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t just got a little longer. >> a ruler loved by millions with a powerful army and the right family name. >> good luck finding him. ♪ >> a change in the republican debate rules means more candidates will get a chance to be heard on debate day. >> i'm by far number one. so i'm going to be there. >> you really think that crime gives you power? >> everybody else is sort of chasing trump. >> i tweeted that rick perry should have to have an iq test before the debate stage. >> the most to lose in the debate, i think it is a jump ball between marco rubio, ted cruz. >> when you are running for president all is fair in love and war. this is war. >> i think he's a very good guy huckabee by the way. >> aisle swim many my line. he can swim in his. >> if my message isn't getting across that is okay. that's all right.
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i'll go into the sunset. >> you play the game of throwns you win or your die. there is no middle ground. >> eight days to the first republican debates and those in the lower tier can relax, a little bit. debate host fox news has announced it will allow all lower tier candidates into the early evening forum, abandoning a requirement that would exclude those scoring 1% of higher. they will at least make the consolation event that also included santorum jindal and kasich. polling now at 2% kasich is the closest to making the big kids table. in the late entry to the race could feasibly give the boot to rick perry if he gains just two tenth os after percentage point in the next week. and from the sound of it kasich's team is preparing to take on donald trurp just in case. his strategist john weaver
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tweeted "image a nascar driver mentally preparing for a race knowing one of the drivers will be drunk." that is what prepping for this debate is like. chairman steele you are giggling. so i'll go to you first. newt gingrich was asked for debate prep tips and characterized donald trump said of him it is like dealing with nitroglycerin. so between a drunk race car driver and nitroglycerin what would your advice be to people who might share the stage with the donald? >> stay home. it's safer. look, you know, that is what you walk into. but you know to be honest you can walk into that in any debate debate. because you really don't know going in blind not having been up against any of these people before. one of the other candidates could have a moment where they just kind of take over and
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dominate. but trump certainly telegraphs that and gives you some sense how to prepare. and i don't think you prepare for that. i think you do your own game plan, stick to what you want to get across as your message. you have a limited amount of time. don't waste it in answering trump because all that does is elevate the opportunity for him to grab more time and more air out of the room. >> casey there is an emerging access in this republican race. and it is probably one that a lot of people did not think would happen. that is the access between mike huckabee and donald trump. trump was asked on fox last night to defend mike huckabee's remark that the iran deal is marching israelis to the door of the even and this is what he said. >> i'm okay with it. i think he's a very good guy, huckabee, by the way. and i'm really okay with it. i see some people are saying oh the tone and the -- i saw jeb bush who i think is also a nice
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person. but it is not about tone. i mean they are chopping off christian's heads in syria and lots of other places and we're worried about tone. i think what mike has done is he's hit a nerve and he's made people think a little bit. >> so i would imagine if i was going to be on the debate stage, something i will never be on clearly. >> i don't know alex you could declare you are running and -- >> [ inaudible ]. -- but in terms of the, you know, it is one thing to just have donald trump up there. it is another to have mike huckabee and donald trump joining forces, if you will. >> well to a certain extent the best way to get trump to go after you is to go after donald trump. and mike huckabee has not done that in a real way so far. you saw donald trump keep the gloves off scott walker until one of walker's fundraisers and i'm sure much to the chagrin of the walker campaign made the mistake of calling trump a dumb dumb in an e-mail.
