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His role in "pose." now he's oscar shy. >> i am so overwhelmed and i am so overjoyed to have lived long enough to see this day. james baldwin said, it took many years of vomiting up all the fifth th filth that i had been taught about myself and halfway believed before i could walk around this earth like i had the right to be here. i have the right, you have the right, we all have the ight. >> quoting james baldwin. i know, i know. what does that moment mean? >> it means everything, because last night felt like the night of other. you had women, you had a gay black man who gave poignant, point...

Characters, what they say publicly and what is said about them, spills out into reporting. madeleine westerhaut, this is a figure who 24 hours ago was pretty much anonymous to all americans. >> right, and i think the context is also interesting here because of what jill just alluded to, which is that madeleine had been in the white house since the very first days of the administration, in january 2017. and this is an administration and a white house that has been characterized by pretty remarkable turnover. the fact that she had been there since the very beginning and was so close to president...

White house, how so many of them have emerged as major characters, what they say publicly and what is said about them, spills out into reporting. madeleine westerhaut, this is a figure who 24 hours ago was pretty much anonymous to all americans. >> right, and i think the context is also interesting here because of what jill just alluded to, which is that madeleine had been in the white house since the very first days of the administration, in january 2017. and this is an administration and a white house that has been characterized by pretty remarkable turnover. the fact that she had been there...

Millions of people travel from the airport and now the second day in a row it's shut down. let's see if the chinese send in heavy forces. that could be the end of the democratic experiment in hong kong. >> well, of course, john heilemann it was 30 years ago that tiananmen square happened. so a lot of people protests weren't alive during that fateful summer. but you look at the news over the past few days and how fascinating that the narrative over the past two or three years has been about democracy. western style democracy on the run and autocrats running wild across the world. we have two of...

Poignant? >> i think sanders and harris gave the strongest closing argument. sanders was able to close off problem areas. and harris just for saying we have to get rid of trump. biden took too long just as i am in making the point that nothing the democrats want will get done with trump. he was dancing around that. i don't think you can do that. you are going to deal with trump as he tweeted from japan. you are all socialists. talking about health care, he went after that. he said you are doing the wrong thing. you have to figure out a way how to meet it. it is not by rambling on and policy pr...