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St how far can we get with half the country walking around like zombies? >> its a difficult question to answer. i think what we have to do is to get about the business of building a better world. not so much focussing our energy and attention and trying to convince people to hold different sorts of commitments but to build a better world where they have to choose. so it seems to me for example, im from mississippi, right? when jim crow mississippi, when the game crow south ended, those who had b...

How far can we get with half the country walking around like zombies? >> its a difficult question to answer. i think what we have to do is to get about the business of building a better world. not so much focussing our energy and attention and trying to convince people to hold different sorts of commitments but to build a better world where they have to choose. so it seems to me for example, im from mississippi, right? when jim crow mississippi, when the game crow south ended, those who had been...

Healthcare for illegal immigrants. >> they when asked whether candidates supported taxpayer money for illegal aliens. the sample size on joe biden running for president is not small. one thing i will give him credit for, he knows how to end a sentence very quickly. >> you see the candidates looking around, where am i suppose to be going this week which is probably confusing when you have the entire party deniewnsing obama. joe biden calling for the end of possible it fuels. steve: they keep maki...

The deadline birgs t, by the ne elections in afghanistan in late september that there will be agreement? is everyone as optimistic as the u.s. envoy? >> i think theres good reason for the skepticism here. first of all, i applaud the efforts i think the special envoy is working in earnest to do it and working very hard. the only way to solve this war is diplomatically and a peaceful solution and that is talking to the taliban so i applaud the efforts but i think we need to be pragmatic as we go i...

Consumers are going to pay too much for the president to stand up for china to dump fentanyl into our communities. >> im not saying theyre paying too much im asking you to acknowledge that you are asking them to pay something and tell them why they should. >> if you had a good argument. but inflation rates at 1.5%. well below the federal reserve 2%. they never should have raised interest rates to begin with. the china tariffs are working beautifully in terms of getting china to maybe change thei...

Annual security conference in munich i mean plenty of recriminations and bad blood between europe and washington are you trying to tell me that europe has lived up to its commitments under nato is that what youre trying to tell me because believe me there is no belief or that on anybodys part that some of the european nations are not living up to their commitments and indeed look ive done this for 10 years ive come over here and tried to talk the nato countries into living up to their agreements...

They keep talking about the voters wants all sorts of security, what about a thing called voter i.d.? voter identification? [cheers and applause] please work on that come up rob portman, will you please start working on that? you see the response. every place i go. voter i.d. they give you everything they can give you except voter i.d. and the things that matter. republicans believe that a nation must care for its own citizens first. our pledge to americas workers has secured commitments to trai...

>> i would say i hope people who remember what happened after tiananmen square in june of 1989 take that into account. i think china made a commitment in the joint sino british declaration to give hong kong 50 years of separate status after the handover. if china doesnt honor its international commitments, it sends a signal for other possible commitments they might make in the future. stick a slightly understated compared to what we typically hear from the national security advisor. china remain...

With us and yes, i am one in a state every single time statewide, i have won those congressional districts that donald trump won by over 20 points. he just targeted minnesota last week, and i have done it by getting out there and talking to people, by knowing rural issues and farm issues. >> thank you, senator klobuchar. >> and bringing metro people with me in the state that has the highest voter turnout in the country. thats what we want. >> congressman orourke, please respond. >> i think a big...

If theres a report out and i think chinese or masses at the border with hong kong. this comes amid serious unrest in that territory over the last several weeks. weve reported here on "special report" ." national security advisor john bolton spoke with lou dobbs of the fox business network about this a short time ago. >> ive heard rumors from friends in the region about this and people expressing concern. i would just say i hope that people who remember what happened after tiananmen square in jun...