maya angelou once said, "if someone shows you who they are believe them." she has shown us her entire life who she is. believe her. i believe her and the president believes her and all of the people in this department will believe her. you have shown who you are and everything you've done. you've upheld the values of the oath you are about to take. we believe you. to the staff of the department of justice, you are the best of the best and with loretta, you have the best of the best as your leader. all the qualities she brings to the job of attorney general are because of what she has learned as a federal prosecutor. she is one of you. to the american people who are blessed with another remarkable public servant to lead this department, i am now going to swear you in as the attorney general of the united states of america. the whole family, come on up here. you are going to stand here. i want to put your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand. i do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemi

to maya angelou but tavis is the ideal collaborator because he appreciates what i do and shows me great respect and also i love how he speaks and i love his voice. he is intrinsically a good storyteller so it's been a great combination. >> host: is the ghostwriting this is a pretty big business? something we don't necessarily know about? >> guest: yes and one area we haven't talked about is a -- ghost which means you don't have your name on it. a deep ghost is a person who has ghost written a book for typically politicians will use a deep ghost because they want to get the idea that they actually wrote the book. i don't know, i haven't done a survey on it but i think i don't know whether majority of politicians books are ghostwritten but a large number of hooks by politicians are ghostwritten. and i will tell you one interesting story about that. i was once on an airplane going to conference and i was next to a guy who is a well-known novelist. i don't want to hurt his feelings. he said that's interesting and then he asked me which books i had done and i told him. he said the only probl

>> it was a very interesting remark she made at maya angelou's memorial service last year when she said looking back on her recent career she talked about what it was like to be on campaign trail when she was criticized and she mentioned a feeling of loneliness in ivy league classrooms. she had a bit of a struggle when she first got there at age 17. and she worked her way through with the help of friends and that pretty patented michelle obama determination and discipline. >> how did the whole affirmative action debate affect her career at princeton and her sense of herself, her sense of living in two worlds and being judged as something other than just michelle? >> right. she wrote in her senior thesis that she -- princeton made her she said it made me more aware of my blackness than ever before. than in chicago. and that was because of the nature of princeton at that time where black students were very much in a minority, where we also should remember there were not so many women and also where class was a big question after all. michelle said i got to princeton, and i saw some kids w

and recently we've worked together on this book on maya angelou about his relationship to maya angelou. but tavis is sort of the ideal collaborator because he appreciates what i do, you know, and shows me great respect. and also i love how he speaks, and i love his voice. and he's intrinsically a good storyteller, so it's been great combination. >> host: is the ghost writing business a pretty big business that we don't necessarily know about? is. >> guest: yeah. the one area we haven't talked about is deep ghosts which means that you don't have your name on it. you touched upon it earlier. but a deep ghost is a person who has ghost written a book for typically politicians will use a deep ghost because they want to give the idea that they actually wrote the book. and i don't know i haven't done a survey on it, but i think -- i don't know whether a majority of books written by politicians are ghost written, but a large number of books written by politicians are ghost written. so yeah it's -- and i, i'll tell you one interesting story about that. i was once on an airplane going to a confe

and they say that renaming it to maya angelou is more appropriate since she brought people together. >>> fog should be back tomorrow morning. so we're going to see plenty of fog and low clouds when you get going as we had the last few mornings. this weather system spinning to the north of us is breaking up the fog pattern a little bit and will set us up with a mild day tomorrow but then it moves through and another one comes in. it'll bring us some rain as we get into the middle and late week. right now it's sustained at sfo. the computer model then sets us up. there's tomorrow morning. it shows a lot of fog. i expect to see more patchy fog and inland. it may go away because of that low but i think we will see more patches of fog. the forecast highs tomorrow. likely were today the blues are 50s, greens are 60s. that footprint much like we had today. that's the way it's going to go. but then things change around. 57degrees at lunchtime. cloudy, 59 degrees partly cloudy in the afternoon. as we head into your thursday and friday. we have a legit shot of rain around here. i'll be talking

everyone saw maya angelou at its best and saw maya angelou do what he does best which is box. >> i got the money to go. >> meated did what he is supposed to do, handling. they'll go tonne, it was a hell of a fight. >> this was the most profitable bout in boxing's history with each fight egg taking home millions and for the u.s. entertainment capital. it may have been a billion dollar weekend to revitales the city and the sport >>> manny pacquioa claimed he was hampered by a shoulder injury. sports writer rick has been telling al jazeera he thought floyd mayweather was a deserving winner. >> it's a sad nation. the national pride is pricked and, yes, the judges pretty much got to right. it's a sad fact. we have to admit that floyd mayweather did win the match. i know he does not want to end on a sour note, and will fight one more time but my best advice for him is to take a few days off and think about this. this was a legacy fight. he's tape a couple of losses. definitely tarnishing his reputation as one of the greatest of all time i think he'll fight one more time. >> spain's lorenzo w

