Tonight the mind boggling fraud and Money Laundering charges are for Paul Manafort and rick gates and what it means to the Mueller Investigation and why the republican governor of missouri was just taken into custody by the st. Louis sheriff when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Forced by the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to reckon with the senseless massacre that upended their lives last week, the gun lobby and the president they back as strongly as anyone they ever backed are trying to reframe the debate in terms that serve their own interests, offering up a proposal that would benefit the gun industry and avoid the root problem all together. Put more guns in americas schools. We have to harden our schools. Not soften them up. A gunfree zone to a killer or somebody that wants to be a killer, thats like going in for the ice cream. Thats like here i am, take me. But i think we need hardened sites. We need to let people know. You co
Plus, brandnew charges for Donald Trumps former Campaign Chairman. I think thats pretty tough stuff. Tonight the mind boggling fraud and Money Laundering charges are for Paul Manafort and rick gates and what it means to the Mueller Investigation and why the republican governor of missouri was just taken into custody by the st. Louis sheriff when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Forced by the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to reckon with the senseless massacre that upended their lives last week, the gun lobby and the president they back as strongly as anyone they ever backed are trying to reframe the debate in terms that serve their own interests, offering up a proposal that would benefit the gun industry and avoid the root problem all together. Put more guns in americas schools. We have to harden our schools. Not soften them up. A gunfree zone to a killer or somebody that wants to be a killer, thats like going in for the ice cream.
house are such a difference from the clear, hard voices of these young people who are standing up for what s rational. i should point out, are you a former republican office holder, member of congress for many years. you bed in leadership, correct? i did. senator boxer, there is a cycle to this. there was a period of time in which democrats really led the charge on gun safety and gun regulation. it was seen as a winning issue. and things changed in the late 90s, 2000, people attributed al gore s loss to the assault on the ban. is that changing now? i believe it is. and i say that with a full heart because i ve thought it before. when they murdered all those babies at sandy hook. but i think, micky edwards is right. how many times can we see the nra do the same thing over and over? we re not fools. americans are smart. whenever there s a horrible,
and barbara, you know, if you stand up to the nra and you lose your seat, life goes on. there are things much more important, you know, to protect the lives of young americans than to say gee, i want to hold this job for no another two years. it s cool. you got it. it s, do you remember, barbara, when we were there and there was this proposal to ban plastic guns. yes. which was so common sense. and i voted for it and the nra attacked me. i sent their money back and i said i m never again going to take another penny from this organization. that s what we need. we need courageous republicans. most of the democrats are on the right side of this, not all. i want to make a point though, micky. you re so right. when i started out, california was a red state. then it was purple, then blue. but in the days when it was a red state and i was in local office and then the house, i just put it all online like you did. they came after me, they still
just put it all online like you did. they came after me, they still come after me. i m retired, they still chase me around with their tweets. and i proved, i proved that you could win even if you stood up to these people because even the people that didn t agree with me, said that woman has guts. you know? let s see some guts. you know, micky, let me ask you this. you re not there s a certain kind of retired republican that represents a district that s now become very democratic. maybe they represented new hampshire. you re from oklahoma. right? right. the folks in the district you represent are, do they want more guns in schools? is that an idea that s going to sell where you used to represent? well, i don t know. that district has gotten much more right wing than it was when i represented it. when i was elected it was a heavily democratic state. and it has moved pretty far to