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And this combined to create a very difficult situation. >> well, that interview was filmed before the paris attacks. prince charles saying theres a direct link between terrorism and global warming. and the worlds failure to deal with climate change is one of the root causes of the war forcing millions of men, women and children to flee to europe. politics now. time for our 2016 presidential power index where we look at whos up and whos down in the race for the white house. first, latest fox ne...

Second point, why does bernie sanders think he can get our money and spend it better than we can? they cant. government shows that over and over and third, maybe the most important point is that they have done study after study of the optimal size of government. its 25% of gdp. do you know what ours is? 35%. so any argument you can make for government spending fails on one of those three points. >> lets get back to taxes. thats what he wants to do. take money out of everybodys paycheck. the last...

Part of impeachment driving republicans -- >> thats true, but -- >> the last time we saw this kind of chaos was when gingrich stepped down and there were scandals and confusion. >> but molly, to howards second point. okay, fine, after all this, let the tea party run it. chaffitz for utah would be positioning himself for that, right? >> the freedom caucus didnt endorse caffitz. they endorsed webster. he has sort of a mixed record on some of their stuff. i think the problem with the republican cau...

To get stuff done. two, hes got nothing to lose. i dont think he has further ambitions in politics. and three, he actually knows the job. so thats not a crazy idea. and the third idea is that you put somebody from the tea party from the chair and let them see if they can govern the house. theyre going to fall on their face. this is a terrible idea for the country, but then the republican party would clearly blow themselves up, because they would find that either they were passing stuff that was ...

Who have come back from iraq and afghanistan who are dealing with ptsd and traumatic brain injury. you have other people coming home without legs, without arms, losing their hearing. these are tough issues. so for a start, i think it is probably the case that while obama has been pretty good in his budget, pretty good in his budget, i think we probably need more resources and i have advocated for that in the last several years. second point, though, i think it is fair to say that management of v...

Budget, i think we probably need more resources and i have advocated for that in the last several years. second point, though, i think it is fair to say that management of v.a. has not been as strong as it should be. i think there are areas where the v.a. should have been much quicker to pick up on the problems and allocate resources. >> let me interject there for a second, because you are already seeing on the right in the conservative media, basically, a whole -- dozens of pieces today, this s...

Up their minds about and dont like it, youre wasting your time in the arena. second point, which is even more important for the mid-term elections, the people who favor obamacare, which is a minority, arent really that enthusiastic about it even if they favor it. but the majority who oppose obamacare are much more charged up, and theyre the people who tend to turn up in a low turnout mid-term election. >> i also think by pitching it, everyone is for coverage or preexisting conditions and removin...

Lot of pain on the european allies. >> they could. and one reason why, second point, we have to make sure that the energy sources in europe are diversified. that we help the europeans become less dependent upon russia. >> thats a long-term --. its long-term, but starting now, sending the signal now. in addition to the economic kind of actions that could be taken, they wont solve the problem initially. but sending the message to russia and to the rest of the world, there are penalties associated ...

And 60s, when the civil rights movement, similarly heard this argument that it wasnt local people, it wasnt the people of birmingham, it wasnt the people of you know of montgomery who were agitating but outside agitators, union people sometimes, who were coming in and telling them what their interests were. and i mean i got to say, it seems hard to imagine that workers dont notice that wages at this level create for them a circumstance where they then have to rely on benefits. so why would it ta...

You know what the media does for a living. they will go out after the people and find the stories and its not hard to find when its 5% of the american population thats going to have some problems. its still a small part of the big problem. >> the lady with stage four cancer thats been kicked off the plans. >> first youre a cancer victim who your rooting for the guy helping you or the other party that never tried. democrats are arguing or efficiency. they are not the most efficient crowd in the w...