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my second interview since you've been president you guys want to start with

good news you don't get a lot of good news in the media you don't get so much

the markets up 25% since you were one you tweeted this out that nobody in the

media brings it up so I said you know what I'm gonna bring it up tonight five

point two trillion dollars and wealth created we have the lowest unemployment

rate in 16 years we have the look the best labor participation rate in seven

years and the best the lowest number of people on food stamps in seven years

I'm loving it I'm doing a job for the people and people are seeing that and

I'm so proud of the five point two trillion dollars of increase in the

stock market now if you look at the stock market that's one element but then

we have many other elements the country we took it over a toe 20 trillion as you

know the last eight years they borrowed more than it did in the whole history of

our country so they borrowed more than 10 trillion dollars right and yet we

picked up five point two trillion just in the stock market possibly picked up

the whole thing in terms of the first nine months in terms of value so you

could say in one sense we're really increasing values and maybe in a sense

we're reducing debt but we're very honored by it and we're very very happy

with what's happening on Wall Street you came back to Pennsylvania I know you've

been in Wisconsin in Michigan in Ohio and North Carolina because a lot of

people still need opportunity in jobs and you really hear you're gonna be

talking at length about your economic plan that's right let's talk about it

okay well first of all it's a massive tax cut and you know it's a reform but

it's a master

you know when we first introduced it and for years they talked about tax reform I

said the problem with the word reform nobody understands what it means because

reform could mean you got to raise taxes this is the largest tax cut in the

history of our country it is incredible it's gotta put people to work so right

now showing we are the highest taxed nation in the world and we're going to

be now down in the lower rung in terms of taxes a family can get and a business

can get especially a subchapter S you know you're doing different kinds of

things with your businesses some people run it individually but you can get as

much as a 40% tax reduction again it's the largest tax reduction in the history

of let's go through it so this is important I mean how many there's no two

accountants that can give you the same liability to the government if you given

the same information that's how complicated the tax code is you want to

drop seven brackets to three we're gonna drop actually if you look at it because

we have a zero bracket because a lot of people pay zero so we really have four

and they had eight so it's really eight down to four we're cutting it in half

and a lot of a lot are taxed below the $12,000 mark and $24,000 for family

they're taxed at zero after that it goes to 12% from 15% and you know the

Democrats told a very terrible fib they said that they read the bracket so that

the brackets were inverted and if you read it that way but that's not the way

it goes and we've been praised for the amount of money the middle class this is

really what I'm looking for for the middle class I call it the working

people and the working people are going to get a massive tax break and

corporations and companies and small companies are going to get large-scale

tax relief and they'll be able to keep compete with anybody in the world this

is what we need you said the corporate rate which is so

you said 20% of your max so right now we're 35% that many corporations are

paying 40s and 42 and because they have state taxes and city taxes and their

taxes so many different directions you know what they do they leave the country

and they fire everybody and they're gone and they never come back now we have

companies moving back into the country we have you saw last week auto companies

are announcing that they're going to build plants back in the United States

that hasn't happened for years and they're moving back like and not just

because of the Texas tax is so important but they're seeing enthusiasm we have

the highest enthusiasm level in 28 years Sumer for manufacturing for all of the

different things that we talk about but for business basically it's enthusiasm

everybody's enthused about our country so we're very honored by it and I am

really honored by the folks in this room and by the way the trucker's we love the

truckers I can have the top 10% pay 70% of the tax bill the bottom 50% pay - no

of the total income tax rate why is the the there were multinational

corporations that are part trillions of dollars in ten countries that offer them

better tax relief you're trying to incentivize those trillions to come back

here with a low repatriation rate how low will that be and how much do you

think you can bring back into the United States and what does it mean ok so right

now you have probably and nobody knows the exact number because it's I actually

think it's much higher than people understand but it'll probably be over

three trillion dollars is outside of our country and our companies and they just

can't get it back they're trying but they can't get it

back number one it's a bureaucratic mess number two the tax rate is so high it

doesn't make sense so what they do is they invested in Europe and other places

where the money is and I'll tell you what they do also they leave the country

because the money becomes so much and so valuable to them that they leave the

country our country to go and get their money so they leave the country and they

fire everybody now what doing is we're lowering the rate so they

can bring it back in we're giving them a shot to bring all that money it's all

going to come back in its gonna come back in immediately it's gonna be more

than three trillion dollars probably we're looking at a 10% rate it may be

around that number may be a little higher maybe a little lower but it's

gonna be right around that number probably 10 percent and right now what

it is is thirty five percent plus now who's gonna bring money back when you

have to pay by the time you finish almost half of your money in tax so

they're never gonna bring it back so we're gonna have that money come back in

its gonna put people to work so fast and the money itself is gonna go to work

very fast and you know say what you want about Democrats and Republicans for

years years and years everybody's wanting to do then you have trillions of

dollars outside of our country offshore and the Democrats wanted it back the

Republicans wanted it back everybody wanted it back and they couldn't do it

they couldn't get a deal we're gonna do a deal and we're putting it down as part

of our tax cuts but one of the things some people have brought up

every time I took true tune into anybody else in the media except Fox there are

tax cuts with a wealthy now the rate for some people go goes down but if you live

