the, the, you're watching dw news live from berlin joined by the in the cues. as donald trump of planning and assault on democracy. the us president launches, he's re election campaign saying he's likely challenge it uses the same language as nazi germany will have analysis from washington also coming off the head of the us national rifle association, resigns, just days before a corruption trial is due to wiping wayne lapierre. is accused of taking billions of dollars to pay for lavish travel, parked the

general grade. thank you for your company. us president joined by that and has kicks dodge and he's been for re election license this year with his harshest attack. yeah, it's on his likely challenge of donald trump by didn't want that trump poses a grave danger to american democracy, accusing him of echoing and nazi germany and seeking revenge. and retribution bought in was speaking 3 hughes off to the january 6 us capital attack. trump was being paid started with the riot, but then acquitted for the democracy. still, america said could cause is the most urgent question of our time. that's what the 2024 election is all about. choices, claire donald trump's campaign is about him, is not america, not you sound trump campaign is obsessed with the past,

not the future. he's willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power. our campaign is different. in his pole is the double use washington bureau chief, i asked her why president biden has now put donald trump front and seem to all his re election campaign obviously really has changed that approach and one, alan could expect that the president, the sitting president, would highlights of achievements of his 1st came to term and to really bite and has to show up for something, for example, for the infrastructure a bill which is aiming to repair the nation's infrastructure. then he also assigned a comprehensive gunning safety bill in response to these horrible mass fluid things . but jared, the problem is all these accomplishments. they don't really resonate with a spring board or smoke even of as democratic water. so a bite and has to find and also that is a promo rates are at an all time low. and that's why him and obviously is campaign

managers are focusing on raleigh, a reading, sorry, against a trump. they hope that voters will see this elections as not just about political strategies by the about democracy itself, being a spite and put a democracy, being on the ballot. he just pulled it will. donald trump has heat back at that criticism from joe biden. he to choose the president of c, amman, green barton's record is an unbroken streak of weak dish, incompetence, corruption, and failure. other than that he's doing quite well as, and they don't sell him or less as the hell of a list, right? so that's why i took the jo is stage you use pathetic feel monitoring campaign event in pennsylvania today? did you say i me was stuttering through the halls. i gaze got up. i got a, he's a threat to democracy. well,

the us supreme court has agreed to hear donald trump's appeal against being bod, from the republican primary ballast in the state of colorado. now, the state previously ruled trump was disqualified from standing for engaging in insurrection, either the january 6th attack on the us capital. by his support is the supreme court justices have indicated they will fast track a decision. the case has major implications for the upcoming presidential election . in other news, the head of the us national rifle association has resigned to just days before the start of a corruption trial wind lock. he blamed health worries for his decision to stand down, often more than 3 decades. the n r a n lafayette face trial in new york and next week on corruption charges. lapka is accused of taking millions of dollars from the gun rights organization for pucks, including safari trips and private chit flights. i'd like to welcome to

stevenson. he's a professor at the south texas college of law or in houston, texas. welcome to dw, you. tell us how significant is this resignation from wine lafayette as well. it has significance both for the organization and for the upcoming trial. the main, one of the most important remedies that the government to seeking in the trial is actually his removal from his position of leadership. and so in a sense, he has pre empted that by stepping down. so could change the dynamic at the trial in terms of the organization. he has certainly we need it in his image in the last few decades. and there's a lot of soul searching going on right now. new. i'm alternative groups have sprung up. they've lost a lot of numbers and i expect that there is going to be a power struggle in the coming weeks to see who really takes the helm. there has

been a temporary director interim director of the step into take his place. but, and i think that there's given the history of the organization, there's probably some factions that are buying right now for control of the future of the organization. very interesting. could you just walk us through the case against wayne lafayette, who as you say, is a hugely influential of a policy figure in terms of guns as a legal professional, what do you make of the case as well? i think the cases solid um, in the united states with uh for the tax exempt or organizations are in g o's. and that's what the n r a claims to be. there are restrictions on how much they leaders can use the contributions that the members make or the money, but basically to enrich themselves. it's not like a regular corporation. and so when the peer has and other leaders have um,

a history of lavish spending on the trips and clothes and parties and other types of things like that that are very questionable. it would be questionable with a for profit corporation. but what happens is the government can actually step in when it's in n g o or a non profit and, and ask a court to do something to either. do they originally asked them to dissolve the corporation? the entity they doesn't look like that's going to happen, but they can ask them to remove the leaders to buying the leaders and so forth. um, this is often being done by the state attorney general and the state where it's incorporated. sometimes the federal government with the tax revenue service will get involved in the matter like this material, but they haven't right now. would like to look a little bit more broadly. now the us, as we know it has

