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Parent. you are asylvesterring like did you at the dipping of your answer, can we not just disagree and acknowledge that president trump has pursued a policy platform he thinks is better for america? >> i think thats part of it, pete. but you cant refute the idea that by bringing out these bad parts in people focusing on the other mexicans, muslim ban, 57% increase in anti-jewish crimes in the united states last year. i have been the -- many of those attacks. brought out in people. >> you are ac...

They are asserting his previous campaign statements make him a bad person. cant we disagree and acknowledge that president trump pursued a policy platform he thinks is better for america? >> i think thats part of it.t you cant refute the idea that by bringing out these bad parts in people focusing on the other mexicans rapists, muslim ban. 50% increase in anti-jewish crimes. >> wait a minute. so the guy, you are accusing president trump oft stoking anti-seanti-semetism? >> it happened on his wat...

Possibility of a pardon. then once they are indicted, you know what, no need to cooperate. no need to tell your tale that might be damning to the president. the president has the power to pardon. the presidents power is pretty much unlimited with regard to pardon in this case, because hes the one under investigation, it would be illegal. it would be not necessarily, illegal, it would allow robert mueller to say theres obstruction of justice case based on the behavior of presidents lawyer. the se...

Its an untenable position for anyone in the congress to say theres a reason to not do that. i have yet to see any answer that is even remotely compelling. the one ive seen is, you would therefore be making 19-year-old cops and people in the military unable to buy personal ar-15s. if thats the best they can do, they have a real problem when they get back to congress, when they get back and try to run the typical nra playbook, which is to say -- to falsify the moral high ground and say, we cant ta...

You very much pushed back against democratic party. how do you get people who are young and trying to get involved to say i will roll with this party even if it is perfect because i think i can negotiate with them. is that message getting throw people as they are registering to vote? >> i think what will happen is the democratic party will win. they will win through a model outside of the democratic party. i have no loyalty to any parties. i have loyalty to the ones that we organize with. we are...

To put together a foreign policy platform that then the speech writers and policy people and campaign people can take out to show that this is a serious candidate for president. in march of 2016 nobody thought donald trump was a serious potential president. he was seen as somebody with obviously no political experience, no foreign policy experience, just a guy from "the apprentice" who was a joke even to republicans. the idea that he could be a serious person on foreign policy bothered donald tr...

Overdoses have quadrupled since 1999. tom price says the president has not decided to say its a national emergency although he may at some point. >> well, thats if you talk to people on the front lines of this. they are certainly glad for the attention. when i first started hearing about this back in 2013, they were saying you guys arent covering. this nobody is writing about this. you have no idea in my home state of vermont. i have friends who have lost children to this. its enormously ravagin...

Overdoses have quadrupled since 1999. tom price says the president has not decided to say its a national emergency although he may at some point. >> well, thats right. if you talk to people on the front lines of this. they are certainly glad for the attention. when i first started hearing about this back in 2013, they were saying you guys arent covering. this nobody is writing about this. you have no idea in my home state of vermont. i have friends who have lost children to this. its enormously ...

The first thing that struck me is that the economy is booming right now, why choose that is the party platform and how important is it to have a party line? >> i think our candidates are smart enough to know that they are going to run a race based on their own state and their own district, i dont think theres any policy platform or slogan thats going to come out of the beltway think tank of the democratic party thats going to be a one-size-fits-all approach. >> why come out and deliver it to eve...

They may or may not have shown to sway the election but theres this whole other track which is how much of it had to do with donald trumps policy and the gops policy toward russia. they have taken a warm turn toward russia that i think is not based on whats going on in the world or any kind of common sense policy or philosophy. >> you think its based on common sense? >> no. i listen as carefully as you do and it has not been articulated to me why it makes a great deal of sense for us to forgive ...