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Not as if they were asking her a hard question, such as, you know, when the cleveland browns last win a playoff game, it was a core question about her core competency on an issue she cares a lot about. interesting she couldn't answer the very basic questions. and that leads me to think that there is something not well with the secretary of education in terms of how much she knows actually about the subject of education. >> do you have faith that she is the right person to lead this task force on school safety? >> i do not. and partly -- i'm not even sure why we need yet another task force. it ...

It is a district outside pittsburgh that trump won handedly. you have jeff of flake proposing a bill to nullify tariffs. that is a tough road to hoe. but this policy the president says, look, the markets won't adjust. washington needs to adjust. i'm going to look out for my base. but the if the repercussions undercut, if a trade war causes more pain for the people he is trying to help, which history says is likely, this is a cascading problem. >> look, he gets -- this is a longheld view that he's had. >> yeah. >> and i'm kind of over that. y he es, he did make this promise. but this is core co...

Policy decision that's going to affect municipalities. it comes down to training. i don't think it's a good idea. i do think that having individuals, law enforcement individuals at schools who are armed to protect children who that's their sole responsibility, i am for that. teachers, their core competency is children, not tactics. building defense and going after hostile intruders is a tough tactic. it's tough to train on that. law enforcement does it every single day. i don't think that teachers have the ability to bifurcate their teaching responsibilities with tactical responsibilities. so ...

Alisyn and john avlon and ron brownstein are with us. when people talk about fortifying schools, they're talking about armed guards. you have to be trained. you have to know how to use it under stress. these are not things they teach you when you are learning how to be a teacher. how do you think that solution goes over? >> not terribly well for the reasons you just laid out. >> we know the teachers union said no. and others said i don't want that responsibility. >> not only is it well outside their core competency. we will find money for them to be trained to use a weapon in a classroom full ...

In other words, we wanted less money in our paychecks. are you kidding me? this was what they were talking about. now ar got these companies every single day and a thousand, 2,000. to goes further than that here is where democrats really have a lot of problems. a lot of things on their so-called agenda, paid maternity leave, paid sick leave. a lot of these companies have done that they are stepping up and doing that because now instead of paying 30% more in taxes they are paying 19% some of these guys. todd: when we go out to diners and interview people one of the lines i have love hearing i h...