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k. brown to tears when he picked up the statuette. wait.at statuettes. >> when "black panther" took home outstanding cast -- >> wakanda forever and ever. >> forever ever? >> sterling became a double winner, and everyone wanted a piece. >> mind-blowing. >> watch "mrs. maisel" rachel brosnan see him on the carpet. >> hi. >> she made a plea on our platform. >> i would give anything to have him on "the marvelous mrs. maisel". >> i would go crazy. >> can we broker a deal right now? >> i'm in. >> backstage, rachel was enjoying her place in awards history. she is only the sixth person ever to nab every major tv honor. rachel's not the only star sweeping awards season. >> glenn close. >> thank you very much. >> from glenn close to this bohemian rhapsody champion. >> rami malek. ♪ he is the champion, my friends ♪ >> yes, girl. ♪ we are the champions >> how about that? >> how about that? >> crazy since 15 years ago rami was sneaking head shots into pizza boxes he delivered to hollywood casting directors. that ingenuity got him his first role on "gilm

k. brown are joining. >> it will be an opportunity to do something that my kids defini can watch. >> the the directors says they will have a little more fun this ti as for the music? songs. >> yeah. >> they are still in my head. "let it go", i'm not going to say something will overcome "let it go", that may be the song of the century, but there will be some songs. ♪ the cold never bothered me anyway ♪ ♪ >> please let there be some contenders, kevin. every time we talk about this then "let it go" is stuck in my brain for a month. >> we need a new one. it's time to move on. >> whatever happens, "frozen 2" is going to be massive, kind of like the reunion we've been waiting for. the brady bunch clan. >> hgtv broke ground outside their former tv home. of course only the exterior was used for the tv show. but all hands were on deck. >> kids get to work. now remember, this is not a game. >> it's better than therapy. >> this is therapy. >> this is going to be the most epic renovation ever! >> i told them i'm great with a hammer. i'm great cutting drywall. i can focus the pluix the plumb. >> they

natalie brown, former k ing reporter, tweeting this about john tester, we saw moments ago, ahead of the border conference meeting, said, quote, fencing is probably going to come up, and i think as long as it's part of what we analyze, as actually making the southern border more secure, i certainly don't have a problem having that debate. that, from senator john tester, one of the conferees this afternoon. live coverage, here on c-span 3. as we wait for them to get under way. >>> the conference committee on border security and homeland security spending for 2019 was scheduled to get under way about 40 minutes ago, 1:30 eastern stlerks been waiting for the house to finish its series of vote, the house just approved a measure that would increase federal civilian pay by 2.6%. writing about that the "washington post" writing about that the chances of a 2.6% paz raise was uncertain as it was unclear when they would act on the bill and the pay raise will probably have to be settled as par of the ongoing negotiations. when the government reopened, president trump announcing it would be through

i think k we're going to have to do work to dismantle this. amy: centroid brownas sentenced to life in prison. she will have served 15 years before her release in august. and you've talked about the support she is had all of the time she is been in n prison. but what forced through public and tennessee governor to grant clemency and were you surprised when he did? >> no, because i am an organizer. when people mobilize and put pressure on targets, we can win. and i think what happened was the supreme court in tennessee in early december came back and upheld a decision to say that in fact she wasn't ever going to be able to be paroled before serving 51 years in prison. so she would have gotten out of prison, had a chance to get out of prison and go in front of a parole board at the age of 67. in that particular supreme court decision in tennessee is what galvanized this latest version of a mobilization on herer beha. people were like, wait a minute. first of all, this is unjust that she spent one day in prison. secondly, they're going hours been 51 years in prison

. >> brown: when you're writi about 1930s, '50s,is mippi, you're ini'veta bring writing about race. you often, in your boothks, i k, write about and get into social isshues tat -- interest isn't the right word -- tha seem important to you. is that fair? >> yes. i'm always searching for a story about an issue. issues involving criminal e justicpecially injustice, mass incarceration, death penalt for-profit prisons and all these profits that we have, that we could fix if weldou simply do it. >> brown: is it the issue that interests you first and then you find the stoo go with it? >> both ways. >> brown: both ways. metimes my wife will say stop preaching, get off your soapbox and go write another "firm," a good story of suspense, legal intrigue, and stopreaching for a while. and i'll do that. you can't impose your politics on your readers because it becomes sort of intruffes. you don't want to assume everybody's got the same policies. so i stay away from it a lot.o it was funrite a good, old-fashioned thriller, suspense novel without the heavy legal issues. >> brown: what ma be you want a writer in the first place? >

k and i th's the same way out here, is that re-entry is a part of the population, and a t of people don't know about. >> brown the podcast, you've exploredhis idea often, the sense of loss. you know, that shame of lost time, lost cnections. do you feel now like you have to make up for lost te? >> not at all. >> brown: no? >> not at all. if i do make up for an, it's with my immediate family. you know, the time that i've been gone, the time i've been away-- my mother just turned 70. my mission is to spend time with her. i'm not trying to go too fast, to catch up with something that i've missed or nothing. and i'm just waking up every day enjoying the fact that i'm waking up free. >> brown: when we talked at san quentin, i asked you about victims of crimes. >> right. >> brown: how should they feel, look, watching you and watching what you were doing at san quentin and watching you now? >> when people come to jail,ab they have to ritate himself, they have to change their thinking, their mindset. and i believe that as far as me... if a person is looking at me, they're saying, "okay, wellt he's doi right stuff. he'