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i will say to a certain extent mike huckabee's voters are people that if trump is going to be really serious about potentially winning in iowa those are people he has to go after and it doesn't do him any good by attacking huckabee. >> i want to talk about other people who will be sharing the stage and in particular a man who was the sort of headliner for a little while and seems to not be the headliner so much these days. which is to say rand paul. your headline in the post today reads the most interesting man in politics isn't drawing much interest in new hampshire. how rand paul's campaign right now? >> they are broadcasting no worry whatsoever which i -- [inaudible]. -- sort of adapting and taking on tasks that will not get lost
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in the trump haze. and i think in the debate his strategy, and i've been talking to him all week in the run up to this. i think he's going to try to find moments that rebertarian voter in the republican base why they liked his father in the first place. i was with paul monday when he talked to a bunch of veterans in the south carolina and the speech was entirely about why everyone else in the republican party wants to send people to war and get named for radical islam. i think he's going to try to find like that for himself. if you are getting 17% of the vote you are suddenly in position to win a state and he knows that. >> if you are not chain sawing the u.s. tax code or melting your cell phone, you have to distinguish yourself in some way. chris christie, also a republican in need of attention, said yesterday in new hampshire, if you are getting high in colorado today enjoy it. as of january 2017 i enforce the federal laws. my question 63% of millennial
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republicans chairman steele favor the legalization of marijuana. is this really the hill that chris christie wants to die on? >> i don't think so. i think a lot of conservatives use pot. i just don't -- [ laughter ] >> just people you know mr. steele? >> just some circles i've been in. you know i just don't see this as an issue that i would go charging up a hill over. besides, you are picking on another state. why do you want to do that? i think you will need colorado at some point in the process. i think everybody to your earlier point alex i think everybody is trying to find that sort of door that enters them into that -- on to that stage next week that they can begin to sort of broaden the national conversation on an issue. whether it is pot in colorado or the -- >> but who do you think chris christie is trying to reach on this sort of pot question? >> oh i think it is probably a lot of social conservatives. he's got -- he's looking at new
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hampshire. because this issue does not play that way in new hampshire for him. but it does in iowa. so he may have one eye looking at iowa or south carolina to figure where he would pull some votes and support. everybody is jockeying to see the message. this is all about message position. what is going to be the national conversation i want to engage in on the 7th of august? and that is the key thing i think you are hearing a lot of little trial balloons going up. some work and some don't. >> so chris christie's strategy in large part is predicated on doing well in new hampshire and as chairman steele announced -- announced. says is running on rolling back pot legalization measures may not play well in new hampshire. and then this is chris christie in iowa on saturday lashing out at a gun rights supporter who questioned his credentials as far as the second amendment is concerned. >> if you want to debate me come
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in the top 10 run for president and come to fox -- cleveland on august 6th. and i'm happy to debate you. but here is what you will have to do then and what you failed to do this morning, come up with one fact. [inaudible] no. no you didn't. one thing i've done and one thing i've done as governor of new jersey that's done anything anything. not to support the rights of illegal gun owners. >> that is the chris christie of old. that is his tactic right? he does this with reporters all the time. if there is something where maybe they have a point or there is a disagreement to be had christie has been the governor of new jersey. gun rights and the way people deal with gun rights in new jersey is entirely different than gun rights in iowa. and there are areas of his record that the nra is concerned about, for example. i think you saw him take this head on. as far as on the other point on drugs, i will say to christie's credit, and forgive me michael steele on this for the messaging
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aspect. i actually think this is authentic. he's a federal prosecutor. this is something he'sed worked on for many years. and he's always talked about. it is not something that is just coming up on out at blue for the debate. the language he used was particularly incendiary i guess, if you will. no pun intended but i do think this is something he cares about and is focused on. >> polling be damned. >> yes exactly. we've also talked about heroin as an epidemic. drugs as an epidemic. and that is an issue that people in new england are really grappling with right now. and we're not talking about it here day in and day out but it is definitely on the campaign trail. >> legitimate policy precipitations been offered. also i think this week is the spate or the last two weeks in the spate of the weirdest political campaign videos i've seen in a very long time including today's installment, ben carson has a new video with
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dr. ben carson playing the game operation. and just hours ago breaking news rick perry challenged donald trump to a pull up contest. your assessment of what this all signals. >> i think the carson video was put on by the review getting candidates do this on the understanding that you can't be viral enough. i don't care i don't think that is a particularly negative trend. and perhaps there is a narrative candidates are all trying to outtrump each other. i'm not sure how true that is. in the top tier they are trying to get in the conversation and humanize themselves because in carson's case he's been forgotten. in perry's case it seems like he's on the quest for the largest mulligan in history where he wants people to take him more seriously. and taking on donald trump is his way to that. he's criticized trump more
