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♪ >> good evening. tonight, hamas releases american hostages. a glimmer of hope when any -- many others remain captive and
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palestinian's in the u.s. are fearing for their families under bombardment in gaza. >> i try my best to think the worst is not going to happen. >> republicans pulled their support for jim jordan to be denominated for house speaker, leaving the chamber once again with no clear path toward. david brooks and jonathan capehart give their takes on the president's address to the nation and the call for billions more in aid to israel and ukraine. ♪ >> major funding for the newshour has been provided by the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. and friends of the newshour. >> consumer cellular, how may i
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of these individuals and institutions. and friends of the newshour. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions from viewers like you. thank you. >> welcome. two american hostages held by hamas following the terror attacks of october 7 are free tonight. they were released this evening after mediation with the government of qatar. it is good to see you. telus based on your reporting, how did this happen? >> the red cross received them
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and transfer them into israel. leading to that extraordinary photo you just saw. officials i talked to today said they are unwilling to discuss exactly what led to their release or even what happens to them in captivity. that is because there is still intense diplomacy for the other 200 hostages who have 30 nationalities between them. hamas promised they would continue to release other foreign hostages as and when security circumstances permit. hamas said it will kill hostages unless israel stopped its bombing campaign in gaza. secretary of state blinken was asked specifically today whether israel should pause airstrikes in gaza to release the hostages. >> it is very simple. hostages should be released immediately and unconditionally.
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i am not sure anyone in this room would take it at face value a report that isis made. the same applies to hamas. our position is clear. every hostage needs to be released. now. >> there are still 10 americans unaccounted for, believed to be hostage in gaza. hamas was very -- qatar was very influential in this. they said they will continue dialogueith both the israelis and hamas and they said these efforts can lead to all civilian hostages being released with the ultimate aim of the escalating the current crisis and restoring peace. israeli officials say they have no intention of the escalating, of stopping their campaign in gaza. they will continue to launch airstrikes and this expected ground invasion in the coming days even if it risks the lives
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of the other hostages. >> they are a mother and daughter from illinois. what more do we know from them? >> on october 7, they were visiting family on the border of gaza and israel attic abodes -- at a kibbutz. this was overrun by terrorists. gunmanot into their home and abducted them from a safe room. the daughter is 18. the family released his photo of her and her dog. they lived outside of chicago. judith is an artist. she is full of life, says her rabbi. >> she is an amazing woman. when she walks into a room, she lights up the room. she has so much happiness and spirituality. she is such a shining spirit. i said if they were taken, she
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would be able to survive. she has so much hope. that is what we used to say. think positively. it will be good. that is who she was. it does not surprise me that she was the first one out. >> he called her a miracle but he said they will need a lot of support from the community to overcome the trauma of what they have witnessed. even president biden said today that the u.s. government will help them recover and heal. something they will need after what they have been through. >> that is some good news on this friday even as we hold out hope for the hundreds of other hostages. israeli airstrikes continued to pound gaza today as there invasion force sits ready by the border. on the egyptian side, aid shipments still await entry to gaza. the u.n. secretary general pushed for a resolution. >> this was a sanctuary for
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hundreds of palestinian christians and muslims. but for many, it became a tomb. the historic greek orthodox church in gaza was hit by israeli airstrikes. more than a dozen people were killed. >> this church is almost 1700 years old. it is one of the oldest in the world. this is different. this is a total genocide. >> another house of worship in ruins. that did not stop the call to friday pair -- prayer at this mosque. it did not stop him from opening his heart and home to dozens of refugees. >> when an explosion happens,
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they are always screaming. frightened. the younger ones, we try to calm them down. the older ones understand what is going on. they can hear it and feel it. >> the cries of the young echo everywhere. the only well-equipped hospital is overwhelmed. it is running out of fuel and water. outside, despair. >> we do not want to receive aid. we want the destruction and killing of children in their sleep to stop. >> aid remains absent. all eyes are on the one access point not under the control of israel. satellites showed a bottleneck of some 200 vehicles although at the gate, waiting to roll in. >> these are not just tracks. they are a lifeline. >> today, the u.n. secretary
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general visited. >> what we need is to make them move. to make them move to the other side of this wall area >> speaking with leaders today, president biden said a delivery deal had been finalized. >> i believe in the next couple of days, the cross. >> threats of a greater conflict emerged. surveillance footage from the israeli military showed strikes on hezbollah targets. defense forces bolster their presence in jerusalem. tanks are part all around the region. a full invasion of gaza appears closer by the day. >> first we will destroy hamas. the next phase will take more time. stabilizing the system and we will reach the point there there is a completely different security regime here. >> in the west bank, israeli
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security divisions are out in force. yesterday they did a raid on a camp in the northern west bank. including a rare airstrike. today, the devastation left behind. somber crowds flocking to the cemetery to bury the dead. residents have turned out to bury a thousand young men. -- dozen young men. militants are waving the flags of hamas. they say the young men killed yesterday were terrorists. he said he was an innocent child. he had just turned 15. last night he was hiding with his brothers and sisters in their home as the defense forces stormed through the camp. he went outside to check if they could come out.
