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Running. mothers are upstairs learning english. our students are from about 20 different countries. >> im from burma. burma is a colony. >> they didnt want to leave their home country. they left because they did not have any choice. that common experience transcends language. these women are able to support each other. >> i think a misconception that is most refugees were uneducated and impoverished. many refugees have strong education, strong skill sets. and so much to offer us, we think of the...

English. our students are from about 20 different countries. >> burma is the government, its not good. its not safe. >> they didnt want to leave their home country. they left because they did not have any choice. that common experience transcends language. these women are able to support each other. >> i think a misconception is that most refugees were uneducated and impoverishes. many have strong skill sets and so much to offer us. if we think of them as uneducated because they dont know englis...

Underscore the presidents commitment to change the way business is done in d.c. >> he has come to washington as a disruptor but he was a successful businessman for decades and he brings those skill sets to bear on this a job in that hes an excellent negotiator, excellent listener and wants anybody who is going to support his agenda committed to representing, he wants them to come to the table. >> counselor kellyanne conway to despite all the noise and construction happening around here. the pres...

On television for decades and he brings those skill sets and effectiveness to bear on this job. >> sandra: meantime, house speaker paul ryan says their release tax reform outline during the week of the 25th. josh, thats obviously a very important timeline and deadline. too aggressive? >> josh: no, i dont get too aggressive. they have to get going. this is clearly the issue that republicans rise and fall with the trump administration, our economy probably rises and falls with. there is no timelin...

Experience do you have? you know, what are your natural gifts and talents? what stuff -- maybe you have a swimming pool or sewing machine or computer that you can turn into a side or small business. when do you that, you are lowering the cost and the risk and the barrier to entry into the marketplace. its much easier for you to win. steve: do what you know. meanwhile, ken, you got a question from erin down in georgia. i work for a great company as a software tester and im miserable. i would love...

Pictures. how many people were you able to rescue in all? >> i think our over all group picked up 1,543 people from st. martin through four days of work. >> four days of work, right? >> four very long days, yes, sir. >> i can only imagine. do you know how long youre going to be down there helping out? >> i dont, sir. i do know there are talks of redeploying our assets to florida to follow the wake and the path of hurricane irma. and whatever it takes to best utilize our skill sets however we can...

With us, vice director of the national guard bureau. nice to speak with you. thank you. >> yes, thanks for having me. shepard: i hear a lot of people are deployment ready. >> absolutely. weve read it about 30,000 troops for harvey to reinforce florida. train to tell me what that would mean. >> that means we are metering in troops to the tune of up to 8000 based upon floridas request, maybe even 10,000 in all different kinds of specialties they need to reinforce their efforts throughout this day....

About, are they stopping immigrants at checkpoints, are they going to do some kind of sweep to find illegal immigrants. are they eligible for benefits. all these questions, because he has demonstrated such an antipathy toward immigrants. >> greg: nobody looks for a surgeon based on empathy. they look for skill sets. may be a psychologist or a priest. if you want empathy. thats fine. asking a trump for empathy you dont get it. you dont even have to like a trump think is a good president. >> juan:...

But at the same time, i want to remind you, he has never backed down from the fact that this is a country, its a nation, its a sovereign nation that must have borders that are respected and that we have spent billions of dollars over the years helping other nations protect their own borders. and many americans agree with him that its high time we respect our own. i would mention a couple of other things, though. the president is very committed to workforce development and labor overall. he, abou...

Dynamic would change if he were to leave the white house. how would that be? >> well, look, i think what president trump has done is put together a cabinet that is not a cabinet of yes men. the obama administration had, you know, idealogues who all wanted to pull the country in a specific direction. if you look at what happened with obamacare. if you look at what happened with the bailouts. all of these sorts of things that happened under the obama administration they happened because they were ...