tonight on a special edition of "the reidout," the importance of understanding our history.

>> we had three crises, the civil war, the depression and world war ii, but never were things like a free and fair election or the peaceful transfer of power or the independence of the judiciary questioned. now they're questioned. >> filmmaker ken burns with an historical perspective on the election deniers and how we almost lost our democracy once before. rachel maddow also joins me to discuss one of the darkest periods in american history and why there's a reason to stay optimistic about the future. >> we have had confrontations with authoritarianism and fascism in thiscountry before. i hear too much defeatism from people in our generation, this is so terrible and no way to fight it. no. >> also tonight, a new film explores the history of emmett till's lynching and its aftermath. i talk to the 15-year-old actor, jalyn hall, who plays till. >> i look at this as one of the

things that needed to be done, that had to be done to the best of my ability so that the world could really connect with him on a different level. >> plus, my conversation with the amazing angela bassett on wakanda forever and how the cast pulled together after the death of chadwick boseman. >> we all have such a deep love and respect for chadwick. we gathered together before we even began to shoot the first frame to just remember him, recall his brilliance and his love and his tenacity. >> we begin tonight with a victory for american democracy. although the fight is far from over. in the midterm elections, voters all across the country rejected donald trump's slate of election denying candidates, giving some hope that republicans will not succeed if they make a second attempt to hijack a presidential election. i recently had a chance to talk about our endangered democracy with ken burns, for more than four decades, the award-winning

filmmaker has been one of our country's preeminent historians. we also talked about his latest book, our america, a photographic history, where burns presents a collection of his favorite photos that is described as embodying nearly 200 years of the american experiment. and in his most recent pbs documentary, burns examined a difficult period of that experiment, turning his lens on the american response leading up to and during the holocaust. >> we're challenged as americans to think about what we would have done, what we could have done, what we should have done. >> in our better moments, we are very good people. but that's not all there is to this story. >> we talked about that documentary, but first, i ask burns about his new book. >> so it's been a labor of love for 15 years, joy. i worked nights and weekends on

it while i was doing my films. i'm rooted in still photography. the basic building block of all the films are still photographs. my father was an amateur still photographer. my mentor was a still photographer, whose photograph in 1949 graces the cover of the book, and so i wanted to go back. i have been thinking about this for years, and just try to return full value to the photographs. so there's 250 of them, one to a page, minimal caption. you look at them, you drink it in. it's all of us, good, bad, difficult as you were saying about the holocaust. joyous, funny, wars, peace, natural beauty, the whole story of us is there. all the things we're talking about today, you know, indian schools, in carlisle, the capitol building in its earlier architectural version. you know, inaugurations and peaceful transfers of power, the statue of liberty and the meaning of liberty. jewish immigration, all of that stuff is there. really to be honest, it's my

america, but i think there's too much of that division now, and i have been -- we have a website called kenburnsunam.com which is trying to take the evergreen themes of america represented in these photographs and the films i make and try to have a conversation with people, and celebrate what we share in common. what i learned if i have learned anything over the more than four decades is that there's only us, and there's no them. >> you know, you have chronicled everything from the civil war to your latest documentary which i thoroughly enjoyed. it was so good. but it's you confront issues that are difficult to talk about in this country. and i want to play a clip. i have to play a clip from the documentary. this is cut two for my wonderful directors there. this is the part about charles lindbergh. a lot of what is fascinating

about history and why i love reading about history is it is so cyclical. humans tend to make the same mistake more than once. in this country, we had some heroic moments, wonderful moments, but we also have really difficult moments we have to confront. so this is charles lindbergh and something at the time that was called america first. take a look. >> charles lindbergh testified against it. he favored neither a british nor a german victory, he said, then warned that u.s. entry into the war would be the greatest disaster this country has ever gone through. >> it's not just something that is hypothetical. england can fall. hitler will take over all of the european continent. then america first fails to see the danger to the world at large. tyrants will go as far as you allow them to go. they're always testing the waters. can i go further? can i push stronger?

