it should never happen, and you shouldn't create an ene vironmet whhat can happen. >> brown: >> brownck at the cemetery, mandy patinkin, who plays veran c.i.a. operative sau berenson, spoke of working with linka glatter. >> lesli wants as much input from the people that are there. and in my opinion, that's a smart director, because that's a collaborative effort, it's a collaborative game, and you're foolish not to ask thether people what they feel, what they would do. and to listen. and to be ruthless in terms of making sure that they arest telling thy. >> brown: why do you think there are so few women directors, still?nk >> i there are so few women directors because the world has been run by men, and the world isn't doing so well. the world certainly is not doing very well now. >> brown: during a break at another site, claire danes shared her experience. >> our show is surprisingly diverse, and in no small part because of lesli's involvement. you know, she's our producing director a a priority to hire people who are not sufficiently represented. so we have more female directors than

jeffrey brown brings us the first of an ocsional series, "american creators." >> brown: a thld winter in e tiny coal town of hemphill, in letcher county, kentucky, hard hit by the closing of nearby mines. but on this friday, residents have gathered in the basement of a shuttered school turnedit commcenter, for free food, music, and a celebration, of aer tiny but empg catering business run by gwen johnson, whose mining family has lived here for generations. >> i was raised in a coal mine family, where the pride was in the job, but you didn't really own what you made. but with hemphill catering company, we own what we make. the community will. >> brown: the business was made ssible through the support of appalshop, based in nearby whitesburg, an arts and culture institution that, from its very beginnings, has made economic development part of its mission. >> we have with, "this is the way your life is, these are the options, this is what you're going to do ifyo stay here." >> brown: ada smith is a prograa directappalshop, and grew up in whitesburg. can tell you, day in and day out, how

john henry browne: if the opdykes are behind this-- [interposing voices] john henry browne: if the opdykesd this, and you know, they hired me, i'll tell you, if they hired me, i wouldn't be wearing my timex. ok? you know, that's ridiculous. keith morrison: john henry browne settled into a local hotel and set to work, deconstructing the prevailing public view of defendant, michael oakes. keith morrison: here in court, browne sucked up the attention. john henry browne: and i would suggest counsel come to trial and she'll find out. keith morrison: naturally flamboyant. john henry browne: i don't think i have a dog in this fight. keith morrison: while the client seemed to disappear into the woodwork behind him. a client who, said john henry browne, was not at all the villain the prosecution seemed determined to portray. john henry browne: what we have is a man who, has on his own, raised very successfully four children. keith morrison: it became, shall we say, a theme. michael oakes, single father of four, grandfather of one. well-spoken, mild mannered, but certainly not any ordinary salesman

hanks, jeff. >> brown: explaining first how this began. just india, but love andge marr >> well, i moved to india about a decade ago, and at the time, for a combination of beng homesick and restless and broke, i ended up living with a mber of indian families. dnd there's, perhaps, no better way to unstand what's happening in a marriage than being inside the home. d i got reall interested in the indian marriage and in some of the changes -- there's emendous change happening in india-- social change, cultural change, political and economic-- and in the ways that that was placing pressure on these marriages. >> brown: you say ear, you have a quote early in the book, "in mumbai, people seem to practice a showy, imaginative kind of love with ano eyewards spectacle." >> sure. >> brown: what's that mean? >> well, i think thee's this idea of over-the-top showy declarations of love. if you watch bollywood films you always see this hape pen. the people in the book, maya, she sends her lover 13-tier cakeand gift wherever he's going. and some of this

her eyes are brown and her hair is brown. tania is 16 years old, with brown hair and brown eyes.rogressed to show what they may look like today. mireya graciano is 35 years old, with black eyes and black hair with brown highlights. she's 5'2" and weighs 180 pounds and has an m&m tattooed on her chest. missing since september 23, 2017, 16-year-old zia-lee torres was last seen near her home in north bergen, new jersey. zia-lee has brown eyes and and brown hair, which may be dyed light red. she's 5'2" and weighs about 130 pounds. zia-lee has piercings in her ears, tongue, and nose. please help us find her. girl: when i go to the mall, um, i always make sure that i bring a friend with me because you never know what can happen, and people can always start following you, and it's really, really unsafe. second girl: yeah, i usually go with my mom because, um, she can also help me pick out what i want, and she is a person that i trust to be with me, and i know that she'll protect me. boy: i agree. but suppose you do go alone. you know, make sure you have a--a phone so you can contact any