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resolutely. >> and nothing says it like a pull up contest? >> saying he just doesn't respect him, right? he's trying to box trump out in the way the republican establishment would really like someone to be able to do in which they can't. i think as was said in the start of the segment this gets into what can break you out of the debate. it is not necessarily the smartest position in the debate. >> it is very clear that dr. ben carson would rinne the operation segment of the next republican debate. thank you all for your time. when we come back just ahead, breaking news out of ohio where a police officer is charged with murder for shooting a man during a routine traffic stop. did a police body camera make the difference? plus speaker baner is fending off conservative mutiny with a wave of the hand. and an american dentist who
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we have breaking news on a fatal police shooting in ohio. university of cincinnati police officer ray tensing has been indicted on a murder charge for shooting 43-year-old african american man during a routine stop on july 19th. he was stopped for driving without a front license plate. the shop and shooting were both caught on police body camera. as a warning some may find the following video disturbing. >> we're closed off on rice street ohio george lincoln 6917
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occupied by one. hey how's it going man do you have your license on. >> yeah what happened. >> is this your car. >> yeah. >> it's going back to a female actually. >> my wife. >> okay. you don't have a front license plate on your car. >> it's in my glove box. i have it. >> what's that? >> it's right here. >> oh okay. that's not where the front plate is spoe supposed to go. you don't have to reach for it. that's okay. do you have your license on you? what is that bottle on the floor
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there there. >> [ inaudible ]. >> do you have your license on you? >> yeah. i'm gonna ask you get. do you have your libscense on you. i'm asking you a direct question. >> i thought i did. why did you pull me over. >> again the front tag. >> but it is not illegal to have a front tag. >> okay. actually it is. i'm going to ask you do you have a license on you. >> i have a license. you can run my name. >> okay. is it not on you then? >> i don't think i have it on me. >> be straight up with me. are you suspended? >> no i'm not suspended. >> why don't you have your license on you? >> i just don't. i'm sorry. >> where do you stay at? down here? >> [ inaudible ].
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>> i still haven't figured out if you have a license or not. go ahead and take your seat belt ouch. >> i didn't do noug. >> stop stop. [inaudible] >> at the press conference just hours ago the county prosecutor was very clear in his assessment of officer tensing's wrong doing. >> this is without question a murder. he wasn't dealing with someone who was wanted for murder okay. he was dealing with someone who didn't have a front license plate. i mean this is in the vernacular a pretty chicken crap stop. >> after the video was released
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both his mother audrey dubose announced he was ready to forgive the officer who killed her son. >> if he asked forgiveness, oh yeahky forgive. i can forgive anybody. god forgave us. >> tramaine the administration has called on congress for funding to put body cameras on 50,000 police nationwide. i wonder if you think this might be the iping point in all of that. >> when you think watching this video and i think the prosecutor said it best in his 30 years he's never seen more asinine behavior from a police officer. what striekd me is not only how quickly the situation escalated but after the shooting the officer made a narrative clearly contradictive from the videotape. he said he was dragged and he
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feared hr his lives. and his buddy saying i saw scrape marks on the back of his uniform. and without this video where would the investigation be? >> let's talk about the report. and how concerned are you as a former officer there seemed to be so many inaccuracies in terms of what happened to the police officer in this? >> first of all my thoughts and prayers go out to the dubose family. i agree with the prosecutor. i understand that cops have a tough job to do. but i agree with the prosecutor in this case. this did not have to happen. it was a routine traffic stop. if you run the tag you know who the owner of the vehicle is which means you can find the driver at a later time if that is what you have to do. the officer was obviously in fear. it looks like in fear without merit from what i've seen. there was nothing in that video that dictates that the officer should have been afraid. but if he made a mistake, it is even a double sin. and i know this job very well. i know a lot of people who do
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this job well. it is a double sin to then lie about the facts of the case. and, you know, we looked at body cams and are in the process at the orlando police department of moving to body cams. i think they are a good tool obviously in this case and in others. a good tool to have for law enforcement and the community. >> let me follow up on that, val. as much as i think a lot of people agree that they are a necessity for every police officer, this video also shows the limits of body cameras. the officer was wearing one and it wasn't enough to prevent this crime. >> absolutely it was not enough to prevent the crime. but madge alimagine if the officer did not have this body cam and in this incident was not captured on video. every good police officer who does this job needs to be outraged at what this officer has done in terms of being untruthful about the facts. everybody who thinks that
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justice should be served -- and police officers do as well -- should be outraged at this and should speak out about it. and we thank god in this case that there was a body cam and that the truth was captured on camera. >> it is also worth noting that officer tensing was a university of cincinnati campus police officer acting a mile away from campus property. so that raises a whole other host of questions about what the role of campus police is especially when they are not on campus. >> the prosecutor almost said as much. he almost -- he stepped just short of saying the campus police should be disbanded in that the great officers of the cincinnati police force should take over. but i think it also speaks to a culture of police and law enforcement, the bravado. we saw in this case and sandra bland case there seems to be this provocation. >> a sense of provocation. >> a sense. >> that is drawn, val, by the victims in these two cases, sandra bland and and ray -- not
