tv Anderson Cooper 360 CNN June 20, 2016 5:00pm-6:01pm PDT
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>> all right. thank you so much as always for joining us. done forget, can you watch "out front" ac 360 with john berman begins right now. good evening, john berman here in for anderson. it is the first evening of summered and there is a full moon out. the first time that's happened in more than 50 years. maybe that explains it. it begins with breaking news, new details ability donald trump's firing after a family intervention of the campaign manager whose mantra was let trump be trump. also with the zipthly rosie picture, this same campaign manager painted for cn's dana bash hours after getting the axe and the very different picture emerging of a candidate stuck in a primary mode in a campaign organization that barely seems to exist beyond twitter and trump, himself. in a moment, will you hear at
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length was cory lewandowski. jim, more and more details as the day emerges. what's the late northwest. >> that's right, john, i spoke to a spain campaign source saying the firing of cory lewsandows ski is a good choice. they had been fighting over control of the campaign can make long overdue hiring decisions the source says to cover the massive ground operation hillary clinton already has in place. clearly, there was a level of disgust, john, that reached critical mass. we are old the family of ivan ka trump was not happy. i am told that paul manaford to trump it's either lewandowski or me t. question moving forward is whether trump, himself, can stay out of hot water, trump source
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themselves admit this. lewandowski used to say, let trump be trump. now more people say can anyone troll trump. >> a trump adviser resigned since mocking lewando youski on twitter. >> michael ka be caputo, he twed ding-dong the witch a dead. obviously, he was not a big fan of cory lewandowski was fired and this tweet was absorbed by the campaign, it was only hours until caputo resigned. he told me earlier today, john, he regrets that tweet. he calls it an uns unforced error. we should point out cpaputo were very happy to see leandowski be removed today. >> others talk about the irony
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because of something that took place on twitter. now, cory lewandowski's interview, dana bash got it. here's how it went. >> first from your perspective, what happened? why were you fired? >> i don't know. i don't know the answer to that. >> sources from the camp, from in and around the campaign have told us that they thought that you were feeding mr. trump's worst instinct in that, you know, he, one of your lines is, let trump be trump. right, but that if there was a plan in place, post-mooim primary, now that he is trying to pivot to the general, and he's the general, you would get on the plane and undercut his worst instinct? >> i would say, what vested interest would i have in doing that? >> i think the suggestion is it's just who you are. >> okay. look, if donald trump wins, that's good for cory lewandowski
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and the whole country. >> let's talk about paul manafort. i think it would be hard to say it was real there was not a lot of attention. what was the relationship with him? in there when paul first came in, he was going to manage the delegate process. then we were fortunate enough that we didn't need a delegate manager. since that time, palm and i have gotten along amazingly well. the media doesn't want to report that. he had his roles, wis he was going to oversee in the campaign. i had a very separate function, which included making sure mr. trump's schedule was accordingly, fundraising side of things. we divided things accordingly. we had a great relationship. there was no animosity between palm and i. the media doesn't want to report it. >> forgive me for being skeptical, it's hard to believe it was as rosie and happen as you are describing when there is so much talk object dysfunction. >> bringing in a professional like paul helped us grow ethe
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campaign. >> let's talk about mr. trump's family. my family and others here are report is that his children were very forceful in saying it's time for cory lewandowski to leave. does that surprise you? >> i can say i always had a great relationship with the family. i continue to do. so everybody has their own opinions. i think what you have is a transition in a campaign from a very successful, 37-state primary victory process, which was managed at a one-off level in a state or a multistate to look at the bicker picture. >> our understanding is ivanka trump's husband, gary kushner, was intimately involved in saying it's time for you, for cory to go. can you tell me about your relationship with him? >> i got a great relationship with jerry. he's helped us from the onset of having a better online presence, being aggressive in a good way
