S2: The NRA | EP2: A Clear Crisis

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Society & Culture, History, True Crime, Documentary

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Lines are drawn, as Wayne LaPierre’s supremacy is tested, and the rift spills out into public. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	See 13 originals.
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0:25.9	I spent almost four years exclusively covering the National Rifle Association, which I don't
0:33.3	think another reporter has ever done before.
0:39.6	That's Mike Spees.
0:41.7	You heard Mike in episode one.
0:44.2	He's a reporter for ProPublica, who's covered the NRA for the New Yorker and the Trace,
0:50.3	a non-profit newsroom which focuses on guns and violence in America.
0:56.8	Insiders have been telling me for years, you know, you got to look at the contractors.
1:01.0	There's all kinds of money issues.
1:02.7	People complain about it all the time.
1:05.8	One frequent contractor that came up was the NRA's long time.
1:10.6	Public relations firm, Akram McQueen.
1:14.0	But for years, it was sort of like I just couldn't get into it.
1:17.6	People would say it, but there was no proof.
1:20.9	And then I started to develop a better stable of sources.
1:24.7	I started to get information on people who were coming and going from the organization.
1:31.0	People who would have, and theory, known things.
1:35.7	The light bulb moment was this.
1:39.2	The end of 2018, the NRA filed its 2017 990, which is the tax filing that all non-profits
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