he issued a report after report condemning the nra. his law partner edgar lee masters wrote to franklin roosevelt and said this is a huge mistake. you don't want darrow. as only a poet can put it and i will probably get it wrong, he is going to saying the nra which will die and that is exactly what happened. masters was right. others things he said in the letter were not right. maybe oversold the case. but darrow did fanged the nra and give birth to what scholars call the second new deal. but darrow is not a libertarian. he believed government had an important role. in improving the lives of working people. context is very important. his experience with the federal government going back to the 1880s was one in which there was trouble or a fight over working people, which side of the federal government to come in on. they send in the national guard and start shooting workers and the strike is over. everyone went back to work. darrow witnessed how the federal government was and that always an ally of average people. when he saw the new d

the nra hasn't won the close the gun show loophole.at the nra's a bigger motivator on capitol hill than al qaeda. >> i'm hoping that watching this they'll certainly realize we are dealing with a potential threat. again to be very honest with you any law-abiding citizen or anybody that's mentally stable are still going to be able to buy their guns. but we are trying to stop those that shouldn't be buying guns. i think that has always been the goal. take the guns away as far as those that shouldn't have them. the nra i hope is listening to this. have seen these tapes because it is a real threat. it is a homeland security threat for this country and for all americans. >> i know that since the wake of the tucson massacre, the gabby giffords assassination attempt getting the high ammunition clips banned once again. one of those was used in that shooting. how's that going? >> we are still collecting signatures. we have still not gotten unfortunately one republican. it's almost like a message has been sent out to all members of congress from

there's nothing out there except a few single-interest groups-- nra, pro-life, pro-choice-- there's nothing out there except corporation. auto dealers are out there organized, insurance agents are out there organized, connected to washington and their patron companies. so the biggest secret of democracy is not just that it can work, it's that it doesn't take that much effort by a small number of organized people who reflect broad public sentiments. who reflect broad public sentiments. it may be passive in a lot of people, but that's what i did with the auto safety. >> hinojosa: okay, but i'm sure that people are watching this and they're saying, "well, ralph nader, we actually saw that in this country with the election of president barack obama. there was a movement that wanted change, and some people might say this was, you know, a hopeful change. it actually brought in a change. >> yeah. >> hinojosa: you're incredibly frustrated by president obama. >> well, first of all, he has no organized base. i mean, he got a lot of small contributions, but he also raised, more than any presidential c

the nra, the tva, the agricultural adjustment act, the wagner act, works progress administration, housing bills, revenue act and court reform. even on social security he voted only present. and in a veiled attack on fdr, he even warned of home grown dick dictatorship. and yet tidings was completely aware of the president's extraordinary popularity and also insisted that he embraced the bones of the new deal. so fdr entered maryland on labor day weekend before the maryland primary and gave speeches for the challenger, liberal democrat davy lewis. as for tidings, fdr never pronounced his name. he told crowds only that any politician had the right to be liberal, conservative and even reactionary. but, he said, the nation cannot stand for the confusion of having him pretend to be one and act like the other. well, what finally happened? george, tidings, south carolina senator smith and the other conservative incumbents all won their primary contests and won re-election too. roosevelt managed to defeat only one conservative; john o'connor, the congressman from new york and chairman of the power

i knew about the historical issues around the north with the nra, north resistance army but this is the raised money for them and helped them to build their dormitories and schools. it's more like a village. it's more like a community, where these children soldiers have no families, in some ways adopted by the community. you know, they try to take young teen years but we're talking about 8-year-olds, sometimes even younger who have been forced into war, trained as soldiers who have been forced many times to kill their parents or relatives or their friends. >> i had to shoot two of them, and then shoot three and then the other one shoot four. >> some of the stories are really difficult, and a lot of them are suffering obviously nightmares, post traumatic stress and different things. one boy i interviewed and he doesn't like to be alone. he likes to be able to dance or if he sits still he has to think. the counselors slowly say over the few years it should be empty. how do you reconcile when you have someone to revisit or go back to their families or village where they were forced to or k

