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Could that -- this firearm, can this firearm go off by stepping on it? i understand the trigger is actually one that you really have to pull. >> sean, when i was a secret service agent, we used this firearm, this -- we had a different variation. this was a 40 caliber round, we used it, a 40 caliber handgun. the short answer for you is, hell, no, it cant go off by stepping on it. it certainly wont go off by fiddling with it in a shirt. you actually have to putli some force into pressing the trigg...

Talking about this tax plan. and of course on the big buzz today on the current secretary of state rex tillerson. so dana bash, samantha, and a admiral kirby are back with me. lets start with where we were before the press conference. dana bash, when she was asked about rex tillerson, her response was when the president loses confidence theyll no longer serve. rex tillerson was here today. so is that her attempt to say nothing to see her, all is hung can i dorie, or what did you make of her resp...

Were going to make america great again. believe me. >> at the core of my contract is my plan to bring jobs back to our country. >> that was the plan. dreams and jobs. how is it working out now that we can actually fact check this tax plan? im joined by the columnist from the new york daily news who writes the republicans are asking the middle class to play dead while tax reform walks all over them. >> it was a variation of the famous old daily news headline. florida city drop dead. which may hav...

Course there is a political reason people are saying well the electorate has voted in the way that it has voted that is a mandate to open to tickle parties that have been elected into parliament and one cannot simply go back to the voters if one is dissatisfied with that mandate well worst case scenario if they were to go to the polls today what kind of a states are the c.d.u. and what kind of a state are the other parties in its very difficult to say there have been a few polls. opinion polls i...

Appointed in the short-term to take his place. i think those questions whether he can be successful going forward are important. senator franken is an unusual entertainer kind of politician. he likes to make jokes, but its one thing for the senator to make jokes and another thing for him to become a joke. thats a question as we go ahead. can he get beyond this? >> at the same time he has become very serious and seemingly has become a rather respected member of a variation of committees in his li...

Relief theres a guy called the joker, who is donald trump. >> sort of a variation on trump, yeah. in a deck of playing cards the only two cards that dont behave properly are the joker and the trump. trumps name is not in the book anyway. i thought i dont want the trump so ill have the joker instead. theres this cartoon villain running for president. >> did you watch trump and say to yourself, if i wrote this, people wouldnt believe it? >> yeah. >> sometimes trump is stranger than fiction. >> tot...

Until the rent comment, to write >> as a novelist, what strikes you about the obama era. >> i felt there was this movement from incredible optimism to the antethesis. i remember. i was here on the night of the first obama election and i was walking around the city in the middle of the night in places where people gather. union square and rockefeller plaza like that. looking at peoples faces. the extraordinary joy and hope in those mainly young faces. i thought it was a remarkable thing to witnes...

Growth impact, you get a wide range of views of how much it would help the economy. tax foundation said it would increase growth by 0.3%. larry lindsey, who you and i both know, say it could be 0.9%. that would take us above 3%. where does that fall and why the variation? >> im close to the long-run impact but the real issue is the speed at which it takes place. if it gets heavily frontloaded, if it is a boom that takes you above trend growth and quick adjustments, you get closer to larry lindse...

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Election, 40 percent do. the variation is important to look at. we also need to look at the growing part of the state. fairfax county, northern virginia, 273,000 votes in 09. 306,000. it be interesting to see how much larger it is this year to grow in part of the state. then i will be looking at margins. its not just whether they won or lose them. first of all, are they poaching? at gillespie will try to get more votes than a republican normally gets in northern virginia. northam is trying to ge...