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To me, i find it very unattractive. >> do you have a different view, juan? >> i do. i think senator sessions has said himself he was no hero in the civil rights movement. hes never claimed that. >> self-deprecating. >> he is. hes a very nice man. >> writes. >> thats on a personal level. i think its more of a situation where you get a guy from alabama, grew up in a strongly segregated state, knows the rules, knows how the game was played. he rose up in the political structure. now the question is...

You know what i mean? thats not a good holiday this kind of thing, no matter what i say im going to get backlash. >> thats the thing, i think weve learned after what happened about a month ago, a certain kind of white person that might be b a man is getting tired of that. i understand there are things that white america might want t. know about, i also understand that you get tired of feeling like youre damned if you do, damned if you dont. >> i did wonder if this was supposed to be a piece of s...

About this romantic affair with harrison ford that no one thought it was happening and at the time she didnt think that he did, either. don, poppy? >> you had to love her. >> you know whats funny during that -- thank you, paul, appreciate it. during that ellen interview when she said she would go back and reprieve whenever they would do the update on the role, she said they would make her lose weight because they only wanted to hire part of her. >> her humor was so self-deprecating, so witty, so...

What do you know that we dont know about carrie fisher >> that she was the one of the most hilarious and perceptive people youd ever want to meet. she was show biz royalty from birth and she quickly learned to pierce through the baloney of show biz and tell the truth. people took the high, she took the low. she dished the dirt. and she made it about herself. she was self-deprecating. and she educated people about different issues. >> challenges that many dont discuss. depression. some mental ill...

If i get something wrong, you dont see it. if she got something wrong, you dont see it. one of the things that happened on all the "star wars" sets, a great thing of love and affection and support for family. carrie was herself. and she let you know. she -- the clever thing was she let you know in a funny way that she was self-deprecating, self-mocking. gloriously witty and silly and would come out with lines which, you know, make you gile. and she -- in a way princess leia was a huge add on to ...

That cold-blooded killer, speaking to him face to face and trying extract valuable information? >> saddam was a jumble of contradictions. he could be very smart and witty and nice and self-deprecating. he could be nasty and arrogant and mean-spirited and kind of vicious and a little bit scary. >> you talked about him before that. in the book, what saddam hussein was really like in some of these interrogations. what is it that you learned that can be relevant to what we are dealing with today in ...

Meet. >> i was certainly a little intimidated. she was somebody -- i was born in 1977, the same year "star wars" came out so for everyone my age it has an incredible mark left on my lives from carrie fisher but as i became a writer, "when harry met sally" was a formidable film and she as marie is one of the great performances of her career that should be remembered in the coming days. but carrie fisher has written eight books, she worked on many screenplays so i was intimidated to meet her as a ...

And screaming out of the closet, admitting they were in rehab, dealing with that. she made it funny by being self-deprecating, funny and honest, paving the way for saying, youre not a bad person if youre dealing with any of this. it just means youre human, and there was nobody more human and vulnerable and sweet, below her sardonic exterior. >> do you see that as her legacy to sort of the next generation, the generation that grew up with her, more so than the princess leia role? >> i do. her leg...

Tess l -- princess leia. it was hard for her to make a connection to herself. once the acting started drawing up, although she was always acting until the end, in little parts, she reinvented herself as a commentator. she was a brilliant memoirist, interviewist, someone who was funny, self-deprecating and a breath of fresh air. she was one of the funniest people youd ever want to know. >> you talk about her bold, brashness, particularly in talking about her struggles with addiction. that meant s...

Not just "saturday night live" but decades. nixon on "laugh in." and obviously, more and more pop culture is a bigger and more important part of politics but most presidents have not fought with the people that made fun of them. they have been been self deprecating of it. and trump on "saturday night live" that was the approach. but the alex baldwin portrayal seems to really get under his skin and it is a pretty biting portrayal. its not -- its not necessarily light. if you think of like chevy c...