i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. john francis, welcome to our program. >> thank you, maria. >> hinojosa: good to have you here. so you are the author of the book planetwalker: 17 years of silence, 22 years of walking. >> yes, i am. >> hinojosa: and so it really was. people, i'm sure they're like, "really? he stopped talking for 17 years?" >> right, i did, actually. >> hinojosa: and you walked for 22. >> for 22 years, without motorized vehicles, yeah. >> hinojosa: and throughout all of that, an essential part is your friend here, the banjo. >> my friend the banjo. >> hinojosa: does banjo have a name? >> well, it's american princess. american princess. it's an old banjo. it's over 100 years old, and was built in philadelphia. >> hinojosa: so the banjo became a central part of you as a persona in these years where you were walking and you were not talking. >> yeah, it did. >> hinojosa: but let's go back for... and you play it normally. >> i do, all the time. so you might hear it as we're talking. >> hinojosa: it's an ex

. >> i want to bring bamaria hinojosa and maria teresa kumar. how much of an exhale is there tonight given what lawrence just said about the precariousness? >> i think it's an exhale because finally people heard from the president so it was like, okay, we kind of get this and i hate to be the debbie downer but the reality is this is all a question of discretion, right. >> yeah. >> so in my front line report when i was out with the agents, this is what they said, oh, washington. >> right. >> they're doing this and we're down here doing our jobs and our jobs right now for the last several years have been detain, deport, because, you know, everybody is getting paid here. there is the i.c.e. industrial complex and i'm sorry to say who will be getting a knock on the door at 6:00 a.m., immigration agents will be there and they may precisely be exactly the people who the president said we're going to say we're not going to deport you. >> precisely the contradiction embedded in the policy we have as a nation and in the president's speech to describe the

maria hinojosa: up next: guam.overnor calvo: we are the most patriotic americans that you'll see anywhere hinojosa: they serve in the military in surprising numbers. maggie aguon: boom, you're going to war. but when we come back, what happens to us? hinojosa: a population of unsung american warriors in the pacific. what is it gonna take for them to know that we're here? i don't know. you're in pain every day? yes. hinojosa: are they forsaken by the country they swore to defend? roland ada: i can't get the help that i need, and i need the help now. this is the new america-- black, brown, asian, lgbt, immigrants. the country is going through a major demographic shift, and the numbers show it. the face of the u.s. has changed. christina ibanez: we're american. we care about the same things. but yet we also want to preserve our culture. i just see it destroying what we had planned to happen here. hinojosa: by 2043, we will be a majority non-white nation.

i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. lin-manuel miranda, welcome to our program. >> thank you for having me. >> hinojosa: so you're the lyricist, performer, and composer of the award winning in the heights on broadway which tells the story of this barrio, this neighborhood in northern manhattan, and it becomes this amazing musical of survival of this community. and you started writing that when you were in college. >> yeah. >> hinojosa: so did you ever imagine, "yeah, it's going to end up on broadway," or was that just like an illusion? >> oh, i imagined it! ( laughing ) i mean, you wouldn't write it if you didn't feel like it was... it was worth something, but i imagined it in the way that you imagine being a jedi when you are three years old, you know? it's in the realm of possibility, and sure, maybe one day. but you know, i just... i knew that i wanted to write, i knew that i wasn't good at anything else, and i just... i knew there weren't enough musicals to keep me employed as a latino actor if i wanted to go into th

i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. majora carter, welcome to our program. >> thank you for having me. >> hinojosa: so okay, you are a genius, award winning... important to say straight up at the front. i know, you're like, "no, no, no!" you are a woman of the south bronx. >> yes. >> hinojosa: and when people think of the south bronx, they think of blown out buildings, fire, garbage, pollution. when you look at the south bronx, you see what? >> possibility, promise, some of the world's most beautiful people... >> hinojosa: hmm! >> ...all sorts of assets that are just waiting to be developed and recognized as such. >> hinojosa: but when you were growing up in the south bronx... >> uh! >> hinojosa: ...one of ten kids, okay? >> ( laughing ) yeah. >> hinojosa: what were you seeing around you? >> i was seeing, you know, the burned-out shells of buildings. i did see, you know, crack heads who lived across the street from me in a burned out shell. i did see my neighborhood played out larger than life on television about being,

