an avid outdoorsman who played a role in his father building ties to the nra. >> they love the nra more than anyone i know. they are my sons. they are lifetime members. >> great to be here. these are our people. >> reporter: what we don't know is if this is just an effort by the special counsel to make sure they have checked all their boxes or if this is some deeper probe into the relationship between the trump campaign and the nra. the special counsel declined to comment ve comment. one thing notable is that president trump, when he received the written questions from the special counsel's team, he did not have a question about his relationship with the nra on that list. >> very, very interesting and intriguing. stay with us. shimon is with us as well. we're getting new details about this mystery company. a foreign-owned company. all of a sudden the u.s. supreme court is weighing in. >> 100% foreign-owned company. that's something we learned in the new filing today that was redacted. but we have been able to learn some information. one of the things that's most interesting -- and i'm o

the nra did not to. when president trump received this list they did not ask the president about his ties to the nra. >> all right. thank you so much. it is not surprising that the nra would get behind the republican nominee but they got behind donald trump very early. he used to support gun control. he supported the assault weapons ban. it is my impression they are a lot more skeptical that find religion on the road. like they would normally be cautious. they went all in for donald trump. >> i asked oliver north about this in october. they were very -- they were very -- yeah, they might have happened and might have somehowed up but completely hands off. now we know. we actual lly know it was. they are concerned about the funds. there were accusations of maybe $30 million is a huge funnel for money. it remains to be seen. nra hasn't been doing well financially over the last several years. they haven't been doing well in terms of membership as well. it could cat liez into membership members and real growt

nra trip and convinced the nra's president not to go.ron widen, who is investigating the trip, says that doesn't wash with him. >> it's just not credible to say that this was not an official trip. if you just look at the pictures, which have come out, it's got official trip written all over it. >> reporter: the house and senate intelligence committees are investigating because of concerns that russia may have been using the nra to support trump. >> we heard credible allegations that the russians may have been funneling money through the nra. yes, we wanted to pursue this. >> reporter: robert mueller's team has been asking recently about the trump campaign's ties to the nra during the campaign. a witness tells cnn they asked how trump wound up addressing the group in 2015. >> i love the second amendment. >> reporter: getting its endorsement in 2016. >> to get the endorsement, believe me, is a fantastic honor. >> reporter: tonight, the nra is making a distinction saying its board members, who it says are not nra staffers, went on the trip

any large sums of russian money that flowed to the nra, something the nra denies.e don't know if he is just covering all of his bases. the special counsel's office declined to comment. we should note when mueller posed a series of written questions to president trump, trump was not asked about the nra. back to you. >> thanks. michael cohen's testimony before congress next month will not include any topic that is under investigation. that is according to top republicans on the house oversight committee. they claim cohen's lawyer said the testimony would be unsatisfying and frustrating because so much is off-limits. that could mean that the president's former attorney won't discuss lying to congress about the trump tower moscow project or the payments made to women during the 2016 campaign for their silence. >>> the newest member of the committee that will question michael cohen is alexandria ocasio-cortez. the freshman democrat from new york is one of several young progressives to join the oversight panel which will be very active investigating the trump administrat

. >>> mueller is looking at trump's ties to the nra. the same connections to russia that have been under scrutiny in congress. plus the senate is about to vote on two bills as 800,000 workers are hours away from missing another paycheck. is it all for show in the student with the viral stare down with a native elder speaks out. let's go out front. good evening, i'm erin burnett. "out front" breaking news investigation, cnn learning mueller is digging into trump's ties to the nra. it's a significant development this hour. since we no ethe nra has been under scrutiny for months because of its ties to russians. the nra, the group spent $30 million on trump's campaign. >> that is a staggering number. it is more than the nra spent on all political races combined in 2008 and 2012. it's a love that trump returned. >> they're actually great people. >> this is an amazing group up. >> they're great people. great people. >> one of the fra's most scrutinized ties is to the russian you see on your screen, maria butina. she has already pled guilty to

the nra is a shell of themselves.oday they are financially in deep trouble, maybe because one of their primary sponsors and funders was a foreign government, but also because they simply are hemorrhaging dues and members. but they are also upside down in the approval rating polls for the first time. it used to be by and large people thought better of the nra. their approval ratings outstripped their disapproval ratings. not so any longer. if you are an nra-backed candidate in a swing congressional district you in trouble in a way that you weren't before. again, nra has always been trumped up a bit in their political power, but they are simply much, much weaker today, and we are much, much stronger today. >> senator chris murphy of connecticut, i really appreciate you making time to be here on a friday night, sir. thanks for being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> again, both the house, newly controlled by the democrats and senator murphy in the senate will be introducing background check bills next week, and the politics on