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of getting us to have a stronger social media presence. making sure we are posting our facebook page. he understands a different component than i understand. he is very good in that regard. he is good at moving the campaign forward in that regard. i think it's been a great relationship. i'm not sure where that's coming from. >> we have someone reporting that he found out you were planteding some not so nice stories about him. is that rue? >> my goal from this campaign at day one is to see mr. trump elected president of the united states. i have been brif leejed enough. >> you weren't trying to undermine him? >> what i want to do is get mr. trump to be the president of the united states. >> ivanka trump. >> a great asset to the campaign. >> would you be surprised if you heard she was not thrilled with the job you were doing? >> i don't think that's the case. i think ivanka is somebody that understands her father. she is a surrogate for the campaign. she has a connection with women and business executiveles. she's so polished, so
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professional. it's been an honor to work with her over the last 18 months. >> all right. dana bash joins us right now. besides the phenomenal questions. what struck you most about this interview? >> your words, not mine. >> look, it's definitely that at one point i said during the interview, people might be looking in on this interview saying, is he living on a different planet from the one we're all living in, where just a few hours ago, you were escorted out of trump tower and fired and you are not running the campaign that you say is so rosie and well run. so i think that is what struck me the most. it's also that he, you know, is returning. obviously, he did get fired today, but he lasted a very long time, longer than most people who are working in a campaign would last with a politician, especially one running for president. donald trump has been loyal to him. and incredibly so given the
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circumstances of him having a lot of trouble and being sort of a public face in a not so good way of the trump campaign in so many instances. >> dana, stick around. on the subject of family, donald trump, jr., appeared on bloomberg's with all due respect a short time ago. he did address the issue the role the family if firing cory lewandowski. >> again, what we were told, you three weren't out to get cory, your judgment was a change was required and you maid the recommendation to him, that's what made him decide? >> i think in many respects he was coming to that on his own. we were there to help augustment that and think it through. >> that was donald trump, jr. >> former new york council speaker patricia quinn. new york trump delegate john j. lavalle and conservative trump critic, tara setmayor.
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let me ask you outright, you were a drumpb supporter, do you think things will be better without cory lewandowski. >> 37 states won, record breaking numbers for mr. trump. for each battle, there could be a different general. i think that's what we're looking at here, it's like a relay race. cory ran hard. did well. we were successful. now it's time to gear up for the general. i think that's what we're looking at here. >> he got fired, a binary question. is the campaign better off with or without cory lewandowski. >> it's not hillary clinton 732 page staff campaign. this is 70 people. mr. trump runs a very lean, efficient and effective operation. you know, i believe that the campaign is going to do great. just like cory said. >> you like that? >> do campaign managers get fired when campaigns are doing well? >> they can.
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john kerry fired his campaign manager in 2003 when things were sort of up and down. at least the fundraising was going okay. hillary clinton ousted hers in february of 2008. but here's the key thing, this usually happens months earlier. theer going up for the general election should have started the day off trump clinched in early may. he has allowed sort of six weeks, you know, to go, to go by with the party sort of thrashing around, sometimes they're with him. sometimes they're not t. staff has not grown. hillary clinton is ahead of him in terms of fund raising and organization. in key states, you know, by a fairly large factor. she and her super pacs are on tv. they are all in right now. trump is nowhere. he's now going to be dealing with a one or two-day story off the great interview of sort of what happened with cory lewandowski, more unanswered questions. trump is going to scotland at the end of the week to clip a
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ribbon on a golf course. so i think you will see a lot of republicans saying, you know, what's going on. >> you are a lot of republican, right? you are a republican not supportive of donald trump, reince priebus, all we're reporting is he not only knew about this, he put his fingers on the scales to get him gone. as republicans got the reservations, do you have one fewer reservation as we sit here tonight? >> no, cory lewandowski should have been gone months ago after he put his hands on a reporter. that in and of himself should have warranted him being fired. trump went out to be so loyal, he brought him up on strategy and thanked him personally, put him right out front. so this is something most of us on the inside have watched unfold. since then this power struggle back and forth with paul
