the other side took a mile. isliberals took a mile. jesse: liberals exploited the gay marriage push into what, gay everything? transgender everything, black lives matter, abortion, the whole bai basket of issues. liberals felt empowered. precedent set after corporations weighed in on gay issues. liberals say if you are going to weigh on he can same sex marriage. why aren t you weighing in on black lives matter? why aren t you weighing in on abortion. the ceos painted themselves into a corner they initially set this precedent weighs in on the gay issue and pushing corporations into this left ward drift. jesse: is there any way the corporations can stop the culture war stuff and stay out of this. i think they can. but the fact is it s going to take an equal and opposite reaction. the same grassroots forces that pushed corporations to weigh in on these contentious social issues can push corporations to
from president trump. what are we going to do? we won the election and it s not fair to take it away from us like this. trump probably put more pressure on brad rafness berger than anybody else. it was immense. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes. and i think it s the phone cat that everyone remembers that was later leaked where he in turn berated brad rafness sperger. they re diagnose aground playing you and laughing at you behind your back, brad. he praised him, he seemed to try to charm him at times. and even indicated that if he did not act, that there could be criminal liability for those actions. you re not reporting it, that s you know, that s a criminal that s a criminal offense. reporter: and it was not just pressure. there were threats. usually from trump s supporters who felt empowered or incited by him.
with president xi, and a man who was wearing a white mask with a chinese flag on it pulled her back back and pulled her back. she stumbled. she didn t fall, but lost her balance a little bit, and then two white house officials stepped in and said that she was to be left alone. so it just underscores the sort of tensions that there were going into this meeting, andrea. wow. and this was in not in china, of course. it was in indonesia, but given the circumstances obviously a country where the chinese felt empowered to do that to an american, you know, american journalist, carol lee, thank you so much. safe travels. and joining us now richard has, and ben rhodes former deputy national security adviser to president obama. welcome both. ben, this white house was lowering expectations notably for anything to come out of this statement, joint statement, joint agreement, but how do you see the outcomes here and whether or not they could reduce
international order and work in lock step with our allies and partners. we re going to compete vigorously. i m not lacking for conflict. i m looking to manage this competition responsibly. nbc s white house correspondent carol lee is in bali traveling with the president. this is just an extraordinarily important meeting, their first face-to-face, the president saying going in that he felt empowered as well as that personal diplomacy is so important. how are you reading the outcome? yeah, that s right, andrea, they met for three hours and covered a lot of territory, as you just noted. north korea, taiwan, economic issues, human rights, and the president was asked after the meeting whether there was potential for a new cold war, and he said that doesn t need to be the case, and then on specific issues, he said a number of things. he said he doesn t see any
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