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Years ago that in 2017, gay marriage would be legal in all 50 states, accepted and honored and celebrated by two-thirds of the american people, i would have said, well, i sure hope so but that's wildly unrealistic and naive. but it happened, because the straw men were pushed aside, and people finally focused on the central choice between what's right and what's wrong. that's the point we're at with the climate movement. >> it's fascinating you say that, because there is a theory about the resistance we've had. climate with a culture war issue. when people talk about it and the opposition to it...

Raising sea level and the tropical diseases are moving northward and the droughts are deeper, and you know the whole story. so people are feeling this now. and in politics and in social movements, the pattern we were talking about in technology also is sometimes evident there. i'll give you a quick example. you could take the civil rights movement, abolition, women's suffrage. in the antiapartheid movement, nelson mandela once said, it's always impossible until it's done. take the gay rights movement. if someone had told me five years ago that in 2017, gay marriage would be legal in all 50 sta...

Raising sea level and the tropical diseases are moving northward and the droughts are deeper, and you know the whole story. so people are feeling this now. and in politics and in social movements, the pattern we were talking about in technology also is sometimes evident there. i'll give you a quick example. you could take the civil rights movement, abolition, women's suffrage. in the antiapartheid movement, nelson mandela once said, it's always impossible until it's done. take the gay rights movement. if someone had told me five years ago that in 2017, gay marriage would be legal in all 50 sta...

Philippines. this is an authoritarian leader accused of killing thousands of his own people in his war on drugs. the president has said similar things about vladimir putin being popular in russia. does he understand how authoritarian regimes get these kind of poll numbers is that they have those poll numbers because they were authoritarian? >> yes. he has this attraction to straw men. people who go in and are able to amass power and do it at all costs. i guess the attraction is because that's the way he acted in business. he was a straw man. he would go over and overpower people and be success...

Korea has been shipping there. we realize the attack by russia's client state changed the calculus. in conclusion, pay close attention to the mainstream media narratives about donald trump. their latest lane change demonstrates anti-trump press will always be in attack mode. but "watters world" knows their playbook will be employed interchangeably throughout the news cycle. but president obama unlike most republicans in washington doesn't cave when he's attacked. the fake news media gets rolled over and is left grasping at straw men. you know what else is revealing? how regular americans are p...