. >> happening now, mueller and the nra. ties to the national rifle association during the 2016 campaign. what's the connection? >>> state of confusion. the white house says et is plan to go go ahead with the state of the union address despite the government shutdown as democrats and republicans offer dualing and likely doomed measures to reopen the government. >>> with apologies as they hit the campaign trail democratic presidential candidates are starting off with apology scrambling with the parties to the left. >>> and changing her story. she billed herself as a professional seductress telling she had an inside knowledge of russia's attack on the u.s. election. why has she suddenly gone quiet? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> former trump campaign aid says robert mueller's team wanted to know about how donald trump wound up speaking in the group's annual meeting months before announcing the presidential bid. >>> also breaking, 32 days into the government shutdown there are rival bills from democrats and

this is the nra, conservative rock group of nra of ronald reagan being used of being use dollars as ae, as a front. and they accused the russian banker and incredibly shady. it's tied up with the butina case which is fascinating. to see the nra exposed as being so vulnerable to russian influence say fascinating twist in this story of influence in american politics. >> we know that maria bu teen was trying to make end roads in the nra and laura points out she has pleaded guilty to acting on behalf of the russians 'what the do you see? >> i don't see this as a critical piece of the investigation. let me give you a way to think about this, alisyn. that is if you get that information about butina, if you look at the amount of money that the nra was investing into this campaign. if you did not look into whether money going into the nra was dirty, somebody could ask the special counsel, you didn't bother to look? i'm not here to suggest that the nra did anything significantly wrong. i'm saying the reverse would be if you get that information on beaut tina and say it doesn't look significant

. >> using the nra. information from when she started cooperating has probably informed what the mueller team is doing so maybe they didn't have that information and that's come together later but they're clearly interested in how the money came from russia to the trump team and looking at those contacts. >> jennifer rogers, thank you. we'll watch this as it is deadline day. >>> federal workers preparing to unbelievably miss a second paycheck this friday. air traffic controllers aren't only worried about paying the bills, though. at outback, your steak & lobster wish is our command. steak & lobster is back by popular demand, starting at only $15.99. hurry in to outback! steak & lobster is only here for a limited time. means they won't hike your rates over one mistake. see, liberty mutual doesn't hold grudges. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today.

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how the nra is spreading its message around the world.arol: smartphones helping prescribed helps patience drugs for chronic else's. -- chronic illnesses. jason: and speaking of 2019 -- happy new year. it has begun the way the old year ended, with plenty of volatility in the market. carol: some green, some red, swinging between the two. as the economics editor points out in this week's cover story, investors can lay much of volatility at the feet of president trump. >> last october, just a few months ago, when the market had been off and on but still generally rising, then began to fall, the decline gained speed in december the day before christmas. we've had some bobbing around since then. all in all it ended up 2018 was the worst year for the stock market since the financial crisis of 2008. carol: it was the worst year. we did kind of avoid a technical bear market. >> barely. carol: we are still up in the equity markets as president trump came to office. >> i think that is important. trump can still argue, "i have helped stocks," but the

apple stuns investors this week with a dramatic revenue revision citing weak iphone sale -- >> how the nras spreading its message around the world. >> smartphones helping patients prescribed -- the fda is trying to roll out that proposal in 2019. jason: speaking of 2019, happy new year. plenty of volatility in the market. carol: indeed, some green, some read, a lot of swinging between the two has become the new normal. as peter coy points out in this weeks cover story investors can lay much of the volatility at the feet of president trump. >> last october, a few months ago, when the market had been kind of off and on but still generally rising and then the start of the fall all the way through october and november, the decline gained speed in december especially around christmas, the day before christmas was a disaster. we have had bobbling around since then. all in all, the 18 was the worst year for the stock market since the financial crisis year of 2008. >> what's fascinating is, yes the worst year and we did kind of avoid a technical bear market -- >> by couple tenths of a percentage p

