had to do snack this weapon? witts was the personal firearm of he brought his personal weapon from home to confront the tyranny of the british at the battle of bunker hill road so the symbolism of this musket is what makes it so phenomenal. first shots, first battle, firs shots of the american army. three days later, the battle of bunker hill took place and this is in the hands of john simpson who fired that first shot. the reason we have a second amendment and it symbolizes the role of the citizen soldier in creating and sustaining their freedom of the united states. each person has a role and indeed a duty to step up in the way he or she can. it s a wonderful example for all of us to follow. to get this isn t your grandfathers museum, this is an experience it s more than just looking at something and a glas
she brings gifts to nursing homes and she has to follow the rules like there s a lot of rules to follow too have one of these charitable foundations. and when shehech posts on twitts she has to make sure it s not political and it s very you to the letter. so why aren t these people following the same rulesth regulations as my sister in law that s trying to do good forat seniors gifts for seniors, for seniors, what kind of gifts while they go and they they bring. b they bring that it s not that kind of gifts for cpac you obviously have different views. you start partly cloudy with a sense of weird angry. oh, yes. that s strange or no last word to you. you re an expert in this area. i am. i just wanted to put pressure on you. yothank you . i appreciate that you re an expert in charitable giving. sure. i just think that this is like s the bazilian story about this that we ve heard. and still if you say like you
still actually honor that principle of equal justice under law. walking into the supreme court building every day as a clerk many years ago, i looked up at that. and it means something to every american, or at least it should. i want to go into this congressman jordan, how ben wits of the brooking institution, he was acting, in a way, as a surrogate for jim comey. he s a close friend of his. comey hid behind his twitter account. but this guy, witts, came out and spun the report. watch. once you ve been fired, you are now at this point, you re not just the former director of the fbi, you re also a witness to potential really gross -misconduct that may be crimin. so what are you is the ig really saying, and i think by the way that he is really saying that if you are a law enforcement officer who s a witness to potentially criminal activity, you ve got to shut up. congressman jordan, what s
protection. today ordinary citizens that would not otherwise dream of having a gun are buying one because they re scared out of their witts. he is a ukrainian immigrant that owns a store outside of washington d.c. he s been robbed at gun point four times in the past two years. now he has bought a gun and he says next time, he will use it. i will shoot. and i will shoot to kill. the biggest seller of gun. the urban crime wave touched off a new round of gun buying. small revolvers, magnums. some of the saturday night specials are small. they can be palmed in your hand. it was after 10:00 california time when the president left his hotel. not seen by the following cameras, but spotted by secret service agent with a hand with a gun in it coming through the crowd. the comotion erupted. secret service agents forced the
decide do they want to come here and make the trip to russia and to sochi to watch the games in light of the security concerns? athletes and their families we spoke to today mostly they are still coming. too much sacrifice and dedication and too much of an opportunity to miss, too important to let terrorists take that away from them. but they said, they are keeping their witts about them and said they are probably not going to venture too far from the protected olympic venues. they are spread out in two locations, one the ring the steel where we are now around the main stadiums and the other about 30 miles from here up in the mountains. both are protected by about 40,000 russian security forces, drones, metal detectors, but still, russia says that militants from the north caucasus islamist terrorist groups are determined to try to carry out some sort of attack to disrupt the games. richard engel, nbc news, sochi.