in a state like New York or Illinois in New Jersey or California you won't be

able to deduct your local or state income tax in other words if you elect

politicians that want to raise taxes you're gonna pay the penalty so that's

not really true that this is a tax cut for the wealthy as they're portraying it

what is your answer to that well you know you have some really well-run

states that have very little borrowing some have no borrowing but that very

little borrowing and it's unfair that a state that is well run is really

subsidizing states that have been horribly mismanaged I won't use names

but we understand the names but there are some states that have hundreds of

millions and billions of dollars in borrowing and it's unfair that those

states really are being subsidized by states like Indiana and Iowa and I mean

I could name many states I could probably name three-quarters of them

they're so well-run and they're being penalized they're being penalized and

it's not fair and so what we're doing is we're showing that now with all of that

the tax cuts are so steep that the people in every state benefit but it's

finally time to say hey make sure that your politicians do a good job of

running your state otherwise you're not gonna benefit you know you look at a

place like Florida it's really well-run whatever it's got and you know by

Governor Scott he's done a great job and so many people have done a great job and

those are the people that frankly should that the people that had the

intelligence to elect them should really benefit and that's what we're doing

we're creating an incentive and the doubt of the bottom line there look the

tax cut is massive we're bringing it down to 20 percent were bringing it down

to 12% for individuals we'll bring it down to zero in some

cases if it's a family it's below $24,000 anything below 24,000 is zero

and look it's as I just said it's the biggest tax cut in the history of our

country and it's this for growth and it's going to keep

our companies here our companies are leaving because the taxes are so high

but you're also a big part of it you've already done and that is you ended a lot

of the Obama era regulations especially in in industries like energy and coal

there seems to be you have a very strong commitment you just recently went

forward with Anwar you've put in place opportunities for the coal mining

industry fracking we do have an opportunity to be energy independent and

there seems to be millions of high-paying career jobs for people

available if that decision is made how big a part is that for the economic

recovery well I have done so much and Scott Pruett who was in EPA has done

incredibly you saw yesterday at a news conference on coal and his whole concept

was coal is back it's back and the miners are working again mines an

opening in the state of Pennsylvania and I love this state because I happen to go

to college in the state I know it very well and also one lesson Pennsylvania

right is he gonna win Pennsylvania 2022 by the

way incredible people incredible state and I did win Pennsylvania I worked hard

in Pennsylvania and frankly I understand what pencil Pennsylvania is about work

these are working these of people that want to work but we're opening mines

we're opening mines in the state of Pennsylvania we're opening mines and

other places you know coal is a very and I call it clean coal they have

technology today that's so incredible what they can do with a piece of coal is

so incredible I call it clean coal but it's one of our great resources one

thing that I'm very proud of the state of West Virginia last month it was one

of the highest increases percentage increases in GDP the state of Texas

speeded and people say wait a minute West Virginia just came in second you

know what that's about that's about cutting regulations and

letting the people go and mine and I was so proud of that because West Virginia's

had very tough times and you know they were overwhelmingly for me Hillary said

she wants to close up industries and she wants to close up the coal industry and

I'm the opposite so I'm very proud of that and Pennsylvania likewise

just before you arrived here I had an opportunity to interview a lot of people

in this great crowd and I asked them basically three different questions what

they thought of you overwhelmingly the oh there's a lot of support for you here

Congress when I asked them about what was your answer on Congress

what was your answer on the median

we saw what happened with healthcare and John McCain this economic plan sounds a

lot to me like what Reagan did and that created 20 million new jobs and revenues

doubled this is important for your agenda yeah how do you get this through

the Senate which has not had a good record in the last 10 bucks or so this

will be an even bigger tax cut than the great Reagan cuts this will be even more

dramatic and I think it will create even more incentive but let's talk media is

bad they're really dishonest people these are very very dishonest people in

many cases in many cases and not all look I know some reporters I know some

journalists sort of phenomenal people and very straight very honest but

there's such dishonesty I mean you know it's interesting if I was just watching

television you don't know whether or not because you know you're just watching a

report but when you're the one being written about you know if it's good or

bad and it's always they try and make it negative so the media has certain that I

