Restrained themselves, they didnt call it goobergate. They called it peanutgate. Very seriously. Oh, my god, did they want it to be a big deal. The republicans in congress have been calling loudly for a special prosecutor to investigate the carter familys peanut business. Peanutgate, investigate the carter familys peanut business. Scandal. This was 1979. Peanutgate had a perfect name. In the end, though, substantively it did not exactly distinguish itself as a scandal. This was six months later. Good evening. Jimmy carter was cleared today of any wrongdoing in the handling of funds at his peanut warehouse during his campaign for the presidency. I believe its appropriate to state right here that there is no evidence to establish that president jimmy carter committed any crimes. No indictment can or should be brought against anyone. None will be filed. The answer is that no evidence whatsoever was discovered that any moneys were diverted from the warehouse into the campaign pf eve. Every nickel and every peanut have been traced into and out of the warehouse and no funds were every nickel and every peanut. They traced every single goober. Republicans in 1979 spent six months and they hired a special prosecutor. They went out of their way to make sure it was a Republican Special prosecutor who they hired at the department of justice to just tear everything apart, go up and down through every peanut shell to try to find something, anything scandalous in jimmy carters family peanut farm. It turned the out, as you saw there, that it was nothing. Nothing this. When john f. Kennedy had been elected to the presidency in 1960, he was from one of the richest families in the country. His father was one of the single wealthiest individuals in the entire United States. Now, jfk himself never personally inherited his fathers fortune, but he was really rich. And when he was elected he did put all his own assets into a blind trust. So somebody else controlled all of his money, he had no idea what his assets were. Jfks considerable wealth was walled off for the presidency in that way. Richard nixon, kind of a study in contrast. He had a modest middle class background. By the time he became president he had a long time as Vice President and when he became president his approach was basically just to cash out all of his assets. He didnt have a ton of asset, but he liquidated everything and put most of the resulting cash into buying himself a house. He bought a house in key biscayne, nflorida, and ultimately in california. His personal wealth were tied up in two pieces of real estate and thereby walled off from any Decision Making by the presidency. The next person who got elected was jimmy carter. And all he had was his peanut farm home in georgia. And honestly, he hated to give that up because he built that peanut farm with his own hands. But, of course, this was a time of acute ethical focus in the country after nixon and watergate, right, the orange nat watergate and all the rest of it. So even though jimmy carter hated to give up his peanut farm and this little business hed built up for himself, you just have to do that stuff when you become president. Governor, a part of your life for so long, how do you feel about difbesting yourself of it . Well, it was a hard decision for me to make and this is something that ive had to face. Ive literally given up my own method of making a living here in the plain. A lot of this stuff i built with my own hands even before billy came home from the marine corps. But i dont have any regrets about it. But i dont want any decision that i make as president to have any effect on my own income. The trust will try to do the best they can and take care of my remaining family here. My mother and billy too much. The trust will take care not to disrupt my family here, my mother and billy. Ah, billy. The reason republicans in congress got so excited for the prospects of peanutgate is that even though president jimmy carter had to get out of the business of peanut farming, had to hand everything over to a trustee, his mom and his little brother billy still lived there. And with billy, they were really hoping that where there was smoke, there was fire. Because this was billy. Billy carters brother is likely to get some dams, roads and postage stamps named after him. As for billy, hes getting a beer named after him. A Louisville Brewing Company is bringing out a beer named billy and hes agreed to travel around the country promoting it for pay. The washington star reports that billy carter pressing on with his new public career now plans to appear in a movie about a boxing match with a kangaroo. Some striking new crime figures on the Chicago Police department. I love that next piece of tape on there so you can see that theyre just moving on to a whole other story. Plans to appear in a movie about a boxing match with a kangaroo. Some striking new full stop, kangaroo is the last word in that news story. Full stop, moving on. Billy carter was president jimmy carters younger brother. He was a remarkable public presence while his brother was running for president and while he was ultimately president. Billy carter became famous for once, forgive me, peeing on an airport runway in full view of the