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February 22, 2017
To secure the southern border. with the administration deploy the u.s. military to do so? >> right now, we have 20,000 fantastic border patrol agents who are doing a great job. martha, i want to try and brought a nice conversation and get to the core of the issues here. whether we are talking about the new executive action, the next few days, we will share the details of what that will be and how it is responsive to the courts ruling. whether we are talking about the southern border, whether we ...
February 21, 2017
This out of proportion because you have an agenda behind it. >> is that a beromter for rape and murder being up. we can go these numbers back and forth but again i feel bad repeating the same number again but im telling you the overall number from 2006 to 2015 is up. >> youre making a correlation to immigrants. >> we didnt talk about that. i think theres an absolute correlation. >> but the evidence doesnt show that. the numbers -- according to the numbers i have here and the numbers from the sta...
February 21, 2017
Department. they dont show a correlation between immigrants. >> they dont talk before immigrants in any of the statistics, its interesting. in 2001, they used to have a classification for the backgrounds of the people committing the crimes. because the immigrants were so high, they stripped it from the numbers. those numbers dont mention immigrants. the correlation comes from other places. >> the most recent terror attack in sweden was an anti-immigrant terror attack. >> three suspected neo-nazi...
February 20, 2017
Intelligence committees. i think that the intelligence committees have the capability to conduct a thorough understanding of what happened so we can be in a position to prevent it in the future. many european countries are worried about russia hacking their election, disrupting their elections, so i believe that the house and senate can carry this out and i think it has to be done in a bipartisan and thorough way and i think that a person like senator feinstein, senator warner, if they feel as t...
February 20, 2017
Get his hands on, et cetera. >> hes talking about with criminal backgrounds, he says. >> thats what hes saying. weve seen proof in the last week theyre grabbing anybody who happens to be in the vicinity of somebody looking for a criminal. what that means is, these are sweeps. this is what this is. these are sweeps. this is something that is not going to help the economy, not help our neighborhoods or public safety. if he goes after criminals, youre right. i think if you had a vote of congress sa...
February 19, 2017
you do have representation of african-american women, caribbean american women, women of all of these backgrounds that do form the foundation of the party. why do you suppose that given those voting strengths, black women are not very well represented? right now the interim chair of the dnc is a black woman, donna brazile, but in general you dont see a lot of representation, you dont see a lot of state candidates that are black women. we have literally just one black woman senator. why do you...
February 18, 2017
Of the event, deen obeidallah, and hosts the deane obeidallah show on sirius xm. thank you for talking to me on a saturday. >> thank you for having me here. >> tell me how this get started? >> its russell simmons and rabbi shire. these have been working together for years on bringing people of different backgrounds and faiths together. it was their idea. im happy to be a part of it. its going to be 65 degrees in february, proving that god might be muslim. the mayor of new york should be there. s...
February 18, 2017
2 2000s as the host of "the apprentice." he used the media successfully to achieve his goals. as the media reports about russia and other controversies, i believe he is sort of laying the groundwork and the foundation -- he laid the foundation a while ago but he continues to lay the foundation of saying "fake news." if you look at his supporters -- the press conference, i think a lot of people looked at the press conference as very unusual and just not something we had seen before. if you look a...
February 17, 2017
Please. >> at end of the day the president understands who he is, president of all people. he actually said i would love to meet with the cbc and he wants to. is going to meet with hbcu college presidents. le already had a phone call with congressman cummings, said we have more alike than we disagree on, especially on jobs and infrastructure. he understands this and will meet with people of all backgrounds. >> paris i have to -- >> notion that he wont is wrong. >> didnt happen until today though...
February 16, 2017
Reporters are there. i assume theyre all getting ready and hoping to be able to ask the president of the united states a question. >> thats right. and as youll recall, and perhaps, you know, this generated some talk here in washington over the last three news conferences. the president has only selected members from the conservative news media. and that process has served to shield the president to some extent from questions that have been in the news as of late. so well see whether or not the p...