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Government. so they blame the ruling elite, which they say is corrupt, in competent, and self-serving. if you speak to most people here on the street, they will tell you that rulers here have stashed away billions of dollars in switzerland. and they say they could solve this countrys economic problems if all of that money was brought back to lebanon. george? >> ben wedeman covering easements all over the world. some of the hardest, most dangerous places, in the middle on of a protest. but gettin...

Corruption. and the brazenness of it is really, at some level, you teeter between being outraged and sitting back and laughing. when mick mulvaney goes out, he says, absolutely, it is the best place of all the places. its the best one. in all the land. doral. >> there is also a sense in which, you know, there were all these stories in the beginning that i found maddening, which clear we was coming from folks in the administration. we have got this. this famous op-ed, were the guardrails, dont wo...

Inconstitutional. its an extraordinary level of corruption. and the brazenness of it is really at some level, you teeter between being outraged and sitting back and laughing. when mick mulvaney goes out and says, its the best one in all the land, doral. [ laughter ] >> well, there is also a sense in which, you know, there are all these stories in the beginning that were clearly coming from folks inside the administration of dont worry, we got this. theres a famous op-ed, but this idea of were th...

However, you have to also use some common sense. if a kid goes in for a root canal you dont give him 100 objection i pills, right? >> right. >> dana: you also have to have a balance and taper these patients off. you cant just shut them down. you know, they will have anxiety. they go into suicidal depression and all this stuff. >> dana: this seems like a very common sense solution kind of cure yus that the government would take this long to get to this decision. >> hey, dana. there is no common s...

State career department sent to sondland. there was a five-hour gap there. what was going on in that five-hour gap? we know now that sondland talked to the president and the president, by all accounts, told him what to say. that is something they will dive into and it will be a very important part of what he tells them on thursday. >> so there was that five-minute gap -- i mean, five-hour gap and there was that roughly 20-minute gap between the diplomat asking for clarification and then the "cal...

[cheers and applause] >> harris: former vice president not holding back, either. joe biden telling supporters of the president is totally incompetent and "as soulless as you get." this, from wednesday. >> this is an especially dangerous moment for this nation. because we know the pressure on trump is only going to increase. with that pressure increasing, he will only grow more volatile, more erratic, more self-serving, and more destructive. he has another year in office. >> harris: during me now...

>> the ukraine situation has been going on for a couple weeks now, the response until yesterday was muted. now he is taking aim saying it is time to impeach. what coydo you make of that? >> i liked his response. my guess is that maybe a smart part of it was a concern that calling for impeachment was a little self serving because it does involve his family, but joe biden represents moderates, not just democrats but potentially republicans and the white working class voters that part of his electa...

Independents, people are sick and tired of the theater that is the white house, of this political pageantry, the trivializing of our government, our three systems of government, our three branches of government. you know, we still havent dealt with infrastructure. we still havent dealt with education. we still havent dealt with national security in a meaningful way that doesnt trivialize immigrants and muslims and people of color. and so we have a lot on our plate that we have to deal with that ...

Trivialize immigrants and muslim and people of color. so we have a lot on our plate that our constituents are expecting us to deal with, but because president trump doesnt want to deal with the issues at hand, he involves us in this pageantry. what hes done is self-serving and it shows hes unfit to be president. >> im sure next week is, in fact, infrastructure week but well have to see if they deliver. as to the questioning of the intelligence community inspector general, what do yid you learn i...

>> i dont think that is fair to say honestly. >> i think it does take guts to stay in a marriage that has been through that and i think a lot of women would say you should walk away. but the very courageous choice is to stay. >> 44 years of marriage and weve all been through personal trauma and difficulties. but to be able to withstand that in the public of disdain and scrutiny as well, i thought that was really honestly very vulnerable of clinton. >> i agree and i think they can be one part, gu...