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Particular seen the medical facilities, which goes back to his strength. i think he will come back hopefully with a much more nuanced view and a reminder that these are actual human being, theyre not an abstraction or a rabid dog and by the the way the underlying thinking to solve the problem there to prevent the refugee crisis here and throughout europe is absolutely sound. where thats leading are your viewers should know is to armed intervention. the idea would be that the united states and pe...

Attacks are in the pipeline. hiding that concern a new isis video asserting a direct threat on washington. >> translator: we say to the countries that are participating in the crusader came pain, i swear to god, you will have a similar day that france went through. i swear to god like we struck france and its stronghold paris, we will strike america in its own stronghold, washington. >> here in paris theres no mere threat, no abstraction, it is real and it has happened in this city. behind me in...

And so we are going to continue to pursue the strategy that has the best chance of working even though it does not offer the satisfaction, i guess, of a neat headline or an immediate resolution. and part of the reason, as i said, jim, is because there are costs to the other side. i just want to -- i just want to remind people. this is not an abstraction. when we send troops in, those troops get injured. they get killed. theyre away from their families. our country spends hundreds of billions of ...

"they dont put it quite like that but hes normal, not a gadfly. >> id go with authenticity. i dont like the upbeat ad. its so conventional. >> its very conventional. >> "im a crochety old guy." thats worked for him so far. i dont think making him into george romney let alone mitt romney is going to work. [ laughter ] >> i agree with that but i think the strength here is the weakness. my gut is a lot of people saw him in that first debate and he was an abstraction to them, just this guy. even if ...

>> david, you talk to the sanders campaign and they say "we have one goal right now, we have to make people think hes not crazy. "they dont put it quite like that but hes normal, not a gadfly. >> id go with authenticity. i dont like the upbeat ad. its so conventional. >> its very conventional. >> "im a crochety old guy." thats worked for him so far. i dont think making him into george romney let alone mitt romney is going to work. [ laughter ] >> i agree with that but i think the strength here i...

>> "im a crochety old guy." thats worked for him so far. i dont think making him into george romney let alone mitt romney is going to work. [ laughter ] >> i agree with that but i think the strength here is the weakness. my gut is a lot of people saw him in that first debate and he was an abstraction to them, just this guy. even if you saw him an arena with 10,000 people, he was a little speck, the anti-clinton and what they saw was a guy who seems older than her with a thick brooklyn accent who...

Has done and want to take it further while also saying the economy is terrible. this is a message that i think they have to be careful. it is very -- it was obviously popular in the room the oh night with partisan democrats and the hard-core is no doubt on board. for independents, this will be a tough sell. it raises a question of why shes going so far to the left. after this debate, she may decide there is not much competition. now she can come back to the middle. >> the argument is things are ...

Reelection, in a pretty dismal time when people did think more thought we were on the wrong track than right track, he won re-election. thats a test of your proposition. its not even obama at second hand, which is what a biden would be. and, third, what you have now is a candidate in biden who is an idea, is an abstraction and a rather sim pa they enthusiastic one considering what he went through over the last several months and considering that he leaked to the "new york times" that his son had...

People a voice, is what allowed us to become the most powerful nation in the world. [ applause ] >> its not simply a matter of principle. its not an abstraction. inclues sive democracy makes countries stronger. when opposition parties can seek power peacefully through the ballot, that country draws upon new ideas. when a free media can inform the public, corruption and abuse are exposed and can be rooted out. when civil society thrives, communities can solve problems that governments cannot nece...

Lives matter. colin powell we used the sound byte with donald trump. were you surprised that powell is now supporting black lives matter? >> look, its not hard to say i support black lives matter as an abstraction. some people are advocating for people in the inner city who feel they are being victimized by the authorities. thats easy to do. the problem is in the real world here are people who do not have a program other than radical t activism. >> colin powell is saying thats okay with me. i wa...