baldwin: no. but when when i reported back to them years later, 30 years later, that this is frank myers and i wanted to talk to them, they didn't know who i was because they only knew me as baldy. but we when we got that cleared up, then everything else flowed. interviewer: and could you spell your last name? baldwin: m-y-e-r-s. interviewer: what is your birthday? baldwin: may 29, 1931. interviewer: where were you born? baldwin: in owyhee county, idaho. that is spelled -- that is the indian name -- o-w-y-h-e-e county, idaho. that's near jordan valley on the oregon-idaho line. interviewer: owyhee. baldwin: owyhee. yes. interviewer: that is the indian name. baldwin: that is indian. i don't know what it means. [laughter] probably beautiful country. interviewer: tell me about your family when you were growing up. baldwin: well, i grew up on a cattle ranch about five miles south of jordan valley, and my mother was born in east europe. she was austrian, and my father was an old cowboy whose ancestry go

baldwin: no.first we were told we were going to japan to relieve the division that was going to be sent to korea. they told us then we were going to korea. interviewer: so were you scared? baldwin: no. interviewer: you are not? -- were not? baldwin: no. interviewer: you were going to war. baldwin: for some reason, i never had a lot of fear in life. interviewer: when did you arrive in korea, and where? baldwin: we arrived at the 22nd of july, as near as i can tell. on the route over, we encountered an enemy submarine. we heard depth charges going off. people on the boat panicked. the only way i can explain it -- it was just about getting sunset, and we heard this boom, boom, boom, look the front of the ship was hitting rocks. everyone thought the ship was sinking. i said they are just dropping depth charges. everyone went to the other side, and sure enough there was a canadian corvette dropping depth charges. they are flashing a red light at us. out.re told we had to move parts of what seemed to be

, with dwight mcbride and others, so the traditional reading of old baldwin, early baldwin, late baldwinlk don't really buy into that anymore, that silly biography by james campbell, has been kind of displaced by others who have been working in jimmy's work, but i want to hold on to this claim that there's a continuity of themes running how to jimmy that he is grappling with ideas under different material conditions, that change how he is thinking about love, identity, history, memory, how he is thinking but white supremacy and the like. so, it's not that he goes bad in the teague or suck comes -- succumbed to propaganda of white power. he is grappling with the conditions under which black folk have to live and the conditions under which love has to be expressed. somebody has to really grapple with the evidence of things not seen. when he writing about the chalmers and what are we dealing with when the black babies are being killed and black folk in power. how to grapple with this the book needed a good editing but it's a brilliant text that requires a different kind of reading. i think,

i read that james baldwin passage in the brilliant new book "begin again: james baldwin's america ando on and on in praise of this book, but i'd prefer to deliver much more important praise than my own. professor cornell west says, this book is undoubtedly the best treatment we have of baldwin's genius and relevance. glaude's masterpiece puts a smile on baldwin's face from the grave even as baldwin weeps for us in this grim moment. imani perry says, he pushes, prods, and disrobes history, forcing us to face uncomfortable truths and insisting upon our better inheritances. glaude's stunningly crafted prose, incisive, vulnerable, and beautiful, is as breathtaking as his brilliance. and walter isaacson says, eddie glaude weaves together a biography, a meditation, a literary analysis, and a moral essay on america. like baldwin's own essays and books, it is at times both loving and angry, challenging and uplifting, and always beautiful. joining our discussion now is professor eddie s. glaude jr., the chairman of the african-american studies department at princeton university. professor glau

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, why do you think it is so unsettling. >> the later baldwin is a baldwin that is trying to come to termsamerica's betrayal. most folks say he is bitter, he is angry, his rage overwhelms his art, but baldwin is trying to come to terms that the country is fascinated martin luther king, jr., he collapsed, and tried to commit suicide, failed relationship, the country ask on the road to not only electing richard nixon, you know, but st on the road to electing ronald reagan. and for many people they don't understand ronald reagan was at notorious as george wallace for black folks in this country. and so i was interested in baldwin who was trying to make sense about trauma. our pain, our wounds. trying to pick up the pieces in the face of america's betrayal. and here we are in our moment, after barack obama's presidency. and then the vitriol of the tea party. voter suppression and voter i.d. and then we voimented up donald trump and i was trying to deal with my own dispair and disillusionment and turned to him in that moment. >> trevor: was there even a glis of hope in boold win's work, where y