uh-huh. >> brown: getting together, having all kinds of stress., clearly, because of the detail here, clearly comes through the ways that indian culture still impinges on thisde very personal f life. >> yeah, and particularly for the middle class.s all three coup this book are middle class. and there is this idea ofss middle-cla morality anywhere in the world and want idea thatl peopletalk, that even if you feel like you might want to test the boundaries -- and in thesecases the people in couples were-- the neighbors might talk, the wider community might talk, the in-lawso may live in your home, in which case you're going to face repercussions for testing those bowbdries. >> brown: you were just talkinouabout how much time spent with them. and you're going through very stressful, painfuler vulnerable times, right. how did you get people to allow you to do tha >> i think it was a product of time. you know, so often as a reporter, we have to parachute into places. we don't have much time to make sense of thory as fast as we can. and because i starte

. >> reporter: tiffany brown is the one-woman operator of tribute contracting in atlanta. she got a google alert about fema seeking bids to provide meals to puerto rican victims of hurricane maria. last october, brown scored a $156 million contract to provide 30 million meals at a cost of $5.10 each. she subcontracted the job to two companies, including a corporate itterer in atlanta with 11 employees. did you really think that 11 toople were going to do millions of meals? >> she told me she was experienced with this work, and that as time got on-- as time ant on, that she would be abl to hire additional people to scale up. nl reporter: only 50,000 of the 30 million meals were delivered. mima terminated her contract due to late delivery. >> fema should have understood. >> reporter: fema picked brown after vetting her, even though

jeffrey brown takes us to southern arizona, for the latest from our newshour bookshelf. >> brown: thedscape is rugged, mountainoue scorched by n. but out there, among the dust, brush and cacti. there's also surveillance cameras, sensors, and people, even if you can't see them, in an often deadly standoff withth elements and one another. >> it's like when you look out at the ocean, and you're le, "oh my god what a vast, unfathomable place, expanse." and so when i think about that vastness, you think about trying to find someonssin that vast people who haven't been here have a really hard time conceiving of that. >> brown: francisco cantu spent four years as a border patrol agent, working in the deserts of arizona, texas and new mexico. he desiecribes the expe in a new book, "the line becomes a river." we met cantu a couple hours south of phoenix, about 30 miles from the border. he grew up not far from these lands, but felt disconnected from the realities on the ground. >> i had all of these questions that stemmed from my time in college, just big, big questions that a lot of us are sti

io ofourse your story is wort telling, now more than ever, so >> brown: are you surprised, that it'still a thing? that there would be a need for a festival of women's voices?> tiw >> no, beuse racism is still here, sexism is still here, everything is still here, justth wearing difrent clothes. er, it's all here. >> brown: pulitzrize-nominee theresa rebeck, a veteran of television and film as well as the stage, decided to re- an english restoration-era comedy, "the way of the world," written bywilliam congreve. >> if you're hideous looking --! you're n >> it's not like i looked at that play and said, i want to do ke feminist retelling of t congreve play. but there is no mistaking that a woman wrote it, that i inhabit the female characters in a completely different way than what congreve did. point of view is one of the tools you have as a writer, andt this is the point of v the woman. it's not an agenda, it's the truth. if our agenda is always to tell the truth, the truth out of a woman's mouth is going to sound different than the truth out of a man's.at >> brown: maryyn nagle, an enr

oscar brown jr.ump converted into an anti-immigration folk tale. president trump may be surprised to know that his go-to camp fire fable was written by a former communist party member from chicago. possibly explaining trump's omission of mentioning who originally wrote "the snake." brown's family has had enough and wants the president to stop appropriating their father's work for prejudice. joining us now, the daughters of oscar brown jr. i know you're a singer, president trump has used this to talk about immigration, migration, used it to talk about terrorism, as well. when you read those lyrics, what do you think about? >> well, when i see him doing it, i know that he is stealing, first of all, he's stealing. oscar brown jr. wrote those lyrics. he's stealing and he's twisting oscar's meaning to serve his own campaign and climate of intolerance and hate, which is the opposite of what the original author, oscar brown jr., intended. >> he's perversely using the snake to demonize immigrants. my father

