for nra ceo wayne lapierre. and dues and donations also bought him more than a quarter million dollars worth of trips to a five-star resort in lake comeo italy and four seasons in but budapest and really long nice trip in the bahamas including $200,000 in private jets. plus there was the 10,000 square foot texas mansion the nra very nearly bought for wayne lapierre and his wife until at the last minute the organization thought better of it. flying wayne and the reason all of this is not just embarrassing but potentially real trouble is the nra is a non-profit organization and there are rules how the non-profit and add that to evidence hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed through the nra to its own board members, that's them paying themselves, adding the red flags about the way the nra has diverted money from what's supposed to be its charitable foundation. but it all together it's no wonder the nra appears to be very worried about a ever widening investigation by the attorney general of the state of new york.

and we have stood up to the nra. vermont passed an expanded background check bill which limited high capacity magazines. banned bump stocks. to purchase to 21 and at the same time -- at the same time we passed an extreme risk protection order. we held our heads high as we watched a republican governor w sign them into law. [ cheering ] those laws are now at risk. now i stand before you as the executive director of state united to prevent gun violence. we know that we accomplish muchy at the state level. we know it matters. every state and local group work hard to pass good violence prevention policy the states have stood up and fought to hold back bad policy.tire we show up and we stand up. we are doing this work every day even when we are bone tired. we know we cannot win this fight alone. we need each other.rowd we are better together after we rise. [ cheering ] cheerer se age we need to rise up against the nra whose agenda has landed up here this morning. s the supreme court is jeopardizing our public health t and

the nra insisted he was an extortion artist, he was trying to launch a coup with the nra. what resulted is a cascade of terrible and increasingly damning and embarrassing revelations about what happens to the donations the organization gets from nra members. the nra, for example, apparently spent more than $200,000 of its spent more than $200,000 of its members' donations on tailor-made outfits for nra ceo wayne lapierre. including $39,000 spent in one day on italian luxury suits at one beverly hills boutique. and dues and donations also bought him more than a quarter million dollars worth of trips to a five-star resort in lake como, italy and four seasons in budapest and to a really long really nice trip in the bahamas including more than $200,000 in private jets just for the bahamas trip. and more than $18,000 for a european chauffeur. plus there was the 10,000 square foot texas mansion the nra very nearly bought for wayne lapierre and his wife before apparently at the last minute the organization thought better of it. but the nra did decide to spend tens of thousands of

unbelievable streak of medicine coming out of the nra. by the way, i'm the nra congressman.my district and they give me an "f" every year. [cheering[ ] >> i can tell you that is the proudest "f" i have ever earned. i've come up with three simple things for fellow americans to think about. a, b, c. a ban on assault weapons. to protects an ar-15 her home. they only exist for one reason -- to kill people. we van weapons -- we must ban assault weapons. universal background checks, b. americansngly, favorite. the nra used to. nobody should be able to purchase a weapon without a background check. we could have prevented a lot of tragedies. finally, close the gun show loophole. [cheering] in my state of virginia, you can go to a gun show and buy anything you want without any id. and that is why we are the number one state on the east coast in terms of gun trafficking. we have to close the gun show loophole. let's say it together. a, b, c. that is a good start. i promise you, when i ran for office, i looked in the mirror and i said there have to be some things that are worth losing

it represents the nra attempting to make an end run around voters. they see the politics of this issue shifting. in 2018, we spent more on politics than the nra did for the first time ever. last year, voters elevated gun safety as their second most important issue. in virginia, it was the number one issue. we see guns commanding a more important place in the political debate. we are fighting hard. we have been involved in supreme court cases. organized a coalition of advocates. academics and others to submit various briefs to the court. we think it would be a travesty against the people, also, public safety interests. using this case as an opportunity to expand gun rights under the second amendment. potentially danger our ability to pass gun laws that are specifically enumerated to be allowed. we are watching very closely. the facts are on our side, both procedurally and in terms of jurisprudence but we will see how it goes. we will be gathering thousands of advocates in front of the supreme court. all of d.c. and certainly the country is going to se