. >> andy, let me read you something from the nra lobbyist marion hammer.ors to be doctors and give us medical care. instead they're trying to be social workers and bring their gun ban politics into the examining room. andy, you say some of notes that these doctors take can help you in crime solving. >> well, absolutely. you know, investigators always have to try and get physicians' notes if there was a gun crime that they responded to or something that turned into a homicide and they have to subpoena those records. therefore there needs to be good records. i'm sure physicians would be concerned about liability issues if there were certain restrictions. law enforcement does not want doctors to have to go into a written medicine protocol. law enforcement needs to access in order to present cases and keep the public safe, really. >> doctor evans, is this about bringing gun politics into the examining room? >> i don't think so. the national physicians alliance doesn't have a position on guns one way or the other. this is really more about safety and about the

at the time the nra said he's pro gun control and they repeated those objections. >> the national rifleiation, the pro-gun lobby as we say here in washington. jeanne, thanks very much. >>> the u.s. now in talks with the taliban in afghanistan, but can the obama administration be certain of who it's really dealing with? plus, a closely watched speech by syria's president sparking a fresh wave of protests. details of what he said about the deadly unrest sweeping syria. plus, the first lady and the first daughters arrive at their first stop on an important and symbolic overseas trip. e you 15% or more on car insurance? host: what, do you live under a rock? man: no way! man: hey rick check this out! anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save 15% or more on car insurance. right now, go to priceline for a sneak peek at recent winning and better than ever! hotel bids to find where you n save up to 60% on hotels. * we'll even email you other people's winning bids, so you'll know what price to name. *á with new hotel bid alerts, from priceline. ♪ yeah ♪ [ male announcer ] if you find yourself between a

i would be interested to hear this.he nra's stance on obviously, we can all have a nuclear weapon top our government in check. you mentioned at&t earlier. the phone network or electrical grids. even the anti-virus software -- the government can put cookies on your computer and the virus companies are not allowed to take them off. host: daniel gallington? guest: let me respond. first of all, the quote from " the post" sort of addresses this. we've always had a recognition of the difference between intelligence activities and operations in this country. those are activities and operations which are designed to find out things, as opposed to military operations and things, which are designed to address traditional -- more traditional military threats. i think the quote you read from "the washington post" says that in so many words. in cyber warfare, we have both of those things. we have the need to find out. we have legitimate intelligence activities that we need to carry on to find out. we also have -- we will have or may have situations where we need to take action. essentially, that'

the nra is totally irrational. they are against trucking the guns of probable terrorists after 9/11. -- tracking the guns of public terrorists after 9/11. they did nothing. they dumped it on president obama. i am not sure i would put it that way. administration initiated some of the projects to help the mexican government track the weapons with the agencies. to counteract some of the violence. it has been going on. a lot of strides have been made. it is obviously a difficult problem to resolve. host: kittyhawk, n.c., gloria is on the republican line. caller: my question is about the spillover from the drug cartels in mexico to our cities and the gangs. everyone knows the game members -- de- members -- gang members have these illicit arms and nobody does anything about it. we have pictures of them holding these things. the cops in the cities know who they are and do nothing. i would like to have someone tell me why that is true. guest: the spillover has been talked about, especially in border states. there is a lot

i would be interested to hear this.he nra's stance on obviously, we can all have a nuclear weapon to keep our government in check. you mentioned at&t earlier. the phone network or electrical grids. even the anti-virus software -- the government can put cookies on your computer and the virus companies are not allowed to take them off. host: daniel gallington? guest: let me respond. first of all, the quote from " the post" sort of addresses this. we've always had a recognition of the difference between intelligence activities and operations in this country. those are activities and operations which are designed to find out things, as opposed to military operations and things, which are designed to address traditional -- more traditional military threats. i think the quote you read from "the washington post" says that in so many words. in cyber warfare, we have both of those things. we have the need to find out. we have legitimate intelligence activities that we need to carry on to find out. we also have -- we will have or may have situations where we need to take action. essentially, t