'Today': Being Tough on Crime Requires Opposing NRA

Published: September 22, 2007, 8:22 am

Tags: 2008 presidential, campaign 2008, guns, craig crawford, john yang, lester holt, rudy giuliani, nbc, today, video

At first I thought I might have misunderstood. Lester Holt surely didn't mean to imply that befriending the NRA jeopardizes a politician's reputation for being tough on crime, did he? Oh yes he did. View video here. On this morning's "Today," weekend co-anchor Holt introduced a segment on Rudy Giuliani's Friday speech to the NRA, in which Rudy tried to take some of the sharp edges off his prior anti-NRA positions . . . LESTER HOLT: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giulani remains the apparent GOP front-runner of his party for the White House, but his long record of being tough on crime was put to the test on Friday as he addressed one of his party's biggest supporters, the NRA. NBC's John Yang has the story. Yang perpetutated the notion that crime-fighting and supporting the NRA are intrinsically at odds. JOHN YANG: As a crime-fighting NYC Mayor, Rudy Giuliani called the NRA "right-wing extremists." As a presidental candidate he's asking for their votes. A

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