for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown. ou >> woodruff:e heard them all: wear your seatbelt.'t smoke. don't drink and drive. these are all advice that we now live by. but they have become second nature only because of effective publicealth campaigns. it takes time and persuasion, to change the paradigm. tonight, pediatrician nadinerr burke shares her "humble opinion" of what she sees as a grave threat to many children, one she believes has been misdiagnosednd overlooked. >> ten years ago at my pediatric clinic in san fransco, teachers, social workers and parents were bringing me after child with concerns of a.d.h.d. as i examined myatients, i noticed that the highest rate of behavioral problems was occurring in the kids whose parents had drug addictions or mental illness, or those who were subject to violence at e me. when i dug into ience, what i found was that for most of these kids, the probl wasn't run-of-the-mill a.d.h.d. for most of my kids, the real problem is what the american academy pediatrics now recognizes as "toxic stress." ultimately, it all boils down to our fl

jeffrey brown is here with a preview. >> brown: "tell then we are rising" is the story of the nation'scally black colleges and universities commonly known as h.b.c.u.s. the film charged thedir rise an pivotal role as generationing of professional and middle class african-americans and looks at thats to their continued prominence and even in some stence.xi stanley nelson is the film's director. welcome. >> thank you so much. >> brown: why take is on? i godfathe -- i gather it's at t partly personal. >> my parents went to hbcus. there's no way they would have gone to college if it wasn't for hbcus.ed hbcus chahe trajectory of their lives, my life and will change my kids lives down trough the generations. so it's importa me. >> brown: in the film it says the question for african-americans has always been what is the purpose of education, who controls it, what is the relationshipucation to the broader aspirations of our people. you are presenting in the film these colleges as te answers to that. >> yeah, and i think one of the things that the film does is kind of ask thaestion and then ans

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here brown success is complete she's become the advisor to the french industrialist . and his lover holds about terminally ill decides to visit my us husband how much in prison to propose a deal is how men declares himself willing to lend his wife money here too as well until his death he'll inherit half his fortune. just bought herself a large house continues to wait for how much return he shows up on the day oswald's will is read out in the final scene all the troops and disappointments come to light. or have done i think if you asked and talk for. just one day before the end of filming before the famous last scene he had the idea of having the same amount commentary of the one nine hundred fifty four germany hungry soccer game playing in the background see maman from spokeswoman topher nonsupport he realized a couple of days beforehand that he wanted that does my imports my talk before her british clock of yours and those of us mom he changed the final scene of course in fact he said he would shoot it differently because of the honest in what was. knowledge but what

but in the driver's seat from the beginning, brett brown. the sixers coach. has trusted the process. and finally, after five years, brown tell ours jamie apody, he's feeling good about this team. >> i am enjoying it more. but i'm enjoying it for a different reason. some of the years in the past i enjoyed, you know, like the development of our young guys, the relationships, working hard. i think the league respected how we played. we didn't win a lot. but they wore their heart on their sleeves. we're playing hard again. fourth in the league defensively improved our offense. we are getting a little bit old er. and i just feel now because i lived a privileged life in, you know, my old job where you always went to the playoffs. this is when it gets fun. this is why we do our jobs. and i know what's around the corner. i have been lucky to live that. to share that with our guys and know the responsibility. it's so different, the playoffs than regular season. and we just got to get in there. and i think for those types of reasons, you know, i see the world a little

. >> reporter: tiffany brown is the one-woman operator of tribute contracting in atlanta. she got a google alert about fema seeking bids to provide meals to puerto rican victims of hurricane maria. last october brown scored a $156 million contract to provide 30 million meals at a cost of $5.10 each. she subcontracted the job to two companies, including a corporate caterer in atlanta with 11 employees. did you really think that 11 people were going to do millions of meals? >> she told me she was experienced with this work and as time got on -- as time went on that she would be able to hire additional people to scale up. >> reporter: only 50,000 of the 30 million meals were delivered. fema terminated her contract due to late delivery. >> fema should have understood -- >> reporter: fema picked brown after vetting her, even though she had no experience working large-scale disasters. brown has had five previous government contracts terminated for not delivering required food and her inability to ship products. >> i've had challenges in that area, particularly because i'm so you

