masha, i've been telling masha figures even before we met, i felt like i could hear you right in my ear buds all the time. i felt like your voice with the voice in my head, while that can be true, then after 2016, the day after the election i was like yes, everything that you said. you have been in my head and this book is fantastic. congratulations. >> thank you. i may be in your head and your imagination but you are in my head every two weeks for the podcast. >> thank you. i want to stop asking you one of the things i've always, your writing to this idea don't normalize, don't normalize. there's not going to be a rice bag firelight right in the book. i know you massively updated the book for the covid era i don't know you but the chance update in the last week for the protest era. i wonder if we could start from this really thorny question of i feel like you are a plan invoice like people it's happening, it's happening and you are not seeing it. does anything that's happened in the sort of time since folks have taken to the street and since we've seen a militarized policing and a real

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masha gessen is here with analysis. later i'll show you what happened when the white house turned the press corps into props. yes, anti-social distancing props. alexi mccammond and oliver darcy is coming up. >>> frommed video of george floyd dying to the video of these marches in big cities across the country, we are able to see it all these days. also in small town america, don't sleep on what's happening in small town america. protests in hundreds of cities. buzzfeed's has been keeping a list of hundreds of these protests in towns and small cities, in many cases these are unprecedented. reporters in these towns are saying they've never seen anything like it. this weekend there were anti-racism protestses from hickory, north carolina, to loveland, dole kol, from richmond, kentucky, to palmer, alaska, and so many places in define. we've seen action in capitals around the world. peaceful, powerful protests around the world. in the iphone age we're able to see it all, including scenes like this, videos that can expose the

columns also she has a book coming out eventually please come back with us and do an event and masha, thank you thank you thank you. we have turn to you for many years. you are a dose of reality and insight that we count on so much. i know you have many more books in you thank you all for joining us tonight we had a huge audience please purchase masha book you'll get assigned bookplate with a link at the bottom of the screen it is an amazingly important book you need to get it for other people and get it out there and for now thank you for joining you have been going all day long the well and be well read thank you so much. >> good night . . . . best-sellr most recent book held voter suppression is destroying our democracy. doctor anderson is a renowned historian and author. she is the professor of african-american studies at every university and is the author of the unspoken truth of our nation is divided. i am a great admirer of her work exploring the legacy of slavery, segregation and discrimination and how we remain fundamentally an equal nation 400 years after the arrival of slav

masha's new book is fantastic. "surviving autocracy." thank you so much. >> thank you so much, chris. >>> up next, some encouraging news. whatever trump is trying to sell, voters right now are not buying it. that's next. right now are not buying it. that's next. indistinct talking on tv ] hey. you fell asleep with your sign again. "you fell asleep with your sign again." no, i didn't. okay. switch to progressive and you can save hundreds. you know, like the sign says. stand up to moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. and take. it. on... ...with rinvoq. rinvoq a once-daily pill... ...can dramatically improve symptoms... rinvoq helps tame pain, stiffness, swelling. and for some-rinvoq can even significantly reduce ra fatigue. that's rinvoq relief. with ra, your overactive immune system... ...attacks your joints. rinvoq regulates it to help stop the attack. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious infections and blood clots, sometimes fatal, have occurred... ...as have certain cancers, including l

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and i think the saudis and masha were happy to just say ok we have a global agreement with the 3 big players and you know nobody really anticipates president trump conforming with his assurances so. and that may be the out here. and are not sure bill why has this dispute between the 2 nations why have they had such and your expert opinion that if the say i have such a big impact on global oil markets i mean obviously opec the big players are going to see that but but is there more to it at. yeah i think this is really a story of depend on it chilling demand the moon and then and then anybody you know packed increasing supply and you know collateral. damage or benefit here is effect on us shell production which really was very severe and we heard all this because the economics do not make sense when you get down in the $20.00 an inch but be get back to $40.00 a line of the independent producers in your past and find a way to get production only again so it is a real conundrum for opec plus. for how they proceed here and i you just actually talked about the u.s. shale oil producer the

of unarmed black man george choice in minneapolis is now facing a more serious charge of 2nd degree masha 3 other officers who were on the scene when floyd died have been charged with aiding and abetting matta the incident has spots more than a week of mass protests in the u.s. john hendren has reaction from minneapolis. where they live in the mood a little bit here and there was one of the children man's was that all 4 officers face charges in the fact that the charges against mr shavon was increased people were happy to see that because that means the charge itself suggests that killing george floyd was intentional that it wasn't premeditated but it was intentional the 1st degree charge simply meant that there was a reckless disregard for human life and the family in the protesters though that was not an appropriate charge. all the time some of those demonstrations in recent days turned violent with buildings and cars set on fire shops looted president donald trump had threatened to send in the national military that now because he doesn't think he'll have to and former u.s. defense sec

mission in my head you know how you and your had small party disagreement there's also a lot i missed masha and i meant stupid i like to show it to a lot of them to let me have 6000000 but. that's the one that i've. been wanting. so titles that march into i'm going to call should surely. get me a bundle i'm going to move home she did. i think george that you got the mask you know you know it when i. mumble i'm not some you know you can do deals not to do yet on how to talk about. you know. i'm not a whole lot of them. i wasn't going to try to track you. you don't let me know in that. moment i was a one man. this is giving me thought up and move on. jokes on his feet. and there have been a. given one of. the matter was defeated debate you have said to me to. those you can touch his spin your best that he. has listened. but the truth if. we listened to her last log. trying to start. that she was. 14 not clear been a lot higher. not lower than 70 percent of all does have a favorable. so in her own name. i don't know whether. i mean no hint of shock that. there's a shot in the at the mic to. se

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with people being the internally displaced people informed us that some people were being killed by masha it is. houses were being burnt and women raped so the situation is extremely difficult of course it has ruined the population even more vulnerable because they have been displaced over the since 2000 and been an increase in displacement just last month over 200000 people again were displaced to swell the numbers that are already indicated of 5000000 people there poppy metabolisms have been run down completely because people move from one place to the other sometimes to go and live in plan and oftentimes in spontaneous sites some even among their host community who themselves are displaced so we are dealing with an extremely difficult situation young children are not wrist and some of they haven't gone to school for quite a long time now regardless of the cause of it which has also complicated the situation i'm not talking of it well here are situations where young children happy and recruited again by the armed forces you know that they armed groups not and forces the there are over 1

by the russian state the german government says it might take further steps against moscow over the masha including imposing sanctions. this is good news from berlin you can follow us on twitter and instagram at t w news dot com. president trump asked china to help him win reelection president drunk gave a nod to concentration camps president trump was ready to quit neda and those are some of the damning allegations in a new tell all book by trump's former national security advisor john bolton in the room where it happened is packed with enough t.n.t. to blow up a presidency except for the one room where it didn't happen the impeachment hearings if john bolton had gone to congress to tell his story under oath it could have made all the difference it could have ended the presidency but it didn't. go off in berlin this is the day. that it's totally inappropriate that he does have to go in for their new processes .