assembled White House Press corps. He did take a job promoting billy beer when his brother was in the white house. When he passed away the New York Times obituary noted, quote, he often drank beer for breakfast. That he once wore a tshirt which said, redneck power when he played soft ball with the president and the secret service. When he met a famous astronaut and then ohio senator john glenn. Quote, one morning in 1976, he was driving his pickup truck through plain, georgia, when he spotted his brother jimmy carter walking with senator john glenn of ohio. Senator glenn was a possible Vice President ial choice who was in town for an interview with the democratic nominee. As the nominee, jimmy carter, introduced senator glenn to his younger brother, his younger brother reached into the seat of his car, chose a can of beer and popped the cap. Jimmy carter seemed to shudder, end quote. Jimmy carter and his younger brother billy could not have been more different. But president carter absolutely loved him. And he did put his peanut farm and his peanut warehouse, this business that he had built, he put it into a blind trust when he became president because thats the sort of thing a president has to do even if they do not have considerable assets. And he handed over his own asset, his own stake to a trustee who assumed complete responsibility so that he would have no further role whatsoever. But part of the arrangement was that the trustee would keep on the existing employees at the peanut farm and the warehouse including billy who worked at the warehouse. And the arrangement was a little rocky. Billy at one point tried to buy the peanut farm and the warehouse in 1977. The trustee said no, no, you cant buy it. Billy only got paid about 20,000 a year. But apparently he decided to help himself year after year to basically the farms bottom l e line. Rerepeatedly took the retained earnings from the farm, basically took money out of the Business Year after year until it ultimately attracted the attention of republicans in congress who persuaded the department of justice to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the peanut farm to investigate if president carter was using it to hide some political slush fund because where was all that money going out of the business . Yeah, it turns out there wasnt a slush fund. It was billy billy was not a Model Employee of the peanut warehouse. But that was i mean, that was not exactly a scandal at that point given what everybody had come to learn about the president s beloved younger brother. And the republicans in congress convinced the Justice Department to spend six months and a ton of money trying to turn that into something, but that was how it ended. That was peanutgate, that was the big scandal. And that, in the modern era, is the closest we have ever come as a country to a president ial scandal involving the dispensation of the president s personal assets and personal finances during his time running for the presidency and being the president. Thats as close to a scandal as we have ever come. And that was a pipsqueaks worth of president ial assets. It wasnt really a blind trust. And thats the scale with which this has been chased and litigated before. But if you take six months, you could make six months of scandal and a special prosecutor and a whole new gate word scandal out of that bit of nothing from squeaky clean jimmy carter, then what are we getting ourselves into right now . Let me ask whether any of you think that the campaign has hurt the trump brand . I dont think it matter. This is so much more important. And more serious. And so that i you know, thats the focus. I think what ivanka is trying to say, who cares . Who cares . This is big league stuff. This is our country. Our country is going bad. Were going to sabe our country. I dont care about hotel occupisy, its peanuts compared to what were doing . Did you say peanuts . Today is day eight of the trump transition effort. Apparently theyre still trying to pull off a president ial transition in which the president elect does not divest himself of his business interests. In that 60 minutes interview, trump was not asked about Hotel Occupancy rates. He proactively brought that up himself as a thing he says he doesnt care about anymore. And it is possible that he will be so able to compartmentalize his interests that he wont care about Hotel Occupancy rate ors the fate of his businesses di e anymore. But he does plan to retain the interest in the hotels. He is not doing a blind trust. Keeping all his interests, golf course ks and Everything Else including the new hotel he just opened up in washington, d. C. , and the president elect can say he doesnt care about Hotel Occupancy, but one might imagine that lobbyists, foreign governments, anybody trying to curry favor with the president of the United States, he might find it to be a good strategic decision to let it be known that theyre spending a few nights or, heck, a few weeks in some of the really expensive suites at Donald Trumps new washington, d. C. , hotel, right . What are you going to do . Go meet with the president and say you stayed at the st. Regis . Any benefit that accrues to the Trump Company from people deciding to spend all their money