>> politi. what's up? you got a haircut. let me see. you ugly, man. >> i could not be in a room with 20, 30 people all day. that would drive me insane. you know, i'd end up hurting somebody or i'd make them hurt me. i just couldn't do it. >> politi is charged with murder and rape. but despite police claims that he confessed after he was arrested, politi says he has no recollection of the murder. >> how did the 40-year-old girl end up dead in your room, man? what happened? >> i don't know. somebody strangled her, they said. >> somebody strangled her, it weren't you? >> i don't remember. >> i'd have been pissed if i came home and there was a dead body in my room. i'd have been pissed, man. >> well, from my past experiences, i don't know, it's possible i did it, but i don't think i did. i really don't. i've done [ bleep ] before and not remembered it. that's when people pissed me off, though. >> this is not the first time politi has been charged with a violent crime where he says memory failed him.

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you as ae expect from pro-life member of congress if not support of antiabortion polity -- policy? >> i think there ought to be exceptions, and i think there is a balance, and i support that. >> do you still support antiabortion policies? >> i am pro-life, and i'm proud of it. >> the question is what does that mean, practically speaking? what would you do? >> i certainly voted for a bill that provides an exemption for the first 20 weeks and then provides an exception after 20 weeks for rape in and says than help of the mother. i have consistently voted fornst medicaid funding abortion. >> you have spoken about the corrupting influence of pac money. you are refusing to accept it. during your rise to power in the colorado house, you accepted pac money and had your own pac. i'm curious how it has corrupted your opponents but never you. specialnfluence of interest has corrupted the system. i have not suggested that you can trace a particular vote anyone has cast to a particular contribution they have excepted from a political action committee, but it is pretty obvious that special inte

iraq's polity is a consequence to us. the neighbors of iraq have a lot of influence, leverage.he situation is a bit more complicated. the americans have a vital role to play. america is the indispensable nation in the world. .merica is vitally important at the end of the day, this is a battle that can only be one bank by the people in that part -- be won by the people in that part of the world. if we do not own up to our responsibility, years from now, you and i will be talking about the same problem. >> thank you. pleasure to have you. back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ >> martin amis is here. by reputation, he is the bad boy rock star of british fiction even though he is a grandfather and lives in brooklyn. his latest novel is "the zone of interest congo a dark satire -- ," a dark of interest satire set in a fictional part of auschwitz. "the zone of interest" is a controversial novel. publishers rejected it. in his native britain, reviewer's are calling it his best work for 25 years. i am pleased to have martin amis back at this table. would you disagree with any part of that

. >> for more from kerry a politi team, check out nbcnews.com. >>> the clock is ticking to vote in the november 4th election if you live in maryland or virginia. today is the deadline to register to vote in both days. in you can't complete an application in person, you can fill out an online application or mail-in application. maureen mcdonald is asking a judge to delay her sentencing. she faces years in prison for public corruption. she's asking for her sentencing day to be pushed back from january to february due to a scheduling conflict for her lawyer. last month a jury convicted her and her husband, former governor bob mcdonnell of accepting gifts and cash from businessn johnny williams. >>> you may think you're great at multitasking. a new study suggests your teenager is better at it than you are. we'll explain. >>> plus, gadgets you can use to make your life easier. from a better night's sleep to keeping your home safe. the tools now available. but first here's a look at what's hot on nbcwashingto >>> we know a lot of your are counting the minutes. it's been a long wait after las

when you see that and you see all these ads tying back to all the polities on the ball lott. you ski how much this president is factoring into this election. >> that 40%, or thereabouts approval rating is kind of a mess, and you have a president, the midterms, there should be blues songs about it. if he come into it, it's going to be rough and things are going to be more difficult than expected. >> the washington journal question, which party do you prefer, registered voters 5%, republicans 45%, democrats 43%. what, you know, how do you see democrats across the board dealing with these numbers? >> it's interesting because "the washington post" had a poll last week as well that said their overall party approval rating is somewhere around 30% which is the low elson it has been for them, but then you look at republicans and their approval rating is similarly not good, the thing you always go back to and look at is what the president's approval rating, from the 3 it -- it is difficult democrats to possibly combat an approval rating of that with the majority of americans disapprov

