Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question are evangelicals giving President Trump the votes he needs to win a 2nd term lets get to the bottom line. About a 3rd of americans identify themselves as born again or as evangelical christians and among that group almost all of them voted for donald trump in 2016 and the vast majority say theyre going to do it again in a few weeks in return trump has pushed the religious rights agenda with this culture war and socially conservative policies the appointment of conservative judges and support for israels government but what is this huge group in American Society and how did they become such an enormous influence on americas political scene what do evangelical christians believe it and what do they want my guest today is spent his life researching and writing about American Christian fundamentalism and its Global Network he is jeff sharlet the executive producer of the family a document that was released on netflix last year based on his own book
Venice Film Festival gets underway but it might not be quite as you remember it our film critic is at the scene to tell us to lose food behind the mask. Im married to evanston its good to have you with us a series of twists and turns in the u. S. In the run up to the november president ial election and another in a long line of tell all books from former white house insiders has been leaked this one from president trumps former personal Attorney Michael Cohen now cohen was known as trumps fixer and is now serving a 3 year sentence for Campaign Finance violations and lying to congress one line from his book and time. Disloyal says that trump is guilty of the same crimes that landed cohen in prison. Well talk about this im joined by reporter joel dolerite whos in the studio with me hello to you joel ok so can you tell us what exactly is cohen alleging in this new book cohen is referring to payments made to silence 2 women who claim they had affairs with the president one of them being th
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Im michael okun welcome to the program at least 90 people have been arrested in hong kong in protests against the governments decision to postpone Elections Police fired pepper balls at prodemocracy campaigner protesters are angry that authorities will hold elections to the citys Legislature Next july instead of this sunday authorities have blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the delay antigovernment protesters have been held across since june last year. And correspondent phebe kong joins us now from hong kong by phone phebe hundreds of people are protesting there today against the press boning of the elections what exactly are they worried about. Yeah i have been writing that sos has all i said all afternoon in hong kong today and all this week with her protests so kind of like give me back my clothes and i want to kind of like those guys on the street so today i originally on this is just an election day one of the most important election in a city. Like this and so it acts like a st
Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question are evangelicals giving President Trump the votes he needs to win a 2nd term lets get to the bottom line. About a 3rd of americans identify themselves as born again or as evangelical christians and among that group almost all of them voted for donald trump in 2016 and the vast majority say theyre going to do it again in a few weeks in return trump has pushed the religious rights agenda with this culture war and socially conservative policies the appointment of conservative judges and support for israels government but what is this huge group in American Society and how do they become such an enormous influence on americas political scene what do evangelical christians believe it and what do they want my guest today is spent his life researching and writing about American Christian fundamentalism and its Global Network he is jeff sharlet the executive producer of the family a dr drama that was released on netflix last year based on his own book