call it fake media it's fake makes so much fake news and we and I only save so

when when people read things they can understand that so much of it is indeed

fake but with Congress I've got the knows a lot of them there are a lot of

good people don't forget for health care we had forty eight votes forty nine

votes we had a lot of great Republicans we need more Republican senators to be

honest with you but we had a lot of great

and you have a good one you have a good one running by the way Lou Barletta as

long as we're on the subject looper I led a great guy he's running he was an

incredible Congress

and I think I think you're going to have a tremendous surge for Lou Bartlett I

think he's gonna do a fantastic job and we do need more Republican senators

because you have a tiny smaller we have 52 to 48 and if a couple of people want

to grandstand or whatever they want to do all of a sudden because when you have

to get almost every single vote you need 51 so you have to get at least 50

because the vice president Mike Pence great guy right great so we need so that

means out of all of these people two people decide they want to do something

for whatever reason in some cases it is it's grandstanding now all of a sudden

you don't have health care but we're gonna get it anyway we have it we have

the numbers now we're gonna get that and tomorrow I'm signing something that's

gonna be incredible that I can do in 1974 there was good chance to do with it

we're gonna have great healthcare across state lines people come by it will cost

the government nothing you'll go out private insurers are gonna give you

incredible health care and I'll tell you what this will take and I can sign up

myself I don't need anybody I would have done it earlier except I was hoping that

they were going to put this through and I'd have it in the bill but we're

signing tomorrow a health care package that will cover I don't know people say

30 percent people say 25 percent and some people say could be 50 percent it's

going to cover a large percentage of the people that we're talking about truckers

