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Nbc's savannah gurthrie's in pittsburgh now. what's the message to these other leaders? >> reporter: well, the message that it'll be giving but also receiving is that the world really needs to get serious about regulating the financial system. i should mention, contessa, that the president is in new york at a important meeting, the u.n. security council. he's actually presiding over this issue. but after that is over, after a couple more meetings at the u.n., all of the world leaders as you mentioned will come here to pittsburgh. and as i said one of the issues is financial regulatory reform. ...

Criminalize free speech, to criminalize free expression, to criminalize criticism. to actually use criminal authorities and national security authorities to conduct surveillance to find, locate potentially eaves drop, potentially arrest someone who is criticizing the president. and it is in line as president obama pointed out with other efforts by president trump to use the apparatus of the state to go after critics, to threaten to strip broadcast licenses from the media that he doesn't support, and, of course, to use other mechanisms that are totally inappropriate to go after political critic...

Efforts by president trump to use the apparatus of the state to go after critics, to threaten to strip broadcast licenses from the media that he doesn't support, and, of course, to use other mechanisms that are totally inappropriate to go after political criticism. >> and don't believe jeremy and me. listen for your own ears. here's donald trump while president obama was speaking talking about doing just what jeremy describes. let's listen. >> do you think jeff sessions should be investigating who the author of the op-ed piece was or who said -- >> i think so because i think it's national secu...

Guilty or is prosecuted by the mueller team, would he not support those who did wrong, even if he was unaware of it? >> certainly, we want everyone to follow the law, but i'm not going to comment on a -- once again, a hypothetical situation. the president has been cleared, he and his campaign were not involved in collusion. if he had -- >> i'm not asking you that. >> okay, you guys would have found that out. and i'm addressing that. brian? >> but he would support -- >> the president would absolutely support the law and individuals following the law. what the president doesn't support is a year...

He mocked senator toomey for saying, oh, you're afraid of the nra. anything s there anything in this list of proposals that the nra doesn't support? signs point to no. they seemed to have been the last person to speak to the president and the white house about the bill they put forward. some progress is better than none. but this is an nra approved checklist. >> so, david, what's the play here? that despite what he said in the meeting on tv, that he's going to do what everybody in his party does when it comes to this issue. and that was just for show. when it's time to go, he checks every box ...