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Counterculture prior to that. >> the 1970s were a fertile time for humor and you people were bitter, caustic, smutty, dirty, funny and -- >> drunk. >> drunk. and largely outrageous. >> the hopes of the '60s had given way to the frustrations of the '70s. the vietnam war was obviously lost. the civil rights movement had won and the argument was over, but of course it wasn't. >> the craziness of that period is what made "national lampoon" a success, people needed to laugh. >> we did a very interesting parody of "the joy of sex," "the job of sex." >> we called it the job of sex and divided it into...

Smarting from the events of 2016 when they claim mcconnell and the republican led judiciary committee stole president obama's opportunity to fill a court seat left vacant by scalia's passing. ranking member on the judiciary committee had a costic reminder for her -- caustic reminder for her republican colleagues on thursday, she said it is time for them the to reap what they have sown. eric? eric: thank you. arthel: a small town in mourning as annapolis tries to cope with the deadly shooting at the capital gazette, how people there are honoring the victims. that's next. there's little rest for...

Personally attack me, and mark also pointed out that he'd agreed with a lot of the president's policies. >> true. >> but in his word, his caustic and counterproductive style is why he can't fully support the president, and he said his comments were the epitome of that. >> does he feel encouraged because we know the reporting that you have, when the president attacked him some of the republican lawmakers booed at that? did sanford feel encouraged by that? what did he say to you? >> he felt heartened by that, let's be clear, poppy, mark sanford who was governor of south carolina and overcayman a...

It in a most caustic way possible. it's how you get the travel ban implemented the way it was to maximize chaos at the airports and it's now how you get an immigration policy that's so draconian at the border that it's eliciting outrage across the country, across the political spectrum. to stephen miller and his allies, that is the point. that provocation is the point. they want to see this anger and outrage because they've made this grim political calculation that that will be a win for them in the end. >> i think that's part of why it feels like an existential moment. when you look at the po...

I spent a lot of time talking to miller reporting on miller for a pro-tile at the atlantic and the thing that i came away with was that, he absolutely is a fierce ideology when it comes to this right wing nationalist world view. he spoke at length to me about the conservative nationalism sweeping across the world and how that movement would ultimately prevail because there was greater emotional residence to that movement than any other movement. the other thing i found out about -- as i spent time with him, is he thrills at advancing it in a most caustic way possible. it's how you get the trav...