some republicans have shown an openness, but how serious they are remains to be seen. for years i ve made the case for the second amendment, the right to bear arms, i ve defended the nra and its members, law abiding gun owners like me who have nothing to do with gun shootings. i m a gun owner and a gun right s advocate. i believed it was true. i m no longer an nra member. being right no longer feels righteous because in the wake of more mass shootings, agents of senseless violence that send innocent people running for their lives, leaving children orphaned and loved ones dead on the ground. we must do something about guns. we have a problem in this
i would sort of caution democrats here. we know 2020 is going to come down to turn out. that s it. turn out. can you maximize voters in swing states? telling people the same thing that agree with you they made this determination two years ago. what about the voters deciding to stay home? i m giving you a, b, c to change your lives. i m not seeing attention paid to those issues. the trump campaign according to axios love this. they see this as alienating his base. one trump campaign official said democrats are trying to make the case that anyone who supports this president is a racist. they re talking about half the country. i don t think that s totally genuine. are they right about the
in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, there was all of a sudden a weird russian twist in u.s. gun politics. i spelled out maria butina s plea agreement in december 2015 in the middle of the presidential campaign right before the iowa caucuses, a former nra president and a future nra president and a whole delegation of nra officials and members all got an all-expenses paid trip to moscow. it was organized by the right to bear arms, purportedly a gun rights group founded by a senior member of vladimir putin s political party. the head of that group is a deputy governor of the russian bank. a close ally of vladimir putin. and torchin s group, the rights to bear arms group has always been kind of a head scratcher. because putin and his party don t actually support gun rights in russia.
the nra and its politics. it s a term that seems literally foreign. in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, there was all of the sudden a weird russian twist in u.s. gun politics. a spelled out maria butina s plea agreement in december 2015 in the middle of the presidential campaign right before the iowa caucuses, a former nra president and a future nra president and a whole delegation of fnra officials an members all got an all-expenses paid trip to moscow. it was organized by the right to bear arms, purportedly a gun rights group founded by a senior member of vladimir putin s political party. a head of that is a deputy governor of the russian bank. he is a close ally of vladimir putin. and torsian s group, the rights to bear arms group has always been kind of a head scratcher. because putin and his party don t actually support gun
dana: president trump weighing in on the hot topics we discussed yesterday, the second amendment and the debate over sanctuary cities. this morning the president defended the right to bear arms, tweeting: the second amendment will never be repealed! as much as democrats would like to see this happen, and despite the words yesterday of former supreme court justice stevens, no way. we need more republicans in 2018 and must always hold the supreme court! juan, did the former justice do democrats a disservice by suggesting repeal of the second and then second amendment is the real goal. juan: i saw the polling that about 20% of the public want this repealed. and there s an argument to be made. i am fully capable of making it, that i don t think everybody should have a gun because we