great to see you. i know you love giving interviews so thank you so much for spending the time. [laughter] you are off to asia, it s a big trip. it s the longest trip the president has ever taken since he was inaugurated. what s the goal? this is a very important trip it has two elements. one is security. geo politics. and the other is trade and economic issues. i m obviously concerned about the second. we re going to japan, to korea, to china, to vietnam and the philippines. that would be 65 billion-dollar deficit. 27 billion-dollar deficit. 350 billion-dollar deficit. 32 billion-dollar deficit and in the philippines we don t have a lot of trade with we have essentially balanced trade on a small volume there are a lot of economic issues. a lot of trade issues. the biggest one, of course, is china. laura: purely on the china front, what can we do other than impose tariffs to stop the chinese cheating on
deeply wrong in hollywood. but, of course, it s not just the media and entertainment industry. today we learned that the scandal has moved to the world of high finance. three women, including two playboy playmates filed a 27-million-dollar lawsuits against george soros former fund manager howie reuben. the women alleged he manhattan sex dungeon. just when you thought things couldn t go lower. it s important to remember that none of this, none of it is happening in a vacuum. hollywood and the media have been ratcheting up sex and violence on screen and in print for decades. every grier, a new envelope is measured so we shouldn t have been surprised by these scandals we should have expected them. it s hard to pinpoint exactly when all this started but good place to start is founding all those years ago 1953 of play bow
how did hollywood act when he passed away in september? of course, utter adulation. kim kardashian tweeted on september 28th. all right, pete a legendary hugh hefner. i m so honored to be a part of the playboy team. jenny mccarthy playmate of the year lauded hef, yet, for being revolutionary and changing so many people s lives. i will say. bear in mind, this was just a week e. week before the harvey wine steeld was blown up by the new york times. hollywood treated this man like a newly meanted saint. imitating art. i use that term art loosely. normalize the objectionification of women. look the kevin spacey. a suburban father who had sexual fantasy about his
the motor to guess here. they don t want to have a right. illegal hire united states pay them the wages this that i. that s why we need immigration reform. that s obviously compassionate. correct? they are not about come passionate. whose going to do the job. lawyer do you know barbara jordan. yes, of course i do. laura: slain civil rights leader. african-american woman. she gave one of the most important specious in edge congratulation we discussed all this. her via on this our prime larry bs responsibility. we should welcome immigrants to the united states when we can fully assimilate them. when they are merit-based
great to see you. i know you love giving interviews so thank you so much for spending the time. [laughter] you are off to asia, it s a big trip. it s the longest trip the president has ever taken since he was inaugurated. what s the goal? this is a very important trip it has two elements. one is security. geo politics. and the other is trade and economic issues. i m obviously concerned about the second. we re going to japan, to korea, to china, to vietnam and the philippines. that would be 65 billion-dollar deficit. 27 billion-dollar deficit. 350 billion-dollar deficit. 32 billion-dollar deficit and in the philippines we don t have a lot of trade with we have essentially balanced trade on a small volume there are a lot of economic issues. a lot of trade issues. the biggest one, of course, is china. laura: purely on the china front, what can we do other than impose tariffs to stop the chinese cheating on