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Calling out the theocratic tendency that exists among some muslim commune its and is lambistic extremism. >> it has certainly been a struggle in the united states what to call it, dont want to paint all islam with this brush and concern any word that has islam in it is going to be misleading, others say not mentioning it has only fed the distrust. now, clarissa, as is the case with maaja, you have talked to people who have gone over and fully embraced this understanding. the idea of talking to s...

>> well, i thought donald trump made a huge mistake suggesting that wages are too high in our country. but i thought, frankly, that there were a lot of other more sensible ideas espoused about how to create economic growth, how to improve the plight of the middle class. the worst thing we could do is to continue the over-regulated economy that we currently have, whether in the energy arena, the financial system, all the way across the board. the over-regulated economy is keeping our country from...

Question i would have for you, what is trump going to do with those questions? i mean the economy, but also immigration. >> as much as these candidates tonight are going to -- are going to want to talk about the economy, moving america forward, this recent immigration decision is really going to be the focus i think for many of them, how do they feel that the president has led on this issue or hasnt led. it creates an opportunity, quite honestly, because the biggest immigration reforms in americ...

Next president. he has such a great story. his dad was a bartender, his mom was a hotel maid, worked third shift stocking shelves at k-mart. marco rubio understands the plight of american families, the challenges they face every day. the more they hear about marco, the more they like him. >> i believe we do have the marist poll, showing when asked among republican voters which candidate -- the more you hear, the more you like. the very phrase youre using. he comes in there third. he gets -- actu...

I dont know about the eyes of conservative primary voters. in the statements what you see is somebody who mingled his personal and professional finances, somebody that paid the bill late rather frequently. are any of those going to make conservative primary voters say i dont think mar corubio is qualified to be president? i doubt it. the bigger hits on rubio i think are going to be the ones that go after his rationale for running which is i understand the plight of working people, i grew up payc...

>> how do you think going through that, weathering it with your wife make you a better potential president? >> your life experience shapes how you lead, who you are. i can walk into a crowd and if the subject comes up -- which it does all the time here about drug addiction. i can look at peoples faces and know whether they have gone through this struggle themselves or with a loved one. because you can just sense the life coming out of their face and -- even talking about it now, it hurts. theres...

>> how do you think going through that, weathering it with your wife make you a better potential president? >> your life experience shapes how you lead, who you are. i can walk into a crowd and if the subject comes up -- which it does all the time here about drug addiction. i can look at peoples faces and know whether they have gone through this struggle themselves or with a loved one. because you can just sense the life coming out of their face and -- even talking about it now, it hurts. theres...

She almost sounded sympathetic to the plight of jeb bushs campaign, almost. she talked about his new slogan. she talked about the difficulties hes been having on the road. lets take a listen to this. so interesting the bush and clinton family dynasty here as she offered a vice to jeb bush. >> when he comes out with a slogan like jeb can fix it, do you guys back at the office die laughing, is that, like -- is that amusing to you? >> you know -- you know, look -- its really hard to do this. hes ob...

>> yeah. so understanding that, gives you i think a good understanding of the plight of a lot of people and a lot of other things, too. lifes a struggle. its not all -- there are a lot of people economically and other ways really struggling. to have that personal experience, the pain of going through something that no one wants to go through makes you sensitive to the fact that thats the way life works. >> reporter: is it the hardest thing you have gone through to this point, would you say? >> s...

Echoes, too, of another disaster that remains incredibly irrelevant two decades later. randi kaye has that story. >> reporter: july 1996, twa flight 800 takes off from new yorks jfks airport. 12 minutes into the plight, the plane explodes. >> about 15,000 feet or something like that. it just went down in the water. >> you could see the two wings fall off and the fuel, obviously, coming out of the wings and, of course, it was all on fire. >> reporter: captain david mcclain was piloting a differen...