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Willing to give credibility to a brutal murdering foreign dictator in order to score a temporary political point against an opponent at home. i think this is something that's actually going to last. and we will hear about it in the general election of 2020. >> just on a substantiative point, can we draw for a moment on the idea that kim jong-un and donald trump are the people who are going to decide who has and who doesn't have high iq? >> yeah. >> i'm not going to touch that one. but i do want to bring up, mary katherine, in all seriousness, i want to go back to one point, which is just piggy...

70 odd million people live there. none of them are anything but hard liners. we have an iranian-american producer on our staff who heard him say that in the debate and she turned around and said i'm going to have to call my family in iran and let them know that they are either hard liners or they are dead. they are going to be upset to hear that. while lindsey graham was fumbling over his words, he was on his way to trying to make a substantiative point. he said tonight in this debate that not only does he think there should be u.s. troops on the ground in iraq and syria indefinitely not only ...

a commuter airliner and two other planes dangerously close to one another. it happened at washington's reagan national airport. and in an extraordinary move, the faa administrator and the transportation secretary came out today to talk about what happened. our brian todd is at the airport. brian. >> reporter: yeah, candy. extraordinary because for the first time we're getting the hard information from america's two top transportation officials that this was really too close a call. they came out in a hastily called news conference to say, yes, it was too close a call. another part of...

Next week. what do you make of that, as a strategy, by the democrats? >> i think it's incredibly smart strategy for two reasons. one is, you have to highlight this. you have to make them look like hypocrites. you have to hammer it home to people that they are lying to you. when they rail against the stimulus, they are lying. they know it works. but the more important point is that it's able under this political rubric to smuggle in an incredibly important substantiative point, which is the stimulus is working. it wasn't large enough, by any means, and we know that, but there's no way to look a...

People that they are lying to you. when they rail against the stimulus, they are lying. they know it works. but the more important point is that it's able under this political rubric to smuggle in an incredibly important substantiative point, which is the stimulus is working. it wasn't large enough, by any means, and we know that, but there's no way to look at the macroeconomic data and conclude anything other than that it has helped. it has lowered the unemployment rate, increased gdp growth, and showing that they themselves are doling out the checks, they know that. if it wasn't working, why...