and the american first and the isolationists refused to acknowledge it. >> i have had holocaust survivors and their children tell me that they feel like we're in a sort of 1930s moment in this country where there's an openness to fascism that they haven't seen since that era. and what do you make of americans' resistance to understanding the difficult parts of our history such that we won't repeat them? >> you know, it's so -- that's such a wonderful question, and it goes to the heart of all of my work. you know, history doesn't repeat itself, but as mark twain is supposed to have said, it rhymes. so all of the films i do seemingly safely in the distant past aren't safe. you know, there's an america first committee. what does trump have? there's lindbergh, who is an out and out anti-semite. he's finally kind of banished, if you will. he says something in des moines

in a speech and everybody goes, that's too much. i think, though, if you go back to the declaration, before the list of complaints and after the famous sentences that we know, jefferson talks about how human beings are disposed to suffer tyrannies while evils are sufferable, which seems to suggest that this new thing that they're inventing, a republican democracy is going to take a lot of hard work, and people don't generally want to do that work. and they do become susceptible to the authoritarians. in the 1930s, you know, it was not even clear whether we wouldn't go that way. there were many people urging fdr to take that, and he steadfastly refused to do that. in some of the ways the lack of what we would call a gutsy reaction to the immigration crisis, he couldn't do anything, hamstrung by congress. he wasn't a king, wasn't a dictator, and somebody said to him, you're either going to be the best president or the worst president. he said if i don't succeed, i'm

going to be the last president. we're always on the precipice, and we see all of this flirtation with authoritarianism, as you put it. and in fact, "the new york times" about a month ago ran a pice about how people are concerned about democracy, but it's way down on the list of the midterm stuff. well, the midterms have passed. we're sort of taking a sigh of relief. the battle isn't over, but what it said was that that concern about the fragility of our institutions, you know, we had three crises, the civil war, the depression, and world war ii, but never were things like a free and fair election or the peaceful transfer of power or the independence of the judiciary questioned. now they're questioned. in the middle of a pandemic and all sorts of bullying and divisions. so i would urge people to look at this. winton marcellus said in my jazz thing, sometimes the thing and the opposite of a thing are true at the same time. you can actually appreciate this if you're married, if you have

children, if you have good friends. you know, you understand it's not absolute. i have stunned a great progressive writer was asked in a disappointing fashion by an acolyte why he liked thomas jefferson. clearly, i suppose, because of his ownership of slaves. and he said because history isn't melodrama, it's tragedy, which means to me that in melodrama, every villain is perfectly villainous, every hero is perfectly virtuous, but life and history, which is recorded life, isn't like that. so we have to figure out a way to understand each other. the book is an attempt to do that. all of the films we attempt to do that, and nothing is ever achieved if you run away and put your head in the sand. >> it's so brilliantly said, that no one is perfectly good and no one is perfectly evil but it seems there is a faction in this country that is demanding that for instance the founding fathers be portrayed as perfectly good. otherwise, they won't allow

anything else to be taught in school. that they don't want anything taught about thomas jefferson that doesn't make him into some sort of saint, but no one is a saint. i wonder what you would say to some of these governors in a lot of these red states who are saying, well, we can't teach anything about the founders, for instance, that isn't absolute virtue because it's going to make white children feel badly or it's going to -- if you teach about slavery it's going to make white kids feel guilty or anything about the founders that isn't that they were perfect, it's going to make people hate america. what would you say to those people? >> it's just so simple, joy. in most of those states, the state religion is not christianity or whatever. it's football. and if you had a football coach who in high school on a friday night or in college on a saturday didn't tell it like it was, oh, we really stunk on defense, the offense was good, special teams were this. if you're not telling the unvarnished truth, you don't get

better and you don't get a new contract. in fact, you get fired midseason. why wouldn't we if we assume we're the most exceptional country on earth, why wouldn't we be harder on ourselves than anything? it's not harder. it's just true. you want to look at the guy who articulated, distilled a century of enlightened thinking into one sentence, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, owned 600 human beings in his lifetime. didn't see the hypocrisy and the contradiction, and that's the story. that's interesting. that's who we are. and if you want to sort of bury race, you have basically essentially said, we want to abdicate our position as the best country on earth. that is to say, we want not to be the best. we want to be ordinary. we want to be nativists. we want to have our head in the sand and being ostriches. so have at it, but a lot of this is just political posturing.

