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I have had a lot of conversations about what do we do about iran. and i wonder if you can speak to the distance between what the people want, why theyre protesting, and a government that is not in defense of the trump administration, but at least to help explain the trump administrations posture very hostile to american national security interests and hostile to the desires of many of its own citizens. >> well, its clear that these administrations are broad-based. theyre rural and urban areas. t...

Administration. but the council in particular and the work of the national aids policy, the national aids-related policy was i think particularly because of the bush administration as being not the most partisan thing in the world. certainly there were differences of opinions, differences how things could be funded. but this was something where the partisan heat had been removed. >> absolutely. hiv and aids is not a partisan issue. its a human issue. its a human rights issue. its a civil rights ...

Justice department, his own attorney that he appointed, he is calling them the deep state. >> just in the last several hours, christian, tweeting about pakistan, a difficult ally if you want to call it an ally, frenemy, perhaps, difficult relationship through multiple administrations, the palestinians, jerusalem, the negotiations there, also north korea. practically, realistically, does any good from a foreign policy perspective come out of tweets like this from the president of the united state...

This was, of course, the net neutrality decision. that vote happened december 14th. whether or not you particularly care about that issue, whether you care about your cable company, your internet provider having the able to control what you see and what you use online, the point is, when the trump administration made this change, human beings did not want them to make that change. im sure a lot of companies did. but the american people were 83% opposed. and this happens in politics. you know, yo...

Politics reporter, mark nickett. mark, a d plus, thats a low grade. what implications does this have on the countrys economic future? >> it has a lot. i mean if you look at that american society for civil engineers report card, it calculates at least a $2 trillion deficit shortfall in the amount of funding thats needed to get our infrastructure up to even a "b" grade and of that affects commerce and the economies. some estimates are even higher in terms of the need for investment to get u.s. inf...

>> were not talking about rules for the sake of rules. were talking about rules designed by multiple administrations, democrat and republican, to avoid a war, right? the rules arent there for etiquette, right? theyre there to avoid people getting killed. >> the claims were this sort of direct talk, this plain talk was going to lead to war, that was used against ronald reagan who talked about tearing down the berlin wall. that was thought to be extremely provocative. >> ronald reagan made stateme...

Does not discriminate on the base of religious, race, even immigration status. as a person living with hiv myself, i can say that my hiv does not have a term limit. you know, it doesnt expire or leave when new administration goes or comes. my hiv and for the 1.2 million people in this country living with hiv this is something that we have dealt with for the last 30 years and will continue in the foreseeable feature to deal with for many administrations to come, and so, to put political ideology ...

Come out. >> do you think the justice department is compromised and cant be trusted by the american people? >> the way you set up that question, well, i agree with ana, probably 99% of the people in fbi and law enforcement check their political inclinations at the door when they show up to do their job, and i think much in the same way many reporters to go and check their biases at the door and want to cover just the facts and the same thing is with most of our law enforcement, but there are thi...

You see government officials, congress, presidential administrations make decisions wildly at odds but in that particular vote there was something odd about it. turns out something had gone haywire with the system of public comment about that rule before they voted on it. the fcc received about 22 million comments about that issue before they took their vote. thats a huge amount of comments. and there was a certain degree of public chantransparency. the first thing people noticed is there were a...

>> were not talking about rules for the sake of rules. were talking about rules designed by multiple administrations, democrat and republican, to avoid a war, right? the rules arent there forest i k -- for etiquette, right? theyre there to avoid people getting killed. >> the claims were this sort of direct talk, this plain talk was going to lead to war, that was used against ronald reagan who talked about tearing down the wall, that was said to be extremely provocative. >> ronald reagan made sta...