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Letter to the president. it's obviously a very large envelope over there which was delivered, a fancy package. is that the normal way an international letter of this sort would be delivered by the north korean regime? >> reporter: in north korean culture, e-mails don't cut it. when it comes to actually wanting to send a message straight to the top you do it in a letter form. we have delivered letters in the past to north korean leaders kim jong-un, or his representatives, to deliver a letter, i have to put on a suit, the letter is in a formal binder, you hand it over in a ceremonial way, so fo...

Former director for korea, japan and oceanic affairs at the national security council joins us. jeffrey lewis is the director of the east asia nonproliferation program at the middlebury institute at monterey. and rick stengel, former under secretary of state for diplomacy and foreign affairs during the obama administration. jeff jeffrey, what is that letter? >> well, my understanding is the president of the united states dick stat dictated that letter. wendy sherman who worked in the obama administration compared it to a break-up letter from a 13-year-old writing a stream consciousness from a ...

And i thought sandy hook and i'm delighted that the soeshts murp mur -- that senator murphy is here today. we thought sandy hook would be the end and he and i introduced another assault weapons bill after the first one. we didn't succeed with it. but the killings have gone on, the number of -- of incidents h gone up and i'll put my case in writing which i will give you if i may in letter form. >> good. thank you. >> and secondly, the assault weapons legislation, this is the number of incidents before and -- of incidents and of deaths. this is when the ten-year assault weapon ban was in. incide...

Mentioned? any embarrassment he should have suffered because of his language in the "access hollywood" tape? do you think there's a plausible truth to that dossier report in that regard? >> well, i don't know. i'll tell you this. i do have concerns with the majority of issuance of subpoenas. that was done in the minority. wave practice in the committee that has been down a partisan basis. we request information voluntarily before we ever contemplate a subpoena. here, they were never made in letter form or written request to the department. instead, the first the department got was a scene that...

Her nephew, greg. stand by, doctor, because greg is on the phone operating now. he's a nephew of the 100 yard voter grace bell hardison. greg thank you so much for jo joining us. so your aunt received a letter saying her voter status was being challenged. how did she react and what did you do? >> all she could say was, i can't vote? i can't vote? greg, i can't vote? and at that time, it really hurt me because she was about to cry when she was saying that and what i did is i reassured her we would get it taken care of. i didn't know what you had to do. she's been a registered voter all her life...