i do believe i do believe what you re saying is true. i do believe what you re saying [ audience reacts ] everyone, everyone, the senator has a right to be heard. he s answering mr. guttenberg s question. i do believe what you re saying is true. i do believe that someone like this individual and anyone like him shouldn t have any gun, not this gun, any gun. if you ll indulge me for a minute to explain to you the problem. first you have to define what it is. if you look at the law and its definition, it basically bans 200 models of guns, 220 specific models of guns. good. good. okay? but it allows legal 2,000 other types of gun that are identical. identical. [ audience reacts ] in the way they function, in how
everyone, everyone, the senator has a right to be heard. he s answering mr. guttenberg s question. i do believe what you re saying is true. i do believe that someone like this individual and anyone like him shouldn t have any gun, not this gun, any gun. if you ll indulge me for a minute to explain to you the problem. first you have to define what it is. if you look at the law and its definition, it basically bans 200 models of guns, 220 specific models of guns. good. good. okay? but it allows legal 2,000 other types of gun that are identical. identical. [ audience reacts ] in the way they function, in how fast they fire, in the type of caliber they fire, in the way they perform, they are indistinguishable from the ones that become illegal and the only thing that separates the two types, the only thing that
because these things have been happening all around the country and it s more common than winning any lottery. why don t we assume the worst situation, like we do on planes, where we have life vests in case we land in the ocean, or slides in case we need to do an emergency crash. why don t we we have kevlar vests in classrooms for our students? why don t we build our walls with kevlar, so that kids aren t being shot through their own walls, because they re so cheaply built? why don t we have more funding to protect ourselves? why do you guys protect yourselves with guns, protect yourselves with vests, and you protect america s children with nothing but drywall? and my answer is, why don t we get the assault rifles off the street? why don t we do the criminal background checks so that you have much more of a measure of security when you go to school. no, you shouldn t have to have kevlar vests.
well, who is surprised by this at this point? every time the trump campaign or organization denies they re in contact with the russians we find new information about it. and the fact of the matter is our intelligence community has identified wikileaks as an element of the gru, the soviet military intelligence agency and julian assange is an active part of russian intelligence matters. and so of course don junior s relationship with him shouldn t surprise anybody, but of course, once again, they ve lied consistently about their contacts with russia. they ve lied consistently about their relationship and the quid pro quo and the discussions and the involvement level of their campaign with russia. and i think it the story never gets any better. and for don junior the story got much worse today. i think that this may be a preview of coming attractions from robert mueller in the near future. i have to ask you, any potential crimes being committed here and how likely is this going to b
forward today to say that alabama senate candidate roy moore abused her when she was a 16-year-old girl. i want to bring in now cnn legal analyst laura coates, political commentator mike shields, and republican strategist rick wilson. so much to talk about. rick, i ll start with you. in response to new reporting from julia ioffe in the atlantic, donald trump, jr. has released copies of communications with wikileaks from 2016, from the 2016 campaign. your reaction to this news? well, who is surprised by this at this point? every time the trump campaign or organization denies they re in contact with the russians we find new information about it. and the fact of the matter is our intelligence community has identified wikileaks as an element of the g.r.u., the soviet military intelligence agency, and julian assange is an active part of russian intelligence matters. and so of course don jr. s relationship with him shouldn t surprise anybody, but of course, once again, they ve lied consist