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Incredible. this book is important for people to read and understand, much better anything that mccarthy has written. thats the drive policy stuff. personal inspiration. but while you can never give up. your faith has been so important for you. >> one of the reasons i wanted to write this book is feature all the people who helped me get back in the game. they were real heroes, there were real miracles that happened. my wife and i went through, we call them the little miracles. happened on the ba...

Way more pro trump. if trump is identified as the persona of a party and its approach, particularly towards immigration but every single class of hyphenated, that could become the mill stone what it was in california in the 1990s. >> so lets go quick. lets pull back and look forward to the next two months. whats going do happen? >> well, youre going to see a lot of posturing. you might see some rhetoric saying house democrats are going to work with president trump. president trump is going to sa...

Raise in a generation, or, you know, have any savings to speak of. there is this whole agenda that, you know, senate democrats and house democrats like to point to, but it gets no oxygen, as weve done today, we are constantly talking about donald trump. and so they feel stuck. theyre finally starting to get an ability to talk about trump in a way that connects to the broader problems. thats specifically around corruption. right? corruption both in the sense of the russia investigation, which pol...

Protested. >> it seems to me the hard core trump voters want. this is what they care about more than the policy stuff. a culture war and feeng the president is fighting on their behalf whether we sh a movement that puts stock in the culture war certiseriously. >> he can do this on his own.he senate. it continues the grudge with the nfl. that is part of it. he was shut out years ago and wanted to be a wrespect to the . it didnt happen. it is a two-fer for him. it is a lot. >> we will get to see. ...

Sometimes oval office with other people. and it really has surrounded the opioid crisis recently. the day after our son passed, we were having a hard time, and it was president trump who said, i cant imagine what you are going through. just understand that im with you. im here to help. he also called on thanksgiving day. we were about to sit down to thanksgiving dinner and it was donald trump again. we talked about the opioids, what took our son. it was an accidental overdose, and i realized he ...

Even the policy stuff that alice talks about, the presidents position on guns is now hes going to confiscate them without due process. thats beyond any left winger. thats way past nancy pelosis position. but nobody takes it seriously because it is only the president. on live tv meeting with members of congress. analogous situation with steel and aluminum, which seems to come out of not a disciplined policy process, but just a sort of presidential fit of peak. the problem with that, is tying it b...

The marijuana thing is such a big thing. i think medical should happen, dont we agree? i think so. then i believe you should leave it up to the states. it should be a state situation. >> joining us now, hunter walker, white house correspondent for yahoo! news, and back with us, daniel dale. trump was more for states rights on the campaign trail than he seems to be now, especially with it comes to marijuana policy. so many people in this country want marijuana to be legalized, 61% of americans sa...

>> you know, the support for legalization is particularly strong among millenials. but the white house is happy to be able to say theyre getting things done. the first year was not the most productive. and, you know, all this recent policy stuff in the past week that you pointed out makes this actually a week where they did get a lot done through executive order, which seems to be their favorite method. >> getting something done, its a states rights issue, and they campaigned on letting states h...

Want marijuana to be legalized, 61% of americans say it should be legalized. thats a lot of folks who potentially might vote on this issue in 2018. any concern in the white house about this? >> you know, the support for legalization is particularly strong among millenials. but the white house is happy to be able to say theyre getting things done. the first year was not the most productive. and, you know, all this recent policy stuff in the past week that you pointed out makes this actually a wee...

Me do this, let me be at the tif the spear for a while. if he can back off and let people take the fire, he will get closer and closer. >> kennedy: i think that you are right, but it is contrary to his nature. >> katie: i agree. >> kennedy: that is hard for him to delegate, he is good, this is why you like so many generals around him, because he is good at delegating the policy stuff, the foreign national security that may not be as natural to him at some of the economic stuff, but when it comes...