Deputy rick gates have been charged with additional crimes today the ongoing federal investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. This promises added pressure on manafort and gates to cooperate with mueller, perhaps forcing them to flip to the side of the prosecution. A grand jury returned multiple new counts against the former trump advisers filed today in whats called a superseding indictment. Among them are counts of bank fraud and conspiracy, as well as subscribing to false individual income tax returns. The indictment alleges that manafort and gates an secured more than 20 million in loans by falsely inflating manaforts income and his companys income. These additional charges are on top of the multiple charges made in a previous indictment against the two the last october which included conspiracy, Money Laundering and making false statements. All reit to the work that manafort and gates performed for the former prorussian government of ukraine. With both defendants already facing serious potential jailtime, up to 80 years in manaforts case, todays development is further evidence that the special counsel intends to squeeze them in an effort to gain their cooperation in the russian probe. Joining me is democratic congressman jim himes and Barry Grissom a former federal prosecutor. Congressman, 139, actually up to 16 indictments last week against the russians, individuals and companies. Then vanner whats his name . Van der zwaan this week and that additional identity thief last week. These indictments are mounting up. Congressman, is this putting the pressure and forcing the President Trump of into this kind of frenzy hes been in lately of tweeting . Well, it certainly looks that way, chris. I think it creates questions on part of all of us, the public as well as those of us involved in this investigation about exactly how mueller and whether he can make the connection between these. Crimes that he has now charged Paul Manafort and rick gates with and the question of what they know about any possible collusion connecting, of course, to the russia investigation. He has more than enough leverage at in point to induce cooperation. Well, Paul Manafort, i dont know him. I met hip a few times during the campaign. He was a major figure in washington politics and lobbying. Hes 68 years old and facing 80 years in prison. That would be a long time to serve, up to 146 he would have to be to fill out that term. Theyre adding more. Its funny if youre not Paul Manafort. Then in addition to that, this is almost like an al capone style prosecution. This is throwing the books at these guys to the point where they have no choice but to cooperate. Do you think theyre going too far, the prosecutors, just a thought . I wouldnt second ill go to mr. Grissom. What do you make of this . Is this normal procedure to hit this many charges and pack this much on to people you think might cooperate . What you want to do is have the cooperation. I think these superseding indictments that came down today demonstrate that mr. Mueller is upping the ante in this case. This isnt your average case that gets prosecuted in any u. S. Attorneys office. Were talking about issues had surround the highest places in government. So i think given the pressure that we all want to find out what the facts are, to get to the bottom line here, i think this is an appropriate use of the prosecutorial tools they have. I think this additional pressure, as you said, this additional time where someone in their 60s you dont want to spend the rest of your life in prison. I would give serious consideration whether or not i wanted to work with the prosecutor in this matter. Let me go back to the congressman on this. How does this fit into the pattern what you think about manafort if hes got crimes here, if hes been involved with Money Laundering . I dont quite understand it but ive seen how its prosecuted. There are three leapts to potential prosecution of the president. One is laundering himself, the other is including with the russians during the campaign and afterwards and third is obstruction of justice. It seems like hes doing a domino game, using dominos. Go to gates, use gates to get to manafort, use manafort to get to trump. How does it look to you, congressman . Thats a logical theory here, chris. And you know, again, we dont know what the connection is because of course, none of these charges pertain to specifically to the russia investigation. That is, was there is collusion . Was there any cooperation between the president s people and campaign. Given that Paul Manafort was the chairman of that campaign, the most senior person, given that he was in rooms where these things might have been discussed, obviously, now he has a real incentive to both let Robert Mueller know that and therefore, on my side, in the congress and the house and the senate, it raises let me put it this way. It gives some security to the notion that these investigations are not done, that there are more to come and we need to keep digging. What im amazed at or always involved in is finding out new stuff like today or yesterday when we learn this had after nbc news reported yesterday that federal investigators are probinging whether