in 2018, we spent more on politics than the nra did for the first time ever. last year, voters elevated gun safety as their second most important issue. this year, in a virginia off cycle election, it was the number one issue. we see guns commanding a more important place in the political debate going forward. we are fighting hard. we have been involved in supreme court cases. organized a coalition of advocates, academics and others , to submit various briefs to the court in support of our position. we think it would be a travesty against the people, also, public safety interests. where the court to use this case as opportunity to expand gun rights under the second amendment and potentially endanger our ability to pass gun laws that are specifically enumerated to be allowed. we are watching very closely. i think the facts are on our side, both procedurally and in terms of jurisprudence but we will see how it goes. we will be gathering thousands of advocates in front of the 2, all court on december of d.c. and certainly the country is going to see how passionat

and the trouble the nra has had recently? >> well, i think the rise of these advocacy groups has been an important part in squaring the debate, if you can square the debate against the nra. that has been what is missing, i guess, in the long history of gun politics, viable, well-funded groups. thei think perhaps emergence of michael bloomberg in the democratic field of candidates may raise the issue even further. so, i think these groups are important, if fully to equalize the debate. >> i think they've really got a lot of momentum from the students that have spoken out. parkland, there was just an outpouring of students willing to put their face to this problem and they actually got marches across the withry and you see people the courage of youth and seeing their friends being killed in their schools, saying we don't want this to happen anywhere else. i think that has had a lot of emotional impact in some lawmakers who were elected had family members who were victims of gun violence as well. personal story for both those ru

you have to have a contact at the nra.ran for school board montgomery county maryland, which is been in the news lately, it's usually in the news. whether it be justice of the supreme court or whatever, i ran for school board in the year 2000, less than a year after columbine. i ran on my platform was three issues, the first one usual fraud and abuse even in a very rich system like montgomery county which also has some of the best defense lawyers in the country. defending the school system in the second issue was the problem of drugs, prescription drugs overmedicated kids, ritalin, and the school system and games. regardless of immigration status.the third issue was less than a year from columbine since everybody was talking about guns in that year in that election year was school safety. i had a plan, i had suggestions which i made on all three issues but after what happened after i became the first school board candidate in u.s. history to be endorsed by the nra that nationalized, i'm serious, it nationalized the rate it

our organization out spent the nra 8-1. now we are going in january and pass stronger gun laws.ow it gets done. what i have learned in the last ev seven years is congress is where it ends and not where it begins. we need to keep doing this work in state houses and border room and courthouses. i am confident that we are close to getting what we need to safe america lives. >> let's talk about this funding for gun safety for p, why is this important? what does this change? does thi? >> we have been asking the government to fund the cdc, to look into gun violence in this country. what is our crisis, what's the extent of it, how do we solve it. for seven years now through petitions and calls and e-mails and meetings and rallies, and finally they listened. the democrats got together with the republicans and they agreed to allocate $25 million. now, that's not all we asked for, but it is a good start. and now we can actually start applying this kind of research to this crisis that kills over a hundred americans every single day. imagine if anything else was killing americans at that ra

the city's police chief is blaming the nra in part of his death.he circumstance surrounding the deadly shooting. >> the houston police department is mourning the loss of one of it own. 34-year-old police officer christopher brewster was killed while making contact. >> chris loved being a police officer. he loved it. >> lot of passion for what he does. >> police say that brewster saw the suspect on the street. he stepped out of his vehicle to approach and was shot. >> every single our police officers show up. they come to work. they go to work. they leave their homes not knowing what they're going to face on any given day. >> brewster was wearing a bullet proof vest when he died. police arrested arturo solis in connection with the shooting. he has a long criminal history. in a press conference, houston's police chief has blamed the nra for the death. he says that the organization has refused to take the gun away from domestic violence abusers. >> nra don't like the fact that we want to take the guns out of hands of boyfriends who abuse girlfriends.