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video shows he was unarmed. the idf shot him three times. he dropped to the ground. >> my father raised his hands. he wanted to bring him here. but when he saw my brother, he knew he was dead. >> as he tried to retrieve the body, the shoulders -- soldier shot him as well. >> they never let the ambulance come in and get my father help. >> he was out there to bury his son today. he is now in intensive care. her hands shake as she speaks. her grief is still raw. >> a 15-year-old is a terrorist?
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can you believe that? it is a shame to say such words. if you are fighting a military, you can do anything you want. but you are not fighting soldiers. you are fighting kids. civilians. >> they said they were younger than 17. one boy was just 12. the idf refused our request for an interview. the violence is spreading. palestinians are divided on how to respond. some are determined to protest and fight. others stay quiet, hoping to protect their families and safely ride out the title wave
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of israeli vengeance. for those targeted, that choice is already out of their hands. ♪ >> at the u.s. capitol jim jordan is out of the race or speaker of the house. republicans voted to dismiss him as their nominee after he yet again failed to win the job on the house or. now the party is left grappling with if anyone can unite divided members. how are you doing? jim jordan as of 9:00 this morning was in the speaker race. >> there were cycles since we
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spoke. jim jordan said he would make the house vote over and over again. until he won. but on the very first vote, he lost momentum. he decided to go behind closed doors and see what the conference thanks. the conference sent a clear message saying we do not want you to be our nominee anymore. emotions were high. >> i think people up here care more about being in washington them what voters are asking them to do area we have people leaving today. we have no speaker. we have a war in the middle east. people care more about their own egos than this country. >> everyone is pointing to everyone else in this situation. this opens up to the entire house conference now.
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anybody who wants to run for speaker, put your hat in the ring by sunday. one of them told me this today -- >> people want to be heard and valued. that is what you are seeing right now. there are a lot of historical relationships and some will never be able to work around. i do not have those negatives out there. >> there's that word again, ego, as people say they have less ego than anyone else. there are plenty of egos to go around. we have about a half a dozen candidates for speaker. almost every house republican is thinking about it right now. >> he was saying he does not have the baggage of the republicans have. what does the quick rise and fall of jim jordan say? what does it signal? >> the fractures within the republican party go in many more directions than people realize. there is a break not just between the freedom caucus
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conservatives but the matt gaetz types who will go against everyone at all costs. jim jordan really has a trump agenda. i think there was something to learn from the boats. on the house floor yesterday, he received 199 boat -- boats. today it went to 194. 86 on the secret ballot. it will not shock our audience that politicians are doing something in public very different than what they believe in private. republicans are supposed to support their nominee on the floor. but they were supporting a man they did not want to be speaker. >> what happens on monday? >> we will have speeches from everyone who puts their name in the hat. the hope is for votes on tuesday. it is unclear.
