la pierre was against the trip. but democratic senator ron wyden, who is investigating the trip, says that doesn t wash with him. it s just not credible to say that this was not an official trip. if you just look at the pictures, which have come out, it s got official trip written all over them. reporter: the house and senate intelligence committees are investigating, because of concerns that russia may have been using the nra to support trump. we heard credible allegations that the russians may have been funneling money through the nra, so, yes, we wanted to pursue this. reporter: mobt mueller s team has been asking recently about the trump campaign s ties to the nra during the campaign. a witness tells cnn they asked about how trump wound up addressing the group in 2015. i love the second amendment. reporter: and getting its endorsement in 2016. to get the endorsement, believe me, is a fantastic honor. reporter: maria butina, charged with being an
president wayne lapierre was against the trip. and convinced the nra s president not to go. but democratic senator ron wyden who s investigating the trip, says that doesn t wash with him. it s just not credible to say that this was not an official trip. if you just look at the pictures which have come out, it s got official trip written all over it. reporter: the house and senate intelligence committees are investigating, because of concerns that russia may have been using the nra to support trump. we heard credible allegations that the russians may have been funneling money through the nra. so yes, we wanted to pursue this. reporter: robert mueller s team has also been asking recently about the trump campaign s ties to the nra during the campaign. a witness tells cnn they asked about how trump wound up addressing the group in 2015. i love the second amendment. reporter: and getting its endorsement in 2016. to get the endorsement, believe me, is a fantastic honor. repo
keen has not responded to cnn s calls for comment. tonight, the national rifle association is now going on the record, distancing itself from the 2015 trip. an nra spokesman tells cnn, the ceo was against the trip, did not want any misconception it was an official nra trip and convinced the nra s president not to go. ron widen, who is investigating the trip, says that doesn t wash with him. it s just not credible to say that this was not an official trip. if you just look at the pictures, which have come out, it s got official trip written all over it. reporter: the house and senate intelligence committees are investigating because of concerns that russia may have been using the nra to support trump. we heard credible allegations that the russians may have been funneling money through the nra. yes, we wanted to pursue this.
a whole, by his predecessors, by congress and so on, mistakes his role that you know, the world did not begin when he was inaugurated. right. his war. right, exactly. he doesn t want them, but now they re his. and besides, there s a tremendous inconsistency. on the campaign trail, he was thundering about how he was going to decimate isis, slam isis. was it a war he didn t want? no. so to say it s not me, i m not part of it, is it doesn t wash. one of the little bits of news newslettes, i think you can call it, from this trip is that he told reporters he s not in a rush to find and name a permanent new defense secretary. i m guessing if i m one of those troops who feels reassured in a war zone, that might take me
things. okay? i think it really is going to be up to individual people to now be able to spot something that just doesn t feel right. i mean, so here this is all about mueller, right? so they say that robert mueller was, you know, trying to side with radical islamic groups and it just doesn t wash. i mean, it s just made up out of thin air. then they have all sorts of stuff about how james comey is a dirty cop and they have all of this kind of hollywood imagery. there is one of hillary clinton here that russian trolls put out that say that black college students are not excited about this election, they think hillary is a liar. none of this turns out to be true, but when you see it on your facebook feed you think for a minute, oh, i didn t know that. wow, that s interesting. but it s not true. it s just stunning the stuff. i think it s a big responsibility that people are going to have to educate themselves since they are still doing it to this day. well, misinformation is a tool t