counsel for the state affiliate of the nra got up there and asked the court to declare that the second amendment protects our right to carry firearms and also to adopt a restricted and extreme test for deciding second amendment cases that would look only to history and tradition and not to public safety concerns. that's why we are here today keeping a close eye on this case to make sure that we assert our right to be safe and show that the second amendment is perfectly consistent with gun safety laws like the sort that americans overwhelmingly have been demanding. >> john lowery with brady, we are optimistic that the court will not consider the merits of this case because there is no case or controversy and that if the court does consider the second amendment issue that the court recognizes the long-standing right of americans to enact the gun safety laws that they want and need to protect their communities and that protect our most fundamental right to live. thank you. >> characters well from every town. i think what the argument showed today is that it's the petitioners who had the 1

in a press conference monday hoblaming the nra for his officer stack.ake guns out of the hands of abusers. on as created in 1994 as an end do but has since expired. >>> the nra doesn't like the fact that we want to take her arms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends. >> reporter: the nra hasn't responded to the allegations. officer brewster will be laid to rest on thursday. >>> coming up a rare piece of bipartisanship on capitol hill. in the moment details on the two major pieces of legislation that appeared to have an agreement go >>> and from two biggest international sporting events the reason russia will not be participating in the next olympics or world cup. >>> at at&t we believe in access. the opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. connecting with the things that matter most. and because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet. we've created access from at&t california households with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits. may qualify for home internet at a discounted rate of $10 a m

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the nra is pointing to the union's response and says it stands with rank-and-file law enforcement. meanwhile, sergeant brewster will be laid to rest here on thursday >> that was gabe gutierrez reporting. >>> let's take a look outside. >> a couple degrees make all the difference between a slippery commute and a wet commute. temperatures in d.c. and new york barely above freezing same with hartford and boston. the suburb where we're going to have the issues. the rain changed to snow washington, d.c., over philadelphia, new york and all wait through connecticut and into boston. our computers are not saying it's going to be a big huge ordeal it's just the timing of it if it quets a little slushy be careful on the bridges and overpasses maybe an chin on the grassy surfaces right along the southern portions of nungds and the mid-atlantic region. if you're doing the airports maybe some early delays especially lying areas of new that. minneapolis only 2 today in the northeast temperatures will be falling throughout the morning. the last thing we need on a busy weekend is a big rainstorm an

the reason was partly the nra and partly because let's face it. lot of politicians view this, and for me it's disgraceful what they do. only 6% of the population but they make up 52% of gun violence victims, more than half. there's a number of things wrong in our society and we just have to do something about it. these mergers don't usually take national headlines but they are national tragedies. in recent years more politicians have begun waking up because killings are happening in their communities and in their churches and malls and movie theaters. the constituents are losing children and their voters are demanding action. and if you don't want to be depressed, just think. we really are making progress but we have an enormously long ways to go. getting things done is what every town for gun safety is all about and that's what the leaders in aurora have done and why i'm running for president, just to stop the nationwide madness. that's the only way to describe it. and remember alex, but also go out and try to keep this. this issue is somewhat pe

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. >> the nra doesn't like the fact we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuseir girlfriends. and who killed our sergeant? a boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. you're either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you're here for the nra. i don't want to see their smug faces about how much they care about law enforcement when i'm burying a sergeant because they don't want to piss off the nra. >> in april, the house voted to reauthorize the violence against women act but talks fell apart in the senate. >>> 28 patients at the medical center in dallas relocating after air tests found higher than normal levels of mold. the patients were removed from the intensive care unit to other parts of the hospital. no patients have become infected. and none have had ill health effects from the mold. >>> new york city has agreed to temporarily stop sending homeless families across the hudson to newark. a move newark's mayor called jettis jettisoning. newark, new jersey, said new york wasn't properly checking the condition of the housing, w