thinkining and thinking about james baldwin for 30 years.has been in my spirit and my head at the fououndation of my scholarly career in some ways. what i wanted to do was to think about t him asas this poet who e the truth to our time. amy, had to come to o terms with the fact that country turns its baback on the black freeeedom struggle. assassinated dr. king and yet to p pick up the pieces. i wanted to walk with james baldwin as he in some was grappled with his moment of betrayal andnd find resources fr us in our moment as were grappling with their own moment of betrayal. what i have learned is that he spoke truth, spoke truth, insisted the nation confronont e lie, the illusion that protected so-called innocence. and that became the basis of writing this book in this moment determine sopism much of our lives. amy: and what -- why did he leave america? talk about that. and also, what does he teach us about today in this election that we just spoke to noam chomsky that says the most important election in human history right now here e in th

hi there, i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. 4 million. that is how many confirmed cases of covid-19 the u.s. is set to surpass likely at some point today. just two weeks the nation crossed the 3 million mark. you can see on your screen increasingly the time to reach these milestones is shortening dramatically, and still president trump continues to tell you that this saall just a result of testing. >> to me, every time you test you find a case and it gets reported in the news. we found more cases. if instead of 50 we did 25, we'd have half the number of cases. so i personally think it's overrated. but i am totally willing to keep doing it. >> health experts including members of the white house coronavirus task force repeatedly said that the president's claims are not true. as the cases surge, so did

both senators baldwin and murphy join us now. thank you for being here. the defense production act, i'll start with you, senator baldwin, what difference will that make? >> well -- senator baldwin, we're having trouble with your audio, so while we try to work on that, i'll pose the same question to your colleague. lucky that we have two people with us today. senator murphy, what will the dpa do? >> redundancy is really important these days. listen, the dpa has put into statute after world war ii to compensate for the fact that democracies are often not terribly efficient when faces with crises like a pandemic or a war. and so we give the president emergency powers. one of them is to take control of the supply chain when we need to produce a whole lot of one thing in a short period of time. right now, this country cannot beat coronavirus without more ppe. we had a shortage. we were able to address that shortage, and now as the virus spreads, you have new reports of nurses sometimes wearing the same mask for 15 days. we also need to power up the manufacture

baldwin: i am baldwin frank myers. my first name is spelled b as in boy, a-l-d-w-i-n.] but when when i reported back to them years later, 30 years later, that this is frank myers and i wanted to talk to them, they didn't know who i was because they only knew me as baldy. but we when we got that cleared

so baldwin was a resource.th him to write with him about this current moment, and in doing so i found my voice. >> hmm. what did you learn? what has changed from then immediately post mlk junior's assassination and now? >> the country's never changed and always changed if that makes sense. a sense america has moments of reckoning when it can be otherwise, put behind itself this -- this ugly and insidious view that white people are valued more than others and how that view evidences itself in our dispositions and practices. yet, when we have that opportunity to be otherwise, alex, we've dibbled down edoub ugliness. hearing it now, heritage, law and order, seeing backlash they call it already beginning to show, rear its ugly head in this moment of transition. so every time we have a chance to be otherwise, we double down on the ugliness. here we are in a moment just like that. again. >> i think, eddie, that's what probably inspired you with this quote from the book. you wrote about president trump saying "that wh

james baldwin's readings show up on peoples list of things to do. you write about baldwin's view of white liberals. i will quote from your book. despite their claims, meaning white liberals claims of commitment to racial justice, baldwin saw them in their actions as co-conspirators in maintaining the belief that white people mattered more than others. white people weren't loud racists, they were simply racial philanthropists. this was written some time ago. we have a whole bunch of people who are white liberals who want to be allies now. how do you reconcile those two things? >> listen, i think alleyship falls apart when we view rarnl ju racial justice as a philanthropic enterprise. jimmy was skeptical of anybody who wanted to do something for me or for us as opposed to with us. we don't need to engage in charity when it comes to racial justice but build a more just society. that's what we need. so we have to break the frame. i don't want you to invite me to the table. i want you to understand i build the table. i don't want you to invite me to a ta