there's more than half of one political party in the country that believes that the other political party are petteras and suck the blood of young children. we often disagree, but we don't demonize the other people into some subhuman thing. it's just a function of an out of control kind of media environment in which the id of everyone is allowed to do and the ego and the super ego that keeps us in check, but our elections just said, we don't want election deniers. we don't want these people who think these fabulous stories are true. maybe it's compelling and it gets a good laugh at rallies, but you know, we basically want our democracy to continue, and we want to have at least a two-party system and we want to respect people who we disagree with just as we hope they will respect us. so my work has always been about

telling a complex story that doesn't throw the baby out with the bath water, isn't so revisionist that it is everybody is a villain. that's the same melodrama as the other end of the scale. and you just say, you have to be honest. >> yeah. well, ken burns, you're not a pastor, but that was a sermon. and i'm just going to go ahead and say amen and hallelujah. this is the book. it's gorgeous. i cannot wait to do what you said everyone is doing, i'm going to flip flow each and every one of the pages and enjoy them because i too love photography, i love history. i love this image. i feel seen that you put a black image on the front, an image of an african american. >> of course. somebody asked me earlier today, is there one photograph in the book? i said no, but go to the abraham lincoln picture and look at the cover. because that last picture taken of abraham lincoln before he was killed and this little kid in 1949 in harlem with his hockey shirt and his shoes untied and his hat and the curves of the

car, that's about as american as anything on earth. >> amen. i love it. ken burns, you're the greatest. thank you so much. i really appreciate you taking the time. >> up next, the great rachel maddow joins me on the original america first movement and how history really does seem to be repeating itself in this country. stay with us. (announcer) an important message for anyone with medicare. during medicare advantage annual election period, is choosing the right medicare insurance plan for you giving you a headache? researching all the plans, confused by all the options, worried about making the wrong decision? get fast headache relief now with myhealthpolicy. it's an easy way to learn about medicare insurance coverage that may meet your needs and budget. here's how it works. when you call or visit myhealthpolicy.com/ downloadguide, tell us what you're looking for and we'll get you the answers fast. if you're not quite sure what to look for, we can help you figure that out too and you can get a free copy of my medicare planner for more information, all with no cost or obligation to enroll. myhealthpolicy can help whether you're new to medicare

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before the election, kevin

mccarty got a verbal smackdown from congresswoman liz cheney for threatening to limit military aid to ukraine if republicans took control of the house. mccarthy told punchbowl news i think people are going to be sitting in a recession and they're not going to want to write a blank check to ukraine. it is mark twain who once said history never repeats itself, but it often does rhyme, and what mccarthy is saying sure sounds like something we have heard before in u.s. history. specifically in the 1930s when fascism was on the rise across the globe. back then, the u.s. had its original america first movement. centered around opposition to our country getting involved in world war ii in any capacity, even by sending aid. the oerbl america firsts wanted america to live with hitler and aligned with the nazis' hared of you. among those is charles lindbergh. and their ideas were supported by sitting members of congress

like senator earnest lundin, as my colleague and friend rachel maddow points out in her amazing new podcast, ultra. >> fellow americans, america prepares to take the last step before entering another world war. i call upon the youth of america to put a stop to these un-american pro-european doctrines. the people should make known their protest, write your congressmen and senators. telephone them, wire them, come to washington to see them. you must do this now, immediate protests will block the way to militarizing our nation. >> and recently, rachel maddow joined me to talk about her podcast and how history is rhyming once again. >> the podcast in the final episodes of the season is about the great sedition trial of 1944 where there's more than two dozen people on trial for seditious conspiracy.

they're charged not only with trying to overthrow the government by force but by being hooked up with the hitler government while they did it. it's about sedition, which we're confronting now. it's about authoritarianism and fascism in the united states, which we're confronting now. the other piece of it which i also feel like you and i are of the same mind about is it's about there being really, really, really terrible members of congress. you know what i mean? like, we think that we have got as bad as they get, and there couldn't be a worst bunch. but like, so earnest lundin, the podcast opens with him dying in a plane crash in a very mysterious plane crash that stays mysterious. and what emerges is that he's involved in a plot with an agent from hitler's government. that's kind of where we left the story of earnest lundin at the beginning of the podcast. as we head into the next episode that's going to drop on monday, you get to mead earnest's widow,

his wife who was left behind when he died. you get to hear her trying to explain away everything he did, saying definitely wasn't a nazi. all of this stuff you guys are saying about him seeming like a nazi isn't true. it's all just a big misunderstanding. so we have a little sound from the senator, but i wanted to give to you, nobody else has heard this, the sound from senator lundin's widow. here it is. >> roll it. >> a number of photographs of my husband were taken while he was speaking. one of those photographs was taken at such an angle as to convey the impression that my husband was standing beneath the swastika as a matter of fact, he was standing under the stars and stripes. i have beside me four photographs proving the truth of my statement. >> and as chris hayes would have said, duh-duh-duh. >> she's like, do you think you have seen a photo of him standing underneath a swastika

