turned hollywood political. welcome to arts and culture my 1st guest is literary heavyweight and bestselling american author geoffrey eugenic he's his books include the pulitzer prize winning novel middlesex jeffrey genovese thanks for joining me how are you. coping on holding up all right this morning ok i wanted to start syrian part because i really believe that novelists are some of the best experts that we have on the human heart and mind and i'm wondering how you understand these 2 clashing realities in america do trump and biden voters really have different core values. yeah i used to feel that as a novelist i understood my country but i'm sort of waiting to see what happens in the selection to see if i if i do or not i'm from michigan and michigan is one of the states in play right now and the 1st time that trump prevailed there unlike

a lot of my friends in new york i understood what was going on with the people who had voted twice for obama and then switched over to trump because of a feeling of being left behind and if you grew up in michigan and you saw what happened to the factories and what happened with the loss of jobs you could understand why a certain amount of the populace might decide universe in 4 way just to strike out and vote for trump now if if it happens again i'm a little bit at a loss to say that i understand my my my countrymen her a large part of them. do i think there's different i think it's just become this is a common place but i think it's become tribal is an identity issue where you think you will or a conservative you can't be a liberal you can't be a democrat those are those are terrible people and you just cling to to your side of the fence in that way and it's almost not about issues anymore it's just a sense of identity you know just briefly before trump was elected the 1st time you

told us did over here that you thought he was a little bit like this literary figure the wizard of oz the figure who seems to have all the power but hardly has not been are you sort of thought back in 2016 do you still feel that way. i guess i don't think it's a terrible comparison i mean right now he's saying that he's going to stop the voting in co go to the supreme court he is acting like he controls things controls the levers of power let's see if he does that i don't think ultimately he does i do think obviously he's a charlatan and you know he's not what he says he is and at some point that's going to be revealed the question is when now i know that a lot of americans who are talking about this are talking about this election with their therapist that's what a lot of my friends are telling me you've talked about seeing a therapist before is this something that you think you would talk about unfair of me no not not at all i fairly optimistic about the country as a whole there he is

a personal thing i don't know because too much money to talk about politics and there jeffrey toobin thanks so much for coming on arts and culture my pleasure raw nerves all over about this election american rapper carty be as they say an internet speak all of us she posted this video of her election night experience relieving stress the old fashioned way. writer t c boils dark poetic response to the evening he tweeted yes the night wears on and i feel bleak in-court out as some wong dead creature washed ashore from an ancient see. here actress kirstie alley sends out a prayer before she goes to sleep and john q 2nd response to trump's early election when call is frustrating saying he thinks he's.

and just for years we've seen hollywood and the music industry go from being more or less buddies with the obama white house to becoming a bastion of the opposition since trump's went in 2016 american artists have become more political than ever there's a look back. lights camera the stage and drama in his element he likes to play the starring role after all for years he was a t.v. star in the reality for much the apprentice but he has attitude to culture past being problematic even before he was sworn in celebrities lined up against him. being inclusive being diverse country built on immigrants. fairness these are the things that americans want to be that's what we resonate to. trump's presidency began with a culture shock the president announces the abolition of cultural funding america's

artists sound the alarm at the golden globes awards so many actress meryl streep spoke out. disrespect invites disrespect violence incites violence. when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose the list of prominent opponents for music culture in show business is long but donald trump also has some supporters clint eastwood's. and kids who wrote back to join the voice person also voiced support. biden's evil. trump must win he's real he will bring back the people's trust. and celebrity and by doing support those include swift. bruce springsteen.

and single lady gaga. the rift between the and to tell human won't and don't know which is to. have supporters but most artists who spoke out back to changing direction for the us. my next guest is political filmmaker a run chowdhury his book 1st camera man tells about the years he spent as the official white house videographer under president barack obama and then vice president joe biden around chattery franks for joining me i just want to share a video that you shot and recently posted one of the most talked about videos this election cycle footage of democratic candidate joe biden can you just tell me a little bit about what we're going to see and what made you tweet it just before

the election sure this was footage i had the honor of working a lot with gabby giffords who was a congresswoman from arizona who had been shot by shot by a gunman and sort of the recurring puffery was a very public thing in the u.s. and when the march for our lives happened after the florida school shooting in washington d.c. she was having a greet with the students and she invited president along by me who was a friend of mark kelly's who actually just won the senate race in arizona extremely recently and. i was just there covering this event and the vice president greeted a bunch of people and then this moment happened that you'll see but it was sort of a very private and special moment that i knew was a very potent and actually about a year ago when it when things started to become clearer i guess less than a year ago in the democratic primary i actually said in alarm

a calendar alarm it was like 2 weeks before the election like deploy the biden footage so you know level when a plan comes together when you have something that is meaningful as in greeting this young man's young mentally handicapped man at the event. you don't want to push it out right away that's right and it's so and i think it was so powerful too because it just is so the opposite of the tone of what we're seeing now just briefly you're obviously not a biden fan but you have visited are you not a trump fan but you have visited trump rallies you've talked about what makes them powerful can you just clue us in so that. yeah i mean trump i think a lot of times people are like oh he's letting down his supporters he's doing this he's doing that they don't understand the message is simple and it's very compelling and he's very good at selling it which is prove them wrong all of it you know the experts the elite the scientists your boss whoever it is just prove them

wrong and his sort of ability to keep doing that over and over again in elections is what his people like more then filling a policy here and there he is sort of the evidence of their wrongness and it fills people full of something i mean he has these very long rallies where he's you know speaking extemporaneously for sometimes an hour and a half and yes sometimes a little bits don't necessarily make sense when you pull them out but the whole thing pates a picture ok and he eat it really is an entertainer around chowder thanks so much for coming on the show thanks. donald trump presidency during his time in office we've seen ongoing violence against black americans notably at the hands of police officers one major phenomenon during term time in the white house has been the rise of the black lives matter movement both

on the streets and on movie screens our film correspondent caught up with leading african american filmmakers black lives matter protests existed before trump but the trump presidency has energized the movement before the election film's by in about black people films that look at themes of racism and police violence have taken center stage. after the killing of george floyd director spike lee posted a film editing real life footage with the similar chokehold death of eric garner in 2014 and scenes from his own 1909 film do the right thing do it right it was based upon their will of chokehold murder. and then the anything. you know not just by strangulation while i was being shot dead with guns. ringback ringback. in the documentary time a woman struggles to get her husband released from a 60 year prison sentence for robbery. money.

waiting on a ruling regarding my husband's. wishes when any of you might have any information like. m.l.k. f.b.i. looks back the government attempts to suppress the civil rights struggle of the 1960 s. the director sees a parallel to trump today when shoppers out. to claim the suburbs. those people of color. destroy you. so williams has also spent a career looking at what it means to be black in america in a kill is a state which premiered at the toronto film festival williams plays a drug dealer looking to break out of a life of crime. a slam poet a rapper and a filmmaker williams was and is always an activist 1st you can look at you know the

history of lynching in this country through the history of police violence or the history of policing and watering laws and all of these things and go this is not civilized. this is barbaric. artists and filmmakers continue to draw strength and inspiration from black lives matter. for more on the state of u.s. culture and the culture seen here in europe you can find us do you know where you dot com slash culture now.

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job you made for mines. this is deja vu news live from berlin there is still no winner in the u.s. presidential election earlier this evening democratic challenger joe biden addressed supporters in delaware he said he wasn't claiming victory but believes he would win by then is leading in the all important electoral college votes with a final count saying i'm going. to.