that s a good point. and she is a known feminist comedian who is operating on behalf of women challenging patriarchal and racist power abuses. that doesn t i m not saying good on her for using the word. i agree with you that it was a mistake. in part, as she herself said, there were reports of a speech she gave i believe last night in which she said look, we spent this whole day talking about this bad word and not about the terrible policy. so i think strategically it was an error. and i understand why some people feel that it was, you know, a feminist error too. you know, but that s part of what she s doing. there is a history of taking words that have been used as weapons against less powerful people and wielding them against the powerful who have used them. and that s part of the tradition that samantha bee was working in. rebecca traister, thank you so much. thank you. before we go, a reminder our new podcast why is this happening is live and available wherever you ge
other night but has done in the past by reappropriating that word. again, she s used it before. that s a good point. and she is a known feminist comedian who is operating on behalf of women challenging patriarchal and racist power abuses. that doesn t i m not saying good on her for using the word. i agree with you that it was a mistake. in part, as she herself said, there were reports of a speech she gave i believe last night in which she said look, we spent this whole day talking about this bad word and not about the terrible policy. so i think strategically it was an error. and i understand why some people feel that it was, you know, a feminist error too. you know, but that s part of what she s doing. there is a history of taking words that have been used as weapons against less powerful people and wielding them against the powerful who have used them. and that s part of the tradition that samantha bee was working in. rebecca traister, thank you so much. thank you. before
seeing is a massive need for transparency everywhere i mean we ve got social media that allows us to be. critical right away when we see these things and there s a new acceptance obviously since the since the need to movement has started of women stories of women women are encouraged to come forward those stories are now being accepted and there s really wider and wider spread pressure coming from the general public to to see to it that these kinds of power abuses and predatory behaviors. simply are not seen as acceptable anymore it s it s still going to take so much work obviously i mean when we see this kind of thing but i m sure we haven t seen the last of it you can t get away with it anymore. probably a lot of people shaking in their shoes i m sure i m sure there are as i m sure this isn t the last karen thank you a pleasure now in other news more than
all of this comes back in a political ad if either of them choose to run for office. on the other hand, if you re playing the numbers game, and that s what the numbers game in sales or this kind of field, while political ads can hurt you, at some, will be a group of people that say, well, doesn t matter to me. small group. and the republicans, probably. i don t know if they ll run on the right. when you have billions, whether it is a right or left issue, when you have billions and hundreds of millions in the country, playing the numbers game for an election localized, state or other size, there s an element not enough people may object. attorney general jeff sessions rejecting request to appoint a second special counsel to investigate alleged power abuses of the fbi. that despite calls from republicans to look into how the agency handled the hillary clinton e-mail investigation as well as revelations about christopher steel who put together the anti-trump dossier.
concern about russian interference or any of the actions of the men surrounding his campaign and administration despite all the davis for concern. yet he is ready to impugn the reputation of a key part of our democrat is seu because of missing fbi text messages, an unknown. and a battle over a classified memo. now, the president hasn t weighed in on the house republicans refusal to show the much hind memo on surveillance to the skwrus distent. the doj warning that it would be, quote, extraordinarily reckless to release a memo that contains sensitive information that shows surveillance power abuses. remember, they are both republican by republican choices of president trump. there s also a new twist in the immigration battle. president trump putting a pathway to citizenship for some d.r.e.a.m.ers on the negotiating table.