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The 2020 democratic presidential primary is shaping up to be the baskin robbins of democratic contenders. you can pick a different candidate every day of the month and still have several to sample. too many is its own unique set of problems. during the republican 2016 campaign, other operatives and i bemoaned this rivaled tinder and it wasnt the best path to a quality nominee as we see now. perhaps a winning candidate just has the it factor from the beginning. despite all the other candidates, d...

Heart on whether he could fire the fed chairman. weve seen presidents chang fed chairman when they come up. s that a bit of the question he was put as you saw, as soon as the president took his eyes off of poa, there seems to be talk about what about mnuchin and mnuchins fate? is seems like the president is in the mode of keeping everybody a target and scared. even if he made a switch to the federal chairman or treasury secretary, theres no guarantee to say that the next person will fall into li...

Said and god is mercy. so in those three men you have the mind and the soul and the heart, and the combination i think really present a holistic picture of what the papacy is. especially in this modern time. >> the word "pope" comes from the greek pappas, which means father. this is something that in some eras was probably lost when popes acted like princes or kings and ruled over their subjects. but in the modern age i think its come back very much to the forefront. francis kids around with peo...

Mode. salvation not as free gift as something you have to stump up money for. >> martin luther thought it was all a sham. he decided to hold a seminar about indulgences, and he would issue 95 things to be discussed in this seminar. the seminar never happened, but the 95 theses, the 95 ideas to be discussed were there. >> narrator: martin luther sends his 95 theses to the archbishop in germany who then sends it to the pope. in his theses, luther questions the indulgences and whether the pope shou...

Question was can i come in and advisors have come out and said he cannot. if he did have the ability to fire jerome powell i wonder if you would. >> it seems like he would. he has been blaming him a week or a week and a half going at him directly on twitter, his favorite mode of communication with other powerful people. which i think its a massive mistake, but this is a really difficult position that the president is in. he took responsibility when the stock market was up really high san credit ...

Path. >> would you have this much patience for president trump if you didnt share the same partym label. >> well, if we didnt share the same party label, we wouldnt have done tax reform and roll back regulations like we have, wens wouldnt have the record l unemployment rate we have and upward pressure on wajs. we have a good story in part because this president was willing to work with this congress and accomplish these things.nd so, you know, theres things i disagree with this president with. >...

Midterm set back acknowledged it. this one did not. how much harder does that make it for congressional republicans to recalibrate? >> i think every previous president said some reality and humility in accepting a midterm loss. this president only knows one mode, forward, attack, offense. as kneehe feels more threatened is fighting like a cornered badger. i think that will only get worse when he faces democrats in charge of house committees in next year. >> he seems to be oblivious to what happe...

Im concerned the legislative branch wont be able to regulate technology in general. >> it is like me trying to work my phone. so you had spotify, netflix who have been sucked into this because they were the recipients of some of this data facebook was sharing. netflix came out and said we have no evidence that spotify ever asked us. they are trying to control the damage here. facebook itself issued a statement saying facebook partners dont get to ignore peoples privacy settings and it is wrong...

Patience for president trump if you didnt share the same party label? >> well, if we didnt share the same party label, we wouldnt have accomplished so many -- we couldnt have done reform. we wouldnt have rolled back regulations, we wouldnt have the record low unemployment rate that we have, upward pressures of wages. we have a good story in part because this president was willing to work with this congress and accomplish these things. so, you know, theres -- there are things i disagree with the ...

There arent any wheels. i think were in very, very dangerous train now. there is no leadership. theres no leadership in the congress. and theres no leadership among the cabinet in the white house. and were at a time when we have a wide variety of threats. you know, its kind of interesting. if vladimir putin says youre doing the right thing, then youre most decidedly not doing the right thing. i think were in that mode right now. these are dangerous times that require much more leadership than wh...