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ray tensing, i'm sorry. sam dubose sort of questioning and going back and forth with the police officer. and that seems to create a situation where there is increased tension which ultimately leads to someone being seized from their vehicle or in this case shot. >> and alex let me say this. you know it would be wonderful if every traffic stop or every encounter with the police would go very smoothly. the citizen can be treated with dignity and respect. the police officer can do his or her job. but the police officer i did the job for 28 years. i know it well. the police officer is the one whose trained. the police officer is the professional. the police officer is the one that is trained to diffuse situations and not escalate situations. as they did in both of those instances. and the question and. >> and the question tramaine is
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whether the training is adequate. >> we've been talking about this a lot and i the justice department is hot on this and the president and all the folks trying to find a way to bridge this gap and talk about the training. but here almost a year after michael brown. we've been having this conversation. another family praying to god and offering their forgiveness. communities still wrestling with these conversations and still people are dying at the hands of the police. and even with this officer with a camera strapped to his chest makes again what the prosecutor calls some of the most asinine behavior he's ever seen. you have to wonder how much training is enough? and is there a bright enough spotlight? a strong enough magnifying glass on what is happening in these departments? >> these are all questions that will be asked in the aftermath of this case and certainly into coming months and weeks. val and tramaine thank you for your time. >> thank you. coming up, tom brady is still claiming he and his team did nothing wrong in the
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get started today. windows 10. a more human way to do. elsewhere in the galaxy speaker boehner addresses the latest republican rebellion and governor cheese scott walker gets himself in a real fonduesy. i just sayid that. first hillary clinton on the keystone pipeline. asked yesterday she demurred. >> this is president obama's decision and i am not going to second guess him. i want to wait and see what he and secretary kerry decide. if it is undecided when i become president, i will answer your question. >> pressed by reporters afterwards why she would not
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take a position clinton wasn't budging. >> i will not do it. and i am sorry if people want me to. i've been very clear. i will not express an opinion until they have made a decision. if this is the number one issue on people's minds, then they are going to have to wait to see what secretary kerry and president obama decide to do about it. >> joining us now correspondent of the up shot for the "new york times," josh barre barrows. the disgust over her failure to answer a direct question will be far less damaging than the fall out if she did offer her opinion. do you think that is the right calculation. >> she's never been known to be cynical or calculating so i can't imagine. >> i wanted to politically strategic. >> i will call every candidate
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in this race calculating. >> okay. >> but look this is a tricky issue. it pits two important parts of the democratic base environmentalists and big labor against each other. and it is -- if she was in a competitive democratic primary, a truly competitive race you have to believe she would have to take a position. this is one of the by-products of having a very, you know basically a coronation for hillary clinton. that like she doesn't really have to take positions on issues like this that are tricky for her. so it was probably politically smart and to the disadvantage of democratic primary voters. >> there is something ornery about saying i'll basically answer that when i'm president that i think is disconcerting to people who want to know where she stands. maybe it is not the most important issue. but as mckay says it is a cleave between the liberals and the
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more centerist democrats and in that way it is important. >> the strategicness of it does come from that difference between a base and the split in the base. part of me kind of admires her for doing this. it is sort of an honest answer. i mean if you don't make any campaign promises you won't break any campaign promises. and to a certain extent this is what happens with every candidate. we find out what kind of president they are going to be when they are president. that said i think this represents her entire campaign which is trust me you know me i'll do the right thing. don't ask for specifics. i think that is what she's going for with almost every issue she's gonna. like i'm for you, whoever you are. >> and she's a different candidate than she was in 2008 josh. she's on a host of issues much more progressive. she's had her husband publicly disavow some of the policy, some
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of the legislation he saw through as president. >> i think part of this deposegoes back to her time as secretary of state. amazing how long this issue has been with us on the pipeline. it is a major point of contention with canada. they really want this. >> they are our neighbors to the north. >> they are. >> and it is a point of irritation for whoever is secretary of state that this country that we are supposed to have very good relations with, that there is this thorn in their slide. and think she genuinely believes it is up to the president obama and secretary of state to handle this. >> she's waiting on the iran deal which is also something obama and kerry have negotiated. >> she's waited in exactly the same position that john kerry and president obama have already been hard out in front of. this is different from that. this would be her basically
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getting in front of a foreign policy issue. it is a foreign policy issue. it would be her basically dictating to the obama administration what its foreign policy could be. i'm sure also it is politically inconvenient. but this gives her a good substantive reason to avoid it. which also happens to be politically expeanut. >> just because it is canada doesn't mean it's not foreign policy. remember they are another country. then there is this. a relaxed boehner addressed the latest challenge to his leadership say it was effectively no biggy. >> you have a member here and a member there who are off the reservation. no big deal. this is one member. all right?
