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Couldn t. but president trump said, look, the nra, its americans, so on and so forth. i m paraphrasing them a bit now. even with that, he wants to do the right thing. he said it more than once. i don t know, melissa, exactly what that s going to be. i think you re right. hold on a second. everybody brings a little piece of the puzzle. as brian just said, the farther away you get from the table that has a republican, a democrat, and president trump bringing people together, the more complicated it gets. it isn t just because of the lobby money. it isn t just because everybody has points of view. it s because of the national stage. melissa: in some ways, that can make it better. harris: i hope you are right. melissa: they go way out on a limb. was that the los angeles times is that they were a terrorist organization? oh, they argued against it. that s right. jessica: san francisco. melissa: those are two groups on the left. ....
What s going on, but most of all, martin, i was a candidate forum. i said they don t care about you, you realize that? but don t worry because there are other republicans who are on the take just like you. all this is what s happening right now, this is why president trump was so strong about disavowing pacts and pushing back from special interests. the republicans and democrats have been guilty on both sides of the aisle. this is what created this mess. that s why all during my campaign, i have disavowed pacts, i will not accept any lobby money because it s dangerous to the american people. this young man doesn t realize that he s actually bought and paid for too. just like some of our republicans. but there are so many republicans. that may be one of the problems for the republicans in the race. there are 11 of them. but there s only one bruce lavelle who will not take the money. there are republicans who are bought and paid for and democrats that are bought and paid for. ....
Boehner for 25 years. in 2006 they pleaded guilty to charges from the jack abram lobbying scandal. he accepted gifts in exchange for votes and served 17 months in prison. now he s going after his old buddy john boehner in a new book. nay accuses boehner of allegedly having an extramarital affair, heavy drinking, taking thousands of dollars in gifts from lobbyists and just being lazy. i spoke today on my radio show today. he thinks boehner s past has a lot to do with the gridlock in washington. as we talk about sequestering and fiscal cliffs, the advocacy money and the lobby money is flowing all thoefr place to make decisions. and at the helm is a person, the speaker of the house, that was involved in all of these things with abramoff. and i think people have a right to know what the third in line to the presidency is about. he also told me that boehner is concerned about one thing, ....
A 2005 law underlines this aspect of the gun industry s franchise. it immunized the gun industry from any lawsuit related to crimes involving a firearm and in fact, it is the only u.s. consumer product not subject to federal safety regulations. another little known victory for the nra was tucked into credit card rules signed into law in 2009. as part of negotiations for that law, it allows guns at national parks and though these laws are not landmark, the 1997 brady bill supreme court decision was. in the process, they cut back federal power, gave the states a boost and the law named after the wounded presidential press secretary looks a lot different tonight than when it was first passed. now, the lobby money spent by the nra partly explains its success over the brady campaign. over the last decade, they have outspent the leading gun control group ten to one according to usa today . that includes millions to law ....
Yet when the government tries to plan for the whole society. that is too centralized. there is note enough room for competition and individual choice and not people planning with their own money to achieve their own purposes. you see it even with sarah palin who has libertarian instincts but when she sees a problem, her intuition, that government needs to come up with a plan to prevent overfishing. maybe the problem in the fishing area we don t sufficiently rely on property rights and markets. it might be difficult to figure out how to use property rights with ocean resources but that is the way we should be thinking. john: moving on to minimum wage. intuition, help poor people help low wage workers. intuition is so obviously. there are people that don t make enough money to support their families. why not have a law saying everybody who works 40 hours a week should make enough to ....