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manafort and cory lewandowski, who is a relative neophyte when it comes to campaigns. patrick was right, six, weeks, seven weeks of donald trump being the nominee. what has been the result? let's sigh, he is 77% unfavorables with women. 94% unfavorables with african-americans. he went after a judge who was born in indiana, calling him a mexican. even back to indiana, he insinuated that ted cruz' father was involved in the kennedy assassination. that i have no infrastructure at all in swing states. and guess what, hillary clinton has spent her super pacs have twen spent $27 million in ad campaigns in key states, donald trump spent zero. mit mount romney spent $38 million in the campaign before to get things going in swing states. welcome to a general election, donald trump, where have you been? >> that's where the family is reporting a. lot of that blame
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goes on cory lewandowski, christine quinn, you have been sitting here having a good day in general. my question is as a political professional, what about the loyalty cory lewandowski showed in that interview with da that bash. that is purely in the sense, when you hire people, you want them to stick with you beyond the end in some cases. >> i think cory looks kind of ridiculous, but as somebody who has run campaigns, i give him credit to fought burn the bridge. that is the way to act. >> that said, this happening now, it is not a thoughtful or a system mat tick firing at all t.gy was on the 8:00 a.m. call, fired. walked out about 10:00 a.m. this was not let's smooth this out and avoid this looking like everything is crumbling. i think what it shows is a lot about donald trump's standards
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and morals. it's okay if you putture han yo on a reporter. it's not okay if you let my poll numbers go down. it's all about donald trump at the end of the day. >> reince priebus, it's all about three weeks from now. >> it's almost late. it's so late. it's almost irrelevant. >> there is not one vote that will change in this election that revolves around cory lewandowski, that is not going to happen. >> does he have the point the structure? >> cory lewandowski's answers, it's incredible. it shows you the respect for mr. trump. >> i want to get him on the phone. >> i don't think so. i want to know what happens now. what happens over the next into days and weeks? trump will have no talk about it more. what does chris christy stay about it? smr i personally think it will not be so much about cory. it will be what does donald trump do when the next big story happens?
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how is he going to react? is it going to be different than it was with cory at the helm and him talking about a muslim ban, doubling down on that and making every republican i've talked to bananas crazy. i cannot believe this is happening. is he going to redouble his efforts to pick up the phone and raise money? is he going to help to build the infrastructure that he needs to hand in glove with the rnc in these swing states? meaning, his actions, basically, will speak for itself and see how different this is. >> we got to go. willie, let trump be trump. that itself the question. >> who is trump? >> which trump. we shall see. next, more on the trump children as well as his son-in-law, not just for the firing, but later the oral killer in his first words, his pledge of allegiance to isis and the firestorm when the fbi released transcripts of his 11 phone call, with that pledge edited out.
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lewandowski. on screen or off, family comes first. in this case, donald trump, jr., confirming the role he and the other trump children played in cory lewandowski's departure. more on their influence from cnn. >> he can do whatever he wants to do for the country. >> reporter: donald trump's children have been by the side since the start of his presidential bid. >> he is battle tested. he is a dreamer, but, programs, more importantly, he is a doer. >> reporter: his daughter ivanka and her husband jarrod kushner and sons donald, jr. and eric have quietly built up influence in the campaign. >> i want to thank my family. by boy eric and don, they have been working so hard. [cheers and applause ] >> i have aivanka and jared -- >> emerging behind the scenes as
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the top advisers. even though they are not officials members of the campaign can, weighing in on staffing decisions. the trump children, specifically ivanka an her children pushing for campaign manager cory lewandowski. they provide input on strategy, ivanka advised her husband to turn down his rhetoric. >> my father is very blunt, very correct. >> he is non-gender specific in his criminal of people and people that he doesn't particularly like or people that he does like but thinks they're wrong on a particular issue. >> reporter: trumps children have also stepped in to shape the policy profls and message. ivanka helped to write trump's remarks at the end of the primary season. >> i understand the responsibility of carrying the mant him and i will never, ever let you down. too much work, too many people. blood, sweat and tears.
