is different george h.w bush is advanced age, i m not saying that to dismiss it, i m saying to con textualize it. it s an awkward conversation isn t it? to explain or discuss the allegations against bush versus someone like harvey weinstein. what is your take on that, rach rachel? i caution against making harvey weinstein the gold standard for what harassment means. you ve got that s not the bar. lumbering towards you in a hotel suite hugging open his bathrobe. there s more that happens. and for there ve been so many anecdotes. i m struggling to remember them all if your wife is on one side and one arm is here. you have the other arm free for whoever is on the other side. we are wrestling with behavior of our heroes, but this is something we re seeing over and over again. there is an institutionalization of a framework that enables this. that enables powerful men to get
and he s concerned it s a thin veneer, that we think our institutions are so solid that our democracy is so secure that nothing can upset it? nothing can wipe away that thin veneer of civilization. do you worry about that? i worry about it all the time. i ve heard mike hayden talk to you about that, and i know he s written about it. it s a very serious, sober warning. civilization, in part, is the institutionalization of the rule of law, of minority rights, of a free press, of the kinds of incredible guarantees that we made as a nation from our very founding. civilization also requires leadership so that when people start engaging in white supremacy talk and they parade as neo-nazis and they re in the
veneer of civilization. do you worry about that? i worry about it all the time. it s a very serious, sober warning. civilization, in part, is the institutionalization of the rule of law, of minority rights, of a free press, of the kinds of incredible guarantees that we made as a nation from our very founding. civilization also requires leadership so that when people start engaging in white supremacy talk and parade and they re in the ku clucks clan, we need leadership to say that s not acceptable. part of what makes us this dynamic extraordinary country which i m very optimistic about
earlier with the start of a systematic shutdown of psychiatric facilities throughout the nation. over the years, more and more of the mentally ill have found themselves in jails unable to address all their needs. how you doing? you all right? i m doing all right. everything good with you? good man. thanks, man. al nnon has bn the sheriff of charleston county for more than a quarter of a century. he s witnessed the problem from its early days. you go back to the late 60s, early 70s, the psychiatric community was of moving away from institutionalization. and so what was supposed to
we hear about nixon and kissinger getting down on their knees praying at the end. trump doesn t even have a kissinger. trump has no one that will stand up to him and speak truth to power. we saw rex tillerson saying he was hopelessly devoted to trump. he had to earn his job every day. nikki haley confusing a business with a constitutional republic, a 240-year-old republic. i think she was trying to do a metaphor. i m just saying donald trump has so intimidated everybody around him that no one will tell him the truth. staff is there and process there to protect the president from himself. the problem is presidents often get what they want rather than what they need. what presidents need is formal process. what you have here is almost institutionalization of this. that s dangerous, a man who doesn t come from government, little experience, and used to