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Around her is failed forays into i am the indispensable nation. >> so you endorse her. >> if you read it, its about opening space for change. a very tough graph about hawkish foreign policy and its incumbent upon us. >> heres when i find fascinating. hawkish foreign policy last night we saw mike pence whatever donald trump thinks about russia -- but thats the point is the base, all the people around them, theyre all still the same people. so as soon as donald trump went off stage, mike pence sat...

So as soon as donald trump went off stage, mike pence sat down at the table and said basically yeah if we have to shoot down russian planes over syria, lets shoot down russian planes over syria. he was extraordinarily hawkish. >> the reason you see the party leaders behind trump is not that hes the presidential nominee, they think that if hes the president, its them in the drivers seat. >> exactly. >> its the foreign policy the usual -- >> they think theyre going to get their trade deals. >> the...

I raised $1 million for him. thats a lot of money. he lost. he let us down. he lost. i never liked him as much aafter that because i dont like losers, but, frank, frank, let me get to it. >> hes a war hero. >> is he not a war hero. hes a war hero because he was captured. i like people who werent captured, okay? i hate to tell you. hes a war hero because he was captured, okay? you can have -- i believe perhaps hes a war hero but right now he said some very bad things about a lot of people. >> imm...

Captured. >> are you blaming john mccain for his capture? >> im saying that john mccain has not done a good job. >> why would you say that you like people who dont get captured? its a simple question. >> i do. why? the people who dont get captured im not supposed to like? i like the people who dont get captured and i respect the people who do get captured. >> why did you say that in the context of john mccain? >> you have many people who didnt get captured. i respect them lately. you have people...

If you start booing the moment that they get on the stage because you dont like what theyre saying -- >> they dont invite them. >> that is a level of intolerance of people that are supposed to be tolerant that i find funny. >> what stunned me is that there seemed to be no effort as this is playing out to restore order here. >> right. >> this is a convention. this is a conference. there are rules here. if one group of protesters -- if youre going to say we cant silence this group of protesters. c...

Im tempted to say you covered the last net roots convention. its hard to see how a presidential candidates staff would ever put their candidate in that situation after yesterday. >> yeah. you imagine the hillary staff erers who made the decision not to come are popping the champagne saying we look great today because our candidate wasnt boo d off stage. its an outrageous setup for a candidate. you kept hearing these candidates say i was told i could say my stump speech and chat about things i wa...

He made the choice he needs to make at that time. a lot of people in the party will respect that. he will be an interesting character in this sweet 16 battle. executive congressional, grass roots experience. particularly something like this how he articulates that message, will be important. whether he gets the bounce will be interesting. i can see him sitting in the governors mansion, watching that debate. this thing is over before it begins for kasich. humiliating blow. he cant even make the s...

You have a half-attitude. >> travis payne was michael jacksons long-time choreographer. >> we were on a journey with michael that was going to return him to the stage, you know, that he loved so much. and i know that we were eight days away from leaving for london. >> the stage is where michael was most at ease. on stage, there was no one better. ♪ >> since age 5, he had electrified audiences around the world with hit songs like "i want you back." and the world appeared ready to welcome him ba...

Were spaced out. and it wasnt, like, every day. ♪ see, like, when we first started, we were doing one-nighters. every day, youre in a different place. youre riding in the bus and sleeping on top of each other, thats tough. but this was it, you didnt have to take the stage down. youre in one location. >> i think that night, he finally accepted down deep and whatever the inner reaches of an artists soul are that he could do this. >> was anything out of the ordinary that night? >> the only thing ...

Rehearsals for "this is it" often ran late into the night. on the surface, the man many say was born to perform never looked better. >> was his voice getting stronger over a period of rehearsals? >> absolutely. >> was his dancing getting stronger? >> absolutely. >> his body? everything? >> absolutely. >> michael bearden, the musical director for "this is it" was on stage that last night. >> he looked back at me, you know, after we did one number and looked at me as if to say "yeah, im michael ja...