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It. if he wants the congress to fix it -- >> not by design. >> they did it. >> not with any -- [ overlapping voices ] >> two wrongs don't make a right. >> hold on. scale matters when you're dealing with humanity. this isn't an abacus. we're not talking about bean counting. when you don't have judges and you don't have accommodations, you knew what you were doing. you did it anyway. that's his problem. we see it in the polls. we'll see where it leads. rick santorum, appreciate it. nina turner, as always, thank you. north korea no longer a threat, so relax. that's what president trump told you...

Republicans control both houses of congress and the presidency and all of a sudden they want to make this the democrats' problem. the president started this zero tolerance policy, and he can fix it. if he wants the congress to fix it -- >> not by design. >> they did it. >> not with any -- [ overlapping voices ] >> two wrongs don't make a right. >> hold on. scale matters when you're dealing with humanity. this isn't an aba cuss. we're not talking about bean counting. when you don't have judges and you don't have accommodations, you knew what you were doing. you did it anyway. that's his problem...

Not affiliate with a religion while that number is much smaller for republicans, 13%. this country is also getting older with 50% of voters now over the age of 50. here democrats fall behind on this national trend, 42% of their voters are 50 or older. the gop, however, has grown older as the country has aged and they have grown older faster. 57% of republicans are over the age of 50. in short, democrats are mostly heading in the same direction as the country as a whole. that's why democrats are so bullish on the future and republicans are so nervous about their future, even as their hold on ol...

Veto that which to me is not only irresponsible it would be dangerous and you know you talk about sequester which was passed in 2011 but the threat level internally has changed dramatically and one of the things that sequester does it's bean counting. it's not strategic thinking. so for example, the dod gets cut at higher percentages than say the irs or the epa. i'm someone who believes in significantly increasing defense spending decreasing certainly epa or irs funding, but we need to get back to strategy not this bean counting that is undermining our national security. >> so what can you do ...

And we're here to help start yours. in today's three big headlines, bean counting. nancy cook who covers economic and domestic policy. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> what does the nation's unemployment picture look like at the state level? >> sure. they just came out this week. there was a lot of good news in there. unemployment dropped in 21 states. 2/3 of states saw job gains but you still have this huge disparate across the country. you have places like north dakota that have a 2.6 unemployment rate and then you have a place like rhode island which has been hard hit by...