she pleaded guilty to trying to infiltrate the nra to influence u.s.so caught some attention for her exchange with then just donald trump in 2015. >> if you would be elected as the president what would be your foreign politics especially in the relationships with my country? >> i believe i would get along very nicely with putin. i don't think you'd need the sanctions. i think that we would get along very, very well. >> i have talked to you about that sound. i have still never given an answer about what was she doing there? let's discuss the legal implacatii implications of this. good to have you both, and yes, i only read a report from sam saying i was asked by bob mueller about this stuff. they gave trump a lot more money than they usually do. so they could probably answer for that. the butina collection not a good look for the nra. why trump called on her, i still don't know. but what do you see in this suggestion? >> what i see is how i have been making sense of mueller's investigation since it began which is that russia's active measures had four m

this is something that the nra denies. we don't know if mueller is digging deeply into the nra investigation, or whether he's covering his bases. the nra did not respond for request for comment. we should note when mueller poped goes about president trump, trump was not asked about it. back to you. >>> michael cohen's testimony before congress next month will not include any topic that is under investigation. that's according to top republicans on the house oversight committee. they claim cohen's lawyer informed them that testimony will be unsatisfying and frustrating, because so much is off-limits. and asking why the president those former attorney won't discuss the trump tower or payments made during the 2016 for their silence. >>> the newest member of the committee that will question michael cohen is alexandria ocasio-cortez, a freshman senator from new york. joining her on the committee will be rashida tlaib of michigan and roe conad of california. >>> sources tell cnn that president trump is not bad at rudy giuliani,

a one-year membership for free to the nra.e do not know exactly how many of them are taking them up on that but presumably a fair chunk are. plan streaminga how americans get medication. jason: what i hear you saying is that -- there could be an app for that. carol: there always is. this is bloomberg. ♪ jason: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." carol: you can also listen to us .n the radio on serous xm and in london and the bloomberg business app. carol: in the business section, restaurants are facing an unprecedented staffing challenge. jason: it has always been easy for the industry to find low-wage workers when the holiday rush subsides but this year, not so much. donutsceo of dunkin recently said that labor is the number one concern for franchisees. it is keeping them up at night. restaurants, and moving into the new year, usually, there are more workers. people are freed up. but, there are fewer of those people now. you know what? retailers have raised wages and they also need people. there is still a earth of work

bolton at the time was on the nra's subcommittee on international affairs. congressman cummings is now asking the nra about bolton's foreign contacts and foreign trips that he may have made in that context. i think the idea here is that cummings is presumably trying to get at any kind of security clearance problems bolton might have had, maybe should have had in getting the national security adviser job, even if he didn't disclose these things directly to the white house. now i don't know if the nra and president oliver north will respond to this request for information. i don't know if this will ultimately become a subpoena and then a fight over a subpoena, but if the white house or the nra, if they do hand over information to congressman cummings' committee, it's -- i mean, it's probably going to be interesting, right? one of the other things that cummings is going to be asking for in addition to all this stuff about bolton is, quote, all documents related to direct or indirect contact between members of the nra and maria butina. so if we do get informatio

the nra put $30 million into the campaign. sam nunberg told us that he was questioned by mueller about this and specifically they wanted to know when the trump campaign first formed their relationship with the nra and how it was that donald trump spoke at the nra's annual meeting just before he launched his presidential run. the nra did not respond to request for comment. we understand that donald trump was not asked about the nra in his written questions, so it's unclear if mueller's team is carving a new area here or if they're just looking to check some boxes. >> the special counsel asking about trump and his campaign ties to and in relationship with the nra, what would the special counsel care about that? >> looking to develop whether they were influenced by russia in trying to influence the campaign. for example, they might be looking at the question of was there campaign contributions made, what was the source of that money, could the money have actually come from russia and of course looking to see if there were substan

