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Producers and ask you one more policy question. weal wealth. you came out with a couple of weeks ago. there are more brackets than warren has. you start at 1% on net worth above 32 million. end at 8% on anything over 10 billion. what is the goal here? are you trying to one up elizabeth warren because shes eating away at some of the po s polls? what is the bernie plan here to go bigger and bolder on the policy issues? >> the basic answer there is if you have hundreds of f billions of dollars, you...

Renewable electric, change the world. >> people who live on the coasts, when they read the most recent change report, theyre suddenly panicked saying do i have a crisis where i live? could i lose my home? >> absolutely yes. the word crisis, lets deal with it. people have dealt with much -- very difficult problems for centuries. so lets all work together. thats the thing. and so we have a huge opportunity in the united states to be world leaders in these technologies and, of course, our tradition...

Zarif of the toughest sanctions ever. we are squeezing them to try and change their behavior but we are offering them to have engagements. with the president, obama, , and bush together. but the president needs credit for us. >> melissa: how about how he will sit back and talk to anybody? and they say, "thats not right, youre elevating that dictator." >> amb. grenell: i think that would be a problem if hes willing to set down accident talk to him with anybody , but to set he sits down with peopl...

Around. when he campaigned the first time he had messages. you lost your jobs to the chinese and mexican immigrants, so i will build a wall and crackdown on china. he has now had two and a half years, and he hasnt really delivered solutions to working americans. he is still speaking in platitudes. and the wall is emblematic of his failure across a broad range of policy issues. >> a major issue for voters in 2020 is climate change. award-winning writer ringing the alarm. jonathan safran foer. we ...

Chairman of the house intelligence committee. you dealt with a lot of these complaints. >> i did. >> how often did you deal with a complaint that had to do with the president of the united states? >> exactly none. and this is so unprecedented. normally the complaints that would come in are about misdeeds inside of the intelligence -- or at least alleged misdeeds inside the intelligence committee. it could be everything from financial misdeeds to handling of information misdeeds to sometimes bigg...

If youve polled republican voters in those four states and you told them donald trump was taking away their right to vote, they would be really pissed off. most republicans dont support this. >> i want to ask you about some policy issues, but i think you recently called the republican party a kind of cult. what do you mean by that? >> we no longer talk about ideas. this is a perfect example. my republican party believes in competition. my republican party believes in the right to vote, my republ...

I had the chair of the party on with me this morning. i asked what he thought. he said that democrats are able to walk and chew gum at the same time. policy issues, health care and et cetera. i believe she feels they can win 2020 as well. thats true. the democratic partys reach and arms are big enough you can have members articulating impeachment while others -- there will be a segment in favor of one or the other. that is what governing is. the white house executive branch, republicans are not ...

Can achieve extraordinary and historic things. georgia is at a tipping point. all eye also be on georgia next year. we have two senate seats up in georgia. this is where the senate majority will be decided. im running against senator david purdue, a caricature of washington corruption. this is a guy in half a decade as our senator, despite one in three rural children in georgia living in poverty, despite the highest maternal mortality in the country, half of our counties having no obgyn, has not...

About how secretary pompeo. in the video. the picture is worth a thousand words. secretary according to what i was told was not on speaking terms with bolton and had been communicating through intermediaries with him. and it was true that bolton and trump disagreed on many policy issues. trump knew that even before he hired him. you can say the huh hubris of a president. a clash was inevitable. it was also made inevitable by boltons style and temperament as well as policy views. he is a sort of ...

>> you wrote a profile on pompeo. how big a role did he play on having him pushed out? >> the big grins told you a lot about how secretary pompeo. in the video. the picture is worth a thousand words. secretary according to what i was told was not on speaking terms with bolton and had been communicating through intermediaries with him. and it was true that bolton and trump disagreed on many policy issues. trump knew that even before he hired him. you can say the huh hubris of a president. a clash...