De Emphasis News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

it, with a republican primary dominated by an ex-president who has centered his candidacy around his legal woes, look no further. this morning donald trump, fresh off a decisive win in the iowa caucuses, was at a federal courthouse in manhattan as the defendant in a second defamation trial brought by the writer e. jean carroll. this time there's no question of whether trump defamed her. judge kaplan has ruled trump is liable for remarks he made in 2019 mocking carroll's claim that he sexually assaulted her in a chance encounter at a department store dressing room in the 1990s. and tr...

Caught my eye, the data shows that the young conservatives tend toward libertarianism on drugs and sex but share the same priorities on older individuals on fiscal. vice president pence alluded to that. look, donald trump is getting results on the economy and ma the make matters to people. >> his view has been on the foreign policy economic matters and a de-emphasis on the controversial divisive social issues. i think that's one of the reasons why he's going to continue to do well with all voters but especially young voters heading into 2020. when you look at young people and support of democr...

The question of soft power versus hard power, his current budget showing he has an emphasis on hard power and a de-emphasis of soft power. >> well, i think you raise a great point. i mean, the one thing that came out of this is the president expressed sympathy for folks in syria who are facing horrific circumstances. and i would hope he'd act on that by changing the refugee policy, the united states should welcome some of these refugees and fund humanitarian aid for countries who are taking in syrian refugees. he ought to be funding the united nations and state department that are engaged in h...

Who are there to protect and serve. if you talk to people who do police training in lethal force, they'll tell you for the large part, there's been a de-emphasis on de-escalation and conflict resolution and more emphasis on training with guns and training with tasers. so if you're putting all of your training, lethal force training on how to use the weapons and very, very little, if any, on how to resolve situations without using force, we shouldn't be surprised at what we're seeing. but it starts with policy. the curriculum needs to change. i think we need better policies. we can rail against...

But 40% of republican voters support marriage equality. the republican party is trending, albeit behind where the democratic party is. barack obama, of course, just a few short years ago was against marriage equality. opinions are changing very, very quickly on it. and there's going to be a de-emphasis on some of these issues, i suspect, with some of these candidates. >> msnbc contributor steve schmidt, great pleasure to have you on, man. hope i can have you back. >> you bet. good to be with you, chris. coming up, the story of a bank busted for enabling a mexican drug cartel. here's the ques...