when baldwin does respond. those are strong strong words what she says and doesn't say may surprise you that has been terminated from fox news out at fox morning anchor and rising star ed henry was abruptly fired by the network we'll tell you why did the l.a.p.d. pressure the l.a. times to fire cartoonist ted rall because of his anti-police drawings and commentary or was he the problem wall will be here to make its case so you've asked the right person a great discussion with the ventura panel jesse and tyrrell money a father son combo weighing in on everything from working together here on r t to the toppling of statues don't miss it. and how about some must see independence day programming a speech by nation of islam leader louis farrakhan well we'll tell you who scheduled it and then pulled it and why that might have happened i'm steve walz berg let's see the press. oh yeah oh. jesus wishes. to buy. a law everybody happy 4th of july weekend and i want to thank you for putting the press on your holiday menu i

s brooke baldwin then weighed in listen that quite simply is b.s. duckworth record of service is how we now just looking at her is how we now right shot john is it out of line to call out people like duckworth or john mccain or max clearly and i remember he was a kerry surrogate it and i remember criticizing him they're injured war heroes they are they untouchable i don't think so i mean look i would kick this off with tucker . or in the 1st place was she just out now to lie about president trump's speech at mt rushmore she said he was lionizing confederate you know dead confederate traitors and he didn't say a word about it and then you know this whole thing. went ramped up when he attacked her for saying we should change the names of military bases in the south and and take down statues look. i think that's a completely fair part of the the debate about statues in the south and the civil war and whether or not we should have these things out some people think they should go down others and so should stay up i think it's entirely. you know within b

you're watching cnn, i'm brooke baldwin.e the quote, not worth the time and effort, the president's reason for scrapping the briefings back in april after he was widely criticized for saying this. >> i see the disinfectant knocks it out in a minute. one minute. and is there a way we could do something like that. by injection, inside or almost a cleaning. >> yeah. well, now, with cases surging and his poll numbers tumbling over the covid response, the president has decided that today is a good time to be back in front of the cameras. but there is one key question. will two of the top doctors from his task force, anthony fauci and dominican republic deb are you birx be with him. kaitlan collins is live as is dana bash, our chief political correspondent. ladies, welcome. kaitlan, first just to you. this morning dr. fauci told cnn that neither he nor dr. birx have been told to attend the briefing this afternoon. do you have any updates if they will be there and why would the white house even consider holding a briefing on a pand

and i think where baldwin always insisted that we must be mindful that as human beings we are at once miracles and disasters, that we can, in fact, be miraculous in how we act in the world. but we can also be dastardly, right, in our pettiness and in our cruelty. so the moment that we're in is a moment of possible change, but there's no guarantee. we have to find some kind of way to muster the energy to imagine ourselves otherwise, and this is why i wrote the book, that we have to in some ways begin again, not abdicate our responsibility, but step up to this moment and perhaps succeed this time in imagining america anew. >> what a life he led, certainly not all of it fun. but if memory serves, he hung out with both simone and sartre and angelou for good measure. i can't wait to read it. i can't wait to see it take its rightful place on the shelf of heroes behind you. there it is "begin again" the author professor eddie glaude jr. good luck with it. we'll talk about it some more, i'm quite sure. >>> coming up for us, another deadly threat suddenly on the rise in our cities during our s

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. the new number of coronavirus cases in the united states, second highest single day total since the pandemic began and the latest sign dr. anthony fauci told congress the u.s. is going in the wrong direction. put it in perspective for all of us. what things look like today on this first day of july and compare it to a month ago. june 1st, 24 states showing double-digit declines in new cases compared to the prior week. now -- almost the entire country is the exact opposite. look at that. the explosion is forcing 19 states to now pause or roll back reopening plans. one of them is california where the governor is said to announce new restrictions a little later today. in california, leading states with the number of new cases, just over 7,500. texas, florida, arizona and georgia rounding out the top five. and as the nation begins the sixth full month of dealing with this crisis, president trump remains largely silent. even as a growing number of republicans a

senator baldwin. senator baldwin: thank you, mr. chairman. i have a couple of -- i hope quick questions. dr. disbrow, can you quickly list for me the vaccine prospect that are being invested in right now? you have narrowed it from many who have come forward first it was 14, now fewer. can you list them and what type of vaccine it is? dr. disbrow: i appreciate the question, senator. can i not specifically mention some of the companies we are in active negotiation was many of them. one i can mention is astrazeneca where we already have a contract. we are in the process of moving forward with large manufacturing contracts and acquisition of vaccine for multiple other candidates. senator baldwin: those company names in terms of the vaccine prospects are not public? dr. disbrow: some of the companies originally funded by barda for advanced research and development, those are public who we invested in. i think your specific question may be the composition of the portfolio under operation warp speed. that can i not today talk about. but we are very

