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Unlearn when he gets older? >> but you know how this goes. the people who are close to you who you know you don't mistreat, but the people you don't know who are abstractions, those people you think negatively about. i can't with this story. i can't. >> you're speechless. this is a "cycle" first. >> and that was an adventure. speak of adventures, up next, abby travels to west virginia to understand one of washington's most unpredictable politicians, democrat joe manchin on the budget, guns, and his personal relationship with the president as we "cycle" on.

Are living there. is there anything we could do to help them? >> look, we are providing a lot of humanitarian assistance to the refugees. nobody should be under the opinion we are not doing anything. >> i don't mean food, clothing, i mean help so that they don't live in fear every night. >> my answer to that is no. and here's the reality. it is entirely possible that there are humanitarian tragedies all around the world that tug at our hearts, but that doesn't mean there is an american interest one way or another in resolving the conflict. we've got huge interests in the stake in the region as...

Land. i don't believe there is a way to fix this and to make it acceptable to the american people. >> reporter: officials said the house vote would achieve nothing. >> the congress passed the affordable care act. the supreme court unheld the act and we are implementing it. >> reporter: support for obamacare has remained fairly constant but a growing number of people are undecided about it. in october when uninsured people started rolling in the obamacare exchanges when they trade expensive insurance for much more affordable exchange coverage, republican attempts to roll back obamacare will not...

Remake other societies. really the primacy of local realities. the one lesson i took from vietnam from the first gulf war and from both iraq and afghanistan is local realities trump global abstractions. i think the first president bush understood that. the second president bush, look at his library. what he wants to do is talk about the spread of democracy and freedom around the world. i do not believe that can be at the core of american foreign policy. >> i'm interested to hear you use terms like return on investment around foreign policy. what kind of grade would you give hillary clinton's e...

State of the union. a number of undocumented immigrants will be invited guests. back in 2008 the list was really interesting. and it sort of was a flashback to what life was like back then. guests of laura bush included a mother from indiana who faced foreclosure on the family's home. that, of course, was the big crisis then. an army staff sergeant seriously wounded in iraq but now home. the mother of a cuban journalist who was held as a political prisoner, an emergency room nurse, an hiv positive mother from tanzania. the head of the university in afghanistan. a bunch of wounded warriors comm...