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That's critically important, particularly when you're a leader. >> quick point about republicanism. here's the thing. we're being whip sawed partly because president trump is a republican president who campaigned to working class black people and to working class white people in a way that republicans haven't campaigned before. he didn't say pull up your boot straps and work for opportunity in this country. he said for two years i'm going to take care of you. i'm going to pump billions into rural areas and inner cities. that's a different way of campaigning. and it's part of the tension betwee...

Struggling in the midst of a recession, bankruptcy. many of the critics of oscar lopez rivera being here today are also pointing out that it's taking away attention from a u.s. territory that is struggling like it has never seen before, and they say that's not helping anybody. so that's also part of the criticism today, and you had also mentioned today a vote, people in puerto rico casting a symbolic vote as to whether or not they want to remain a u.s. territory, a state or become independent, something that oscar lopez rivera has been fighting for his entire life. leland: yeah. that vote non-...

Really? people in that room who have been working for women's issues all their lives who themselves had probably to yank themselves up by their boot straps, enter the fray only to have a series of inequalities thrown at them totally related. this is a major thing that as you know, again, for the health of our societies, for the health of gdp, for the health of peace and security you have to bring gender equity to play in an absolute way. she's going to speak to world leaders, she will do the commencement the end of the month and this is where people say she launched her political career as the...

Sick or they're a student. >> exactly. the optics for the whole thing for the state of kentucky it's just horrible. we always have to remember that we don't like to pigeonhole any group of people into making them into a negative stereotype. what this does, this perpetuates the whole adage that poor people need to pull themselves up by their boot straps. the reason why they're requiring this type of medicaid is because they're lazy and they don't work. that's not true. i take care of a huge medicaid population in the state of louisiana. when you look at louisiana, kentucky, these people work ev...

No matter how you cut the american dream or describe the american dream whether it's life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness or a car, job and degree, it's now become easier in canada. there's some obvious reasons. the health care system for one. we don't have people going bankrupt because of health care costs. poor parts continue to thrive. access to education is easier. . there are cheaper degrees. we don't have the student loan problem that you have in the united states. but we seem to be muddling through and doing better. >> one of the things you don't talk as much about here but i'm su...