would benefit the perfect for the right the unite

for McGill but this would be fantastic now would have done this immediately but

we were hoping for the healthcare so I think healthcare is gonna pass I can't

imagine the largest tax cut for people in our history not passing but I have to

say this I've met some great great people that are Republicans and I've met

some great people frankly I've met some good people not necessarily great people

that are Democrats and I actually think we'll have Democratic support from a few

people you do I do I do believe that we'll have some Democrats but we'll get

a few votes maybe you know it's interesting the one thing with the

Democrats they stay together like glue they're lousy politicians and their

policies are terrible but they do stick together

we have great policies but the Republicans tend not to be as unified

with some people you saw and heard bob Corker yeah john mccain wasn't there

even though I can run I can run a hundred ad showing John McCain I'm gonna

repeal and replace Obamacare he vote he wouldn't even vote to just repeal it

yeah I know so that's got to be frustrating and disappointing well we

thought we had it the first time we thought it was done and we thought John

was with us and all of a sudden I didn't know where he voted again so we end up

losing by one vote but here's the thing we're gonna get it and you know I always

say never give up never ever quit we don't quit we're there will one vote

George

I actually think right now we have the right but we have to wait we have to

wait for a little while we're going to do the taxes first hopefully we get that

we need 51 votes if we get it done by the end of the year I hope so I mean

who's gonna vote against this our country is losing businesses losing jobs

we have a 1% GDP now I have to tell you for the last quarter three letters three

percent three two and actually three two they adjusted it upward what a nice

sound that is are they playing that for you or for me they're playing that in

honor of his ratings did you see how bitterly he's beating everybody I think

they'll be higher tonight I'm just guessing so the fact is that we really

were really rockin we have 3.2 now this next quarter coming up I believe would

have even been better you know we haven't hit threes in a long time

so I guess it was ultimately determined it was 3.2 because they adjust upward

but we got hit with a few hurricanes as you probably that'll have I assume an

impact Barack Obama was the first president in history that never hit 3%

GDP growth in a single year of his presidency which I think speaks volumes

well you know when I took over yeah we were in the ones and if we hit think of

this if we hit just one point if we go up from two to three we pick up 2.5

trillion dollars 2.5 trillion the Treasury and we pick up millions of job

and coming up more of my exclusive interview with presidents from now he'll

weigh in on the NFL kneeling controversy he'll explain what he thinks the league

should have done with Colin Kaepernick and Matt and more straight ahead

and welcome back Hannity now earlier today I interviewed President Trump at

the 193rd special operations wing at the Air National Guard base in Middletown

Pennsylvania now here's part two of that exclusive

interview take a look a lot of people I was surprised watching all last year

with Colin Kaepernick guy praised a murdering thug

dictator he had socks that depicted the cops as pigs and and other issues he

actually donated to a charity that actually supported a cop killer and then

we saw the NFL and you took it on it appears based on the letter the Roger

Goodell put out yesterday that Donald Trump initiated a debate over standing

for the flag and our anthem and those that bought blood and died and looks

like you want

so yes Belen kept in it and I felt lease terrible and then it got bigger and

bigger and started mushrooming and frankly the NFL should have suspended

him for one game and he would have never done it again they could have been

suspended for two games and they could have suspended him if he did it a third

time for the season and you would never have had a problem but I will tell you

you cannot disrespect our country or flag our anthem you cannot do that

people the country with you the hundreds of thousands of people

fought led hundreds of thousands died fighting under that flag right when you

look at the Obama years Chicago one city his adopted hometown 3,900 people were

murdered in the last six years of Obama's presidency 18,000 shootings I

don't think he luncheon it but three or four times yeah it's hard they

disproportionately his economic policies hurt black Americans Hispanic Americans

more it smears how will your policies help minorities that is still struggling

well first of all minorities want police protection

more than anybody they need it more than anybody it's what's going on is crazy

and you look at some of these inner cities where it's just out of control

and to remember I was saying things like we will you know what do you have to

lose we will fix it we're gonna fix it but one of the things we're doing very

strongly now is the inner cities now Chicago is out of control

I don't know what they're doing in Chicago to have this many shootings and

this many killings and all of the different things that ago

this is not like it's the United States of America and pure and simple that's

bad management that's bad politics it's incredible and

then you talk to them why aren't you doing something every want to talk to

you about it it's it's really insulting to our nation and whether you take on

the NFL or you take on Chicago and some of our other cities this shouldn't be

murders like this and you know we have incredible police in this country they

could stop it thank you it's done in many cases it's the police are not

allowed to do their job they have to be politically correct we're talking about

lives and wonderful people and they have to be allowed to do their job and you

will see it's tough I'll never forget I was in Chicago and a police officer said

there was a motorcycle deal to the plane and I was talking to the police I was

taking a picture I said how do you stop this we could stop it immediately sir so

what do you mean you can stop them if they'd let us do our job we could stop

it immediately now at some point you're gonna have to let them do the job and

they want to do their job that's the incredible thing we did it on the border

the border was like a sieve now it's down 78%

that's without the law wouldn't you see what happens with words over walk but

but general Kelly has done an incredible job these are people they know how to do

