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>> today the u.s. supreme court will take up the first gun rights case in nearly a decade. handgun owners are challenging a new york law that limits the transportation of guns. that law has since been amended but the case is moving forward with some gun rights advocates framing it as a test of the second amendment. joining me now jeffrey toobin. the circumstance of this, new york has amended this law, take it out of the legal pipeline here. will the supreme court likely declare it moot or take i...

They start, you know, expanding the meaning, background checks could definitely be unconstitutional. its such a perfect issue about the polar ags of the country. you have the gun lobby moving in one direction, much of the rest of the country in the other. >> to be fair, the polls are massively different sides because the public polling shows a large majority of people do support measures like this, right? so you got a very powerful but small poll. >> but you have an even more powerful united sta...

Do any favors to democrats. >> republicans would face risk if they showed up, would they not? repeatedly claiming the executive privilege. having to defend some areas where the answers from republican witnesses just dont ad up. >> listen, i dont think wednesdays hearing is that big a deal because its constitutional scholars. i think what the white house has become expert at is making excuses. then forgetting they made the previous excuse and the previous excuse before that. but they do face risk...

Black folk and gay folk. >> reporter: i can tell you, craig, though, that folks in iowa are also looking at whats happening down here. intalked to wendy hyatt, and she says that she is now hesitant to support pete buttigieg because of his polling numbers in places like south carolina, saying in 2020, they need to build up that coalition. that is what pete buttigieg is trying to prove from the southern swing, from north carolina to south carolina, hell be in alabama later this week, craig. >> vau...

The supreme court just finished hearing arguments in its first major case on guns in a decade. and its a case that could have some major implications for gun rights nationwide. our justice correspondent, putin williams, was inside the court this morning, listening to those arguments. pete, what can you tell us? >> could have major implications, probably wont. i think this case has sort of fizzled out. and heres the reason. the law at issue here was a strange one. it existed only in new york city...

Theyre going not direction we feared. it seems like this is not a case thats going to undermine all of that great progress weve made. >> your supporters inside the courtroom got the same sense as our justice correspondent, putin williams got, that this was not going to be the case that upended any sort of settled law? >> you know, its hard to know for sure, because really, the court can do, in some senses, what they want. it does sound like they did not focus as much on the merits as they did on...

Gun regulations. so thats good news. >> this is the first time in roughly a decade, though that the court has even heard a second amendment case, like this one. for folks who havent been following every twist and turn, what has changed in that decade? >> so much has changed. in the decade since heller, heller struck down a very, very narrow law that prohibited gun ownership in washington, d.c., and since then, courts have upheld hundreds and hundreds of laws that have been challenged on second a...

I mean, the big division in a lot of second amendment debates, whether its in courts or scholarship or just sort of in public discussion, is about the degree to which and the ways in which the right to keep and bear arms extends outside the home. so in that heller case i mentioned from 2008, the holding was officially directed just to a claim to possess a firearm in the home for self-defense. the court didnt have to say clearly and it didnt whether that right extends outside the home. most court...

Campaigns into each others strongho strongholds. were live in iowa, we are also live in south carolina, as well. this is the scene in iowa right now. both of those candidates making their pitch. and as we speak right now, the supreme court is hearing arguments on its biggest case on guns in ten years. its a decision that could have a huge impact on local gun laws going forward. im going to talk to a woman who works every day to advocate for new gun laws to reduce gun violence. she spoke on the s...

To bring their own lawyers, the president is really going to be relying on his allies on the judiciary committee to make the case that he is really innocent, that he did nothing wrong, and that this is really democrats being angry about the 2016 election and wanting to unseat a legitimately elected president. and what i think were going to see in this judiciary hearing committee is really the fireworks are going to be with the lawmakers, from my sources on capitol hill, it sounds as though these...