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i've got broad support amongst my colleagues. and and frankly, it isn't even deserving of a vote. >> okay. do you remember a couple of weeks ago when john mccain referred to some people who support donald trump as the crazies. now you have speaker boehner talking about people who don't support him as off the reservation. i think as a matter of strategy in terms of corralling the unruly members of the gop, this might not be the most effective. >> yes. except i think what maybe boehner and perhaps mccain have realized is you are never really going to get them. some of these tea party congressmen have sort of become so defiant they don't want to be on the reservation. they will move any fence that you try to put around them. so i think that he's probably not risking a lot by alienating these people. i think they will stay alienated. obviously i don't think his job is really in danger either. i do think the only way he's going to lose his job is if he doesn't want it anymore.
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i do think that day might come by the way. it is a pretty thankless task to be to be the speaker. but we'll see. he seemed not have changed color as he said it. >> this is not the group of people he's ever going to truly win the support of so don't worry. could we rewind time and go back four or five years because congress would have been a lot more productive if he truly embraced that. the irony is he accused speaker boehner of endeavoring to consolidate power and centralize decision making bypassing the majority of the 435 members of the congress. that is the one thing john boehner doesn't actually do. >> right. the element of republicans here that he says now are off the reservation is also the same group of people who have kind of dictated terms in the house of representatives for years now. it certainly is not the majority of the house as that statement
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says. and look this is like -- this is his burden to bear as house speaker. and i think he's made peace with that. i kind of think that at this point he -- my guess is when he says this stuff, they have done some quiet behind the scenes whipping and they know who he's going to piss off and who he's not and they kind of know where the votes are. >> one would think. >> you would think. but it's true that he will not ever win them over. but i mean he -- that certainly has not stopped him in the past from trying to. maybe he's had an epiphany and realized he doesn't need to court them anymore. my guess is going ford forward we'll still see him trying to corral them. >> the dynamics in the house are clear. john boehner can't be unseat as speaker because you can't beat something with nothing and there is no alternative. >> he is the iran deal of speakers. >> right.
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played played itself out in 2013 with the shut down. keep saying no no no until he gives you what you want. and now there is no alternative to the boehner approach. these people will complain but they are not going to unseat. that's why he's so zen about this. >> zen is not the word i would use. finally food politics. dairy state senator scott walker loves talking about cheese. at a recent event he mentioned the word 17 times. but who was counting. however t governor was accused of cutting in line. leaving his trash and worst sin of all, skipping the cheese whiz and having it with american cheese and onions.
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>> if you're running for president you got to go for american. >> no swiss cheese. uh-uh uh-uh. nobody. anna marie cox, daughter of the heart land. i sort of feel sorry for scott walker. i would probably choose american over cheese whiz. i know it is a wrong choice. >> he seemed to confuse it as the foreign policy issue. so swiss cheese for this guy. >> no foreign cheese. >> the iran deal of cheeses. it would be his only foreign policy decision, right? i do feel almost sorry for him but not quite. he's too boring to feel sorry for. >> bohring maybe on the surface but ragingly interesting just blow. you have done a lot of campaign reporting. >> and a lot of cheese steak
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eating as well. >> in your native canada. and i feel like you can't win on the subject of local food stuffs. offered a deep fried stick of butter and you have to eat that. >> you have to eat it. the best campaigns. the caveat that this is all proer postrows. preposterous. >> just this hazing where we send presidential candidates in these places and make them eat disgusting foods. >> some think they're delicious. >> i just think the people of philadelphia thought it would be just really funny. to eat cheese whiz as president. >> leading the cheese whiz pavilion with a pitch fork.
