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. >> joined by ruth marcus. i heard mike murphy on a podcast recently.aid he likened the campaign trump put together, the island of misfit toys. making the point that we are hearing here. wouldn't have found a home in a lot of cases in other political campaigns. >> i have a very vivid memory of that when then candidate trump came to the "washington post" editorial board in march of the election list. he unveiled his list of foreign policy advisors. none of us really heard of. they included carter page and george papadopoulos. how did that one work out? >> that is interesting too, that has led to controversy, speculation and investigation and it ends up being a defense that you heard offered by trump allies that is essentially, hey, the guy put no effort into this. that ends up being the defense of carter page and george papadopoulos. essentially saying trump didn't care, he wanted names on the page. >> he did care in the sense that the people that he has surrounded himself with, i think tim is exactly right. the supply is limited. a lot of people who wou

to talk about this all right pablo fill us in how exactly and why did this ban come about well ruth marcus owns this restaurant of course and the holiday it's essentially a holiday island in the north of germany and many people go there on the weekend to spend time at the beach and what happened was his busy restaurant and about having some damage caused by a group of youths as he put it and he said it was a long time coming so rudolph markel said you know what that's it no more kids after five pm and it has divided opinion to say the least some of his customers are very happy others are not so keen on the idea. i do know like i have heard that in the united states for example there are some hotels who have a policy no children under sixteen i'm not so sure about restaurants but what about here in germany is this actually legal i can this restaurant owner do this well it seems to be a little bit gray at the moment because germany's antidiscrimination office says that this issue has raised legal concerns and it could actually lead to a situation where rudolph mark of course the owner of thi

joining me now is ruth marcus, "washington post" deputy editorial page editor, and bill kristol, editor at large for "the weekly standard." ruth, we go from bijon suits at $25,000 a shot, to voter i.d.'s. this has been quite an interesting example of the testimony in alexandria and now of course the trump tweets and the trump speeches. >> yes. i don't know where president trump shops, but i kind of suspect that he doesn't. and you and i, and by the way, congratulations on the 40-year anniversary, that's incredible. >> thanks. >> it was less than 40 years ago, but a long time ago, that president george h.w. got in a heap of trouble for allegedly and perhaps unfairly not understanding a supermarket scanner and how that worked. this is basic, go to the bodega around the corner, go to your local supermarket, you don't need i.d. but more fundamentally, insisting on voter i.d.'s, there is no evidence of massive or even significant voting by noncitizens in u.s. elections. so he should really just stop. >> remember the election commission, bill and ruth, that they created. >> yes. >> and it fel

the case that these ideas on which the new theory referenced is based were due to a woman named ruth marcus and there was a big controversy over whether to credit for this philosophical revolution had been stolen from the rightful author of these ideas and contribute into kripski. the professor needed a new genius figure, a romantic genius figure in the mold of lichtenstein, the last great genius figure in philosophy so the possibility was raised that a grave injustice had been done to this woman who by the way was just a housewife during the years when she came up with these ideas which are rather technical ideas and was called modal logic, logic of possibility and she generalize them to the philosophy of language. and so i examined who should get credit for this, these discoveries closely and i think they both deserve credit but clearly ruth marcus, another case of a woman who was robbed of what she was doing but i'm not questioning the genius of saul kripski who was almost by consensus the greatest living philosopher and by the way, his father is a rabbi. kripski was born in omaha and hi

ruth marcus, msnbc columnist and editor at the "washington post." okay, ruth marcus. you know, every time i thought everything is going to go fairly normal and here we go. >> what is wrong with you, chuck? >> let me give you more of what the president said. the level of hatred, the level of anger is unbelievable, he said. to evangelicals. part of it is because of some of the things i've done for you, for me, for my family, but i've done them. this november 6th election is very much a referendum on not only me, it's a referendum on your religion, it's a referendum on free speech, the first amendment. however you want to look at it, this sounds like a guy desperate to get his base out and nervous that his base is not going to come out. >> and nervous and with good reason. i think you put your finger on it. it's not just that all politics are national, it's that all politics are trump. this is the flip side of he alone can fix it. he needs to argue that without him all will be chaos. he told us the other day that if he weren't there, the stock market would collapse. if h

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stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. >>> let's go to ruth marcus.ke an incredibly busy week. give us your final thoughts this morning. >> i've been thinking about the end of heroes and this one-two punch we're reeling from, both the loss of senator john mccain. i'm not a republican but it's really affected me deeply to think about his legacy and think about that kind of heroism he embodied. at the same time, i'm not a catholic but i'm very moved and concerned by what we're learning or thinking about learning about pope francis who we also thought of as heroic and seems to have faltered here. i think that there's a lot of pain that the public is experiencing right now as we transition to a world without very many heros. >> noah, final thoughts. >> i'd like to read briefly from a passage from john mccain's final senate floor speech. quote, america has made a greater contribution than any other nation to an international order that has liberated more people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history. we have not -- we had been the greatest ex

jeff mason from reuters and ruth marcus, "washington post" editorial page editor and columnist. close to reality is this change, julia? >> pretty close, andrea. we understand this will be published in the federal register in coming weeks. it doesn't need to go through congress. what they're doing is redefining the term "public charge" that was first used in the 1800s, think ellis island time. they didn't want immigrants coming in who would be a burden on the country and not able to support themselves. but under this new rule, they would vastly expand that definition, meaning that any immigrant likely to become a public charge, whether they themselves have been on a social program or someone in their family has or their household, that could now be used against them getting citizenship or green cards. these are people who entered the u.s. legally and are following the steps. what a lot of immigration lawyers have pointed out is the programs on this list, the drafts that have been described, it seems that the programs actually would increase that poverty level. right now if you ma

it is the same -- ruth marcus made the point this morning.t is the exact same argument as they have with the pardon power and with the discharge. someone has told trump that -- it doesn't matter why he does things and that is exactly wrong. so this would be -- this is a rank violation or response to first amendment rights, it is no different, no different constitutionally speaking from if he decides to yank security clearances based on someone's religious affiliation or their race and we know from the supreme court of the united states that doesn't fly. somehow he's taken the view that he can do -- he alone in the country and rudy guiliani has put it this way, can do what he wants for whatever reason and that is 100% wrong and i think that a court will shortly rebuke him on that. there are issues of bringing it to court. but i think his case is weak. >> david, 15 seconds. >> the real issue here isn't about the security clearance and the conversation is about whether john brennan needed the security clearance and whether all of the rest of the

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columnist and deputy editorial page editor of the "the washington post" ruth marcus is with us as welleems like every day the narrative on the air avenues especially but even the stories themselves when we look deeper into the separation of children from their families and the court cases going on and even the president's words about different types of immigration, not even knowing that this is how his wife's parents are coming here. the disconnect is more real every day. >> there is a massive disconnect. but also, though, there's always a reason for hope. sister margaret in 10th grade in journalism class had a poem when she was trying to get somebody to think positively. she would say two inmates looked out from behind the bars. one saw mud the other stars. and let's look at the stars today, okay. let's look at what ronald reagan said. what republicans have believed. i mean, my god the koch brothers are talking about how they may not support -- they may not support republicans if they adopt donald trump's viewpoint on immigration. look what the federal judge did yesterday, saying he w