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>> well i need to comment. apparently dr. carson is one federal felony conviction away from turning gay himself. it was actually staggering. >> if he goes in the slammer, he'll come out different. >> from a bigger picture perspective, by all means, today should have been the day that republicans around the country were unified in our message. we had a gift on a silver platter with hillary clinton using a personal e-mail address for government affairs. we have the supreme court case against obamacare subsidies. but dr. carson on the fringe right, says this absolutely ridiculous comment and puts...

Federal felony conviction away from turning gay himself. it was actually staggering. >> if he goes in the slammer, he'll come out different. >> from a bigger picture perspective, by all means, today should have been the day that republicans around the country were unified in our message. we had a gift on a silver platter with hillary clinton using a personal e-mail address for government affairs. we have the supreme court case against obamacare subsidies. but dr. carson, on the fringe right, says this absolutely ridiculous comment and puts all the republicans on the defensive. i hope that ther...

How many commercial flights are there around the world every day? 40,000 or so. and over the past 25 years, how many airplanes have gone missing? i can think of one. there are practical questions -- >> and we mentioned, there have been a fewer number of crashes this year than we've seen since 1927. so it is important to keep the bigger picture perspective. let's ask another question here. this is from john. he asks can pilots override traffic control amiss imminent danger? >> absolutely. in this particular circumstance the pilots were deviating around whether more than likely they would have u...

Loud effort by republicans to rename everything after reagan and turn ronald reagan into a saint. there's a reason they have to try so hard and the whole process has to be so overt. because the whole mt. reagan thing, and putting him on the dime, that was never going to happen on its own without someone really pushing for it. this is interesting, it's polling data from the gallup organization. and gallup keeps track of presidential approval ratings and they have for generations. presidential approval ratings mostly get attention at the moment when they are announced. when there are signs that ...

Numbers taken from a big picture perspective, they can actually give you a really interesting historical view about an empirically knowable question, whether or not presidents were liked. not after the fact, not because somebody lobbied you that a president was great in retrospect, but whether or not they were popular when they were president. whether or not people liked them when they served this office. here's the overall average approval ratings for presidents over the course of their whole presidencies. this is while they were in office. this is contemporaneous to the time that they were p...