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Think the rya and the last dragon, the disney movie that came out is awesome. there's a lack of api representation in hollywood. the study found the api community accounted for less than 6% of speaking roles, and less than 4% of leads in hollywood, your thoughts. >> a lot of thoughts. the oscars, one, their viewership, their ratings has been going down for years. i think the lowest viewer ship they have seen is last year, and even though we saw historical firsts, the academy has been working hard to diversify their membership, more women, more people of color, but it remains overwhelmingly whi...

In this year of pandemic. i love the oscars, so this is like my super bowl, my olympics, i'm really excited, even as i agree, the academy has a lot of work to do to be truly representative. even just of hollywood, let alone our country. >> and more representation in every category, right, there's not enough api representation, not enough latino representation. not enough indigenous representation, so happy to see this but also still room for improvement. katie, if there were going to be oscars for best new show, i'm going to bet that katie phang's new show on msnbc would be nominated. i'm so t...

Growing. there are a lot of people who came over on h-1b visas and have their green card and they're going to be citizes soon and they're already active in the grassroots. it's not surprising and it's welcoming to see the grassroots support and the involvement of asian american immigrants. >> 30% in your district? that's extraordinary! asian americans make up 7% of the state population. what needs to be done to get more aapi representation in government, at all levels? >> absolutely. well, one of the things i wanted to do when i was elected, i was the first south asian and indian american elec...