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I think youll find people who are great around the world and like america, youll have people in iran saying horrible things about america at the same time. im hopeful the iran deal is helpful to us. i hated the rhetoric of ted cruz and donald trump. i hated the fact they were at an event co-sponsored by one of the biggest islamic folks in the country. i wrote about it in "the daily beast." that upset me as well. >> if we go back all the way to 1964, we see a kind of fear-mongering used on this s...

For some of the towns small independent real estate companies, there was only one way to compete again the biggies of their industry, join forces. 40 years ago, aspen, colorado was a hard-to-reach back water, far away from the world of big business and international tourism. >> it was much smaller, much more intimate. businesses were all small, the shops were small. it had a wonderful scale and feeling. >> thats when bill sterling first arrived and opened up his own independent real estate busin...

Theres not much mystery to how to stay ahead of the big guys. while bj says flexibility to quickly react to market change is one of the natural advantages that comes with being small, she says theres a second advantage, too. the knowledge that comes from being a long-time member of the community. >> if i only had one afternoon with that buyer before they leave to go home, i only have maybe the opportunity to show them six or ten properties and they better be the best properties on the market or ...

Sothebys and coldwell banker. how do they compete with the deep pockets of this big brand? >> i got the price reduction. >> the answer was to form a single four-person agency. >> did you feel like you had to merge in order to compete with some of the other stuff that was happening in aspen? >> yes. >> it was time. >> i think we needed to figure out ways we could operate with a critical scale that saved us money and by merging, that enabled us to do that. we get more bang for our buck in the prom...

Hike for all workers in new york city. >> people are trying to read the tea leaves. joe biden wasnt exactly energetic or exciting. hes been through a hell of a lot this past summer. nightmare no parent would want to go through. hes taking it slowly. you see that hes starting to pick up momentum and, willie, that event in pittsburgh, joe biden as many people suggested looked like a man who was getting ready to run for president. we dont know if he is or not. with all of the news breaking the way ...

Independent real estate companies there was only one way to compete against the biggies of the industry, join forces. 40 years ago, aspen, colorado, was a hard-to-reach backlier, far away from the world of sleek business and international tourism. >> it was much smaller, much more intimate. the businesses were small, the shops were small. it had wonderful scaling feeling. >> thats when bill sterling first arrived and end up his own independent real estate business called sterling homes incorpora...

Writing op eds in the "wall street journal," i think all of that contributes to a number of democrats thinking, maybe this is not where we want to go. and i think the persuasive powers of the president, one-on-one. this was not an lbj arm twisting. this was the president of the united states and the secretary of state very koeg endly making sober minded arguments about why there isnt a good choice here. the other side, the opponents never answered the question adequately. what happens if the u.s...

Conversations in persuasiveness or lack of persuasiveness notwithstanding. i dont quite see that. i do believe the president, it is not lbj arm twisting. ive watched him in small meekts on this issue. ive watched him speaking to a larger group of senators. and ive seen he is persuasive. democrats, and i think most of the public, i wont talk about republican members of the house and senate, but democrats in the house and senate and most of the public, respect barack obamas political acumen. they ...

State. theyre not that far from a nuclear women now. this pulls back in a way that works for safety for a much better middle east and keeps the nuclear weapons out of the hands of the iranians. >> you mentioned something interesting. you said this was an lbj arm twisting. in the past two months, the president has had two big heavily contested battles. one on tpp and one on the iran deal. you were on different sides of those two. but youve, the president has this reputation of being stand-offish ...

Writing op eds in the "wall street journal," i think all of that contributes to a number of democrats thinking, maybe this is not where we want to go. and i think the persuasive powers of the president, one-on-one. this was not an lbj arm twisting. this was the president of the united states and the secretary of state very koeg endly making sober minded arguments about why there isnt a good choice here. the other side, the opponents never answered the question adequately. what happens if the u.s...