staying at trump hotels or joining Trump Golf Properties or whatever they try to do to curry favor with the president , any of that money spent with the trump businesses because trump is now president , that money, that increase in business from people trying to gain favor with the new president , that money really will go right to his family. And hell know it because hes not doing a blind trust and hes keeping all his assets. There is an llc that is registered to mr. Trump and his kids. Its called the Trump Old Post Office llc. And today they filed this lawsuit against the government to try to get the tax bill lowered for mr. Trumps d. C. Hotel. This is remarkable. This was filed today. Eight days after he was elected president. We posted the filing on mad maddowblog. Com. Eight days after he became president elect, d. C. Apparently assessed the trump hotel as being worth 98 million. The lawsuit filed by trump and his kids today says they want the valuation of the hotel reduced from 98 million to 28 million for tax purposes. Thats all they want to pay tax on. In fact, they want a refund of the taxes they have already paid. Just send the check to the white house when they get the refund . Mr. President. Sorry. At that property trump and his kids actually leased the hotel from the federal government. Their landlord is a federal agency called the General Services administration. The llc is called old post office. This is an old post office. General Services Administration owns the property. Theyre leasing it to trump. He pays rent basically so he can operate this hotel there. Any day now mr. Trump is expected to name the new person who hes putting in charge of the General Services administration. Which charges him rent for that hotel. Think hes going to get a good deal . You think that person he appoints to have that agency might be inclined to maybe negotiate really good lease terms for mr. Trumps property . Cheaper rent for trump and his kids so they can make even more money off that hotel which he will make more money off because he is president. Even just that alone, that ait is is a rollicking in your face conflict of interest that theres no way ethically speaking that, that mr. Trump should be allowed to appoint a head of the General Services administration. You cant appoint your own landlord. But at least hes going to try. What diguidelines trump may folw as he sets up his new administration. So far theyve made no announcement about a code of ethics that theyre using for any of their hiring, the transition process itself continues to be, by all appearances mostly a bust thus far. As yet the Trump Transition Team does not appear to have actually made contact or started any transition process whatsoever with any agency of the federal government. As of tonight, they have made no contact with any agencies. That includes the state department and maybe they dont care that much about the state department, diplomacy with other countries, but one thing theyre supposed to do is give the president elect a little tiny bit of basic briefing material, basic background before he starts speaking with other World Leaders when they call to talk to him after hearing the results of the election. The state department now says it has provided no such guidance to mr. Trump or to his transition. Theyve had no contact whatsoever with the trump transition and apparently the contact with foreign leaders thing has gone a little hayire. By tradition a newly elected president makes sure that the first contacts he has with foreign leaders are with our closest allies. Almost always britain, sometimes canada, australia, thats part of how we keep those very, very special relationships very special. In Donald Trumps case, though, thats not happening. Quote, American Allies have been blindly dialing in to trump tower to try to reach the soontobe leader of the free world. Rather than speaking first before anybody with the Prime Minister of the uk, we know that trump met in american first with the leader of a tiny Opposition Party in the uk ahead of speaking with that countrys Prime Minister. Theyre supposedly our best friend. In toefrms who was the very first leader who got through to speak to trump, this time it wasnt one of our closest ally, the british Prime Minister or the canadians or australians, this time apparently it was the leader of egypts military junta. The reason he was first to talk to americas new president elect is apparently just because he was the first one to get through. Its possible he was just randomly dialing 212 area code numbers until someone picked up. Donald . I think hes here. Who is this . His name is sisi, is that your first name . Tonight the telegraph reported that the australian Prime Minister was able to get through to donald trump himself but he was only able to get through to trump at all because he knew a guy who had a phone number for this golfer guy named greg norman. Hes a very good professional golfer. He apparently happened to have Donald Trumps cell phone number from golf stuff. And so the golfer was able to give trumps cell number to his friend who gave it to the australian Prime Minister. He texted donalds cell phone number to the Prime Minister of australia so the Prime Minister of