it but they have to be allowed to do it look at the difference in the borders

are really adding New York already did a fantastic job in New York and that's an

example and Rudy was another campaign and when Rudy endorsed me to me that was

a very important endorsement because he did a great job especially with respect

well you could also say economic development but especially with respect

to crime in New York City we watched a lot of high profile incidents during the

Obama years of Ferguson Trayvon Martin down in Florida Freddie gray he called

the he said the Cambridge Police Act that stupidly it seems every two or four

years and I've been now thirty years in radio I just started my 23rd year of Fox

that every two or four years thank you every two to four years the Democrats

will play the race card and I resent it as a conservative because they'll say oh

they're policies they're racist sexist homophobic xenophobic Islamophobic and

meanwhile their policies haven't helped the minority communities in America is

there a way from the federal government's perspective that you can

bring Economic Opportunity totally overlooked and safety and that's what

we've said you look at what's happened in our inner cities there it's a it's

horrible what's going on in terms of the death in terms of shooting a woman gets

up and she wants to go on walking with her beautiful daughter get a loaf of

bread and she ends up getting shot or the daughter gets shot and we can stop

it don't forget the Democrats have ruled the inner cities for a hundred years

this is their rule very rarely do you have a Republican there if this is their

rule that can be turned around we could do so many things but the Democrats have

truly ruled and and when I was running I would always say what do you have to

lose I remember if this came up out of nowhere I'm reading the statistics of a

certain inner city which were terrible education is terrible crime rate is

terrible every single element economic development jobs are everybody was

unemployed and I said just I'm saying now look at the audience they say what

the hell do you have to lose the place went crazy and then I'd actually use it

again and again and we went up and we're doing a good job Ben Carson's doing a

great job at HUD he's got great heart

but the Democrats ruled the inner cities and when I saying

what do you have to lose it's so bad that really the Republicans should be

starting to do very well but we're doing a good job and we're stopping a lot of

the crime and coming up more of our exclusive interview with presidents from

now we're gonna ask him about North Korea and their aggression and what he

plans to do with the Iranian nuclear deal and much more straight ahead

and welcome back to Hannity and here is more of my exclusive interview with

President Trump now I asked him about the North Korean threat the Iranian

nuclear deal and so much more take a look there was a lot of coverage

of your phrase they would report it in the media cryptic phrase the calm before

the storm it seemed related to rocket man his term

Kim jong-un in terms of him having ICBM capability nuclear capability firing

missiles over Japan or Ally threatening Guam and potentially maybe

being able to reach the United States continental United States with a nuclear

weapon at some point this is going to come to a head

what was the combo we'll just let this to go on we just can now you can say

what you want this should have been handled 25 years ago it should have been

handled 20 years ago and 10 years ago and five years ago it should have been

handled by numerous not just Obama but certainly President Obama should have

taken care of it now it's at a point where it's very very far advanced

something has to be done we can't allow this to happen now China's been very

helpful I think I think you know who knows they seem to be very helpful they

cut off banking to North Korea that's something they've never done before

they've cut down way down on the fuel and a lot of other things we're gonna

see what happens but we cannot allow this to happen this should have been

taken care of long ago Clinton gave them billions of dollars gave them lots of

other things and before the contract the ink was dry in the contract they were

already starting again with the missiles and with the nuclear frankly so we are

in a position liquid very strong I really I'm building up the military like

nobody's ever seen what close to 800

the military our military was totally you know really depleted you look around

and you see what's going on you take a look at what we're buying right now with

the jet fighters and all of the equipment web-like and you know it's two

things really it is jobs and that's far less important but we build the greatest

military equipment in the world we have missiles that can knock out a missile in

the air ninety seven percent of the time and have you send two of them it's gonna

get knocked out it fair to say if he keeps firing missiles that's going to

end well I don't want to say anything I don't want to say anything I'm just

telling you I don't want to talk about it because you know all these people and

you're not using all the time with Mosel we are going to be attacking Mozilla in

four months we are attacking Mosul in three months until I say why do they

keep saying it attack do it or don't do it or whatever but they kept talking

about it and by the way turned out to be hell on wheels it was hard because it

was so totally prepared and I'm not saying I'm doing anything and I'm not

saying I'm not but we shouldn't be talking about it calm before the storm

you're not gonna talk about that was interesting it was interesting Bill

Clinton when he made the deal with Kim jong-un's father Kim jong-il he actually

said this is a good deal for the American people it was not it seems the

same mistake was made with President Obama and the Iranian deal there's

reports you will decertify this you can also pull out of it john bolton

suggesting you just pull out completely why decertify and not just scrap it

where you can do both to be able to mow you can do both you can be a and then I

know exactly what I'm gonna do it but I can't give it away tonight but I'm gonna

be announcing it very I think it was one of the most incompetent lead wrong deals

