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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20121218:16:33:00

Jon: right now the connecticut school massacre reigniting the debate over gun control with some lawmakers saying that the president should take the lead on the issue, at the very least push for reinstating the assault weapons band. others like a democratic congressman from rhode island says congress should take the action. right now he is holding a news conference on gun violence. chief washington correspondent james rosen live in our d.c. bureau with more on that. james? reporter: jon, good afternoon. january 3rd will be the first day of the new congress when a leading democrat says she intends to reintroduce a updated version of the assault weapons band that expired a decade ago. senator dianne feinstein, senator from california, author of the original assault weapons ban says she ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121218:18:08:00

That means the attachment to a gun. it makes every gun that it s compatible with an assault weapon. in a larger sense, let s go down the path of banning the assault weapon. i think there s a better chance to do that now than ever. not that one child s life is more important than another person s life, but the volume, the impact of this, that every child can feel vulnerable. how do we say to children, sleep well at night, my dear. go to school in safety because you are protected. we don t really know that. mayor bloomberg, mike bloomberg, who has been such an advocate, was on morning joe today, and his frustration is also with the white house. there are things that could be done by executive action. let s watch. somebody said to me, well, it s a republican issue. let me tell you it s not a republican issue. if i remember my history, the first two years of the last obama administration congress and the senate and the white house were all in the hands of the democrats, and they did ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121218:18:25:00

Will have a strong role to play in this gun safety issue. it hits home. i m sure it hits home very strongly with men as well, but i think that the face of women in the congress on these issues as mothers, as grandmothers, is something that will make a tremendous difference and who is there, you know, what their experience is in their communities, in their families, i think, makes a difference in what the policy is, and it will be better policy with our new caucus in relationship to gun safety. democratic leader nancy pelosi. great pleasure. thank you for joining us today. thank you. thank you. and more on gun control and the fiscal cliff with former white house chief of staff john pedesto, and how you can give to the sandy hook school support fund go to andrea mitchell.msnbc.com. the voice pays tribute to those lives lost in connecticut. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121218:18:07:00

Floor when she came back, that should have been enough to push this forward. then after oak creek. let me just quote back to you after oak creek, wisconsin, what you said. the votes aren t there for gun control. we certainly aren t going to be able to do it in this congress, and i don t know that we would be able to do it in a democratic congress because it takes a lot of votes to go down that path. republicans are in control, but there are a lot of democrats also who come from states, red states, where these gun issues are absolutely binding. well, we have heard something quite different from? some of our members. we had a caucus this morning and i met some of the members who are members of the nra, or are supported by the nra came forth and said that hunters in their districts have said this isn t what hunters are about. we do need right away we could pass, right away today, this week, we could pass the ban on assault makigazinesmagazines. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121218:18:48:00

Support that quite honestly, andrea, as you look through it, you ll see that s a part of what s going on even in the fiscal cliff debate. a reduction in funding for mental health services and programs. that makes no sense. certainly at this point in time. it never makes sense. now it really makes no sense. there are things that need to be done right now, and then there is the larger issue of just violence in america which plays out on the streets of our cities each and every day, and then there is the larger issue of just violence in america. which plays out on the streets of our cities each and every day that takes place in homes with domestic violence, takes place with the children, with abuse and sexual abuse and a variety of issues to be looked at and studied and then a series of recommendations over some period of time to come back to the president and the congress but as strong as we are in supporting the idea of a national commission on violence in america, that effort has ....

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