lawmakers and show them that we can solve this problem of gun violence. the students are asking us to solve the problem. and that is really what i think is important here. you know, the students at sandy hook school were too young to be able to articulate their fears and their hopes for solving this issue. but the students at stoneman douglas are not letting go of this. they are strong and they are loud and they need to be loud. because we have had too many, too many of these situations happen. and you know, we should have fixed this problem 20 years ago after columbine and we didn t. yvonne and diane, i am sorry that you share this bond, but i am glad that you have each other and there for others as well. thank you for talking with us. up next, more perspective from
guns in more places is fundamentally wrong. right? and it s immoral. i think that is a world sort of a big macro world issue that democrats miss. they are almost too tactical. steven bannon said something today. he was quoted saying if somehow because i don t think anybody at this table would be shocked if in two months somehow president trump walked out of a meeting with chuck and nancy and said i m no favor of mansion toomey. but steve banson said there would be nothing worse for him and his within with the base than mess with the gun rights issue. two of the three presidential debates were heavily focused on
the union which is earlier than usual. i will be next week. a week from today. you know, we heard i think in the last few times, he talked about it being routine but we heard the last few times the president has appeared in front of the nation or appeared at one of these events in the wake of a gun tragedy, we have heard that emotion. i m with susan that we have not seen and heard it to the extent we have seen and heard it today but you saw sort of where he is headed on this. i think it s a remarkable thing for a guy who is as clinical, professorial, does not show his emotions on his sleeve the way other politicians do. this issue has quite clearly gotten to him and he quite clearly feels passionate about it not just from a policy perspective but from a personal perspective. you hear him talk about how it could have been my kids when he was relaying the kid who jumped in front of the shooter. this is something that i think the last year of his presidency will be spent talking about a
if she is the nominee, hillary clinton is certainly going to make it a front and center issue. thank you very much to the whole political team. make sure to tune in to hardball on msnbc for chris matthews interview with hillary clinton, her first national television interview of 2016. breaking news from afghanistan. a senior u.s. defense official telling nbc news that at least one service member was killed, two other u.s. forces were wounded after a counterterrorism combat operation and recovery attempt in southern afghanistan in helmand province. the taliban has claimed responsibility for shooting down a transport helicopter. joining me, nbc chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel as well. mick, first to you. what do we know happened here? we have all seen these transport helicopters. was it weather? was it a shoot-down? senior defense officials and military officials here at the pentagon confirm that all three
speech at the nra convention and was given a rifle by an nra official who wasn t charlton heston who was part of the original story. bush had been saying he received this rifle from charlton heston who of course was for a period of time the president of the nra, but second amendment rights supporters are very much still an active part of the electorate up here, and it plays out in interesting ways, because as you know, this is often viewed as the place where a moderate candidate can get some traction. that is not the case on the gun rights issue. it s something that while the state may be more secular than some of the other voting states, that is not an issue in which they deviate very much from the republican orthodoxy. susan page, you were in new hampshire yesterday and interviewed chris christie. at this stage in his campaign, he s beginning to get some traction but new hampshire really is do or die for chris christie. all his chips are on new hampshire. where could he win after