i don't care if you are afraid of the nra. if you're afraid you're gonna lose the election, what are you doing in your position? [ applause ] thank you. thank you, david. one last thing, make sure you look up violence intervention programs, saving millions of taxpaying dollars, don't over incarcerate our youth which is a massive problem in a country that we claim to be free in . >> how many of you are employing the group violence intervention strategy in your city? david is right, it's something that is extremely, not just cost-effective but life-saving. how many of you have the pinpoint coalition in your city? >> cease-fire ? which is also group violence intervention? many strategies are a result of the support we get and the partnership we have from the office, we would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the director who's here . >> thank you mayor. it's a pleasure to be here with you. our new motto in the cops office is listen to what mayors and police chiefs have to say. were trying to do the best we can with that today.

the nra has such great influence over them. we have evidence of trump and butina being in the same room. donald trump junior, you know, meeting alexander torshin and others. that allegation has been out there. so we just wanted to see if this was true, and go further and probe further and we're not able to every time we tried. good news is, we can now look. >> so you were on this program and other programs complaining last year that the republicans who are in control at the time, that they were blocking investigations into the influence that the nra may have had on the trump campaign. are you going to start investigating this now? >> yes. part of what we're going to do is fill in the gaps where the republicans would not allow us to go last time. and so we can actually, you know, subpoena records to find -- to follow the money. so one issue that we are going to follow, and chairman schiff has been pretty clear about this, is whether the russians were laundering money through the trump organization so we can subpoena deutsche ban

other countries looking, what does that mean for the nra? >> it depends on what side of politics you are on. what has been happening with whoia and maria butina admitted to being a registered , that has the perception that the nra is going to have a challenge managing. second amendment supporters are going to's -- stand by them no matter what. >> there are a lot of challenges that the nra is dealing with including declining donations. how much of that is being made up by foreign donations? >> foreign gun makers are major donors to the group. beretta has given a million dollars. we have to look at the member dues. that is a big driving force for the emaar -- nra. that has not been strong at this time. tot drives those membership daesh donations are mass shooting events where people want to show their support and big political swings. when there is a fear of gun control, people want to donate to the nra to protect the second amendment. those donations are not strong at this moment. >>those donations are not strong at this moment. let's get a q

. >> i think mueller is probably looking at the nra as a conduit. kinds of conduits, one for political influence. that's what we saw in the butina case. s they used her as a spy, an unregistered foreign agent. and she used with some success the nra as a vehicle to get access to powerful policy makers. i think there's probably questions about was that done on a more broad scale. was the nra similarly exploited to gain influence with the trump campaign and administration. and there's also possibility it was used as a vehicle to funnel money. a lot of money changes hands, 30 million dollar from the nra to the trump campaign. is it used to circumvent campaign laws? >> that would be remarkable if corroborated. >>> we have some news just into us. it has to do with president trump and the news that he is expected to recognize venezuela's opposition leader as the nation's president. >> not the elected president of that country. what's behind this decision? >> reporter: sources are telling my colleague jeremy diamond and i that president trump is expected to

the nra, and the gun manufacturers that are funding the nra, along with russia. i'm not kidding. that's not a laughing matter. they are actually interfering in our election. that's how deep rooted the nra is in our own political pocket in a public health issue. ly. and even though you may think arming more people may work if you think guns make us safer i got news for you, america would be the safest country on the planet because we have more guns than people in this country. there's a reason why every other more developed country has significantly less gun violence and gun deaths than we do. one of the other things that you gaze can implement is a mandatory waiting period, if you're lucky enough to be in one of the states that doesn't block gun ownership, which is by the way. this save lives from suicide, which is the vast majority of gun deaths. states have been able to reduce suicide 10 to 15%. that's not just a percentage that is thousands of people and thousands of people that get to survive because gun suicides are successful 95% of the time. typically other suicide attempt