former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort promised a chicago banker a job in the Trump White House, in the Trump White House in return for 16 million in home loans. The possible quid pro goal involves manafort and banker steven caulk who was never offered a job in the administration. His bank made three substantial loans to manafort following the election, one in december of 2016 and two in january of 20817. A source tells nbc news at least one of the banks employeessome felt pressured to approve the deals. These home loans related to the properties included in the superseding indictment filed today. Mr. Grissom, i want to talk to you about that. This is what shows to me it the overlay between a guy trying to have these beautiful homes, one out in the hamptons, long island, the other one in park slope, the nicest part i believe of brooklyn, these mortgages basically approved. Heres the question. To get these mortgages hes promising jobs in the Trump White House. That to me brings a connection point between his private money making and his connection to trump. Your thoughts . Absolutely. As i said before, this not being your normal run of the mill case. Were talking about someone who as its alleged is theyre offering them a position in the executive branch in a quid pro quo arrangement. We havent gotten to the bottom of the facts yet. Theres still more dominos thats going to fall here. The thing we all as citizens have to a great deal of comfort in is that mr. Mueller is an outstanding prosecutor. And he is playing this exactly the way you would want him to play it. There are no leaks coming out of his team. Theyre taking it one step at a time and making sure when they come forth with an indictment, they truly have all their ducks in a row. I think thats the case here. Congressman, its not like manafort if hes guilty of this deal offer of giving a guy a job in the white house, if hell give him his mortgages, lucrative mortgages. Like i know somebody at the bureau of labor sticks i might find a slot for you. Hes talking about the white house. Only one guy can give you a job at the white house. This suggests a deal involving the president to get a financial advantage for his campaign chair. Well, thats a real possibility. Id make two observations. One, this is not a white house that is known for having bright lines between the official duties that everybody inside the white house has and, of course, the businesses outside of the white house. And that applies to the president s family, you know, theres all sorts of questions what sort of financing and other activities Jared Kushner has done while he had a very responsible position in the white house. Of course, this is not a white house that is particularly good at drawing bright lines and of course, the other piece is exactly what you said which is, you know, maybe the president but who else in the white house may have known what inquiries may have been made by Paul Manafort and who else knows what in this instance. Amazing stuff. Im constantly impressed the last couple weeks by what Robert Mueller has up his sleeves. Hes like the tie tan tannic being hit by an iceberg. I can only imagine what hes doing with Money Laundering, all this with the russians. Hes coming up, as you said, congressman, he isnt giving us a people of a warning whats coming. If i was trump, i would be worried about Paul Manafort facing now prison till hes 146 years old which is a hard stretch and adding on that another 40 or 50 as this poor guy is looking at hell. Thank you very much, jim himes of connecticut and Barry Grissom. Coming up, our other top story. Donald trumps prescription for stopping school shootings, arm the teachers. Thats what he wants to do. Well hear about what a teacher thinks about that. A teacher at march ril Stoneman Douglas high school itself who says thats a very bad idea. He ought to know. The right wing wants you to believe more guns means less gun trouble. How is the solution to our gun epidemic more guns . Thats what the nra wants you to do to make more money from the gun manufacturers. The anger over guns in this country could be turning into a political move. Will the activism translate into votes this november . Finally the loss of a great man. This is hardball, where the action is. Another major indictment was handed down today, this one against missouri governor eric greatens, a st. Louis grand jury indict him on a felony charge of invasion of privacy. The charge stems from affair greatens had with a woman in 2015 and allegations he threatened to release a nude photograph of the woman if she spoke publicly about their affair. Greatens acknowledged having been unfaithful but denied any attempt to blackmail it the woman. His Attorney Says the charges are baseless. Well be right back. Were an organic tea company. A premium juice company. A Coconut Water company. Weve got drinks for long days. For birthdays. For turning over new leaves. And we make them for every moment in every corner of the country. 