Power out annual. Well keep youp daughterit throughout the morning. In the meantime a peace vigil is being held for victims of the Orlando Night Club shooting. People gathered outside the National Rifle Headquarters Association for a ban on rifle rifles. Liver in fairfax. This has been an overnight vigil here outside nra in fair favrm. Theres quite a Police Presence here. This is Head Quarters building here and own security is keeping an eye on who is coming and going this morning. But out here on the sidewalk you have about two dozens members of code pink and you see theyre standing with these heart, pink hearts with photographs of 49 murder victims from or land owe own theyre calling for tougher gun legislation. Measures put forward on republicans and democratst toughen the background checks especially those on terror watch lists and also on no fly lists trying to keep guns out of hands of known terrorists. And on the sidewalk in front of nra headquarters cynthia good morning to you.
Stones arrest is already fading from the headlines, replaced by the latest political crisis in the moment or a skirmish in the culture wars. Soon we will forget it ever happened. Before we do, its worth taking just a moment to consider a few basic questions about it if only because nobody else is going to. First, why did the Justice Department stage what was in effect a military assault on roger stones house . Stone himself asked that question over the weekend. Watch. The idea that a 29member s. W. A. T. Team in full Tactical Gear with assault weapons would surround my house and i would open the door looking down the barrel of assault weapons, that i would be frogmarched out front barefooted and handcuffed when they simply contacted me. As you know, its pretty standard for that to happen. Tucker its pretty standard, as you know. But is it pretty standard . To send dozens of federal agents with rifles to arrest an unarmed 66yearold man whos been charged with a nonviolent crime . Well, n