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Kate's law, sanctuary cities. >> bill: how could you grade the president? >> i think he is doing fine. i think the key is don't get distracted. i'm not saying he is distracted. what we are doing in congress ♪ getting distracted by different i. we are focused on doing our jobs. most of the media want to focus on investigations. those are important and getting done. they don't incapacitate us. brian: do you have a letter grade for president trump. >> i don't do letter grades u what matters at the end of the day did we do our jobs or not? brian: right. >> we are making good progress on these th...

Backlash from the nra still a fear for them? >> it absolutely is. and the bill you're referring to is the bill that passed the senate, but would never, you know, make it in the house of representatives. so you are right. you know, the nra gives all of us letter grades and those letter grades have impact in our elections. so for example, for every year i have gotten an "f" which means that the nra would never contribute money to my campaign nor would i accept it. so my democratic candidates in swing districts are afraid as well, but you know what, in my opinion, i don't think the nra represents...

Is out with its state transparency and accountability report and they issued some letter grades. not a lot of integrity to go around. 11 states received an f rating. 16 received a d minus. alaska got the highest mark. ready for this? a c! as for the why, the cpi ranked states in 13 categories, everything from public access to information, lobbying disclo disclosure, judicial accountability, the mechanisms government has to root out corruption and be transparent with the public. corruption complaints are plenty heard on in washington, but apparently they thrive at the state level too. c is the ...

And $5,000 to quit. policy was initially started by another online retailer, zappos. remember, zappos was bought by amazon in 2009. the theory is, if you're not happy enough at amazon to pass up that money, you're not going to be a productive employee for the company. if you're not happy, they don't want you to stick around because you need your paycheck. they want to give you a little something so that you can move along. >> it's like the unhappiness bonus there. all right, 20 minutes after the hour. new information revealed on what may have happened inside the cockpit of flight 370 just be...

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