sflar most gun owners support these checks but the nra opposes them and the senators a ratings depend on picking the gun lobby over its members. the fact is, those are the votes nak make it easier for felons to get guns. gun violence is killing more people per capita in the united states than any place on earth. more than 36,000 of us a year. is this the same old story. is anything different tonight? yes. in this new congress there s a majority in the house to tighten up these background checks. the last time there was a vote, we can tell you there was a majority in the senate from doing the same thing.
you have been hot on this as a theory of prosecution. explain. sure. i m only hot because it s simple. as opposed to following the money and the documents, tax cases are simple. that s why al capone got 11 years in 1931 because they couldn t get lihim on anything else so they went after him on the fact that tax returns are required. the payments that manafort amounted to $420,000. cohen. the payments to michael cohen aggregated $420,000 and required the filing of a 1099. it s a misdemeanor. we don t know whether he filed 1099 or not but it s very easy for others, including the
with them, you would not expect to see that. even if they knew him, friends with lihim, just from a legal standpoint you would think they would have been advised do not have communication with paul manafort. it s crazy. it s insane. depending on what month it was in 2018, he was either an accused felon or a convicted felon. he was in a position to seek out a pardon because that s basically his only hope at this point of not spending the rest of his life in prison. the idea that people were sort of accepting calls from him and being it s the pardon discussion had already happened at that point between his attorney and between folks around the president. that discussion had happened late last year. this was now in 2018 meaning that ball was already rolling which i think raises additional
city restaurant owned by actor robert de niro. authorities have located ten potential explosives addressed to high profile critics of the president of the united states. none of those devices have detonated. today the president, a lot of people are looking at him. he s blaming the media for the toxic environment that led to someone or some persons to send pipe bombs that the president has attacked. we could hear from lihim in a moment. we ll sfee if he continues that or changes course. joining me is pete williams and tom winter. meet, what is the very latest? as of 2:01 there were more devices found. we re up to ten sent to eight addresses. only a few of them managed to get through. some were, most of them were
this year? would you like things wrapped up by then? that s not the answer he gave us. he did again praise president xi and said he has a strong relationship with him. comfortable with a dichotomy of attacking china, trade practices and also praising a leader with whom he thinks he has a strong relationship. reuters jeff mason, thank you so much. greatly appreciate you being with us. my pleasure. walter, i find it really interesting always saying that the president of the united states, donald trump, is a day trader. we ve seen lihim be a day trade on north korea. seen him be a day trader in a lot of other areas as well. he ll change his positions by the day, by the hour. it s interesting that the one thing that donald trump has been consistent absence the 1980s, which is, protectionism and trade wars and being tougher against people that he feels are