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windsor im sara marie and washington. and this is cnn was nothing more than a few binders and railroad man dreyfus scratch out a living on this harb shot im yielding of vata death. >> but even amid the hardship, there were glimmers of what the city would one day become. >> the ultimate place to work las vegas the ban vegas, as always marketed itself on its not enos of course, within legal constraints. well, some times illegal. >> you want to know his gambling better than organized crim...

What happened? >>, you know, thats a great point, mike. no matter how bad things were -- i did not feel a lot of sense of hope as a boy, as i point out in the piece this morning. my early teenage years could easily have ended up in jail. that was probably a more -- >> me too. >> -- likely path. the path to jail was clearer and easier than it was to college, thats for sure. >> yeah. >> but you were right, we were never alone. whats really striking. i talk about this in the book. we have become so...

And everything -- if you go into the trump casino and theres a blackjack table over here, theres a -- lets do this with the deficit. lets go things that are a gamble, and theres a great book done in the reagan administration by larry barrett, the "time" magazine correspondent called gambling with history and we know reagan gambled with history. but when he did it, he did it in a much more cautious restrained way. when he went to berlin, reagan did and said about gorbachev, tear down this wall, h...

Debts and take out a $4 billion construction loan. $1 billion to buy back the stores and half the office towers. >> how is that different than being at the blackjack table and being down and saying but if i keep gambling ill make it all back? >> i mean in some ways its not. its definitely a moonshot development project. its a big plan that they have to save themselves on this building. >> at this point would you say as a financial matter, they are desperate? or super-desperate? >> theyre facing ...

>> meghan: half of germany ran out of pepper spray because there were so many sexual assaults happening in the streets which led to a warning to the rest of europe and also to the united states. although they do have a testy meeting initially, i dont think these two figures hedging at -- >> melissa: let me bring in dean for a second. they talked with the last time he gave a speech and when he talked, he was dismissive of nato. he didnt affirm article five, he did this time. what changed in betwe...

Hamburg, germany. he is arriving for this one-on-one meeting, a restricted meeting with german chancellor angela merkel. then after that, they are going to have a broader meeting including other people, but lots of folks are wondering what is going to go on and what theyre going to say to each other behind these closed doors here. let me bring on the rest of the couch. a "outnumbered," what do you think? theyve had a testy relationship so far. >> meghan: i went to vegas about a month ago and whe...

Undergraduate. when you encounter it, you start to see it everywhere. you see it in yourself. i sat at a blackjack table and thought to myself, im due. im due. and i feel the feeling that im due as powerfully as you could feel anything. and i know its dumb and totally wrong and i should get up from the blackjack table. >> imagine how you feel after youve had a couple of drinks. you know, its absolutely right. people go with that feeling. anyway, so these mistakes that they kind of -- i feel like...

Trump moment. these guys at the center of their work is the idea that we are fallible, that we are actually kind of wired for certain mistakes. >> systematically. >> systematically fallible. the awareness of our fallibility is actually human. if were going to guard against it, we need to know it. we have a president who just got elected that prides himself on infallibility and trusts his instinct. its really terrifying. >> i encountered his work as an undergraduate. when you encounter it, you st...

Back to this, it is not the thing that will appeal to the voters that have not made up their minds. >> and hillary clinton was able to shift the discussion from wikileaks. there could be a lot of questions where she feels on safer ground. we have a few minutes left. i would like to shift the discussion to what the heck happens now? we have two and a half weeks left. no more debates. no big intervening moments. john phillips, i harp on the fact that donald trump was eight points down going into t...

>> mike berry, a guy who gets his haircut at supercuts and doesnt wear shoes, knows more than alan greenspan. how do you explain what a synthetic collateralized debt obligation to an audience? have selena gomez describe it at a blackjack table. thats one way a movie called "the big short" does it. it shows how people predicted the housing and mortgage bubble. the director sat down with chris hayes to discuss "the big short" and how he adapted journalist michael lewiss book of the same name for...