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Farm tools weekly. >> imagine a documentary celebrating any other bureaucrat like the head of the u.s. postal service. delivers life-saving medicines and checks, nobody does anything on him but i need to tell you this breaking news, you appear in this documentary as a supporting character. you are the hydroxy chloro queen. >> my next guest says doctors are already using this treatment in the united states successfully. >> im absolutely convinced its a toilet. >> it was clear there was no evidenc...

>> yeah, you have to take that part with a grain of salt because the administration and gop has moved against the obamacare program that protected that. so, theres no evidence that the gop would do anything to protect americans. on aids, though, there is a bipartisan precedent. george w. bush was very aggressive in fighting against aids overseas. one of the biggest initiatives in history. there is room there to move forward there with democrats in support. >> among the discussion, what did he me...

The latter part of that. the work hes done on malaria, on a.i.d.s. -- >> does it feel comfortable hes written your obituary? >> its a graft. >> good morning, bill. >> i hope theres a lot more to be put in there. the part about government generosity is important to highlight. even as philanthropy comes in, government aid is key. u.s. aid, even though its way below what it should be, is ten times what my foundation spends internationally. as were looking at budget trade-offs, the question of do va...

Records is we already know that he is still taking a great deal of money that he gained real gri the relationship with bain capital, the robert baron korngs that he was involved in. and thats a significant thing. because here you have a company that an operation that was all about going into corporations, ripping them apart, taking the profitable parts and shutting down factories, shipping jobs overseas. what you look at mitt romneys tax returns, you see the connections. thats a big reason why h...

Crowds out and get support? he wants to end the war and bring the troops home. [ applause ] >> in the politico briefing is ron pauls numbers continue to rise in iowa questions persist about racist newsletters published in the 1990s under his name. maggie is a senior political writer for politico and joins us for talking about this. i want to put a quote up here on the screen. reuters highlighted a direct mail solicitation from ron pauls newsletter, signing his name, reportedly written in about 1...

I couldnt think of anyone in the film industry today who could sadly pass away -- lets say pick anyone -- who would have the attention she is getting today around the world. >> its very true, and she, as i was saying to joan collins earlier, she was married eight times. so were you, larry. i think it would have been good for the pair of you to get together when you were younger. >> no, we had a friendship. >> might have saved you a lot of money, larry. >> yeah. it did. >> tell me more about her ...

Support aids research and to raise money for aids in a way that nobody had really been able to force through into mass appeal. >> she -- this campaign that youre looking at right now was actually inspired by her message, her bigger message that, in effect, aids was not an american problem. we were originally the american foundation for aids and it evolved into the aids foundation, and she was adamant that it was a global pandemic. if it existed anywhere, it existed everywhere. if anyone was infe...

Had lived a lot and suffered a lot. >> carol, what do you think would be the way she would like to be remembered? what was most important to elizabeth, do you think? >> most important to elizabeth were her family, her friends, her care about aids research, standing up before anyone that we knew of in hollywood stood up after her friend rock hudson died a terrible death from aids. she came out and supported amfar and later her own foundation. she came to the studio with me when burt baccarat were...

Was -- the film we just saw had a say, she was never afraid of the truth. >> thats certainly true. kenneth, that was a great driving thing about elizabeth taylor was she didnt care really what people thought. she was doing what she thought was the right thing. >> she had a genuine sense of social justice and appropriateness, and she was undeterred, and she had -- could not understand why everybody didnt realize how -- how critical the need was for appropriate funding and resources to address thi...

This message, and she was an extraordinary messenger of it. >> mathilde, although you say she didnt see it as a risk, everybody else did. it was a huge deal for a hollywood star like her to be going after this kind of cause. what effect do you think that liz taylor had on -- must call her elizabeth taylor, she hated being called liz, even though everybody else did -- that elizabeth taylor had on aids, on people, you know, wanting the treatment, what tangible effect did she have to improve people...