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This time last night we were george mason university about midway through our live town hall guns in america. president obama took questions from me and members of the audience including nra members, gun rights advocates. the back and forth got tense at times. a chance for president obama to talk face-to-face with critics and supporters. gary tuchman was watching from a florida gun range with a grown up of gun enthusiasts and tonight reports. >> reporter: at the shooting sports range in florida, they shoot before the sun goes down. [ gunshots ]. >> reporter: and after it sets, we joined people...

Him in the election. it was to their advantage not to vote. proved to be a very bad miscalculation. >> what do you make of the president using his executive power you? are a legislature. >> i think it's fine. we had been urging him to set the example for raising the minimum wage anywhere within his power to do so. of course, we would prefer to pass legislation to raise the minimum wage for everyone. over 60 officers of those getting the minimum wage are women. so we think it's really an important initiative. lift millions of people out of poverty. maybe 6 million as well as inject demand into ...

About wanting that soft power for themselves. this attack may have come from north korea and executed by russian hackers working from servers in china, all of those countries have potential interests in reducing the influence of the american entertainment industry. >> that's a very interesting point. we both interviewed a human rights organization who is going to drop movies over north korea to get people to realize what's going on in the outside world and those movies come from hollywood, right? >> absolutely. i think what's really scary is when you think about this hack and the precedent it ...

To release it. then it was released. i find that interesting. your perspective from sony, they had maybe legal concerns before they decided to put this movie out. >> sure, here's the reality. in america, we have this first amendment right and we like to be expressive and the supreme court says you don't want to kill sfeech. we have unrestrained, unbridled areas to share them. let's clear it with the white house, let's clear it with the state department, bring it to someone else. when would that end? it's problematic and laura to the point of cyber terrorism or whatever, forget about the labels...

For lifting the embargo, which is the unconditional release of political prisoners, the recognition of labor unions and journalists an the parties and schedule of free elections we would all celebrate, the way we are celebrating alan gross' release. but what we don't like is the legitimizing this dictator at the end of their lives. >> legitimizing dictators at the end of their life and a key point of this situation. and there is the deal itself and the precedent it sets. today robert menendez slammed the deal, and as a democrat, the president's own pal, trading mr. gross for three people sets ...