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>> exactly right. he is a great campaigner. he brings a smile to your face. not everyone, a lot of people in the u.k. dont like him, but he has energy. he is unconventional pretty is antiestablishment. and thats what people are responding to. thats why it is an interesting thing to think about when you look at the elections next year here in america. similar sort of thing going on with president trumps appeal, and one more thing i would say is that even though the very early days in terms of the...

You know, they endured. >> anthony: as you might have gathered by now, this is a working class town. and unusual in that its a union town. a proudly union town in an otherwise very red state. >> bryant: butte is the most interesting, important town in america that nobody knows about. >> anthony: bryant mcgregor is the owner of the silver dollar saloon in what was once buttes chinatown. >> amanda: so we call ourselves "butte, america." >> anthony: amanda curtis is a former state congresswoman, wa...

Lick high school with me in california, a working class town. he said i never talked to you about politics before, for the first time, im worried about our security. people saw mattis as a stabilizing force. thats lost now. >> if we ever -- i dont want to think about it. but ill bring it up as a topic. its important to bring it up. the chain of command with regard to nuclear weapons, the football, that has to go through a secretary of defends? >> thats right. >> that has a constitutional check o...

Ambiguity in my feeling if -- if id inherited this land and it had been in my family for generations and i looked around at it and wanted to keep it like it is. if i were to go to a bar in town and i would ask how do you feel about this issue, where would it break? what would people say? lee: depends on if you are a fisherman or a landowner. bill: clearly divided right down the middle. david: well, i know a lot of people are going to say when i was a kid i used to be able to go hunt and fish and...

Meaderville and the surrounding neighborhoods. there was money down there to be dug out of the ground and thats what butte had always been about from the beginning. in 1983 the pumps that held back the ground water from thousands of miles of tunnels beneath the city were turned off. the pit filled with thirty billion gallons of water. and as mine tailings and mineral refuse contaminated the water it became a giant insanely toxic lake of sulfuric acid. a monument to greed and heedless exploitatio...

Did. part of that is luck geographically but also the character of the people here. you know, they endured. >> anthony: as you might have gathered by now, this is a working class town. and unusual in that its a union town. a proudly union town in an otherwise very red state. >> bryant: butte is the most interesting, important town in america that nobody knows about. >> anthony: bryant mcgregor is the owner of the silver dollar saloon in what was once buttes chinatown. >> amanda: so we call ourse...

Obviously the pit is an enduring emblem of that rapacious capitalist greed. but you also have people here who are proud of -- proud of where they live. the history of butte in many ways is you know this town that should have died and but never did. part of that is luck geographically but also the character of the people here. you know, they endured. >> anthony: as you might have gathered by now, this is a working class town. and unusual in that its a union town. a proudly union town in an otherw...

Career? >> when i met roseanne, i worked at a meat packing plant. im younger than her. i came from a small town in iowa, like a working class town. and she was so liberal and a feminist and a mother. and i had never met anybody -- i never heard her say anything racist. people of color, i never heard that term. trust me, my next door neighbors dog was named the n word. thats where i grew up. like i said, you could see some people. there were people in my family that tweeted something racist and i...

Im younger than her. i came from a small town in iowa, like a working class town. and she was so liberal and a feminist and a mother. and i had never met anybody -- i never heard her say anything racist. people of color, i never heard that term. trust me, my next door neighbors dog was named the n word. thats where i grew up. like i said, you could see some people. there were people in my family that tweeted something racist and i said, yeah, thats -- i get that. so it is shocking that her mind ...

Harshest critics of the president, has urged him to resign over those allegations of sexual misconduct. his campaign issued a statement that set apart this election will be a choice for a candidate that fights for interests that stack the deck against them. to protect social security, medicare and medicaid and a candidate who has spent years to undermine, privatize or/those programs. it will be a choice between a candidate who stands up to president trump when is wrong and a candidate who believ...