and experts s say it's a languae of the future. the number off frenchh speakers continues to grow every year in fact they say that french is the second most learned second languagege just after english which can be paradoxical because french is so hard to learn i spent years at dinner parties nodding and saying say but i really i had. no idea what people are talking you're absolutely right jeannie when it comes to friends everything is complicated whether it's the grammar whether it's a spelling it now french kids learn this at a very young age because in school they're given s somethingng called lead. fee which is a spelling test and it's a special kind of hell i'm not gonna give you addicted because it's just cruel and also you guys would just changee the channel and run away. but i do want to quiz you on one particular day of the french language and that is accents unlike other romance languages like spanish or italian spelling is not transparent and french so what you see is not necessarily what you say and that's where the acc

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that follows his tweets this weekend which used racist a langua called on them to go back to where they came from. three of t 4 new members of congress targeted by the presidt were born here in the u.s. nick bryant starts our coverage. nick: donald trump was at the home of a made in usa business event showcasing the economic nationalism that has become a selling point of his america first presidency. but it is his white nationalism that has caused the latest political storm.er a racist twittttack on four congresswomen of color, three of whom were born in the united states. >> the president of the united states. nick: "go back to where you came ssfrom" was the e of the tweets, words he repeated from presidential podium with the white house as h. backup. prump: if you are not happy here, you can leave.s thatat i say all the time told that is what i said in a tweet which i guess some peopis thinontroversial. a lot of people love it, by the way. a lot of people love it. but if you are nohappy in the u.s., if you are complaining all thtime, very simply, you can leave. nick: these are the wom

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now, that was the languae of a dictator, and that's why he shouldn't even talk like that.not a fact. the united states constitution does not grant the power to the president to do whatever he wants. that's why we have a system of checks and balances. president trump's comments come on the cusp of a make it or break it moment for house democrats, in my opinion. i believe that mr. mueller being on the stand is something that should have happened a long time ago, it's good for all of us, but it will be a big moment for the democrats. california congresswoman katie porter is here to talk strategy, law, and more. good to have you here in person. first of all, am i wrong, professor, that tomorrow matters for the democrats. you can't keep saying, well, we think he did all of these things wrong and abused his power, but we're not going to do what the constitution tells us to do. we're going to do it this other way. >> i would reframe it and say that tomorrow really matters for americans. i think if we start framing this in terms of party ideology, we're really missing the issue of

. >> david, let me just read a quotation from a former colleague of mine, frank langua langford.opulist who made controlling immigration, restoring his nation's standing in the world key issues. he is given to speaking in latin, making ancient historical allusions and written a biographychurchill. you mentioned that he's facing brexit and facing travails domestically. but there are cohesive similarities to them when you look at global policy? >> less so, i think, indeed in terms of character and style. there is a lot of overlap all the way through the peculiar blond hair styles. in terms of substance and policy, once you scratch the surface, i think you will find differences. whether that's on the iran nuclear deal, to which britain remains committed, whether it's the paris climate accords, whether it's free trade, which johnson has always believed in, even the issue of immigration. johnson is not a wall builder. in the past he's talked about amnesties for undocumented immigrants and so on. and in fact all the way from his belief, his great interest in ancient greece and rome and