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Hoover institution. youve got a lot of people you walk the halls with and spend a lot of time in the defense department and the state department and understand these issues here. is there an effective tool against putin right now in our tool box that, number one, wouldnt punish russian citizens but actually could curtail putins behavior? >> i think its very difficult to draw that distinction. i think theres a few factors here. first of all, we can go after some of the infrastructure that facilit...

Not the solution. >> i think that is right. i think we are here in part because of that tension that you talked about with those senators before, this idea that holding companies, not just companies that provide essential services and goods to america, but private companies in charge of parts of critical infrastructure, this idea that we dont want to force them to do too much because that could hurt business. with great power comes great responsibility. there needs to be a requirement that compa...

>> i mean the assumption is that to get where they need to go, they will need a little bit more. >> i cant imagine what could get through in the short term. >> isnt infrastructure where you could see agreement? >> theoretically. but no plan from the white house. ahead the white house wants to cap how much undergraduate students can borrow to pay for college.

About 150 people a year die in the deserts of western pima county, where i was at a community event last night. im one of the only sheriffs that has an industrial refrigerator outside one of my district stations the only purpose for which is to store human remains of people who die in the desert. >> tucker: its awful, i agree with everything you say. nobody in washington wants to secure the border, thats why weve never done it. theres a lot of political pressure.he democratic party wants more vo...

>> think about our infrastructure. in todays global economy, businesses are going to take root and grow wherever theres the fastest, most reliable transportation and communications networks. they can go anywhere. so chinas investing a whole lot in infrastructure. europe is investing a whoet lot in infrastructure. brazils investing a whole lot in infrastructure. what are we doing? nationally, were falling behind. were relying on old stuff. >> so, peter, particularly with governor christie being r...

Lig people making their whole lives on minimum wage. >> the majority of adults, people earning the minimum wage is over 20 years old. economic research in the last 20 years show minimum wage increases have no discernible e effect on job loss. the thing is you have to consider, too, that there are efficiency costs to consider. i mean, while, you know, there are costs related to obviously paying workers wages that they, in fact, deserve and could live off of, you know, paying workers more decrease...

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