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Greater wealth than the bottom half of humanity? if everybody else is making money more than they did last year and more than inflation, what's your long-term worry bay world that's going in this direction? >> well, there are two big, big problems. one problem is we lose democracy because with great wealth amassed at the top comes great political power and that political power -- basically, nobody else has heard and a lot of political scientists have already measured this already. and we can see we're losing democracy because big money is taking over. the second problem is that you don't have ...

2002. every week, this illegal heroin kills at least 300 americans and costs our nation over $230 billion to $289 billion or nearly $5 billion a week. i spoke with president xi of china and he has agreed to make fentanyl, another one of the big, big problems, and probably, i think it's just gone to number one, kills 80,000 people a year in our country, he's going to make that a major crime in china. and if you get caught, you pay a major penalty, it's called the death penalty. and it wasn't listed as a crime, until i spoke to him. so i appreciate president xi for doing that. that's going to ha...

That will be the end of you. >> as americans have a lot riding on this election, we face big challenges, big problems, big opportunities. >> among the first politicians affected by the new media coverage was arkansas governor bill clinton. shortly before declaring himself a candidate for president in 1988, clinton was pulled aside by an aide. >> betsy wright came to bill clinton right beforehand and gave him a list of women, women he purportedly had affairs with and there were stars or checks next to some names, because these were the ones that might go to press, these were the ones that may c...

Does it mean what we think it is, does it benefit the out party in almost all instances? >> actually, i don't think we can divine that much from the early voting data. what it shows is there's extraordinary historic interest in this midterm election, and that could mean a number of different things. what i keep coming back to is the fundamentals here. there are three big, big problems for republicans. the first is that trump's approval rating among women with college degrees is 27% in the most recent nbc/"wall street journal" poll. 70% disapprove. of course, 64% of men without college degrees ...

Where you are right now. take us through what that means in the low-lying areas like that. >> what that means, john, is where i'm standing right now will be under water later. we will be out of here soon after we do this shot because the weather is going to get worse. that's the problem. the water and the wind and the rain, the inland flooding, they are all huge threats and you can't run from the water. if this system continues to move towards the coastline that slows down even more, those flooding rains will create big, big problems. >> people were comparing this because of the water. what's ...