let me go to this map, if i can. first of all, seoul and its proximity to the demilitarized zone, these two by point of reference is where the missile launches have been taking place and where the missile development and nuke development is taking place. if the north koreans were going to invade, there are two essential invasion corridors, one from the town of cason and then here. so those two corridors vector right into seoul. but what you see today is a heck of a lot of urbanized glass buildings, residential parks, business, industrial parks that exist. so all these invasion corridors now are what we call urbanized, very compartmentalized terrain. you can see the mountain ranges that exist up here in the north, northwest to northeast like this. but what s important to point out, on the north slope of these
modern, welcoming, modernized, urbanized, if you will, tourist destination for the world. i wonder how much do you think as somebody who has liveded in dubai and knows dubai and certainly knows the prestige and how important the image of downtown dubai, how much of this desire to continue with the pyrotechnics is driven by the fact that they want to show this fire is under control, that new year festivities that the million or so visitors who have come to the united arab emirates and dubai in particular to participate will go on as planned? i wonder how much do you think that is a factor in their decision right now and not necessarily public safety? i can t comment on that, ayman. i don t know what the calculus is, but certainly debut ubai is becoming a global metropolis. it s on the map. some of their new year s eve celebrations are some of the best and spectacular in the world. now it s become an iconic image,
powerful like arkansas, tennessee and new hampshire. and he lost it primarily because he struggled among blue-collar white voters who tend to be the most passionate opponents of gun control. 15 years later the democratic coalition is in a very different place. it s more urbanized, coastal, more dependent on minorities and upscale whites who tend to be more supportive of gun control. and it was extraordinary to see that the only debate about gun control last night was hillary clinton attacking bernie sanders from the left. yeah, exactly. big change. it s a good segue to where the party is right now. we don t have time to play the sound, but it was the last answer hillary clinton gave on who her favorites on her enemy might be. and she finished with republicans. and it drew a big applause moment from the crowd. i m old enough to remember when barack obama ran on making a purple america. right? on trying to attract to the middle. now it seems as if in a way both parties are falling
he is a real contender. this is his bar here. yes. look what happens when you take him out of the race. now you see the numbers they want. here is the problem, they don t like these people in the gop right now. none of them are getting ahead except trump because he is the face of their discontent. that can go a very long way in politics. the idea he ll get scared out bay debate what is this estimate of what a debate is? it s a one liner contest. nobody wins by setting out the best policy. you are right. look at the last several cycles. roughly in half between a establishment, a managerial wing white collar more moderate and urbanized. the other half is a more turbulent, populous wing overlapping tea party, blue collar lots of voters who feel
more urban and more dense, even plays close in like montgomery, as they become more densely populated and more urbanized, you get different kind of people living near each other. there is a shift in the vote it does appear. what s driving the shift could be the fact different people are moving in and others are moving out or it could be the people who are left behind who don t leave have actually become more democratic. you can t help but wonder and that s why the social issues become such a huge part of the democratic playbook because they look and that s where they feel like they need to run up they now don t need to just run up the score in the cities, they want to end them up in these counties. and we ve looked at some of these social issues when you look at gay marriage, marijuana legalization to some extent. there s a big divide between what those suburbs do and what the excerpts do. i want to transition to texas and the big runoff this week.