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To kpa -- directly giving to pacts. they spent $54.4 million on the 2016 election. that was $31.2 million spent on trump and 19.8 spent against hillary clinton. we have chart that shows your ted cruz of texas who takes great credit for the heller decision to made the right to bear arms gets the most. paul ryan is number three. how influenced are they by people in the nra? >> outrageo outrageous. it's influencing people's decisions. even to come in the middle for something like universal background checks that 90% of

That's been the case through history. sawed off shotguns were not allowed since 1938, and even in the heller decision of 2008, which was awful in a 5-4 decision, the supreme court said that there could be restrictions. so no, i think the supreme court needs better justices who interpret the second amendment and the way it should be interpreted, which is kind of what justice stevens says. it was for a well-regulated militia, but it won't be repealed and it's a political issue. this is one place where president trump is right about the law. even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while. >...

There are things decided. i read some pieces by folks on the left the heller decision, so what, supreme court precedent, so. what i want to remind people, if you want to repeal it, we go a schoolhouse rock on you, i had to look it up, too. to repeal a constitutional amendment two-thirds majority in the u.s. house and senate. i chuckle. then three- fourths of every state legislature, 34 states. or constitutional convention called by two-thirds of states and three quarters of the states have to aploov. -- approve. they can't even pass the most basic things along majority lines in this the senate...

For a 21 for gun law, tighten background checks and an assault ban -- rifle ban, a former supreme court justice says the problem with the movement today is that it doesn't go far enough. in a "new york times" op-ed justice john paul stephens says he believes the second amendment was written during a time when militias were needed and that he has always been against it. he says, quote: the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. they should demand a repeal of the second amendment. here now mollie hemingway senior editor at the federalist and fox news contributor and ma...

>> fill everybody in. >> in 2008 the heller decision, and which is the decision that a lot of the gun advocates. >> that the nra uses that says you can't legislate gun control. >> and justice stevens makes the argument that this overreaches the very language of the second amendment, the second amendment covers the right to bear arms for militias and the like. and the decision, the case involved the right to bear arms to hunt, the right to bear arms for self-defense. and that for him went beyond the scope of the second amendment and then he proceeded to make the argument. so you would think tha...