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State of new hampshire, who has sort of taken to the trail with the greatest facility as far as youve seen in the last few hours? days? >> reporter: i think that governor chris christie has distinguished himself here as the type of candidate who might take well. i think youve seen that reflected in the pages of the new hampshire union leader which was a pretty influential newspaper here. i think youre seeing frit the stage behind me now. taken a series of questions, put himself on display as thi...

Va. he got slammed by veterans groups and pretty soon his spokesman was saying definitively ken is not for privatizing the va hospitals. the next year mitt romney briefly suggested a privatizing voucher system for the va, veterans groups came out strongly against it and said he was just quicking around a hypothetical, didnt mean it at all. this year, though, something different is going on. at least three of the major candidates are probable candidates for the republican presidential nomination,...

Social security check? i say no and i propose a modest means test that only affects those with non social security income of over $80,000 a year and phases out social security payments entirely for those that have $200,000 a year in retirement income. >> reporter: they call entitlement reform the third rail when you grab it you get politically electro could you telled. jeb bush is in ohio where hes talking to the chamber of commerce. mr. bush has been doing this with a lot of chambers around the...

He will tackle the third rail of american politics. he will talk about entitlement reform. specifically he will suggest that social security and medicare should be means tested, and that the eligibility ages for both should be raised. tough medicine, very risky in american politics. people who talk about entitlement reform dont tend to get warm receptions from awful lot of american seniors and those in need but indisputable fact both are costing the government a fortune. entitlement is a big par...

Cops. so the last thing they want to do is convict the cops. they understand that. the judges the last thing they want to do is preside over something where the cop gets convicted and upset the cops union or the correctional officer union or any other thing. i said it before its the third rail. this idea that law enforcement basically has gamed the criminal justice system and especially when it comes to people of color. >> weve got to leave it there. mark geragos, harry houck, thank you for bein...

Killed by michael slager the 33-year-old cop, they are both veterans of the united states coast guard. we have pictures of both of them when they served in the united states coast guard. they are living there in a small area, north charleston, south carolina. i dont know if they knew each other. i dont know if they had any coast guard conversations. doesnt sound like that based on the conversation they have when michael slager the cop, pulls him over but you know its ironic or maybe just purely ...

This happens is because being law enforcement is the third rail in the u.s. you cant touch it. you cant say anything. politicians are chicken. and they dont want to say anything. its a real epidemic. >> yeah and our next spot well show what the earlier report said versus what we now know from the video. dan, ive been surprised because ive got a number of tweets from some people overwhelmingly i should say white people who tweeted me who say he shouldnt have run away from a police officer. and pl...

That. that station got flooded by water last night. local streets also flooded. i think it was the west village hit hardest, 1, 2 and 3 trains hit bad. 500 people had to be removed from the train underground during the evening commute. officials say the utility might have struck a water pipe causing a 12-inch pipe. >> covered the third rail. obviously very dangerous. thats the electrified one. a big challenge for those guys. on the upside the cars got clean. >> where is all the water coming from...

Third rail running through my third place? >> riding on the cusp is a small piece of this overall strategy. whether a person wants to add milt it or not, we all have some level of unconscious bias. if we can approach that with a higher degree of empathy and compassion and understanding, it will go a long way to bridge the divide. >> last night on this show we had a conversation about having conversations in the wake of starbucks new initiative encouraging baristas to talk openly to customers abo...

The administration claims. that puts them in a tough position. also this authorization would be for three years which means it would affect the next president into 2018. so gop presidential candidates are looking at this and they are saying why should we have our party endorse restrictions that are not only going to put limits on what president obama and his administration can do but what the next president could do and while boots on the ground is a political third rail right now, in 2018 that ...