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estimate income, college, and other characteristics. the conclusion that drove the headlines was theis. for the poor, the best ticket out of poverty is having wealthy friends. it's called economic connectedness. the more connections between the rich and the poor, the better the neighborhood was, at lifting children out of poverty. the new date to provided validation to the long-standing work of robert putnam, who in 2000, published a book called bowling alone, the collapse and revival of american community, which dealt with declining social capital. on my program this week, he told me this -- >> what is keeping kids from moving up, is the increasing requirety, with which poor kids or poor cadults talk to rich adults. our society is becoming segr
them. it remains a real threat to our national security. and our first requirety is to protect the united states. >> by the way we expect the white house daily briefing to begin at any moment. we will go there live. when we come back we'll talk with john bolten. former national security advisor to donald trump. i had to retire from law enforcement. it was devastating. one of my medications is three thousand dollars per month. prescription drugs do not work if you cannot afford them. aarp is fighting for americans like larry, and we won't stop. that's why we're calling on congress to let medicare negotiate lower prescription drug prices.
doug, you said the only thing worse than pulling a bill is having it go down in the vote. >> yeah. this may be a brave new world we're in with donald trump as president because it's the only new dynamic of what we've seen. i worked in the house republican leadership for two and a half years. what we saw time and time again, bring up a bill on something controversy or a must pass bill, say the bush tax cuts expiring, shutting down the government, opening the government. the time dana bash calls and you don't answer because you don't have a good answer. this is where republicans are and where we've been for years. we have pendulum politics of where we bring something up that we consider a real requirety for republicans and we have to go to the right to get the freedom caucus. we lose folks in the moderate. so we swing back and forth and our members aren't happy. they don't have a direction forward, and if donald trump can't bring this home as the one dynamic we see that's different from what we've seen over the past six years, it sends
bin laden, but they were at war with other foes. they used them as a threat to hang out there when they needed to pump up the budget. truth be told, they diminish the resources down and closed down the hunt for bin laden except for a very small priority. president obama came in and made it a requirety. it's not just killing bin laden, but obama reversed the flow to catching and killing hem and realized there was no way to get out of afganistan without killing bin laden. >> the fact that you say, and rightfully so, there was some even in the president oes own administration that was not sir or was opposed to the attack really is what i'm addressing when mitt romney says today, any president, even jimmy carter would do it.