maria. >> hinojosa: good luck. continue the conversation at wgbh.org/oneonone. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> garrison keillor: w.s. merwin was born in new york city, the son of a minister. after college, he lived in europe for a number of years, translated spanish and french poetry, learned how to support himself as a freelance-- writing, speaking, giving readings. he moved to hawaii where he lives in a dense forest including rare species of palm trees that he's planted. "poetry," he says, "always begins and ends with listening." >> yesterday. my friend says, "i was not a good son, you understand." i say, "yes, i understand." he says, "i did not go to see my parents very often, you know." and i say, "yes, i know." "even when i was living in the same city," he says, "maybe i would go there once a month or maybe even less." i say, "oh, yes." he says, "the last time i went to see my father..." i say, "the last time i saw my father..." he says, "the last time i saw my father he was asking me about my life, how i was making out, and he we

joining me now, maria hinojosa host of the pbs series america by the numbers and latino usa.dam cox, professor of law at nyu. khalil muhammad who is director of the schomberg center for research and black culture and alina das associate professor of clinical law and co-director of the clinical rights clinic at nyu school of law. maria, let me start with you. just based on what the president is outlining, if he were, in fact to take this executive action and it were to become our policy, is it strong policy? is it robust? is it the kind of reform that activists have been asking for years? >> okay, well that's the $64,000 question, right? we don't know. there has been a lot of, as you pointed out, promises. and we don't know. there are a lot of trial balloons that are coming out. the article in "the new york times" saying it could be as much as this, or it could be as little as this. i think, melissa, as a journalist in the community, what i'm hearing is, how excited can we get? we've been here before. what does this really mean? there is no permanent resolution to this so here

. >> doug heye, maria hinojosa thank you. now rachel. >> thanks at home for joining us. >>> it was a hot day in june, the summer before the 2012 election and president obama went to the rose garden to make an important statement about a policy change that he was instituting. and in the middle of the president standing there formally in a suit at the podium with the presidential seal on it and everything set up in the very formal rose garden in the middle of all that a guy who works at tucker carlson's website started yelling at the president in the middle of his statement. and it was a weird thing to happen in any circumstance but in the formal setting of the rose garden while the president is giving an official presidential statement it was really weird and the president got really mad. >> it is the right thing to do. >> why'd you favor -- >> excuse me. it's not time. >> you have to take questions. >> not while i'm speaking and the answer to your question, sir and the next time i prefer you let me finish my statements before

>> marÍa rosario del pilar hinojosa... >> ¿de verdad?rrectora única es 12 x más ligera... pero cubre perfectamente. es impecable, y 100% imperceptible. nueva dream wonder tal vez es maybelline. "hay doctora, últimamente un pacihe estadome explica: sintiendo como un pinchazo... "...por ejemplo cuando como helado o tomo un té". es bastante común; mucha, mucha gente tiene esa experiencia de sensibilidad. yo les recomiendo sensodyne. sensodyne nos ayuda a minimizar la sensibilidad. muchos pacientes se asombran de que puede ser una solución tan sencilla para un problema... que han tenido por mucho tiempo. el comentario más típico que oigo es que... ...desde que empecé a usar sensodyne," no me molesta más." ¡!sorpresa!! ¿...con tu familia y todasdo... las posibilidades a tu alcance? la tableta realpad de aarp es tu nueva forma de compartir... disfrutar... jugar... y celebrar. una tableta muy fácil de usar para que te sientas más cerca de los tuyos. ¡hola mamá, hola papá! realpad de aarp. disponible en aarprealpad.org y walmart. ♪ ♪ >> asÍ como

maria hinijosa. this is one on one. lea salonga, the star of miss saigon. >> hi. >> hinojosa: thank you for coming. >> sure, absolutely. >> hinojosa: so a lot of people know you as this amazing star. you had the lead role in miss saigon, playing kim in the original production out of london, and then in new york. >> right. >> hinojosa: but probably people don't know that you... even before you got to miss saigon, you were a pretty big star in manila. you had... like, you had recorded records, you had been in the king and i, you had been... >> i'd done some film and some tv, and yeah. i grew up, i think, pretty much in the eyes of many filipinos. a lot of them have seem me from when i was really little doing, you know, musical theater, and then eventually doing tv and then doing film and doing records. back then we were doing records. >> hinojosa: yeah. >> yeah, and people pretty much saw me grow up... i grew up in the public eye. so in the phillipines it's like, "oh, i remember seeing you when you were nine in annie." you know, and so yeah, it was a life that not a lot of people in the us or in london were aware of at t