Meeting. The author of the book, armed in america, hadraa history of g rights. Thanks for being with us on cspan 3s American History tv. Thank you, steve, for being here. How did the organization come about and why . Well, they came about after the civil war where theres poor marketing by officers during it the war so two officers decided to form the nra for two purposes. One is facilitate, build and grow long rifle ranges and assist markmanship. The florida initial sale so you know was kind of working to get appropriations from government, and they started off with one organization. They grew to 1,700 by 1929. They also are just so you know built on there was an enlish National Rifle association, and they were this supposed to be the american version. The only thing that really differentiated the two to start off with you could start or build a rifle club locally or statewide and you were an nra affiliated club no less. And those clubs would then compete in state, local and national m
Leader. G jaunsnen and blackburn then revealed the new partys idiotic slogan. The need is for one party. And they also showed him the snazzy new pennants they had designed, blazoned with aerodynamic flyingwedge emblems, which they would be mounting on johnsons automobile. And they also laid out their new partys platform, which consisted of its entirety of Direct Action and, more emotionallism, in government. The kind of loyalty that gang centers John Dillenger and al capone required, he explained. And, quote, mr. Johnson favored a submachine gun, the Herald Tribune reported but mr. Blackburn preferred one of r the larger types of pistol. The next day the pair of 20 somethings attached their flyinh wedge felt pennants to the fenders of johnsons baronial 12cylinder packard. They loaded up with shakespeare, machiavelli, dennis, and their weapons catalog if not their weapons itself, and they headed south. So what that is from is i wrote aom book. I have written a new book. I said i would n
If they just do on wise guys. I cant believe how things keep going our way. Wise guys a buddy comedy about a two low level gang centers who work for a Mafia Don Named Costello and get into all sorts of high jinx. Probably not the highlight of Danny Devitos long and successful career but it was sort of the high point for his costar joe piskapoe. He wept onto play a hapless mobster from the 1930s alongside Michael Keyton from the movie dangerously. Two years later he played a modern version of the same character in wise guys. After that he did not get a lot of other leading roles until today when joe piscopo was among the retinue of Odd Characters who came to a manhattan courthouse to support donaldma trump. The witness on the stand was Robert Costello, the Trump Affiliated Lawyer who Michael Cohen says pressured cohen to stay loyal to donald trump. Now, you might say to yourself is it really a good idea to have a criminal defendant, donald trump, sitting next to joe piscopo, a guy named
the value of this corrupt is the meeting cannot be overstated. this theme cooked up by these men could very well be what got trump elected. tonight, rachel maddow recaps the arguments with lawrence o donnell, jen psaki, andrew weissmann, lisa rubin, and katie phang who were all inside the courthouse. and nicolle wallace, chris hayes, joy reid, ari melber, and stephanie ruhle is special coverage of trump on trial begins. , now. thank you for joining us tonight. we know you have every option in the world for where to follow the news of this remarkable moment in american history. it makes us all the more glad you are with us. i am rachel maddow and i am here with the great chris hayes and nicole wallace. the one and only lawrence o donnell who was in the courtroom today in the closing arguments in the hush money, former president donald trump, lawrence will join us in a moment. he is still down at the courthouse it will join us as soon as he can get to a camera which w