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It seems to me the priority of i.c.e. ought to be trying to find those people who have genuinely criminal backgrounds and im not talking about speeding tickets. some of the people actually had ankle bracelets, not because they were criminals, but because they had sought asylum here and that was the way to continue to track them. i dont feel any safeer that i.c.e. undertake this is. i think they out to have better priorities for what they use their money for. i was just down at the border week be...

Up that resolution and pass it, but the chances of that are not high. but the house has done that. what we really need to do is grab the bull by the horns and institute common sense gun safety measures. universal backgrounds checks. banning high-capacity magazines. that is the attachment that goes onto these assault weapons that carry the bullets and banning assault weapons. >> i said on this show last night that the banning of assault weapons is really a pro-police measure because policemen are...

Can take four more years of this, do you feel good about our country right now under his leadership? in these last few days when we should have a president out there able to heal this country, hes unable to rise to the occasion time and time again. he may think that this racial priming is going to help him, but i dont believe it is. i think that a strong coalition of people from different backgrounds is going to go a different direction. >> i want to ask you about something your brother did earl...

Dispatched to rescue people from building collapses. rivers on the roadways. here is an individual plucked from their home. it took several hours to get them out because of the building collapse. you look at the magnitude behind typhoon lekima. several stories here. you see the buildings in the backgrounds. it made landfall local time 1:00 a.m. saturday morning. it is about 4:00 p.m. local time in shanghai. we are talking about 14 or 15 hours after the original landfall of the storm system. it i...

No action. just talk. and in the meantime, he has cozied up to the nra. hes depending on the nra to dump a lot of money to help him get re-elected in 2020. you also have a congress that is full of -- especially republicans who believe that they need the nra and its supporters to get re-elected and, you know, that makes it very hard to actually get something done. but i will say, anderson, the most striking moment to me the last few days, was the moment where the governor of ohio went up there a ...

And in fact his active fostering of hate along ethnic and racial lines is one of the reasons hes going to lose in 2020, not succeed. because i think a lot of people, no matter what the color of their skin is, what their background is, they can see whats happening in this country. i would ask americans, do you feel more divided or less under president trump? do you really believe that we can take four more years of this, do you feel good about our country right now under his leadership? in these ...

Up there a day or two after the shooting in dayton and basically got shouted down by people of different backgrounds. im sure republicans and democrats, that shouted "do something." that resonates with a lot of americans right now. republican and democrat. 90% of whom support background checks. i dont believe people are going to just let it go. >> i want to ask you about reporting today by axios that trump campaign officials, some of them believe the democratic candidates calling the president a...

Not want this career professional to take dan coats job and he didnt appreciate what coats did. >> he has a habit of installing acting directors or acting heads of cabinets, so that he can go -- no senate confirmation on those, but also that he can put somebody in place who will follow his lead. >> yeah. he just tried with the congressman ratcliffe. that didnt work so well. that lasted about 24 hours. no. what were seeing is the systematic erosion to use a phrase of the deep state and it is now ...

Now from los done in switzerland is sophia lehmann shes one of the organizers of this fridays for future protest sophia thank you so much for joining d.w. you and 450 other activists and 5 days debating international climate policy whats the result of your meeting. i think the most important thing that came out of our meeting the laws on declaration is that basically weve decided that despite all of our different backgrounds and all of our different countries the most important thing right now i...

Uncomfortable at all. that said, i think if the president wanted to come out and say, background checks should be part of the conversation, we have the senate majority leader on board, we have the public opinion polls on board, and the nra and my base, were just going to have to do something that might feel a little uncomfortable but is the right thing to do, he absolutely probably has the political will power and clout to do it but he, himself, may not be able to get there. thats the big questi...