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Values depend on choice and they depend on them not just because you have to exercise reason and free well to produce human values -- thats kind of a separate exercise. but if you take purpose for example, which you talked about as a component of happiness. purpose is something that, if its going to make you happy for you to pursue a purpose in life, thats something that you choose yourself. imagine if the government gives you a list of approved purpose it is. every market intervention, the ones...

Values depend on choice and they depend on them not just because you have to exercise reason and free will to produce human values, thats kind of a separate exercise, but if you take progress for example, which are talked about as a component of happiness, purpose is something that if itsrp going o make you happy for you to pursue a purpose in life, its something that you choose for p yourself. imagine if the government gives you a list of approved purposes. every market intervention, the ones t...

Stood for. i compared the speeches that george w. bush gave at that service and at this service, and he was talking about despots and b bigots there. here, he was talking about the fundamental human values that made his father both a great father and a good man. >> well, its interesting, though, andy, george w. bush spoke at both of them. but he made sure to -- he made sure to channel the person he was eulogizing. so, he channeled john mccain, you know, in some ways, and maybe taking a dig, and ...

Their purchases and very importantly, they keep the oil price, if you want to see global depression, all you have to do lift $50 a barrel which can happen quickly once we lose the relationship. >> well, the president sentiments prompted turkeys foreign minister to say, quote, trumps statements amount to him say i will turn a blind eye no matter what. money isnt everything, we must not move away from human values. the turks and saudis do not get along and turkey has been providing intelligence to...

For a ten year period, when he came into office he completely disregarded that, and he seems like he wants to protect saudi arabia investment,and human values and rights be damned. >> the problem with the money first approach, the president keeps saying this is worth it because we are getting $110 billion from saudi arabia, fact checkers say thats not the right number. the letters of offer and acceptance for $14 billion. one-ten i one-tenth of what the president has said, thats the price tag fo...

Current, some incoming republican lawmakers, they are distancing themselves from president trump, including senator mitt romney of utah. our country is defined by human values, by principle above convenience. senator bob corker of tennessee says he sees the white house as a quote, public relations firm for the crown prince of saudi arabia. senator rand paul, saudi arabia shouldnt be rewarded for the butchering of a dissident. lindsey graham, senior senator from south carolina calling the saudi p...

And we care when people are injured. and unfortunately the current conversation often forgets that. it forgets our commonalities and focuses on superficial differences. whether those are language or how people look or the same god they pray to but in different ways. those differences truly are not important. what is important is those human values we share. and those human feelings that we share. i worry that we forget about that too often. >> we talked a little bit before about puerto rico. we ...

>> i think you should consider whether or not he should. >> would you go knowing what you know today? >> absolutely not. what we have to do is take a pause here and complete the assessment with our strong intelligence partner, turkey, and get to the bottom of not only what happened, but who is responsible and then hold them responsible. we cant allow what is happening of nations going comfortable or going into another nation and taking these type of human rights violations. that is happening at ...

At what point does that line get crossed? what point are we so invested in saudi arabia and other countries for regional security reasons or in the case of saudi arabia money where we cant influence them? where it takes the white house, you know, days and days to come out with an obvious comment that it should have come out condemning whatever happened here. >> add with that president trumps response yesterday. >> he said it specifically. >> in that answer. >> he talked about the degree to which...

>> theyre furious. they say a blatant attempt by the white house to circumvent laws. the american civil liberties union immigrants rights project said its sickening to see the united states government looking for ways to jail more children for longer. thats the complete opposite of what we should be doing and its yet another example of the trump administrations hostility towards immigrants resulting in a policy incompatible with the most basic human values. this ultimately will end up back in th...