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Trump? >> there are so many things that are said about the president right now and so much thinking. and honestly i try not to think about it. theres so much chaos and there are so many aggressive and offensive things said. i think even his supporters would grant that. but i think hes actually quite simple to understand. donald trump strikes me like nothing so much as a man who has never really known a love that he hasnt had to pay for. and so everything that he does is informed by a kind of tra...

Instrumentals, background. >> we dug up this song you wrote about the polar vortex. take a listen. ♪ go outside and make a mess ♪ its the polar vortex ♪ sit by the fire its the best ♪ ♪ its the polar vortex >> who requested that song? >> someone requested this song, named ed. he said, my wife and i were joking about this polar vortex phenomenon. and they started rhyming on the subway. they e-mailed us and said, take this rhymes and make a song out of it. >> youre in finance. what are y...

To life in sort of a miracle tv loves to build around which is why abcs "resurrection" ves nating, but in the real world honest-to-god miracles happen all the time the existence of life on this plan set a miracle, a man winning the lottery twice in one year with the same numbers, a miracle. a show on msnbc hosting by me, total miracle. but then again maybe these things arent really miracles. for a look at why mere calls and rare events happen every single day lets bring in emeritus professor of ...

Years before columbine, and he thought he was a man before his time, and he was celebrated by the community. he was elected to two tenured terms. schools invited him in literally to give a speech, like if you come before me, ill send you away and he made good on that, and he had a long lives speaking engagements from schools that wanted him to talk and deliver that message. >> right. i mean, i think abby raises such an important point, at least an implication of your work here is what kind of po...

To some of the victims and you really shine the light on the specifics of the human tragedy here. lets take a look at one of the stories of a young man named ed. >> i remember eds father telling me that he knows eds at this underage drinking party. he had this plan to go up with these two cops that were friends of his, and they were going to go in and get ed out of there and get something on him that was going to get him caught, like scare him straight kind thing. little did i know that we had n...

But suppose i tell you i had been flipping the coin a long time and i had been flipping it for millions of times before the 20 consecutive heads came up. you wouldnt think that was so improbable and you would notice it when it happened. a law of truly large numbers which basically says if you keep doing something for long enough, something extraordinarily will happen. >> a lot that is profound in this book and really beautiful in this book. you write some people seem to think understanding a phe...

We have to provide health care for these people. this is not about me or peter king or democrat or republican. i have a worker named ed who every day coughs his lungs out because he was a 9/11 police officer. every time we as democrats -- we have so much fidelity to go through this process. when we sit down, we get burned. we saw it on the stimulus bill and health care and last night we saw it on the house floor on 9/11 health. >> you have been critical of the obama white house on this. do you f...

Say no crowd in washington. they were saying, oh, standings by the auto industry would guarantee failure. one of them called it the worst investment you could possibly make. they said we should just walk away and let those jobs go. i wish they were standing here today. i dont think they would be willing to look you in the eye and say that you were a bad investment. they dont like admitting when i do the right thing. but they might have had to admit it. and i want all of you to know i will bet on...

Standing or less maneuvering to try to defeat the thing, were open to anything. were going to come back. im not going to give up on this. this is nine years later. we have to provide health care for these people. this is not about me or peter king, a democrat or a republican. theres neighbors i have. i have a worker, an employee named ed who is coughing his lungs out because he was a 9/11 police officer. were going to try to fix this. the problem here is every time we as democrats, we have so mu...

References from thomas jefferson. whats your reaction to that? how much do you favor a more standardized curriculum across the nation? >> i do favor a more standardized curriculum. ive been speaking out about that. you know, this notion that every state should do its own thing is a nice notion in terms of federalism but its antiquated. our kids need to be prepared for a global environment and a global economy. in terms of the kind of rewriting textbooks and things like that, i always think thats...