australia would be able to cold call donald trump on his cell phone and apparently that is now how the United States of america communicating with australia. And at one level this is hilarious and tacky and like coffee out your nose ridiculous. On the other hand, these are our closest allies in the world and this is the presidency. President elect trump pushed back on the New York Times reporting on some of these details today tweeting early this morning that the failing New York Times is so totally wrong and the transition he said is going, quote, so smoothly. But the New York Times hasnt taken down any of its reporting despite the challenges from trump because none of it has been disproved. Take a look at this reuters tonight. This just takes your breath away. Quote, one day before u. S. President elect Donald Trumps first meeting with a foreign leader, japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe, japanese Officials Say they have not finalized when or where in new york the meeting would take place or who would be invited or who they should call for answers. Quote, japanese and u. S. Officials said today the state department had not been involved in planning tomorrows meeting, leaving the logistical and protocol details that would normally be settled far in advance still to be determined. Quote, there has been a lot of confusion said one japanese official. But to be clear, the japanese Prime Minister is coming to new york city tomorrow to meet the president elect of the United States and as of tonight japan does not know where theyre meeting him or when or who is coming to the meeting and they dont know who to call to find out. You know, you guys should check with egypt. Apparently they found a working number. Or if you know anybody who place golf maybe . The head of the aclu is here tonight, anthony romero, the mayor of new york city is here tonight, having just met with the president elect today, apparently hes got a number for him. Whats the best way to get two servings of veggies . V8 or a fancy juice store . Ready, go hi, juice universe . One large rutabaga, with eggplant. Done thats not fair. Glad i had a v8. The original way to fuel your day. Hey, for the First Time Since the election we heard tonight from Hillary Clinton. She made her first public remarks since the election tonight just moments ago at an event for the childrens defense fund, which, of course, is the nonprofit where she started her career. I will admit, coming here tonight wasnt the easiest thing for me. There have been a few times this past week when all i wanted to do was just to curl up with a good book or our dogs and never leave the house again. I know many of you are deeply disappointed about the results of the election. I am, too. More than i can ever express. But as i said last week, our campaign was never about one person or even one election. It was about the country we love and about building an america that is hopeful, inclusive and big hearted. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton tonight speaking for the First Time Since the election. 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Why would muslim data bases not be the same as requiring jews to register in nazi germany. Why wouldnt there be a difference. Is there a difference . Who are you with . Im with nbc news. Is there a difference between requiring muslims to register and jews . You tell me. Do you believe there is . You tell me. Should muslims be fearful . Will there be consequences if they dont register . That was almost exactly a year ago. Vaughn hillyard. If you do in fact want to create a database system to track muslims in this country which you just told us you want to create, that was candidate trump. Today were learning that president elect trumps Transition Team is in fact moving forward this idea. A member of Donald Trumps Transition Team on immigration, kris kobach told reuters today that trumps policy advisers are drafting a policy for him to create a reg city istry of musl immigrants from muslim countries. The transition to governing doesnt look any different than campaigning did. Republicans in congress say they will start in the first week of january to move legislation to build a wall on the southern border. The Trump Transition Team says they do plan to start a nationwide roundup of immigrants for mass deportations, millions of deportations starting on the first day trump is in office and they really are talking about a registry of muslims. That is a thing that they say is in the works. As for whether or not trump will also implement his often restated Campaign Pledge that he will ban muslims from entering this country, that pledge is still up on the trump campaigns official website. And the legal discussion around that policy proposal suggests that it might be possible for him to do that if he really wants to do it. It seems almost inconceivable to say that it could be legal but were told theres a version of it he could absolutely do Even Without Congress having to say yes. And so since were trying, really trying to not have blinders on here, were trying to listen to what theyre saying, were trying to watch what they are planning and in so doing its clear the wall and a muslim ban and a registry of muslims, all of that stuff appears to be not just what theyve promised in the campaign but what theyre working on now theyre getting power. This is real. It is upon us. And so my next question is whats the plan against it . The people who have been guardians of civil libs in ther this country. The people who know how to fight this better than anybody else. The head of the aclu is here next. Youll want to hear this tonight. Please stay with us. Y life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine. I talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. 