lobby opened the annual three-day convention today despite calls to cancel the event. senior correspondent is live in houston with more. alicia. hi, anita, and we have a developing situation here just outside the george r. brown convention center. you can see protestors there, we are staying on this side of the gate. 1 of 3 protests that have been organized around the convention center. you can see security is incredibly tight all around for the 55,000 attendees to the nra annual convention and you mention there are calls to cancel that, but the cancellations are coming in. texas lieutenant governor dan patrick canceled his appearance at an nra breakfast, saying he spoke with representatives in a tweet he said while a strong
conversation about how we stop these things are happening. there is barack obama exploiting this for god knows what reason. he is supposed to be the great communicator. i m sorry, i don t even know what to say at this point, guys. todd: a total mess by the former president. amid this texas massacre, bette midler getting in on the act tweeting that protesters should come armed to the nra annual convention. it seems like she s auditioning for the view. your reaction to these comments? she would be perfect next to joy behar, i can completely see it. her twitter feed is her life at this point. the wind beneath my wings is a long time ago. johnny carson signed off on the tonight show 30 years ago this week, and she was the person who serenaded him. and you are like, while matt, bette midler, you ve got to love her. and now she becomes this person. i don t know what to say at this
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a low impact trade war. these are hostilities. we are talking about coercive signaling here in the form of imposing costs on the united states american producers just as we are imposing cost on the european and chinese producers. that is the definition of a trade war. it s a low scale but it doesn t mean it can t intensify. dana:ly ask about something i will ask about something you wrote about. we are talking about the president going to the n.r.a. annual convention. you wrote a piece saying liberals are quite depressed. is gun control one of those issues? the second amendment one that the democrats feel they have a good persuasive argument but at the polls they continue to fall short of their goals? sort of everybody is depressed. it s one of the most fascinating political phenomenon i have witnessed in my small period of time doing this professionally. everybody, both sides of the aisle believe they are losing, sacrificing ground to their opponents. and there is a lot of evid
department we so rarely talk about in terms of anything beyond an annual physical for a president or vice president. so it is a, another shake-up here when we re trying to get more details about what was really behind it. chris? kelly o donnell, thank you for that breaking news. michael steele, doug parnell, thank you as well. president trump, as we said, just arriving, and bringing the stairs over to air force one. getting ready to address that friendly audience at the nra annual convention. we ll squeeze in a brief break and be right back after this. but i m relentless too. mbc doesn t take a day off, and neither will i. and i treat my mbc with new everyday verzenio- the only one of its kind that can be taken every day. in fact, verzenio is a cdk4 & 6 inhibitor for postmenopausal women with hr+, her2- mbc, approved, with hormonal therapy, as an everyday treatment