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nope, instead i work, yeah. >> hinojosa: okay, will you sing dean martin for me, then? >> dan martin you want? oh, okay. >> hinojosa: let's do dean martin. >> oh, all right. something like "that's amoré" or "everybody loves somebody"? >> sure. "everybody..." >> ♪ everybody loves somebody sometimes where's my drink? ♪ everybody falls in love somehow. ♪ something in your questions just told me ♪ my sometime is now. there you are. >> hinojosa: ( laughing ) so for you, what did you do around this whole reality that your parents... you know, you were chinese american at home... >> yes. >> hinojosa: you were having a hard time even communicating with your parents... >> right. >> hinojosa: ...because you were focused on speaking english, and they were not learning english because they were busy working. >> that's right. >> hinojosa: what did you do about this kind of dichotomy of "which one... am i chinese? am i american? am i chinese american? do my parents see me as that?" how did you kind of... >> yeah, there was no... intellectualizing it, that's for sure. it was just day t

having two magnificent actors like dean martin and ronald reagan as the killers...had generally been a good guy. so why did he agreed to play a role so completely at odds with his public persona? ronald reagan was working on his memoir, and he was busy. and i think he was focused much more at that point on the political. ronald reagan never wanted to play a bad quy- reagan never wanted to play a bad guy. he didn't see himself as a bad quy- guy. he didn't see himself as a bad guy. he didn't see himself as a bad guy. he didn't see himself as a bad guy. he did not want to do that movie at all. but his friend who owned the studio had made him a lot of money. so he owed them big—time. big time. i asked him why he did the movie, and he immediately said that lou wanted him to do it.” movie, and he immediately said that lou wanted him to do it. i like what you're doing with the car. just stick with that. and so like in ageing movie gangster do one last bankjob, the ageing actor decided to do one last film. ronald reagan later said his fans kept waiting for them to be reveal

when i was up talking in front of the president i felt like i was on a dean martin roast. 2012 i had an incredible honor to be at that breakfast so i couldn't help thinking of myself like i'm at a dean martin roast. people tend not to do that and that's why you humanize them. >> host: what was the reaction of the president afterwards? >> guest: i didn't get the chance to chat with him afterwards. it was in a way joe biden rather sweetly took my phone and took e picture of me with the president. i have a president with me taken by a sitting vice president and then two weeks later i see that the white house photographer in fact did take a photo. is that the most bizarre thing? an agenda you arand agenda you'a picture of nixon and eq. it was a wonderful day and one of the privileges of my life i can't get over it. it's got to be like 700,000 people you can still see it is one of the most incredible event but i imagine i will ever experience. >> host: and it was covered by c-span, so you can also watch iy on c-span.org. >> caller: it was an amoral atmosphere. these were not people trying

so i couldn't help thinking to myself, i met the deus, like on a dean martin rose.hat was one of my favorite shows when i was a kid. i had to joke around and i loved teasing the powerful, because people tend not to do that. and i thought that's one of the ways you humanize them. to just goof around. if you can to prevent with the president of united states, in my book, you are having fun. there was no way that i was not going to a few stupid laughs. >> host: what was the reaction afterwards? did you have a chance to chat with him afterwards? >> guest: he had me cost. no, actually i didn't get a chance to chat with him afterwards. it was a strange thing. i thought on the main speaker at this event took of course we will have a photo within the president, but nobody did suck pulled out my iphone to take a selfie with the president when he walked by. joe biden, uncle joe, says no, no, no i'll take care of it. in a particularly -- joe biden rather sweet to my phonetic picture of me with the president. so i said, i have a photo of me with the president of the united stat