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How it will be paid for. political cystectomy will be wont cover the trillions in cost, raising taxes on the middle class is a political third rail. other options like reducing healthcare benefits or raising payroll taxes are also politically dicey, small wonder the top 2 democrat whose motto she has a plan for everything doesnt have one yet for how to pay for universal healthcare. >> im a single-payer guy, we got to improve the aca. reports are she will release the medicare for all proposal she...

Few weeks oohing that there was an explicit quid pro quo, at least in the understanding of both the ukraines and officials when it. and because now you are having corroboration of ambassador taylor in such detail, its helping the democrats to build their case as they move forward with this vote. >> bob costa, you have that -- one of the pieces of reporting that will endure throughout this impeachment episode and beyond about a senior republican senator calling it a horror movie. it has to be sor...

Long time to be, you know, tied to, and that is rudy giuliani. word biden and everyone in the >> thats right. absolutely, erin. room knows what that means and the president is trying to put it is a frightening moment. some space between himself and rudy giuliani. >> its interesting that it you heard the president on the could be a third rail of bolton south lawn of the white house on and were wondering what he has this afternoon on his way to the to say about this and how important he could be. ...

Excuse. they are young. they dont understand how they are being used and played to promote a communist, a marxist agenda. >> now, i would say that the chinese version of the regrettable, that so many chinese fans were disappointed by the darryl more tweet probably more play indicating and this the u.s.s. version. have to do this type of thinking if you want to operate in china. we saw kfc their sales fell off and walmart and starbucks any u.s. movement on what they call third rail issues which i...

Houston rockets supporting hong kongs pro-democracy protesters. china is now refusing to air nba games. heres tom llamas. >> reporter: tonight, china putting the full-court press on the nba. their main broadcasting network refusing to air two preseason nba games and appearing to threaten their billion dollar-plus contract with the league. it all started with this tweet from houston rockets gm daryl morey. "fight for freedom, stand with hong kong." morey showing support for the pro-democracy demo...

Joe tsai, the new owner is a wildly successful businessman and he said that these i arent easily summed up in a tweet and that this is like the third rail right now in china and hong kong. well, guess what? race is the third rail in this country and we talk about it all the time. this is gangsterism on the part of the chinese government and im hoping that adam silver isnt the one to take the fall here and you were talking about players. we always ask them to stand up on social issues. its going ...

Values that should be the underpinning of all of this, right? i understand theres a lot of noun be made in china for the nba and sometimes sports can transcend various cultural divides. but if we start to censor ourselves and apologizing for our own values and punishing them, potentially, in pursuit of making money and basically bowing to the censors of china, what are withe doing here? and the facebook post obviously im fired about this, dana. the facebook post from the nets owner was genuinely...

In. you said something interesting in texas, in every single one of at the debate about were the 254 county said, no matter letting too many things -- the enemy of the perfect metaphor you used. do you feel that way about the gun issue as well? how red or rural or big and blue, i was showing up talking youre pushing for mandatory about an assault-weapons ban in buybacks, for gun registration, that state. but do you also say if you can a proud gun owning state, because i also know its a proud get...

People, all right? im just going to get right under, and my social securitys okay. yours, i wonder if youll even have it. so im just wondering wheres the discipline to address that the? wheres the creativity when it comes to addressing this? >> i think we do have to extend the solvency of social security, but when it comes to elizabeth warrens plan, shes actually taken the man out of donald trumps playbook. i think shes going towards a populist, kind of playing towards the anger within both demo...

The positions -- the same goes for both sides. the positions that are most popular that speak to their hearts and their guts and they give voice to the rage that any parent with a kid younger than 7 that tells them about the drills they did where they have to be quiet because they have to pretend that there is no one in the classroom weeps and they are hungry for the kind of red meat. i think as much as the gun debate has changed, it may not have changed that much. >> it is interesting that corp...