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nbc news has confirmed he's currently in custody and is set to make his first appearance in federal court just a few minutes from now. let us get to it. joining me now is nbc news nas political reporter sahil kapur, host of "the beat" ari melber and barbara mcquaid. pete, i want to begin with you. this is a bit tricky territory for the d.o.j., is it not? >> reporter: well, it didn't seem to be in his case, in the steve bannon case, though it took the justice department almost twice as long to decide whether to pull the trigger on peter navarro on two counts, one for refusing to give ...

District of columbia within their home. there is a "new york times" opinion piece today from two of the clerks on that decision, the majority scalia and the minority stevens, the dissenting opinion. they write that lawmakers are reading this case wrong, that scalia didn't say that you can't regulate firearms, that there wasn't a role for congress to play in this. will you explain this to us, adam. >> sure. the supreme court in the heller case did say there was an individual right to bare arms protected by the second amendment but many judges and advocates out there especially in the nra and gu...

A lot of times for these mid terms or even the presidential election. the voter turnout in this country is very, very low. i want to emphasize again the majority opinion by scalia says a few things. "the problem of hand gun violence in this country is serious, that the constitution leaves the government with a variety of tools for combatting that problem including some measures regulating handguns." it also says it recognized "presumptively lawful regulations regulations such as laws imposing conditions on qualifications carrying arms and noted the tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dang...