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Thats like here i am, take me. Frankly, have you teachers that are marines. For 20 years and they retire, they become a teacher. And theyre army, navy, air force, coast guard, people that have won shooting contests. For whatever. This is what they do. They know guns, they understand guns. If they really have that aptitude because not everybody has an aptitude for a gun. If they have the aptitude, a concealed permit for having teachers and letting people know there are people in the building with a gun, you wont have in my opinion, you wont have these shootings. What id recommend doing is the people that do carry we give them a bonus. We give them a little bit of a bonus. Arming teachers is has long been championed by the nra, a group trump praised today. I think he was reading from their script. It has a long list of critics including republicans like senator marco rubio. I dont support that. I would admit to you right now i answer that as much as a father as a senator. The notion my kids are going to school with teachers armed with a weapon is not something im comfortable with. Bill bratton, former new York City Police commissioner tweeted today proposals to arm american teachers are the height of lunacy. Im joined by robert costa, political analyst and greg pittman, a history teacher at Stoneman Douglas high school. I want to chris grady who was wonderful to be on the show the other day. What do you think of having a teacher with a gun . Yeah, ive asked a lot of my peers about it. Ive spoken to a lot of teachers. And everybodys against it. We know thats not the longterm solution. Its just going to make a lot of kids uncomfortable. And youre asking a teacher top fight with an Assault Rifle with a handgun. That seems like an unfair fight to me. Its not an ideal solution. Greg, talk about it. What did you think when you first heard this had notion of packing . When you go into class every morning . Exactly. We as teachers periodically discuss various issues. This is one we before have discussed and more seriously now. We think its a very, very, very bad idea. I am a gun owner. I think its it would be very difficult for teachers to go into a classroom and have a gun. One, where do i put the gun . Do i put it in my pocket in a holster, 0en my desk . Is it locked up somewhere . Number two, there is a potential shooting situation on campus. Ive got to make a decision as a teacher, do i shoot the student because maybe theyve done something and theyre a threat. What if i make mistakes and the student is dead. Three, police and s. W. A. T. Come on campus and ive got a gun and i accidentally get shot. I am in the profession to teach. I did not sign up to be s. W. A. T. , to be a policeman, to be in the army. Whatever. Other military or Uniformed Services that have done that, i am not paid to do that. They barely pay us to teach as it is. Thats another whole joke. No, im not going to be making a decision should i shoot a student or students with a pistol. Thats not the call i want to make and other teachers we all think this is a very bad idea. Chris, i want you to imagine you go to class next week or two years from now in another class and you know the teacher is carrying a gun. Wouldnt where would your focus be starting the first minute of class . I dont want to put your words in your mouth. What would be your visual reaction to that fact that the man or woman in front of you teaching algebra, whatever, has a concealed weapon on them in what would you be wondering or thinking about . Well, thats pretty much all i would be thinking about. You know, i know most teachers are incredible people who just want to teach. But you never know when a teacher might have a bad day or if one of them snaps and they take it out on their students. And so its just a very uncomfortable thought knowing that my teacher has a weapon that could cause death just sitting in our classroom where were supposed to be learning. And chris, just to jump in with that, the same thing. I didnt mention it but the same thing earlier. Weve discussed what happens when a teacher thats a disgruntled employee mad at an administrator, mad at another teacher, someone else on campus, were adding more guns into the mix. It only stirs up the equation. The possibility of more people getting shot for reasons other than protection. Not a good idea as chris just said. Not a good idea, extremely extremely poor judgment on somebody. Thats not in the classroom making these suggestions. You know, robert, we were talk ball figure we went on. I was a capitol policeman for a while and i carried a. 3 special. None of these semiautomatic weapons. A classic pistol, revolver. You always knew you had the gun on you. It was part of the fact youre walking around. I got a gun. It never leaves your mind. Youre upon for that gun. Youre responsible for what you could do with it. The idea of being a teacher and having it on your mind would be complex. Lets talk about your expertise, not mine. This question of the president , when he throws out the idea and hold on, fellows, when he throws out the idea, maybe hes for magazines. These magazines have too many rounds in them or maybe we have an age requirement of 21 years to buy an a rp 15. Or anything like that. Do you think he means any of this stuff or the bump stock banning . Because hes done this with daca. He throws it out there while its hot and popular. Two