i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. ta-nehisi coates, you're one of the senior editors for the atlantic monthly, you're a blogger, you live on twitter, you wrote this wonderful memoir called the beautiful struggle, about your relationship with your dad. it's great to have you on one on one. >> thank you. i'm honored to be here. >> hinojosa: so, put those two things together. i mean, did you say, "i'm going to be a writer," and then all of a sudden you realized that your life was on the internet or...? >> no, i wrote off-line, in print, for about 12 years almost exclusively, and it's so funny. colson whitehead has this recent piece about writers who complain that twitter and blogging is going to destroy their writing. and it's actually a split that i never really understood much. i love print, and i like blogging and i like tweeting. you know, i like a lot of things. and so it never really struck me as being in contrast or even being a problem or, you know, it being two different worlds or anything like that. it's just w

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. jose hernandez, you are one of the few people in this world who have made it to space. discovery for two weeks in the year 2009. and you are one of only nine latino astronauts that have actually been up in space. welcome to our program. >> thank you very much, maria. happy to be here. >> hinojosa: so what was it like going up into space? you're one of, like, 500 people who have done it. >> it's just an amazing experience. i think few people realize that it only takes eight and a half minutes to get up into space. >> hinojosa: so, like, we'll be done with this television show, and you would have already made it... >> halfway across the world. >> hinojosa: wow. >> exactly. >> hinojosa: what does it feel like? i mean, actually, you tweeted about it. you were tweeting bilingually at the time. >> absolutely. >> hinojosa: and you kind of clued us in that it was nerve-wracking. >> i mean, at first, you know, you're sitting there, and you're ready for the countdown, the countdown's beginning,

>> mejorana. >> hinojosa: mejorana. mejorana. >> yes. >> hinojosa: and it's a kind of blues? >> it's... i call it our panamanian blues. and it has roots, of course, spanish roots, as a lot of the music of latin america. this is a wonderful experiment, because it deals with folk material, connecting with folk material from the north. like you have folk music where the blues come from, and folk music from latin america, folk music from south america. so this is the idea of pan-american jazz, actually-- connecting the whole americas to one sound. >> hinojosa: so you've named this. you call it pan-american jazz? >> well, it's a movement, i think. it's a movement that started in the 20th century with a lot of people doing it. you know, i learned a lot from paquito, for example. he really... >> hinojosa: paquito d'rivera. >> yes, paquito d'rivera, great cuban saxophonist. he introduced me to a lot of music, playing venezuelan waltzes, playing old contradances. and the desire... a lot of the desire to combine folkloric material with traditional rhythms, with latin american song form

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. your majesty queen noor, what an honor to have you here. >> oh, i'm delighted. thank you. >> hinojosa: there's something quite beautiful. you know, most people now, when i was telling people that i was going to interview you, and i'd say, "i'm interviewing queen noor," they'd say, "oh, we love here, we love queen noor," this feeling of love. but people around the world know you as queen noor. >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: they don't know you as lisa halaby, the woman who you were. you were growing up as an american girl, and i think one of the things that people are fascinated by about you is the fact that you actually... you could make this decision to say, "i was lisa... i am, or was lisa halaby, an american girl, but i could also be this, i could also be royalty of someplace else." this ability to basically say, "i could be someone else," change your identity, is really quite extraordinary. >> well, first of all, it was my husband who changed the identity in the way you described it, wit

five strikeouts in three innings for hinojosa. three scoreless innings of relief. the last chance for the phillies, a phillies, and we will see what they have, down by four. >> one last chance for the phillies here against the dodger s and when this series is over, they head to take on the san diego padres. it is going to be aaron nola to take on james shields, and then adam morgan taking on tyson ross and then jerome williams will take on andrew cashner. >> tom: the phillies going out to san diego, and maybe the last time that they see that team intact, the san diego team intact, because there are reports that they may start to unlo unload is some of the players. >> matt: that is a heck of a line for andres blanco. >> tom: that with swun fouled away. >> matt: as much pine tar as there is on the bat and the helmet, i am surprised it helicoptered towards the stands. >> tom: 0-1 on andres blanco. that is popped up over toward third base. callaspo is under it. there's the first out. callaspo there to play third for the injured justin turner, and now, cesar hernandez w

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hinojosa spent i saw support the health and human service budget request and ask tasks of the work together forge a consensus on how to ensure that our families continued access to quality health care coverage and adequate funding for head start. we can invest in our preschool programs today, or in juvenile detention tomorrow. we have heard pope francis deliver a very strong message all over the world urging leaders like us. the pope says we must make right amount investments to address poverty found in older senior persons, and children in low income families. madam secretary, thank you for your testimony and the departments enormous progress it has made since the enactment of a see a. it's a pleasure to have you testified before this committee. today, in my congressional district because of the affordable care act that are over 100,000 individuals who know have health insurance and 88,000 seniors who are not eligible for medicare preventive services without paying any co-pay, coinsurance, or deductible. we know that another program, head start is a crucial developmental program in my cong

hinojosa? >> thank you, chairman kline, and ranking member scott. i strongly support the health and human service budget request. and ask that we work together to forge a consensus to ensure that our families continue access to quality health care coverage and funding for head-start. we can invest in our preschool programs today, or in juvenile detention tomorrow. we have heard pope francis deliver a very strong message all over the world, urging leaders like us. the pope says we must make the right amount of investments to address poverty found in older senior persons, and children in low-income families. madam secretary, thank you for your testimony on the department's enormous progress we've made since the enact of aca. it's a pleasure to have you testify before this committee. today in my congressional district, because of the affordable care act, there are over 100,000 individuals who now have health insurance, and 88,000 seniors who are now eligible for medicare preventive services, without paying any co-pays, co-insurance, or deductible. we k