my name is jason walters. i am here in place of tanya peterson. our c.e.o. executive director who has another commitment. here is our report about what is going on at the san francisco zoo. we have a couple of new arrivals one is a francoise langur that was born a couple days ago on labor day. it is a very endangered species of monkey from southeast asia. we do quite well with this species here at the san francisco zoo. soon we will be opening the new exhibit called great ape passage we have been working on building this for several months now while our chimpanzees have been watching what has been going on. just recently, we were able to put -- allow our chimpanzees to explore this jim ludwick passage that they had been watching him get built for months now. it was just a great thing to watch as our three chimpanzees went up in there and sat up and had a view is that they have not had before and an opportunity to explore this passage that will connect their old space to a new space that is being built just for them. labor day is neighbor day. as the summer c

say thank you, not only to you, but also the other authors that we have had -- to jason reynolds, mildred taylor, walterdean myers to help us to understand because truly we white don't really get it. we will only say glimpses and get closer utbecause of authors like you, so on behalf of my students i want to say thank you. guest: thanks so much and thanks so much for mentioning those authors essentially walter dean meyer and mildred taylor who were so many authors that came before me who paved the road and did actually show the world with the african american experience looked like, so thank you for using those books. thank you for calling and go green veal-- greenville. host: michael, fayetteville, alabama. caller: good afternoon finally outlawed last i'm able to talk to an in-depth guests. ms. a woodson, i may big admirerod and huge fan of yours. although, most of the african-american fiction i have read has been from other authors. my question is about-- actually i had to questions about children's fiction and about the challenges or pitfalls of getting published. first of all, i'm hoping to get othe

to you i have to tell you you're great when you're on with jason on the press -- >> did a great show. great interviewer. you may know walters but talk about that afterwards. and -- first like kind of like a jokey have you and john been in the room at the same time? >> we are orn morning joe together a couple of weeks ago i was we aring a linen jacket and he was wearing a blue shirt and i was wearing pink shirt but flower tie, so yeah we're often -- often mistaken if we're sitting down but john is about 3 feet taller than me he's like 7 foote nine or whatever he's like a hill giant. >> i'll get you clan laptop for halloween but protect your neck from my -- serious question. >> that's a blue tank joke. [laughter] >> would get it do you think there's an irony in fact that if and when republican party is ready to rebuild they're going to find all star team on msnbc, the steve schmitts and nicole wallace, and then you think about the intellectual i wassen willing to what joule rewas saying like republican party isn't party of ideas and you can go on msnbc and bill kristol or george talking so -- >> irony of thing is -- part of t