or three weeks later, hes got more, were going to get rid of the family unification, get rid of diversity lotteries. All of a sudden, hes not for what hes says hes for you. Have to figure out exactly what hes going to do. He offered a president ial perspective but this is not necessarily going to be a federal decision or president ial decision. Its a local decision for states, local municipalities to decide how they want it handle it. Concealed carry. The real issue is talking to lawmakers today is can there be republican appetite for background checks in congress. I wonder whether he wants to do any of this stuff. Last night at a forum in florida, Fred Guttenberg who lost his 14yearold daughter jamie in last weeks shooting confronted senator marco rubio about his record on guns. Watch this. Your comments this week and those of our president have been pathetically weak. Look at me and tell me, guns were the factor in the hunting of our kids in this school this week. I absolutely believe that in this country, if you are 18 years of age, you should not be able to buy a rifle. I will support a law that takes that right away. I think what youre asking about is the assault weapons ban. Yes, sir. So let me be honest with you about that one. If i believe that that law would have prevented this from happening, i would support it. But i want to explain to you why it would not. Senator rubio, my daughter running down account hallway at marjory Stoneman Douglas shot in the back with an assault wep. The weapon of choice. Yes, sir. It is too easy to get. It is a weapon of war. The fact that you cant stand with everybody in this building and say that, im sorry. Wow. Meanwhile, chris you were in that Forum Last Night and you asked rubio yourself a question about large capacity magazines. Here you go. Would you agree that there is no place in our society for large capacity magazines capable of firing of over from 15 to 30 rounds and if not, more . I traditionally have not supported looking at magazine clip size. And after this and some of the details ive learned about it, im reconsidering that position. Ill tell you why. While it may not prevent an attack, it may save lives in an attack. What do you think about people like rubio, senator rubio who takes millions of dollars from the nra . What do you make of him when hes talking to you . Is he talking to you as an individual person or someone bought . How do you look at it . Well, i mean. Chris grady. Yeah, it is good to hear that hes reconsidering his position. Actions speak louder than words until he actually supports a bill or legislation that would limit the size of these magazines, then obviously, you have to take what he says with a grain of salt. Let me go to greg on this. I only have a few minutes. Ive been watching all your appearances. I was prim esed by the kids, they did not argue ideology, they dont argue right wing or left wing or the tea party or any of that stuff. The phrase they chose and, of course, it is polite. They say bs. We know what that means. That is the way had he listen to politicians now. They dont listen like they disagree with them. They dont believe theyre saying what they believe. Theyre bsing us, giving us something to get through the night. Tell us as a person who watches these students and interprets them all day long, are they up to something . Have they figured out grownups dont say what they believe, they say well get them where they want to go . I think thats exactly it. I teach american history, 11th grade. In that class, prior to the last week or so, i have taught my students and joked with them, guys, not long from now, you all will be the leaders of our country. Youre all going to be able to vote. I said you need to get news apps on your phones, Pay Attention and not just with all the local School Gossip and the other things theyre with. Exactly. I can tell from everything ive seen from discussing these issues with my students and listening to the students, they realize that theyre getting nothing but political bs from our elected officials, doesnt matter the party even though one party tends to be a little more on this issue. They know that and guess what, im going to inform these politicians these kids at Stoneman Douglas are not paid actors as some in the far right have said. They are hard working brilliant students that dont always read what theyre supposed to read in our classes. But theyre well prepared. Theyre well spoken. On this issue, its not going to go away. Theyre serious and they realize that these politicians that usually give them lip service, give them the bs and then theyre going to try to be on to the next problem of the day which they wont solve any of them. These kids along with some of their teachers are not going to let this drop, not going to let this die. You watch social media and you look at the action thats spreading to other campuses now and around the country. I believe these politicians have, if theyre not careful and dont come up with solutions regardless of party, its not about party. Its about saving our most important asset in this country. Our children protecting their future. Providing a safe environment for us to teach and them to go to school in. Thats kids