just wanted two questions about their book bakari. i was really curious about why you named your book my vanishing country. okay, so i wasn't one thing that people probably understand. is that authors don't name their books your editor names your book for you. we were going to name this book country, but when you throw country and google it doesn't really google. well, there are a lot of things that pop up my vanishing country though talks of a 50,000 foot view of many of the principles that we hold dear those not so tangible ideals such as love. hope truth justice peace that many young folks still believe in how they're vanishing before our eyes and then on the the kind of macro level. i'm from the pool rule south where we had three stop lights and a blinking light. and you know, we've lost our hospital i talk about kaftan nafta and how after captain nafta many of the textile mills that we had left and how you can really just drive down main street. and what used to be a record store a chinese food restaurant a florist a little theat

he joins also with us senior commentator bakari sellers.ason, i want stto start with yr experience. you were able to go to the school in the buckeye valley district, but you weren't able to talk about or read "it's okay to be a unicorn." why not? >> i was told the day before the visit that the principal was not going to have that conversation with me. they thought that it was not to be on the agenda. there was one parent who was concerned about discussions about the unicorn because they thought it was a book to tell children to be gay. >> some parents thought it was a book to recruit children to be gay? >> one parent did. >> to be clear, so everyone else knows, what exactly is your book about? >> it's actually a story i liked growing up in a small town where i would share my dreams, and then you feel insecure, so i felt i needed to tell the story from a point of view that children can understand. it was a horse living in a unicorn kennel. someone puts on beautiful horns and he is chosen to be the honorary unicorn, and he thought he would re

y'all know bakari give him a big round of applause. he's from south carolina. clint smith clinton from new orleans and his grandpa's over there and his mama's and his daddy's there. so he's going to act right? today

y'all know bakari give him a big round of applause. he's from south carolina. clint smith clinton from new orleans and his grandpa's over there and his mama's and his daddy's there. so he's going to act right? today and job is to jarvis you from mississippi? holly springs, mississippi college brings, mississippi, although he's been to here so many times and he's been here so long. he actually is in new. orleanian. yes, whether he claims it or not. we claim h

y'all know bakari give him a big round of applause. he's from south carolina. clint smith clinton from new

this is bakari, about 45 miles west of kyiv.ussian forces took the villages surrounding, it but we're held back from the city center by ukrainian soldiers. this man who asked us not to show his face is one of those defenders. today, he showed us what is left of this apartment that authorities just searched for the first time. >> the rocket tore through this wool and landed right here in this kitchen, the apartment incinerated. an older women lived here and sadly her remains are still in the other room. so far, local officials say they found 130 bodies here. today, russian president vladimir putin said peace talks with ukrainians had reached a dead end. he also insisted his main goal is to help the people of the eastern donbas region. tell that to this teacher who showed us how russian rockets shattered her world and her music classroom. the destruction stretches for miles. this was a kindergarten, and was killed at least twice. clearly, not a military target. fortunately, none of the children were here at the time. but katerina

in bakary, about an hour west of the capital, the mayor says 132 bodies have been buried in mass graves. and estimates that 40% of the town is destroyed. russian forces also once again blocked humanitarian convoys from entering three different cities to evacuate civilians, once again breaking an agreement with the red cross. in kyiv, we continue to see small signs of resilience, life insisting on some sort of normalcy. including this, the british prime minister boris johnson making a surprise visit yesterday to the ukrainian capital. as you can see, the british embassy even tweeted a surprise along with a winking emoji. for a meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. the two leaders, along with a well armed security contingent, then defiantly strolled the streets of the capital. they spoke with several citizens of kyiv. the european union, which is reportedly set to grant ukraine candidacy status in the next few months, says its reopening its embassy in kyiv. italy also says that it intends to do the same thing in the coming days. following surgery from in and around kyiv, r