family name was now poisoned in chinese politics for this period of time. finally, he gained admission to the party and began an almost 40-year climb up the ladder. but why, why would xi jinping, a victim of some of the worst cruelties of communism devote his life to strengthening the party? and, fareed, i remember from my travels to china, he is just a ubiquitous figure. you just see signs of him everywhere. he s just a huge part of chinese society. was there anything from xi s past that surprised you? um, some of what we found in, you know, this history of the cultural revolution, just how much he was a victim of the excesses of chinese communism, the degree to which his family suffered, the degree to which he personally suffered, his sister. so, an extraordinarily reality here is that some of the people
of time. finally he gained admission to the party and began an almost 40-year climb up the ladder. but why? why would xi jinping, a victim of some of the worst cruelties of communism, devote his life to strengthening the party? find out tonight. don t miss china s iron fist: xi jinping and the stakes to america at 9:00 p.m. eastern. thank you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. (jackie) i ve made progress with my mental health. so when i started having unintentional body movements called tardive dyskinesia. i ignored them. but when the twitching and jerking in my face and hands affected my day to day. i finally had to say, it s not ok. it was time to talk to my doctor about austedo.
of afghans. they are not representative of the afghan will. in my experience going to afghanistan, people have very complicated feelings about the presence of the united states. they have grievances against the united states, many of which were i think justified, but on the balance, they saw the presence of the united states in afghanistan the stabilizing force and as a buffer against a type of violence and cruelties that were subjected to in the 1990s. so to see this as an afghan victory against the united states is i think a sort of way to think about it, but it s much more nuanced than that. how do you see every day life changing for afghans under taliban rule? we ve been talking to other guests in this hour about whether the taliban has learned anything in the last 20 years or being out of power, whether it has changed, whether on some of these points of treatment of girls and women or providing
brains, and that enabled them and empower them to display their own forms of cruelty. i think that was the high that people got from those four years of his political stand in the white house. they were able to exhibit and air as much cruelty that they had in their hearts knowing that they were backed. adam, your thesis also seems to cover what we are seeing in the voting rights bills that are being brought up by republicans in state legislatures around the country. attempts to restrict voting in certain ways in the country, knowing exactly who they are targeting by doing that. yes, the book is focused on cruelty is a part of politics. obviously cruelties are part of human nature. we are all capable cruelty, but this book is about cruelty, specifically the way it s used to demonize certain group, so that you can justify denying people their basic rights and a constitutional exclude them
amendment and continuing to visit these cruelties on our fellow americans. he doesn t want us to be able to come together. recognize his failures and overcome them by defeating them in november of 2020. arrest the mass shooting, you returned to your home town and you came out with a new strategy. what do you want to do differently? our new polls show you re polling at 3%. what do you think? the first place that i went to after spending nearly two weeks in el paso, following the shooting was jackson, mississippi. to visit small communities in that state that have been subject to the largest single state employment ice raid in the history of this country. nearly 700 people rounded up in the workplace. most of them, chicken processing plants. they are folks who have been