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you're pretty much working overtime every day. thank you. >> thank you for being here on "ac360." i will turn it over to chris cuomo for "cuomo prime time." all yours. >> the mystery is what will take for someone to beat the pr president. best to you and your family. i am chris cuomo. welcome to primetime. we have new video of navy seals who turned in their own platoon leader. we'll assiess what does it tell us not so much about the case but the politics around it. the president's choice specifically. this is our last show of the year. in fact, it's the last show of the decade. be on the lookout for a special 2020 bolo ahead. and a warning about resolutions. what do you say, let's get after it.
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>> these are interview obtained by the "new york times" of alpha platoon seal team 7 members, breaking an unwritten code of silence in 2018 by taking on their chief of their platoon, who was eventually tried for war crimes. here's a taste. >> he's a psychopath. the guy got crazier and crazier. >> the guy is toxic. >> we can't let this continue. >> that's friggin' evil, man. >> these are not from now, not sworn, not cross-examined. nerp they were an early part of the investigation. mr. gallagher was acquitted of war crimes, including killing an isis prisoner. he was only acquitted for posing for photos with a dead body. that's when the president intervened. why? he reversed the demotion and let
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gallagher retire honorably. navy secretary richard spence are strongly objected. some say it cost him his job but it did not silence him. he wrote in the "washington post" this president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices now, gallagher responded to news of the release of the tapes. quote, my first reaction to seeing the videos was surprise and disgust that they would make up blatant lies about me. i quickly realized they were scared the truth would come out of how cowardly they acted on deployment. i knew their lies would never hold up under real questions. the jury would see it. gallagher recently photographed with the president at mar-a-lago. gallagher didn't do what he did
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for political reasons, as far as we know but he has become a political chess piece. let's bring in james spider marks and a policy researcher at rand corporation. thank you both. spider, as always, thank you for being of such use to my audience all year long. >> thank you, chris. >> you are a gift. i welcome you in in you year. phillip, you're new, thank you for being my guest. in terms of context, what do they raise as you for issues spider? >> the big thing is this really del strai demonstrates a break in terms of the cohesion, specifically within this team. i don't know that i can extr extrapolate and say the seals have a challenge. let'sin fra ibe frank, the seal
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had a challenge for 18 years. you have these pressures on these teams but when you look at that video, i have to assume that our priority any mission, there were conversations that say we have some challenges, let's follow those. if they didn't have those conversations, you have more than just a fractured cohesion within that team, you've got a real breakdown in terms of leadership challenges and again, as i said, i can't extrapolate out to the force but this needs to be addressed. >> to keep it specific, phillip, you know, we're not used to hearing seal team members talk about one another this way. we're not used to hearing them challenged as to being cowardly. of course this was a piece of litigation. the lawyers avenue ' response wy
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obvious, said look, these aren't sworn, these are of known meaning. what's your take in. >> we don't often see the inside of a seal room. this is the inside of a dysfunctional seal team's room. it shows the breakdown of unit cohesion. we should take these videos seriously because the seals would have faced pretty serious repercussions had they lied to ncis investigators here. they may not have been formally sworn or under oath but these seals weren't cavalier live making these statements. you can imagine what it takes for such professionals to get to the breaking point where they're going to go -- seven of them are going to go to ncis and tell them these kinds of things about their chief. >> then it becomes political. so gallagher is acquitted. he is found guilty of taking the photo in front of the dead body. they want to demote him.
