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Towards a plan that there is a strategy to end this war. >> and beyond the fact that we dont have a strategy is were talking about during the break, no people to execute even the half-baked strategy that we have. huge number of vacancies throughout the state department. a lot of people advising trump on national security with strong backgrounds. we dont have ambassador for kabul. we dont have an ambassador for countries we dont have strategic tension with. we dont have the bodies there. we dont ...

Mine wont you be my neighbor ♪ >> it was fred rogers who made it okay to speak to an audience of kids like they were human beings. >> there are some new things that are very difficult to understand in a newspaper. >> every now and then i think back to mr. rogers and i think, he would say dont be scared, life is good, life is special. >> everybody is so special because everybody is different. >> just go and do the thing you love. that always stuck with me. >> see you tomorrow. ♪ can you tell ...

You could get away with not being 100% accurate on day one. but you had to be as close as you could get and you had to be closer the next day and then closer the day after that. >> they knew that haldeman was controlling the campaigns secret fund. the question was who was controlling haldeman? i was amazed by woodward and bernsteins resolve. theres nothing glamorous about what they were doing. but i thought it was important to portray the tedium, the hard work, and of course the feelings about t...

Together. >> americans embrace one another. >> the opportunities ive been able to have as a single mom raising two kids. i dont think i could have come as far as i have anywhere else. >> i have the pree dom to vote as a woman, i have the freedom to be able to do other things in some countries women cant do. >> we have the prfreedom to mak choices and the consequences of those choices and benefits of the same. >> i think we are stronger when we work as a team. >> we are from so many different par...

Programming in the 70s became the platinum standard on the planet for how you use this medium to educate kids. ♪ would you be mine could you be mine wont you be my neighbor ♪ >> it was fred rogers who made it okay to speak to an audience of kids like they were human beings. >> there are some new things that are very difficult to understand in a newspaper. >> every now and then i think back to mr. rogers and i think, he would say dont be scared, life is good, life is special. >> everybody is ...

Weekend. >> americans embrace one another. raising two kids, i dont think i can come anywhere else. >> i have the freedom to vote. >> the premium freedom to make and live of the consequences of those choices. >> we are a strong nation when we work as a team. >> we are from so many different parts of the world. >> freedom of speech and religion. >> our ability to be innovative. >> the diversities of culture and different kinds of backgrounds. >> because of americas past and i believe in the futur...

>> we have the freedom to make choices and the consequences of those choices and benefits of the same. >> i think we are stronger when we work as a team. >> we are from so many different parts of the world. >> freedom of religion, freedom of speech. >> we can protest the diversity of cultures and different kinds of backgrounds. >> because of americas past and believing in its future, i have hope. >> we spent a lot of time on the issues that divide us, but we dont spend a lot of time on what make...

But what about these personal attacks? >> but heres the thing, in soothing tones, in highly educated tones, president obama told us a lot of things that turned out sadly not to be true. you can keep your doctor and benghazi was related to a video. and that sense of cynicism was -- >> but thats -- >> that is something that then candidate trump picked up on. >> thats apples and oranges. im asking you -- >> they are related. >> why does this president personally attack people and especially women o...

>> promising a big surprise in the next episode. >> with the chicago cubs in the backgrounds, by the way. >> yeah, that what that was? no word on what that would be. worth noting the president has a history of raising, then dashing expectations. senate republicans are said to be making progress, and the president is open to changes. phil mattingly has more from capitol hill. >> reporter: there was some optimism if no clear path forward yet. at least when it comes to health care. look, senators m...

Between 2014 and 2016 the unemployment rate fell from 6.2 to 4.9%. despite this the number of people working in retail sales declined during the same period of time. more people employed overall, fewer people working in retail jobs. politicians spent a lot of time talking about disappearing manufacturing and coal jobs but the great retail displacement has been ignored and retail employees millions more than the coal industry. anybody see a press conference about the loss of retail jobs recently?...