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Reason. different from when i was democrats also have seats growing up, young men have this theyll have to defend like michigan and alabama where the in their mindset. we have to figure this out and senator is seeking reelection in get guns away from mentally ill a state the president won by people. >> where are you on an expansion almost 30 points. it wont be easy to win the of the background checks? that will probably be one of the senate. they have a lot of potential paths to get there. debat...

Our job here isnt to score debating points. our job, mr. zoran, is to save the peace. if you are ready to try, we are. >> and so they saved the peace. russia removed those missiles from cuba. our job here is not to score debating points, said adlai stevenson. every serious ambassador to the united nations has always known that. what was donald trump trying to do today by calling the leader of north korea rocket man? that is the trump version of scoring a debating point. you saw it in the republi...

And tonight, 55 years later, we have a president of the united states who seems to think that his job, his only job in press conferences, on twitter or at the general assembly of the united nations, is nothing but to score debating points. joining us now, ambassador wendy sherman, former undersecretary of state who worked on the iran deal, also special adviser to president clinton and policy coordinator on north korea. shes now an nbc news and msnbc global affairs contributor. ambassador sherman...

Pull out of the deal that iran made in which iran agrees not to develop nuclear weapons. exactly what the united states wanted iran to agree to. exactly what the united states would like north korea to agree to. the alternative to war is diplomacy. negotiation. why would anyone in the north korean regime believe today that it is possible to negotiate their way out of this confrontation with the united states? iran tried to do that and look whats happened to them. the president of the united stat...

Debating points." so said our united nations ambassador 55 years ago. and tonight, 55 years later, we have a president of the united states who seems to think that his job, his only job in press conferences, on twitter or at the general assembly of the united nations, is nothing but to score debating points. joining us now, ambassador wendy sherman, former undersecretary of state who worked on the iran deal, also special adviser to president clinton and policy coordinator on north korea. shes no...

Weeks. these missions that the tier 1 special operations units go on are frightfully dangerous. these people are shear magic, training, talent, capability and courage. its unsurprising to me that we dont have casualties. these people are prepared to give their life for their country, and we must not turn these into political debating points. so who approved the mission? the commander would never have given orders for that mission if they did not think it was given a shot. >> given how important ...

The bernie sanders camp, he isnt as engaged. there is always expectations management that goes into this. he has been to hear his camp tell it, studying up on the issues and just starting to practice what they are referring to as exchanges. as democratic presidential contenders get ready for their first debate in las vegas, hillary clinton is the candidate to beat in two states that could be key to slowing a bernie sanders surge. a new cnn orc poll shows her over sanders by 16 points and the spr...

Whether marijuana is more dangerous or less dangerous than alcohol which is a nonsense point to be made. it signals that shes afraid to go against where the pendulum is swinging on the drug war with. these are le g-8 mat reasons to a pose. i will be the touredurd in the punch bowl. if lynch is at the back of the bus, rogers brown was at a lunch counter with her hands in bracelets. she was held up by senate democrats for two years as a bush appointee to the d.c. circuit. black woman. they didnt l...

They had 172 democrats voting against this. because each side is acting as if this is a debating plug. the republicans are saying how dare the president try and pull this fast one with his executive order on immigration. were not going to pay for it. when in reality the public is standing back and looking at this and saying the dysfunction in congress has not changed. the republicans are now in control of the congress and by the way, the house republicans and the senate republicans dont agree wi...

Well, jay carney, the presidents spokesman, fired back saying: how quickly speaker boehner forgets underhe supporte nation lost 8.5 million jobs in the last 35 months. we have created 6 million. what about his argument, specifically jay carneys argument, judy? >> well, look, i think that is going to get played out. its going to be one of the talking points and the debating points between keynesians and nonkeynesians in this administration. i think whats really interesting is that, you know, in t...