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i am hopeful that something will happen. >> we know for sure you will be covering it all along with our great team on the hill. thank you very much. ♪ >> in other headlines, a judge in new york find donald trump $5,000 for violating a gag order in his civil fraud toil -- trial. he was ordered to delete a social media post attacking a court staffer but it stayed on the trump campaign website. a defense lawyer said it was an oversight. the judge said it was a blatant violation and made it clear that failure to comply will result in serious sanctions. another defendant pleaded guilty in the georgia election interference case and got five
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years probation. he admitted he conspired to file false documents. that is a felony. his plea came as jury selection was starting. it also came after another lawyer pleaded guilty thursday to misdemeanor violations. the head of the united auto workers is reporting progress in contract talks. he said there is still more to gain by staying on strike. he gave his weekly briefing today without calling for more walkouts. he said there have been wage hikes offered but he cautioned against settling now. >> the bottom line is we have cards left to play and they have money left to spend. that is the hardest part of a strike. right before a deal is when there is the most aggressive push for the last mile. they want to wait us out.
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>> the strike started just over five weeks ago. more than 35,000 unit -- union members have walked off the job. a court has ordered a russian-american journalist to be detained for another three days. he works for radio liberty. he has been held and accused of not registering as a foreign agent. lawyers said she is pleading not guilty. torrential way -- rain battered most of northern europe again today. scotland bore the brunt. forecasters called it an exceptional event. the storm dumped a months worth of rain. a rare red alert for more dangerous flooding will be in effect through saturday in eastern scotland. on wall street, worries about interest rates fueled more
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selling. the dow jones lost 287 points. the nasdaq fell 202 points. the s&p 500 was down nearly 54 points. in australia, the sydney opera house turned 50 years old today. a laser show brought out crowds to celebrate the occasion. and to admire one of the good examples of architecture of the 20th century. >> the opera houses one of the most iconic and recognized buildings in the world. it was born out of a wild, crazy idea. it has been turned into one of the most astonishing buildings. it has hosted an amazing number of performances and performers over 50 years. >> it was added to the world heritage list in 2007. still to come, a controversial book on sam bankman-fried.
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david brooks and jonathan k parkway in on the political headlines. and a country star reflects on his decorated career. >> this is the pbs newshour, from our studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> for many palestinians living in the u.s., try to reached love ones in gaza has become a constant and harrowing struggle. a 34-year-old first came here in 2008 to pursue an academic scholarship. today he works as a writer and communications professional in washington. much of his family still remains in the central gaza strip. we sat down with him in his home earlier today. >> i have made sure to call my mom once every day.
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>> even before the war, he was often worried about is 81-year-old father, who is paralyzed, it is 60-year-old your mother, who is blind. on after relentless airstrikes have led much of his community and rubble, he lives in constant fear for his families safety. >> since the war started, how hard hesitant to be in touch with your family? >> unbearably hard. very difficult. the land lines, cannot reach them. the internet is down most of the time. >> it has been a few days since you have been able to reach them? >> yes. >> what are you worried about? >> one of the things that terrifies me and turns my
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stomach, what would it be like for a blind person to navigate an actual bombing? around her are close to her. is she going to run, tumble, fall to the ground and be killed? how does that work? what is the exit strategy? that is what terrifies me. >>'s parents and 30 others displaced from the war are all sheltering in his families four-bedroom home. hamas they were talking about rationing water and food and applying a children's first rule when it comes to water and food. the supplies are dwindling. my father is diabetic. my mother has hypertension. >> have you seen what your hometown looks like on the news these days? >> yes. horrible. i get really shocked when i hear
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the names of people who have been murdered by israeli violence. they sound familiar to me. former classmates. former childhood friends. people are family has known. some relatives. it is really quite horrific. the extent of the destruction and damage. seeing these places being reduced to rubble. >> you are seeing what is unfolding on the ground knowing your family is there. what goes through your mind? how do you not just consumed with worry all the time? >> i am consumed with worry all the time. and fear. i think of the human toll. when i see a child being pulled out of the rubble and surviving, that is wonderful. but i also think, what will that work every and child -- feeling
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for that child look like? it is easy and quick to kill something. it is much harder to feel something. one video gave me goosebumps. it was of a child who had survived an airstrike. but was constantly shaking. it was manifesting physically. people are trying to calm him down. i try my best to think that the worst is not going to happen although that is probably wishful thinking at this point given the extent of israeli violence we are seeing. >> people we talk to on the ground say this is an existential threat for them. they cannot live next to a force that has said they wt to hand -- end israel. how do you process that and
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balance with what you know your family is going through? >> i do not think anyone in their right mind would be wishing this type of violence on either side. i don't think anybody wanted to get to this point by choice. in terms of the question of existential threat, he goes both ways. right now in the gaza strip people think next-door is a force that we have known has been violent. but today's being more violent than ever before. >> no matter how dire conditions get, he sets his parents will never leave. >> this is the only home we have ever known. my family predates the british and the israelis. our records go back to the ottoman invite. -- empire. my father is older than the state of israel. the idea that anybody should be leaving their home is really preposterous.