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i'm never going to let you down. >> reporter: kushner and orthodoxed jew helped address the apec conference, trump's first speech using a teleprompter. >> i speak to you today as a life long supporter and true friend of israel. >> reporter: kushner has been tapped to building a transition team should trump win the white house, a role typically reserved for the most seasoned political operators. >> jared is a very skefl successful real estate person. i think he likes politics more than real estate. i'm very excited. he's very good. >> reporter: trump's children have taken on real responsibility as the most effective surrogates. >> it's great hearing people to say, i haven't caucused in 15 years. i haven't caulk cullsed ever. >> reporter: in tv interviews. >> he's growing the republican party. he's growing the party. people should embrace that. the party should emprays that. ro headlines solo campaign
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events. >> you see my father, he fills up these arenas, 10, 20, 3030 people. just because there is a lot of those guys there, nothing means anything if you done show up and push the button. >> appearing in campaign buttons to turn out voters. cnn, walk. >> all right. one quick note before bringing in a member of our own political family. the man arrested for trying to grab a police officer's gun at a trump rally over the well, told authorities he intended to use it on trump. that is what a source in law enforcement is telling us. michael sanford is facing two federal counts up to ten years in prison if convicted. back to the trump family and cory lewandowski. chief political analyst, gloria borger. you have been on the phone call u all day, working your sources. it's a cliche families are involved, in campaigns, the campaign strategists will tell
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you too much often, boy, with the trump campaign, they are deeply involved. >> it's usually meddling, right, when a family gets involved. in this particular case, as someone was pointing out, this family are some of his top advisers. and in this particular case, you have i have avanka trump and he husband eric, emphatic a change kneeled at the top. the two brothers also agreed. i think their father actually listened to them on this. now, they are not the only ones. as janice has been reporting all day, asked cory about it directly, they're not the only ones who believe that cory lewandowski's management style wasn't workable. they think the two-headed monster between cory lewandowski and paul manaford weren't working and i had people say it became an issue of performance
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and by that, he meant, there is just a lot of things that were not getting done that you need to do in a broader, general election campaign and they're nervous about it. >> they talk, you heard the last seven weeks in the campaign since he locked up the nomination and what he hasn't done over those last seven weeks. you get a look at the sense the family was looking at that closely. >> he squandered, after indiana, donald trump had a great opportunity while hillary clinton was still talking about bernie sanders, he had an opportunity to unify the party with i he started to do. then he started to make mistakes and instead of reigning it in, he continued to make those mistakes and there were donors who were complaining ability i want. there were state organizations that were complaining about it. and this is a problem for a national candidate when you are talking about raising money to go up against the behemoth the clinton campaign, that has taken advantage of this squandered time by trump.
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>> a lot of disgruntled strategists in past campaigns is the real problem is you can't fire the candidate in certain situations. the issue here, cory lewandowski's mantra was let trump be trump. will pul manafort want trump to be trump. do his kids want trump to be trump? >> i think his kids would say to you, yeah, we want trump to be trump. oerns on the other hand, we heard him talk about ivanka saying you have to be presidential. i think they would like to see him reach out to a broader audience, which he has to do if he's going to win. look, everybody for trump 100%, we know they're there. they won't change. he has to appeal to independent vote. you see the polling he is losing some ground with independent voters. >> that hillary clinton is beating him hugely among women and that he's lost ground with men and he cannot afford to do
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that. so his children understand that in order to win, he has to broaden the base that he's got. this doesn't do it. by the way, this plays into hillary clinton's narrative, of course, that donald trump is as their campaign calls it, too risky or too dangerous to be president. right? >> all right. gloria borger, thank you so much. >> sure. >> donald trump has just spoken about the events of today the firing. we'll have that next. also ahead the fbi released a transcript of the gunman 911 calls, what do they reveal of the time line the semi automatic assault style rifle designed for u.s. special ops. randi kaye takes us to a shooting range to show us up close how powerful that rifle actually is. >>
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a little different style. >> you know in any campaign there is power, back stabbing, everybody is vying for your attention. do you care about that, office politic snsz do you care about any of that? >> well, it happens all over, you talk about office politics. it's all over. yeah, i think it does happen here, too. it happens everywhere. i'm pretty good at it. i pretty much see where it's going. >> we saw that on "the apprentice." >> it happens, it's a part of life. it's a part of business. the social fabric of life, in case we don't want to talk about it. but that's a part of life. >> donald trump tonight. today the fbi fumbling after shedding light on a time line of the orlando massacre and police response, 1st releasing redacted transcripts of the gunman's 911 calls in a three-hour standoff. there was a backlash and they released the unredacted transcripts. cnn correspondent pamela brown has the details.
