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Matches where the democrats are bad, the republicans are worse or vice versa. we come together and solve problems. that i understand to be the best of times and the best of what this country stands for. >> shannon: lieutenant governor, quickly, we are almost out of time. we talked a number of times how weve seen people of el paso and the folks come together there and really reach across and it kind of differences or barriers to help each other. are you hopeful that can happen on the national sta...

Problems rather than engaging in slimy matches where the democrats are bad, the republicans are worse or vice versa. lets come together and solve problems. that i understand to be the best of times and the best of what this country stands for. shannon: we have talked about people of el paso and folks come together and reach across any differences or barriers to help each other. are you hopeful that can happen on the national stage as well? >> im hopeful because the people of america are good peo...

Raised your taxes and as you noted the rollout of president trumps tax plan also created a another wave of increase into palm beach county in 2017. steve: kelly, have you noticed over the last couple of years as people are getting squeezed by the taxes up here in the northeast that they are coming down there more? >> yes. we have noticed it so much that we were then the business development board of palm beach county created a separate department because the number of inquiries were so high we r...

To the suburbs taking their big city values and their big city votes with them. >> you just said something interesting, brianna, about sort of giving people something to vote for because texas does have for a variety of reasons the obstacles put in front of folks for being able to vote. it does have lower participation rates than a lot of other states. whats your sort of theory of the case about that? >> well, last year we reached out to 900,000 unique voters across the states, delivered 465,000...

To, you know, to other kind of, like, barriers in the everyday, right? >> right. >> we dont have an -- we, you know, getting -- just getting to the polls. in 2016 we took a2,500 people to the polls in our drive for democracy program because that is an additional barrier that people have. so i think that its important to think about the conversation about, like, how to expand our democracy by -- by speaking directly to the voters. >> right. >> in this case voters who are often left out of the con...

You know, texas is a big city. you can go to scale really quickly. and i think it fundamentally goes back to, you know, this idea of how do you expand the electorate, right? how do you give people something to vote for? when there have been everything from structural barriers that prevent people from fully participating in our democracy to, you know, to other kind of, like, barriers in the everyday, right? >> right. >> we dont have an -- we, you know, getting -- just getting to the polls. in 201...

Evacuate the smokes harmful effects have nearly driven them out already. well you know. the 1st fires started in july nights here weeks after they were pits theres another fire burning. kilometer thats the flames were 20 kilometers away. you could only see 20 meters in front of you that was worrying we couldnt see the barriers that sometimes wander into the village you know fire fighting helicopters have been in service several times a day but sometimes they need an hour to get to the flames the...

For. him. this is the house where the happened. i remember that day that he was yesterday. this is where i went from being just a normal young girl to being a survivor of f.c. im. a little girl. female genital mutilation named guinea is rampant we are the country with the 2nd highest rate of girls and women who are caught between 96 percent and 98 percent of all women and girls in guinea have caught the reason why fighting f.p.m. in the country is so difficult. is that it crosses social barriers...

Them helping save the lives of other people. i think that is so, so important. i dont want that to get lost in all of the other details of this investigation. >> so when you wrote your book "mass shooting: six steps to survival," john, and you heard some of the steps individuals were taking to survive this mass shooting, what stood out to you on that front? >> i heard witnesses say they heard the shots and instead of just dismissing it like weve heard in the past, they actually drove away from t...

And women who are caught between 96 percent and 98 percent of all women and girls in guinea have cut the reason why fighting f.p.m. in the country is so difficult is that it crosses social barriers educated people according to children not educated people according natural john poor people are cutting rich people are crowding christians are cutting muslims are cutting people who dont believe in any religion and are actually practicing religion and also cutting. girls are cut from one day of born...