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Battered and stretched by costly commitments in a number of countries, afghanistan, syria, korea and others. our military is not a toy. its not a social experiment. military exists for only one reason protecting the united states and its people. thats it. every decision the military makes must be framed in those terms. does it protect the united states and its people from foreign threats? thats it. but for beto orourke and the rest of his party the military is an abstraction not meant to win war...

This country. our forces have been battered and stretched by costly commitments in a number of countries, afghanistan, syria, korea and others. our military is not a toy. its not a social experiment. military exists for only one reason: protecting the united states and its people. thats it. every decision the military makes must be framed in those terms. does it protect the united states and its people from foreign threats? thats it. but for beto orourke and the rest of his party, the military i...

Would up its efforts to stem the tide of illegal immigration. lets discuss. bill kristol, i know youre not one to give applause to the president. is this one where he deserves some? >> only insofar as he didnt do anything that would have been damaging. though hes done some damage by making it uncertain about the future with mexico and other trading partners. i was talking to a business in chicago on friday who said are you really going -- do you have a supply chain that goes through mexico. is h...

For just about everyone, vietnamese or american, who lived through them. and though there are still a lot of conflicted feelings back home, for most vietnamese these days, the war has become an abstraction, not even a memory. vietnam is still a poor nation, but the standard of living has improved a lot with the relaxing of hard-line communist economic policies. more and more foreign tourists every year, western chains, inevitably, are everywhere, and president obama is visiting for the first tim...

>> thank you for asking this and then asking it in such personal terms. sometimes when we talk about the fact that we lose more than 30,000 of our fellow americans to gun violence, that can seem an abstraction or a number. when we think about our kids and others kids who have been lost when gunmen enter a school and begin firing on those students and teachers and public school educators, it brings it home to us what is happening in our country right now. this is the last week of school for my ki...

Moment is an abstraction. it isnt a huge thing that they have to say yes or no on. there is still a middle of the country. still middle of the road voters and you can alienate them either way. >> michael steel, he sounded like bob corker today. remember, bob corker was the one who started getting upset at mitch mcconnell. we want to vote on some stuff. and ron johnson is one of these senators who gets frustrated with the iron fist way that mcconnell runs the senate. how alone is kennedy? >> he i...

The next door neighbor is still a kind of abstraction that classicism and theyre sort of a large white boxes that sit on pedestals and so this sort of deconstructs i think you know that the design that you know that david david alger as the lead designer of the team sort of came up with really begins to unpack and deconstruct that and gives it a different sort of presence on the mall. this is one of the 1st sketches from start to define the frame. of the building. this is this was called option ...

Continued drawing until shortly before her death as a close friend from sweden recalls. she knew who else. and how good she was but she was not up no said nothing like that then she must. always have a sketch book with her. she made it. pretty week before shed write. the post war years were a difficult time for figurative painting which was considered stuffy and old fashioned. art historian on a color kauser says thats in part because we tend to equate modern art with abstraction. taman the them...

Fashioned. art historian on a color kauser says thats in part because we tend to equate modern art with abstraction. taman the themes that she picks up on and creates demonstrate an absolutely modern stance a woman on her own in a cafe sitting confidently and naturally not like some last creature of the night or a journalist with a glittering monocle who looks around her with interest these are all modern images of women which helps to create with her works she didnt want to present this image a...

An actor. im not coming out of left side. betos gestures actually tell us a lot about him as a person. now, it should be said, people use gestures when dealing with special concepts like direction. >> laura: you do that. >> or when dealingh with abstractions but oroarks gestures tell us something more. watch. >> i just got a call from my wife amy, who is back in el paso, texas, where shes raising sometimes with my help, a 12-year-old, a 10-year-old and little brother henry who is eight. shes fee...