know so far to date, everything theyve heard from all the elected officials mainly is bs. Again, actions speak louder than words. Lets see what they do. I know the what they do. Im old enough. Im 60. They tend to do this and next issue. Well be onto the next shooting. These kids arent going to let that happen. Those of us that care about them will try to lend our voice and our experience. Some of these people in washington need to talk to the real teachers in the real classrooms that are there and not just the nra and other political lobbying bodies. Im with you. What a great teacher you must be. Thank you so much. I wish it wasnt horror that brought to you us. Chris grade did, im so glad to have met you this way, not because of this reason. Its great to meet you. Robert costa, always great to see you again. The right wing solution to the gun violence is always more guns. Sell more guns. Who thinks of this stuff . Make more money, sell more guns, have more people with guns and more gun fights. More gun fights is their answer. Thats what the nra wants. It doesnt help our president is reading from their nra script. Listen to the talking points from him or lapierre is the same script. Give the teachers more guns. This is hardball where action is. And respond 60 times faster. It lets you know where your data lives, down to the very server. It keeps your insights from prying eyes, so theyre used by no one else but you. It is. The cloud. The ibm cloud. The cloud thats designed for your data. Ai ready. Secure to the core. 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As usual, the opportunists wasted not one second to exploit tragedy for political gain. The elites dont care not one wit about Americas School system. And school children. If they truly cared, what they would do is they would protect them. For them, its not a safety issue. Its a political issue. They care more about control and more, their goal is to eliminate the Second Amendment. At times the president seemed to be speaking from the nra script. Here he goes. Its a bizarre fact that in this had country, our Jewelry Stores all over this country are more important than our children. Our banks, our airports, our nba games, our nfl games, our office buildings, our movie stars, our politicians, theyre all more protected than our children at school. I want my schools protected just like my banks are protected. We drop our kids off at school that are socalled gunfree zones that are wide open targets for any crazy madman bent on ebola to come there first. If youre going to continue with this nonsense about a gunfree zone, gun free, it sounds so good. Its like it sounds so great. It is such a target for the killer. The National Rifle association originated the National Instant check system. It was our bill. No one on the prohibited persons list should ever have access to a firearm. No killer no, felon no, drug dealer. The nra is ready to do things. They actually came up with certain of the rules. He had a tip sheet. The nra spent roughly 30 million helping trump get elected to the presidency and more. For more, brett stevens, msnbc contributor and donna edwards, senior fellow at the center for justice. Brett, youve been writing about this. The trouble with taking 30 million to get elected, people suspect you might be on take. That is a problem. Well, yes. And you know, i think its one of the great missed opportunities of the Trump Presidency because one of the promises of the presidency is that he had the political clout among Republican Voters to break with some of the more stale orthodoxys of the party, having been a former democrat himself. Wouldnt it have been an astonishing victory for him if he had broken, what Everybody Knows is a failed nra orthodoxy of the kind you just heard from mr. Lapierre. In addition to being a political missed tuned of course, its moral dereliction by the president to go down this to go down this path. Its one of the ways in which you could have imagined a better version of donald trump breaking through the sort of stale politics being brought to you by the nra. Instead, hes caving to it. Congresswoman, donna . We can use tape to show it. It didnt take a lot of effort to show hes having the words of lapierre about teachers having guns. They came up with the background check which is nonsense. Hes caught. Hes blowing smoke. 30 million to elect donald trump president , 24 million spent getting the house and the senate that an Wayne Lapierre wanted. The fact of the matter is that the National RifleAssociation Donald trump and republicans in congress are the one whos stand in the way of common sense gun laws that would protect children in schools and people on our streets. You know, brent, its hard to read you. Youre talking about the possibility of getting rid of the Second Amendment. We havent gotten rid of those single digit amendments in awhile. I cant think of getting any. Weve played around with booze for a while, the 18th and 21st. Are you serious in . Do you think you could get threequarters of the states to change it back to its intent which is if you want to join a militia and have a musket, you can still do that. But you cant have a multifiring School Shooter as a gun. Yes, and you