I've ever seen a hundred and fifty billion dollars given we got nothing we

got nothing they got a path to nuclear weapons very quickly and think of this

one 1.7 million dollars in cash this is cash

out of your pocket what you know how many airplane loads that must be did you

ever see a million dollars like a promotion where they have a million

dollars in hundred-dollar bills it's a lot this is one point seven billion

dollars you'd almost say who would be authorized to do it and who are the

people that deliver it you may never see them again right but it loads but just

plain lows so this is the worst deal we got nothing

we got nothing so I'm not giving anything away but I've been saying this

for a long time you have people dancing and screaming in the streets of a run

now I have to tell you those people are possibly staged because I happen to

believe the people of Iran are great people and they want freedom and they

want to be sort of friendly with us I really believe that but they're dancing

in the streets and they're singing death to America and carries out they're

negotiating a deal and giving up every single point you go in

we'd like this you're not having it done dunh dunnhhhh so we're still i've ever

said whether it's countrywide or any other one there is no where cell so we

will see what happens produced a lot of people are guessing but maybe there's

not so much guessing but it was an incompetent deal look it was it's a very

bad deal I'm not saying anything different tonight that I have been

saying for two years it's a horrible horrible embarrassment

to our country but they did it out of weakness when actually we had great

strength let me ask you about immigration you came up with a 70 point

plan there was fear after you had met with Pelosi and Schumer and you were

talking about daca one of the things I've always noticed is you know we

always get the tax increase we never get the spending cuts you always get the

consideration on immigration you never get the wall built part of it is there

will be you said no deal on daca unless of course we're going to end chain

migration you're gonna build a wall that's gonna be see-through now so the

well it may be we're looking at we right now have built five prototypes they're

just going up and some of them already finished and I will say they're really

looking good they're really looking good and our country needs it we need it not

only for people but we needed for the drugs that are pouring into our country

but we have drugs that are Netanyahu of Israel and he was saying Donald the wall

works believe me they had an open border that was like a sieve people just pour

it in he said 99.9 percent of the people now it stopped nobody gets in nobody

they said the walls how the way he built it has to be a properly built

constructed designed wall high not a little fence like they'd have they'd

have they had walls that would solo trucks would drive over them it was

easier to drive over it then to take it down can you believe it okay so no

madness no the wall no amnesty no no a no chain migration a chain migration is

one of the disasters you allow one person in and that one person brings in

ten or twelve people no daca until that you fund the wall daca look we have

800,000 people they're not necessarily young you know a lot of people think

their children I guess they average from sixteen to thirty nine or so but a lot

of these people are in the military they have jobs they have this said it's a

very I fully understand it but if we're gonna do something we have to get

something in return and what I want is tremendous border

regulation I want the wall and we're gonna get other things and we're gonna

see if we can work something out now whether or not we do I don't know but it

would be wonderful to solve the daca problem and by the way even my most

conservative hardline friends and the Republican Party would like would really

like to be able to solve 800,000 people and honestly these people went through a

lot because most of them went through our system many of them don't speak the

language of their country because they've never been to their country so

we are going to try and solve that but if we're gonna solve that we want a wall

and we want great border security so what does the president think about

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange saying that he has proof positive that Russia

did not give him the DNC emails find out the answer to that question next

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Trump was seeking a massive expansion... of Washington's nuclear arsenal.

NBC News reported on Wednesday... that Trump had asked for a "ten-fold increase" in nuclear

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- Thank you very much for being with us.

- I'm very happy to be with you.

- One of the points that you make in "Whistlestop"

is that things aren't necessarily better or worse

in the past than they are today.

Does that thesis still hold as you sit here

in the summer of 2017?

- It's a great question, because the past,

it's all been figured out and then the wrinkles are removed,

and you know what led to what,

and things have been resolved.

We're in the time of unresolution at the moment.

President Trump has come to Washington

with a revolutionary design for rewiring Washington,

and that's true both in the structure

of the way the city works and its policies.

People right now feel anxious.

Democrats certainly do.

Some Republicans do.

But we're nowhere near, say, 1968

where you had two major assassinations,

a war going on overseas, riots in the major big cities.

The entire American structure seemed up for grabs.

It was a less partisan time then than now.

And yet it was much worse in terms

of those shocking moments.

So that to me is one of the benefits

of both studying history and writing about it,

is that whatever we may be feeling in the present moment,

there are always other moments to give you

the kind of context and a little bit of a breath

so that we don't over analyze what's happening

in the moment and miss the fact

that there are these patterns.

- Given your reading of history

what is the one essential dimension of democracy

that is most important and yet most under threat right now?

- I think, well, one that I'm focused on at the moment,

which may be, is this idea

of motive questioning on either side,

which is that it was in the past in the case

that people were generally engaged in a common pursuit,

which was to do the best things for the people

in the name of the people who had elected you.

Obviously, in private dealings there were people

who would question the motives of their opposition.

But it was not the starting point of affairs.

You did not immediately begin with a questioning

of motives of your opponent or of the press,

that you gave them – Ronald Reagan used to say about liberals,

"It's not that we don't like them.

"It's just that their ideas are wrong."

That's fine.

Ideas are wrong.

We're gonna have a battle of ideas.

That battle can't take place if everybody,

not only is questioning the motives,

but has the most corrosive view of the motives

of the other person.

So that makes it hard to make legislation.

It makes it hard to read something in the paper

and take the facts in or take the reporting in

in the generous spirit that we would expect people

to have when they interact with each other.

As a result of corroding the political space

it also corrodes the way in which we deal with each other.

I mean, that's the worry,

is that what we see in our public life

then if we don't have mediating institutions,

if we're not going to Mass,

if we're not living by some kind of code,

the code that gets past on through osmosis

is one of conflict and motive questioning,

and not giving the other person the benefit of the doubt,

and just getting rid of the fellow feeling

that should be a part of a community,

whether it's a small community

or the community of America.

So that connection with common purpose

no matter what party you're from

seems to be in real threat.

The way you would rescue from that

is for a public official to come out

and be a model or for some leader in American life

to be a model for how you behave.

For how you treat your opponent,

or how you take complicated issues and talk about them.

But in the way that politics is now talked about

in either the news cycle or in social media

it squeezes those people out.

The loudest, meanest voices are elevated,

and the voices of restraint are marginalized

or they're seen as naive or they go off

and they do something else.

