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Going to pawn shops to pawn their wedding rings in tears. >> that was heart breaking. when people elect the president of the united states, they elect someone to safe guard the national defense and have the best interests of the american people at heart. they also want someone looking out for them, not just policy-wise, also empathetically. we talked about that on this show and around the country about the empathy deficit of president trump. you have to have a sense of empathy and motorcycle con...

Subpoenas, in terms of questions they want answered from this president, in terms of documents they are going to ask him to cough up? >> so, i think the democrats -- look the ground has been set and theres an era of bad feelings were in and i understand everything that you said about the presidents incredible empathy deficit. nonetheless democrats need the to play their hands wisely, which is to say they have oversight authority that they havent had before. they need to use it in a slow steady m...

Listening sessions today and yesterday. the debate was heated at times. it was respectful. they won praise for having the guts to have the president leading this freewheeling and honest conversation. still some of the conversation focused on anything but that. it was the notes that the president had in his hand that you can get a close up look at which have some thoughts on questions and things of the like it. says, this photo of trumps notes captures his empathy deficit better than anything. th...

Perhaps sincere about what theyve done. >> decker, for 25 years youve studied people in power and preying on those in vulnerable positions. how does power transform a persons behavior? >> its regrettable how reliable this is, isnt it? what we know from scientific studies is if you give any human being a little bit of power, which we see in the weinstein and louis c.k. cases and others, historically they are vulnerable to empathy deficit. they dont realize, men in positions of power, how theyre o...

Time. thats not a role this president who has an empathy deficit is very well suited for. >> i hear you. and i get how it can be misconstrued. he tried to compare himself to other presidents. >> sure. the pointless pugnacity of the man who says hes proud of being a counter puncher and he counter punches even when he hasnt been punched. >> exactly. i dont understand why he went down this road. >> let me say something mildly on his behalf. he is barely on speaking terms with the english look. i do...

Struggling trying to make it, chris. i live in a neighborhood where i see people trying to make it every day. they are the ones where a lot of them are taking the early bus. they never had the opportunity to get medicaid in our state. when you say that you will take over $800 billion for medicaid and say that it will not touch anybody or it will not hurt -- i just disagree. obviously, we come to a point in our country, chris, where people like mulvaney, i think, have an empathy deficit. i know w...

American narratives about who poor people are and the fact that there are these -- there are these people who simply deserve to be in circumstances of want. and that we dont have a responsibility to them, because were the strivers. >> thats right, thats right. this goes back further than what im going to mention, but the welfare queen debates in the 80s. the conversation about whos bringing down the capitalist order or the economy is always an overweight black woman holding a couple of hot dogs,...

Obama as a candidate initially wrote about and talked about, this idea of an empathy deficit. our idea to have sympathy for people. but our inability to see one another across difference and be able to say, you and i are really the same. i can understand your struggles, they are like my struggles. >> thats some of the challenge for american indians, because they often are not viewed is, except as relics or mascots, and as a result, they suffer from the lowest standard of living, the lowest -- hi...

Will be the vision for our america? will it be seniors who wont be able to get medical care? children like the ones i just saw at howard university who had to leave school with 3.5 averages because they dont have money to go to school? is it closing head start centers? what price do we pay? i hope the president keeps in mind something he said over and over again. he said this country lacks an empathy deficit. im here to tell you, i, along with many other democrats am going to remind the presiden...

Problem isnt that the american people arent productive enough. youve been working harder than ever. >> im afraid he doesnt understand what the word productivity means. gosh, this is quite a revelation if you have the president of the united states that doesnt understand that productivity is a measure of output per person in the nation as a whole. it is not a measure of how hard people are working. >> i dont know if this is a preview of what kind of debates well see between these two men. i belie...