in alabama at the birthday party. new flash points in a fight fo abortion rights, it s a more disturbing revelations about supreme court justice clarence thomas we will dive into those issues during our exclusive interview with senator bernie sander coming up first. plus, the daily shows jordan klepper knows a thing or two about emirate conventions an maga republicans i will get his thoughts on the culture of guns and the people who still support donald trump and, i spent the day wit congressman jamal at the school he founded in ne york a spoiler, alert he does not think the teachers should carr firearms it feels a lot like the ne cycle is spinning really quickly but we cannot leas fight of the fact that eac major story this week coul have a direct impact on both our country and our lives. on our health, the court syste continues to battle over acces to a key abortion pill and in the shadow of that figh florida governor ron desanti quietly signed a six-wee abortion ban into
but will this time be any different? where in god s name is our backbone? expresident trump revenge tour to wyoming. the people of wyoming are going to tell her, liz, you re fired! but after big losses in georgia, is he dominated the gop like he once did? q. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby philip. this sunday, a grim portrait of the state of this nation. vice president horizon comforted a family, one of the ten black people killed in a massacre carried out by a white supreme sifted this month. and president biden as we speak is on his way to uvalde, texas, consoblg even more families marked by the scourge of gun violence. 19 children and two teachers were killed in their elementary school classroom this weak. their families will be forever changed. but grief this morning is turning to fury. we are now learning that the police stood outside that classroom for nearly an hour, instead
she already has a rifle. and she has got a little pon named sparkles to, so the girl is set up. not yet to, already has a shotgun and a rifle. guns have become a part of our culture, including, as you heard there, with young kids which is especially grim whe you remember that firearms are the leading cause of death for kids in the united states. the celebration of weapons in country where gun violence i far too prevalent. that is something i really struggle to wrap my head around my next guest is someone who has spent years in the trenche with the staunch supporters of the second amendment this jordan klepper has made appearances at nra conventions at most recently the rally outside the arena former president trump. jordan klepper joins me now. thank, you jordan, for takin some time this morning as yo are preparing to host a dail show this week thanks for having me. thank you for being here. we are sitting here today and following updates on yet another mass shooting alabam
registration, to registering your weapons. that opens the door to tyranny and some kind of totalitarian takeover and ultimately genocide. that may sound hyperbolic, and it is, but that is what the nra and the gun lobby have been cooking up and what people that go to nra conventions and pro-gun people across the united states now believe. that they have to oppose even the slightest background improvement in gun reform, background checks or because that will lead to a tie ran cal takeover and genocide. it s been ten years since the sandy hook killings in another elementary school. the parkland shootings happened. in that time, it seems the right and the pro-gun wing of the political class, they ve become less likely to support gun regulations. what do you think has happened in that time? well, the first thing that s happened is the rise of
martha: president obama wasn t imposing sanctions at that point, right? he had already imposed sanctions. trump saying if you elect me you wouldn t need the sanctions. martha: let s talk a little bit about the back channels she was trying to establish and whether or not from your reporting she was able to really get anywhere with that. part of the investigation is whether or not there was funneling of money. in my mind, she is sort of like the human expression of a bot or a tweet or all the other efforts that they made. she is a much more traditional expression of that. in fact, over the last decade they have arrested 20 spies who have been doing exactly what she was trying to do. right. she was as we write in the book, she surprised a lot of people because she kept showing up at nra conventions, at cpac conferences, at national prayer breakfasts and there were a number of people who kept