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necessary performances in some case, baldwin makes this critique. and it is a devoid of life. there is so much more than that. i wanted to speak to the whole south, as much mine as consciousness and to do that, what does it mean to talk about his problems in a hallway. and i came across a quote from freud and let's pretend that rome isn't a physical entity but a cyclical one, they ever cease to exist, mean these layers of archaeology or talk about your childhood your dreams, and all these things exist and races infecting these points. and so everything is policed. compare the harm to the body to the spirit. they answer that with integration. and people into it it. and you go through the culture and breakdown the silos, the academic silos. i don't necessarily know sociology that compartmentalized our conversations, and the race problem. then watch football. >> we are not going to talk about music but pop-culture. >> fiscal breakaways, the way towns are organized, we won't talk about these things or abstractions, we will learn a language and perform it and hope that it takes us

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our friend has written about james baldwin in a new book out this week called begin again.baldwin's political writing was about pushing forward even when faced with adversity and despair. he tweeted out this passage from the book today. we need to gather ourselves, for we are in the eye of the storm. we must find the courage to make the bold choices necessary for these after times. and we cannot shrink from our rage. it is the fire that lights the kiln. just keep talking. >> since our founding, nicole, there's been aer is penalty wrapped around the tables upon the legs of the table of which the declaration and the independence was signed. and that served every generation. it threatened to swallow the whole thing completely. what this represents for me is this honest reckoning with the contribution at the heart of the country. and he says without any hint of hyperbole or sentimentiality, that the problem isn't us. the problem isn't black people. we shm believe what the world has been telling us. that our neighborhoods are full of pathology. the way we raise our kids is what

he wants no part in the tearing down and defacing of matthias baldwin, an abolitionist, civil war soldiers, john greenlee . he wants no part in this. he stands against the demonization of americans and stands firmly on the side of preserving our history. >> that is not the issue. ms. mcenany: i have said from the start of this briefing, he has not given an opinion one way or the other on that. i just spoke to him this morning. >> what exactly does the presidency as positive or uniting about the confederate flag? why did he decide to tweet about it this morning? ms. mcenany: the president never used those words. those are the words of a reporter, not the president of the united states. >> the president argued on friday and again on saturday that many of the problems the country faces stem from "extreme indoctrination and bias" in the education system. if that is the case, is he working with secretary devos to address what he sees as a major problem? what steps is he taking? can you give us an example? ms. mcenany: i would have to inquire about that, about specific steps he has taken. i am n

chairman blunt: thank you, senator baldwin. i'm going to ask a question on the ethics and that discussion later. so you-all might be thinking about that as you try to determine a priority of who gets access as access is available. go to senator murphy. senator shoths, and senator manchin in that order. then a second round. senator murphy. senator murphy: thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you-all for being here. being so attentive to our concerns and questions. first let me just follow up on a series of questions that senator merkley raised. i don't have a question connected to it. puts me in an uncomfortable position with disagreeing with dr. collins. but the united states government has never exercised marching rights under contract. it is true there is a lot of question and dispute regarding exactly what the government is allowed to do, but the language in the underlying statute is in fact very broad. it requires companies, contracted to the u.s. government, to provide these drugs upon reasonable terms. and there are p