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in the gaza strip right now, the overwhelming majority of the population are refugees who are descendants of a prior israeli aggression that occurred in 1948. and again in 1967. some people could become refugees for a second time. some for a third time. having learned through it all that they will not be able to do that, they will want to stay in their homes or die there with dignity. ♪ >> the man at the center of a major fraud trial in new york, sam bankman-fried, is also the subject of a new book by michael lewis. we talked with him again and
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about the reaction to the story that changed dramatically as he was writing it. >> how many interviews this week? >> not that bad. we kind of skipped cable-television. >> michael lewis was a bit horse. he has become the subject of considerable blowback or is looks nonjudgmental portrayal of its hero or antihero, sam bankman-fried. on trial for defrauding investors. can you boil down who he is saintly? -- assisting sleep? >> he is the child of academics from stanford. he discovered a peculiar gift for wall street trading after he came out of m.i.t. he saw in those markets and opportunity to make a bunch of money. >> he said he would give it away
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to causes that funded affective altruism. what is that? >> rather than extend yourself in a heart full way to something you do lico be a doctor in africa and saving lives, you go to wall street. you make a fortune. you pay 50 doctors to go to africa. the math works. that idea hooked him. >> both of his parents were proponents of utilitarianism. >> he took those lease ideas a push them to extreme. >> he began amassing his fortune. >> in about two years he goes from having zero dollars to having $22.5 billion. >> how exactly? he left wall street and started his own private hedge fund. trading cryptocurrencies and
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thousands of less famous ones. the prices differed on different markets long enough that they could buy and sell instantly and make a fortune playing in the crypto casino. >> he realizes for a bunch of reasons that there is more money to be made owning the casino then trading in the casino. he starts this crypto exchange. >> it was supposed to be like any exchange, taking money from customers to buy the coins they are investing in. >> very simple business. is exchange business. you have to $50 billion being traded every month. you take a small portion of that. you make a fortune.
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>> he told a friend to invest and invested himself. and he became his companion. >> what happens over several years is a bunch of money that is meant to be on the exchange and owned by the depositors, ends up in his private trading firm. this got discovered last november when people started demanding their money back and it is not there. >> ftx went into bankruptcy as a matter of just four days or so. >> the trading fund was using it at his direction to buy and sell crypto. with a new haircut for court, he has also been attacked for using the money to fund democrats and
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donald trump republicans. he showered millions on condos in the bahamas. and on marketing. >> it is the safest and easiest way to buy crypto. >> it is ftx. it is safe and easy. >> doing much of this with depositors money, which would be criminal. the prosecution has gotten a couple of top lieutenants to testify. how naive was he? >> my friend said do you smell a rat? i said no. >> you are utterly charmed by
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him. >> i still like him. >> how close did you get to heaven? to close? >> that is the same as i have with all the subjects in my book. i have to be able to see your life. >> for many, he has not been open enough in denouncing his subjects dishonesty. >> there is a small group of people who would want me to join the lynch mob. that is not my job. my job is to tell the story as i see it and let the reader figure out what they make of it. >> are you taken aback by how much you have become so much of the story. >> a lot of people dislike him. they want to dislike that i have written a book about him. if the narrative in the book is more nuanced than the narrative
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in their head, they do not like that. i hope that with the material i am given to make a book out of it. this rose to the level of great tragedy. >> or to many tracking the trial, sank to the level of simple fraud. that has not heard book sales. with plenty to come. the film rights were sold before publication for $5 million. he is still worth real money as a subject. ♪ >> for more on the drama in washington, we turn to the
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analysis of our guests. it is good to see you both. let's start with the chaos and paralysis on capitol hill. what is your response to jim jordan losing his third boat for speaker and then ultimately being booted from the race entirely? >> to me it is a couple of things. the party is a coalition between a couple of different parties. there is the trump party. jordan is an example. there are still some pretrial republicans. they are angry. they have been pushed around. a lot of them have been motivated by death threats. they are sick of it. they said nobody is bullying us around anymore. now we have a couple of sides
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that are irreconcilable. with as much chaos and madness in public as it is possible to imagine. the underlying cause is they have no limit -- institutions. those rules do not apply anymore. it is very hard to run a party or vote for speaker if you are not going to put the institution ahead of yourself. we have a lot of narcissists clogging tv cameras in doing parallel play with each other because they cannot team up with other people. >> it says volumes that he was dismissed by secret ballot. behind closed doors in the secret ballot, he lost 112 republicans. >> what that means is the public intimidation worked when they had to go to the floor.
