for years members of the national rifle association and others have criticized the u.n. arms trade treaty arguing it cedes u.s. sovereignty to a global body they believe that threatens the second amendment or the right to bear arms and shrine in the us constitution we will never allow foreign her right. to trample on your second amendment freedom trumps latest announcement further entrenches his america first platform he's been in acting since taking office already withdrawing the united states from unesco the paris climate accord as well as the joint comprehensive plan of. action to live in iran's nuclear program the president feels that the international system is biased against the united states and we don't need it so therefore we shouldn't be bound by these treaties because they hurt us more than other countries democratic members of congress are criticizing president trump's decision to withdraw from the treaty they accuse him of kowtow to america's powerful gun lobby or putting lives at risk around the world kimberly health and al-jazeera the white house or u.s. c

courtroom argued that somehow maria bootless activities with the national rifle association had somehow harmed the political process of the united states significantly they argued that by being an unregistered lobbyist and working behalf on behalf of the russian government inside the national rifle association that she was in severe violation of u.s. law and had somehow harmed to the u.s. political system and done a great deal of damage now the judge did then hand down a sentence of eighteen months in federal prison now nine months of that will be time served that will be the time that she's been held since she was initially arrested so only nine months remaining in federal prison and then after that time she will be deported from the united states back to russia now what's interesting is that maria bhutto was swept up in the aftermath of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential elections in which talk of russian agents and russian meddling and russian subversion seemed to be quite widespread there was quite an atmosphere of fear and in that atmosphere she was swept up and it appears that n

political process that somehow by by her interactions with the national rifle association that it's alleged that somehow she harmed the u.s. political process and gauged in influencing in ways that were inappropriate and was doing so on behalf of the russian government she was swept up in hunts for alleged russian agents following the twenty sixteen presidential election now it's also important to note that she made a rather emotional appeal in court calling for her freedom and saying basically very emotional statements on her behalf saying she would very much like to be freed and describing the ordeal that she has been through so from what we understand at this point the judgment has been ruled there will be no appeal she will serve the remaining nine months of an eighteen month sentence and then be returned to the russian federation. artist kim up in reporting live from new york thank you for bringing us the latest on that breaking news. we'll continue our breaking news coverage of maria in the sentencing right after this short break. even. on due diligence to pursue class as i live it he

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the national rifle association convention in indianapolis, that is where president trump will be delivering his third keynote address just moments from now. before he left the white house last hour though, the president sharing a message for the 2020 democrats about his own youth. first though, controversy and former vice president joe biden wasting no time finding each other on the very same day the democratic frond rt runner announced his white house bid, anita hill say his amends did not go far enough. we'll talk all things 2020 including a conversation with one of the candidates, congresswoman actugabbard will me. but we start with vice president's campaign barely 24 hours old, democrats criticizing his donors and his record. president trump criticizing

governor gavin newsome started lashing out at the president for the president's speech at the national rifle association's convention and as our capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala tells us the governor said to the president's favorite battleground twitter. >>to launch his attack. >>as president trump took the stage at the nra convention in indianapolis governor gavin newsome took to twitter to criticize him the president pledged his commitment to preserving gun rights and i'm a champion for the second amendment and so you it's not going anywhere. under assault. but not when we're here newsome fired off a round of tweets on gun violence statistics, intel 3 of the deadliest mass shootings in modern american history, like the 2017 las vegas shooting happened within the last 2 years the governor tweeted this is a crisis and rather than attempting to solve the issue our leaders are raising money for those who block common sense gun legislation,

for years members of the national rifle association and others have criticized the u.n. arms trade treaty arguing it cedes u.s. sovereignty to a global body they believe that threatens the second amendment or the right to bear arms and shrine in the us constitution we will never allow a foreigner approach. to trample on your second amendment freedom trumps latest announcement further entrenches his america first platform he's been in acting since taking office already withdrawing the unite. it states from unesco the paris climate accord as well as the joint comprehensive plan of action to live in iran's nuclear program the president feels that the international system is biased against the united states and we don't need it so therefore we shouldn't be bound by these treaties because they hurt us more than other countries democratic members of congress are criticizing president trump's decision to.

