brahm resnik. [applause] brahm resnik is an anchor and reporter for 12 news, the nbc .ffiliate in phoenix he has reported on politics and government at the local, state, and federal levels, and has covered every policy issue of consequence in arizona from education to immigration. please give him a very warm welcome. [applause] >> great to be here. welcome to you all. can you hear me in back? everything working fine? good. let's start with introducing the panel. robert robb became an editorial columnist for the "arizona in 1999 and his columns generally appear three times a week. he also serves as a distinguished associate for the su.rison institute at a robert robb. [applause] weigel,enter, david political reporter for slate. for most of his career, starting at "reason" magazine, he covered the conservative movement, and was one of the first reporters to embed with ron paul's residential campaign. >> yes. >> shout out to ron paul. a few of those tonight. [laughter] the rallyorted from in 2009. dav

my day job is beethoven, brahms, and mozart. i love all of that.have an opportunity to bring music to the audience and the public and we should do that. tavis: one of the greats, no doubt about that. i wonder what your take is on the status -- the presence or lack there of -- of people in opera today. the opera world is open because we are all desperate. there are so many great voices of african americans. fortunately, that broke down a lot of the limits. less so for men. myself -- iermit adore her. it is one of the great experiences of my life to work with her. she, of course, led the way and she has opened the door to many others. it is slower for african american males and i do not know if that is changing as rapidly as it ought to. there are so many great voices out there. fewer.osers, there are you are member when scott joplin suddenly became a household word 30 years ago. nathaniel, there is enough music to fill several causal halls -- concert halls. tavis: what do you hope that the rest of us will take away from your fighting so hard to expo

brahm resnick.[applause] >> brahm resnick is an anchor and reporter for 12 news in phoenix and moderator of the political talk show 12 noon sundays square. is reported on politics and government at the local, state and federal levels and has covered every policy issue of consequence in arizona from education to immigration. please give him a very warm welcome. [applause] >> great to be here. welcome to you all. canyon in the backwoods everything looking find? good. let's start by introducing our panel tonight. to my right, robert robb became an editor or columnist for the "arizona republic" in 1991. is collins generally appear three times a week, wednesdays, fridays and sundays. he also proudly served as a distinct associate for the morse institute at asu. robert robb. [applause] >> in the center is david weigel, political reporter for slate recovers congress can elections and voting rights and they come. for most of his career started at reason magazine in 2006, he covered the conservative movement

brahm resnik. [applause] brahm resnik is an anchor and reporter for 12 news, the nbc affiliate in phoenix. he has reported on politics and government at the local, state, and federal levels, and has covered every policy issue of consequence in arizona from education to immigration. please give him a very warm welcome. [applause] >> great to be here. welcome to you all. can you hear me in back? everything working fine? good. let's start by introducing the panel. robert robb became an editorial columnist for the "arizona republic" in 1999, and his columns generally appear three times a week. he also serves as a distinguished associate for the morrison institute at asu. robert robb. [applause] in the center, david weigel, political reporter for slate. for most of his career, starting at "reason" magazine, he covered the conservative movement, and was one of the first reporters to embed with ron paul's presidential campaign. >> yes. >> shoutout to ron paul. a few of those tonight. [laughter] and report

is a reason so many people will think benghazi will do to hillary clinton what it failed to do to brahm obama. fox has been saying it's the scandal which will bar democrats from the white house. on one sight, they brought up a thousand places alone. let's take a look here, what happened when fox got hillary clinton in the room for some face time with their conspiracy theories. brettt baire asked. his questions were more appropriate when you listened to him for parsing who was in trouble for a crime than how officials responded the night of an attack. >> i have more specific benghazi questions. did you talk to charlene lamb that evening? did you talk toing is panetta that night in i certainly did not know of any reports that contradicted the ic talking points at the time that ambassador rice went on the tv show? do you stands by that conversation on the phone, roughly around 10:00 p.m.? >> yes. did you talk to him before or after? did you talk to him before or after? he was talking to a seasoned lawyer and a diplomat. she kept it pretty straight. >> no, i can't recall. i know the defense

. >> i'd been playing, i love mozart, i love bach, brahms, but at 13 i didn't understand any of that that i was playing. and there was something very pure and, i don't know, it resonated with me. thelonious monk's playing that i thought oh, this has the depth and the simplicity and the rigor that i think makes great art, great music. >> brown: explain that, depth and simplicity. >> if you hear thelonious monk play a run that goes from the top of the piano, he has opened up the grand canyon with that. he's the river that's carved this entire space that we call the grand canyon. he does that with one run. he lets you know what the possibility of the sound of the piano can do. >> brown: moran went on to the manhattan school of music and made his first album at age 24, on the famed blue note label. seven others would follow. the most recent in 2010. titled "ten", it celebrated the 10th anniversary of his trio, "jason moran & the bandwagon". that same year he earned a macarthur genius fellowship. now, moran wants to bring more people in to the jazz experience. >> i think it's important th

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