could amend the Second Amendment to say perhaps the right to bear unarm one would be protected. Look, the reason ive been writing these columns is i dont think that the United States gets at the root of its gun problem which is the fact we have about 300 million guns in this country without getting at its constitutional sub structure. Im not under any illusions about the political difficulty about this, but if we had been having a conversation 25 years ago and you or i mentioned the possibility of marriage equality, for example, you would say thats a pipe dream. I also think that just like thats the opposite of the heller decision. At one moment, the court decided 54, were going to have marriage equality. The same court goes 54 and say everyone has in the d. C. Case, the howard case, everybody has a right to a gun regardless of militias or anything else. Its the courts. Its not the states. Theyre not doing there. Even before columbine happened many years before the heller decision. This country was awash in guns long before 2008 when that decision came down. So you know, one of the problems that gun control advocates have is that piecemeal gun control tends not to work because if indiana has a permissive regime and illinois doesnt, guns come. Im saying we have to have a serious conversation about why we enshrine this as a right and were not going to get started unless we are talking about it. By the way, im not by any means as opposed to responsible people owning guns. As responsible people own guns in say japan or australia or the united kingdom, countries that dont have nearly the kind of firearms violence that we do here because they have onerous restrictions who can own a gun. We have a permissive environment in which someone like cruz was able to get his hands on an ar15 and mow people down. You were in the congress. Is the Congress Going to outlaw the Second Amendment . No, lets go for the low hanging fruit. Get assault weapons. Do universal background checks and make sure that you get these high capacity magazines off the market. We can congress can do those things. You know who make it happen . These young people. Youre a hopeful person. Thank you so much, brett stevens. I agree with that. Do all of it. Shes a practical person. I think youre a dreamer. Im not sure i agree with it. You can dream and be pragmatic at the same time. We should tinker with the Second Amendment. Thank you congresswoman. Up next, will the anger over gun violence transform into a lasting Political Movement in this country and add to the blue wave democrats are hoping to see this november . Will this help the women in the suburbs help the democrats take back the house . The roundtable tackles that one. Youre watching hardball. Dont we need that cable box to watch tv . Nope. Dont we need to run . Nope. It just explodes in a high pitched yeahhh. yeahhh try directv now for 10 a month for 3 months. No satellite needed. We need the support of everybody. We need people to understand this is not partisan. This is not about red or blue. This is about life or death. We needed to have people come out and vote out the people supporting the nra. We cannot have people who do not value the safety of schools but value money instead. That was a student at stone man douglas high school. Were hearing from them today. The current anger over guns in this country could be transforming into a Political Movement ahead of this falls midterms. Lets bring in the roundtable for expertise. Jason johnson, at the root, annie lynn ski for the boston globe and Howard Fineman contributor to nbc dmus. Com. Is the nra a bad brand in the suburbs. Yes, it is. Whether or not thats going to having enough of an impact by the time we get to november, we dont know. It depends if theres another school shooting, how much a candidate is taking and it depends on whether or not a democrat is willing to stake their claim on this guy or this woman takes money from the nra. Annie . For the time being, its a bad brand. But the nra knows how to play the winning game. Its always in the spotlight for a week, maybe two weeks. But three months from now, you know, are we going to be talking about this . My guess is short of another shooting is past is prologue, we will not be. Howard, are you hopeful or believe it has legs . First of all, weve all gone to school in parkland. By which i mean its been a civics lesson for everybody and a continuing lesson. And the fact that it was articulate High School Kids running down the hall. All of them. The fact that it was in a suburb that was quite like many, many, many suburbs around the country, and the fact that its in a swing state of florida, i hate to be you know, coldly analytical of. Thats why youre hear. Of the electoral college. Connecticut, Everybody Knows where connecticut is politically. Florida is balanced right on knife point. Which makes it a national lesson, a national litmus test here. Youve got to look district by district. Ill take you to pittsburgh area, my hometown. That special race coming up march 13th. The democrat conner lamb who is a marine and who is a prosecutor, hes not going to put this at the forefront. That tells you what . It tells me that hes still got Rural Counties that hes got