this is the national rifle association annual meeting in indianapolis. the president is returning to washington later today. he will welcome the prime minister of japan, shinzo abe, coming to the white house this evening. he is back on the road tomorrow traveling to green bay for a rally there. we will have live coverage of that tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ announcer: music you are hearing, the crowd is waiting. everybody is set. president trump and vice president pence are set to speak shortly to the national rifle association meeting in indianapolis. the president returns to washington later to welcome japanese prime minister shinzo abe. later today, the president of anerao bread will -- p bread will be speaking about business. live here shortly, the president and vice president speaking to the nra. gentlemen, please welcome, the executive director for your institute for legislative action, chris coxe. [applause] >> we take a backseat to no one, not only when it comes to also when it comes to security. >> we sure as hell weren't afraid of hillary clinton. >

for years members of the national rifle association and others have criticized the u.n. arms trade treaty arguing it cedes us sovereignty tool global body they believe that threatens the second amendment or the right to bear arms and shrine in the us constitution we will never allow a foreigner approach. to trample on your second amendment freedom trumps latest announcement further entrenches his america first platform he's been acting since taking office already withdrawing the united states from unesco the paris climate accord as well as the joint comprehensive plan of action. i live in iran's nuclear program the president feels that the international system is biased against the united states and we don't need it so therefore we shouldn't be bound by these treaties because they hurt us more than other countries democratic members of congress are criticizing president trump's decision to withdraw from the treaty they accuse him of kowtow to america's powerful gun lobby or putting lives at risk around the world kimberly health and al-jazeera the white house. a u.s. cour

making moves to pull the us out of international arms treaty telling supporters at the national rifle associationthe agreement is badly misguided and saying the second amendment will be safe on his watch. richardson has more on the big decision, good to have you with us. >> donald trump unveiled a pro-gun policy before a largely pro-trump group, the president announced to the national rifle association convention he is pulling the united states out of an international arms treaty. >> we're taking a signature back, the united nations will soon receive a formal notice that america is rejecting this treaty. >> with that donald trump begins a process to formally withdraw the united states from the arms trade treaty, inanition national agreement designed to relate weapons exports. president obama signed it though the senate never ratified it. >> we will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your second amendment freedom and that is why my administration will never ratified the un arms trade treaty. >> reporter: nancy. he responded, quote, leading the arms treaty that limits global trafficking

a shake up at one of the most powerful lobbying groups, i'm talking the national rifle association.ations president after serving less than a year. north was locked in a power struggle with the long-time ceo wayne lapierre. polo, what more have we heard on this? >> reporter: this speaks to a

that's what president trump told supporters at the national rifle association convention today, with's thet. they are looking into what 2020 democrats are saying about guns. >> gun owners versus democrats, a familiar theme from the president playing to his base at the national rifle association convention in indianapolis. president trump: far left radicals in congress, they want to take away your voice, your jobs, your rights, and they especially want to take away your guns. >> we will bring a fight to the nra like they have never, ever seen before. >> democrat presidential hopefuls have been pushing for gun control with senators cory booker and kamla ma harris in competition to be the most outspoken on the issue. >> i'll give the united states congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws and if they fail to do it then i'll take executive action. >> frontrunner joe biden in 1986 voted for the firearm owners protection act and as vice president, spearheaded the assault weapons ban. now he says he's for sensible gun control. >> the

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for years members of the national rifle association and others have criticized the u.n. arms trade treaty arguing it cedes u.s. sovereignty to a global body they believe that threatens the second amendment or the right to bear arms and shrine in the us constitution. we will never allow foreign her right. to trample on your second amendment freedom trumps latest announcement further entrenches his america first platform he's been in acting since taking office already withdrawing the united states from unesco the paris climate accord as well as the joint comprehensive plan of action to live in iran's nuclear program the president feels that the international system is biased against the united states and we don't believe it so therefore we shouldn't be bound by these treaties because they heard us more than other countries democratic members of congress are criticizing president trump's decision to withdraw from the treaty they accuse him of kowtow to america's powerful gun lobby putting lives at risk around the world kimberly health and al-jazeera the white house still ah

