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Greater wealth than the bottom half of humanity? if everybody else is making money more than they did last year and more than inflation, whats your long-term worry bay world thats going in this direction? >> well, there are two big, big problems. one problem is we lose democracy because with great wealth amassed at the top comes great political power and that political power -- basically, nobody else has heard and a lot of political scientists have already measured this already. and we can see w...

2002. every week, this illegal heroin kills at least 300 americans and costs our nation over $230 billion to $289 billion or nearly $5 billion a week. i spoke with president xi of china and he has agreed to make fentanyl, another one of the big, big problems, and probably, i think its just gone to number one, kills 80,000 people a year in our country, hes going to make that a major crime in china. and if you get caught, you pay a major penalty, its called the death penalty. and it wasnt listed a...

That will be the end of you. >> as americans have a lot riding on this election, we face big challenges, big problems, big opportunities. >> among the first politicians affected by the new media coverage was arkansas governor bill clinton. shortly before declaring himself a candidate for president in 1988, clinton was pulled aside by an aide. >> betsy wright came to bill clinton right beforehand and gave him a list of women, women he purportedly had affairs with and there were stars or checks ne...

Does it mean what we think it is, does it benefit the out party in almost all instances? >> actually, i dont think we can divine that much from the early voting data. what it shows is theres extraordinary historic interest in this midterm election, and that could mean a number of different things. what i keep coming back to is the fundamentals here. there are three big, big problems for republicans. the first is that trumps approval rating among women with college degrees is 27% in the most rece...

Where you are right now. take us through what that means in the low-lying areas like that. >> what that means, john, is where im standing right now will be under water later. we will be out of here soon after we do this shot because the weather is going to get worse. thats the problem. the water and the wind and the rain, the inland flooding, they are all huge threats and you cant run from the water. if this system continues to move towards the coastline that slows down even more, those flooding...

Ruby tuesday. i was thinking -- >> laura: what is up with ruby tuesday. >> raymond: or brett. brett favre, great hall of famer and dame star brett summers. >> laura: there she is. the still with us? >> raymond: she died in 2007, i just looked it up. getting desperate the campaign against brett kavanaugh. they are complaining he ran up credit card debt on buying baseball tickets to nats games. who cares, if he paid it off, who wear fist he ran it up. >> laura: they are looking, before it was vide...

And nails him. theres something that was told to me, when we were doing the case against proposition 8, which was to establish marriage equality. one of the lawyers says to me, you know, you can say whatever you want on television. but the minute you go into a courtroom and you put your hand on a bible, and swear to tell the truth, you have to tell the truth. thats the reason why this president, who is a pathological liar, is not going to talk to robert mueller. he is incapable of telling the tr...

Figure out is what it is and that will be the end of you. >> as americans have a lot riding on this election, we face big challenges, big problems, big opportunities. >> among the first politicians affected by the new media coverage was arkansas governor bill clinton. shortly before declaring himself a candidate for president in 1988, clinton was pulled aside by an aide. >> betsy wright came to bill clinton right beforehand and gave him a list of women, women he purportedly had affairs with and ...

Lost. >> so heres the point. remember eric cantor a couple years ago losing that primary, and there was all this talk, there was a major civil war in the republican party, big problems, and we are hearing now the same. big problems for president trump and the republicans, a democratic way of coming. well guess what, theres a split in the democratic party and it took out one of the most senior house democrats. im watching social media and there are lots of democrats tweeting and on facebook, talk...

Remember his threat to abandon nafta? >> nafta has been a disaster. we are renegotiating nafta, and if we dont make a deal ill terminate nafta. >> and then there was a threat to leave nato. >> they havent been paying. i said you have to pay. you have to pay. you have to pay, and now theyve taken in because -- i guess, i applied if you dont pay were out of there, right? >> and of course, was there the threat and the followthrough to pull out of the iran deal. >> if that deal doesnt conform to wha...