nra tookes to -- the father $7,950 during the 2016 election, and the letter to the editor from ted miller, calling on you to publicly condemn the nra and return the money that you took during the 2016 election. only through the repudiation of the gun lobby can we have a chance of ending the tear it is inflicting, he wrote, what would your response be? guest: that is just a political smear. the national rifle association is a membership organization, first and foremost, and there are thousands of members in my district and these are law-abiding people who follow the law, who are very into safety and safe handling of firearms, and to suggest that somehow a couple of thousand dollars in a campaign that caused millions is a determining factor on one's position, is really just an outlandish smear. the fact is that national rifle they are strong because they have thousands of grassroots members in districts around the country, who routinely work for our police departments, for our fire companies, for are local emergency responders. in oure deeply meshed community and to smear all those people a