filming with hidden cameras inside america's national rifle association. the only to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy. good entrenching a political party from a straight as they seek millions of dollars from the us come i'll be right through and million dollars a week when he should wash say to the sheriff. in secretly recorded meetings the one nation political party promises to reverse a stranger's junk control has. gone charge that people are going to be lookers further go truck have them go to. the truck or some you know it will or must be stopped. and. the other said monday does nothing. i say even beneficial i want to take steps in the right directions because the biggest i mean we don't get ourselves or look at us for what it is a bigger shift. when the work of that. one nation learns from the us gun lobby how to sew limits each johnston to. top that off that's what the n.r.a. very well. and how to smear supporters of gun control by choosing them of exploiting a message of. still very insular as children of the book of job is. still below jack

>>the national rifle association is fighting that move. >>for congresswoman debbie dingell reauthorizing and expanding the violence against women act is personal but i know what it's like. >>to live in a household someone that has issues that can snap and a minute's notice. and suddenly the gun is pointed at your mother. >>the law was first passed in 1994 to provide support and protection for victims of domestic abuse, it also allows law enforcement to confiscate guns from men who abuse their wives were domestic partners senator amy says the law needs to be expanded to dgerous boyfriends. dangerous husband's the bill wi representatives but the national rifle association which strongly opposes the changes. it's focusing their efforts on getting senate republicans to kill the new provisions. >>amy hunter, a spokesperson with the nra says the proposal is a thinly veiled gun control to a young politician with a democrats like nevada congressman steven horsford say the nra is ignoring the victims they're more interested. >>with protecting that

thirty year old maria was found guilty of trying to influence the national rifle association and other conservative groups in the u.s. several americans involved in politics were suspected to be involved in the case as well. i have reasons to if she's not the main goal of the circumstances she had to put in was to break the will and forces to really acknowledge something she might not have done. trying to save face to grab her seized her put her behind bars but there is nothing they can charge her with and to avoid looking ridiculous they sentenced her to eighteen months just to show she is guilty of something. we spoke to maria and his lawyer about the case and the precedent he believes it may set. i think it's impossible to separate from from the politics i think that there is a an underlying crime that he pled guilty to which you can make out under u.s. law but i think the notion of this would have been investigated or an arrest would have been made for a typical foreign national who wasn't russian and wasn't in the car environment where in the u.s. i think it's almost impossible to

and killed by their partner every year so campaigners want to close the loophole but the national rifle association sees that as infringing on gun owners rights and so wants it friends in congress to block reauthorizing the act but we don't consider any of these provisions in gun control or about guns at all we know that of a woman is shot by an abusive male partner every sixty hours you know so that's every day.

political process that somehow her behavior with the national rifle association had somehow influenced the you us political process in appropriately on behalf of the russian government that she was operating as a foreign agent doing so without having registered and somehow harming the united states now it's important to note that she was swept up in the aftermath of the two thousand and sixteen presidential election in which there seemed to be quite a sweep going on by federal officials looking for russian agents alleged russian agents individuals that could be charged with being russian agents and this was in response to the allegations that there was somehow russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election now before her sentence was handed down those in the courtroom her rather emotional speech from bhutto herself in which she talked about the fact that she did not enter the united states as an agent she entered the united states simply as a student and that she had come here with purely good intentions she described the ordeal that she's been through how her family has suffered h

treaty approved by his predecessor rock obama's trump told members of the pro-gun group the national rifle association that he would be informing the united nations of the move toward the agreement regulates the trade in conventional methods for a series a russian woman who admitted to secretly infiltrating the us political groups or the kremlin has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison or will be deported to russia after her jail term you know was the leader of a small russian gun rights group and used her ties to the national rifle association to build a network of powerful republican contacts. a major summit is underway in beijing as china shows off the expansion of its key infrastructure projects known as the belt and road anish leaders from some thirty seven countries are discussing this gigantic project with china's president. launched five years ago it's set to boost trade between china and the world there are concerns though that the project could lead to a market monopoly by china but it is an ambitious initiative a massive infrastructure project which aims to connect asia to europe and

