Hey welcome to In The Thick. This is a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective.

I'm Maria Ino Jose.

And I'm Julio Ricaldo Varela.

So former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates pled guilty, guilty, guilty, in the Mueller

probe.

The White House was on lockdown Friday afternoon after a woman drove her vehicle into the security barrier. A law enforcement

official told NBC News that the woman has mental problems and was known to the

secret service because she's been around the White House before. On another note, Wayne the Pier, the CEO of the National Rifle Association, the NRA,

listen to this, has accused Democrats of pushing a quote socialist agenda to deprive gun owners of their weapons.

Yeah and then Dana Loach who's the spokesperson for the NRA says a shooter who killed

17 people last week at the high school in Florida

should not have been able to get a firearm.

I don't believe that this insane monster

should have ever been able to obtain a firearm. Ever. She called them nuts and crazy.

You know, I'm glad to hear that the NRA agrees that

Nicholas Cruz should not have a gun.

But come on, I mean, I tweeted about this this money and Terrell's talked about it.

She's belittling mental health. It's a spectrum. It cannot be generalized in any

way. Most school shooters have a profile of being angry,

bullied, or socially I say kids, but they've not been diagnosed with a

mental health illness that would flag them in a background check when buying a gun.

And then to see President Trump.

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