to try to win if hes going to pull off that major upset in that area. He doesnt want to look like a nancy pelosi liberal democrat. He doesnt to. However, there are 20 other house districts come fall. Clinton won. Cluster county, bucks county, all those counties around philadelphia, is it good to go after your guy, the opponent as an nra guy . Much better than it was. I think the nra has taken one step too far. Theyre starting to sound in defending ar15s, everybody in the country now knows what an ar15 is thanks to the kids in florida. I think nobody wants their teacher riding shotgun. Right. I think its chilling because you know in tough schools, the teacher, theyll be students challenging him with a gun, taunting him with a gun. You can imagine it and know what its going to be like. Im in a college classroom. There were shootings at virginia tech. I love my colleagues. I dont want them carrying guns in the hallway. Someone is going to leave one somewhere. The possibilities for workplace violence. Im looking at you. I can tell if youre carrying a gun. It bulges here. You cant hide a real gun. It puts the issue front and center in more peoples lives than this conversation generally goes. All of a sudden, you do have every single parent thinking to themselves, wait a minute, do i want that . It affects more people that way. Guns in the classroom. Thats bad, bad, bad politically for the republicans and for donald trump. Because what youre doing, even for conservatives, i think theyre beginning to realize that the nra has taken so far theyre going to restrict other freedoms of American Life in defense of ar15s. Youre going to turn every teacher in america into a spy if not a cop. Youre going to make them have to turn over material to the government to surveil kids. What theyre doing, what the nra is doing now is actually diminishing freedoms in the name of protecting ar15s. Im shocked to know thats going on. Thats an argument you can make to conservatives. It looks selfish. The roundtable is sticking with us. Youre watching hardball. Patients that i see that complain about dry mouth. They feel that they have to drink a lot of water. Medications seem to be the number one cause for dry mouth. I like to recommend biotene. It replenishes the moisture in your mouth. Biotene definitely works. 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Housings commissioner for 20 years. Fought twice against crorry booker being elected mayor. Upon her passing he sent a bouquet and letters and recommendations from jon corzine at the time. Its that kind of person hop builds our cities, saves our communities. I da clark. Can you google her. Yes, you can. She was my grandmother. Annie . In this moment in particular, im going to pick a leader who as a young student rode buss in the south to stand up to entrenched forces. Thats john lewis. You know, i recently read his auto biography which i would highly recommend to your viewers. Hes really you, you know, he an fought and fought and fought at a time when he easily could have become discouraged. But kept on. I think thats a lesson thats important if you want to effect real change in the country. He was able to do it. Howard as a journalist, im going to look to w. E. B. Dubois. Even though he was trained as a sociologist, i regard him as one of americas great journalists of any color up there with edward r. Murrow or john hiresy, you name it because he took his skills and approach into the city of philadelphia originally into the 7th ward of philadelphia. And described the lives of black people there and their community and their culture in an indelible and journalistic way. It bears reading today. And it was written 120 years ago. As a touchstone journalistically. It also taught me the most american story is the black story. Well said. Thank you. Thats why were doing it. Thank you jason, annie and howard. Well be right back. Theres a Common Thread i see every time im in the field. While this was burning, you were saving other homes. Neighbors helping neighbors and strangers alike. This is what americas about. Sometimes its nice to see all the good thats out there. Bringing folks out, we have seen it in community after community. 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When you talk about going to heaven, it is almost sounds to me like one of those guys with the nba playoffs say theyre going to disneyland. Well, i dont know about that. Ive of but ill tell you how i feel. I feel wonderful about it. Im looking forward to going to heaven. Perhaps it was this pure confident faith that made him such a presence. You felt yourself, by the way in the company of gods own love. Maybe it was that simple humility. Il never forget meeting him. He died yesterday in his home in the North Carolina mountains. He was 99. Thanks for being with us. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in. I spoke with the nra at the top people. Theyre very close to me. Im close to them. The nras president arrives at the nra solution. We have to harden our schools. God help us if we dont harden our schools. Tonight, the president s plan to add more guns into schools and the students fighting for much more. 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