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baldwin: i am baldwin frank myers. my first name is spelled b as in boy, a-l-d-w-i-n. in the army, i was known by my buddies as baldy. [laughter]

you're watching cnn i'm brooke baldwin.as already suffering from surging coronavirus numbers is now reeling in the aftermath of hurricane hanna. the storl brought heavy rain and flooding to the state over the weekend. thousands of homes and businesses are still without power. cnn's ed lavendera is in dallas with more. ed, what are you seeing? >> reporter: last week a critical care doctor describe the the coronavirus pandemic in south texas as a tsunami of cases. and that was before hurricane hanna came roaring ashore as a trong category one hurricane. this storm comes at a devastating time for that region of south texas. it is been described as the hot spot within the texas hot spot and it has been the number one priority for state officials trying to get this virus under control. the storm brought heavy flooding, strong winds throughout the region. obviously putting a lot more pressure on hospital systems that have already been pushed to the brink because of the coronavirus pandemic. this comes at a time when fortunately t

our special coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. >>> brianna, thank you. i'm brooke baldwin and thank you for being we many on this friday afternoon. you're watching cnn. let's dive right in. dr. fauci said he hasn't been briefed -- hasn't briefed president trump on the covid-19 pandemic in nearly two months. and the top infectious disease expert said the last time he saw the president was june 2nd. and since then, look at what has happened. the number of new cases per day breaking records day after day. in records have been set in two of the last three days ending with more than 63,000 cases on thursday. we are also seeing several states setting new records every day for hospitalizations and deaths. so when president trump throws out this number, you have to wonder where it comes from. >> we show cases 99% of which is totally harmless. >> so guess who else wonders where that number comes from. dr. fauci. this is what he said today and i quote, i'm trying to figure out where the president got that number. what i think happened is that someone told him that

baldwin. >>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin and you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. months after trump said the coronavirus with disappear the u.s. is setting single day records for the cases and the please is in denial. 12 states are seeing the highest seven-day averages for new cases and deaths are rising in at least 20 states. more than 50% in several of them. hospitalizations in the u.s. are near the record levels that we saw back in april. and one of the top officials at the health and human services department is telling cnn that despite the alarming numbers, the federal government is capable of handling the surge. >> we are approaching this with extreme seriousness. it really is all hands on deck. this is serious. but we know how to stop this. >> one thing that could stop the spread, a federal mask mandate. the head of the cdc saying just last week that if every american wore a mask, the virus could be under control. yesterday president trump said this about why he's still refusing to order masks nationwide. >> no, i want people to have a certain freedom. and

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you're watching cnn i'm brooke baldwin.onths of telling the nation krocoronavirus would disappear in warm weather or otherwise, that the risk to americans was low and democrats were overreacting and 99% of the cases are harmless, president trump now said things will get worse before they get better, making the comments for of the first of the relaunched press briefings but he did not offer a plan or a path forward to fight the virus. so with me now gloria borger in washington, d.c. and gloria, we know the president is set to hold another press conference in a couple of hours. some of his supporters and pundits said he showed a quote/unquote new tone yesterday and my question was that all just show and what do you expect from him today? >> well we'll have to see what happens today. it was just show. this was an effort to try and regain his credibility. he was reading from a script. and at least he talked about covid as if it were something that still exists. which is something that we haven't heard before from him. what we d

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sharpton, eddie glaude jr., an msnbc contributor and author of the new book, "begin again: james baldwin's america and its urgent lessons for our own" and historian john meacham, an msnbc contributor and john lewis's official biographer, his upcoming book is called his truth is marching on, john lewis k and the power of hope. it features an afterward by john lewis. thaun thank you for being with us this morning. rev lend, y reverend you and i spoke last night. one of the things you and i had discussed in those final moments of the show last night is about movements taking time. you told me movements and change take a long time. they require patience and fortitude. you were talking about the distance between the civil rights movement and the movements of today, and that point could have been about john lewis? >> it definitely could have been. in fact, a lot of what i learned i learned from john lewis and the younger crowd that was around dr. king, you have to remember, ali, john lewis was about 11 years younger than dr. king. i was 15 years younger than john lewis and jesse jackson, and so

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senator baldwin will do that. i've been very pleased to be a partner with her in developing this legislation to require the operationalling -- operational lization of the d.p.a. senator stabenow. ms. stabenow: it's wonderful to be here with my great friends from connecticut, wisconsin, and ohio. this is such an important discussion we are having today and such an important bill that needs to be passed. and let me start again by underscoring something that senator murphy said because despite what happened in the beginning as it relates to china and certainly over the years i have been, i have not been shy to address concerns related to stealing our intellectual property rights or other issues related to china, but the reality is that despite that whatever the smoke screens are about china, you can't say that they are the reason that with 4% of the population we have 25% of the cases of covid-19 and 25% of the deaths in the world. there is much more to it. and it lands right in this country with the lack of national