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Will be people -- and i can tell you, having seen these pictures and conversations that have been happening, there will be some disagreement as well. >> were going to get back to you. >> very significant speech today. i want to shift gears and discuss former president bush. he delivered a very soeb berring view of the state of america and a not so veiled takedown of president trump ice politics at a national forum in new york city, president bush went off on partisan shshi partisanship, bigotry....

An identity crisis. we have seen insolvency, economic stag nation, youth unemployment, anger about immigration, resurgent ethnonationalism and questions about the meaning and durability of the european union. america is not immune. in recent decades public confidence in our institutions has declined. our governing class has often been paralyzed in the face of obvious and pressing needs. the american dream of upward mobility seems out of reach to some who feel left behind in a changing economy. d...

Former president george w. bush seemed to take a shot at president trump earlier today speaking at a forum in no, sir, condemning the current state of politics in this country and warned about the threats to our democracy. lets listen. >> in recent decades public confidence in our institutions has declined. our governing class has often been paralyzed. politics seem for vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication. weve seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. at times it can...

Announced, mind you, right as we were leaving for august recess that will grant members of congress and staff special subsidies that are not available to anyone else throughout the country and i think that thats wrong. we cant treat ourselves as a separate governing class. were supposed to be serving the american people so ill file legislation when we get back to basically stop that. i dont think its lawful in the first place because the obama care provision at issue is pretty clear that were su...

Congress and staff special subsidies that are not available to anyone else throughout the country and i think that thats wrong. we cant treat ourselves as a separate governing class. were supposed to be serving the american people so ill file legislation when we get back to basically stop that. i dont think its lawful in the first place because the obama care provision at issue is pretty clear that were supposed to be in the exchanges like everybody else. and so in this case i think there was so...

If harry reid wants to force that, that would be unfortunate. hes not going to force a government shutdown because he wants to defend a law that is itself defensible. a law that the president said is not ready to be implemented. and a law that the senate author of obama care has described himself as a train wreck waiting to happen. >> thats max baucus. its causing businesses not to hire full time workers. were discussing with the audience the issue of division in the country. we see a lot of thi...

Governing class is failing us? >> yeah. theres no question about that. its a dysfunctional government at the moment. they just cant make the kind of decisions we need. and the fact is, theres no destiny for this country thats going to guarantee things are always going to be the way they were. you know, additional opportunity, economic expansion. we need good decisions being made by this government, and soon. >> you know, ive been -- you know win worked in the clinton white house myself, as you k...

Paul ryan is firing back in a speech before the economic club of chicago blasting president obamas handling of the issue so far. >> may be clever politics, but its terrible economics. those committed to the mind set of shared scarce city are telling future generations, sorry, youre going to have to make due with much less. your taxes will go up because washington cant get government spending down. if we surrender more control of our economy over to a governing class, then we are choosing shared ...

What are we doing? ♪ look, class warfare may be clever politics, but its terrible economics. those committed to the mind set of shared scarcety are telling future generations sorry, youre going to have to make due with much less. your taxes will go up, because washington cant get government spending down. if we surrender more control of our economy to a governing class, thats the class warfare that threatens us. determining our destinies for us. >> we as democrats, we as progressives need to b...

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