tavis: his name is douglas brinkley. perennial new york times best selling author. new one is called "the wilderness warrior." douglas, nice to have you want. thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much, tavis. tavis: my pleasure. up next, musician josh charles and his tribute to the people of new orleans. stay with us. one week before hurricane katrina, musician josh charles move to ignore lanes with plans to record an album there. like so many, the storm forever changed his life. his most recent project is a single devoted to the people of the big easy called "healing time." all proceeds go toward the continuing reconstruction in the city. in just a moment, he will perform for us. at first, have you on the program. >> thank you. tavis: i asked whether you were still living in the city, and you said i tried. what did you mean by that? >> i attempted to move to north lanes august 25, 2005, -- i attempted to move to new orleans august 25, 2005, and my goal is to attempt to move back there sometime soon, but i feel like i am wondering nomad, trying to bring attentio

douglas brinkley is of course a great presidential historian. his new book is the wilderness warrior about teddy roosevelt. a big seller now. and melissa harris lace well is a professor on african-american history at princeton. great to have you both on and this is friday afternoon. i'm going to cool it a bit myself and listen to both of you. because i do find it interesting -- i mean it, i may not it, i mean it, melissa. here's what david brooks wrote in the new york time. obama's movement includes urban politicians, hollywood donors and information age professionals. in his first few months, he has fused federal power with wall street, the auto industry, the health care industries and the energy sector. given all this it was guaranteed that he would spark a populace back lash and it was guaranteed this back lash would be ill mannered. could not spaer or theial and over the top, since these movements are always that way, whether they are led by huey long, father coughlin or anyone else. i want to know what you think of that, melissa. this isn't

that includes judy blumberg, douglas brinkley, john grisham, and others. but books and trained not go the other. >>> the rain looks like it will turn tomorrowfternoon and tomorrow night and clear up some afternoon. we have a scorecard to keep up with the changes. take a look at the rooftop camera. you see little patches of blue. we mostly see high clouds. it is the low cloudiness and in the area that can be a very slow process. you can see a little bit clearing continue to move from north to south. let's make a couple of stops on the weather network right now. a high of 72, 0.08 inches of rain. the cool air is pretty widespread. 69 degrees with and light northeasterly breeze. pollen count all week long, the only thing showing up as mold spores. after four days in a row, today is reported in the high range. with more rain, that will continue to be the issue going forward. the temperatures are cool. the further south you go, the cooler it is and vice versa. that is where the clearing skies are located. 71 in bowie. 67 in fredericksburg. ec a little bumps rig

i'm reading douglas brinkley's book about teddy roosevelt called the "wilderness warrior." it's so thick, it will break your back if you carry it around. but it's a wonderful story of how our president, teddy roosevelt, during his relatively short term in office, had the foresight to make sure that we have many of the wildlife refugees -- refuges, the national parks, national forests, the others that we enjoy today. this bill, this bill that senator feinstein so ably described, is the responsibility we have as stewards of that great tradition today to look ahead to the future about preserving and protecting the great american outdoors, looking to the future, as teddy roosevelt did, as the schoolchildren did in tennessee, as john murer did when yosemite was created, as lady bird johnson did a half-century ago. as we look ahead, we should remember that we are custodians of that tradition. and what should we hope for as we work on this bill and we plan ahead? my picture of the future is that we finish cleaning up the air so fewer children have respiratory diseases in californi