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 their members' dollars flying wayne's wife's hair and makeup artists all around the country and putting them up in luxury hotels. and the reason all of this is not just embarrassing but potentially is real trouble for the nra is that the nra is a non-profit organization and there are rules, there are laws about how a non-profit can spend its members' money. take all of wayne lapierre's spending habits with members' money, add that to evidence that hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed to -- flowed from the nra to its own board members, that's them paying themselves, add in the red flags about the way the nra has diverted money from what's supposed to be its charitable foundation. put 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 it's new y

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 it's new york because new york is where the nra is chartered. this summer new york's attorney general -- james subpoenaed 90 member of the board. just this month she issued a new subpoena which according "the new york times" covers campaign finance, payments to board members and tax compliance. new york could conceivably revoke its non-p

wayne lapierre says, i don't know how it got this way, how we got so political. 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 obama presidency. >> no, and it's turning on itself. it's one of those classic things that starts as a movement and becomes a bureaucracy and turned into a racket. and it has great weakness if you look at something like the elections in virginia where very strong pro-gun regulation candidates won. but it still has a lot of power. it's entwined with the republican party. and as long as polit

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he said i will do bigger than that, we will do the greatest and then he went back and met with wayne lapierre and it is not even the nra or gun owners, it is the gun manufacturers, the top of those organizations, it is not really - a lot of gunowners think we need generally gun safety rules in place. >> who has got the mic? >> what is your advice for aspiring authors? >> aspiring authors? talk to connie schultz. just practice. >> a wonderful novelist and essayist, there is no substitute than the seat of the chair. i am especially constantly trying to get people to write more, those are the voices still missing in literature, opinion writing and coverage. i never had a contact. i was a working class kid, first in my family to go to college and those kids still and i want them to know you don't want to have any tethers. if you've got talent and skill and the attention, it can happen in the way you know you have talent is to keep working on it. very few people are born to write or do anything really well. it is something you learn over time but the most important thing that happened to me a youn