sound i m listening to right now and it won t go away. abe is sucking up to donald trump in ways that take it to a whole other level with nothing in return, or just a hope and a prayer that they can cut a deal on trade as well as north korea. and donald trump is saying and doing just the opposite or doing nothing. so it s a big risk for abe, i think. but he also does well with donald trump vis-a-vis playing to his ego which is number one priority for sucking up to donald trump, and he s making all the right moves, but donald isn t returning on the policy piece. and so that s going to be a problem. we ll have to see whether the sucking up diplomacy works for abe in this case. to that point, the president tweeting, saying that he s not going to announce any sort of trade deal until after the elections in japan in the coming months. surely that s a huge disappointment for the prime minister who has done all of this, i assume, in the hopes there could be some amelioration
this country. i think you would agree. i don t think we are better off after eight years of that. i was somebody who actually really did believe in 2008 that the good that would come out of i didn t support him and wouldn t have voted for him but the good that could have come out of it would ve been some amelioration of that. juan: day now, kim kardashian has worked with the president and gotten a woman, alice johnson, released from prison. she was there on a low-level drug crime. dana: as jesse pointed out, it wasn t that low level. did she deserve this clemency? i think so. jimmy kimmel said there s other people on the list, like matthew charles, who was wrongly imprisoned. that case is before the justice department. hopefully we ll get some attention. i think she has the right idea witches if you ve been an issue and you want somebody powerful to help you solve it, you can
here. he said that allen hoped the revelations which emerged after an investigation by the new york times would lead to some amelioration but you also don t want it to lead to a witch hunt atmosphere, a salem atmosphere where every guy in an office who winks at a woman has to call a lawyer and defend himself. that s not right either. first of all, many things to unpack there. he s probably not the best person to be offering advice, but i also think you mentioned being a young female reporter. where do you sort of draw the line? is it winking? is it something more insidious? speaking of a witch hunt, i think of it on the flip side that one thing that helped these women come out in addition to sort of safe spaces, maybe female reporters, is a lot of these things there s a dull or a buzz or hum. people know about it. but it s not public. and then there s strength in numbers. one woman who goes out and
when we heat with china the issue of human rights coming up. when he says it was coming up, i was not encouraged. what do you mean comes up. how about we should make this a priority. but the obama administration is in a a tenuous position putting them to task. you put something at the center of your public pronouncements, it becomes an issue of chinese nationalism and interference with domestic affairs. that is how they frame it and that resonates with a large portion of the population. the head of the house foreign affairs subcommittee on human rights says it is time for the u.s. to force china to stop human rights abuses. there is no sanitying of china. yet. that is a missed opportunity. if we sanction in a rue distant way, i do believe we would see an amelioration of human rights
president has been kind of unfairly blamed for his response to this. largely, on the matter of what posture he struck or failed to strike. the truth is, there was not much of anything that the administration could actually do to alleviate the problem of the spill itself. however, having said that, i would also say when it comes to some of the, you know, potential clean-ups or amelioration activities, the administration has been slow. it was slow to approve the permits for the sand berms the governor of louisiana wanted built to try to keep the oil off the shores and it was has not approved so far as i know, a waiver for the foreign ships to be used, to help suck the oil up out of the water. on those two matters and the other thing, the administration which was a terrible mistake was to impose the moratorium on drilling in the area which i