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Syria. at a time when the u.s. could even think of dictating policy there. bret? >> bret: greg palkot in london, thank you. up next, we talk about talking it out and listening. first, beyond our borders tonight. at least 20 people are dead after a speeding bus carrying pilgrims overturns on the highway and falls into a ravine in a remote area of southwestern pakistan. it happened before dawn. at least 50 other people were injured there. the biggest sporting event since the start of the pandemic ...

Was not all right. >> and part of the reason why you have -- because ive talked to people who have been on these sort of calls and the reason why you have all of the people on the call is because it is supposed to be about setting u.s. policy. so the president on these calls and hes supposed to be dictating policy and then the people on the call then go out to their different agencies and to the different people in the government who are supposed to carry it out. so when you have less people on ...

Voice, but they should not be pair routed by adults and furthermore they should not be dictating policy which they cant even participate in. they cant even purchase a gun right now. >> at the end of the day, young people -- at the end of the day, we live and you know, at the end of the day, we live in the most violent country in the world. there are more handgun murders in the united states than any other nation on planet earth. >> laura: none of the things they are asking for is going to change...

Voice, but they should not be pair routed by adults and furthermore they should not be dictating policy which they cant even participate in. they cant even purchase a gun right now. >> at the end of the day, young people -- at the end of the day, we live and you know, at the end of the day, we live in the most violent country in the world. there are more handgun murders in the united states than any other nation on planet earth. >> laura: none of the things they are asking for is going to change...

Voice, but they should not be pair routed by adults and furthermore they should not be dictating policy which they cant even participate in. they cant even purchase a gun right now. >> at the end of the day, young people -- at the end of the day, we live and you know, at the end of the day, we live in the most violent country in the world. there are more handgun murders in the united states than any other nation on planet earth. >> laura: none of the things they are asking for is going to change...

There is no way that a lot of people in the evangelical base of this republican party are not going to be offended by taking a trillion dollars away from the poorest americans and giving it to the richest republican donors. >> and donald trump has this hands off approach, because he doesnt have the kind of policy team in place where hes dictating policy. hes outsourced it essentially to congress, and hes just disavowed the populism that brought him into office. this is the big government republi...

Substantial part and a substantial voice for this sort of anti-globalist, anti-eu, anti-big business sentiment in france. that could shape the way not just macron would rule if he was president but also the legislative elections that are very important for dictating policy in france. youve seen a similar thing in the uk where prime minister theresa may was pretty -- she was actually against brexit, but she kept herself out of the referendum, but she was thought to be against brexit but shes had ...

Foreign policy changes that weve seen with the trump administration regarding nato, coming out regarding north korea, this week i reported on the u.s. putting sanctions again on iran, but focusing on human rights on their prison system. so again, a slap on the wrist for the chinese. he walked back a lot of that very harsh rhetoric from his campaign. could it be that reality is dictating policy? perhaps. i think the only answer here is to give it a chance and to say, look, weve been wanting to pr...

When you look at polls, campaign finance reform doesnt really rate that high. however, when you make the connection between peoples paychecks being squeezed and the fact that the special interests are dictating policy and squeezing their paychecks, people understand thats true. they think that the deck is stacked, and then they want campaign finance reform. >> so i didnt realize that -- you mean, the courts would not strike down a full disclosure requirement, congressman? if people on the hill g...