it s worth. there is actually a lot of precedent for moving religious minorities and persecuted people to the front of the line in our admittance process. that goes back hundreds of years and you know that. i m not saying that there aren t problems. there may beg philosophical problems with that in the first place, but is it demagogic of you to pretend that something is not true, which is that this band of muslims to put them in the back line? that s not t true. we have plenty that say it s a persecuted group, let s bring them here first. you ve seen it before. what is unique in this situation, we ve never had a president of the united states who entered into this exalted office and said it was as clear intent to ban allen muslims, mae it very profound that from henceforth, i donald trump will make sure that muslims do not comeot into this country, then goes to rudy giuliani and says, is there a way i can do this? to keep muslims out ? by the way, one thing you and i
people don t like change even if they don t like what they have. change is scary. especially when it impacts your pocketbook and health care. that s an important component of your life and important component of your daily budget so, you know, the big premiums go up attend of the month. going to go up 25%. all of that dislike is going to reerupt and people all across the country when i did that drive across the country, that was the single most thing that i think people missed a lot. when there are few issues that present an opportunity for misinformation and deception. all around. premiums going up are often a function of what your baseline price was and that can look scarier than it was in practicality. not to say there aren t problems but the idea of hey, this is scary, democrats say people are
you did have democrats change those filibuster rules a few years ago. you can t filibuster a nominee for the cabinet anymore. democrats don t like this, they do anything about it? well, first of all, before get well, hugh, i feel for you. i ve been there. you know, the issue here is that, yes, obama s nominees got confirmed. a, a lot were vetted, a lot of them like hillary clinton had been extensively vetted because she ran for public office. the same was true with kathleen. mitch mcconnell s letter from eight years ago ought to apply today that all of these officials ought to go through a process where the office of government ethics can vet them to make sure there aren t problems that they don t run into later on. and it was really significant that walter, the director of the office of government ethics wrote a very strong letter on this and his last sentence was
and you ve got at least eight men with guns driving you around. walking into your parties, not letting you ride in your friends cars. i mean, there were those tensions for sure, we had to work through. but as i reminded my girls, these aren t problems, okay? or at least they re some very high class problems. they re high class problems. i have too much security. because of where we come from, we couldn t sympathize with their it s like, girl, you live in the white house. i was disappointed when the daughters didn t show up to their final turkey pardoning this year. but at the same time, you know, these are young women. at a certain point and by the way, the white house is not a good place to raise kids and the obamas, i have to say this, they have done an extraordinary job of protecting and nurturing and
having somebody yell at us in the office or by making a mistake or losing a bunch of money. these aren t problems that our hunter/gatherer ancestors had. they would get stressed if a lion was coming after them or a bolder coming toward their living quarters. and that kind of stress provoked the fight or flight response. getting you ready to do something. weekends! yes. but your mother cannot know there is plenty of stress and adrenaline on stage at the groundlings theater in los angeles. does the doctor know that you re out here? i m sorry, what? this is improv comedy. and hardly anything that can make you more vulnerable and tap into your creativity.