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Ugliness. orourke is the kind of politician the country needs because he is full of grace. the author joins us now. there he is. in my hand i have his new book "on freedom." they for being here. before i talk to you about beto orourke i want to understand the article you wrote about him during his campaign. does that withstand the fact hes now the 13th candidate in the race? does that translate into you thinking -- you endorsing him for president? >> well, i dont have an endorsement. im an obser...

Steve: still ahead, ice wanted this illegal immigrant detained nine separate times but it never happened. now he is charged with murder. how does this keep happening? we are going to tell you what we know. ainsley: plus, jay leno has questions for lay of the night hosts now. wheres the civility? >> the president of the united states interrupt prime time television to warn us about a completely made up thing. >> president trump has been able to remain tan despite the bad winter weather. metastati...

President needs to be removed from office because of his character, lack of civility, lack of respect -- >> neil: do you support impeachments? some democrats have pursued that and some siding with nancy pelosi saying impeach him. do you want to see that? >> im not here to talk about impeachme impeachment. last week in texas, i spent a fair amount of time throughout the state talking to veterans and families and visit the intrepid hospital and talked about the v.a. lets me tell you something abou...

Has noticed that. ainsley: jay leno was on another network talking about this and calling for civility. everyone knows your politics. its so one-sided. listen. >> everything now is -- people dont like your politics, everyone has to know your politics. but when people sees as one-sided it makes it tough. so now its all very serious. everything is just so -- i just would like to see a bit of civility come back to it, you know? the theory when we did the show was you just watch the news, well make ...

>> thank you. sg j >> joe biden laid out the broad strokes of a presidential campaign. >> almost a trillion dollar cut in medicare. why? because of a tax cut for the super wealthy that created a deficit of $1.9 trillion and now they have to make somebody pay for it. >> he hit just about every one on politics including his own party on the issue of civility. >> mean pettiness has over taken our politics. seem like we cant govern ourselves or even talk to one another. note how you criticize for sa...

Talking about the trail, his record on anita hill, on some of the crime issues, which, you know, in the current context, what he said in the 70s and 80s and 90s doesnt sound as current and as popular with the democratic base. >> well, i think really what people are going to come to realize, understand, and embrace, is joe biden is going to bring a level of civility back to the political arena. i think people are really yearning to have, you know, the discussions, the debates, rise to a very high...

Reporter: you wont find mayberry r.f.d. on the map. but if close neighbors, good schools, and just plain, old civility is what youre looking for in a place to call home, you could do worse than settle in grovetown, georgia. tamara baldwin has lived here for 14 years. >> you see the children outside playing, having a good time. just a nice, quiet place that you wanna move and take your family to. >> reporter: the way we think america used to be, and seems to be harder and harder to find, huh? >> ...

The party. >> it was prescott bushs belief in the importance of persuasion and civility in politics that made him very uncomfortable with joseph mccarthy. >> are you a member of the communist conspiracy as of this moment? >> joe mccarthy embodied the anti-communist paranoia that gripped american society early in the 1950s. he was a person who lied, who had no difficulty whatsoever smearing another persons reputation without any fact or basis of evidence. and prescott bush frankly found joe mccar...

Narrative, show activism and the progressive causes he champions and also hearing the old staple from his out here on the campaign trail. railing against income inequality pushing medicare for all and attacking president donald trump. in that way sanders seems feech treating the primary, and voters like what they say. at this early point in the race running behind former vice president joe biden. a registered cnn poll showed that. and one could benefit big if biden doesnt wind up running in 2020...

Have more transparency. last, the programs will be more sustainable if, in fact, the american people have a sense, right, that were being candid and we are doing things in the way we say were going to do. were following very tight procedures but you cant get zero casualties. >> especially in your tenure as national security adviser, you supported and would speak openly about support for the drone strike program, and we should put that out there, that its necessary. youre saying people thought it...