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I did a lot of study over the last 24 hours and i was trained in body language and gestures as an actor. im not coming out of left side. betos gestures actually tell us a lot about him as a person. now, it should be said, people use gestures when dealing with special concepts like direction. >> laura: you do that. >> or when dealing with abstractions but oroarks gestures tell us something more. watch. >> i just got a call from my wife amy, who is back in el paso, texas, where shes raising statem...

For politico. eddie, let me start with you. were talking about wheve seen here in the u.s. and new zealand. how easy is it to draw that line? >> white supremacy is not defined by or defied by national boarders. it has something to do with the emergence of the modern west. madernity itself is rooted in the transatlantic slave trade. its rooted in a ideology of whiteness that emerges. so its not limited to national boundaries or national histories. those national histories matter, though. but i th...

The absurdity of the whole thing for you can never live in the face of the mob. you have to pretend the people yelling at you are somehow your moral superiors. you have to assume what they say they are mad about is what they are actually mad about. you have to take them at face value. you must pretend this is a debate about virtue and not about power. your critics are arguing from principal and not for partisanship. no matter what they take from you in the end, you must continue to pretend that ...

I heard even from republicans, that you had the republican party just completely disinterested in digging for truth. it was just a cover-up operation. >> well, yeah, joe. i would expand on that in a certain way. ill say this -- theres no question that just the extraordinary kind of human drama involved here, this discussion about donald trump and his legal and political woes has been going on for the last two-plus years. often it takes place at a level of abstraction, weve been given a lesson in...

People are genuinely happy to see you. this is hanois old quarter, but its looking less and less old these days. man, this areas changed, though. the irish/czech-themed pub next door. vietnam is a young country. almost half of vietnamese are under the age of 30. fewer every year even remember what they call here "the american war." those years were a defining time for just about everyone, vietnamese or american, who lived through them. and though there are still a lot of conflicted feelings back...

Degrees warmer today by 2080. in the west, current emissions will make the climate more like southern utah. summer will get 11 degrees warmer on average. winter temperatures could rise by more than 15 degrees. salt lake city will make the city feel like northern california, 10 degrees warmer in summer and winter spiking by 18 degrees. nbc news technology reporter jacob ward is joining us live. i know you know a lot about this stuff, one of the things we talk about a lot is the difficulty some pe...

Natures ecosystems. doesnt sound awesome. according to the first global scientific review. now, insects are one of the fundamental building blocks of our ecosystem, so spells trouble much higher up the food chain, as well. but if the future absence of insects is still a little bit of an abstraction to get your mind around, i present you this image. perhaps who made their way into town because their habitat is too warm. the town declared an emergency. thats the new normal. dozens of apex predator...

Much higher up the food chain, as well. but if the future absence of insects is still a little bit of an abstraction to get your mind around, i present you this image. perhaps who made their way into town because their habitat is too warm. the town declared an emergency. thats the new normal. dozens of apex predators looking for places to eat because their habitat is melding away. quibble how tough its going to be to pass a green new deal. we got all the time in the world. green new deal. we got...

Wealth tax polls so well, which is true but thats also the untested chamber of combat. those ideas will get flexed and frisked and worked over and its possible that they are not as popular after they have to be fought over as they are when abstractions. >> look, right now in the polling they are very popular. >> there was a time repealing obamacare was popular. i want to be clear. >> there is also a time where medicare was attacked by ronald reagan, gold water and george h.w. bush. there is a ti...

Idea that the people are looking for howard schultz is nuts but here is a legitimate point in terms of the describing of the politics. you see people on the left particularly talk about medicare for all polls so well or a wealth tax polls so well, which is true but thats also the untested alcohchamber of combat. those ideas will get flexed and frisked and worked over and its possible that they are not as popular after they have to be fought over as they are when abstractions. >> look, right now ...