They absent themselves from politics entirely

and go work on something else because it's more rewarding.

- One of the ways that you keep yourself balanced,

you've talked about this publicly, is your faith.

I read somewhere that you go to the 5:15 vigil mMss

at Holy Trinity in Georgetown.

- I do, although then now Holy Trinity, thank goodness,

there's a 1:15 on Sunday and a 5:30 on Sunday.

So it's available to me at all different times.

- So how is that weekly worship part of your preparation

for what you do on Sunday morning?

- I go to the church I went to when I was a kid growing up.

So for me that's the first thing.

There is purely that experiential thing,

but also Mass, for me, is a specific place,

and since I go with my family too I start to see it

through their eyes, my children in particular,

it's a place to be contemplative.

It's a place to put things back

in the right perspective personally,

but also politically.

It's the place to stay in touch with that community.

The biggest largest community, not just Washington D.C.

Not just the country, but mankind.

That is a wonderful balance to what we see

basically everyday.

And if you think perhaps the biggest lesson

is to do unto others as you would have them do unto you,

or to not judge,

those are pretty good things to remember in Washington.

That doesn't mean you're not skeptical, obviously.

But it means that your first instinct

is not to immediately judge the person

and then go from there,

which as a journalist is not what you're supposed to do.

As a journalist it's a clean slate,

and then you build based on what you've learned.

So that crust of cynicism that builds up over time

you can break that away quite easily

by not only remembering the lessons of Jesus,

but also the primary lesson of our own failings.

And if you're really aware of your own failings

and your own sins then that makes it pretty easy to not,

or it should, not immediately judge people

without having done your homework in your reporting.

- That's really an extraordinary point of continuity

in your life, to belong to the same worship community

that you belonged to as a kid.

You've actually talked about your mother,

and your relationship with your mother,

a complicated relationship,

but you credit her and your father

with giving you this gift of faith.

What was it that they gave you that made the difference?

- It's a great question.

My mother, she, growing up,

went to Mass everyday with her mother.

And then she went to Clarke College

and studied with the nuns for a couple of years.

So it was knit into her life,

and it was not just on Sundays,

which has also been very important to me

in just some of the reading that I do,

and in this last campaign when you can't make it to Mass,

if you're traveling on Sunday.

So I think it was the continuity in the day-to-day

that was important.

And I think also, again, the ritual of it.

I mean, it's extraordinary that our children

will go to mass with us on Sunday because they're teenagers

and they want to be doing different things.

And yet, because I think it's a part of the tradition

that we have in our family, even if they're not listening

to the homily or the readings as much as their father

might want them to, they know it's important.

And to be engaged as a family in something

that's important has meaning and has value,

and then it's there and you can pick it up

as you get a little bit older as I think I did.

I mean, there were times

where, when I lived with my father,

Holy Trinity was just a few blocks away,

and then I went to Mass by myself.

I don't really remember why.

And that's also to be in the presence of grace.

That's all you gotta do.

And of course it's an act of worship,

whether you do it, you're feeling perfectly recollected

or you're feeling moved, it doesn't matter.

You are participating in,

ritual isn't the right word that I mean,

but you're participating in that thing

that gives you meaning.

So they gave that to me

in a way that it's hard to articulate,

but nevertheless is there.

That pull is there.

Even though my dad sometimes left right after Communion.

- That's a big no-no.

- Yeah, I know, I know.

We now stay until the very end.

Not all traditions were passed on.

- That's interesting to me because the Mass is,

of course, it's a pull, it attracts you,

but it's also a push in a sense.

The Mass is about mission.

It's about coming together in this community

and gathering the spiritual resources we need

to then go out into the world and do what we need to do.

- Exactly, and to do it mindful of the lessons

you've picked up on Sunday or of the mission,

in the general mission,

which is articulated so nicely in the Gospels.

That is making it a more permanent part,

this is not something I've quite pulled the kids into yet,

but my wife, who's not a Catholic,

is nevertheless teaches Sunday School

and is also a person of faith,

and so the idea of it being a part of your daily regimen,

the daily part of your mindset,

is very helpful and Mass kind of,

if you haven't been doing your readings

or you're whatever, distracted,

it just reminds you of that mission,

not just that you're supposed to go there,

but you're supposed to go forth from there.

And it's really necessary.

I found it in this – in campaigns in general,

because they're quite destabilizing in terms

of just your life.

One of the very stabilizing things about this job

in addition to the many wonderful things about it

is I always have to be in Washington on Sunday.

So even though I'm missing the normal Mass I would go to,

I am at least in town.

