a chance i have seen this in my lifetime repeatedly. civil rights, vietnam, i was there, and protested once myself. i kind of get that, this just became, if your left thumb s finger nail is out of joint, let s have a protest. after a while, it s lost its it s not only lost its value, although i believe american citizens should have the right totally to do it, i do think it helps the opposition, i think something like this in the day, this helped richard nixon a lot. it helped ronald reagan when they had all those nuclear freeze demonstrations out there. a million people in new york city. you won re-election a couple years later. i would encourage these people by all means, please go do it. we have three other people on our panel. were you surprised by meryl streep s speech. do you agree with jeffrey that it doesn t mean anything any
more? no, i think protests are still relevant. i wasn t surprised. i think it s an artist s duty to reflect the times. we ve seen actors and activists and athletes over the years to use their platforms to protest, what i think is happening now is, we have to remember, look, 56 million people voted for donald trump. hillary clinton did get 3 million more votes than that. i nowak tresses and actors, the running joke now in some circles is look, we re not all jesse williams, we can t all unabashedly put it out there. we re going to see more people take on donald trump directly. meryl streep has had had a streak. she can take him on p.m. we ll see people engage in protests. not necessarily directly against the president-elect in terms of our artists. kellyanne conway had issue
someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. it kind of broke my heart when i saw it, and i still can t get it out of my head, because it wasn t in a movie, it was real life. here to discuss now, actress rosie perez. the rosie perez. thank you for joining us. how are you? what did you think of meryl streep s speech? i thought it was brave, and it was her right to say so, to speak her mind. it s really funny, i remember back in the day, when people used to criticize celebrities for not speaking out on issues such as aids or homelessness or reagan openics or what have you. and now all of a sudden, they re telling us to be quiet. and i don t think that s right. it s so unamerican. isn t that why the pilgrims came here, they wanted freedom of
american history. he s going to steal a page from dwight eisenhower and do a warning, the warning that barack obama s going to give, is the country divided cannot stand that we are ripping at each other right, left, conservatives, liberals, we re losing a sense of what it means to be an american. and that may disappoint some on the left, i think he s going to try to be a healer, but also warn us we re sewing seeds of destruction here at home, with bigotry, hate speech, humiliation. reckless politics, the powerful and privilege taking advantage of the weak everyone down trodden. i believe he s working on it exceedingly hard. it s going to be a seminole moment in obama s presidential history. thank you very much. speaking of which, thanks, everyone. let s talk about hollywood. hollywood royalty versus the president-elect. meryl streep uses her golden globe speech to talk to donald trump, i m going to talk to one of her celebrity defenders.
jovi, bruce springsteen, the next day she lost both ohio and pennsylvania. you know, when i was watching those rallies, i thought, this is exactly the wrong message you need to be sending, and i think that turned out to be accurate. selena, go ahead. i was at both of these events, and you know, everyone was there, and enjoying the music and the concert, but the types of voters the types of voters they needed to show up were not there. they were there for the entertainment. you have to look at appalachia. it s a designated region that runs from new york to texas, 491 counties in there, clinton only won 21 of those. that is her husband almost carried all of them. that s that disconnect that i m talking about in terms of how people viewed that video or that speech by meryl streep.