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>> reporter: the gunman makes his first call to 911, 33 minutes after the first reports of gun fire at pulse nightclub. telling the operator in arab ig, plays ye to god and prayers as well as peace be on the prophet of god. he goes o on to say if english, i'm in orlando and i did shootings. he also pledges his allegiance to isis. >> we currently have no evidence that he was directed by a foreign terrorist group but was radicalized domestically. >> reporter: the gunman then spends around 28 minutes on the phone with hostage negotiators. at one point demanding america stop bombing syria and iraq. when the negotiator asks mateen what he had done, he responds, "you already know what i did." he later states, "in the next few days, you will see more of this type to have action going on." >> while the killer made these murderous statements, he did so in a chilling, calm and deliberate manner. >> reporter: the shooter also claimed he had explosives,
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claiming there are some vehicles outside that have him bos. just to let you know, he says, i'm going toic night it if they try to do anything stupid. later the gunman told the negotiator he had a vest and vooibd described it like the ones they used in france. he threatened he was going to put suicide vests on four victims t. s.w.a.t. team commander told cnn, that ramped up the risk for both civilians and first responders. >> we're way too close. if exploens pelosiives go off, we're all within a thousand feet. we all could be killed. >> reporter: no explosives were found t. partial police transcripts show at 5:14 a.m., shots were fired again a. minute later the gunman was reported down. today, officials defended their handling of the three-hour ordeal. >> our officers were w in the club within minutes and engaged the suspect in gunfire.
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that's important because that engagement and that initial entry caused him to retreat, stop shooting and barricade himself in the bathroom with hostages. so during that time, ourosiss were intermittently in and out of that club, saving people, rescuing people, from inside the club. >> reporter: so initially when this transcript was released today the words "i seiss" and al baghdadi" the leader of isis were omitted t. justice department said it did that to protect the victims and not feed into propaganda. there was backlash, paul ryan, speaker of the house said it was preposterous to omit those words and people deserve to know the terrorist group that inspired this gunman. so the justice department did an about-face and released the full transcript. people i've spoken to john, in the justice department were, frankly, surprised by the reaction. it certainly hit a nerve. joen. >> it did, indeed. all right, pamela brown, thank you so much.
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lots to talk about with cnn counterterrorism phil bud, a former official at the cia and chris boss, former fbi lead international kidnapping negotiator, you a of this of "never split the difference, negotiating as if your life depended on it" i want to start with you. law enforcement in florida peace a lot of questions about time line of events. did they go in quickly enough with these many people in this three-hour time line. now you' enthe transcripts, what itself your view? >> initial they had to deal with in the gening is a duty of care to the hostages that aren't shot. they got this guy barricaded. they think he's held up with hostages he hasn't shot yet. they don't want to be careful and move what i call a deliberate urgency and make sure they don't stumble in when they're not record. >> one of the things, they said more clearly is this quickly
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transitioned from an active shooter case to a hostage situation. so from close to the very beginning, they said they were dealing with this as a hostage situation. another thing that's floatable from this transcript, one of the first things out of this guy's mouth pledging allegiance to isis and no ambiguity with what he says out loud. >> that seems to be the purpose of the phone call to 911. >> that seals to be what he wants people to think. >> that's right. i think you will jump to a conclusion that says, now we know what his motivation was, after eight, nine days looking at a muddle of history, what happened in his childhood, violence with his family. questions whether he was on a gay dating apps. we will take one piece of evidence he knew would be publicized. you can read it at face value. he was committing himself to isis. or you could say especially since he never mentioned about the club, he had other motivations that he was less confident of, that he didn't
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want to reveal. motivations about why he was in that club. he chose the one most defensible, isis. i don't think this takes despite the clarity of his image much further down the road. >> it's clear. almost rehearsed when he called 911, what does that tell you, that he almost was running off a script at that early stage? >> he thought about it in advance. the other thing is communication is important. he never gave anybody a chance to interact with him. he was talking at people as opposed to with him. everything he did was calculated by time to kill more people. i agree with phil. this is one piece of information on this guy. quite frankly the guy hated himself in the world, more than anything es and wanted to add meaning to what was utterly otherwise. >> it may shed more light on what was going on in his head. to you first, explosives. he seemed to make clear with officials he had explosives.