a complex relationship with guns. that's something that's often difficult for people elsewhere like here in europe to fully garage us. could you just explain the influence of the n o ray and its impacts on us policy and politics? so the current problem is part of american culture. it always has been the country, it was sort of founded through conquest and of a native tribes and lands and so forth. in guns were a huge part of that. so guns have always been part of the culture and we like a lot of countries. we have a big political gap between rural and urban voters, but in terms of the n r a. starting in the seventy's, they became much more politically active. they teamed up with a very aggressive marketing company called ackerman mcqueen. and in sort of re shaped american politics. and so they had the ability to, if

a politician voted for something they didn't look like they could really impose a political cost. and a lot of times a person would lose a re election bid the next time. and so they were widely fear and in washington dc, they had an amazing ability in their pay day, let's say in the 1990s to, to mobilize millions of their members to call their congressmen and represent the senators and representatives and so forth to ask them to vote against or for a bill according to what the n r a wanted. the n r a has had kind of an open door at the white house for a lot of the republican presidents and so forth. so they've really had a lot of influence, and at this point, the parties used to be bi partisan. but in recent, in the last 7 or 8 years, the republican party is heavily affiliated with the and dependent on the n. r a.

and the democrats are not, and so it's become a very blessed a partisan issue. injury. it seems that when, if it is a master you're seeing in the us, we hear very quickly coles for full. it's in pres and, and very little in the way of substantive change given this, you know, entrenched, gone, cold, so that you've just described. can it be any difference ever as well? i don't think that there's one easy solution to the problem, but there are lots of measures that we can take that we have taken that have made some difference and other things that we could do. for example, requiring background checks for private guns, sales, extreme risk protection, orders, things like that that can really make a difference. we have some big gun rights cases pending before our supreme court right now. and i expect that this term we're going to get some clarification. there

was a decision in 2022 that really created a lot of confusion in our legal system about the meaning of the 2nd amendment, our constitutional rights, and so forth. and we're going to get some clarification this term, and then that will give a kind of a roadmap to states about what types of regulations they can in that there's a lot of different ways to approach it. you can approach who's allowed to sell the guns or by the guns where guns are allowed to be carried and used and so forth. and so, or what types of people are disqualified from owning guns permanently. and, and so we're going to get some clarification from the supreme court about that and in, and in the wake of that i expect a flurry of new legislation. me. thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us and explaining everything. so really that's professor drew stevenson from the south texas college of law. thank you so much. thank you for having

a. so let's take a look now at some of the stories to making headlines today. us secretaries dice asked me blinking has arrived in turkey, kicking off a week long visit to the me, the lease to region. he's visit. com is that the us, it tries to contain to israel how most of or fearing that it could spread into a wider conflict. attacks in labor and on a new ron, have stock stores concerns. south korea's defense ministry says that north korea 5 more than $200.00 artillery shells on friday, and they are disputed. the islands controlled by the south residents were evacuated to bomb shelters. sol said they would know military or civilian casualties. the indian navy says it's foiled. the hijacking of a merchant ship off the cost of somalia $21.00 crew members were rescued from the on the identified pirates. india has been patrolling the region in response to

attacks on the shipping in the red sea by humans who the rebels will south african athlete or skippy story as has been released from prison on parole. the former lean peak and power olympic run out has so if newly non use of a 13 year sentence for the mid or off his girlfriend model resisting, kept, he maintains that he missed ok for an intruder. low t exit for a paralympic star turn. murder, oscar for story is released from this prison near pretoria, was largely kept away from the media spotlight. the story is banned from speaking to the press until the end of his parole and it expires in december 2029. until then, he faces restrictions on when he can leave his home. his doris must also attend classes on anger, management, and violence against women. a breach of these conditions could land him behind bars

again. his story is what convicted of murdering his girlfriend reverse dean camp on valentine's day, 2013. he shot her 4 times through a bathroom door and his home. the story is claimed he mistook steam count for a burglar, but prosecutor say he killed her with intent during an argument. members before the murder, the former athlete and double s u t, was a national hero, nickname the blade runner for his prosthetic legs. his story is overcame a condition he was born with to become a champion sprinter. now after serving 9 years of a 13 year sentence, the disgrace pearlin p, and is living here with his uncle, according to local media. in a statement ahead of his release, rebus team camps. mother said that she accepted the court's decision, but that there can never be justice. she added quotes, we who remain behind are the ones serving

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