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They would stumble across in nature, they would have likely become intoxicated. now, imagine, would you want to be intoxicated in the wild if youre surrounded by predators or moving around branch to branch high up in the trees trying to defend your territory or offspring from other organisms. it would not have been an advantage. but our ancestors 10 million years ago, the ancestors we shared with chimps and gorillas possessed a mutation that dramatically changed the properties of this enzyme. it...

Is that mutation of language. we know what a refugee is. a refugee is somebody fleeing persecution. calling all these people refugees is a lie. they are not fleeing persecution they are fleeing a crappie country. people leaving chicago are they refugees. if you leave detroit are they refugees. if you believe these are refugees what do you do about it? you go to those countries and fix those countries but nobody likes american exceptionalism. >> heres the point. the real culprit the mexico. mexic...

Is that mutation of language. we know what a refugee is. a refugee is somebody fleeing persecution. calling all these people refugees is a lie. they are not fleeing persecution they are fleeing a crappie country. people leaving chicago are they refugees. if you leave detroit are they refugees. if you believe these are refugees what do you do about it? you go to those countries and fix those countries but nobody likes american exceptionalism. >> heres the point. the real culprit the mexico. mexic...

In there. is that mutation of language. we know what a refugee is. a refugee is somebody fleeing persecution. calling all these people refugees is a lie. they are not fleeing persecution they are fleeing a crappie country. people leaving chicago are they refugees. if you leave detroit are they refugees. if you believe these are refugees what do you do about it? you go to those countries and fix those countries but nobody likes american exceptionalism. >> heres the point. the real culprit the mex...

Yes, i would also like to put my curse word kicking boots and a hat. >> very kind of you. thank you. >> well, sure. >> tony, ive got a question for you. what do you think of new mexico? kind of what are your thoughts? >> im going to try to boil it down to a simple statement. if youre an easterner and you come out to new mexico, you start to see metaphors in everything. but actually, if you were to stretch a little bit, you could say that new mexico is a perfect metaphor for america. it is a tota...

A mutation, a college town, a magnet for writers, thinkers and oddballs, drawn, perhaps, by the rich literary tradition is william faulkner. a mississippi native, a former postman and outdoorsman and an eventual winner of the nobel prize of literature and two p h pulitzer prizes. this was his house. faulkner wrote such classics as "the sound and fury," "as i lay dying," and many of his works took place in a fictional county. a place very much like this place in mississippi. >> this is where faul...

Grapefruits. you can buy organic ruby red grapefruits. one gene being changed -- >> organic is the stuff we like. >> one genetic mutation, now its called organic. we can reduce it to one. we know it is safe.european com is safer. >> thats true? >> the grapefruit was actually -- yes, texas ruby red grapefruits came from radiation. all that does is create more variability for selection that happens naturally to happen. thats what those technologies do. the cut and paste technologies, you have no c...

And what is tay-sachs? >> tay-sachs is a disease thats basically losing the ability to function cognitively and results in death by the age of about 4 years old. onset is about six months. >> wow. >> so if your partner has it and you were to have another child -- >> my kid could have it. >> yeah. >> how would i change that gene? >> well look at the hexasequence here and look at the particular mutation. heres the error. >> wow. >> literally thats the one letter thats wrong? >> yes. its a screw-up...

>> thats crazy. >> so you can take out whats existing and put in what you want. >> dna is the building block of all life. nothing living on earth exists without it. its the unique genetic code that makes me me and you you. but our dna also contains mistakes, or mutations. and just one of those mutations can cause anything from a minor health problem to a deadly disease. austin is creating technology today that could change all of that in the future. >> so well look at your 23 m.e. test results. ...

>> so if your partner has it and you were to have another child -- >> my kid could have it. >> yeah. >> how would i change that gene? >> well look at the hexasequence here and look at the particular mutation. heres the error. >> wow. >> literally thats the one letter thats wrong? >> yes. its a screw-up. were going to print out the correct copy. >> thats nuts. how would i get that into my body to fix that problem? >> theres viruses. theres hijacking your immune system. but currently the technolog...