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Doesnt even know that hes supposed to pretend to. thats what worries me. you have to at least pretend. ronald reagan wasnt reading dense policy papers, but he listened to peel who summarized them for him. trump doesnt know anything more about whats going on in this country than, frankly, some of my pre-adolescent cousins. and that frightens me. because things could get more serious than what weve seen thus far. if you dont understand the very basics of the civil war, you simply werent capable of...

Had dumped out or anything like that. very minuscule amount. thats the scary thing about it. >> it can be 50 times stronger than street grade heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. this is what a fatal dose of fentanyl looks like. two milligrams is enough to kill you it doesnt take swallows it or inhaling it just inadvertently come into contact and absorbing in your skin is lethal. prescribed to people in extreme pain. showing up on street corners across the country along with a more de...

Had dumped out or anything like that. very minuscule amount. thats the scary thing about it. >> it can be 50 times stronger than street grade heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. this is what a fatal dose of fentanyl looks like. two milligrams is enough to kill you it doesnt take swallows it or inhaling it just inadvertently come into contact and absorbing in your skin is lethal. prescribed to people in extreme pain. showing up on street corners across the country along with a more de...

And far from absorbing or ignoring, they take them very seriously. they believe in them, they believe that they exist, that theyre real. they just think that theyre demons. they believe that anyone mounted is pes edpossessed by the devil. indeed thebelieve t entire country is possessed by the devil. they base that belief on an event that took place one night more than 200 years ago. a night that launched the only successful slave revolution in history. a night that gave birth to the nation. >> h...

Had a six-month ban on the iraqi refuge program after two iraqis came here to this country and radicalized and masterminds behind the bowling green massacre and most people dont know that because it didnt get covered. >> bowling green massacre. you remember that. for the history is written on that? the history is long and absorbing. >> i think ken burns -- >> and meachams next book is on bowling green massacre, right? >> willie? the bowling green massacre. >> isnt it -- what are you thinking abo...

Head of the defense intelligence agency, he obviously has some experience briefings, absorbing, intel, he certainly worked in iraq doing that. that was kind of tough to absorb. so hes got some experience there, but he hasnt been on this kind of much broader platform which is going to involve a lot of relationships and ability to kind of square the circle between sometimes defense and state. it is not going to be an easy task. >> you talk about the state department and the department of defense. ...

>> one of the things weve been sort of absorbing and contextualize is what appears to be the bottom line of this election is that donald trump clearly won the electoral college but hillary clinton appears to be winning the popular vote. >> right. >> that also happened in 2000 with george w. bush and al gore and got to the larger story of that being resolved in florida. do you think that ends up being -- there have been four or five times in history where the popular vote has not been won by the ...

Weve been keeping an eye on the protests in the streets. obviously elections are sometimes met with outrage, anger and surprise. what do you make of the magnitude and the seemingly organic eruption of protests in the country tonight? >> i think its actually the sign of the strength of a democracy. what you would worry about is if there was an election of a controversial president in a close balloting and you didnt see expression from people who felt strongly. >> one of the things weve been sort ...

See expression from people who felt strongly. >> one of the things weve been sort of absorbing and contextualize is what appears to be the bottom line of this election is that donald trump clearly won the electoral college but hillary clinton appears to be winning the popular vote. >> right. >> that also happened in 2000 with george w. bush and al gore and got to the larger story of that being resolved in florida. do you think that ends up being -- there have been four or five times in history w...

>> lieutenant lou roberts is in charge of homicide. >> its dark work and there is never good news. >> what is the hardest part of this job? >> the families. i try to give them updates on the cases. not just the cases that occurred yesterday or the day before or the cases we may have tomorrow. theyre cases that are 10 years old, 20 years old, 30 years old, 5 years old. you are constant by absorbing the familys pain. you know, and trying to make them understand and trying to comfort them and will ...