alec baldwin a lot more than he responds to newspapers? it was an absolutely brilliant parody. in a way, it s the opposite of fake news. what we saw was the real news, through a satiric lens, but this is exactly what people need to know about how russia is manipulating the election, how rex tillerson who has dealings with putin is, you know, the shirtless putin and tillerson are beautiful together. so it explains to people in a fun, informative way. and like i said, it s the truth, as opposed to all the lies that people get when their facebook browser gives it to them. what we see in closed societies are those that are more on the authoritarian spectrum is a squeezing of speech, a squeezing of civil society. in russia, what was the outcome of that, in terms of culture? well, culture existed so if we wanted to be dissidents under the soviet area and increasingly under the putin area, you and i would be in the kitchen and i would be whispering stuff to you over
color of the president s orders? technically, they cannot do it. the president or the government of the united states cannot use a force to shut people down. but if the president of the united states comes here and he s speaking and somebody does something in the audience or employees do something here, your private security here, they could come in and say, you need to leave. so that kind of rings true at any venue you go. it may ring true as a loose transition. the question is whether this is being formalized and expanded in a way that has free speech ramifications. we don t know yet. we re reporting to keep an eye on it. evy poumpouras, thank you for your expertise, as always. thank you. ahead, more on that tragedy in germany. nine dead in berlin after a truck drives right into a crowded market. and later, the billionaire cabinet. what donald trump s inner circle might mean for the middle class. and later, we ll show you first lady obama s final interview with oprah. what
intelligence community comes to the president in the morning with intel, there s a burden of proof at that level or public. because certainly that s not the standard for all kinds of necessarily secret matters. well, i guess, you know, as to why there would need to be a select committee, an independent investigation on this points to exactly what he s saying. is that there s differing opinions as to what happened here. so i guess if you leave an investigation like this in partisan hands, just, as howard dean has said, i happen to agree with him here. that you re going to have half of the population that s going to question the outcome. let me jump in there. that goes to the public legitimacy, which is why more public information is good. i m pinpointing the incoming chief of staff, which seems to suggest that he and the president won t accept this, until there s a higher burden of proof met. that seems different than the way most clients approach the intelligence agencies on a dail
carson doing hud and rick perry doing energy, you got a little bit of each. but the important thing is, i think, that there s something not funny, even though this is satire, there s something not funny that the war against the powerless is about to truly ramp up in this administration. and many of the people that will suffer will actually be the people who voted him into office. it s saturdd, but again, as art, as satirical artists, there s no way we can t laugh and encourage others to laugh. because i don t think there s a better weapon against somebody like donald trump, a thin-skinned individual like him, than alec baldwin just being himself. laughter is the best medicine. gary, thanks for being here today. thank you. coming up, who bill clinton is blaming for his wife s election loss. also, first lady michelle obama and oprah provide a very revealing interview. we ll show you some of that, next. from the first moment you met it was love at first touch and all you wanted to d
everything. one area he spent more was $1.3 million on private security, clinton only spending $530,000. that was an aggressive approach we saw in the stands. what do you think about the notion of a government official, not a candidate, using so much private security to patrol things that government law enforcement might not be able to do? so you re actually write about that. we can t. as secret service agents, when you go up there and the president s speaking, a lot of people donate like him, they ll boo him, they say things, they never get involved unless there s an immediate threat. obviously, there s a constitutional right, freedom of speech, as government law enforcement, they can t do that. they re not there to shut people down. how do you get around that? you have the host committee or whoever s doing private security at that event, who s responsible for that site, they would have the right to go there and escort people out. they could do that. if you have a private security c