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Were still working with members to try to make deal on daca and make sure that we include those components that the president very clearly has laid out. >> just picking up on that. does a good deal include preferring white immigrants from norway than black and brown immigrants from haiti? >> not at all of the it is the opposite. by definition a merit based system color blind. it is not base go it on any of that criteria. it is not based on race or country of origin. it is paced on the merits of ...

Make a deal on daca and make sure that we include those components that the president very clearly has laid out. >> merit-based -- >> sorry, im going to pop around today since were on a short timeframe. >> picking up on what you left off on, does a good deal include then preferring white immigrants from norway than -- >> not at all. in fact, its actually the opposite. by definition a merit-based system is colorblind. its not basing it on any of that criteria. its not based on race, not based on ...

Yelling the p word on tv. no one tweeted out and said you have early onset dementia. to describe someone that way is incredibly unfair. i also think that honestly youre a lot better than that. >> oh a kay but before we get -- i mean i just curious, what -- did you think his speech last night was okay? >> i thought it was a classic campaign rally speech that weve been seeing now for what? a year, over a year? >> can but hes the president. the. >> you campaign when youre the president. >> right bu...

And the answer was yes. absolutely. i want to do everything within the bounds of what youre allowed to do legally but do i feel it works? absolutely i feel it works. >> the president of the united states last night explicitly endorsed the idea the u.s. might bring back torture. while claiming he would stay within the bounds of what youre allowed to do legally, trump repeatedly praised torture. to be clear, even when the bush administration called torture enhanced interrogation techniques, it was...

Trump, however, didnt bother renaming it. he called it torture. he used the war torture either unaware or unconcerned torture is by definition a war crime as well as a federal crime. trump made those statements on a day when both the "new york times" and "washington post" published what appeared to be draft of an executive order entitled "detention and interrogation of enemy combatants." it would lift a ban on cia black site prisons which detained and tortured suspects during the bush administra...

I think the diplomacy is by definition a rather dangerous profession. there have been more ambassadors killed since the end of the second world war than flag officers or jerrells. that needs to be understood. what this committee has done has made it more difficult for a diplomate to do his job or her job, which is to go out into the community, get to know the people, understand their concerns, understand what drives their behavior and report that. you are not going to do that if your sense is th...

Necessarily play well, but also i think is a reflex where he finds himself in some of these key battlegrounds. hes in a tough spot particularly in ohio, virginia. he needs to win the states. if he doesnt he cant win. jon: tucker the fact that the president is taking, you know, one of the last campaign opportunities he has to appear in wisconsin, a state that traditionally votes democratic, that shows, you know, some trouble for the obama campaign? >> anything, anything a candidate does in the fi...

Striking to me is the key piece of evidence, the federal election commission rules, and they specifically state that this kind of money cannot be by definition a campaign contribution, it has to be a gift. and, in fact, edwards treasurer took the stand, and she said thats why it was a gift and not a campaign donation. i mean, if the jury believes that, acquittal, right? >> yeah. and its very difficult. they have to show he had the intent to violate the campaign finance laws which there hasnt bee...

Also asking us to pander to a certain narrative, which journalists dont do. we put out what he said. we played it live and reaction is what it is. >> right. hes talking about the reaction in the room. and look, he might be right about that. this was a saturday, not a work day. it was lottery based audience. people who worked for the cia who wanted to go got their names into a lottery. by definition a self-selecting crowd. regardless if on their feet cheering and whistling doesnt answer the quest...