i think you don't make much of the nra.ised to you that your fellow candidates are not so happy you are in. elizabeth warren says you are trying to buy the election. bernie sanders says as even the dumbest person on earth and pay for it. you see the point you are making. >> point they are making it is it okay to ask other people for all their money that will help their careers. whereas if somebody goes out and makes the money themselves and gives it away. virtually all of my income goes to public health issues education and the arts and environment and things i care about. i think i could do a lot of good for the country if i could become president and so using some of those monies to fund the campaign is fine -- >> but i think -- >> wait. my father made $6,000 a year the best year of his life. nobody gave me a headrt.e me an in the public school system. they taught me ethics and hard work. i worked my way through college. i worked for years and got fired a company that has been successful. i give 100% of that away. what's

the nra in 2018 was badly outspend.nra members even, a majority support these gun safety measures, it seems the three lobbyists in washington for the nra find themselves more and mer iore insulated even from their own member. >> we saw democrats become very weary from talking about gun control measures in 1994. and this year we begin to see the candidates talking more about gun policy than they have in decades. this will be a test of where americans stand on guns and how much they care, what intensity of feeling they have about gun control policy. we ask in our new poll about what issue matters most to you and your vote, gun control was near the top for voters and that was a sign for some of the changes you're talking about in the political landscape when it comes to guns in america. >> it is a dramatic change. history, of course, will be unfolding over the next 24 to 36 hours. we will be in washington tomorrow covering the impeachment of donald j. donald trump, but for now, stay with msnbc, stephanie ruhle picks up the

you had the nra ranking in russian money that's laundering through the nra.inistration is the only one that syndrome russian asset and syria as you know. >> trump took our troops out because russia wanted them out and turkey wanted them out. the sanctions they put through, he's done it reluctantly. >> that was a matter we need to stop some of these endless war. we well, the ones that we moved out of syria are still in the neighborhood and rallying of the kurds. congress is schizophrenia of russia and what our relationship should be. on one hand, they say you got to get along with them. on the other hand, they're horrible and putin is a bad guy. both positions are correct. >> let me get you -- >> definitely. i want to get you definitively on the record. you believe the reality that russia is who attacked our election. >> yes, i do. >> i will say this and i will quickly say. yes, i do. i think that congress has kidney i think that congress has kidney i think that congress has kidney i think that congress has kidney squandered enough. they should focus on cyber

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he believed in the second amendment. >> nra. >> believed in the nra. >> nra invited him to be eight he knows he care for years prior and he was also hosted a congressional turkey hunt like a skeet shoot in fairfax, virginia every year, i mean, as far as kind of gun the supporting congressman, he was the guy. lesson learned from that election was you can't slip up wants with that particular lobby >> question over here. >> you have not talked about his ability to get along with republicans. >> actually, there were i mean not all republicans, but there were a good number ofli republicans that he counted as his friends and even if they opposed on some legislation, he was always willing to work with them. >> bob dole. >> one thing about when there was a meeting between the house leadership and the senate leadership, the house wanted a bill to go through the senate or the senate people led by bob dole wanted this legislation approved so we could move on and so they made a deal, but dole said, but i want that in writing and from your leaders and your leadership and then as he was leaving some

the nra is pointing to the union's response and says it stands with rank and file law enforcement. meanwhile, sergeant brewster will be laid to rest here on thursday lester >> all right, gabe, thank you. >>> in florida, the ups driver killed in that shootout last week has been laid to rest frank ordonez, a father of two honored days after he was caught in crossfire between police and two armed men who carjacked his truck. ordonez's family is questioning the police response but authorities say they stand by their actions. >>> we're monitoring a fast moving line of storms from texas up through new englan threatening travel tonight and tomorrow al roker is tracking it al >> lester, we've got a wintry mess stretching almost 2,000 miles from corpus christi up into new england as you see on the soh. a wintry mix making its way now tonight from texas to new england. cold air rushing in behind the front, and as we move through tomorrow, that rain will change to snow in the northeast. lake-effect snow showers continuing airport delays stretching from new york all the way down to new orleans

