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>> i think the coast is much clearer now for that aid to get through and the response by the coast guard has been rapid and robust. not only cutters but helicopters as well. international relief aid as well from the u.n. and the red cross. initially the help was simply volunteers. it was people with jet skis, boats, ropes. people swimming trying to save their relatives and trying to save their neighbors. that aid is getting ramped up remarkably quickly as helicopters in the sky above me now, peo...

Other business leaders to enter the korconversation. are we at a tipping point in the discussion? >> if we just take a step back and look in just the last five years how far weve come, we beat 18 nra endorsed members of congress in this legislation. we passed background checks in the house of representatives. of course, we need to vote in the senate. and now, credit to walmart and kroger, big retail chains are taking action, and its because moms and community groups and gun safety organizations ...

>> look f. you cou, if you coul weapons of war off the street, i support an assault weapons ban. i think we can do it. but lets keep the focus on the issues where 90% or 80% of american people are in agreement and thats where we are. we have these guys on the ropes. lets push these issues and then work our way towards an assault weapons ban and other things. but right now we have 97% of the american people supporting us on a clean background check bill, closing the charleston loophole, which is ...

This is what politicians would be offended with an ethnic group. >> laura: first of all i was in ballet class for one class and i got kicked out. >> i did it part of my acting training. if you walk around in tights they will razz you. it is not exemplary or email. >> laura: i climbed the ropes. >> this ended with 300 ballet dancers mostly boys joining a class in times square. look at this. i hope she offends a mechanic neck so the boys have to change oil. >> laura: weve got to go. >> you are sor...

Group. -- when you offend an ethnic group. >> laura: first of all, i was in ballet class for one class and i got kicked out. >> i did as part of my acting training. if you walk around in tights they will razz you. it is not exemplary for a male. >> laura: i climbed the ropes. >> this ended with 300 ballet dancers mostly boys joining a class in times square. look at this. i hope she offends a mechanic next so the boys have to change oil.: >> laura: weve got to go. >> you are sorry we are out of t...

What do you attribute that too, how do you understand the politics as a moment when the institutional nra is so bee set by scandal and so weak? >> the president is never going to abandon the nra, chris. and so we have to act accordingly, and when the white house and when the senate. but we gave the nra the benefit of the doubt for too long, which is they had a perverse interpretation of the second amendment in he reality, carols reporting has shown, its worse, its greed and gristing and perhaps ...

Whats almost more eerie in the era of trump, though, all of this material about what was going on behind the scenes as the congressman alluded to about the spending, the effort to buy a $6 million house for nra funds for wayne lapierre. the bahamas, while thats going on and the nra membership is getting fed up. and wayne lapierre is on the ropes and under investigation. the president is also under a lot of pressure, two shootings, 31 people dead. one of those shootings, the president was the pre...

The savers and saying we are in desperate need of your funds and help and we have to protect the second amendment. whats almost more eerie in the era of trump, though, all of this material about what was going on behind the scenes as the congressman alluded to about the spending, the effort to buy a $6 million house for nra funds for wayne lapierre. the bahamas, while thats going on and the nra membership is getting fed up. and wayne lapierre is on the ropes and under investigation. the presiden...

>> the president is never going to abandon the nra, chris. and so we have to act accordingly, and when the white house and when the senate. but we gave the nra the benefit of the doubt for too long, which is they had a perverse interpretation of the second amendment in he reality, carols reporting has shown, its worse, its greed and gristing and perhaps the red flag if you will on this, should have been that the russians were funning the nra and they allowed it to happen anyway. there are no gun...

Convergence of all these gun safety groups. they came together, they beat 18 nra endorsed members of congress. we passed background checks in the first 100 days in the new house of representatives. and so we should believe that we can make change at the ballot box. i want to change my colleagues to see an opportunity here. the nra is on the ropes. the public is behind us in a big way. 62% want an assault weapons ban. when they say ban, they dont mean a future ban, meaning banning future manufact...