why would they be penetrating the nra?d russia influence messaging or political campaigning by the nra, which is a big force in american politics, and is there russian money involvemented. >> what does john bolten have to do with this? he appeared at an event, are you targeting him specifically. is there suspicion of him or is it because he is the president's national security advisor. >> i think mr. bolton had a lot of appearances with the nra, and they want him to clarify what role did you play and did you have any association with russian figures? >> do you any indication of mr. bo bolton, i guess he could duck you. >> just a wild guess that he will not cooperate. >> fair enough. let me close with shut down. the offer today of $5.7 billion. pretty much all of the money you asked but you can't use it for a new barrier. why make that offer? >> let me say personally i think it is a generous offer. not one they would have made, i would reluctant i will be willing to support it if we could get government open again and the a

if you were afraid of the nra, then you shouldn't even be here. if you are afraid of the ramifications that is going to come from radical change to save lives then you should not be here right now because that's the change that we need. in fact if you are afraid of going out and saving lives and standing up to an organization that is not only funded by gun manufacturers that benefit off of the perpetrating of violence and incriminals within our youth, if you are afraid of them -- and the same organization that is actively under investigation by the department of justice for russian interference in our election who had a russian spy, mind you, mary beautiena plead guilty to conspiracy to droi our country. if you are afraid of them, why the hell are you here right now? seriously. we don't -- we need more mayors like peduda. we need every one of you standing up because i guarantee you they can go after one of us, a few of us but they can't go after every mayor within the united states. because i don't care where you come from where who you are, the f

and afterwards, you wrote, "country musicians, stand up to the nra.disavow collusion with the nra." explain that. it's quite pointed. i mean, collusion with the nra. what sort of response did you get and why did you put it that way? >> well, i have been an advocate for gun control and against gun violence for 20 years. i've served on boards. i've done galas. i've done op-eds. that one was in the new york times. i mean, so this is not a new thing for me, and i saw this kind of malicious inner weaving of the nra with constant promotion and -- >> tell me how because i'm not so familiar. >> well, particularly country artists, some of them would sign deals with the nra, you know. i guess lucrative sponsorship deals or something. and it seemed so wrong to me that there was -- people were conflating the nra with patriotism. it's just wrong. i'm a patriot and i think the second amendment is so abused and overused and is ripe for revision. any amendment can be revised, and so i said that you know, country musicians don't conflate that, don't conflate patriotis

there are real questions about her role at the nra. she was an nra member.know how john bolton got a security clearance when he had contact with this russian national. democrats want to know how these decisions were made. >> phil rucker, you can see a letter from donald trump to nancy pelosi saying he looks forward to seeing her at the regular venue at the state of the union next week, "thank you for your letter," et cetera, "regarding the shutdown sent to me not long after the shutdown began inviting me to address the nation. as you know, i had already accepted your kind invitation," this after there was a comment from the pelosi team yesterday that he had not sent a written acceptance, but said it verbally. "however i then received another letter from you dated january 16th wherein you expressed concerns about security. i was contacted by the department of homeland security and u.s. secret service to explain that there would be absolutely no problem with regard to security with respect to the event." he then goes on to say, "accordingly there are no securi

, but you know, martha, this is not about the nra.an did not do. having a clear policy and going after active shooters, the stoneman douglas commission when they were talking the deputies to learn from deputies that they could not remember the last time that they had active shooter training or what other training it was. and furthermore, when scott israel had said that they had no legal means to go and arrest this murderer, actually that was a lie too, and prosecutors across the state of florida agreed the story that was published by "the "miami herald"." this official had been communicating death threats under 8:30 six subsection ten is a second-degree felony for which he could've been arrested and me a prohibitive processor a full year before. >> martha: he knocked his adoptive mother's teeth loose assaulting her. to the family said he used a gun against people before, they were very concerned. scott israel had a reaction today. i want to play that for you and get your thoughts. >> i intend to vigorously fight this unjustified suspe

as many of you know, i have been fighting gun violence and the nra for many years spending hundreds of millions of dollars of my own money and traveling around this country rallying voters of gun safety candidates and causes. i am glad to say i have never seen more energy behind a movement that i see right now.

