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Absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books, does he live in this neighborhood? >> other place. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. engineers. workers. and people who makes nothing, like that guy. >> right. >> he dont make nothing. >> how does he live? >> trying to find something to do or something to sell. ma...

Successful detective series, padura has been able to portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books. does he live in this neighborhood? or another neighborhood? >> other place. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. yeah. totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. engineers. workers. and people who makes nothing, like that gu...

Absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books. does he live in this neighborhood? or another neighborhood? >> other place. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. yeah. totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. engineers. workers. and people who makes nothing, like that guy. >> right. >> he dont make nothing. >> how does he live? >> trying to find something...

Successful detective series, padura has been able to portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba. its a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books. does he live in this neighborhood? >> other place. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah. totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. engineers. workers. and people who makes nothing, like that guy. >> right. >> he dont make no...

And he continues to climb in the polls. >> whats interesting about donald trump, he has completely flipped political convention wisdom on his head. every time he has uttered absurdities, where the political pundits say this is it for donald trump, it has bumped him up in the polls. i think this debate will be different and differentiate willing. we dont know how he will do. we have never seen him in this forum before. one of the biggest challenges for the rest of the republicans is going to be h...

Conversation is upsetting. really sad. >> depressing. i totally agree. we took him for granted because he was so good so smooth so funny. so all of it. i know that david youve written a lot about this show and youve said in part that the genius of "the daily show" with jon stewart has been that its not really a spoof on the news its humor is the news, the absurdities of tone deaf politicians so much so out of touch with reality that they fail to see how ormoronic they are. more importantly, stew...

Years to do what weve always done in this country and that is to point out the absurdities in the extremes wherever we find them. and obviously for many many years thats been in the islamic militants violent extremist corners where theres such extremes and absurdities that some have used satire to try to understand or explain it. so i had that conversation with him and indeed at that time you know again, this is all in hindsight and its really actually quite difficult to talk about when ten of o...

The fact is, cockfighting never was a big thing in kentucky. go to the coastal states, it wasnt a big deal. [ all speak at once ] >> i never wanted to. did he ever hear about michael vick either? its very bizarre. but its like every guy who runs for president tells you theyre a hunter. >> trying to show hes down-home kentuckian. its absurd. >> thats what happened when youre out of order, out of place. he was not mimicking the true values of kentucky. >> was this like belgian endives? [ laughter ...

Amendment. amendment. well, the professor claiming the amendment itself leads to killings but is that even close to true? radio talk show host dr. jean lou den joins us now on that topic. thanks for joining us this morning. >> happy to be with you. >> do you see the irony at all of a university professor, someone whose job is to explain the constitution, among other things attacking the document that preservative his right it to spout this nonsense? >> you took exactly what i was going to say th...

Loves you. ♪ ♪ >> im joni ernst, i grew up castrating hogs on an iowa farm. so when i get to washington, ill know how to cut pork. >> joni ernst, mother, soldier, conservative. were back with michael, michelle, and howard. it was of course the year of absurdities on the campaign trail. joni ernst ran away with the iowa senate race, thanks in part to the wild ad you just saw. that was just the tip of the iceberg this year. it was one of the nastiest midterm elections ever. some of the big r...