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Civility in politics because i think its a term to police how people talk -- >> youre going to get dragged on twitter now. >> yeah, exactly. but i do think theres an element where if ierment you -- people know my political positions when i walk in there. and whats great is they know exactly how i feel and who i am, and so they know not to come to me with certain things. >> it probably saves you some conversation. >> it saves me a ton of time, a ton of time. but they also -- you know, they also a...

Piece about civility and that americans should not fear that form of tension. it is a risk for this kind of fire and furry exactly that reid was talking about, but shouldnt those two peoples goal be to defeat trump. >> im not a political strategist, i cant tell you what best way to defeat trump is is, but i know what you end up with is an artificial elite consensus and politeness where poor people show, there is a

Production for civility disagreement. were going to get along and paper over differences. we discuss and disagree in a real way without staring at each others throats. we have self governance, when the president calls his opponents human scum, he is not advancing an argument, she is simply repelling a whole universe of people. i think this is a fairly facile idea to suggest that civility and as if sit is a type of secu that is not. when you look back at the midterms.

Dad and so it was -- it would have been very disruptive to my children and so i took their lead on this whole thing. it was ultimately my choice and my decision. but it just -- i just didnt want any disruption, i didnt want anything to overshadow john mccain that day because thats why we were there. >> words matter if words matter. words matter. especially to a dying man. >> youve launched a whole campaign to promote civility. >> uh-huh. >> in the public square. >> acts of civility. >> #actsofci...

House, the person who is third in line to the presidency and most powerful woman in our government. mr. senator, you dont have to agree with speaker pelosi but you should respect her. matt lewis, senior columnist for the "daily beast" and cnn political commentator and matt, you were as angry as i was. tell me why. >> not only disrespecting the speaker of the house this is a grown man disrespecting a lady in public and being cheered for it. i think it speaks to civility and this is very common. w...

>> of the whistle-blowers name was on a little website called "the grudge report" a couple days ago. i literally tweeted an article that had the guys name over the title of the article. that whole thing -- i wish the outrage would be equal. >> jesse: and then it got wild when the conversation turned to civility. >> jesse: youve worn black face. what b >> lets talk about -- the question came up. no, she was not in blackface. >> jesse: she had darkened her skin. >> greg: she was wearing black face...

Or any kind of challenges? what are your feelings about that? >> well, obviously a re-canvass request, we have official results that are certified to us from our county board of elections friday. a re-canvass is requested by next tuesday and would then be conducted the following thursday if thats necessary. in terms of absentee vote totals that could be outstanding, thats obviously something that governor bevin could take into account but not something we see as a significant indicator here in c...

System. several comments, for example, when they protested his pension reform efforts in the legislature, he told the press that, you know, the protesters here, there is a child being left alone in kentucky who is being poisoned or sexually assaulted because of these protests andsa having to shut dn school as a result of teachers showing up. he would often refer to teachers and their r union saying they dont understand what theyre trying to do. you have to knock them over the head like a drownin...

That vance would not seek to support the subpoena until the supreme court denied to hear the case or issued an opinion on the case. so the idea that donald trumps tax returns will be turned over is not something that will happen imminently, and it is likely to go before the supreme court, and whether they will decide and weigh in here on just exactly how far presidential immunity can reach, you know, whether its from a state or federal investigation, they have not weighed in on a presidents immu...

Smart. demeaning other people. when they have this behavior, it tells society that we really dont have any norms anymore. theres no appropriate way to behave. we cant have that in the leadership of our country. we can change policies, well survive that. but you cant -- once we do away with civility in terms of our institutions, weve lost it. >> but, jerry, are you saying its our leaders that need to set the example? because, again, the success of your show in some part was predicated on americas...