for thurgood marshall, brown was the final leg in a heroic journey to end segregation. last night, less than an hour after judge grooms' decision... thurgood marshall:you never knew what would happen the next day or indeed the next hour. this same board expelled miss lucy thurgood marshall:no guilty person ever gets hurt. the innocent people get hurt. narrator :for 20 years he traveled hundreds of thousands of miles through war and depression in the jim crow south fighting case by case, setting precedent by precedent, for one of the most important legal decisions in american history. judge elena kaga:this wass a man who created opportunity for so many people in this country and improved their lives. i would call him a hero. i would call him the greatest lawyer of the 20th century. narrrator: on thanksgiving eve 1915, a lone cross burned on stone mountain. the ku klux klan was reborn. earlier in the year, the film birth of a nation played to enthusiastic crowds in baltimore the hometown of seven-year-old thurgood marshall . kimberle crenshaw: here's birth of a nation. it

i write five or six letters a week. >> brown: actual let centers. >> yes. nobody writes me back. it's terrible, but i love the idea of with him in prison the letters, bause it's literal small canvas. it's all they have to try to be husband and wife. you can see how it's a losing battle. but i did want both their voices, because with him being in prison and her being in thein world, theabit two different worlds. neither of them is able to tell theull stry. >> brown: there is a heartbreaking moment in the exchange of letters where thep stress of sonment is so profound, and he writes to her,e ontence, "dear celestial, i am innocent," and she wris back and says, "dear roy, i am >> yes, because it's true. she is innocent. s innocence feels more elevated because he is jailed for a crime he din't commit, but she also as his wife is being jailed for a crime she didn't commit eithee and really have to figure out will tey remain maried while he's in prison, and if they do, what duds that mean to be married to someone you can not touch. >> brown: race is a constant along with inceration, bu

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well beyondt. >> brown: 's a film that arrives a full-fledged cultural phenomen.ack panther" takes viewerto a futuristic african nation called wakanda. as with other movies in the marvel comics universe, the superhero here, a king named t'challa and known as "black panther," holds the fate of the world. but unlike the others, this big-budget action movie has an african superhero, a majority black cast, and is helmed byn african american director: 31-year-old ryan coogler. >> the fact that he is african, that's a thing that makes him unique. so, when you start talking about performance and things that are impoant to him, things that you want to highlight-- things that you want to make sure are coming across clear to the audience. you know, that was kind of like our grounding theme. >> brown: social media has exploded with anticipation.ch dren are in costume, and fans are ready to go. jesse holland is author of "whok is the banther," released in conjunction with the filmme he's a long-omics junkie who writes about race and ethnicity for the a.p. >> this movie putsin

so nothing that they did bespoke a ba that was trying to orchestrate or hide fraud. >> brown: the cyrs vans who was -- vance mentioned in the clip was the manhattan d.a. and was the office that brought this, he spoke to you for the film. for the record, he still believes this was an appropriate .ase to brin >> he does i mean, we interviewed him after the case and he felt just as stroly after the verdict as he did while they tried the case, ani don't know, it bewilledders me, i think a little bit. believehe really did there was fraud going on, and was sincere. i think his judgment wasloud by the fact that there was ambition there to be the office that brought a caseinst a bank in the wake of the 2008 crisis and nowhere is that revealed more plai tly to men in the indictment in the announcement of it. he had the feds from washington behind him, and then he also orchestrated this chain gang of mostly ex-employees, lolevel employees, members of the chinese community chained together and paraded in front of the media. >> brown: but this goes to the larger context of the film, i fmean someth

>> brown: what you hope comes rom this festival?i think there is, "oh, it's a and i hope this model will be replicated all over the country. theater is also a very important place because you hold twoant s, we are all the same. yes, we're incredibly different. but that difference need not frighten you, that difference need not be a mysterythatbe difference should be something you walk towards in order to build that empathy. >> brow the women's voices theater festival runs through february 15. for t pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in washington, d.c. >> yang: finally, super bowl is now in the books and the philadelphia eagles have their first nfchampionship since 1960, before the super bowl wasl created, after beating the new england patriots. >> for the philadelphia eagles, the long drought isver. >> yang: it was a victory w ecades in the making. the undeog eagles jumped in front of the reigning champion patriots, right from the start. just before halftime, they added to their lead with a trick play, a touchdown pass to qrterback ni

b brown: and how are they doing now and thk doing? >> the bank's doing great now. they lost money during the whole period of indictment and th trial, but they have rebounded sine. fannie mae, the alleged victim in this case, is now back in business with abacus. sthey're happy the trial over, and things are well. there are even people who have made deposits at their bank that don't even live in cnawn in support of the bank after seeing the film which is really kind of sweet. >> brown: abacus: small enough to jail, nominated for an oscar. stmes, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: and you can watch it online. >> woodruff: as we reported, the u.s. team won several medals last night, but as william brangham reports, none was more thrilling than when the women's hockey team won the gold medal against arch-rival canada. >> pore the past two decades the american team has been looking up enviously at their rivals. that finally changed last night with a game for t ages. i spoke earlier to christine brennan of "usa today" who washi wa the game in sou

