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The mood is beginning to change in the country, but lebanese people of all ages, backgrounds and religions promised to keep fighting. ben wideman has our report. >> reporter: its the drum beat of revolution. banging in beruit, and across lebanon. for the fourth straight day, the protests continued. each day bigger than the day before. the atmosphere is jubilant. but the underlying grievances are real. anger over a faltering economy, officials corruption, and barely functioning basic services. 5-...

Complex question with no easy answer. if, as thomas jefferson once posited, we should have a meritocracy, what he called an aristocracy of talent, then grades and test scores should be the deciding factor. but the opposing argument goes, those are just numbers that do not always tell the story of how deserving and how enriching students from different cultures, races, and backgrounds may be. but heres what happens when only academic merit is considered in admissions. stuyvesant high school in ne...

Than churning out elites based on ability. both critiques have merit. i have to confess im drawn to the first. idea that we need a better meritocracy. i understand the problems with the idea of merit. but what would you replace it with? the old system based on bloodline and birth? and or entirely subjective process in which admissions officers pick favorites? when you deal with tens of thousands of applications, and are able to admit a small number. you have to rely on some blunt instruments lik...

This community is made up of all sorts of people with a variety of backgrounds and traditions. but what they all have in common is the desire to be acknowledged and accepted for who they are. and i dont see anything wrong with that. besides, how boring would it be if we were all the same? >> hey, brother, its good to have you here. im glad you can experience the east side. this is love. this is movement. this is music. this is like solidarity, man. this is what were cultivating. its not quite he...

Free trade agreements with they are going home, meeting countries across the world with their constituents, talking including with the united to them about the issues that states. above all, brexit is about are important to them, which for a lot f democrats, the house freedom and liberty. its about the right of the members but also their british people to shape their constituents is healthcare and infrastructure, but they are going home and telling them the own destiny for decades, for serious n...

Thats what he did. gathering information on the president of the united states. no first hand information whatsoever . none. so what is the house want to do the in thes house democrats eager to protect the whistle-blower who raised alarm over president trump pressuring a foreign leader to investigate a political rival well get to that. are considering testimony at a remote location and obscuring individual appearance in voice, and extraordinary moves to prevent trump congressional allies from re...

Tra steakic backgrounds. can we now ask how much longer until the entire damn breaks. >> leading off are peter wenner. he was an adviser to the past throw republican presidents and ruth marcus, also an msnbc contributor pros at this time. the history impeachment. that was before the g-7 came into the plane. do you have so this confluence of controversies that might be the presidents damn? his call in congress? >> i want to say yes but i think for right now the answer is no.

States to defeat extremism, and i know the president and administration is focused on fighting the islamic state and more than 10,000 of their own forces died fighting alongside the united states. while every gold star family is tragic, in the fight against isis inside syria, fewer than five u.s. combat deaths in that fight. because the partner force these folks were talking about now took the brunt of that and the question is, how do you protect those people and how do you keep the pressure on ...

Like me? stephanie grisham defendant the president in a statement saying donald trump was measured and decisive today, speaker policy walking out, baffling but not surprising with no intention of participating in a meeting on national security. democratic leadership chose to storm out and wine to cameras. everyone else day to work on behalf of our country. social media divide on this subject. sharon says the three of them are too week. it was a big boy meeting and they couldnt handle it. tracy c...

A for decades now its the question is about introducing the many elements well bob let me ask you this though you say football has tremendous power to unite people you know bring people of different backgrounds together but its at these football these these soccer matches where we see these racist attacks happen so theres something about football thats also where tracting racist fans. well part of the problem is and to trace. to find cultures in many countries including eastern europe but also h...