to, quote unquote, pressure. when you talk about people speaking out, power matters. many people talk about this in hollywood as a secret, not an open one initially. powerful people have cop out. here s gwyneth paltrow describing her incident with weinstein. we had one instance in a ho at the room where he made a pass at me and then i really kind of stood up to him. i told my boyfriend at the time. brad pitt. brad pitt, i was very shaken by the whole thing. i had two movies i had signed up to do two movies with him. were you afraid that the movies would be canceled? i was afraid. where does that fit into your reporting on the corroboration or the testimonial evidence they re geing in new york? those public statements are irrelevant to the criminal cases that are being brought right now. there are at least two cases that the nypd and d.a. have been focusing on. lucia evans believed to be one
new york soon to be ex democratic attorney general eric schneiderman has been a thorn in president trump s side for years and now he s announced he is resigning today over some really disturbing claims of abuse detailed by former girlfriends in the new yorker magazine. and as the drama was unfolding last night, donald trump jr. and kellyanne conway took time to gloat on twitter. donald trump jr. wrote, it is not role play if only one of you is in on it. it is interesting to see people in president trump s orbit gloefting abo gloefting gloating about this given there are plenty of charges against president trump as well. the tweets are great. we re on the record saying that the personal conduct of people in power matters. and so i hope now members of the
than exactly what is said. what is said a lot of what is said is what s not said. every four years since 1789 we ve inaugurated a president. as often as not since world war ii not just a new president but a different political party. and that peaceful transition of power really matters. i m looking forward to what the president-elect will have to say a few minutes after he becomes president. but the people on that platform, people watching all over the world, the moment itself is actually more important than any specific policy that is mentioned, that transition of power matters. we ll see that tomorrow. that s why mrs. clinton and president clinton are there and why president obama and mrs. obama will greet the trumps at the white house early in the morning and then come to the capitol with them. bill: i saw your piece on the hill earlier today.
power matters. barack obama did that on specific issues, you guys will not work with me, i will do this on immigration. republicans screamed and yelled about it, but now as president, donald trump has an opportunity to really use executive power, both on issues, but also, by just using, what used to be the megaphone, the fdr radio address, it is now twitter. the megaphone donald trump has. if republicans on the hill are not going along for the ride, it s a free country. they can express opposition to different things they don t like. presidential power matters in washington. if he exercises it. he can pete: one tweet to one congressman could have senate democrats have way more people up for re-election in two years. a lot of them are in states that donald trump carried. steve: 10 senator. not by a little. some of them by a mile. so if they start opposing him, it doesn t mean he will get everything he wants. steve: sure. that is what i m saying about
but there s a deeper issue because you re concerned about distribution and people who are poor. or middle class. or not very rich. so you re saying we should get rid of bain capital. why don t we just give them money? well, sure. whoa s but here s why. fist, we ve tried that. there s a certain kind of approach to this which is this very stragt forward, redistribution through earned income tax right. it was nixon who floated the guaranteed income which is an idea that s preposterously radical in 2012. here s the problem with just giving them money. i understand the clean efficiency of it. and i lieblg redistribution. i think i m fairly frank on that point. but power matters, too. and the political power that underpins a system of permanent transfer is completely tenuous. it s gossamer thin.