmes arranged a deadly trap inside his apartment. Reporter holmes had designed a Second Attack for the night of july 20th. He planned for a massive explosion at his apartment hoping to keep First Responders way from the theater while he opened fire. An fbi bomb technician described the elaborate booby traps, a dpas lean soaked carpet, homemade explosives trip wires improvised napalm. He set his computer to blast loud music designed to lure someone into his trap and while this plan failed his other did not. I got a whole bunch of people shot out here and no rescue. Reporter in Court TuesdayAurora Police detective randy hansen recounted the 911 call just 18 minutes in the moofie theres some guy after us, the caller yells, then the sound of gunfire. Hansen said the call lasted all of 27 seconds and in that time he counted 30 gunshots in the background of the phone call. Chantel blunk was in court listening as other chilling 911 calls were played out. Her husband, jonathan, was killed in the shooting. You can hear people screaming so it makes you imagine it actually being there a little more and something you dont want to imagine. Reporter as he has during almost every hearing, holmes sat silently staring ahead showing no emotion but tuesdays hearing revealed holmes behavior may have been more bizarre away from the courtroom. Defense attorneys have indicated they may call their own witnesses to describe holmes mental state. Already they questioned a Police Detective about his behavior after the shooting. On the night of his arrest police put paperbags on his hands to preserve gun powder evidence. Holmes turned the bags into hand puppets, later tried sticking a staple into an electric socket questioning that suggests holmes attorneys are preparing for an insanity defense. For cbs this morning, Manuel Bojorquez, centennial colorado. It is time to show you some of this mornings headlines. The Obama Administration may consider taking all u. S. Forces out of afghanistan at the end of next year. The pent goneagon has planned to keep some troops from the nato pullout in 2014. President obama meets hamid karzai at the white house on friday. Well hear more with karzais meeting with obama. The l. A. Times says last year was the hottest year on record. The average temperature 55. 3 degrees, that is 3. 3 Degrees Higher than the average temperature for the 20th century. The wall street journal says the 11th hour deal to avoid the fiscal cliff will delay tax refunds for millions of people. The irs will not begin the main tax Filing Season until january 30th, about a week later than scheduled. And the Washington Post says redskins quarterback Robert Griffin iii will have knee surgery in the coming days. You may recall the controversy on sunday as griffin played hurt in a redskins playoff game leaving injured in the fourth quarter. Griffin has at least one torn knee ligament the injury might keep him sidelined at the start of next season. And usa to