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Murder rate last year was the highest it's been since 2012. the black/white student achievement. gap has been widening. last year black unemployment in louisiana was double digits. a statue of jefferson davis coming down is not going to solve any of those problems, so i'm kind of wondering why they're so focused on things like this. paul: jason, thank you. joe. >> paul, a miss to the department of homeland security which is probably going to expand its laptop ban to flights from europe as well as the middle east. if the risk is that a laptop can be used to conceal a bomb or detonate a bomb, th...

Murder rate last year was the highest it's been since 2012. the black/white student achievement. gap has been widening. last year black unemployment in louisiana was double digits. a statue of jefferson davis coming down is not going to solve any of those problems, so i'm kind of wondering why they're so focused on things like this. paul: jason, thank you. joe. >> paul, a miss to the department of homeland security which is probably going to expand its laptop ban to flights from europe as well as the middle east. if the risk is that a laptop can be used to conceal a bomb or detonate a bomb, th...

If you are part of u.s. troops on the ground in either iraq or syria, you have to rely on locals in those countries in order to be able to advance u.s. interests in the fight against isis. how do you think those locals are going to react when they discover that if they're facing any kind of threat, they will not necessarily be admitted into the united states as a result of that. furthermore what do you think the reaction is going to be of our allies in response to this kind of draconian measure. i believe today, the iraqi parliament passed a law essentially not allowing u.s. contractors and u....

Argues that really measures like this are not done to address actual genuine risks to american security, but rather done to allay wildly overhyped fears with respect to what foreigners might be intending to do. some people argue that a lot of what you see in terms of airport screening consists of security theater because there is not necessarily a ton of evidence that tsa protocols necessarily caught a lot of actual terrorists trying to get into airplanes. but that is -- that makes a much more sense than the executive order that was implemented on friday. there is no evidence that -- no one fr...

Part of what you're seeing coming out of new york, los angeles, other cities. isn't so much well, we know something bad is going to happen. we know there's a specific threat. this large police presence is what we call, i don't mean this as criticism, security theater. a lot of it is to put a big show of force, so that people feel secure. and i do believe that that's very important, because then people are willing to live their lives, enjoy tonight. and enjoy reveling. otherwise, look, this won't end. this is what i have to refined people. at what stage are you going to feel comfortable going o...