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fro one found him. i have to believe that colored the decisions made over the course of time. for three hours, he thought law enforcement was going to blow things up. >> i don't understand the debate on this, john, a couple things might happen. law enforcement moves in. more people died than the 14 already murdered. people step back say why'd you move in so quickly? he might have been negotiating. he was calling you. why did you put so many lives at risk? the other thing is busy to the counterterrorism business. multiple explosives, somebody draws, law enforcement in with the first explosive, then destroys the lives of the first responders with the second explosive. fairly common in my business. so there is a lot going on here that says they made a good choice by not moving him too quickly, especially when he was indicating he didn't want to talk. >> a lot more still to be learned. thank you for helping us out here. just ahead, breaking news in the senate, four new gun control
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wake of orlando, back-to-back votes, the senate has rejected four new gun control measures to expand backgrounds checks and try to make it hard for people on terror watch lists to buy guns. tonight, investigators reveal they have videos of the shooter with a semi automatic assault style rifle he used in the massacre. in the video, investigators say he shot the mcx from the hip, not his shoulder. tonight randi kaye shows us the weapon up close. >> reporter: inside florida firearms academy in tampa, the lead instructor, kevin willes, is firing an mcx rifle. the same kind of rife tell shooter used in the pulse nightclub. it has only been on the market since last year and was originally designed for special operations forces. the industry refers to it as a modern sporting rifle. >> it's not that heavy. >> no, it's not. a lot of thought has gone into
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eliminating unnecessary weight on this. >> what does it weigh? >> depending on the configuration, i'd venture a guess of 5.7 to 6 pound. >> reporter: the military version is semi automatic. civilians purchase the semi automatic version. meaning it can only fire one bullet at a time. with each pull of the trigger, a new bullet reloads into the chamber. while many other rifles use gas to load the next bullet into the chamber t. mcx uses a piston design, too. >> benefits of the gas piston, it is a cleaner. you may feel a little less coil impulse. >> does it give the weapon more power or anything to the system? >> no, it doesn't. >> reporter: the mcx is able fire up to 3,000 pete per second. the sim as an identical muzzle and bullets. an experienced shooter can fire dozens of rounds per minute. >> i would say i can fire 30 rounds in a minute.
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because i would take my time. >> reporter: it offers a variety of barrel lengths. it has about the same power as an ar-15, assuming the barrel length is the same. it's more powerful than a 9mm handgun, like this ar-15 the mcx uses a 2-2-3 caliber bullet which moves in a way to cause maximum damage. >> when it hits its target, it tumbleles. i mean it enters an turns as opposed to going straight through. >> if this tumbles, it could tumble many times over or just once? >> situation dependent. >> after watching kevin fire the mcx, he invited my to see for myself what it feels like to fire this weapon. >> do you think i can handle it? >> i know you can handle it. >> first, he showed me how to load the bullet noose the magazine. >> just like that. perfect. insert the magazine. okay. then we're going to pull on it.
