here is a look at nra tv's youtube page. the times reports the nra plans to send a letter to members today announcing this split. the decision also comes as the nra severs ties with its estranged advertising firm, which operates nra tv. o in its statement mcqueen says it's not surprised by the decision. >>> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is making some big promises to 9/11 responders just weeks after he was publicly scolded on capitol hill. senate l committed to vote on a bill that would extend funding for those first responders. $7 billion were put into the 9/11 victim's fund in 2011 and most of that has been paid out.s now paymenn new claims are being cut and the fund will run out all together by the end 2020. >> thousands of men and women across our country because they came toget r on september11th in the days and weeks after. >> mcconnell has the senate funding vote set for august. there's a house funding vote nextmonth. the bill would extend funding for the next 70 years. >>> today members of congress will putti

here is a look at nra tv's youtube page. rathe times reports the n plans to send a letter to members today announcing this split. dea's chief executive says the organization is unoing a significant change in its comnications strategy. >>> it's now 6:07. one of d.c.'s longest-serving elected officials is ready to talk. d.c. councilman jack evans is accused of using his position for personal gain. tuesday he pled with otherco uncil members not to strip him of a powerful committee post. he says he didn't dong anythi wrong. >> i believe that if my colleagues hear my side of the story and i respond to all of your questions, you will not take any action at this time. >> evans will meet next week with council colleagues. the council will decide a week after that whether to sanction him. >> senateri maty leader mitch mcconnell making some promises to 9/11 responders just weeks after being publicly scolded on capitol hill. mcconnell has agreed to have a senate vote on a bill that would extend funding for first responders. $7 billion

when they first came to us, we had a choice of letting them be released nra tv or walmart.got together with border control, which we have a great relationship with, and we were able to work out a system where as these immigrants were released, we could put them on the bus and send them to san antonio, to the bus station there where they could go on to further areas. it's really sad what is going on at the border, and the city of del rio and eagle pass, they are just getting slammed. del rio is getting 120 to 160 a day released in their community. eagle pass -- >> tucker: how are you absorbing those people? >> we are not. volunteers are trying to help them as much as they can, but this has been going on now and eagle pass and del rio for 60 days, 30 days now in the valley. we are not equipped to handle it. it's not like we don't want to help people, but we are not equipped to handle it. we are acting like we are doing these people a favor and we are setting them up to fail. they're not even allowed to work. they are being released in the united states, 250,000 people have be

that's really important because this is the firm that manages and runs nra tv which is online programmingmbastic, frequently controversial. the firm is basically saying that the nra is not paying for that work and that if the nra doesn't pay its bills, that prograepr programming could be kaput. i've reached out, haven't got a response yet. >> is it significant this is coming to light publicly in these court filings? >> for sure. covering the nra is like covering the vatican. it is so secretive and so hard to get people to talk. so the fact that they're having this public court battle shows just how acrimonious their internal disputes have gotten. >> thank you so much. we have much more to get to throughout the day. i know you two will be covering everything do with the white house and iran as we wait to see what the president has to say about this at noon, 2012:05. are you heading over to the white house? >> definitely heading over to the white house. >> what's your sense of whether the president will talk about this? >> i'm thinking because he's tweeting about it that the president is ea

lapierre announced the dmang a statement writing many members expressed concerns about the messaging on nra tv yeah. defending the second amendment. this comes almost a week after the resignation of chris cox, the nra's second in command who led the group's innovate strategy. >> so the nratv ran the ads that a lot of people thought held veiled threats to members of the press and a lot of nra members were like, wait a second, that's not why we're paying your dues. so some big changes. >> boy, in the last six months or so, we've seen an unraveling from the top down of the nra. it's still a very powerful lobby, but you see people resign, you see the cancellation of nra tv. the membership doesn't feel like it's being represented by that small number of lobbyists. and joining us now is gun safety advocate fred guttenberg. his daughter, jamie, was murdered murdered at marjory stoneman douglas high school. talk to us about what you saw from the candidates last night on the question of guns. are there one or two of these democratic contenders who you believe carry the flag for your daughter in a way t

nra. they have a tv operation. new production is getting shut down.ries the streaming channel presented that drew widespread criticism. dana loesch put white klans hoods on figures from a kids show. >> i'm really struggling to understand how in the world there isn't any diversity in any of this. oh, was it because -- i see it, it was the white hoods. and the burning train tracks, okay, fine, fair point, i get it. sara murray is up on this one today. there's trouble brewing inside the nra? >> there definitely is. it's a mess right now, the end of nratv isn't a surprise. the nra is locked in this battle with their long time advertising firm, they've gone to court, trading lawsuits back and forth. you know some sides are saying, look, the nra lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on suits, mismanaging the finances. we paid ackerman mcqueen tens of million dollars, and they can't tell us what that went to. one of the things was nratv. as a result of this relationship breaking down. we're losing nratv. not that many people watched it, and the latest indica

why did all those nra people end up in moscow at the same time that michael flynn was there doing that gala dinner celebrating the russian propaganda tv channel where he sat with vladimir putin. is that jill stein, the green party candidate, there too? what? maria butina literally sends a message to her kremlin handler," i am ready for further orders." she immediately sends word to her handler that she has heard that a specific person is going to be nominated by trump to be secretary of state. she sends word who that person is because she tells her handler, basically, our i'm in russia should have a heads-up about that choice, the russian government's opinion on that choice will be taken into consideration, please circulate the name and let me know what i should tell people here about it. this is crazy stuff. the russian government being consulted on who trump's going to pick as secretary of state? what? i mean, butina and erickson stuff is the most sparky, most lurid, and therefore i think some of the most heavily covered part of this whole scandal. well, josh rogen at "the washington post" reports tonight that maria butina also turn

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