sot the surgeon told me i might not be able to keep my leg because of the damage officer brown tellsovery. without the help of his fellow officers, the community, friends and family and the titanium bolts in his leg.he would not be standing here today.sot everything was catastrophic the collision my injuries what my family had to endure now back working full-time, he got to put his uniform onmaking him feel whole again.sot this your shoulder patch and your badge id you as an officer felt good to put those on today? yeah it felt great.the suspect who hit officer brown, is now in prison. and the k9 the suspect, stabbed while officers tried to arrest him, also recovered but just retired.officer brown, feels blessed to be back at work, doing the job he loves. in walnut creek justine waldman kron 4 news. coming up after the break a car crashes into an east bay pizza restarant. we'll hear from startled workers next. live look outside... san mateo bridge. you can get all this food for only $4 dollars. two pancakes. two strips of bacon. two eggs. if you ask me, that's a pretty good deal. but

mayor brown: it was rocky at first. we had a few people said anything -- threatening to leave, and my ground rules were we had to stay until we were tnished. katty: what gave y confidence to do that? mayor brown: this is my community. i'm not afraid of my own people. they were very pragmatic. they talked about the need for employment activities that they can ask us, they talked about the barriers to their employment because of criminal records. i told him it is not about what i can do for you. i told him i'm willing to worth ou if you make a commitment as well.y: kaon and fred are from rival gangs. b don is aod. fred is a crip. if you had come across don industry -- in the street 10 or 15 years ago? >> there would have been a problem. you know what i'm saying? there would have been a fight, a stabbing, or shooting. katty: because you are on rival gangs? >> because like i said, i was young and dumb and i did not have an understanding of life or nothing else. all i cared aboutas my gang. i will represent my gang to the fu

officer tom brown was seriously injured in an car accident... into his patrol car. the crash left officer brown with a crushed leg... broken hand a broken nose... and 2 broken ribs. but now... after a year and six months... he's all healed... and back to work. ( terisa ) it took 52 staples to close the wound on officer brown's leg along with three surgeries. the suspect who hit officer brown is now in prison. ( terisa ) the n-b-a's best squared off last night in the n-b-a all star game. it was team steph taking on team lebron and this was a close one.( james ) as the third quarter came to an end... curry hits the three to give his team the lead. but then in the 4th quarter with team steph up by three... lebron james nails the three pointer to tie the game. then with 40 seconds left... team steph up by one and lebron with the lay-up. and that would p

idea. >> yes. >> brown: the tle is an american marriage. tayari jones, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: and thais the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online, and agomn right hererow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and m15e. babbel's 1inute lessons are available as an app, or online. more information on babbel.com. >> bnsf railway. >> consumer cellular. >> the ford foundation. oworking with visionariesn the frontlines of social change worldwide. >> carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations in education, democratic, engagemed the advancement of international peace and security. at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. >> this program was made possible by the corporation fora public broing. and by contributions to yo

brown: where do we start with this? this idea of finding out what motivates students, connecting with their lives, building a curriculum around that? that is what i'm hearing. carolyn: me? catherine: yes. how do you tap into young people to get them engaged? carolyn: it is issue driven to in the idea they can have agency. usually you can see them more on the local level in the communities. one of the things we focused on in 2017 was municipal elections. we provide an election center that breaks down what offices actually do, what the responsibilities are, who is running for them, we have links to their websites and social media. .e did that in 2016 as well in 2016 we had 4 million users access information. in 2017 it was lower than that. we also teamed up with local groups to develop voter guides based on the issues that were impacting their community. young people were designing questions and then contacting candidates and getting those answers. we would post to our website print because our name was associated with it

congratulations, willie brown middle school. [cheers and applause] president mendoza, that ends my comments for this evening. >> vice-president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. next is recognition awards. >> we'll begin with the willie brown middle school steel band ensemble. i would like you to come forward. [cheers and applause] the steel band ensemble at willie brown middle school is a pilot program developed in an effort to bring viable, culturally and socially relevant music programs to our students in the bayview and mission districts. it's directed by the school music teacher benjamin kotalak with support from artists in residence derek smith. congratulations, the willie brown steel pan ensemble. [applause] >> we're going to play two short songs for you. this is a well-known song from the caribbean. ♪ ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> that's awesome, give it up for the ensemble! willie brown middle school has not had a music ensemble like this before. so we appreciate you coming out with the courage to p