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make sure it's seated. then with our supporting hands, we're going to press. >> that chambers a round. >> reporter: the magazine holds 30 bullets. >> go ahead, bring this back a little bit. lean forward at the waist. just like that. >> i take aim and fire the mcx for the first time. >> all right. so now you fired one. go ahead and depres the trigger aga again. >> i was actually surprised at how easy it was to shoot. i mean, you pull the trigger, to hold it. to balance it. to see down the range. >> maintaining the shooting from trigger manipulation. you will engage your target. >> one word to describe how it felt to fire that mcx rifle is really intense. >> that much i can tell you. it was really amazing just the power of it. i have to to admit, i had to close my eyes the first time i fired it. i didn't know what to expect.
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it was incredibly easy to handle. it didn't have kick back or recoil. i didn't feel it hit me in the chest. i fired a 9mm years ago, that had much more kickback or recoil. john, i also brought along here tonight one of the bullets. this is the .233 caliber bullet used in the mcx rifle. this tumbles. it want to show you right here this bottom part flies away when it go es into the target. it's this very little tip that goes inside and tumbles around and causes all that damage, john. >> randi kaye, thanks so much. up next, a child's dyeing wish and how her family honored it. they think that it's sad. i think it's important for everyone to know that there is so much more to memory support than the stigmas you hearabout.
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was giuliana snow's fate song. she passed away at the age of five. hef mom, dad and brother arranged a funeral with all of her fate things. mourner decorated cupcakes and painted their nails. children played with her toys. >> you don't usually think of cupcake stations and nail polish stations, decorations and pink balloons for a funeral. >> she would sigh, why not? she loved, bright, fabulous, more is more, fun. >> reporter: every day giuliana wore one of these princess dresses. >> what princess are you today? >> cinderella. >> reporter: today we visited her last october, her nails were painted in pink and white polka-dots, despite her breathing mask, she sang other song for us. ♪ let it go ♪ >> elsa, anna, i forgive, are
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they cousins? >> they're sisters. >> oh, they're sisters. >> it's anna. >> i said anna, it's anna, i'm sorry. >> i forgive you. >> she forgives you. >> giuliana was dieing from a incurrable neuromuscular disease. she had a specific request to her parents. >> you blogged about it. let's take a look. >> giuliana, if you get sick again, do you want to go to the hospital or stay home? giuliana, not the hospital, me. even if they means you will go to heaven if you stay home? >> giuliana, yes. >> you know mommy and daddy won't go with you right away giuliana, don't worry, god will take care of me. >> reporter: she told her parents she hated the hospitaled. >> especially they stick a tube on a suction machine. you stick it up the nose, down past the tong, back into the
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throat as deep as can go, you start suctioning. if given the choice of me or one of the respiratory docs, she usually asks for me to do it. was that hard to othe? >> yes. >> could you watch her go through that again? >> if i had to do it, i would do it again. >> would it save her life if she were to get an infection? >> i don't think so. >> a year-and-a-half after giuliana made her wishes clear. she died, thought in a hospital room, but in her pink bedroom. >> she went not after a year of hospitalization. things got a lot easier for us when we started following her lead and listening what was in her heart. did it make ut happy to be home? >> i love all this stuff. >> she died having exactly where she wanted to die. >> reporter: her family says giuliana arrived in heaven on her terms. >> giuliana's disease was like a prison for her body. not her spirit. now that prison is broken up,
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giuliana can soar on angels' wings. >> reporter: giuliana's story has now become known to millions. she sparked a conversation about end of life decision-making for children, especially should children have a say if that decision-making, especially if they're young children. john. >> elizabeth coen, remarkable little girl. thank you so much. we'll be right back. network and the cloud. it's reliable uptime. and multi-layered security. it's how you stay connected to each other and to your customers. with centurylink you get advanced technology solutions, including an industry leading broadband network, and cloud and hosting services - all with dedicated, responsive support. with centurylink as your trusted technology partner, you're free to focus on growing your business. centurylink. your link to what's next. world saleilton is on honors members save up to 25% on brands like
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