and the nra was funding alex jones and the nra is tied to the republican national committee and donald being paid by russia. i was suppose to be giving hush money'to reveal this. all preposterous. but this was coming from the special prosecutor. now it comes out that the special pratt cuter is look into the nra's relationship to donald trump. my relationship with mr. jones has ended. all my income has been cut off. mueller has succeeded. but i hope i can work with dr. jones to foster a continuing relationship. i brought a $20,000 offer to alex jones and he rejected it. i soap show up in dennismont gop are you, one of the whistleblower's data bases. the irs has probably examined my income tax forms back 0 years. it's constant. the special prosecutors when they were interrogating me seemed to know details about my past that could only have come from surveillance, i'm concluding. i'm the one who revealed donald trump was under surveillance and it was through fisa you are virallans through october 2017 when he was president. i think i have bind fisa court surveillance as well. trish: there

russia and the nra and this russia/nra thing that i had heard about, it made sense to me that paul wasa activist and had an acu, he was on the board that he would be involved in something like this. >> did you have any indication or wonder why russian nationals were interested in getting close to the president. >> well, this russian national maria butina. she was at scott walker's announcement. she had other pictures or things like that. to me it was because of paul having maybe a romantic dolly. >> that's what i took. it did not raise flags to me there was some russian activist at the time. no, it did not. >> sam nunberg, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> good luck out there. >>> farmers largely supported donald trump in 2016. they largely have been hurt by his trade policies. now, they are being ripped by shutdown. we'll talk to a soybean farmer, coming up next. st details about your family history. st details my pie chart showed that i'm from all over europe, but then it got super specific. i learned my people came from a small region in poland and even a little bit

have the strength and courage to take on the nra. [applause] they have the interest of the green of the bottom line of the manufacturers and it is not enough. those of the things that you can get done. if you talk to people about what matters, they will be with you. >> thank you. i think your youngest is a year younger than my son. a lot of what you said earlier hit home about education and [indiscernible] one of my biggest concerns for his future is climate change. our water and air quality. over 700 impaired waterways. we have places they don't have clean water. you have a plan to to address that? >> yes. iseard 50% of your water polluted? that's pretty bad. we have similar problems in my state. live, we havere i pfo a in our water. there are families who their water has been polluted by manufacturers. have higheren levels of pfo a in their blood -- it is a hundred times normal. it is so frightening for these moms and dads because they can't protect their kids. one thing that i think is coming around is we all want to protect our c

the nra has not commented. >>> senator kamala harris is raising lots of money for her presidential bid, as much as bernie sanders did in the first 24 hours even though kamala harris has been a fixture in the bay area for decades, she's very protective of her personal life, now that she's running for president, we wanted to learn more about kamala harris the person. we reached out to debbie mesloh, harris' longtime campaign consultant and friend and it turns out the senator loves prince. >> the night he died, she said that she and her husband turned on prince music during, playing in the backyard, just danced to the prince music. she loved, loved prince. >> okay. as for the campaign coffers in the next 24 hours, since harris' announcement she has raised more than $1.5 million. that came from 38,000 individual donors contributing an average of $37 each. >>> tonight pg&e is getting a financial lifeline more than $5 billion in financing. the money will be used to cover operating costs at the san francisco-based utility going through chapter 11 bankruptcy. pg&e plans to file next week to de

but have the strength and courage to take on the nra. [applause] middle have our best interests in mind, they just have the interest of the bottom line for the manufacturers and enough enough. believe you talk to people about what matters, they will be with you. joy, jessica. -- go ahead, jessica. it yet youngest is about -- about a year younger than mine. a lot hit home about revitalizing united states. when of my biggest concerns for his future is climate change. and our water and air quality. there's over 700 impaired waterways. do you have a plan to address that? >> i sure do. 50% of your water and i was polluted? it's pretty bad. we have similar numbers in my states on familiar with it. know what the outcome will be. one thing i think is common ground is all this want to protect our children. no matter where you live, everyone wants to make sure our children can drink safe water and the air that they breed. represent, there's so many highways, the pollution and toxins get absorbed by these kids and they miss school. people die of as

