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Been relegated to the fringes of this debate. joining me now, the president and director of the ncaap legal defense fund. first lets start with what the impact of this is. >> well, the impact of this is its taking us back. trump said try something new. this has been tried. this has been tried and discredited. so now were back to something that really was pressed by attorney general ashcroft, which is that you charge, you know, the highest, most serious offense you can charge of anyone that is vi...

The heyday of the so called war on drugs rolls back policies by former attorney general eric holder, mr. holder responded with a statement that reads in part, the policy announced today is not tough on crime. it is dumb on crime. this absurd reversal is driven by voices who have not only been discredited but until now have been relegated to the fringes of this debate. joining me now, the president and director of the ncaap legal defense fund. first lets start with what the impact of this is. >> ...

>> i dont know. thats a hypothetical, but the reality of the matter is the republican party at its highest> ranks of leadership has a diversity problem and lack of diversity, be it ideological diversity or racial diversity, gender diversity, it makes us all poor because youre not necessarily getting the perspective one needs when attacking something as big as infrastructure, tax reform, or health care. these are big challenges. >> tucker: it was just announced that anyone who disagrees cant be a...

>> reporter: i want to ask a big picture question about afghanistan, asking about troop levels come you dont have an answer for that. thats become of the special inspector general for afghanistan because russian painted a really grim picture, security and marge reached the highest in a decade, civilian casualties highest in the record, use, so as the president weighs this request for more troops, what is going to be his ultimate goal? is it going to be stability, outright victory in the 17th yea...

Explain why mr. trump was elected including inequality, lack of social mobility, lower participation rates among prime age workers and so on. so what we want to do is try to improve the supply side of the economy. make it grow faster. have greater potential. and i think that probably that to do that, i would think that on the fiscal side that infrastructure spending, that improves our roads, our bridges, our schools, and tax reform, not necessarily tax cuts, but reform that makes the system simp...

And there are also other issues which would probably help explain why mr. trump was elected including inequality, lack of social mobility, lower participation rates among prime age workers and so on. so what we want to do is try to improve the supply side of the economy. make it grow faster. have greater potential. and i think that probably that to do that, i would think that on the fiscal side that infrastructure spending, that improves our roads, our bridges, our schools, and tax reform, not n...

You will, salve the wound that so many people in your country feel, not necessarily in paris but a huge part of the heartland >> youre absolutely right. this is the highest that the national court has ever gone international election. a third of the french voters decided to support it. we have to listen to this message. there is anger and legitimate grievances coming from voters. because of the failures of both political parties and especially , the socialist government that has been in power fo...

So the wall is going to get built, but weve had such success, general kelly has been unbelievable and now weve stopped 73%, the highest in the history since theyve been recording this stuff and now its better because people arent trying to come up. so were saving a lot of lives because that migration was horrible and horrible for women, just so bad for women, the migration up to our border. it was so dangerous. now, weve been so successful, that the democrats are saying, well, you dont need a wa...

Could go any of dissonance here from what he was saying then and what were seeing now. what im saying is philosophically what he seems to be talking on is the reliance of how much the free market in health care could accomplish. increasing competition and allowing insurers to sell across state lines. he didnt mention that but talked about that as a way to lower costs and also talks about the fact that government will pay for health care which at the same time we know that nearly $1 twillion is c...

I want to ask you as a woman and were dealing obviously with issues that affect women all over the world. what do you imagine your election as the first female president of the united states might have said to the world and to the women of the world who were looking for validation, for somebody to shatter that highest and hardest ceiling? >> i think it would have been a really big deal. [cheers and applause ] >> i think that -- and you know, i am writing a book and its a painful process reliving...