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Already dangerous situation becomes worse. 110,000 have survived. >> reporter: having survived harrowing sea voyages, facing possible disease as temperature drops. >> four nights and four days. >> reporter: the colder weather may slow the tide of boats carrying migrants to turkey and libya across to europe, and the chancellor calls the refugee crisis one of the best litmus tests anyone has ever faced. we are all bound to humanitarian, human values. we have -- the latest european

Beltway, but lets pretend here that were normal americans and we see this story. in other places as well -- >> he was telling a lot of people. >> that beau biden was pushing him to do this. that was kind of documented. >> and the fact of the matter is, joe biden is a political person. hes been a political person all his life. it would not be at all surprising that even in this tragedy, hes still thinking about politics in the back of his mind, when hes running for president for two decades. >> h...

>> good call now. >> in terms of human values -- heres an argument, fair enough for the reporter for writing it today, but i thought that its interesting, when everybody was so taken with the vice presidents performance on colbert. and what everybody walked away with was, this guys not running. the guy was desperate. he was sad, he was beaten. he was in grief to the point he couldnt act. and so if theres some calculation a couple weeks before that, that he was going to run, it didnt seem to squa...

>> i think on the question of compassion and i think that thats -- religion has a role in ordering society. you know, keeping marriages together. parents look out for the kids. all these values by the ten commandments are human values. thats why i dont have a problem with them appearing in a government building. because theyre really human values. >> the pope is arriving in the united states an absolutely interesting political moment. this is a pope whose politics, if you will, are much more in ...

Fighting for dignity and respect for every single individual person. weve been in these kind of conflicts before. theyve been very different in world war ii and world war i. but this is the kind of fight, the kind of conflict that is placing one group of individuals who believe in human values and human dignity versus another who are willing to kill people in mass slaughter situations. so i disagree with the congressman in thinking that we can stay home and just watch this happen. i think we hav...

Keep that in mind. >> general, a quick final thought. the fact is what he mentions, war is awful, people get killed innocent civilians get killed in the theater of war. is this to be expected, some will ask? >> well, certainly laws of war attempt to prevent atrocities and violations of human values so thats all part of the consideration of training young soldiers and thats why what we do in our interrogation you mentioned the interrogation manual 34-52. its a great manual to show how to question...

President has gone and made the strongest statements that he has about putins influence here, saying the international community needs access and vladimir putin needs to do more than make statements. recognizing that he believes putin is in control and in charge and if putin says access will be granted that will be granted. president went on to say how important this is investigated. this is a crime scene, people were murdered. people need to be hold accountability. another issue this points out...

To really hold russia accountable. >> when we increase sanctions alone, is that enough? how do we get the rest of the international community to join us? >> i think this goes to an issue of human values with russia. we see that in their blocking of the international community, condemning the killing of citizens in syria and in this instance the lack of international community sharing of values with putin is certainly a gulf between us. i think we cannot just do it by sanctions. we have to also l...

We havent absorbed everything yet. we hope it happened shortly after they were kidnapped. >> the young victims whos bodies were found under a pile of rock in an open field in hebron. the teens one an american citizen were identified by their clothing. it appears they were shot. >> when children are taken as an act of war its beneath contempt. i dont know what to do other than join our voices in prayer, hope that people listen, watch, wake up to the threat we have to our most fundamental human va...

>> she is the republican candidate for senator there. a lot of people saying perhaps now because of the affordable care act that jeff merkley thought to be a safe incumbent there could be threatened. >> thats pretty much a stretch of the polls weve seen at politico still show the incumbent well ahead by double digits. but i would still, i think youre right to draw attention to this ad and this candidate. because she is conveying strength in areas where republicans have been weak. that the party ...