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Chris Lu on MSNBC

Trump intensifies attacks on 'The Squad'

If there was any question about where the issue of race would play in the president’s re-election campaign, he answered it at a rally Wednesday night. Chris Jansing is joined by Miller Center senior fellow and former Assistant to President Obama Chris Lu, MSNBC Contributor Victoria Defrancesco, and Republican Strategist Susan Del Percio to discuss if this is a political strategy for the president or just who he is.
Chris Lu
Politico

Trump’s Cabinet has become severe headache for his White House

Miller Center Senior Fellow Chris Lu, a former White House official under President Barack Obama who managed the Cabinet, said the situation “dispels this idea that Trump—who came in without any experience in government and who ran on the theory of being [a] businessman—could run things better. Clearly, this is not the case.”
Chris Lu
Los Angeles Times

How Joe Biden won friends in Hollywood by helping studios get their movies into China

That perception is not unreasonable, said Aynne Kokas, author of the book “Hollywood Made in China” and a film industry scholar at University of Virginia’s Miller Center for Public Affairs. Katzenberg’s presence at events with Xi reflected “the access Katzenberg had to the Obama administration,” she said, adding that raising millions of dollars for the Obama-Biden ticket surely helped.
Aynne Kokas
The New York Times

Once Trump Talked About ‘American Carnage.’ Now He Says Critics Should Leave.

“As president, he now sees America as an avatar for himself — it must be great because he’s great,” said Nicole Hemmer, a scholar of conservatism who is taking a position at Columbia University to work on its oral history of Barack Obama’s presidency. “From this perspective, to allow that America has faults would be to allow that Trump himself has them, something he has never been willing to do.”
Nicole Hemmer