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>> michael, finely, one of the things, the juxtaposition today is the president talking about players kneeling for anthem. it sort of struck me this perfect juxtaposition of a lot of what has happened and the way this country thinks about war in the last 16 years. this abstraction of the flag and the troops. i understand at the same time there are four service members actually killed in a battle in a place that most americans couldn't tell you we were engaged. and that preference for the abstraction and the symbolism over the actual conversation over where the u.s. is fighting its wars. >> yea...

That you wrote about, a small sort of window into the power that weinstein had in which you were a cub reporter basically and had a run in with him. >> i was a young reporter working on my first story. it was not an incidence of sexual power abuse. i interviewed him totally legitimately and he screamed at me, things i can't say on the air, you know, called me the c word and pushed me and just -- you know, screamed at me in public. i was there with a colleague. he took him out and put him in a headlock. it was an incredible -- >> in front of a ton of reporters. >> in front of a ton of reporters...

Work. they're not about sex, they're about power abuses. it wouldn't -- sexual harassment and sexual power abuses wouldn't happen if they didn't have the power to suppress, hire, fire, make or break the working lives of the women -- when we're talking about this in a professional context, that's one of the things that is in question as well as physical power. the fact that women are not believed, that they're shamed, that they're made out to be untrustworthy, crazy, vindictive, have axes to grind, that's part of the threat. and the fact that they should feel ashamed. all of these things are pa...

>> it reminds me of a story that i believe was in pro publica who spoke about arnold schwarzenegger's groping them. that's one of the things that's so painful about this moment and that i worry about with the weinstein outrage. you and i sat at this table a year ago. there was outrage about what donald trump did. kelly oxford had that twitter hashtag where women named their first sexual assault or sexual abuses that they experienced. there was tremendous outrage. it was a traumatic event. a male senator told me he had no idea his wife had been harassed or groped. we had what should have been t...

Nuclear strike. that's a big deal. that's not an official statement. but it tells you how much the chinese are upset, which is why we are now rushing to install the thad by the end of april before the election. so it's a tinder box. >> bret: they put out all kinds of things and we are supposed to be interacting with clean that to prevent north korea from being the crazy one. trump's aids say everything is on the table. the united states is looking at ways to freeze the kim family's assets, some of which are believed to believe held in chinese banks. looking at: though the challenge is huge giv...