but you know they start doing it and a very racist way which is blackface michel c. you know part of it is you know an appreciation of the music and these early michel songs you find you know you know there's like this is a real negro song like learned from a real black person like you know at the end of shows sometimes they'd wipe off the makeup like surprise we're not black you know but it was you know appreciation for this music and it was while most popular form of american music for. ages right generations because of that think a patient was like rock and roll back that you know but it's all based on. you know the black experience and black music so learning that fact really got me into the banjo made me want to be a part of it and i would hear like clarence actually or uncle dave make. you know whatever recordings and be like i don't know what they're doing i don't get it at all and when i learned that fact of the banjo being black it seems like i want to pick up a banjo and then someone threw one in my hands taught me how to claw hammer and i it clicks like i pick

she said, excuse me, can i take a photo of you with my daughter because i want her to know she can be anything? [applause] michelle: and now you are a regular on c> c-span, you can call me after this. [laughter] michelle: thank you. chelsea, how about you? chelsea clinton: thank you for sharing that, and thank you for hosting this conversation today. all of the conversations that i'm sure will catalyze important work over the next few days, and most important way for all that you are doing every day to ensure not a lot i was listening to your remarks earlier and you said something i reflect on often, which is that behind every statistic are as many stories as represented in the numbers. listening to barbara share her story about the young woman who continues to galvanize her passion for public health in nigeria and around the world, i was thinking about our work at the clinton foundation and how fiercely proud i am of the fact that we've helped almost 12 million people access drugs around the world and close to two thirds of the children on pediatric and retrovirals access them through agreements we helped negotiate. there are still more people

c-span.org. david gero other of rising star, what was the hardest part of this book to you? aspectmost challenging of doing this book was dealing with the women before michelle obama. i am an academic historian. i am very different in how i deal with people than many journalists are. even when one is talking with intimate, personal hesitant,ips, i am deferential. i don't oppose intrusive questions. ,ut it is very important crucially important, that what alex mcneil and with genevieve cook, there are lengthy letters that barack wrote to them that they have hung onto. i think that it gives a history of barack's life a great depth and richness to have all of those letters in his own words detailing those relationships. previousked in the hour about this, almost 1500 pages including the notes and index and all of that. did you have to cut this book down? >> very little. that we made the decision to go with harper collins as opposed to three other publishers because of harper collins willingness to go forward with a one-volume book of this remarkable size. i am deeply indebted to harpercollins. the quality of the physical production of this volume is something i

michelle, austin, a democrat. good morning. caller: oh my goodness. thank you. i'm a first-time caller to c-span. i'm so excited, i love c-span and i love hearing the different views. what i want to say thank you for your question, the headline earlier. i am a state employee, a single person, and i do not pay a dime toward my health insurance premium. i would say yes, tax them. if there are people out there who are struggling and they need help, why not help them? i do not understand why people do not want to have the access to affordable health care. what i think is the elephant in the room is that some people, and i would just say republicans in general, are in denial that as ah care has to come out right, a fundamental right of society, and that is it. we should go from there. i would say to the folks in congress, i want them to work together. this is too important not to get it right. host: michelle, austin, texas, democrat. reba, florida, a republican. what is your message this morning? caller: i think on this health care that we have so many states that are almost like a foreign country --