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the president says no. what did you make of that decision then and what do you make of it now, spider, in terms of what may have motivated, why it was right or wrong? >> we're talking about this now, chris, and we've taken our eye off the other 8,000 plus soldier airmen that are in afghanistan. the president got involved way too soon. he could have waited for this thing to entirely wrap itself up, tied with ribbon, gone legally through the entire ucmj process and the administrator process, could have been presented to the sec-def, the secretary of the navy. he clearly has the authority to do that. the president is cloaked in immense power, we know that, but that kind of got this thing spinning. and then the secretary of the navy ended up having to resign
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because he was trying to walk a line between what i would call honor to the navy and also trying to honor of the direction of the president. he didn't make that happen. >> we can assume it was not a co incident that mr. gallagher wound up in a photo-op at mar-a-lago with the president. there is obviously some thinking that helping this man, mr. gallagher, the platoon chief, is of some benefit to the president. there's no reason for him to have been invested. what do you think was the political plus/minus for the president? >> it hard to judge other than i think what you said. but it is more broadly about the civil military relationship between the president and the military. and what do we want that to be? in this case you had the reportedly the secretary of the navy, the chairman of the joint chiefs, the secretary of defense and the secretary of state of
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the army in other cases recommending one thing and the president did another. now, that's clearly his constitutional prerogative, but just because you can doesn't mean you should. one has to wonder how fractured that civil military relationship is now going forward on afghanistan, on russia, on the budget and everything else that comes through the oval office. >> and is it a nod to the president endorsing harshness, even if it is just about the photograph. we have rules. i know people will debate this over war is war, but, you know, americans try to do things differently. is this a nod that maybe not anymore. now, spider, to your point about we're talking about this, not other things. i wanted to get your take on a situation that i believe we've ignored at the peril of too many. 235,000 people, the latest count of the number displaced result of an escalation of violence in the last two weeks in northwest
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syria. the military and defenders of the president say we were never there. this has nothing to do with our decision to leave, the united states. what's your take? >> we were the sinu that held all those loose parts together in terms of o you are relationship with the kurds. you can be very agnostic and say, look, the turks are our ally through nato, we've got a longstanding relationship with them that dates back to the early 50s, albeit a troubled relationship in many cases. the kurds, that was a marriage of convenience. what we didn't do was establish what the pre-nup was going to look like before that marriage and we ended it and didn't give them any opportunity to better position themselves and get ready for this. so the fact that we've had that type of displacement, the main thing in my mind is turkey now is taking advantage of this vacuum and created a buffer zone. independent n i'm not a lawyer but you are don't create a buffer zone
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unless there's an understanding on both side that a buffer exists. this is sovereign land, although syria is a pretty screwed up place, but now this strip of land so erdogan can displace -- >> it not 23 or 2,300. it's 235,000 people, ambassador you guys know much better. the conditions are not great too th time of year, the services and the safety is not going to be great. we got to watch it. i hope that we have you back soon. thank you to both of you. >> one topic of frustration for many of you is that the two political parties are reading from the same script with it cops to impeachment. they just changed roles when it comes from clinton's impeachment
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this president's christmas message calling for more christ-like behavior aside, he continues railing against speaker of the house nancy pelosi. in one of his latest offering, so interesting to see nancy pelosi demanding fairness when she provided over the most unfair hearing in the history of the united states congress. as we say often on this show, just because the president says it a lot does not make it true. in fact, this statement has never been close to true. the procedures in this situation are those echoed from the clinton situation. the obvious difference is that
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the house did the investigating here and not a special secret counsel like ken star or the politics in nixon. let's bring in democrat being congressman lloyd dogget here. get to your family for the holidays, the holy day and the new year. >> and to you, chris. good to be with you on this final show of the decade. >> that's right of the decade. sounds so big. so the idea of the state of play, the idea that nancy pelosi is negotiating with mcconnell over the rules of the senate trial, is that true to your understanding? >> well, i think what she has done is to take a little time to thoroughly look at this and to recognize what mr. mcconnell said. each of these senators takes an oath. they raise their hand and swear
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that they will do impartial justice in accordance with the tu constitution. and mr. mcconnell has said instead of that he'll do a coverup in accordance with trump. and in view of that, the house as the sole authority for impeachment has every right to take its time in forwarding these articles to the senate in an effort to try to ensure that precedent is followed, that witnesses are called and that there is an impartial justice that is done there. >> one of the reasons we pleaded with you to come on the show, you also were a judge. you were a judge in a texas supreme court. of koushs it plcourse it's a po proce process, not a judicial process. there are two salvos being used again yours side in the