if you're unwilling to take on the nra, we will never end gun violence in this country. because everything they do is about corporate greed. it's actually about making sure manufacturers can make more money selling automatic weapons to teenagers in a walmart. that's not right. that has nothing to do with the second amendment and nothing to do with hunter's rights. it has everything to do with corporate greed and profits. so if you don't name it and if you don't see it, you cannot return the power of this democracy to the people. you cannot have a direct democracy and you cannot have open government. and that is what's getting in the way. it's nothing else. it's complicit pop politicians -- complicit politicians who only do the bidding of the powerful interests. they do not represent you. we have a moment right now where we have to take on our democracy. we the people have to take back this democracy. we the people have to fight for it. and if you're unwilling to fight for it, you will get what you got and what you have today is not good enough. people don't believe that

shouldn't look at these laws and say i can't vote on that because i've taken contributions from the nrat's what they're thinking. american people need to wake up and see for example the shooter at our high school could have been prevented from security at our high school but didn't because of the nra that actively try to stop these things from happening in the first place which they benefit from, after every single mass shooting, gun sales go up significantly and the nra benefits from that. >> that is an important point as we define a national emergency as we wait to hear the president's special address on national emergency and to your point, the numbers of gun violence register at that level. i want to talk about both of your futures because i know our viewers are so invested in you after we met you a year ago tragically in parkland. david, i remember interviewing you back in march, when you had been rejected by various colleges you wanted to get into. fox newsed a even sort of mocked you, that you had been rejected by four colleges and after that, they lost some of their advertisers.

then, why is robert mueller seeking information on the trump campaign's ties to the nra and how does lawyers radical retakes effect the mueller probe? cuomo's court is in session on that. and partisan america, polarized over that standoff. is it about us viewing who is to blame or is there a bigger truth that all must agree on? what do you say? let's get after it. here's where we are. week five of the shutdown and it's

but have the strength and courage to take on the nra. [applause] they just have the interests of i believe when you talk to people about what matters, they will be with you. >> thank you. sen. gillibrand: go ahead. your youngest is about a year younger than my son. a lot of what you said hit home about education and needing to do things to help revitalize the suppressed is being at this point. one of my biggest concerns for his future is climate change. our water and air quality. this,t know if you know there is over 700 waterways and there are places all across the u.s. that do not have clean water. do you have a plan to address that? sen. gillibrand: yes. 50% of your water and i is polluted. is that true? over 750 waterways. sen. gillibrand: that is bad. that is really bad. we have places in my state that habit. in the place try live, we have pfo a and our water. there are people whose waters have been polluted by operations. belichick -- their children have higher levels of pfoa in their blood then -- 100 times more than normal. they

she was present at nra meetings.encer. >> reporter: maria butina attended president trump's inauguration with her american boyfriend, nra member, paul eri canso -- erickson. >> it don't bother us she was dating an older man. the family tells nbc news she brought ericcson to cyberia. there were two visits in 2014 and 2015. maria has been in constant contact with her relatives from her jail in virginia. the daughter who networked her way to washington was, they say, for a time held in solitary confinement. it's obvious she doesn't want us to know how difficult it is. she tells us the minimum of what it's like but we can tell from her voice how hard it is. the family denies she was knowingly a part of russian influence operation telling us there's no way a student like maria could influence anything in such a big and rich country as the u.s.. maria butina is still awaiting sentencing in the u.s. meanwhile in the past 24 hours the russian foreign minister saying it is unfair to accuse maria butina of subversion saying in

it's not the nra but groups that have positions different than the nra, or emily's list or labor. why is it okay for groups that they don't have corporate in their name, maybe they're not billionaire super pac donors, but they are -- they have special interests they would like you to take up in congress and they are running ads on your behalf. how is that different? how has that changed the system? >> some of this goes to what tiffany was talking about earlier. we're dealing with a couple different levels of the issue, the problem, if you will. there are things i can directly control as a candidate, decisions that i can made to lead by example. i learned in the military that the starting point of leadership is leadership by example. things i can just say i'm going to start to do to force the change from day one, like take the no corporate pac money pledge. other things require a more structural change, like going at a higher level of saying, you know, we need a movement, a national movement, and we need -- as leaders we need to build and support the national movement to create the