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to declare their fealty to him or to someone else. behind closed doors they were able to say what they really felt. i going to jump on in support of what you were just talking about. steve scalise is an institutionalist. jim jordan is not. he has never been about governing. he has been about burning the place down. the idea that he was speaker designate says a lot about where the republican party is. the idea that he thought he would be speaker of the house. he was not interested in governing at all. if he did, he would have a law with his name attached to it. he came to washington to deconstruct the house. i applaud the republican conference for booting him.
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the bigger question is who in the republican party can get the votes necessary to be speaker outright. i do not see who that is. >> why were republicans not able to get this victory? democrats would've supported it. but ultimately republicans killed it. >> i think that is because they failed to put governing first. we have all of these major issues on the floor. if people are interested in legislating and governing and the actual physical state of the country, they say this is not the time to have a brawl. but if you think the point of coming to congress is to get on fox news, that is your default way of being in the world.
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they don't have another way of being in the world. it became a gang war. like a turf war from west side story or something like that. it is hard to pull out of. >> the shift our focus to the white house. in his speech last night, the president said the wars in israel and ukraine are not just their own. they are linked directly to u.s. national security interests. what were your takeaways from last night? >> about his speech was a homerun. he stood up for american values and american national security. and also for democratic values. there is a link between the fights that are going on. israel fighting for its
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democracy as result of the terrorist attacks. if those democracies were to fall to those terroristic activities, what does that mean for democratic experiments around the world? i think the president was absolutely right to say that both those efforts, the u.s. is indispensable. when putin invaded ukraine, the world turned to biden to pull it together. the coalition. when hamas attacked israel, israel can protect itself. but when it comes to talking to other nations about opening up humanitarian lines to gaza and things like that, they turned to the u.s. american power is essential. i think the president is saying to republicans that you must get
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your act together. these nations need american help. there is only about 28 days until the continuing resolution expires. there are only nine legislative working days to get something done. >> he said the u.s. holds the world together. it was very much his worldview. >> maybe that is why he was elected. i think he is right. people take u.s. leadership for granted. but when the u.s. withdraws, it is a green light to these people. the u.s. has to be involved. it is not a role that we love.
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but it is thrust upon us. if you do not take these actions, it is costly. it is expensive. imagine the cost if ukraine felt. if china took over taiwan. imagine how much we are spending. >> we had a couple of minutes left. trump's former campaign attorney and legal advisor both pleaded guilty. what do you think this means for trump?
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[laughter] >> there is a great scene in the movie ghost where whoopi goldberg says, you are in danger. if i were to see donald trump, i would say exactly that to him. they wondered if she bit off more than she could chew bringing this huge case. we are seeing why she did it. she knew as all prosecutors know that people will flip. we went from a bail bondsman to the chief architect. if you are donald trump and those were your fellow defendants, i would be quaking in my boots. >> the significant thing is that
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sidney powell got an awesome deal. and she did stuff that was incredibly felonious. she will not go to jail. the fact that they offered her such a sweet deal is a sign that they really wanted her to testify. you don't offer somebody a deal that is what the evidence shows. trump should be worried and we should be worried for the moment when he starts winning primaries and getting convicted in the same week. i have neither what that looks like. >> thank you. ♪ >> darius rucfi achieved multiplatinum status with his band. they have sold more than $25 million -- albums.
