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They present great problems. >> newly proposed legislation making its way through hawaiis senate goes even further, banning not only styrofoam containers but almost all plastics from restaurants including drink bottles, utensils, straws, stirring sticks, even garbage bags. advocates point to a 2018 a united nations report on plastics pollution showing if current trends continue, our oceans could contain more plastic than fish by 2050, though more than 90% of the plastic pollution comes from asia...

>> i heard it was in five minutes. >> thats true. >> five minutes ago. >> pelosi saying we cant do prematurism people. because it could risk the swing district democrats and its going to jeopardize her house majority. what shes saying is we dont we do the blizzard of subpoenas and the hearings and embarrass this president and use that as a sledgehammer against him to drive his poll numbers down and try to separate republican support from him. that might be more tactful and more fruitful. she doe...

Emergency -- what an emergency is and thats what this case is really going to be about. >> okay. i would be remiss in not noting the politics here. politics are certainly part of this. we know the presidents own pollsters believe that this -- regardless of the national polling, that this works for him in swing districts. i will note that a majority of republicans, 64%, they say want the wall. we have said many times the president acts to keep that base together. does it matter to president trump...

Drug issue is a big issue. nobody seems to want to address it. its really hurting. >> costs are coming down. >> a very small group of drugs. a very small group of drugs we should be focussed on where pharmaceutical companies are ripping off the public but this talk of we have to go after -- innovation thats saving lives is something we have to be very careful about taking a sledge hammer. >> im pro-innovation. im all for it. we do have these companies who are taking public dollars on their resea...

And, you know, the wave of relief that must have come over them. >> reporter: with the help of illinois state troopers, garcia was finally pulled over. although it was only 8:30 a.m., he had a blood alochol level twice the legal limit. >> the trooper said that his breath smelled of booze, and then when he went to -- had to relieve himself, that that smelled of booze, as well. >> reporter: garcia was arrested on the spot for driving under the influence. from his car police recovered a cell phone,...

Well. >> even from a logistical statement, how difficult would it be? can you just close the gates? >> there arent even gates. theres 1,200 miles of border between the united states and mexico. this wasnt even possible in fiction. in real life, what are we going to do, put centuries at every point of the border? we would have to ask the department of defense, the department of homeland security, to allocate resources, planning resources and actual assets to look at doing that, versus allocating ...

Quite active and what theyre doing doesnt create the greatest respect for democracy. today just ten days before christmas the out going lame duck republican governor scott walker who just lost his re-election bid to a democrat has just 24 days to go before his job and has signed a set of bills ran through by the heavily jerry mandered republican legislator. those deals are designed to hobble by stripping the incoming of significant powers. wait, thats not all. republicans also took a sledge hamm...

Respect for what you call democracy. take wisconsin for instance. today just ten days before christmas the out going lame duck republican governor scott walker who just lost his re-election bid to a democrat has just 24 days to go before his job and has signed a set of bills ran through by the heavily gerimandered republican legislator. those deals are designed to hobble by stripping the incoming of significant powers. wait, thats not all. republican also took a sledgehammer to the kneecaps of w...

>> ralph wasnt shot, but he was hurt. and he was air lifted to the nearest trauma hospital. walsenburg, as local reporter eric mullens knew, was not equipped to handle an investigation of this magnitude. >> you have small town departments, five, six, seven people. you dont have murder cops on staff. you dont have forensic professionals on staff. >> so by the time shannon arrived at the hospital looking for her mother, an agent of the colorado bureau of investigation was there to meet her. along ...

If youre really in -- >> come on. >> burdens are high. >> they know whats happening. really? >> i think they do. i think hes sending a subtle message, but it might be too subtle for the courtroom beyond a reasonable doubt standard. >> you say subtle. i say sledgehammer. thank you both. i appreciate your time. the 41st president, george h.w. bush, lies in state in the u.s. capitol tonight. im going to talk with two of the men who worked by his side fo for years. ignition sequence starts. 10... ...