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Specifically you promised to a mass Deportation Force to remove Illegal Immigrants and to ban mu hims, to restrict a womans right to abortion services, to reauthorize water boarding, to change the nations libel laws and restrict freedom of expression. Theyre not just unamerican and wrong headed they are unconstitutional. If you do not, you will contend with the full firepower of the aclu at your every step. Our staff of litigators and activists in every state, millions of supporters stand ready to fight against any encroachment on our cherished freedoms and rights. Well be vigilant every day of your tenure as president. When you ultimately vacate the oval office, we will do likewise with your successor. Signed anthony deromero. Joining us now is anthony deromero. It is great to see you, rachel. You look healthy and well and rested. Were ready. We have to be. I understand that there has been sort of an outpouring toward not just the aclu, but to a lot of groups that are seen being bulwarks against the Trump Presidency . Is it true youve had a surge in membership. 150,000 new members. How much does it dost become a member . 20 bucks. Well take any amount. Because now its about the bodies, its about the people. Whats remarkable is people understand whats at stake and they feel a need to take action. Its this unprecedented surging of support. Weve never seen anything like this in our 96year history. Its important that people understand were not there yet. Were just beginning the fight. The support is fantastic, its essential. Comes from every state across the country. 30 comes from states that were carried by donald trump. Not just san francisco, l. A. And new york. We have new contributors from montana, mississippi. Theres a growing movement of people who are concerned about where were going. The outpouring of requests to volunteer, i dont even know what to do with some of the folks. Were going to put them to work because we have a great deal of work to do. One of the things that i have sort of unexpectedly encountered maybe i should have expected it, but in the last eight days is a lot of happy talk from people who are opposed to donald trump and opposed to some of the worst things he proposed during the campaign. They say they dont think hes actually going to implement those. And they are wrong. How often have he said it . Over and over again. To deport 11 Million People. To target the muslims for surveillance and for banning their entry to this country. For restricting a womans right to choice, for questioning surveillance, for opening up the conversation about waterboarding. The man is only as good as his word so i take him at his words. Those words mean that we confront a major constitutional crisis if hes allowed to implement the very policies. Some of those things that you just described are things that weve had fights about as a country. Torture, a womans right to choose. Im familiar with legal battles over those things. Im not familiar with their being a legal battle over a request to deport 11 Million People. What the legal fight will be about a proposal to ban muslims from emigrating to this country. Is it clear to you that youve got bright constitutional lines there or some of the stuff that hes going to actually be able to do and then you will have to claw back after hes implemented it. Some of it he can do and well claw back. The ban on immigrants. On 60 minutes he wants to focus on 2 million to 3 million of immigrants who broke the law. Immediately. How is he going to find them . The criminals are lined up in some database. Hes going to have to comb through immigrant communities. How can he do that . Through dragnet searches, through unlawful searches and seizures. Do you think the Homeland Department of security says oh, youre an undocumented immigrant. Let me see if youre a criminal. Oh, walk free. You think theyll let the undocumented immigrants who dont have a criminal record just slip away . Were in for the fight of our lives. When the president elect said on sunday hell try to deport 2 to 3 Million People hes talking about dragnet, unconstitutional searches and seizures that will violate the fourth amendment, the fifth amendment, the 14th amendment. What will be so important for us, this is something you cant bring a Class Action Lawsuit on behalf of all the undocumented immigrants. You have to show the cases, the fact patterns, talk to the clients, depose people. Make sure you have all the important work that will go into the necessary litigation. But well be ready to do it. We have to. Anthony romero. Eat your wheaties, sir. Im trying to. Stay in touch. I use whats already inside me to reach my goals. 