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Answering it. >> the number of people who are unemployed varies widely by who youre asking and how you do the analysis of who is in the workforce. the number of people working and receiving a paycheck is a number that we can look at. secondly, when youre asking about the validity of the cbo report, again, i refer you to the cbo itself. the number they issued that would be insured in 2016 was 26 million people. the actually number is -- excuse me, 24 million. the actual number is 10.4. thats not ...

Anti-semitism, and i think when you have the attacks around the country that weve seen today, when you have the rise of white supremacy or the vocalism of white supremacy, i should say, to speak out forcefully about it but not be backed into a corner to talk about it. this is something a president ought to want affirmatively to speak out lookout and clear every opportunity he gets. what i would say is i hope this is the beginning of that kind of conversation, and it was a first start. >> what di...

Situation, where it looks like the president is trying to yank money from states and cities that dont submit to the attempt on its part to discover all of the undocumented immigrants and potentially deport them. when states and cities say, you know, you cant make us affirmatively cooperate. you cant commandeer us under threat of taking all our money away, they are invoking classic states rights jurisprudence of a sort that used to be the favorite of the conservatives. i think were going to learn...

The president is trying to yank money from states and cities that dont submit to the attempt on its part to discover all of the undocumented immigrants and potentially deport them. when states and cities say, you know, you cant make us affirmatively cooperate. you cant commandeer us under threat of taking all our money away, they are invoking classic states rights jurisprudence of a sort that used to be the favorite of the conservatives. i think were going to learn that states rights can be part...

Weigh in more affirmatively about the importance of these trading relationships that have not engaged in a trade war with a neighbor to the south. >> yes, absolutely. i mean, he certainly would have had a very keen view of what a 20% import tariff might mean, and he certainly has his own business history with mexico. mexico is a big oil producer, so he knows the business world in mexico well, and he knowness the trading relationship well. it wouldnt be fully his brief as secretary of state but i...

Separate but equal was the law of the land. women were in the kitchen, gays were in the closet, immigrants were quiet and blacks did not have equal rights. thats where sessions wants to take us. he never believed in voter rights. you heard the testimony. >> thats a pretty intense thing to say about a member of the u.s. senate, that he wants to keep women in the kitchen and he wants blacks not to have equal rights. whats your evidence for that? >> my evidence far is the very testimony that came b...

Tell them that eventually well get out of this. >> america, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let it be said by our childrens children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end. that we did not turn back nor did we falter. we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations. >> one of the lessons that i learned from president bush and his senior team was how to run a professional transition. they were incred...

Calm the nation and tell them that eventually we will get out of this. >> america, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let it be said by our childrens children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end. that we did not turn back nor did we falter. we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations. >> one of the lessons that i learned from president bush and his senior team was how to run a professional trans...

Shes going to be confirmed. she was asked if she believed that russia committed war crimes in syria. and she answered affirmatively, right? now you have the incoming u.n. ambassador from the united states branding vladimir putin a war criminal at the same time that you have the president-elect saying, putting putin on the same level as angela merkel, one of our closest allies in europe. there is major dissonance here between the u.s. ambassador and the president-elect and at the same time in mat...

Will listen in vain for an answer. this reveals that all along the rhetoric and posturinger ing to is they have always thought this was about the settlement. this is a way -- they held off doing this earlier because they knew it would hurt hillary clinton. now that hillary is gone, theyre doing it out of spite. and out of a sense of emotional commitment to screwing israel. >> to be clear, we are one of the few who had veto power over this so it never went anywhere at all. the u.s. affirmatively ...