we did discover this remarkable woman, carole king. >> carole king made the transition from being behind-the-scenes ♪ i feel my heart start to tremble whenever you're around ♪ >> carole king is the embodiment of what happens. because in the '60s she is trying to write hit songs for other people. then in the '70s with "tapestry" it's the definition of an album of self-expression. let me go into my house in laurel canyon and tell you about my life. >> after church you always went out for pancakes. if you were lucky enough to ride in one of the girl's cars, you know what you are listening to? "tapestry." ♪ >> there were a lot of very important women who were some of the most significant writers and contributors to music at the time. >> we are going to do a song written by my friend, john david sausser, who is my favorite california songwriter and one of my favorite singers. it's called "faithless love." >> she was in many ways my greatest collaborator. i became a professional song writer because of the best voice of my generation was doing my songs. ♪ faithless love ♪ like a river flows ♪ raindrops fa

because my grandpa listened to dinah washington and my mom loved the "tapestry" record she wore carole kingo just, you know, to do some of the songs that didn't make the cut >> seth: uh-huh. >> which is -- which is cool >> seth: oh that's really great. yeah, to give them a second life >> yeah, like karen carpenter didn't make it can you believe there's a world where, you know, one of the best pop voices on -- and i didn't get her on there, but i'm going to do her live >> seth: you did have a lot of people that you collaborated with, and got to sing duets with ariana - >> ariana. >> seth: jennifer hudson reba >> yeah. >> seth: dolly parton. >> i know. >> seth: how was the dolly parton experience? >> i can't believe they all said yes. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] i mean, it's a very impressive list >> i know. i wanted to do a trio with j-hud and reb's because i took a note from dolly many years ago. remember when she did -- linda ronstadt, emmylou harris, and her did two records. >> seth: yes, of course. >> very successful, but they're all very different voices, right? and i wanted to do, "i'm

revolution with all this amazing black talent including diane carol to bring together self-consciously to see this black talent like martin luther kingor bobby kennedy. and then to imagine that progress that would continue to progress without vigilance and the big sixties after and then it spoke to the white america's complicity and then suddenly the doors open like julia and diane carol. >> and then in 2015 we had two years in a row where none of the acting nominees are of color. so i am saying yes, this past year one of the biggest films as black panther i think that would mean black films make money. they do. every study shows the more diverse a film cast the more money it makes. >> i have numbers. i am a nerd also. >> that it is incredible. but the problem is, this is the problem. we still live in a rigidly segregated society. i live in new york and you live in new york go to many journalism and publishing events of the only african-american nor one of few. that i'm the only african-american in their universe. and the social world of people implicated in a workplace. who gets the letters quick. >> many of us are not in those circ

carol: the montgomery bus boycott. who was heading up the montgomery improvement association? martin luther king. imagine. you have waited 20 some years to be head of the civil rights movement leadership, and was in the moment the year you become the head, there comes this guy out of montgomery that all of a sudden the media is flocking all around, talking about the leader , the leader. there was this kind of rivalry there. king out ofd help numerous jams, don't get me wrong. but we have to take into account when we talk about alliances, we are talking about the real deal stuff about people and organizations working together and the frictions that happened when you are dealing with people who believe they should be here and somebody else is getting something they should have. kennedy would have to work through this relationship between sclc and the naacp. what he really wanted was to defuse the power of the student shock troops. because students are fearless. you think about that moment after the beating at the bus station and it looked like the freedom rides were over? like -- andjust diane is like, you

carol in florida, absolutely trump thinks he is the king of all he surveys and needs no clearance fromnyone about anything. he is a threat to national security. trump committed a war crime. sac in ohio, what do you think? zach in ohio, what do you think? caller: what congress can do is every time they are in front of are like they hollywood actors, bring up the protests. outg up the plight to get .rom under the theocracy many of their citizens have been killed or murdered by that administration. essentially a week, civilian government because of the theocracy. do not let it fall from the american people's consciousness. that is the best way they can represent us. what all-americans want is freedom and justice from everybody around the world. do not let it fall from our collective consciousness. host: michael in illinois. what do you think? , c-span,ood morning and thank you for taking my call. how did we detect the iranian missile hitting the airplane? host: hard to hear you, i am going to go on to chris in texas, republican. caller: good morning, greta. host: good morning. vietnam 197

king and i'm pretty excited. i'm a very avid consumer of streaming shows as well. melissa: we'll get taco bell and a drink and watch television, carolnnell: you guys can write about megxit. this drama continues and somehow oprah got involved in the whole thing and a friend of harry and megan denies that oprah advised the duke and dutchess of sussex and their decision to step back from the royal family and then there st. wax museum issue over in london. apparently from what we understand they moved the harry and megan wax figures away from the other royal family members. so that was quick. melissa: [gasping] cop so connell:, so who better to ask? melissa: our own royalty. david: 99% of the time it's okay to say who better. this is one of those, i've had royal overload. by the way we're talking about netflix, well all we all love the crown, i love it but that was when the queen and the royal family had substantial influence , on the affairs of state and not just their own affairs. i mean you think of prince andrew for god's sakes and whatever he was doing with jeff and god knows who else. i just had it i'm so glad that i'm an american