department said that the u.s. is monitoring what s happening here in hong kong. u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo said that president trump might raise hong kong in face-to-face talks with xi jinping expected at the g-20 meeting at the endi of the mont. so it gets to a problem for xi jinping, the president of china. he has cultivated a very tough guy persona. he has cracked down on virtually any form of public dissent, whether it s in the media or in the streets in mainland china. he s even thrown human rights lawyers in prison for the defendants they re defending and has allegedly created a system of concentration camps where he s thrown hundreds of thousands of muslims. the problem is, is that hong kong is technically a chinese city, but because of a twist of colonial history, it has more freedom than any other part of modern day china. hundreds of thousands of people,
answer? and do you think he has an advantage or disadvantage as a white male? i think his answer is really naive. the truth is that race still plays and gender both play huge impacts on the way the candidates are evaluated. look at cory booker, for instance, who has this kind of very loving, kind of mr. nice guy persona. cory booker partly understands as an african-american candidate, it s much harder to express the anger that white candidates are allowed to express because white voters would react much more negatively to that. something that barack obama had to deal with as well. race colors the way candidates are perceived in profound ways even if americans are not honest about those things. i think john delaney is just wrong here. peter beinart, good to have you. thank you. tomorrow night,on lemon is at a town hall with amy
difficulty navigating the nomination process and i think that part of the reason that they like the idea of her being the first woman and we all know that president trump likes the idea of torture. he bragged about to josh s point along the campaign trail. and it is part of his tough guy persona. during the obama administration, some perceived the united states as becoming off, leading from behind, so they like the tough guy persona that trump was bringing in. and during the campaign, a lot of us expressed concern about, well, wait a minute, torture is not legal. that was talso something that h and john mccain bumped heads on as republicans over that issue. i don t think trump cares. i think he sees it as an asset and if he some is prepared during the confirmation hearings, i think they are prepared to back her on that part of it because he sees that as a political win that people, the american peel, will say opl
guy home grown america. here s the problem with personas, by definition they re not entirely real. i ve met ted cruz, entirely smart, i never bought the regular guy persona. when you re top of the class at harvard law and your wife works at goldman sachs, you re not a regular guy. you ve probably been in some pretty elite social circles. and i don t begrudge ted cruz that. but when you try to paint over that with a persona, it s always going to come back to bite you. so if you re looking to take ted cruz down, i m not sure this is fatal, but it certainly does, i think, chip away at, you know, some authenticity issues. so he s kind of running on his anti-resume, wolf. you know, he s princeton, harvard law, clerkship at the united states supreme court, worked for the establishment george w. bush. but he wears let me bring peter into this conversation. peter, what about that? some opponents say he s
pregnant with little ricky. little ricky was called. i don t know what the topic is more often. bill: you are doing pretty well. it s a tie. so it s a cliff hanger. all right? she does a news show so this is kind of news to her. bill: funniest people continues. doocy pretty much destroying the whole concept. w.c. fields, everyone. who is that? bill: using a hard drinking wise guy persona. i would like to take this i will key that up to you. all right. keep your eye on the ball. bill: now many don t know that w.c. fields was offered a role in a major hollywood blockbuster. he turned it down supposedly because the studio didn t offer him enough money. what movie was it?