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Has to work. it doesnt work if we dont have a well-informed citizenry. and you are the conduit of which they receive about the information of whats taking place in the halls of power. so america needs you, and our democracy needs you. >> i consider our media to be indispensable to democracy. that we need an independent media to hold people like me to account. power can be addictive and corrosive. and its important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power whether it be here o...

Now its disheartening. >> i think hes right, because one, theyve gotten away from what the protest is about. the president has flipped the script to the national anthem, which it is not about. you do the bow silently not doing it disruptively. theres religious groups that dont fledge to the flag. hes flipped the script. now he has said about the tax of the nfl, which is intimidating the nfl to grovel to him. theres no way you can interpret but groveling to the head of the state threatening their...

He so-called it from the political side. to go hand to hand, to change the narrative, give a new story line, and reflect calm. his demeanor was so important for this white house with so much volatility perceived real, generated from inside. the tone of general kelly was necessary today. >> and one of the reasons the tone was necessary is because of the story you reported yesterday. on labor day there was a stunning story "the new york times" the way john kelly was yelled at harshly the way he ha...

Anything that youre picking up from his own national security establishment that is alarming, that he looks at the iran deal as simply erasing obamas legacy and looking at the nuclear stockpile in july and wanted it bigger. are there things this team is feeling anxious about not being able to sort of pull out of him a different person than what we see on social media? >> there are. and one of the issue areas that comes up is north korea. his advisers for months have been counseling him how to ha...

And shouldnt have to worry if your life is in jeopardy. thats what this protest is about. were watching this on social media and the news to the point i had a conversation with one of my good friends i love dearly. he goes, im getting exhausted. i was like, exhausted? imagine if render al sharpton got exhausted, reverend martin luther king or malcolm or our forefathers, black america cannot be exhausted by this. we must continue to fight and until we get heard and get justice in the country. unt...

Was playing. im not surprised by it. i think as a player, when you look at what lebron james and some of those players doing in the nba as far as bringing awareness, continuing to do their jobs but bringing awareness. this is an issue we are listening to, aware of are and wear a shirt. nfl always declined that. am i surprised they wont change it? no. thats the nfl. they try to put the shield in front of america, this is the honor being an nfl player but have yet to honor those in the nfl. hypocr...

Korea. and those references were added right at the end, something the president wanted to do. he really wanted to use tough talk on that. and a lot of some of his advisers were taken by surprise. and then that then solicited a really dangerous moment of tit for tat insults from the korean leader. and so that was an example of the presidents impulsiveness, wanting to shoot from the hip and look tough and use tough talk. going against some of the advice hed been given from a lot of his advisers. ...

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