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when you look under the hood and examine the mechanics behind compromise, d.c. is showing signs of coming together not because of president biden, but in spite of president biden. the infrastructure bill was hard out by senate leadership. it didnt take long for the president to almost blow it to smithereens. whats not to like? >> its a bad bad bad bill. brian: he was talking about the rubble of build back better. joe biden signed off on that something in december that he could have sig...

Harvey weinstein has an oscar. youll get bad actors, and i dont just mean an actor, but someone who has done something egregious and you have to have a plan. they had no real plan for anything like this. i dont blame them. ive heard someone say, oh, security should have come out and grabbed them. thats crazy. they would have thought it was a comedy bit. so that cant be part of their plan. but i do think there has to be something in place for, you have to stay within the rules of this organizatio...

Leader on a daily basis. >> what im struck by is how self-conscious it is. in other words, if youre going exploit division, you generally dont read the stage directions. its like when he said in that interview with abc, you know, im really good at counting the, you know, crowds. that is a neolistic joke about the crowd during the inauguration. hes turning this into a comedy bit. i know we need more troops because i can see theres a lot more people in that caravan. if you look at this its like he...

>> laura: its now time for our "seen and unseen" segment where we explore some of the big cultural stories the day. now, in a moment we will dive into a political american music awards. but first, last friday segment with raymond arroyo went viral, made international headlines. we call it a social media debate. is it an accident or a comedy bit? your this is ridiculous. we are talking about ambulance chaser lawyers out there. >> im glad i have this moment because i want people to know the realit...

Tirade. oliver darcy is with us now. do you get the sense, oliver, that this is a tactic of both of them just trying to discredit each other? >> this is quite the remarkable war of words taking place between fox news sean hannity and regimjimmy kimmel. i think the rhetoric has gone beyond what we can repeat on television in some instances. i think jimmy kimmel is certainly enjoying this feud with sean hannity and vice versa. it doesnt start off like this. it started off with jimmy kimmel taking ...

The crowd doesnt believe him and it plays like a comedy bit or something soy give him a lot of credit. i think he did a good job but im completely baffled by how this happened. how do you not make this clear to somebody. its so simple. >> gave them the wrong envelope. >> but they also managed to put a live persons picture in the in memorium event. they didnt do a flawless show. >> thats funny. >> if the person still alive its funny. >> right. >> its almost like they almost shared the award thoug...

Window. [laughter] >> unlike people on the left, people on the right are united. are they, though? >> we had our issues with trump, but we galvanized by assigned our leader and we win. >> really? okay. u2 postpones new album after trump victory. always a good sign when you have to tell people that something was a comedy bit, tom. >> tom: they werent laughing. >> to be fair, i think for legal reasons we had to explain that that wasnt a real album. >> tom: i thought it was great, that picture of h...

Offended rather than educated or brought into the fold in some way? >> not at all. lets be real here. this is mtv. and theres a particular demographic theyre going after. they want to be young and hip and edgy. theyre trying to say, hey white guys, dont do this stuff in 2017. its a comedy bit. mtv has never done educational programming, asterisk, dont tell me about the aids specials in the 90s, those were great. this was designed to be funny and comedy. if you dont think its funny, thats great. ...

Offended rather than educated or brought into the fold in some way? >> not at all. lets be real here. this is mtv. and theres a particular demographic theyre going after. they want to be young and hip and edgy. theyre trying to say, hey white guys, dont do this stuff in 2017. its a comedy bit. mtv has never done educational programming, asterisk, dont tell me about the aids specials in the 90s, those were great. this was designed to be funny and comedy. if you dont think its funny, thats great. ...

Still ahead, reports of chaos behind the scenes of the first gop debate. who is in? who is out? and is donald trump really going to be central stage? >> preparing for the debates. i am who i am. i dont know. ive never debated before. i am not a debater. i get things done. plus, hillary clinton and jeb bush on the same stage tomorrow. spelling out their visions for social justice. also, a comedy bit goes viral and makes a serious point. what if america treated teachers like athletes. >> for the...