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Theyre amazing people. Incredible people. Hes being asked about what u. S. Policy should be toward our nato ally turkey, his answer is i have a little conflict of interest. That was president elect last year if an interview with then radio host steve bannon who is now his new senior white house adviser admitting that his dealings with turkey if he were president would be really awkward because he has a selfproclaimed huge conflict of interest there because hes not got the usual one but two trump towers in istanbul. Of course, in new york city he just has the single trump tower, but today in the midst of all the transition chaos around trump tower, the president elect spent an hour meeting with the mayor of new york city, with mayor bill de blasio. Its well known we have very, very substantial differences in beliefs and ideology. He is a new yorker. I do think he loves this city. But i thought it was very important for him to hear what people are feeling. I tried to express to him how much fear there is, how much fear there is in communities all over this city. A whole range of people in the biggest city in the country who are fearful about this current dynamic. No, nothing about peoples fundamental beliefs changed in the meeting obviously. Remains to be seen. Look, the balls in his court. People in this city and all over the country are looking to see what hes going to do. Joining us now is new york citys mayor bill de blasio. Great pleasure. How did it go in that meeting today . Look, it was a candid meeting and substantive meeting. I talked to him about stop and frisk and why it hadnt worked in this city. I talked to him about the fact that it would actually undermine Public Safety in addition to any moral question about immigration and deportation, it would undermine Public Safety if 500,000 new yorkers who dont have documentation feared talking to a Police Officer because they feared deportation for themselves or their family. I tried to shed some light. I told him there are 900 Muslim American members of the nypd, which many people dont know, protecting all of us. So my job was to tell him theres a lot of fear out there. Theres a tremendous sense of disenfranchisement that people feel. They dont know whats going to happen to them, their family, what their place will be in his america and that he needed to address that in word and in deed if that kind of rift was ever going to be averted. Do you feel like he can hear you . Presumably this is not the first conversation youve ever had with him. Ive spoken with him once on the telephone and i know that hes an empathetic listener. He reflects stuff back to you, he seems to absorb stuff when talking to you. Do you feel that he was either persuaded or absorbed what you were telling him . I feel like it was a give and take, which i appreciate in any human being. But with him, the proof will be in the pudding. Weve heard such harsh rhetoric, extremist proposals, what will happen . People have to see it and experience it before they have faith, to say the least. So was there real dialogue . Yes. Will that amount to something . We have to see some action to bleeb that. Theres been a lot of controversy about his immigration proposals, not just in terms of the what he and his Transition Team say theyll do on day one, but whats going to happen as they try to force cities the like yours around the country to do their will . They say theyre going to cut off all federal funds to any city in the country that says their local police force wont hand people over to the Border Patrol and wont act as part of a Deportation Force. How do you react to that let . The constitution doesnt create a National Police force. Its local Police Forces and local schools and so on. Well run our police as we see fit. Were not going to deport our own neighbors. Look, there are some individuals who have done heinous crimes and new york citys law right now says there are certain categories of crime where we do participate and work with i. C. E. But the bigger concept here is were not going to do work against our own people. And one of the things that isnt accounted for in all this rhetoric is that local governments have immense sway over the day to day lives of their own people. They can threaten defunding, but what the Supreme Court has decided previously is thats narrow. You cant threaten Education Funding if the issue is about Public Safety, for example. But i think its going to be a reality on the ground that changes the whole political context. We have to remember this is so dynamic if cities around the country are saying we wont participate in that. We arent on the policing going to reinstate stop and frisk which failed in this city and divided the police and community. Were going to see the political spectrum start to shift. One of the things im hyperaware of, this election was about economics, if he does a tax cut for the wealthy and big corporations, a lot of his own voters will be disillusioned, if he deregulates wall street and appeals dodd frank, theyll feel the elites in washington let them down, here is a new elite letting us down. He has to recognize that hes in a very dynamic political