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This is a trend. we won state special elections earlier this year, kentucky, wisconsin, new hampshire. >> the party has done better on the stateside. that's important. those losses on the democratic level all across the country led to redistricting efforts that made it harder for you guys to win congressional seats. that was a problem that was realized. now we'll see if you can remedy it. let's take one step backwards. what was the calculation that led to the party identifying this seat as one you could win despite the 20-point lead by trump over? >> one of the top lessons i've learned over th...

"gps" with condoleezza rice. condi, the most famous statement i would say that president bush made about foreign policy was his second inaugural. this clarion call to spread democracy around the world. it almost sounded like the truman doctrine, and it was the united states is going to support all these efforts everywhere. many people saw you as being a guiding hand behind it. the trump administration seems to have premised its foreign policy on exactly the opposite view. it's a fool's errand, we should never have been involved in it, we should be much more self-interested in a narrow way. do ...

Everywhere. many people saw you as being a guiding hand behind it. the trump administration seems to have premised its foreign policy on exactly the opposite view. it's a fool's errand, we should never have been involved in it, we should be much more self-interested in a narrow way. do you think the country has rejected that view? >> well, i do know that people see it as hard to support democracy. i don't much like the term democracy promotion. it suggests somehow that we're promoting something people don't want. i can't believe there are people in the world who would rather live in tyranny, w...

That is extremely personal. if he were to do that, everybody would know that he personally had done it. overruling the chief of staff. and they would know he had done it for the benefit of his son-in-law, despite significant security concerns among other people by. his national security adviser about his son-in-law's foreign contacts over financial issues. and i think the political -- potential for political blowback and political accountability is pretty acute. and he would certainly be well advised not to do that. saying that about the president is a bit of a fool's errand, but the proper an...

It only compounds the situation and makes it even more dangerous. >> you got to look at it from this perspective. when they are training on range, to your point the rounds aren't coming back at them. the average proficiency, maybe good shot in the 90 or 95 perce percentile. when people have rounds coming back at them. it drops down to 18%. that's one out of the of every five rounds may strike the target. the arming school teteacher sch is a fools errand. i think there's other more sensible solutions. there's a number of retired law enforcement officers that work in schools and teachers.