for her release, adding if he can it will show he is a, quote, real human being. she is a gun activist currently held as a russian agent. eight lawmakers visited moscow over the july 4th weekend ahead of the trump/putin summit. let s talk about the california fires. officials are weighing in on president trump s recent tweets about the deadly wildfires tearing across the state. the president tweeting last night, california wildfires are being magnified and made so much worse by theed bad environmental laws which aren t allowing massive amounts of readily available water to be properly utilized. it is being diverted into the pacific ocean. must all tree clear to stop the fire from spreading. but as the los angeles times points out, the current wildfire situation is unrelated to water supplies or to environmental laws. fire agencies have not been complaining about a lack of water. major reservoirs are near the
totally different player? look, negotiations are the way to achieve progress here. but we ve got to put pressure on them to bring them to the table. and then be willing to negotiate. they aren t going to accept our going in position and we certainly aren t going to accept there. that calls for negotiations. melissa: admiral, thank you for joining us and we appreciate your insight today. jon: louder calls for action on gun control in the wake of the texas high school shooting but one survivor and gun activist is calling for something else as well and pointing a finger at the media. plus a potential breakthrough in the u.s./china trade talks. will the two economic giants forget their differences and go back to being trade partners? ultimately this is about industry being able to have hard contracts and deliver these goods. so, you guys have recently started dating.
it s coming to an end because our gun laws are actually allowing the most unbalanced in society to go in and shoot up schools, shoot up churches, shoot up country music concerts, and americans at some point are going to say enough is enough. we ve got to fix this and the supreme court by the way, for people i want to just be straight about this, and there are a lot of people that lie to you if you are a gun activist. you are lied to all the time and you are told that having military style assault weapons, military styled weapons or assault style weapons are your constituti constitutional right. it is not. all right? go back and read. 2008, that will tell you.
america. they chimed in to protest as well. both of them tugging at the strings of companies trying to convince a lot of major american corporations, including target, to take a stand and make it public. cnn money correspondent christina joins me now. target is no small company to come out and say, all right, we re doing it, we re taking a stand and here it is. that s exactly what it is, it s a pr stand. it s hard for these companies to enforce this kind of a policy. they re just asking customers not to do this. to your point, they re responding to potentially these groups out there like moms demand action that are appalled by these pictures of customers with large firearms in target. so the weird thing is you say pr, but there s a huge segment of society that would say that s not pr, that s bad pr. i guess they have to take a stand. well, if you are a gun activist and you want your, you
the grover norquist. doing a profile of him and he was on the board of the nra. the nra has been a key part of the right-wing coalition for years. they were trying to project a bit more moderate image. but i think the swing to the right is actually you know an opportunity for liberals. i think what we ve seen, the nra won, let s not make any bones about that they defeated obama. all three gun piece of gun legislation went down. the only way they re going to be defeated is if there s an equal fight of the anti-gun owners. nobody could stand with jim porter and the things he said in the past i think this an opportunity for the anti-gun law activist, for the pro gun activist to try to build a sort of anti-nra in the middle on the left. you don t have to build it on the left. you could build it all the way over to the conservative right. because at the end of it stands jim porter talking about the war of northern aggression, ryan.