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Southern california. eight walls between 18 and 30 feet will be built in the next 30 days. and james mattis arrived this morning for an unannounced visit to afghanistan. hours after his arrival, several small rockets exploded in and around kabul airport. the taliban and isis both claimed responsibility for the attack and said mattis plane was in fact the target. fortunately, no one was injured. and robots, start your engines. ford will give its self-driving cars to lyft for help in road test...

Happened in the first 100 days. not much. a lot of road testing of ideas, gorsuch to the supreme court but really didnt change the balance. interestingly enough, this budget deal actually is something new, five months of spending. trump won on defense. the democrats won on lots of things. nih funding, for example. if you can pull away from the politics here, there is such a thing as the national interest. that budget deal may be in the national interest. makes sense, avoids the shutdown. like in...

Its not going to be, i think, as easy a place as it might have been for democrats eight years ago. >> what do you think about the themes that shes road testing? here she is and it was a really, you know, strong performance just looking at it as political drama, no notes, no teleprompter. shes walking around the stage, does a q&a with kara swisher. >> great reporter. >> shes talking to women in technology about both working-class women and their needs and the high end, the elites for whom she say...

Youth campaign so it has sort of a narrow audience. i think the reaction there has been pretty good. even though some obama advisors like that, i think theyre still thinking they need something thats a little bit more all encompassing for the slogan for the whole campaign. >> greater together was on a college tour trying to galvanize and get kids involved in the campaign. they have these other possibilities, "winning the future," and "we dont quit." >> those are a couple weve heard them road tes...

Guys and they create less jobs and it thought these guys were road testing taking away from the big guy and creating more jobs. right? this is how upside down their logic is. >> steve? >> hey, i think a global, not a global, an oecd tax, the more developed countries, a really small tax on financial investments that goes into either microeconomic-- excuse me microloans or into correct aid to schools or hire teachers in the third world, yeah. john paul ii is right the hems sphere needs to do-- >> ...

In the race to sequence genes and in the fries land a robot in the moon that can transmit images back to earth. today foundation has new prize to develop technology to clean up oil spill on the oceans surface. right now, im geeking out on an x-prize challenge that three years after it started, is in its final stages. it is a contest to develop hyper efficient cars. the winning cars have to get the equivalent of 100 miles a gallon, be able to travel 200 mile on single tank or electric charge. the...

Technology to clean up oil spills on the oceans surface. right now, im geeking out onçn x-prize challenge that three years after it started, is in its final stages. its a contest to develop hyperefficient cars. the winning cars have to get the equivalent of 100 miles a gallon, be able to travel 200 miles on a single tank or electric charge, they have to be safe to drive and commercially produceable. 131 cars entered the contest back in 2007. now, after some rigorous road testing last week at t...

Fire up his base, a very union pro-obama crowd there were shouts of four more years, et cetera. in terms of previewing the speech, the president said little that is new. he talked about more infrastructure spending. extending the payroll tax cut, weve heard that before. he was road testing, if you will some of the lines he may use thursday night about taking on republicans on issues like tax cuts. take a listen. >> the president: show us what you got! [ cheering and applause ] >> the president: ...