banner. i'm sure he didn't. here's the photo of him. >> hello. i mean, and i don't know which is sort of richer, that old american accent where everybody talk like this, so that's part of it, but you're right. it is the denial of reality that you can see. to me, it's the other thing that is resonant between that era and this one. if you had like put, you know, henry ford or lindbergh on tv at that time, they would have denied absolutely that they were pro-nazi government. but it's like the denial of reality that you can see and the determination to sedition. it feels so parallel to today. >> and we talk ourselves into this idea that there's something magic about, like, facebook or social media which has allowed people to create an alternate reality where the facts don't count and you can deny reality and everybody gets to live in their own bubble. you know what, sorry. normal lundin in february 1941

was on the radio in a nationwide broadcast being like, don't believe your lying eyes. that didn't happen. that was not thanks to twitter. we have had -- we have had confrontations with authoritarianism and fascism in this country before. they're often fought in fights that involve very powerful politically connected people on the wrong side of that fight. and they're often fought in what feels like a post-truth environment where people deny they're doing the things they're doing. the worst people among us aren't having any compossession about lying and people who do have compunction about lying are at a disadvantage in a debate. to me, i know it's a depressing subject matter, like, forgive me my -- if the fbi isn't investigating me based on the things i have -- in terms of the last year, they need to get there. but it's a depressing topic but i also feel like it's heartening to me because i hear too much

defeatism from people in our generation. oh, this is so terrible and there's no way to fight it. no, we have fought this stuff in the past in almost the same way. >> the thing that actually does scare me is that the thing that if you go back and you look at that era, what finally kind of rests america out of its america first sort of bubble that we can let hitler be is number one, an attack on the united states. that brings the country together under, but also the moral authority that fdr was able to wield and presidents could wield in that era. the thing that is different between then and now is that it's hard to imagine any president of the united states in this hyperpartisan era being able to wield the kind of moral authority or bring the country together under that authority to reverse this push toward fascism. i think that's probably what scares me at least more than anything else. >> although when you look back at the hostility to roosevelt, it reminds me nothing so much as the hostility -- reminds me of nothing so much as the insane

hysterical hatred of barack obama. >> very true. >> anti-roosevelt forces in this country in the lead-up to the 1940 election literally included a group of well connected, well off, well funded americans, very high resourced, high capability americans who were planning in the immediate aftermath of the 1940 election to have 13 cells all around the country that would set off a violent revolution and they figured enough americans would be dissatisfied with roosevelt winning that people would rise up and join it. that was happening. henry ford was the most prominent industrialist in the country, charles lindbergh was the most famous person in the country not named president roosevelt. all of the titans of industry were part of the america first movement, which was taking support from the hitler government, and the hitler government was bragging in their internal memos about how they were in great communication with those folks.

it was very powerful interests against roosevelt in a completely hysterical way, and yet, and yet, through all these different ways of fighting it, americans did the right thing and beat them back. that story needs to be told. we need to know what those tactics were. >> thank you, rachel, and be sure to check out rachel's msnbc podcast, rachel maddow presents ultra. up next on this special edition of "the reidout," 14-year-old actor jalyn hall joins me to discuss his powerful role as emmett till in the new movie "till" which details mamie till mobley's bravery in her pursuit of justice for the brutal lynching of her son. stay with us.

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i have a different set of rules for negrows down there. are you listening? >> yes. >> you have to be extra careful with white people. you can't risk looking at them the wrong way. >> i know. >> oh. be small down there. >> like this? >> that was a warning mamie till mobley gave her son emmett, or bobo, as his family called him, before boarding a train to mississippi to visit his cousins. he would never come home alive. that was a scene from the new

movie "till." the movie portrayed in gut-wrenching detail mrs. till's journey from exkrutiating pain and anguish to justice for her son. he was abducted and lynched in mississippi after being accused of making advances at a white woman. the two white men accused of this barbaric crime, roy bryant, carolyn's husband, and her half brother were acquitted by an all white jury. a year later, they proudly admitted to murdering emmett till, saying they did it because they wanted black people to stay in their place. carolyn bryant who during the trial accused emmett of grabbing her later admitted to lying about what happened that day. earlier this summer, a grand jury in mississippi declined to indict bryant who was still alive, even though there was an unserved arrest warrant for his role in till's abduction.