situation. The campaigns over. And these positions position. These positions will determine whether people support him or not, including the very same people who voted for him. What he is doing in terms of transition, who he is lining up makes me think he is going to govern exactly the way he campaigned. I have to ask you a parochial question. Please. Its not at all clear that he is planning on moving to the white house. One of the unusual things is we dont know if he plans on leaving home. If he does plan to spend substantial time or even just keep his primary nonin d. C. Residence here, how is that going to change new york city . Obviously the security concerns and issues with protest but securing the president s residence, thats going to be a big hassle, right . Nypd can handle it. Were used to having the president come here constantly as it is. World leaders for the u. N. General assembly, we had the pope a year ago. The nypd can handle it. Yeah, there will be some dislocation midtown. Well have to do real work to accom did and not have that part of midtown ground to a halt. But there is no question in my mind we can keep him safe. And i actually have to say, if this is his place he feels is his home, id like to stay in touch to his home. Part of my message to him today is you have to hear the voice of the people. If people are fearful and feel theyre being left out in the city that he grew up in, maybe its important that he stay here some of the time and hear those voices and recognize whats actually happening rather than end up isolated in a white house with a big fence around it. Which is almost impossible not to do. But we are in unchartered territory in so many ways. New york city mayor bill de blasio should it be noted that how democrats fared in the last elections, bill de blasio as democratic official stands for a lot more constituents than almost any other democrat anywhere in the country right now. He is a big city mayor and one of the most influential democrats in this country. And will be for at least a couple of years. So pay attention. Well be right back. When it comes to healthcare, seconds can mean the difference between life and death. For partners in health, time is life. We have 18,000 people around the world. 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If she could, hillary would be in every gun, destroy every magazine, run an entire National Security industry right into the ground, and put your name on a government registration list. Folks, im not kidding. If she gets just one Supreme Court nomination, hillarys court will hold that the Second Amendment is the government right, not an individual right, and you can kiss your guns goodbye. In all of history, there has always been a time and a place when patriots stand up and rise up against the decree of the elite and shout saying no more, get your hands off my freedom. That time and place is now. We stand together. We stand and we fight like hell for freedom. The revolution to take america back starts here. It starts on this day. And by god, we will elect our next president. We will save our freedom. And america truly will be great again. That was the day the nra endorsed donald trump because Hillary Clinton is coming for your guns, and she will leave you all defenseless. Oh my god. Those are the odds that they ran against. She is going to leave you defenseless. People are going to break into your house and kill you because Hillary Clinton wants you dead. That was them before the election. That was them through the election. And then they won the election. Their endorsed candidate won the presidency. So if youre the nra you kind of have to be psyched with how things went, right . You got your endorsed candidate for president. You dot the republican house. You got the republican senate. Oh, by the way, there is an opening on the Supreme Court. Life is good, right . Finally these guys could relax a little. Youd think. Here is the nra. Now. For eight straight years, barack obama flooded the Appellate Courts and the federal judiciary with judges who truly despise Second Amendment freedom. More than 300 obama pointed gun judges represented an infection for which there is no cure other than time and vigilance. We must face these very real challenges with the strength, courage, and purpose you have proven to possess. Our time is now. We must approach the coming fights with the same urgency and determined action that ended the political future of Hillary Rodham clinton. Nra just released that. This is their post election donald trump is president , gunowners have achieved a historic accomplishment video, right. But according to them, no, no, no, we didnt win anything there has never been a more dangerous time. You guys only have one speed. I see how you work there. Got it. Roger. That does it for us tonight. We will see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Rachel, donald trump is coming for your guns. Bound happen, i guess. Good luck. Thanks, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Well, the Trump Transition Team is already functioning as the worst Transition Team we have ever seen and the good news is the slower they do their work, the better off we are
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