jeffrey brown talks with this month's author. >> brown: in the 19th century, the osage indians were driven from their lands several times.20 by the earl century, they lived in part of oklahoma that no one else wanted, but there was oil under the ground there, and the osage became verl y. and then in the 19 20s came a o serimurders and suspicious deaths. our now read thipick for february is "killers of the flower moon" is a work of astory. it crly captivated many of you who read along us with. author david graham is here now answer some of the questions you've sent inch hello, david. thank you for being our february pick. >> it's been an honor. >> brown: we gotots of questions. one, a lot of people wondered how you came to this story. so don c. from san francisco, what inspired do you collect this story and turn it into a book. lisa from asheville, with so many of us never having heard of th, how did you come to i. >> i too had never heard of it. at one point a historian had mentioned it to me, and i made a trip out to the osage nation in oklahoma. i visited the museum there. at that point

also want to acknowledge the mayor's office of neighborhood services, derrick brown. us. cheryl davis from the human rights commission has worked with us. san francisco public library, luis herrera and all of his people over there have been tremendous assets as well in terms of putting this program together. with that, we will now have the project level will come and provide -- these wonderful young ladies from project level will come and provide some entertainment for us. a . >> hello, everyone. my name is chloe young, and i thank everyone for coming. let's give a hand for malia cohen and london breed again. i work with project level and for those of you who don't know what project level is, we're an organization where we teach our students in music, fashion, dance, film, photography, and production, and for us today to be here it's an honor, so i want to thank you all for letting us be a part of this moment here today, and without further ado, i would like to introduce our project level dance artists. thank you. >> hi. my name is marina. i'm 15 and i go to john co o

a suspect rammed tom brown's patrol car in the summer of 2016, leaving the walnut creek officer withutal injuries. but he battled back and returned to work full-time today. kron 4's justine waldman was by his side for the triumphant return to duty. 19 months agon, walking back to his patrol car seemed impossible for walnut creek officer tom brown, n july of 2016, a suspect he was after intentionally drove into his patrol head-on. sot my brain could think he is going to hit me but i didn't have time to move out of the waythe crash crushed his right left. it took 52 staples to close it, and three surgeries. plus he broke his left hand, nose and two ribs. sot the surgeon told me i might not be able to keep my leg because of the damage officer brown tells me, it's been a long road to recovery. without the help of his fellow officers, the community, friends and family and the titanium bolts in his leg.he would not be standing here today.sot everything was catastrophic the collision my injuries what my family had to endure now back working full-time, he got to put his uniform onmaking him

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jr., and his daughters maggie brown and africa brown join me now.ng on. i wish we could have seen each other in person. we're via satellite now. africa, when you hear the president and then your father's son, how do you feel about the way the song has become part of the political discourse and the president using it? >> outraged. absolutely outraged. oscar brown jr.'s words are being stolen to promote his hate message and intolerance. and it's absolutely wrong. we do not agree. >> absolutely not. >> how do you feel about it? >> just as she said. there's such a thing are they call it fair use, supposedly. they say because he's not singing it or playing the music. but fair use also would be given for educational purposes. and this is clearly political. >> yeah. >> it's a political agenda that deals with separatistism, racism, sexism, and it's polar opposite to what oscar brown jr. was about. so to actually quote his words verbatim every time, pulling it out of his breast pocket as if it's this coveted thing that makes him a rock star and people of sta

peskin for cherry picking brown rules.i wonder what is going to be next on what rule he is going to legislate from the brown administration. but -- so i just want to share these thoughts with you about my concerns. i'm going to be voting no. i recognize this is the first draft and i certainly reserve the right to change my opinion. i will come back and have a conversation with you about this. but i just wanted to plant this seed in your hearts and in your mind as we begin to think about what the future of san francisco is going to continue to look like. and certainly serving -- runing from a border commission is, i think, can be a competitive advantage if you are a star candidate and it could also be not an advantage if you are an undisciplined candidate. so, thank you for allowing me an opportunity to share my thoughts. if you wanted to respond, i welcome your thoughts to hear what you have to say. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. i should also add to your comments that the people who serve on boards and commiss