it was mamie till mobley's decision to publish the excruciating images of her son's battered disfigured body and her decision to hold an open casket funeral that helped galvanize the montgomery bus boycotts. it was used, 1963, the date of the march on washington. to this date, not a single person has been held accountable for emmett till's murder. viewers were spared the gruesome violence. what we see is the story of a mom who loved her carefree, outgoing boy. the task of bringing till to life was left to 14-year-old jalyn hall who had only learned of emmett's story when he was 12 or 13, and jalyn hall joins me now. you're only 15 now. to me, you're still a little kid. how are you? >> i'm good. i'm good. you know, my eyes might be a little glassy, a little red

because it brings me to tears even thinking about this. and where we have come, and i'm just so excited to be a part of it. >> listen, i have to tell you, i had a hard time reading through the script, keeping it real, bah there's something about emmett till's story that does make me cry, because it was the way you portrayed it really is what brought it home. he was so joyful, and you portrayed him as such a fun, happy boy. he reminded me of my kids. >> yes. >> how did you approach doing a story that is so tragic? what was your approach to it, and what did you know about emmett till going into your audition? >> yeah, so as far as information wise, like, i didn't know everything. i didn't know in such detail. you know, i really only knew the tragic event that happened to him. and that was kind of told to me as a, you know, a cautionary

tale, a means to prevent anything like that happening to me. my mom is the one who shared the story with me. even she didn't know in great detail about the series of events like we do now with going through the production. so when embodying a human being like this, there's of course the research you do to try to gain those traits and those aspects and understand the time period so the dialect and things of that nature. but it's also, like, conveying an authentic, accurate 14-year-old boy, a joyful boy. you know, a curious boy, and that was kind of my approach on it, to really fall into that, you know, that sort of dynamic. i was 14 when we filmed this. >> yeah. that had to be hard, though, right? we live in an era where this is happening to children, right? i mean, it's happening to boys and girls, and trayvon martin traumatized my kids because they were his age at that time.

was it hard for you to get through playing this role when for real, for real, he's your age? >> yes. well, i wouldn't say it was hard for me. i looked at one -- i looked at this as one of the things that needed to be done. that had to be done to the best of my ability. and as efficient and accurate, as authentic as possible so the world could really connect with him on a different level. and of course, there's that kind of first, like, first instance of pressure with giving a voice to a historical figure who never really had his own, at least for our world to see today. but after that kind of set in and i had that realization, i embraced, you know, the responsibility, the honor, with open arms. i'm just so blessed and thankful to be able to have done that. >> you're out here working with

whoopi goldberg who was executive producer of this film, who originally had lot about playing mamie till mobley at one point. you're working at a high level, young man. >> thank you. >> give us a little bit of where you came from, your background. this is your first big thing. your about to be a star. >> well, this is my first big movie. you know, at least in the theaters and stuff like that. yeah, this is really big. i started out in atlanta, atlanta, georgia, which is where i'm from. and then i moved out to l.a., which really started my career. i made my ways there. you know, starting with all american, which is now on its fifth season. and yeah, just continuously going on my journey and, you know, climbing and stuff. so i'm really appreciative and most really appreciative of my mom. you know, who was there with me

throughout everything, who is really the main reason that i'm here, because without that support, without that push she gave me, and that nurturing of my dream, then i wouldn't have bib here today. >> you're going to make me cry because you referenced mom, you love your mama. you played basically a perfect sort of mom's son, mama's little man. beautiful boy. and you did such a good job. it was hard for me to watch it, but you made it easier because you were so good in it. jalyn hall, we're going to see a lot of you. thank you for being here. i'm going to have to call you nephew now because i thoughts you were brilliant. >> please do. >> have a good night. thank you for being here. jalyn hall's star is on the rise, angela bassett is a hollywood legend. i recently had a chance to speak to the queen herself about black panther wakanda forever and the loss of the late great chadwick boseman. that's up next. discover the power of 3 in the ozempic® tri-zone.