I used to be on the road quite a lot on Sundays,

and so you try and find a church if you can,

or you're on the plane or something.

That can be quite destabilizing,

and as you fall out of those routines

you miss it even if it's not in some grand way.

You do miss it.

- You're obviously a journalist that feels

comfortable talking about his faith in a public space.

Not every journalist would do that.

How do people react to that?

- There are a lot of journalists who are people of faith.

One of the things that I worry about

is talking about faith in a way that would,

I mean, obviously there's,

one is mindful of the lesson of the hypocrites, right?

So for me the most important part of faith

continues to come back to the question of pride

and humility and so that's tricky,

because there are a lot of people

who are publicly pious and that's not a judgment.

It's just something that I want to avoid,

because for me my faith reminds me of how

How far short of a person who might have

a real reason to be publicly pious.

So it's quite complicated.

But on the other hand I have friends in journalism

and other public people who are people of faith

and whose ability to talk about faith publicly

but also in private conversation is a real model,

and is a real,

is something really to behold,

and quite affirming because they found a way

to have it be a part of their life

and so you don't feel like you're over here

in some strange place given the community that we're in.

But there are lots of people of faith in journalism,

although I think probably some people out in the country

might think maybe that's not the case.

- Did you get a chance to see Pope Francis

when he was here in Washington?

- No, no, I didn't.

I did interview Speaker Boehner afterwards,

because this was the fulfillment of many, many, many

years long effort by Speaker Boehner to get the Holy Father

to come to Congress and so he was here,

and then he resigned right after that. And I said,

"After meeting the Pope did you feel as though"

and I did a short and probably not very good

explanation of the Holy Spirit but I said,

"Were you moved by the Holy Spirit to then

"decide it was time to go?"

And he sort of mumbled through something,

and then he called me about a week later and he said,

"You know, after you asked me that question,

"I thought about it and I thought about," and he said

"I think that was the case."

So for him the visit was a real turning point

and it was really fascinating.

When he called he was really enthusiastic

about explaining how this had come to him.

So that was a neat,

that was very early in my time here.

So that was an interesting way to start,

having that kind of conversation,

which isn't what we usually talk about at the table.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

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This comes... amid signs of disagreement on North Korea policy within the White House,...

with the president saying the pursuit of dialogue with Pyongyang is a waste of time.

Yu Joonhee with the details.

President Trump has admitted his views on North Korea are "stronger and tougher" than

those around him... but made clear he's in charge of making the final decision.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday,... where he was meeting with Canadian

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau... Trump said he will do "what is right" for the United

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(English) "I think I have a little bit different attitude

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"And I listen to everybody but ultimately my attitude is the one that matters, isn't

it?"

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While State Secretary Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis... have called for

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Earlier this month,... Trump posted a series of tweets,... that some say undermined his

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Soon after,... reports emerged that Tillerson had called the president a "moron",... and

was considering whether to resign,... claims that were later denied by the State Department.

NBC News also reported on Wednesday... that President Trump had asked for a massive expansion

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Trump blasted the media outlet on Twitter,... and threatened to revoke its broadcasting

license,... if it continued to propagate "fake news".

Yu Joonhee, Arirang News.

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Hello everyone~

Eminem

The screen is frozen

Wow

This is so cool

Wow

wow

wow...

awesome!

This is very intense

Almost

He is almost gonna kill him

really

I looked at the lyrics throughout the MV

I got a goose bump when he says he loves his country and military, raise his finger towards Trump

Didn't you get goose bumps? The last part

He loves his nation and country but he hates the leader

I could feel his strong hatred

also his patriotism

Every phrase has hatred in it

That's right

For me, I thought it would be better to have music for this rap

No if there is Inst, it would be considered as decorated

I love this style, very raw, this is real and his true-self

Without instrumental elements, he shows himself

made himself naked

He spit out his words towards the most powerful leader at the present

In public space, with great influence

The fact that he reveals his feeling to public

requires lots of courage, and I consider it as a marvelous art

and at the back side of camera, there were black guys

It was really cool too

Yap

Everyone has something inside of him or her

but mostly, they don't voice out their thoughts

Considering this fact, I think this is a big issue

In the lyric, he says that he will draw a line in the sand between his supporters and Trump's supporters

When I heard this lyrics, I thought it was dope

He is determined to go against him with clear line

it requires a lot of courage and decision

I respect him as an artist

He is the representative artist of this era

I want to give him a big clap

Eminem is the best

God~

I wish Trump can have introspection on himself

Hoping that Trump will felt something after watching this MV

Good Bye~

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