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legitimacy of fairness. one is from senator schumer from back with the last iteration of impeachments with clinton. it's making the rounds. >> the republicans said proudly, quote, i'm not an impartial juror. independent not i'm not impartial about this at all. >> anybody taking an oat tomorrow with have a preopinion. it not a jury box. >> this is not a criminal trial. this is something that was put in that is susceptible to the whims of politics. >> people are saying this to say, see, it's all the same. democrats are saying impeachment is so bad, now it's okay. impartiality was bad, now it okay or vice versa. what's your response? >> i think there are inconsistencies on both side but it important to look at the
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precedent set by the clinton trial. republican majorities leader lott and minority leader daschle agreed on the process by which the senate would proceed. it was approved unanimously with the senate, not with republicans saying we'll have it all our way. second and even more important is the fact that witnesses were summoned. not the 40 witnesses that testified in the impeachment trial of andrew johnson and three witnesses and senator lott said he wanted is it done by deposition rather than live testimony. those are the precedents i think are really significant here. certainly these senators will come with their own views. >> right. >> but it critical that they comply with the oath and attempt to engage in impassion justice and they cannot do that if this is the first trial in american history of impeachment where there are no witnesses even summoned. one wonders what is the purpose of the gathering perhaps just to
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hear another round of inconsistent speeches. you would think that this president, if he really made a perfect call, would want people -- all the president's men to come there and testify about the level of his perfection. >> that is the weakness of the argument, which is if everything was good and everybody can defend him and excuse and exonerate him, why is he keeping them from testifying? then we bounce back to the idea of what is being asked for versus what is being offered on the democrats. so you brought up the issue of witnesses. it the perfect pivot. former v.p. joe biden now running for the democratic nomination in 2020 for president, he was asked about what if you're called? that's one of the horse trading arguments here. the democrats are going to have to give if they want to get anybody, they don't have the numbers. here's what he said. >> reporter: do you stand by your earlier statements that you
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wouldn't comply if you were called to testify at an impeachment trial? >> correct. and the reason i wouldn't is because it's all designed to deal with trump doing what he's done his whole life, trying to take the focus off him. the grounds for them to call me would be overwhelmingly specious. let's say i voluntarily just said let me go make my case. what are you going to cover? you guys are going to cover for three weeks anything i said. and these going to get away. >> first, your honor, the idea of what joe biden is arguing here is exactly what you just impeached the president for, his feelings about the subpoena process and congressional oversight made him feel like not complying because he didn't like what you were asking. how is it any different than what joe biden is saying? >> well, it significantly different. first, i think that joe biden or anyone else would be subject to
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subpoena power and could be compelled to come to this proceeding, but there's nothing that joe biden or any of the other witnesses republicans have talked about have to say about what the president is being impeached for. the only purpose of bringing them is for distraction urged by the master of distraction donald trump. >> but why? if argument is you can't say the president had corrupt inintent, some kind of malice of forethought, he didn't have it. he has a legitimate believe that ukraine and the servers raises issues so we want to put on testimony to prove there's something there. >> i think the president's corrupt was shown by his conduct. it was not just one phone call. we do know from one of the documents that has been discovered that they begin their action to terminate aid within an hour and a half of the phone
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conversation but this was a pattern of conduct, perhaps as your earlier shows have demonstrated, perhaps over two presidencies in the ukraine. so we have plenty of evidence of this pattern of conduct and of his intent and his desire to do me a favor, though. there's no need and no justification for calling joe biden or any of the other witnesses that have been discussed, but they're all subject to subpoena. so that would be up to the senate. better to have more witnesses than to have no witnesses. >> quickly, congressman, take off the judge hat and put back on the politician hat for a second. a state texas card player, would you give a biden to get a mulvaney? >> oh, i would not begin to engage in that kind of horse trading. i think that the senators will have an opportunity to consider the witness list. it strikes me as very -- a very
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poor trade in this regard to get the president's chief of staff to come out and tell what actually happened instead of to hide, in this case to hide behind the call for joe biden. >> the strong part of the argument they'll have to overcome, two things. mcconnell will have to explain how he can take the oath after what he said and, two, what does biden have to do with why he was impeached to the specific facts to the instance. but it is politics, it's not a court of law. congressman, thank you for arguing compellingly as always. appreciate it. >> thank you. happy new year, chris. >> happy new year. best for the new year. >> the presidential candidates are now fanned out in the early voting stage. remember what i keep telling you, everything starts when the voting starts. i know that sound silly but the whole narrative is going to change, by who does well there, who does better, does worse than expected. we probably have a ton of data
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to the point that they tell a story at all, harrye enten, how do we not know the state of iowa. >> there have been only two polls conducted in iowa. that's the fewest polls we've had at this point in the race since 2000. i think are two key reasons for that. number one, the cost of polls has been skyrocketing as news media budgets have been shrinking. number two, what's been the big news story over the last month? it's been piechimpeachment. you're not going to spend a ton of money on polls that you're not going to be discussing. >> those two reasons stink. let's try to find a third. what do we know about polls in iowa in general, that inform us about why you need to be careful about doing horse racing. >> this is important.