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black panther wakanda forever will premiere with one glaring absence. chadwick boseman, who portrayed the king and protector of wakanda in the original black panther film, died in 2020 after a private battle with colon cancer. ryan coogler's marvel sequel is a tribute to bozeman and the continuation of his legacy. as queen rumaunda and fellow

wucondons fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of the king's death. actress angela bassett reprises her role as wakanda's queen mother. >> there was another attack on one of our outreach facilities. proof of the involvement of a member state is being uploaded to your mobile devices as we speak. and as for the identity of the attacker -- >> we ready. long live wakanda. joining me now is the one and only gorgeous, incredible, regal

angela bassett who plays the queen in wakanda forever. it's so wonderful to talk with you. i don't even know where to begin. i'm so excited about this film. i know everyone is so excited about it. from the sound track dropped by rihanna to seeing you in that gorgeous regal outfit. but i think we're all prepared to go in there and cry a lot because of the absence that is so glaring in this film. i want you to talk for a moment about doing this film and doing it with that loss that you all had to endure. >> oh, yes. absolutely. you know, we all have such a deep love and respect for chadwick and for what he meant to us individually, what he meant to this film. you know, the way he led us and shepherded us.

and that's the love and respect and energy that we brought to wakanda forever. so you know, the loss was monumental. every day on the set, there were tears all over the place. you had to watch yourself and keep from slipping there were so many tears. but we had each other. and we gathered together before we even began to shoot the first frame to just remember him, recall his brilliance and his love and his tenacity, and we pay homage to him on screen in such a beautiful and respectful and incredible way. i'm very proud of that, very proud of the heart, the soul and the caring of the filmmakers led by ryan coogler. and we just behind strong men stands strong women and we drive this film, we carry it.

it's exhilarating. >> and you know, that is one of the most beautiful things about the first film and what emerged from it just watching those of you in the film interact with each other. you were clearly a family, which was one of the most beautiful things about it. yes, what you just said is the next thing i want to talk to you about. this is a genre, a theme of empowerment of women. the women in wakanda are the warriors. the women are the heart and soul of the kingdom. and so i am just excited to see what is the evolution of the women of wakanda. what are we going to see from them in this film? >> well, the loss of king and son is there. you know, we lead it head on in the very beginning. the women, ramanda has to step in in the wake of the great loss of her brother. she has to step up to protect and secure the nation in loss of

the king. and also to just shore up the hearts and souls of the people. and we have to carry on. we have to carry on anyway. shuri, you know, she and her brother, extremely close. she and chadwick, extremely close. but you have to, i guess, meet this grief and find a way to process it so we see that happening with the character. the general akoya, she fought by his side and for him, and their charming banter between one another. so even though she's warrior, she's a warrior with a big heart, and we his love, the love of his life and how she manages that. so, in a different way. we all have our different ways

of dealing with it. but we are there in the time and they need, we need to be there for each other. >> this film, is coming out at a time that's difficult in this country to say the least. and it's difficult in many ways, particularly, for women. with a loss of so many of our fundamental rights, particularly for people of color. i think feel really sort of, targeted, by the politics were seeing coming out of one side of our political spectrum. i want to show you really quickly. something you sad. this was a glamour woman of the year award, you received a lifetime achievement award, i want to play you for you. this is what you say when you receive the award. >> we are courageous. like mamie till. we are underestimated, like rosa parks. we are fearless, like jesse

coleman. we are resilient like tina turner. the legacies of these women, and so many more are what keep me going. >> i'm gonna resist the urge to comment on that fabulous, or distress. and i ask you, give us, we need some encouragement from the queen mother. give us some encouragement. what keeps you grounded add centered at times when i think a lot of women do feel like their strength is faltering. what keeps you going? you mentioned your heroes. what else can you give us, just a word. we need a word for meal. >> oh lord. [laughter] absolutely. i'm a person of faith. i look to the hills which comes my strength. so, that's first and foremost. i look to the side, the each side in front of me, and to the strength of women who are,

who's feeling the ground just like mine. we don't walk on air, who have struggles, they all do. and that's what makes us richer. and more complex, it gives a strength. so, each of those women that i mentioned. you, know they went through things, went through things. they gave a lot of themselves for the struggle. and i just don't take their sacrifices in vain. and whatever it is you do, you know, whatever it is you are. you can make an impact, you can make a difference, via big irby at small. in everything, everything positive. so, we need you. we need each of us. >> the great, angela bassett, clean of the wakanda, wakanda forever my sister. thank you so much for being here. you're brilliant, we love you,

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