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he has all of the big awards. he added a few more accolades to the list this month. i caught up with him in his hometown to talk about his new solo album and his new outlook on life. >> i always wanted to have mice -- my own festival. it is so beautiful out here. there is no place else i would want to do it. >> he willed this into existence. on the eve of its second year in charleston, he reflected on what it means to him. >> it is great. this is my festival. [laughter] ♪ ♪ >> the 57-year-old headlining his own music festival and celebrating the release of a new country album. ♪ promoting it with an in-store performance. we were there as he entertained
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the crowd, packed into this old-school record store with a trio of hits, including this one. ♪ this is from 2013. this went to number one on the country charts. he made it one of the top five best selling country songs of all time. he was inducted into the nashville walk of fame in early october. he will soon receive a star on the hollywood walk of fame. he was raised by a single mother. money was hard to come by. they were always rich in love. because of his mother. >> she was awesome. she was my biggest champion and
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biggest supporter. she died young. i say she is still sitting here. she was always the one giving me permission to do whatever i wanted to do. she believed in me. >> how is this album in amash to her -- an homage to her? >> i was making the record. i was having a bad day the first day of the studio. i just sat down and said to myself, at the end of the day, i am just a mama's boy. i wanted to pay the love and respect to her. >> this is your first solo ottoman six years. >> that is crazy to think about. >> it feels more reflective than your previous work. >> so many things have happened.
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the pandemic and the things happen in your life. kids growing up and leaving the house. the stuff i wanted to write the came true. this is deafly the most personal record i have ever had. ♪ >> he debuted as a solo country artist 15 years ago. following the breakout success as the front man for his band. ♪ six studio albums charting in the top 40 six times. the awards piled up as well. it remains among the top 10 best-selling studio albums of all time.
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a grammy award in 1996. and an mtv music video award in 1995. ♪ >> i did not know this until doing the research. you wrote this as a protest song against racism. >> people did not see it. that is fine. that is what it was. it was against racism and all hatred. it was just a thing of trying to hold people together. >> i first met you 15 years ago. during that transition into country music, it was not guaranteed that you would be successful. >> i always tell people i
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thought i would get talked about for a second. i always say there was not anybody who looked like me in country radio. i was being told that i would be accepted. my biggest goal with my first record was that they that may make another one. [laughter] >> gritted that of persistence come from? >> i work. i'm going to go work. tell me what i need to do and let's do it. just going out there and saying to my labels that i wanted to be treated like the new guy. whatever the new guy does, that is what i want to do. i think that went a long way. >> those songs lead to four number one albums on the
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billboard country chart. and his third career grammy. i remember watching back in 2008. you weren't entirely a new artist. >>, them. >> you thanks country radio. people were telling you country would not accept you. >> country radio took a chance on a pop singer and god bless you for that. >> country radio is still really the king. that is where people are hearing the song. country radio was so huge in me winning that. they played my songs. when a lot of people thought they would not. that was big. >> now fast-forward to the current moment. you are no longer the only
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prominent black country artists. >> i love that. i love all of these artists. i could keep going on and on. bet needs to get a black country artist category going. there are so many of us now. i love it. i love to see that. that my success helped country music to see that was true. now we can let great people in that having to worry about that. >> you mentioned your mother passed before you found musical success. what do you think she would think about the man you are today? >> i think she would be really proud of me. especially with how hard i work. and trying to give back. i think she would be really proud of me.
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she would also say you have a big house. [laughter] ♪ >> and big crowds as well. he played to thousands of fans at his festival. he is continuing his tour across the u.s. and europe running through may of next year. as always, there is much more online. i asked him about his favorite songs to play. you can hear his answer on our youtube page. for more on the crisis in the middle east and the chaos on capitol hill, watch washington week tonight. for the very latest on the war in israel, tune in tomorrow. have a good evening and a great weekend. >> major funding has been provided by -- ♪
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♪ hello, everyone, and welcome to "amanpour & co." here's what's coming up. after president biden warns israel don't let the red mist blind you, i ask the former idf counterterror expert miri eisen, will israel listen? then