tonight, we are going to giv you the context and th perspective you need t understand how these next fe weeks and months will unfold you are going to hear about th strength of alvin bragg s case against donald trump, an congressman ted lieu wil respond to republican attack on the da. and later, the other massive illegal news from the, week th fox defamation lawsuit lap and guess which programs are o the hit list i m ayman, let s get started to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of document fraud connected t hush money payments that h allegedly made it to cover u past affairs in the run up t the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that includes at least one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown because th indictment remains sealed. nbc news has now joined coalition of a new or
revolutions other gun rights restricted we are not talking about raiders, it turns out lots o people opposed to th revolution at a time also severe militia laws tha required gun owners to appea in public meetings where the and their guns would b registered on state roles, s they definitely understood tha we had a balance of gun rights with gun regulation. you make the point that the towns, as they developed economically, especially the ones who had the highest economic ambitions, one of the first things they did wa banned guns. that is right well, one of the reasons why our image of the wild west i so wrong is because of capitalism the residents of tombstone and dodge city they enact it got lost because they wanted wha most town want, which is t grow and prosper what business person was going to open up a store in tombston if every time they tried t deposit the weeks earnings i the bag they re going to b
main street of the town and in the middle of the road, that sign which is very difficult t read at the top, the top of it says carrying firearms strictl prohibited these distal records of that error indicate that the town with a strict gun control ha lower murder rates in the town without gun control. joining us now is adam winkler law professor at the universit of california los angeles. he is the author of gunfighter the battle over the right to bear arms in america professor winkler, i hav learned so much in a day that did not know before. so, you also talked in you book about the founders an their attitude towards gun control. what do we know about that well, we know the founder did have gun control they barred large portions o the population from possessing guns, including people who wer enslaved, and even white men who oppose the revolution. people who opposed the revolutions other gun rights restricted we are not talking about raiders, it turns out lots o people opposed to th
we saw it play out in wisconsi this week, a landslide victory in the state supreme court where voters showed up and sai we want access to secure our abortion rights. we want to get rid of laws tha were created in 1849 t determine whether or not we ca control our own bodies and, yet you have a judge that can make a decision abou whether or not we are able to, in the privacy and safety of our own homes, and pregnancies and make decisions about our future and our family and ou lives. people have been very clea about what they want to do they do not want thi judiciary. they do not want politicians o activist judges involved i making that decision for them. alexis, thank you for joining us this morning. we will obviously have a com back as we keep track of wha is happening with this particular decision as it s in conflict with the washington
impact of unfettered access to firearms here s our conversation. yeah, the proliferation o guns in our communities ha real ramifications legislation being passed at th tennessee state house that makes it easier to access a gun, has real ramifications so, i say the names of larry thorn and dr. nelson, who were murdered due to gun violence and it s really important that we understand this moment as a catalyst about what happened but they re being laws tha have led to this happening, an there s also been inaction so, let s talk about th expulsion. representative johnson, by one vote, you are still a sittin member of the tennessee stat legislature. why do you believe you are not expelled because of the color of m skin so, would you say that th members, the republican member of the tennessee state legislature are racists? well, i would say that i wa sitting in criminal justic