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A civilian leader hes not particularly known for his consensus building in fact he made headlines here in thailand in the build up to the election for his lack of interest in talking to the media in fact at one point he put up a couple of cutout himself at a press conference walked off and said you can address my questions to this couple cuts out so there is some concern here about how long this government and private as prime minister will last some of the wests estimates ive seen put it at jus...

[ cheers and applause ] of anybody who would run. >> he caught mims but its too late. usually a flub like this means that a candidate is going to run. when is he going to make up his mind? >> the current thinking is that joe biden will make some type of announcement as soon as april. so, were still a few weeks away knowing for certain hes going to run for president in 2020 but joe biden has certainly been dropping a lot of hints and clues along the way and all signs at this point seem to point t...

Meanness and pettiness in politics and work towards consensus building. biden also framed his possible message in terms of a contrast to president trump. take a listen to what he had to say. >> we must be clear. everybody knows who he is. we got to be clear who we are, who we are. [ applause ] weve got to understand that we democrats, we choose hope over fear. we choose unity over division. and we choose truth over lies. >> now, that was a common refrain from joe biden used on the midterm campai...

Is because this area had voted for hillary clinton and the 2016 presidenti presidenti presidential election. we know from this area geographically, not a huge surprise, immigration is going to be a huge issue in both of those areas. rouda, and rohr. back to you. >> neil: you had to rub that in. thank you. the dow today, there is a consensus building, always dangerous, i hate to say, well see split government after this midterm election, the house under one party and democrat and then the senate ...

Obamacare case all these cases voting rights that its a five to four decision in the credibility of the court is based on consensus building why are we having these cut barely majority decisions being made in the supreme court that is hurting its credibility so in fact it is reflecting the partisan divide somewhat yes ok. many thanks times from the aspen institute. and we move on now to turkey where suspicions are growing that a prominent saudi arabian journalist may have been killed inside the ...

Why only draw from east coast elite schools for a court thats supposed to represent the interests of the nation at large? >> well, probably because the beach reading for these folks is the law of judicial precedence, which is a thousand pages, which worries us. i think you have, there has been this trend in the court towards lawyers, towards people who spent their entire career in the law i should say. there have been debates through the last 30 years or so, having a few more people with politic...

Question of the moment, history is watching. there is no reason for confidence that the president is going to avoid firing either robert mueller or rod rosenstein. thats why we simply cannot afford to roll the dice and go over the cliff if thats where donald trump takes us. democracy is not shatter proof. the norms of history apparently matter little to donald trump nor does the rule of law. and thats why i think this legislation is gaining traction. the latest draft will probably be voted withi...

Of the so well because i dont know if theres a general conflict so of course the young people who are against the many young people do the usals which is the use organisation of the social democrats they are against this coalition but that does not necessarily mean that all young people and old people are standing against each other. ultimately i mean the saying goes a house divided cannot stand youre right. both within your party now with these divisions and also within the country dont you thi...

I count on so that so well because i dont know if theres a general conflict so of course the young people who are against the many young people do the usals which is the use organisation of the social democrats they are against this coalition but that does not necessarily mean that all young people and old people are standing against each other. ultimately i mean the saying goes a house divided cannot stand youre right. both within your party now with these divisions and also within the country ...

An open mind, willing to hear all sides of it. its not nailed down in stone yet. they should be expressing their viewpoint, so should the other side. hopefulliness a way to get the consensus building. >> if the president has said hes willing to take heat to make a deal. the heat strong from the right. >> rightfully and understandably so, its one of two things. a bad opening bid that will only get worse, went from 800,000 the original daca number, now its 1.8 million, some say it will be four mil...