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August 8, 2019
"the wall street journal" that the president supports expansion of background checks and flag laws. it would give congressional republicans cover. under fire from protesters and e he recovers from a fractured shoulder, he ways in calling a radio station and engaging in bipartisan could discussion that will meet the senates threshold. >> were going to begin the discussion during the august break and when we get back hopefully we will be in a position to agree on things on a bipartisan basis and g...
August 8, 2019
Afternoon at the famous des moines register soap box. its where politicians stand on an actual soap box and give their speech. the governor steve bullock from montana will be speaking here. so even though the polls give a sense of where the race is right now, iowa front-runners are often fleeting. howard dean was leading this back in the 2004 campaign. hillary clinton was leading it in the 2008 campaign. so it certainly -- theres at least six more months. kate, another headline out of this poll,...
August 8, 2019
In the military, those are policy differences. the bar has to be higher, clears some threshold other than a policy disagreement. >> well, first of all, it doesnt have to be a high crime and misdemeanor, as i have evidenced with this article 10. >> right. >> it can be a high misdemeanor. and secondly, it does not have to be a crime. federalist 65, i hate to get into the weeds. >> sure. >> in federalist 65 we find the words of hamilton, the words of madison and jon jay. and they call to our attent...
August 7, 2019
Tomorrow. so how are older people going to survive if we have 90% of hospitals as soon as this program goes into effect in the red, there is no way to pay for this. even if we could pay for it, people are going to be much worse off. brian: just going to be very interesting to see if democrats will vet this out before donald trump gets ahold of them. because bernie sanders has made the next debate. andrew yang is on the threshold. someone has got to say who is writing that check. he believes auto...
August 7, 2019
Oftentimes or most of the time these things dont come out of nowhere its not something nobody absolutely saw coming. there are signs there are reasons to be concerned. and again whenever were talking about red flag laws were talking about arresting people or prosecuting people or putting them in skral, were just talking about preventing their access to weapons for a period of time in which theres a reason to be concerned. whenever we think about what the threshold should look like, it should be ...
August 7, 2019
Him? this is her weak spot. im surprised more are not attacking her record as a prosecutor. ainsley: her ratings have gone down since. steve: 5 points. >> tulsi gabbard trying to capitalize on this. there has been a lot of interesting reaction regarding this harris v. gabbard saga. lets get to one. facebook comment who says tulsi should concentrate on her own strengths attacking only provides fuel for the real opponent and i guess that opponent would be president trump. mark on facebook says gab...
August 7, 2019
Its staggering to imagine how much more violence this president may motivate if he continues down this deeply disturbing path. joining our discussion now is professor david schanzer. he is the director of duke universitys center on terrorism and homeland security. professor, establish for us what you see as the link between donald trumps rhetoric, donald trumps hate speech, and what happened in el paso. >> you know, lawrence, the way terrorism works, there are a lot of angry people. there are a ...
August 7, 2019
Businesses? >> absolutely. no doubt about the fact the amount, the rapid notice how quickly it has grown and small business having to lay off people, people cant spend in business and at that 2 other rules and regulations it is sad. small business pushed out. rob: lets look at another graphic. the unemployment rate in new york city has gone up in the last year where the rest of the country is loving the strong economy. unemployment going down. you are seeing the effect of raising the minimum wag...
August 7, 2019
Terrorism works, there are a lot of angry people. there are a lot of id logically motivated people out there, but it takes the -- a piling on of grievance, an grievance. in order to take somebody who is angry and politicized and have them mobilized and cross that threshold to violence. i think thats what weve seen in the last couple months with this beating the drum on this whole issue of invasion, but also the comments about the four members of congress of color, and the rats and the vermin. al...
August 6, 2019
Carrying out massive discrimination against muslim communities and violating human rights and free speech. im assuming -- im betting frank doesnt want to replicate some of the abuses from the war on terror in terms of a war on, you know, far-right terror. what we want, though, is some consistency and we want someone to take the white nationalist problem seriously. >> right. i think -- i agree with both of those points. to your point about sort of the concerns about state overreach, when the pres...