. >> "america tonight"s maya angelou. >> next a medical device used on hundreds of thousands of patients each year now connected to a deadly outbreak. what could have stopped the superbug. hot on the website - gaol house and a scandal sending an innocent man to death, and an accused killer on to the streets. listen to the recordings of an informer ring at aljazeera.com/americatonight. >>> now our fast-forward look at the super bug. they are dangerous, hard to kill and easy to spread. coming up in hospitals across the country, and there's fear that it could be connected to a device used in hundreds of thousands of procedures. michael oku vets the evidence. the danger could have been prevented. >> reporter: biomechanical engineer has been tracking sometimes uncovering the outbreaks for years. this is what he thinks is the source an endoscope. it has a camera and placed down the throat of a camera. according to the f.d.a. scopes are used in about 500 procedures a year. the hospitals involved in the outbreaks pointed to the endoscopes as the source of infection, saying they are hard to steri

>> guest: it was a very interesting remark she made at that maya angelou's memorial service when she said, looking back on her recent career, she talked about what it was like to be on the campaign trail when she was criticized, and she mentioned a feeling of loneliness and i'vey league classroom. she had a bit of a struggle when he first got there at age 17, and she worked her way through with the help of friend and that is pretty patented michelle obama determination and discipline. >> host: how did the whole affirmative action debate affect her career at princeton and her sense of herself her sense of living in two worlds and being judged as something other than just michelle. >> guest: right. she wrote in her senior thesis that princeton made her -- she said it made me more aware of my blackness than ever before. then in chicago and that was because of the nature of princeton at that time. where black students were very much in a minority. where we also should remember there were not so many women and also where class was a big question after all. michelle said, i got princeton a

and the use of language, as far as the backdrop of what's happening now, you know, when maya angelous asked back at the book festival about language -- rap music, and she said it was vulgar. she didn't like the vulgar language. and she was always in favor of non-profane language. so when we're dealing with some ferguson, the young man who had triple the amount of p.h.c. in his blood and the reaction of the police officer dealing with the facts of the issue. and instead of just saying it wasn't -- and racism -- i don't think it really exists. it really 99 times of the people you look at the character and everybody gets along pretty much. and the big issue here in the washington area is -- has been a lot of crime attacks of metro employees at the metro stops. and so it was even brought up one time that postal carriers and the killing of postal carrier last year. and it was even brought up several years ago about letter carriers carrying weapons. and i'm more concerned about the environment and the military aspects, about the social focus of our country rather than zeroing in on the rea

know it as justin herman plaza but there's a new push to rename san francisco park after poet maya angelou. supporters are using a change.org petition to ask the board of supervisors to make the name change. herman was in charge of redevelopment efforts in the 1960s and petitioners say homes and businesses were lost because of his urban renewal. >>> another road closure in the bay area expected to cause major traffic backups later this month. kpix 5's don ford says it's so crews can finish off the billion-dollar presidio parkway project that connects san francisco to the golden gate bridge. >> reporter: after more than six years the new doyle drive is almost done. the tunnels are almost finished. but there's one more big headache coming. >> why we're here today is to let people know about a full closure of doyle drive which is south of the golden gate bridge. >> reporter: not for a couple weeks yet but starting may 28th, the entire roadway will be closed to traffic for 79 hours. this will allow construction crews to remove the detour and finally open traffic in to the finished tunnels. >>

he talked about the memorial service for maya angelou. this year she talked at a conference by black girls rock. so she's on this topic much more than her husband. what was new and different about this particular speech and again, she's often speaks to black universities around this time of year. what was different, she did speak specifically about the way she thinks she was perceived in her rise to national prominence back in 2008. here she is talking spvg ging specifically about a new yorker magazine cover in 2008. >> then there was the first time i was on a magazine cover. it was a cartoon drawing of me with a huge afro and a machine gun. now -- yeah it was satire but if i'm really being honest it knocked me back a bit. it made me wonder just how are people seeing me? over the years, folks have used plenty of interesting words to describe me. one said i exhibited a little bit of uppityism. another noted that i was one of my husband's cronies of color. cable news referred to me as obama's baby mama. let's put that magazine cover up. and

the book opens with michelle talking to high school kids and ends with her talking at maya angelou's memorial service. >> host: she had to use her voice from the bully pulpit but some of her critics not from the far right but even what you consider her side of the aisle says she is -- could she have done more? >> guest: i think that is one of the enduring questions of michelle obama's time in the white house? could she do more? she has critics from women to her left -- that's a bit simplistic -- who say couldn't she be more activist, speak out more? and i think it would be very interesting city not only what she does in this rather freer time that she and the president have left, she is already speaking out more than she felt comfortable speaking out in the first term but especially what the she does when she leaves. >> host: what do you think? >> guest: i believe her when she says she is not entirely sure. he is doing some writing. she also -- >> host: writing her own autobiography -- >> guest: i'm not sure what she will do with her writing a memoir. she has made clear she intends t

