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I still had treatments i had to do. >> tucker: hope says she is blessed because the city shuttles her between medical clinic and her tent. she hopes to get back to home state of montana once she is healthy again. >> how long do you think you will be here. >> im not too sure. i broke my foot this past winter so it kind of set me back. with my medical. but im a miracle so every day is a miracle. >> tucker: similar tent encampments line portlands iowas every open face in the city seems packed with ...

Multiple people living in this makeshift structure. two days later the city had cleared the sidewalk and put up notices it was going to scrap the belongings inside. eugene is trying to get a handle on homeless problem but there are road blocks. a major one, a ruling by the federal ninth circuit of appeals that has declared its somehow unconstitutional to shoe away homeless people if there is no place for them to go. eugenes leaders have responded by trying to erect tent cities on public land. on...

Up with these ludie ludicrous e. she said that bore sick was going to uphold roe v. wade. it was clear she was rationalizing all along. she was not undecided. she was not candid. she was not forthright. you know whose mind was made up, lisa murkowski who did listen and did absorb what was being said and changed her mind. >> yeah. >> you would like to think that senators are that way, but theyre not. it is tribal loyalty down the road. >> absolutely. >> to eugenes point, as soon as that guy got u...

Book tour began for "gatekeepers." i said if you oppose everything donald trump stands for, this is the white house staff for you. >> related to that, the question for me is, is kelly not prepared for the white house or is he not prepared for this particular white house? were seeing some scandals and chaos that are quite exceptional. perhaps if he had something a little more traditional, he would not have wound up with some of the drama and chaos that he has wound up with this past week. >> chri...

>> that is a bill deal. but i still think for most americans it still comes back to we know why putin wouldment to have this influence. the question has always been yes, but would the trump campaign actually collude with them to do something. look, we still dont have the answer to this. i dont think the four page e-mail is going to give us legal el-- its still not clear. but to eugenes point, we are only seeing four pages of e-mails. what bob mueller has, what the congressional committees have w...

Freeze tore the refrigerator. this is the only storm on the map, a lot of heavy rain from portland to eugene, snow moving through the nosh rockies. todays forecast pretty calm. we warm up a little bit in the great lakes compared to how weve been. this is no problem at all. oklahoma city enjoy 49. dallas at 54 should be enjoyable. atlanta and d.c. in the 40s and 50s, seasonable for this time of year. fast forward into the busy travel period from friday, saturday, sunday into the holiday weekend. ...

White. eugenes point, police protect in serve, but in minority neighborhoods it is to police and arrest and provide a police state to protect everyone else from you leaving your neighborhood. >> thats exactly the point. the idea that these are outcomes that are somehow aberrant. this is not how the police have functioned and functioned historically in black communities, it is absurd. to eugenes point about how this incident transpired, mr. garner had broken up a fight prior to the encounter with...

The loved ones of those aboard malaysia flight 370 continue to hope for news, hoping for a miracle. he was aboard asiana flight 214 that crashed in san francisco. it is a day that haunts him still. i spoke to eugene and his daughter eunice about their advice for the families of flight 370. >> this is really awful, especially when you dont have a clue. you need to have a closure for you to move on. in my case, it was such a dramatic and severe experience that i wanted to overcome and move on with...

Points out, theres a very good reason for it and its not at all clear what can be done here. i think what youre also having is the absence of sort of the neoconservatives beating the drums of war. yes, theres bill kristol and a few others out there. even theyre being sort of vague as to what they would actually like to happen. ive been to hearings up on the hill. theyre all eager to criticize the president for not doing anything. nobody is very clear on what they would like him to be doing that ...

Much about, thats a message hes sending specifically to them. hes trying to walk and chew gum at the same time clearly. whether the people on the conservative end are mollified, they truly believe hes a conservatives and whether the moderates believe hes on their side, thats a balancing act well have to see whether he pulls off. >> eugene robinson in the "washington post" wrote this. which mitt will show up at the denver debate. he has to erase the impressions left by all the mitt romneys we met...