Cowboys are an important part of American history and so are all the settlers who pushed westward in the 1800s using guns to hunt, to protect themselves and to fight Native Americans. There are now about 400 million guns in the U.S. That adds up to more firearms than people. Mike McIntire is a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter at the NY Times. He’s been covering gun violence, gun culture and gun politics for almost 40 yrs. McIntire has written a new book called Ricochet: Guns, Greed and the American Way of Violence. We talk about gun industry profits and what McIntire says is a growing extremism when it comes to the access to firearms.

His nickname is the Mooch and he gained a place in history when he became the shortest-serving Communications Director in White House history after being on the job for 10 days.  Scaramucci had known Trump for decades before joining the administration. Both were New Yorkers who traveled in prominent circles. Scaramucci had also made a fortune on Wall Street, starting out at Goldman Sachs investment banking division before founding the investment firm SkyBridge Capital. The former White House Communications Director now considers Donald Trump a threat to democracy. He lays out his case about how the U.S. took a wrong turn in a new book called All the Wrong Moves. Anthony Scaramucci talks about his biggest mistakes, how his marriage nearly fell apart and what it means to have a moral core. That’s all on the new episode of “Now What?”