and there were some more militant gun groups that basically said the nra folded. -- that the nra had sold out. the last figures i have seen is that it has stopped 1,000,007 -- 1,700,000 gun transactions that would have been illegal because the purchaser would have , been ineligible to own or purchase a gun. i hope that's given to be part of my legacy. i can tell you that right after that passed, the taxidermist in west bend was selling stuff, one of it was in the window on main street in west bend. and i can say well, i might have there, but there might be a lot more people alive peopleith 1.7 million not allowed to have a gun, and who are prohibited from doing so. we will adjourn this part of the meeting. the second part of the meeting will be for those who have personal problems with government agencies. this is one-on-one, cameras off, please, folks. if you have a personal problem with either a state or federal agency, the state complaint windows are there. the federal complaint window is here. please do not continue the general issues discussion. i do have a 5:00 plane to get bac

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that was encouraging to the nra side.ay be an indication he thinking i am not here ruling on gun rights where i do have of you, i am trying to decide weather this case -- whether not ande exists or whether there is a rule to be overturned. perhaps it wasn't that surprising to see him not joining with the silence clarence thomas, we know where he stands and neil gorsuch and samuel alito. those are the ones who took up the mantle of this is not as good a protection, the withdrawal of this law as a decision of the court and we ought to march forward. judge kavanaugh has often been with justice chief roberts. host: is the court taking up -- gun done cases this cases this session? guest: as of now, no. case, and thatis is something they can do quickly, then they could take up another case. then -- there is a case about public ayour gun in new jersey and other cases in the pipeline. host: richard wolf, follow him on twitter. we appreciate the update. guest: any time. host: following on to the case from the court yesterday, our

the nra went to washington, d.c. and passed the federal law to preempt that local law. i went to washington, d.c. and drafted? of the country's gun safety laws. they never got through because of nra. we came to california because we believe differently. we believe that while folks may have a right to a gun, they don't have a right to kill people with that gun. today 100 americans are going to die because of guns. this hour four people are going to die because of guns. mothers, fathers are going to grieve. we are all saying there is a different way in san francisco, in california. i am honored to be part of the community that says, hey, we can do it differently. no questions asked, give us something you don't need to be using. we are living for a day, a world without gun violence, and i think if we pray and come together. prayers are not gun with prayers and hard work we will do it. someday we will not have to continue to grieve for what is happening. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. i want to also acknowledge a couple other parties. alexander from kilroy. t

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because if he could beat america's biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nraked politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundreds of polluting plants and beat big tobacco, helping pass laws to save the next generation from addiction. all against big odds you can beat him. i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. >> o'donnell: tonight, the c.d.c. warns the nationwide flu outbreak is exploding. flu activity is now high in 19 vityes and new york city. that has nearly doubled since sist week. there have been more than 3.5 million cases just this season. 32,000 people have been admitted to hospitals, and 1800 have died. health officials are reminding everyone it is not too late to get your flu shot. a setback for america's space program today. boeing hopes to launch astronauts next year, but this morning, its unpiloted starliner capsule ended up in the wrong orbit during its first test flight. plans to dock with the space station were scrubbed. the good news, however, is they hund a way to bring the capsule back to earth sunday in new

because if he could beat america's biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nraacked politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundreds of polluting plants and beat big tobacco, helping pass laws to save the next generation from addiction. all against big odds you can beat him. i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. >> o'donnell: for millions of young americans, the impeachment process has been a real-time lesson in civics. well, tonight manuel bojorquez introduces to us some high schoolers who could give many american adults a lesson in civility. >> does everybody agree that an inquire is okay? raise your hand. >> reporter: tracy downey's advanced placement u.s. history class is discussing president trump's impeachment. >> this affects the future. >> reporter: they're students at ridge community high school outside orlando in a county the president won in 2016. >> i think this may be, like, a political hit to-- for impeachment, because he's not going to get removed. >> you could argue by us not going ahead with it just because we