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this is one to two months before the iowa caucuses. i think this is the key point. the difference between where the person ended up winning, the polling -- >> the polls were off almost ten snounts. >> -- ten points? >> yes. look at this, 2004 and and the democrats, john kerrey was only at 18% and he ended up getting 38% in the iowa stay caucuses. in iowa caucus, the turnout model is particularly difficult. this may be one of those years. >> this should have been your first point but never mind. let's go to approvals. >> i just want to point out one thing in the state of iowa. >> harry does not like constructive criticism. >> i don't like criticism from you necessarily.
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here's the deal. in iowa, another reason why we don't know what's going on, look at how close these guys are the buttigieg 21, sanders 19, biden. a very tight race. >> one of the things to be concerned for buttigieg or warren fans, how do you read it into his stand beiing at 21 in . >> these two candidates have been switching the most. warren was up in iowa a few months ago and now she dropped all the way down to 15%. buttigieg was way down and now he's jumped up. with so few polling, it could be the case that buttigieg is lower or higher. we don't know with just two polls over the last month. >> you wanted to talk about unfavorables. >> i want to talk about jumping ahead to 2020 and in terms of looking where the president is going to be going in terms of
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his reelection campaign. i think this is rather important. we spoke a lot about the president's low approval ratings. generally speaking the year out it doesn't mean much. in the mid march before the election, that's when the approval ratings begin to mean something. the green is yes, they won the election. the black is, no, they didn't win. if you're polling at 47% or above, normally those people win reelection or win election in a few of the cases. if you're at 47% or below, ford, carter, bush, did not go on to win. >> he had the war and tax issue, johnson had civil strife like no one else. that was a momentum builder for the administration at that point in time. you don't have a huge stamample.
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>> i don't but where the president is polling in the low 40s, it's a bad sign. >> do you read more in approvals and how does that play into unfavorables? >> remember, dronald trump was not a popular guy in 2016 but hillary clinton was also not a popular candidate. he won by 17 points against the electorate who liked neither one of them. i also looked at the biden versus trump matchup in our latest polling. this is the key difference. remember, trump won those voters by 17 points to an unfavorable view of both candidates. biden is leading among those voters by 63 points. if the president has an approval rating in the low 40s and approval ratings are becoming more predictive as we head in the new year, can he win the people who don't like biden or
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trump because he's going to drive up biden's negatives. it will not be a repeat of 2016. >> if we had more appreciation for the president's sense of strategy, someone would think it exactly why he's attacking biden, he knows the vulnerability in this particular way with this particular person but sometimes we don't know why someone does anything. especially going into iowa, the unknown will take people by surprise. >> i want to wish you a happy new year. becoming a friend with you this year has been a highlight. >> i believe you said that on the morning show. >> no, i've known them long before that. i've only known you this year. >> you know, we share an office. it a who it's a whole thing going on. >> for a special bolo, what do
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2020 is going to be a huge year. so what are the main things to look out for that you may not be looking for? let's bring in the experts.
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to each and all the best for the new year. thank you for helping me out on the show. i appreciate it. so, charlie, let's start with you. your take is a brexit warning. >> it is indeed. how am i messing this up already? it says charlie goes first. i screwed it up. let's start over again. they'll never notice. >> waj, yours is the death rattle of white supremacy. how so? >> because we yolo, we have fomo. the death rattle has turned into a death march and we're talking about an ideology and system that says white men are superior and must be at the top. what we saw in 2016, every study has shown that the predominant factor for trump voters was not economic anxiety but racial
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anxiety, which was exploited by trump. what we see for 2020 is the mainstreaming and furtherization of white supremacist theories. we've seen this mean streaming by now right-wing politicians and fox news. this will increase. we already saw a republican legislator being accused of domestic terrorism in washington and finally we'll see the increase in white supremacist terror plots as christopher wrawra wray, trump's picked administrator talked about it. >> how are they worried about the death rat snl. >> the death rattle has caused a death march because of the ef man -- emancipation and people of color, it's a reaction.
