cultivate relationships with the american right. they found they re in on the gun show circuit. you have a vortex that s the biggest handgun i ve ever seen. the gun lobby is extremely well funded. it s support can make or break a political campaign. it also has deep ties to all levels of the republican party. for russia, it all made it a very tempting target. surprisingly, an easy one to hit. turns out attitudes have changed since the cold war ended. do you see russia as a threat? why would russia how would russia be a threat to me. do you think the russians are a threat? not as big a threat as the chinese. what about the russian inquiry. poppy dock. in 2011, she founded an organization called the right to bare arms. lobbying for gun rights in
was part of an nra delegation that went to moscow to meet with butina s group, the right to bare arms. her group paid $6,000 of clark s travel expenses. i mean, clark is a huge trump supporter. how significant is this? yeah. i mean, there is certainly money going back and forth. the department of justice was careful to do a very small and easily provable charge. he is just in court because she was acting as an agent and didn t register with the attorney general, but there s all kinds of suggestions that especially through her handler he is right now under sanctions by the treasury department and under investigation for funneling money to the nra. underneath this more simple charge may lie all kinds of dirty money being funneled to the nra and some sort of back and forth to facilitate the political influence.
vladimir putin, a ranking member of his party, started this gun rights group in russia. they didn t actually do much to promote gun rights in russia, at all. they also named themselves the right to bear arms, which has a lot more resonance in the english language than they did in russian, they started making lots and lots of connections to the american nra. alexander, w torshin started cultivating ties with russia and attending nra yearly conferences in the u.s., they met can top u.s. officials, cultivated friendships, they sought out republican party introductions whenever they could and they twice got senior nra officials and nra-affiliated celebrities to come visit russia, all expenses paid as guests of this
the nra has 5 million members. we work with everyone both in the united states and of course here in russia. there are no people more alilik americans than russians. we need to work together. no peoples are more alike than the americans and the russia russians. nra president david keene. that happened during a visit when david keene and other officials traveled to moscow to attend a conference by a group called the right to bare arms. it s a group founded by putin s political party called united russia. they don t actually support gun rights in russia. so why did they create this group that purports to promote that? a deputy governor of the russian central bank, a close ally of
few days for the first lady as the obama family says farewell. from her final public event honoring school counselors last week being your first lady has been the greatest honor of my life, and i hope i ve made you proud. reporter: to the president s last address to the nation where the whole family got choked up. you took on a role you didn t ask for, and you made it your own. with grace and with grit and with style. and with humor. reporter: tnd it was that humor on display overnight. thank you, first lady michelle obama, for bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase the right to bare arms. yeah! come on. you are welcome. thank you, barack, for proving you re not a lame duck but my very own silver fox.