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As congressman bob said before and take the rhetoric down and figure out what the problem is that led to this. and if anything, it s on both houses. bob, i ll give you final word on this? well, i think it s important for democrats and republicans to lower the rhetoric. we shouldn t use language like lock and load or putting people in the cross hairs. or excessive language like noxiism, etc., we got to calm the issues. i served in congress for 12 years. i served on the select committee on assassinations. i interviewed james earl ray. i know something about kooks who go off on the wrong way. we have a lot of that in our society so elected officials should not fall into that pattern. we got to lower the rhetoric and be kind to each other. all right. we thank you guys for having a kind debate on this particular topic. matt kelan from the kelan group and bob edgar, former congressman and president of ....
Was trying to do probably kept her in danger. i believe you re right. and i want to say that i you know, my orpgs itself spent a great deal of time on being accessible, on trying to bring people together. one of our key issues is trying to create a more civil culture. and when we see things like this, we have to stand up and say it s not ok. rabbi steve you got it good. thanks so much for your sharing your thoughts with me. thanks so much. great to meet you. thanks. wait one second. we re going to read our tease. we have the 911 calls that happened. yeah, listen to this. 911, where is your emergency? my husband called me and told me he was shot. he was at the gabrielle giffords today, i don t know where he is. ahead, moments from the scene. the warning signs were there. in wasn t the shooter stopped? should there be a law limiting ....
I ve never condoned. i ve never participated in. and i think that what we all need to do is take stock as parents, as friends, as colleagues, and police each other and try to just be a calmer, gentler type of people. sure. here s what congressman brady says. the president is a federal official, you can t do it to him. you shouldn t be able to do it to a congressman, senator or federal judge. you know, dana, the problem is when wake up, this is major alarms going off. you continue to say. the problem i was about to say was, you know, one word to one person might mean something completely different to somebody else and they also would include symbols as well. where do you draw the line? well, this is what s in that s in some ways, he s having an apples and oranges debate. if he wants to have that conversation and introduce this bill, that s his right to do so. but from all the indications of the investigation so far, what he s talking about was not why ....
House side and the capitol office buildings will participate in a moment of silence along with members of the supreme court as well. the tragic events in arizona have caused house republicans to postpone all previously scheduled legislation for the week including a vote to repeal the president s health care plan. instead, they along with democrats will focus on security and honoring representative giffords and honoring those who have fallen. public service is a high honor but these tragic events remind us that all of us in our roles as federal citizens comes with a risk. you heard speaker boehner talk about coming with a risk. there s a great deal of concern about that risk. on sunday, congressional members and their spouses and i heard you talk about this earlier, they jammed a conference call yesterday to discuss security. more than 800 people joined that call. one member saying it was very solemn. yeah, it was interesting. ....
This is what he had. that is absolute nonsense. if this is the level of research we are getting from dhs, then heaven help us. we re joined by rabbi steve gouto, president of the jewish council for public affairs. good morning to you. good morning. all right, we have this organization which is probably a fringe element and may be in association with this suspect out of tucson. when you hear that these kind of organizations exist in our society, what do you think? being that they re anti-semitic? i think that in my community has faced a lot of attacks over a lot of decades from organizations like this. i feel that we can t look at a jewish congresswoman being the center of an attack that, by the way, before i i want to say it was a tragedy for all of the people who were killed or who are injured and people in my office were very, very close to representative giffords and so are many people in my leadership so i want to get that out because it s a moment of great ....