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Donald trump said individuals should be restricted from purchasing guns if they're a known enemy of state. chris christie said it should be a state by state decision of what's going on. >> if you remember after newtown we talked about this. we were talking about increased background checks and a terrorist was saying the great thing about attacking the united states was we could just go to gun shows and pick up all the guns without background checks. background checks for terrorist my trub brothers and sisters, let me say it again. background checks for terrorist and people on the terror watch ...

There are a lot of people in this country fighting to raise the federal minimum wage. carly fiorina is not one of them. here's the way the gop president candidate stands on the debate. >> i believe that minimum wage should be a state decision, not a federal decision. why? because it makes no sense to say that the minimum wage in new york city is the same as the minimum wage in mason city, iowa. we need to be honest about the consequences of raising a minimum wage too high. one of the consequences is that young people who are trapped in poor neighborhoods will have less opportunity to learn ski...

Not a federal decision. why? [ applause ] because it makes no sense to say that the minimum wage in new york city is the same as minimum wage in mason city, iowa. that makes no sense. secondly, we have to remember that a lot of minimum wage jobs are jobs where people start. and in those jobs they learn skills to move forward. we need to be honest about raising minimum wage too high. one of the consequences is young people trapped in poor neighborhoods will have less opportunity to learn skills and move forward. i started out as a s.e.c. their a nine-person real estate firm. my husband frank st...

Look -- it should be a state decision. >> it's all the federal -- it's the federal's rule and the federal's responsibility, which is shock, but we pushed it, and we pushed it hard, which is how we got the pipeline sewed down the first time, and then the republicans and our state violated our state constitution, which is why the route is now illegal and in the supreme court's hands. it's shocking that republicans are so hip critical and so two-faced essentially on this issue. this is a state rights issue. this is a property rights issue. >> we have environmentalists and tribes, and we'll contin...

Following, professional wedding photographer in new mexico is citing freedom of speech in asking the supreme court to strike down a state decision that forbid her business for refusing to perform work for same sex couples. she turned down a request to photograph a ceremony involving a lesbian couple, saying because of her religion she did not want to be involved in celebration of something she believed is wrong. the couple took her to court and the new mexico supreme court ruled that her refusal of services constitutes discrimination. but her attorney argued it violates her artistic expression...