not only has she lost her soulmate but had the courage to stand up and step forward against the nra and subjected to horrible things throughout that process but she was brave enough to stand there to say we need to talk about these issues. these violent things that are happening in our communities whether red or blue we need to tackle these horrible things happen in our communities it's not picking out democrats or republicans causes heartbreak and devastation in our community she has stood up for us so thank you for that. [applause] also what it must have taken in the face of all that to deliver on this book and to continue her husband's dream and passion and the love that has shown to make this possible today. thank you all for coming annapolis thinks you and we all thank you. [applause] >> next i would like to introduce a dear friend of jerry jackson who is now the sports editor, acting sports editor. [laughter] i have fond memories going with jerry and his lovely wife. >> hi everybody i have the distinct pleasure we shared a lot of good times at the capital over 23 years and he was

the nra is completely devoted to the republican party.with a lot of power in washington. as we were discussing on the break, two weeks ago, "the new york times" did this deep dive into infighting in the nra and what the toll that the investigations are taking on the organization. and its leadership seems unrepentant. wayne lapierre says, i don't know how it got this way, how we got so political. i'm just here doing my thing. if you've ever seen wayne lapierre foam at the mouth at a political conference then he knows exactly how he got where he is. it's going to take a lot of cleaning up of the corruption in our politics in general to stop the nra. but it is the poster child for what money can do in our system and for what undue political influence, how it can subvert the will of the majority of americans. >> we've got 30 seconds left here. to linnet's point, what condition is the nra in, in light of the reporting from the new yorker, from the trace. there's been a lot of double dealing. it's not in the kind of shape it was during the obam

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i am the only guy who has ever beaten the nra nationally. i have beaten them twice. got the brady bill passed. background checks. i am the guy who got the assault weapons ban passed. i could only get it for 10 years and it had to be renewed. because of some hanging chads in florida, a guy named bush let it expire. your state and mine, a lot of hunters, that is fine. but anybody who needs a magazine with 100 rounds in it, you should not be hunting. you are a danger to yourself. not a joke. anybody that needs an ar-15, there are not a lot of deer wearing a kevlar vest. my deceased son and my son were bird hunters. there is big bird hunting in the delaware peninsula. i have a 12 gauge shotgun. they are locked up. you lock them up. we're the only country, the only industry in the nation not able to be sued, the gun manufacturers. how would that have been the case when i was pushing to go after the pharmaceutical companies for opioids? because we were able to sue them for the damage they were doing, we were able to change the whole thing and it is still changing. you can'

mayor buttigieg: so, the nra does not speak for most americans. it does not even speak for most gun owners. the vast majority, even of gun owners and of republicans believe that we should at least be doing universal background checks. there is no good argument why you would not want universal background checks and closing loopholes. right now if the background check comes back late, they just give you the gun. can you imagine in a hiring process if the background check came in late and they said, just hire them anyways. you have to actually keep people safe. this is a safety issue. we have the red flag laws that disarm domestic users and identify risks. it helps us deal with half the crisis of gun violence, which is suicide. just as much as something that should be on our hearts and minds and calls out for action. [applause] mayor buttigieg: it's time to confront the n.r.a. with the types of weaponry that i trade on to go to afghanistan do not belong anywhere near an american school and should not be sold for profit in the united states of america

gun safety advocates and members of congress held a rally outside the supreme court protesting the nra backed lawsuit on a repealed new

explainable if you realize how strong the nra is. and so there's no excuse.f course my heart and our thoughts go out to the families of the people who were killed in pensacola and in hawaii. but at the same time once again we are reminded that we have to do something. there's no magic bullet on stopping gun violence in our country but we can do some basic things. >> do you think -- i mean, i know mcconnell won't bring this up for a vote. do you think it's because it would pass? if there was a world in which it were brought up for a vote, like do you think you'd get the 51 votes? >> even if we don't get the 51 votes i don't think he wants his members to come out and act like they're all with the nra. i think that's damaging. >> so he's protecting them. >> i think so, yes. >> impeachment is now most likely going to be coming to your body in the senate. and i asked jim manley this last night. he was a long-time staffer for harry reed. there's a certain contingent in the house and white house who want the senate trial to be turned into an absolute circus like a m