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the book opens with michelle obama talking to anacostia high school kids and an end at the maya angelou memorial service. >> host: she has used her voice from the bully pulpit but some of her critics would consider her side of the aisle could she have done more. just go i think that's one of the enduring questions of michelle obama's time in the white house. could she do more and she has critics from women to her left who say could she be more active than could she reach out more? i think will be very interesting to see not only what she does in this rather freer time that she and the president has left. especially when she does after and what she does when she leaves. >> host: what do you think? >> guest: no i believe her when she says she is not entirely sure. she does some writings. >> host: she is writing her own autobiography. just got not a sure exactly what it is, if it's a memoir or what she will do with her writing. i think she has made clear that she intends to continue to work on education remembering how important education was to her own life and the messages she heard and

. >> maya angelou has said that too.tion is coming up next. what, charlie? >> i was going to risk a joke. >> go ahead. i like a good joke from. go ahead charlie. speak into the microphone. >> did willie teach you any new tricks? >> that's coming up. >> that's a tease. >> that's a >>> willie nelson has always been a musical outlaw. he was inspired by blues, honorky torng and others. you know what he did? he revolutionized country music. ♪ whiskey river take my mind ♪ >> reporter: for six decades willie nelson has marched to the beat of his own guitar. along the way he released nearly 200 albums earned seven grammys, and place in the country music hall of fame. but in 1960 willie was just a dirt poor texas boy who found himself to the way of the music mecca of nashville. ♪ is that a teardrop in the corner ♪ >> there he wrote hit songs for other performers like "crazy" forcy for patsy klein. ♪ i knew some day ♪ >> reporter: but willie's unique rhythm singing slightly before or behind a beat didn't synch with nashville's sli

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started being criticized in ways she described so powerfully in tuskegee and you remember at the maya angelou memorial service, said ivy league classrooms, i was lonely. on the campaign trail, my womanhood was challenged. she is using her story as she does all around the country and now around the world you've seen in her recent speeches to say, the deck is stacked. it is not easy, but you have to carry on. that's the point you're making too about the booker t. washington part of it all. >> i think for me, i battle with this because she says it's hard but also says hard doesn't have to do with the fact you have to do it anyway, draw on the historical resources. it also feels to me, brittany the president has a bucket list. white house correspondents dinner immigration reform, bucket. and feels like flotus may be bucket. i got some things i need to say. >> she was like how you like me now in the mix? she came and responded to her critics and she's right. she's having her say. here is the thing about her critics. not only are they misrepresenting and flattening out a series of very complicated

it's maya angelou to say have the courage to look into your brother or sister's face and say good morningoit. i go to detroit. we got there the week bf the city went bankrupt. there was a counterer narrative about the city that said entrepreneurship would save them. we went to see the entrepreneurs and they were beautiful, young white guys in hoodies making mobile apps. i said detroit is 700,000 people 82% black, 40% below the legal poverty line. you can't tell me that mobile apps are going to save us. >> or that it's all that counts. >> exactly. >> i don't know anybodier more entrepreneurial than regular black folk. let it rain and see if they don't come out with a cart with umbrellas selling stuff. regular folks. >> 1865 we were all sbrurs entrepreneurs. think about that. >> wait a minute. you took me back to liberation day. i have to pause. you can't just take a sister back and be like think about that. i need a commercial to think about it. when i come back i want to talk to you about the perception gulf the way we see things differently through the lens of race when we come back. how

quote that our mayor shared at his state of the city address which is an excerpt from a poem by maya angelou. history despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, and if faced with courage need not be lived again. lift up your eyes upon the day breaking for you. give birth again to the dream. thank you. [ applause ] >> good morning. >> good morning. >> my grandmother said please follow the three "b"s be brief be bright, be gone. that's difficult for me. thank you for having us and let me just say after four years of fighting to become a part of the forum, we have finally arrived. cleveland. [ applause ] we will go to the slide. we come from a beautiful city which many of you may know a guy has returned plays a little basketball. he's come home, and like i want to say to all of you, coming home is a great thing. come home again. so if you ever get a chance visit cleveland. we want to be the safest city in america, and we want to join you and say this to you all. all our efforts together will make a difference for our communities and that's why we're so proud and so happy to join you, and in

[applause] -- maya angelou. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> my grandmother said, please follow thething. come home again. so if you ever get a chance, visit cleveland. we want to be the safest city in america, and we want to join you and say this to you all. all our efforts together, but make a difference for our communities and that's what we are so proud to join you. in our effort, cleveland is trying to come and i say this it goes back to the original concept of wait and see. what we're trying to do in cleveland really is take so many single great programs and put them together. we are very fortunate and very lucky in our city that many of the fellow initiatives that have wonderful program designs really have followed what they did decide to end their silence. and this gives you the greatest opportunity to link and integrate those. and in cleveland we want to take advantage of that where a population of young people who are coming into contact because of so many system failures. 15-25 year olds in every city here are suffering from system failure. mental health, education, publi