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And our personalities and our backgrounds. and on stage is what everybody gets to see but theres so much more to it. >> the controversy has been big. what do folks need to know about you, those young girls who see you here? youre miss usa but whats the real take away they could have got be from the pageant that they didnt? >> just to never give up and always keep trying no matter what it is in your life. ive been doing pageants for five years. being on the stage for miss usa was always my goal. ...

Neighborhoods we want to be. >> i think this report is so great. i really think its one of the most important documents in 2014 american politics. so this idea of polarization, what i think this report shows is that were having this kind of tremendous convergence of different kinds of polarization. so when people, i think, think of polarization, they often actually use it as a synonym for extremism. they think its about a fight, but it isnt. you have all these kinds of polarization that can be d...

Actually use it as a synonym for extremism. they hear about polarized america. they think its about a fight, but it isnt. you have all these kinds of polarization that can be different. republicans and democrats, party polarization, and liberals and conservatives, so ideological polarization, and those two things can be really different. but theyre not now. now, liberal and democrat and conservative and republican are, for most people, the same. then you can have political engagement polarizatio...

Nonchristian republican in congress was just booted out of office by a guy running on essentially an anti-immigration platform. that is definitely going to cement the demographic difficulties the republicans are having in the long term without the democrats saying something at all. >> youre talking about the lack of diversitdiversity. >> 76% of consistent liberals say its important for them to live in a community with people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. just 20% of consistent co...

Since some of the people who were part of that group did point guns at federal agents and there really hasnt been any follow-up to that, would law enforcement then start to look into the backgrounds of who the people were or try to determine who was actually on that ranch? they would have found out this guy had a rap sheet. >> exactly, joy. i think federal law enforcement agencies are doing that. obstruction of a federal court order is a federal crime. armed obstruction of federal court order is...

>> its almost 2/3 of your student athletes are on scholarship. >> correct. >> a lot of them come from tough backgrounds. what is it from ole misss perspective of shu play players? >> the scholarship is rigid that were allowed to give. >> how are they expected to participate bills? >> it should at least include cost of attendance. >> you guys have a $70 million budget. give me the simplest breakdown you can of where you guys spend that money on a yearly basis. >> we have a card that has the budge...

People who really mattered to me, i didnt dedicate the time to them. i needed to reprioritize my life. >> really quickly v you discovered in your travels any sort of geographic call difference? folks in montana, where you guys are, versus folks here in new york city? which group seems to get it more? >> like josh said, we get people from all different types of socioeconomic backgrounds. theres really not one particular demographic that fits in one city or another. what were finding is everyone h...

Of the conflict in afghanistan coming up pretty soon. the bush administration did return more than 100 afghan detainees, taliban, during our time, admittedly those were low-level foot soldiers. these are much more senior people and i dont mean to limit that. but were getting to the end of the conflict her. unlike the al qaeda detainees in guantanamo, i think theyre not going anywhere soon, these taliban leaders i think were likely to have to be returned sometime soon. >> i spoke the last hour wi...

Now, it shows americans are fairly unconcerned about the drone program. if enough of these movie comes out and always casting the drone program in a negative light, you can imagine peoples perceptions could start to change. >> lets talk now about acceptance in hollywood. you saw a few of them immortalized on the silver screen there. the famous superheroes come from all backgrounds and stan lee, the 91-year-old legendary comic book creator says superheroes transcend racial, natural and gender bou...

>> american girl, a symbol of freedom or racist propaganda? those are your only options in our latest edition of -- >> is this racist? >> last week american girl announced that it will discontinue four of its dolls. among them, cicily and ivy who were two of the only dolls of color in the collection. the blogosphere was quick to say the doll dismissal was racially moat vaded. the company admits the motives were racist. no, actually t ey say the move was a tactile business choice and an attempt t...