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it's like we're seeing the reaction of more people of color and races. it will get toxic and more mainstream before it's finally put to bed. >> so it going to get worse before it gets better? >> it's going to get worse. >> this is part of the subject of the close, argument i have tonight, about what we learned about what is real in this country. not that it's a terrible country, it's the opposite of that but how you deal with your ills? insight. >> you have to name it, shame it and acknowledge it. pretending giving it terms of economic anxiety and pretending it not what it is is not going to help anybody. in the trump administration, this has become part of government policy as well. we know we have a rising domestic terror threat in the
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united states, but in 201 the department of homeland security shut down the division, the interagency task force dealing with interagency domestic terror networks, specifically right-wing extremism. the government is no longer targeting it this, i heard an fbi agency part of the challenge they're facing culturally is this don't feel comfortable going after people that might be in the president's base. >> so your point dovetails into this, meaning forced inequality. waterer so pregs that as we try to figure out whether or not you're going to vote for a bernie or a biden or a trump, we need to also make sure we can actually vote when we get to the polls. 17 million people were purged from vote or poll record in the last two years ago loan. georgia today announced 100,000 people would not be allowed back
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on. . florida where the entire state voted 1.5 million people who paid their debt to society, former felons, they wanted them to have the right to vote and the republican state legislator said we need to put other tree strikss on them. they sound like pom taxes, which is what it used to be in the civil right error but now they say you have to pay all of your fines. it's much more insidious. it tends to focus on areas that are democratic, that are minority and it puts restrictions on voting that frankly we haven't seen since the 1960s. >> some of this, especially when we talk about gerrymandering and voter i.d.s and what's misunderstand about that, there's an argument that goes back and for the. felons voting, not soies ooe an argument. we saw bernie sanders say. if you're in jail for the worst
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things, you're either for it or you're not. how do you focus on what means without getting no into the realm where people will look pack. >> voting is a fundal right of voting. that is the way you get to determine who represents you in your government. second, the people of flchlt, they said this is how they want their state to be construct nd the the legislator tried to override the will of the people. people need to mobilize and activate and if nothing else, check your registration and make sure you're still able to vote. >> charlie, why should the people here in the u.s. thinking about brexit at all? >> boris johnson came out with a pretty simple expression, get it
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done, get brexit done, donald trump says keep america great. there's a lesson for the democratic party, a revolutionary candidate, and in jeremy corbin, some would call it marxist and it's not what if your goal is to defeat donald trump. a lot of americans don't want to replace a right wing, culturally based populism with an angry left wing based populism. i think voters are much more interested in incremental change. there are more measured statements. think country i think does better that way rather than a revolutionary movement. >> i hear you on the hunger for normal. but trump is the one who is doing a lot of the baiting that you caution about in terms of playing with race, playing with divisions, playing with diversity.
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do you see that on the left or do you see that as a warning for him and his? >> well, look, for donald trump, he's simply going to say -- he won't say it himself but people who will support him will say he has many faults o i don't like but i can't point to warren or sanders' populism. this i tell you, it will make it easier for people to justify their votes for donald trump if they see an angry left wing if boris johnson actually runs on killing the national health care program of the u.k., he would lose. so something to think about. >> listen, you gave us all a lot to think about. thank you very much. waj, the best to you and the family. charlie, always a pleasure. best to all of you for the new year. . thank you for helping us on the
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show. >> all right. this is the time of year we make resolutions. i'm not a fan. i argue that you have to be careful about making the mistake that i hear a lot of us about to make. all right? it's the last argument of the decade. next. but in my mind i'm still 25. that's why i take osteo bi-flex, to keep me moving the way i was made to. it nourishes and strengthens my joints for the long term. osteo bi-flex - now in triple strength plus magnesium.