in a way, iraq's polity is a -- of consequence to us.he neighbors of iraq have a lot of influence, leverage. they often metal and intervene in these things. the situation is a bit more complicated. the americans have a vital role to play. my mantra to my colleagues at home, even to american friends i talked to in washington america , is the indispensable nation in the world. america is vitally important. but we also have to understand the limitations of america. at the end of the day, this is a battle that can only be won by the people in that part of the world. we will need american assistance and support, but if we are not willing to carry water for our home country and own up to our responsibility years from now, , you and i will be talking about the same problem. >> thank you. pleasure to have you. back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ >> martin amis is here. by reputation, he is the bad boy rock star of british fiction even though he is a grandfather and lives in brooklyn. his latest novel is "the zone of interest," a dark satire set in

mostly black and probably the most democratic polity in the nation. why would they elect a former white republican senator from south dakota? it was never explained as part of the rationale for his candidacy, but it was explained that he was pretty sure he could win the candidacy because he said, quote, i have a lot of african american friends. >>> despite the strength of that case, he was not elected mayor of washington, d.c. but, hey, maybe this year he's about to be elected senator from south dakota again. the recent poll is a survey u.s. poll. the latest survey which just came out does show the republican who's supposed to be a shoo-in for this race with a grand total of 35% of the vote. larry presler comes within 32%. and unlike georgia, louisiana, in south dakota, there's no runoff. so whoever wins this senate race may well win with 35% of the vote. the same thing is likely going to happen in south dakota. somebody is going to likely be a senator without cracking 40%. whatever else it means, it means that this seat is not a shoo-in for the repub

it does call to question whether or not as a government, as a polity, as a country, whether we are resourcingquately what we're doing. whether this is the sort of thing where we ought to be saying bar the door, the budget needs to get really big really fast. >> that's a good point. no one is doing enough. we're doing a lot. but i think if we get the global community involved, that's going to be something that may be compounding the amount that you're doing. and that's what you need to do. right now, getting the military there was really an important thing because we really do need the command and control of the logistics, the engineering and the able to get those beds up. again, i have to emphasize that we can't do it alone. >> is it clear to you that we are never going to know how she became infected? forgive the term, but can that be postmortemed i have enough in terms of the the way she reacted to let us know how that happened so we can stoch it from happening with any other health care workers here? >> we may not be ache to know exactly what this particular individual came into -- how the

that he has attempted and senator landrieu has been a rubber stamp for every one of his feckless polities. of successdefinition and an exit plan. ,ongress has the responsibility a valid responsibility to debate whether we should be at all out war and how we are going to pay for it instead of putting this war on a credit card. the young and women that wear our uniforms, and their parents and families, deserves that our congress should be in session now. instead of giving the president a blank check. >> the question, would you support american ground troops on the ground? president brings a strategy and the definition of success and an exit plan and congress debates it and decides whether we can pay for it or not and how were going to pay for it, as a senator i will be able to entertain that option, but we would have to be looking at ground forces. if the joint chiefs came out and said this is necessary, with that move any of you? >> it's interesting for these two to claim great support of and i have always been a strong supporter of the military, i believe we need to listen to our generals

enormous dilemma for yourself by running an immensely repressive society and trying to ingest this free polity that is hong kong. china did not get it handed back as a complete freebie. they made an agreement they would monday nor hong kong's way of life for 50 years and -- eric: claudia, sorry to interrupt but we're out of time. do you think the white house is doing enough to give china the message? >> not at all. the u.s. is urging quote, restraint by both sides as if they were equivalent. they are not. this is a case, the people, those democracy demonstrators in the streets are right, by any index that you want to set up. and beijing in this case is completely in the wrong, both, both next to its international agreements and in any fundamental moral sense. eric: claudia, the foundation for defense of democracies. this crisis as you see right now continuing. it will either end in compromise or confrontation. and a crackdown. thank you, claudia. shannon: germany marking 24 years since its peaceful reunification. it in 1989. with the fall of berlin wall. reunification of east germany and germa

