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I think it's just a sort of blanket term for saying that there is a new maybe not rule maker is the right word but saying that with the rise of china there is a country that will behave on the international sphere in a manner that is different from how past ten months have behaved or not had but you know past great powers have behaved and this is where the rohingya crisis i think throws two issues of china's rise into stark contrast on the one hand you have china saying that it wants to play a greater leadership role and it wants to have a sort of new type of great power relations but on the o...

Was, it was so much easier then. it's like all of our rights are rolling back that we're now back in 1992. >> david, i feel there's a dog whistle embedded in this. political correctness isn't just about president obama's counterterrorism policy and the way we refer or don't refer to islamic extremism. it's a blanket term for this encroaching liberal culture that may or may not include reproductive rights for women, gay marriage equality and a host of other social progress that is repugnant in certain corners of the republican party. >> that's right. i think it's been used as a euphemism for th...

Islamic extremism. it's a blanket term for this encroaching liberal culture that may or may not include reproductive rights for women, gay marriage equality and a host of other social progress that is repugnant in certain corners of the republican party. >> that's right. i think it's been used as a euphemism for the idea that liberals who want stuff like respect for the law, want stuff like respect for civil rights, for reproductive rights, that liberals are taking over. and so instead of actually debating the merits of whether the constitution should be respected when it comes to civil libert...

>> reporter: everyone for facebook at this point would be 159 million users. the social site said 1% check the box for other in their profile at this. now they will be able to use those options they will see already in the united states. pretty quickly and the plan is to roll it out globally next. and what is driving the change? well maybe statistics like this one. one california think tank estimates about 700,000 people in the u.s. identify as transgender. a blanket term which some suggests has grown to encompass a wide variety of gender identities. members of the lgbt community say it's a si...

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