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often instructive. so we ignore them at our own peril. and if the goal is to get better, then you got to get square with the past. like what? all right. some of you on the left, including on tv, assumed way too much would come of the mueller probe. now congress isn't really even including all they argued was impeachable during that probe. why? don't wish it away. don't pretend it didn't happen. learn from it. so what do we see with impeachment? it's gone differently. however, there's a lot more information that points to the president, but the lesson of the importance of bipartisan buy-in, has that been learned? not a single goper crossed the line to vote for either article of impeachment. i know you can put it on the republicans if you want, this odd cohesion to this president. but you can't just wish the whole situation away because you have to look for ways to create some semblance of bipartisanship in the senate. otherwise, you're just going to
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prepare for more of the same of what you saw in the house. do you want that? another low that you should not lose in the new year. >> we can't you. our country is full. our area is full. the sector is full. can't take you anymore. i'm sorry. >> first, we know trump wasn't sorry because he was in favor of the harshness in words and in actions where immigrants are concerned. he misled you about only limiting illegal immigration. he took legal immigration levels back to what we felt was a bygone era. but we were able to counter his false information. we were able to expose what i call the brown menace b.s., what they were going to do, who would come here, what would happen. what they did to kids by choice. because we exposed it, because we dealt with it, a lot of it had to stop. so don't wish that away, or it's going to happen again. keep the frustrating realities
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fresh, or they will come again when the hiring season comes again. how do we know? because of guys like this, steve king. he told "the new york times" in january, white nationalist, white supremacist, western civilization. how did that language become offensive? then he said we got him wrong. then he called himself an american nationalist. the gop stripped him of committee seats, but the president said nothing. he knows king. he may have gotten some of his rhetoric for certain parts of his base from king. so as painful as it is to hear this trash offered as truth, don't wish it away. don't pretend it didn't happen. the point is not that bad things are actually good. i don't even believe in that. test faith to be honest. but it defies reason when we see things like hurricane dorian. it bothers us. remember that, 70 people killed in the bahamas? what good is there from this? this is unmitigated tragedy. so many are still missing,
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billions in damage. life is nowhere near back to normal. but as we heard from many down there, those who survived, they were thankful at least for that. and many here who never felt connected to people there gave and gave. they're traveling there this holiday season if they can to feed that economy. there is a gift in that, not in the storm, no tt in the hardshi but in what we did after it. it reminds me of this kid i love so much. i miss him so much. matty step annek. he wrote with such poignance after 9/11. we must remember to play after every storm. that means we have to use tragedy as a reminder of the must of relishing life when you can, the ability to go on, appreciate what we have. but then my argument's going to take a hit because the idea that hardship can birth heroics and change, that we can live and learn, it's defied by the plague of mass shootings in this country. 22 killed in el paso.
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more than two dozen injured by a hateful man with access to weapons. now, that community there, el paso, wowed me. their ability to come together and to reach out after being targeted themselves. you know, this woman gave me a phrase there -- nos reteniamos mucho. we hold each other a lot when there's trouble. we hold each other. she gave me that stone. when times are tough, you hold on. you remember the connection. but do we learn from it? da dayton, ohio, nine kills. new zealand, 51 killed. two islamic houses of worship, another 49 injured. as of last week, officials there had collected about 56,000 firearms as part of a gun buyback program. not here. not even a dialogue really. the stories blend together, these shootings. be honest. the sickness of the sameness,
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it's never been met with a real response, even a dialogue. look, i pray we can get to a better place. but the stubbornness of the resistance, this false standard that they use with only mass shootings. think about it. if you can't name one thing that will stop them all, then do nothing. and yet i cling to the need to remember, to not wish away even the worst that you experience. and this isn't just advice. this isn't even professional. for me, it's profoundly personal. i fight with more than i can express when it comes to this. every new year is as much a marker of who and what is gone as it is about what's to come in the year. this year is five years that my pop left this earth, and i thought that bought i've been around so much death, so much loss, i've seen so many cope with so much, that i got what this was about. and he had a good life, and we were great to have him in our family. but i was wrong, and i learned the lesson that you don't really become an adult until you lose a
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parent. i cling to memories now of my father, what he said when he was angry, you know, what he wrote, how he corrected me. i stare at pictures trying to find that connection, desperate for his counsel and even his corrections. but it's not there, and yet the loss has made me hone in on what my father taught me like i never could or at least never did when he was alive. so for 2020, i wish you all the best and only the best. i thank you again for the gift of your attention and allowing us to report for you and to you. and i wish that you'll remember the bad along with the good because that is the way to make sure this year will be better than the last. all right? that's the argument. thank you for watching. now, cnn's special report "all the president's lies" airs next. 15 hours long. cold. it's not just a cold if you have high blood pressure. most cold medicines may raise blood pressure.
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