this is the governor of reince's own state who promised famously he would create 250,000 jobs and politi-fact listed that as a broken promise. when it comes to important issuing for women, forcing equal pay for equal work, making sure you can make your own reproductive -- >> let me ask you about this. whether it is fair pay or some aspects of obamacare which help women or access to birth control, don't women have legitimate concerns? >> not if you look at the latest polls, if you look -- >> no, no, let him finish. >> let's look at that. >> barack obama is losing women in battleground states today. if you read the denver post and the union leader, their quote in new hampshire the democrats are clown clowning themselves in this issue when she had sew -- she had to come back and apologize, because then the next day "wall street journal" took debbie to task for her words and actually defended scott walker. the fact is this issue is backfiring on the democrats, and we're actually going to -- timplgts go ahead. >> i'm going to press on issue after issue. in the autopsy done by the -- >> reince is s

and, this is a mature polity we're talking about. they have the institutions.ule of law, the markets and the understanding of how they work. you know, they're not firing rockets at their neighbors. they're not threatening to obliterate anybody. they want their rights to elect their leaders. liz: claudia, give us what you think will be the next stop on the roadway here in hong kong? what are you looking for? do you expect there will be a tripwire of some sort between the goons as you called them and the student protesters? or the government moves or there is negotiation point? what's next that you're looking for? >> there are at love variables in play here. china, i have no doubt, is running through a calculus trying to figure out how to handle this, with a way to provide minimum encouragement in the rest of china for people to demonstrate for their rights as well. an important factor, this can not be underestimated, china is sensitive to international criticism. the comments from the democratic world have so far been there but muted. it would probably matter in

with midterm approximate politi away, president obama hits the trail. >> thousands in india could beithout the life-saving drugs they need by the end of this month. >> keep it here, i'm morgan radford and i'm back with you in a minute. stay tuned. >>> home at last. a cruise ship carrying a possible ebola patient docks in texas. the hospital that treated thomas eric duncan makes a public apology >>> a vatican divided. a few days after changing its tune on traditional marriage, the church appears to have shifted again. >> forces are banned. they are considered a luxury good. the government is finding all sorts of ways to bring them into the country. >> circumventing sanctions. al jazeera gets access inside north korea with a look at how luxury its make it past a trade embargo. (count down) >>> talk about free tall - the adrenaline pumping challenge that is legal one day a year. >>> a cruise ship carrying a health worker monitored for scenes of ebola has docked in galveston texas. good morning, welcome to "al jazeera america". thanks for joining us, i'm morgan radford. the ship arrived

and no doubt will prompt us to question and reflect on the concept of polity, something we cherish at st. john's. rakove is the one -- is the william robertson professor at stanford university where he has taught since 1980. he is also taught at colgate university from 1975 to 1980 and has been a visiting professor at nyu's school of law. he is a visionary scholar and author. his book, "original meanings, politics and ideas and the making of the constitution" won the pulitzer prize in 1996. his principle areas of research include the origins of the american revolution and constitution, the political practice and theory of james madison, and the role of historical knowledge in constitutional litigation. he is the author of six books, most recently "revolutionaries, a new history of the invention of american," which was a finalist for the george washington prize. others include "james madison and the creation of the republic." among others. he is a member of the american academy of arts and sciences and the past president of the society for the history of the early american republic. he

polity wire with us this morning from bloomberg business week with some important knowledge -- pol a wire with us this morning from bloomberg business week with some important knowledge. what is the backstory of the post ackerman age? >> deutsche bank, even though hans says they have enough to one capital, the way they get to it is by waiting their assets for risk. a lot of the european banks do this. they are allowed to load up on sovereign debt in a sovereign debt doesn't really count against their capital needs. it was fairly easy for a bank to get to their requirement. deutsche bank -- >> how do you describe the in the suicides in europe that have been reported of bank executives , leading executives, and below that level yet though i don't mean to bring that over to deutsche bank, but the fact is, there are some unique tensions in european banking. >> i think that kind of thing has been happening all over the world. >> that is fair. >> it is troubling. i guess i would say stress does terrible things. when you're really under severe financial stress, you have personal problems, t

