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I know you go up to washington youre going to say exactly what you think. if i need you to fight for me youre going to fight for me. and i learned -- i was a very ideological guy. but howard like you, its not about ideology. its not about position papers. for the most part it is a gut decision based on instinct by the voter. and it is a very gut instinct. >> yeah i just think this is the day that i think the washington establishment better look seriously at donald trump. a guy that has 23% in a ...

Clearly. and maybe unlike any candidate weve seen before maybe bill clinton is in that class, too. but he doesnt want to get off the phone. he doesnt want interviews to end. he wants tone gauge the press and get his message out there. on two points, one to marks question about immigration, he made news. to amys question where donald trump said yes on some issues. i identify as a democrat. i have for a long time. whether or not those are controversial for him, whether or not they affect his stand...

Everyone in the public as much as the media. im not sure hillary clinton book is driving the conversation in the democratic base or that dick cheney is concerned about isolationist resonates. look at the politics for a second. i dont think dick cheney is hitting a resonant chord with the conservative base when he says anyone who wants to pull back from the world right now is a, quote/unquote, isolationist. when we look where we are with john kerry in egypt and involved in ukraine and figuring ou...

They dont want the minimum wage to be raised, because they dont want to pay the workers more money. this is the way washington works. why pretend theres some independent institute thats churning out position papers. why not be clear about what you guys are up to? >> were not pretending anything. the employment policies institute has been around for 20 years. we are a 5013c nonprofit. >> anyone can do that. >> economists from the university of chicago. heres the thing. the only reason this is a s...

As omar and the wire would say. you guys got a lobbying operation in washington, d.c., you got clients. they dont want the minimum wage to be raised, because they dont want to pay the workers more money. this is the way washington works. why pretend theres some independent institute thats churning out position papers. why not be clear about what you guys are up to? >> were not pretending anything. the employment policies institute has been around for 20 years. we are a 5013c nonprofit. >> anyone...

They dont get to take the money out of someones savings account to do that. were just going to put a wall back in place. basic banking should be boring. risk taking should happen somewhere else. >> so this sounds eminently sensible to me and i have read a million position papers on this and articles. we had this debate during dodd/frank and there was this thing called the volcker rule and was idea behind the volcker rule is it was a 21st century version of glass steagall. it was going to be regu...

Tool. it says, effectively, look, hedge funds, the wall street traders can get out there and take the risks they want to take. but they dont get to use the money in your grandmas checking account to do that. they dont get to take the money out of someones savings account to do that. were just going to put a wall back in place. basic banking should be boring. risk taking should happen somewhere else. >> so this sounds eminently sensible to me and i have read a million position papers on this and ...

5:30. those are the top five stories making news at this hour. just a few hours president obama sits down with the president to talk about cyber warfare. this comes as a new report shows china was involved in a major hacking situation. they had position papers on china and also private e-mails. one was from mccain and taiwans president. the fbi learned of this that summer. the hacking continued for months and months. >> a break through discovery for people suffering from multiple sclerosis. they...

Record as far as a lot of people in the activist gay community is concerned. at the same time, this goes against what he said were his core beliefs. throughout his political history, he has opposed gay marriage. >> he has, but not as adamantly. when he was running for the u.s. senate, the advocates have produced position papers that indicate the president was in favor of gay marriage. that he would support an amendment, but he has since walked that and said that he believes a marriage is between...

His statements leave little doubt about that. when you are running for president of the united states, the leader of the free world, is that a curable problem or a terminal problem? >> in theory its curable if you can hit the books and get informed on these matters and surround yourself with the right people to get knowledgeable. >> gregg: he had it in his head for president of united states, you need position papers for o every conceivable foreign policy subject. you got to memorize it. you hav...