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A ceremony in china in creating that ceremony is how to deal with, indeed, the politics, which you can t touch on, and at the same time explain something of the history and the cultural values of the country which are incredibly rich, i mean, this is a society that goes back at least 5,000 years with written records, and the complexities and creativity that s been involved needs to be reflected in the ceremonies. and at the same time, it s framed in the politics without ever mentioning them in any way. so that s the challenge. i don t think me, as a foreigner, could do it at all. my role in beijing was really to advise him on the international impact of different parts of the ceremony how it would be understood, how it would be interpreted by people around the world. so the chinese creative team would be tossing out different ideas, ....
This ceremony unique. indeed, and you ve worked with the chinese authorities for the 2008 games what messages, if you could guess, would beijing be keen to stand amid all these tensions? well, in 2008 the same creative director is in charge tonight as was in 2008, and he s a master of the tightrope between politics and creativity. and it won t be any different this time. the government doesn t frame its requests by having a party functionary come and say, you must do x, y and z . it s implicit, i guess, and he knows his way around that very well. so the challenge in doing a ceremony in china, in creating that ceremony is how to deal with, indeed, the politics, which you can t touch on, and at the same time explain something of the history and the cultural values of the country which are incredibly rich, ....
Guess, and he knows his way around that very well. the challenge in doing a ceremony in china in creating that ceremony is how to deal with, creating that ceremony is how to dealwith, indeed, the creating that ceremony is how to deal with, indeed, the politics, but you can t touch on, and at the same time explain something of the history and the cultural values of the country which are incredibly rich, i mean, this is a society that goes back at least 5000 years with written records, and the complexities and creativity that s been involved needs to be reflected in the ceremonies. and at the same time, it s framed in the politics without ever mentioning them in any way. so that s the challenge. i don t think me, as a foreigner, could do it at all. my role in beijing was really to advise him on the international impact of different parts of the ceremony how it would be understood, how ....
The minority vote will be down. the turnout won t be like it was for barack obama, they re going to have less turnout and she has an issue with that. i was talking with nigel farage, he was mr. brexit, he said don t believe the polls, you saw what happened in england, voting leave despite the vote remain polls. the early vote we didn t touch on, it s really significant. 3.3 million people. more and more people do vote early and so with 18 days left, it s too late for both of them for a lot of people. still, though, the closing arguments are being made. there s an ad i want to play. this is obviously a hillary clinton ad with an emotional message from captain khan s father. my son was captain humayun khan. he was 27 years old and he was a muslim-american. i want to ask mr. trump would ....
Focus the public on just how bad it is in washington, but it was striking to us going through this six-month report card, things have it s like watching a slow erosion and then you look from january to now and you went oh, my god, things really did get bad. that was a pretty bleak report you put together, i must say as you reviewed the whole year. i think the striking thing is, you know, we started the year with only, as you say, a little bit of optimism. i think things have gone much worse than people had anticipated. the congress shut down far earlier than we thought. the relationship between the white house and the congress, which was pretty bad at the beginning of the year, has gotten worse. and i think that one of the things that we didn t touch on that s important is the absence of any serious discussion about the state of the economy. i mean we still have an economy that s in real trouble. the latest numbers that came out recently show how bad it is, and yet either party, ne ....