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over half a million people from around the world have now signed a petition demanding justice for the slaughter of zimbabwe's most famous lion killed earlier this month. authorities say he was lured away from a protected park and shot dead. the hunter says he thought it was legal and he deeply regrets killing the lion. today they appeared in court. if found guilty they could face up to 15 years in prison. joining me now is senior scientist with conservation international. thanks for joining me. a hundred years ago there were 200,000 lions across africa. now i believe less than 30,000. in the last 30 years alone the lion population has dropped about 60%. where does trophy hunting fit in that picture. >> if done appropriately and
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done well can help conservation. the problem with lions right now is that i can't think of a single place in africa where trophy hunting is really being done well. in most places it is taking lions out of protecting areas and then killing them. and something like cecil. you know, this lion was probably worth ten times, twenty times more alive just because of the number of tourists who would come to see him. so to sell this lion in this low low price in this way is completely -- it undercuts good conservation efforts. >> you mentioned trophy hunting done well. explain that. >> well in the united states we have a long history of hunting and hunting has played a great roll. ducks in this country don't exist in the numbers if not for the duck hunting stamp. elk, same thing. i hunt myself for food. but that money when i pay to u.s. fish and parks in my state,
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it goes right into conservation. it goes to local communities. that is the way hunting can play a role in bolstering local communities to really take ownership of their wildlife and make benefits from it. remember very poor region not a lot of economic activity here. so local people are looking for a way of benefitting directly from their wildlife. the problem with lion hunting is the regulations are very loose. different countries have different plans and they are not enforced. and when they are not enforced you get something horrific like this a lion well known, lured out of a national park and then killed. and to think that they didn't know? it is really hard to believe. this lion had a big collar around its neck. a 20 pound collar. and when you are a bow hunter you are taking that shot from 100 feet. so you know the lion is famous and you know it is tagged and watched and monitored. >> for those who are new to the sport of trophy hunting
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anecdotally, where is it and legal and not and when you talk about the practices where it's done well who are those countries. >> the united states allows it for the most part. and it's done well. and there are some instance where it gets out of bounds but the government is pretty good. and not just the government but the citizenry of the u.s. are pretty good at not tolerating bad hunting practices and illegal poaching. outside of the united states some countries for some species have good regulations in place. namibia for example has trophy hunting. they regulate carefully and monitor it. but in this case it clearly doesn't work in zimbabwe. what's happened here was terrible. >> it was indeed a tragedy. doctor, thank you as always for your time. >> thank you. just ahead a pennsylvania democrat is indicted on charges of the bribery, fraud and money laundering.
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today the u.s. justice department indicted a sitting congressman on charges. racketeering, conspiracy bribery and wire fraud. following the announcement of the charges this was fattah's response. >> this is not deflategate. we now have actual allegations. we have a chance to respond but i'll stand by my previous statement that i've never been involved in wrong doing. >> he said today he will recuse himself from his leadership position until the matter is resolved. that is all for us. the "ed show" is next. good evening americans and welcome to the "ed show." live from detroit lakes, minnesota. let's goatet to work.
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>> tonight clinton clams up. >> if you look at both the trade agreement and the keystone decision i will certainly express my opinion when there is something to express an opinion about. i am sorry if people want me to. i've been very clear i will not express an opinion. >> plus procrastinating politicians. >> with congress's long august recess within reach. lawmakers still have a number of issues to tackle when that break starts. >> there are going to be a number of issues that are moved fast. >> i'm going to do everything i can to get to a long-term highway bill by the end of october. >> the comment about the holocaust and the ovens and the iran deal. where do you stand on that? >> i mean i'm okay with it. >> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. we start with two very important issues. every single american should care about. because it is g