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Ethnic identification. surely it does not serve. the identification of democratic states is becoming more, if not less significant. it requires a national community if it is to become more than an ineffectual abstraction. and yes, hes talking about everybody having the same ethnicity. i mean, this is the law review/academic wordy bird argument that you cant really have a country. at least you cant have a country that works if youve got all sorts of different people in it. surely, it does not ser...

And political solidarity. oh. at the same time social scientists have found that greater ethnic heterogeneity is associated with lower social trust. they exhibit less political and civic engaejment, less effective government and fewer public goods. the sociologist robert putnam has concluded that greater ethnic diversity weakens social solidarity, fosters social isolation and inhibits social capital. these findings confirm that the solidarity underlying democrat politics rests in large part on e...

Reasons why he wanted to get away from the allen, texas, area which is a suburb of dallas which hed driven more than 10 miles to get to the el paso area. one of the reasons why these sources say the el paso area was targeted in the end. >> all right, ed lavandera again, thank you very much for the report dune in el paso for us. again, the news the alleged killer in the el paso wal-mart, he targeted that city because he didnt want to carry out the attack sources tell us in his hometown. i will no...

Limiting or no mention of creating universal background checks as he suggested on twitter before the speech. joining me now is republican congressman rodney davis of illinois. he -- i should say for him gun violence is no abstraction. he was at bat two years ago when a gunman opened fire on a congressional baseball game. i know you said mass shootings are not just about guns. my question is what role do you see guns playing in mass shootings? >> well, they play a very important role as i witness...

Watched 14 or 15 years ago as they grew up now walking around like zombies. >> sandra: that was congressman elijah cummings during a hearing back in 1999. his description of baltimore, a city he represents, echoing president trumps recent tweets about the city that have come under harsh criticism. lets bring in the a-team. jessica tarlov, jenna ellis reeves, and dan henninger, also a fox news contributor. good morning to all of you. starts us off here. there are similarities for sure between wha...

Millions of americans to make this a top priority? for many, its abstract. for others, they wont even acknowledge it. >> well, listen. its not an abstraction when your house burns down in california or your farm is flooded in the midwest or the seas are taking over the first floor of your house in florida. this is a real thing. i believe this is a message, it is the vital question of our time, and were going like gang busters, great momentum in the last 24 hours. that message i had last night th...

Cummings and the president. a new op-ed says the brawl may be sendsing racism in political abstraction. >> bill: a democratic pile onfor every direction. biden fighting to defend everything on his record, his time in the obama years to his future plans for the country. the a-team is ready to roll on that and more next. >> i think the good news for joe biden is this was maybe the best he could do. and the bad news is this may be the best he could do. ok everyone!

One for more than a week. white would still be in prison right now where he deserves to be, but thanks to the first step act he was released last week. here is the key. he didnt join any recidivism reduction program. instead, since the bill retroactively increased his good behavior credits, his sentence was simply shortened. he didnt have to do anything. he is at a federal prison along with hundreds of others like him, convicted of sex crime, robbery, assault and other acts of violence. remember...

Reveal where the cash and the drugs were hidden. every victim of the robbery had to be hospitalized. one for more than a week. white would still behe in prison right now where he deserves to be, but thanks to the first step act, he was released last week. here is the key. he didnt join any recidivism reduction program. instead, since the bill retroactively increased his good behavior credits, his sentence was simply shortened. white didnt have to do anything.t he is out of federal prison now, al...

Some make, both sort of mainstream pundits and conservatives as well, the white house that this was not, you know, a sort of showstopper in terms of the performance of mueller himself. obviously he was sort of reticent at times, seemed not to have full command of the report. and as such, if the whole point was a kind of illustrative show, that it didnt do what you wanted it to do. what do you think of that argument? >> i disagree with that. maybe it wasnt a showstopper by the witness, but i thin...