juan jr. devin nunes has been all over the papers.ebody put their face and name who is an elected american official, u.s. senator putting his name to it and says here is what is coming. howie: initially some of this was leaked and he went public. the spectacle of the leaders of north and south korea and possibly moving ahead with the denuclearization process. donald trump was criticized for taunting little rocket man. do you think the press is giving him some credit for the apparent progress on north korea. mollihem. mollie: i saw on cnn they wrote the story. we were talking about how the media said donald trump was bringing us to the brink of nuclear war. i think it's important to give the same kind of coverage over what appears to be a success so far. howie: last night for the white house correspondents dinner the president went to washington, michigan and had unfavorable things to say about the press. president trump: they don't have sources. the sources don't exist in some cases. i could be up there smiling. they are hitting you s

juan: it was figures ago today when reverend martin luther king jr. gave his last speech.was shot dead less than 24 hours later in memphis. we're joined now by reverend thes lawson, pastor of centenary methodist church in memphis in 1968 and historian michael honey come author of the new book "to the promised land: martin luther king and the fight for economic justice." michael honey, i would like to begin with you and ask you about what your book is about the labor dimension of martin luther king civil rights struggle. in one part of the book you talk about the convention in 1966 where among the resolutions passed was for a two dollar an hour federal and wage -- minimum wage, the taft-hartley act that basically prevented, closed shops for a national guaranteed income. these were all labor planks that and part of the direction the thrust of the civil rights organization. can you talk about the evolution of that consciousness and martin luther king jr.? >> most people don't know that dr. king was a strong union supporter from his earliest days. and as reverend lawson was ju

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juan: this week, commemorations are being held to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of dr. martin luther king, jr civil rights leader and peace activist was gunned down april 4, 1968, on the balcony of his hotel room at the lorraine motel in memphis, tennessee. he was just 39 years old. king was in memphis to support striking sanitation workers, who he saw as being on the front lines of fighting poverty, and integral to his new initiative, the poor people's campaign. in the late 1960's, king recognized that the next phase in the quest for civil rights and equality would focus on the economic divide. that this demanding respect the dignity of labor. often we overlook the work and the significance of those who were not in professional jobs, those who are not in the so-called big jobs, but let me y to you tonight, that workver you are engaged in and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth. reminding not only memphis, but you are reminding crimetion that it is a live in this nation and receive starvation wages. juan: the memphis sanitation workers' strike was sparked by the d

juan: i want to ask dr. raphael warnock about his seminal book black the elegy of black power. it came in the wake of the assassination of martin luther king jrnd your sense of the impact that that book had in terms of beginning -- also how he was shaped. the detroit riot, of course, he often referred to as a shaper of his own consciousness. thehow his book affected theology, especially black liberation theology, across the country. >> you after miller the context out of which this book emerged. black power was the theme in the moment and there were a number of people who were upset about this whole team of black power. in fact, white liberals in a real sense felt betrayed. people were saying this represented violence, that this was a turn in the wrong direction, that somehow black power is the antichrist. dr. cone emerged in that setting. he talks about writing this book in his brother's church. it took about 30 days or so. it was like he was possessed with this deep kind of passion and concern for the humanity of struggles of the not just that moment, but at the last 300 years. so he writes that book out of that context. it comes from the e

juan: i want to ask dr. raphael warnock about his seminal book black the elegy of black power. it came in the wake of the assassination of martin luther king jrnd your sense of the impact that that book had in terms of beginning -- also how he was shaped. the detroit riot, of course, he often referred to as a shaper of his own consciousness. thehow his book affected theology, especially black liberation theology, across the country. >> you after miller the context out of which this book emerged. black power was the theme in the moment and there were a number of people who were upset about this whole team of black power. in fact, white liberals in a real sense felt betrayed. people were saying this represented violence, that this was a turn in the wrong direction, that somehow black power is the antichrist. dr. cone emerged in that setting. he talks about writing this book in his brother's church. it took about 30 days or so. it was like he was possessed with this deep kind of passion and concern for the humanity of struggles ofe, the not just that moment, but at the last 300 years. so he writes that book out of that context. it comes from the