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Conservative majority could rule in favor of the national rifle association and other gun right groups. joining me now from outside the supreme court is nbc justice correspondent pete williams. pete, just to underscore this, this particular legislation about which this case is based is no longer on the books. which is kind of curious that this thing has continued all the way to the supreme court. >> well, the -- the -- its continued to todays argument. after the supreme court agreed to hear the ...

Prices go up, and they are saying hmm, if i go up and renovate my home, how much more can i make? instead of selling the house and making $20,000, your making $40,000.60000 because youre adding more value. that is as a positive. the second group of people that are going and renovating and saying in their homes and saying, instead of selling my home and being one of those many buyers trying to find a home in the housing market where there is so much demand and very little inventory, i am instead ...

Landscaper who worked on one of those very large, very expensive paul manafort second homes. theres been a lot of talk about bob mueller following the money a phrase everyone remembers from watergate. what were seeing through the witness list swi a preview of the treasures that this prosecutor team wants to prove at trial is they want to trace for the jury account entire story of manaforts money from whatever he did to get it in ukraine to the individual vendors that he spent the money on to all...

Transfer, many of them from bank accounts over in cyprus. prosecutors say theyll prove manafort made those millions through his work in ukraine. wealthy oligarchs supporting his client, the pro-putin guy, transferring those millions to shell companies which then went to cyprus bank accounts that were effectively controlled by manafort which then fund out to all of those very noticeable luxury goods. who else is on this witness list released today? it appears to be the guy who sold paul manafort ...

Said cohens work did not meet the requirement to registertor register as a lobbyist. is at&t cutting it close from an ethical perspective? >> as tom said, michael cohen is not somebody who is known for his antitrust expertise or telecom expertise. so hes being brought on because he has access to the president. at the very least, that is -- that is the kind of swampy, unethical behavior that people dont like in washington. but theres stuff that we dont know yet that is going to tell us whether th...

Have clusters of what appear to be rural areas and vast acreage of that kind of topography. that presents a very difficult dilemma for the police. first, the police have to assume that they secured the murdered officers weapon, and that they secured any portable radio equipment he may have. >> i didnt even think about that. they could have his radio. >> yeah, they can. they can be listening in to whats going on. so they have to move to a discreet or an encrypted frequency to ensure that these as...

It took him a while to get into it. we have to keep him up there. be a builder. be robert moses. do something. >> absolutely. the chamber of commerce and the aflcio that could barely agree today is tuesday agreed to raise the gas tax. it was last increased 21 years ago. does anybody think they could have gone 21 yeas without a raise in income or supplements? you couldnt do it. the gas tax is now worth 11 centses in 1993 dollars. its going down, down, down. its a user fee. the best way to pay for...

Michael and i could in the next 24 hours find 300 billion dollarses in tax expenditures that are not necessary. mitt romney advocated getting rid of some tax expenditures. the mortgage deduction on second homes. >> carrying interest. the equity market. >> the three of us could do it in 24 hours and the nation would not be at all hurt by the elimination of the loopholes. >> big government when it comes to highways is something we all believe in. >> we want big government, absolutely. >> the leade...

The beaver creek fire has burned more than 100,000 acres and forced thousands from their homes. this is 8% contained at this hour. here is paul. >> reporter: its sun valley, idaho. the race to save the playground took to the skies. 11 helicopters are available to continue the battle monday against the massive beaver creek fire. on the ground, more than 1200 firefighters, 100 of them from five of the hot shot crews along with the 90 inches. the beaver creek forced the evacuation of 2,000 properti...

Have been an accident. the car may have slammed into a tree and that dorner, we understand, this is all from radio scanner traffic, then ran into the woods. so the search is ongoing. this is the first time there has been this strong evidence of a sighting of dorner since thursday, since his truck was found burning outside big bear lake. it had weapons in it. it had camping equipment inside, and an intense search has been going on. big bear lake a resort area east of los angeles in the san bernar...