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It. >> arlington national cemetery was initially established during the civil war when a union general began burying on what was general robert e lee's family plantation overlooking washington, d.c. >> the hun country worth fighting for indeed. defense secretary james mattis gave a sense of what it means to be buried at arlington today with a quote from robert louis stevenson. >> under the wide and starry sky, dig the grave and let me live. glad did i live and gladly die and i laid me down with a will. >> but with arlington national cemetery running out of room, the nation must now decide whet...

Their combined until illness and drug addiction instead of throwing them in cages. we really have to shift the conversation. we really have to help people because we are looking in the wrong place and stopping the wrong -- >> kimberly: do -- dual diagnosis. see 615 years ago these drug companies told congress that pills were not addictive. congress fast-track the approval process and you have distributors pumping pills into mining towns, into towns in the industrial midwest for people do backbreaking labor and get paid minimum wage. into towns where people have come back from iraq and afghanis...

Who in the democratic party are going to speak to these people and say "we harper you, the democratic party hears you and here's what we have to do for midterm elections or four years or here's how we have to work with president trump? who does that now? >> we shall see. i'm watching this, i'm proud of free speech in my country, i'm worried it might get out of hand. i'm ashamed that i and my cohorts failed these young people. but if the democratic party is not their voice and the voice of laid-off middle age white guys in mining towns and mill towns and manufacturing towns, what the hell use a...

That part of the country? >> it was kind of wonderful. it was hard to see, because it is a state that used to thrive a lot on coal mining. when that disappeared, you know, it really killed the economy of so many of these small towns that were mining towns. it was wonderful to see people doing what they had to be doing and teachers doing amazing things, kids not having enough to eat. teachers are going out and going above and beyond to take care of the kids. i mean, it was heaven. it was an eye-opening experience. >> a star-studded cast? >> yes, yes. >> what was that like, because not only a st...

>> a tough sell. >> get ready, we're going off to the races. >> we've started working our way through the cnn 100. this year's 100's most crackling congressional races. maybe because of a vulnerable incumbent or perhaps because those races are in important bellweather districts. we want to turn them into people and places you'll care about. off to the races here in arizona. its first congressional district. it's huge. deserts, mountains, ranches and mining towns. it includes the navajo nation, the university, city of flagstaff, and the new-age s sedona. ann kirkpatrick made the jump to congres...