that he has attempted and senator landrieu has been a rubber stamp for every one of his feckless politieshe needs a definition of success and an exit plan. congress has the responsibility, a valid responsibility to debate whether we should be at all out war and how we are going to pay for it instead of putting this war on a credit card. the young men and women that wear our uniforms, and their parents and families, deserves that our congress should be in session now instead of giving the president a blank check. >> the question, would you support american ground troops on the ground? >> once the president brings a strategy and the definition of success and an exit plan and congress debates it and decides whether we can pay for it or not and how were going to pay for it, as a senator i will be able to entertain that option, but we would have to be looking at ground forces. >> if the joint chiefs came out and said this is necessary, with that move any of you? -- would that move any of you? >> it's interesting for these two to claim great support of the military, and i have always been a str

how to get things done and moving are important polities. one says he has been doing that, the other says he can do it. sell both men need to bring it tonight? .hank you larry -- so both men need to bring it tonight? >> a full house tonight inside the studio. at the respective podiums. a great to have not use electronic vices or previously written notes. they can take note during the debate. we are cohosting the debate. truly a team effort and look forward to discussing important topics. let's meet our panel. ryan grim with us. the lead panelist. the associated rector of external affairs at san jose state, junior majoring in advertising. a longtime bay area journalist and grew up in san jose. finally, melinda jackson, associate professor of the local science at san jose state. guidelines and rules of the debate. 92nd responses and 62nd rebuttals. the possibility of 32nd follow-up questions. second follow-up questions. no booing or any other fraction except for right now. we want to welcome the congressman mike honda and robert khanna. nice t

government is not inevitable, it is only a possibility, a possibility that can be fully realized when the politys generally governed by the recognized imperatives of the universal moral law. it requires self-control and self-restraint, people capable of understanding that freedom is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. natural law cannot always produce easy answers, and sometimes it cannot produce any. it is a response to a hard question. in the words of the psalm u.s., what is -- psalmist, what is man that you made him a little lower than the angels? this is both glory and curse, and in trying to design a government of the people, for the people and by the people, we must relish the tension that is an inherent part of humanity. we are not brutes, we are not gods. before architects had structural steel -- add structural steel and rebar, early builders invented a partial solution, flying buttresses. it was this innovation that made the soaring knaves of gothic cathedrals possible. usthus, the buildings stood notn spite of the tensions generated by

i took out almost all of that stuff and it is a huge book, but i took out most of the politi l politicaltice because they really want to revisit that for the characters. not because they want to relive watergate. >> right. gary trudeau, thanks for coming by today, appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> and that second season of "alpha house" start streaming this friday on amazon. another full hour of news and politics straight ahead. stay with us. ♪ introducing synchrony financial bringing new meaning to the word partnership. banking. loyalty. analytics. synchrony financial. engage with us. (receptionist) gunderman group is growing. getting in a groove. growth is gratifying. goal is to grow. gotta get greater growth. i just talked to ups. they got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. like smart pick ups. they'll only show up when you print a label and it's automatic. we save time and money. time? money? time and money. awesome. awesome! awesome! awesome! awesome! (all) awesome! i love logistics. you think it smells fine, but your passengers smell this... eliminate odors you've g

when you look at what happened over the last year, american politi politics, we got so soft, so removed from this threat, we decide, oh, well, the thannsa m be a bad and horrible organization. the whole reason some of these programs got put in place after 9/11 is we did a thorough bipartisan study and said what did we miss? what pieces of this puzzle were missing that would allow us to miss somebody to be able to kill 19 people killing 3,000 americans? one of them was a phone call from a safe house overseas, and al qaeda safe house, to san diego that said, hey, operation is a go, and we missed it. why? because we didn't want to have those kind of communications from a foreign country and a foreigner into the united states. so think about the debate we've had in the last year. well, we've got to get out of afghanistan. they're gaining ground. the taliban is gaining ground, and with that comes al qaeda. we're saying let's dismantle our ability for the nsa to track foreigners overseas and even watch a phone call from a foreigner overseas into the united states. we have thousands of individ