pence will address the nra. >> "new york times" reporting there is a faction within the national rifle association the group is getting too political, losing sight of its purpose, defending the second amendment. the president and vice president address the national convention in indianapolis. now, this is video from last year. trump is the first president to address the nra convention since reagan. trump has not always been a fan. this is after the shootings at stoneman douglas high school. >> i'm the biggest fan of the second amendment. many of you are. i'm a big fan of the nra. i had lunch with them and said it's time. we've got to stop this nonsense. it's time. >> half of you are so afraid of the nra. there's nothing to be afraid of. if they're not with you, we have to fight them every once in a while. that's okay. >> he has since changed his tune. he supported the ban on bump stocks, the biggest change to gun laws in decades. >>> rod rosenstein speaking out for the first time since the mueller report telling a group of lawyers, quote, the reason i stood there with a deadpan expression is i was

announcer: c-span is live now in indianapolis at the national rifle association annual meeting where we will hear from vice president mike pence and president trump. this morning, president trump spoke to reporters at the white house. here is what he had to say. i am not allowed to comment on the new gdp numbers until about 10 or 15 minutes from now, so i will not comment on that. veryountry is always doing well in every respect. well., we are just doing we are knocking it out of the park, as they say, and we are very happy about that. we did not pay money for auto. there was no money paid. there was a fake news report that money was paid. i have not paid any hospice. we don't pay money for hostages. otto case was a very unusual case, but i just want to let you know that no money was paid for otto. i never told don mcgann to fire mueller. if i wanted to fire mueller, i would've done it myself, it's very simple. i had the right to. he frankly, whether i did or did, we had the absolute right to fire mueller. and i didn't do it. i am a student of history. i see what happens when you fir

it begins a tomorrow. >>> happening today, board members for the national rifle association will meetit will not serve and second term. oliver north announcement came after a bitter fight with the executive chairman. he was accused of trying to drive him out of the organization. wedding to words, he threatened to release damaging information about him and the nra. >>> locally, lawmakers and people who support strict gun laws gathered together to discuss gun safety. they gathered yesterday up into here from california congressman jared huffman. the democratic lawmakers talked about what is being done in washington to make schools and public places safer. thompson offered a bill passed in the house on february that would require federal criminal background checks on all done sales. >> we are now hearing that students at all it levels are worried and anxious about the possibility of a shooting in a school. we know that parents and family members are. we know that community members are. anything we can do to address these issues, i think is important. >> he is the chairman of the house gu

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court has jailed a russian agent for eighteen months for conspiring to infiltrate the national rifle associationand gun rights group prosecutors say the thirty year old marina between attempting to influence american conservatives and sway the government's policies to favor moscow should be deported to russia after completing her sentence. a caravan of three thousand central american migrants has been broken up by immigration officials in southern mexico the action appears to sing in a shift in policy away from providing humanitarian support towards a tougher approach more in line with the demands of the u.s. president on iraq and i reports now the mexican states of. the central american migrants are being chased by mexican immigration agents in coordination with federal police immigration officials now appear to be adopting a more aggressive approach toward migrants tearing through mexico's southern border . but as some i don't know is traveling from us she and her family ramon a group of thousands of central american migrants that was recently rounded up. they came and started rounding people

courtroom argued that somehow maria bootless activities with the national rifle association had somehow harmed the political process of the united states significantly they argued that by being an unregistered lobbyist and working behalf on behalf of the russian government inside the national rifle association that she was in severe violation of u.s. law and had somehow harmed to the u.s. political system and done a great deal of damage now the judge did then hand down a sentence of eighteen months in federal prison now nine months of that will be time served that will be the time that she's been held since she was initially arrested so only nine months remaining in federal prison and then after that time she will be deported from the united states back to russia now what's interesting is that maria bhutto was swept up in the aftermath of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential elections in which talk of russian agents and russian meddling and russian subversion seemed to be quite widespread there was quite an atmosphere of fear and in that atmosphere she was swept up and it appears that n