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On january 1st, the legislature made a number of people felons, whether it was intentional, by accident or an act of defiance. they made people felons. friday night i had a lobbyist come up to me and say, what do you think about an amnesty program or an amnesty -- i said, absolutely not. i said, arrest them and let the legislature suffer the consequences of the public backlash. >> i know you think thats a fight they dont want to have. we have to leave it there, ed and scott, thank you gentlemen ...

Job that was open today, you still have 2/3 of the unemployed without work. creating jobs is a whole another thing, but they dont want to do that either unless it means giving a tax cut to someone wealthy. infrastructure and things like that theyre just not into. it really is about finding a way to say this program doesnt work. so if it doesnt work, well, we shouldnt fund it. >> well, we all remember, guys, that paul ryan ran as the running mate to mitch -- rather to mitt romney. and this may we...

Because i cannot explain that logic because its illogical. but there is a whole way of building up a infrastructure around people who are in poverty to make it easier for them to get work and for them to stay in jobs. thats providing health care, providing day care,el r early child education, nutritional programs for kids, and for their parents if they need it. family medical leave, you know, days off, paid vacation, all these sort of things that the poor dont have. transportation vouchers. beca...

On kiosks, billboards and things like that. theyll move some money into a different place. what we really need to do is look at this through a tax policy. and i dont think we need to tax it on a consumer level. that doesnt work. i think we need to look at if youre going to advertise junk food that should not be deducted, thats one way to affect this. and then perhaps those food companies will spend their advertising dollars on some of the healthier foods in their portfolio. >> i have a point i w...

>> so far ukraine has been extremely restrained. theres no evidence to suggest that units moved out to challenge any checkpoints. again, when you have these sorts of things going on and its almost like the russians are trying to provoke certainly and when that doesnt work, they ratchet it up a bit. it looks like theyre almost trying to provoke a fight. >> when we found out this week that president putin had ordered a new large scale ground exercise in western russia, so fairly close to ukraine, ...

Say ive gotten as much as i can. i keep going back to the government shutdown debate where ted cruz, by the end of that, was virtually on an island saying we have to keep going forward, we shouldnt fold, we have them right where we want them. rand pall who we are contrasting him to today was out there saying we need to recognize this is a losing game. that is not a policy consideration but a temperamental consideration well. i think we are getting to rand paul has a more better astute sense what...

Having an increasingly difficult time defending the cuba policy, particularly onto world stage. the united nations has voted 22 times to urge the u.s. to drop the embargo. it happened most recently last october, when the vote was 188-2, and only israel voted with the united states. even the communist argument doesnt work anymore. the trade relations with china, laos, vietnam, all communist countries, and businesses are putting pressure on the administration, saying the economic benefits of openi...

Has trained for them. so all the way around, cuba is a problem that china isnt. >> what do you say to the argument that, guess what, economic -- the fact that a free market economy is essentially upending china, and china, in order to get more trade, is essentially quietly stopped other than in name only, stopped many of the policies on communism? what about that argument that says, open up the country in cuba, and watch the reform happen even faster. >> well, look, cuba trades with every countr...

The government of raul castro continued to enforce political conformity using short-term detention, beatings, public acts of repudiation, forced exile. reports like that are at the heart of the opposition, closer ties to cuba and the castros, and on monday we saw the argument play out on capitol hill, as tom harken recounted in mostly positive terms a trip he made to the island. and he called for closer relationship between the u.s. and cuba. >> its only our official policy that stands in the wa...

Generally at the moment. when you look at it as an american, what is the answer to get through all of this? >> i think were in a transitional time. in an era where social media has changed how the media in general -- it used to be there were three networks, then seven networks. now people dont read the newspaper, they dont all watch the same news shows. theres the old saying that if its important to me, it will find me. i think politicians are ignorant of how to use media right now. because of t...