the message, ta-nehisi coates. >> that takes care of the quickest and most articulate way to deal withf our next guest's new book because i agree with jon stewart word for word, with all the attention the book is received you might not know that ta-nehisi coates's book, the message tells three stories and only one of them is about israel. we will try in our limited time tonight to discuss each of these stories which takes us from africa to south carolina to israel, each of these stories is worth a minimum of an hour of tv discussion itself and please take this discussion as an invitation to actually read the book in full if there is anything you hear now that interests you because a book can never be judged by reviews and can never be judged by discussions about the book or discussions by or about the author. i saw some criticisms of the book that i thought might be valid until i read the book. you might have valid criticisms after reading the book but please do not get tricked into the intellectualism of finding fault with the book that you have not read. i have been to each of the th

get started at vaccines.gov >>> we're back with ta-nehisi coates.ome of the harshest things said about what the israeli government is doing in israel are set by israelis. it is my own experience traveling to israel. this is a former israeli soldier who told you this story. i was a sergeant so one of my soldiers sort of calls up and says, hey, hey, come quickly, i need your help. i got there and the situation was a father standing with his daughter in his own home trying to take her to the bathroom. my soldier was standing there with his gun cocked in the face of his father. his daughter is sending the between his legs petrified. when i got there she already peed her pence. that was one of the moments where i was like, what the f are we doing? who is this for? >> yeah. yeah. i spent 10 days there. five days was led by a group of palestinians. the next five days was his release. most were veterans who were taking me to places where they actually had been on patrol. it was very educational because for whatever reason, geopolitics or whatever, i think m

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that was just part of my very extensive interview with ta- nehisi coates. you can watch the full interview on msnbc's youtube page. that does it for all in tonight. alex wagner starts now. good evening, alex. >> as you know, as we all are, such a huge fan of ta-nehisi coates but to have that book come out, you never know when a book is really going to come out, but to have it come out right now as we are collectively grappling with this moral and ethical repercussions of what is going on in the middle east, it makes it even more essential reading. you are lucky to have him on your show. have a great night. >> thank you. night. >> thank you. presidential debate, but already the harris-walz campaign has chosen what it believes was the most important moment of that debate. >> it's really rich for democratic leaders to say that donald trump is a unique threat to democracy when he peacefully gave over power. >> he is still

please welcome back to the program ta-nehisi coates!eers and applause] >> jon: hello! >> hello. >> jon: my friend, you are grappling. this is a book of grappling. >> it is. >> jon: it is reparations, the purpose of art, the purpose of writing, your role, your responsibility, israel, palestine, i can see you don't want to go back to just writing comic books again. >> [laughs] >> jon: what was in you that you thought, i need to take on these big questions, including, what is this for? what is writing for? >> i have come up for a long time, had in the back of my head that we do not have a complete understanding of politics. that is to say, we think of politics is what happens inside of a podium booth, you go in and you choose or whatever. but there is a whole entire architecture that happens outside of that voting booth that designs what goes inside of it, what issues are appropriate, frankly, who is human and who is not, and that is the work of stories, movies, television shows, writing, all of that. and being a writer, and this coming ou

really dark things that i don't think we want to face. >> ta-nehisi coates.ke something happens in the world, in society when you put a new book out and i know this one -- a lot of people have a lot of thoughts. it is an essential read right now. it is so great to have you writing nonfiction again. we love when you write fiction and movies and comics and all the rest, but it is great to have you on the program. >> hopefully we will get more palestinian voices and you will need me. i will be happy to give it up. >> the wheel turns slowly. until then you are great for the cause. thank you for your time tonight. his new book is the message and it is out now. still to come, when donald trump tells you his second term will be all about retribution, believe him. that is next. giving you a stronger lawn. smell that freedom, eh? download the my lawn app today for lawn care tips and customized plans. feed your lawn. feed it. >> woman: why did we choose safelite? we're always working on a project. while loading up our suv, one extra push and... crack! so, we scheduled

i'm joined now by ta-nehisi coates. it's good to see you. this book is extraordinary. i mean, all of your work is extraordinary, and i'm not a young writer but i consider myself primarily a writer so i took your message as a message to me too. thank you for writing it. and i just want to start with this kind of, you tell these three stories. and the story in senegal was heartbreaking in that it spoke to the colonization that remained trapped in the minds of even people on the continent which is not something black folks think about. talk about experiencing that. >> yeah, you know, one of the things i say toward the end of the book is i didn't get my adult password until i was 37. and obviously because of that, i went to africa relatively late. in fact, travel and international travel for me because largely like i guess a lot of people, enjoyment, vacation, and i put off this trip back home, as they say. and i put it off because i knew it wasn't going to be a vacation. and in fact, what it turned out to be was a kind of pilgrimage, a confrontation with images of myself,

that was just part of my very extensive interview with ta- nehisi coates. you can watch the full interview on msnbc's youtube page. that does it for all in tonight. alex wagner starts now. good evening, alex. >> as you know, as we all are, such a huge fan of ta-nehisi coates but to have that book come out, you never know when a book is really going to come out, but to have it come out right now as we are collectively grappling with this moral and ethical repercussions of what is going on in the middle east, it makes it even more essential reading. you are lucky to have him on your show. have a great night. >> thank you. night. >> thank you. presidential debate, but already the harris-walz campaign has chosen what it believes was the most important moment of that debate. >> it's really rich for democratic leaders to say that donald trump is a unique threat to democracy when he peacefully gave over power. >> he is still saying he didn't lose the election. i would just ask that. did he lose the 2020 election? >> tim, i'm focused on the future. >> that is a dam

states and the struggle of palestinians in the middle east is something that bestselling author ta-nehisi coatsks about. he talks about the occupied territories to report on what he witnessed firsthand. he writes for as sure as my ancestors were born into a country where none of them was the equal of any white man, israel was revealing itself to be a country where no palestinian is ever the equal of any jewish person anywhere. joining me now is "new york times" bestselling author, winner of the 2015 book award and mcarthur fellow. >> thank you, nice to be here. >> there is a lot of discussion about this book this week at this moment, but for context, talk to me and people watching right now about how you first thought of israel in a civil rights context back in the days of the case where you wrote the article in "the atlantic." >> the honest answer was i did not think much about it. now i think there was a default zionism. probably all around me within, you know, the profession, within my, other reporters within my editors. certainly it was not and talk of palestinian rights or anything like th

states and the struggle of palestinians in the middle east is something that best selling author ta-nehisi coates. he writes for sure as my ancestors were born into a country where none of them was the equal of any white man, israel was revealing itself to be a country where no palestinian is ever the equal of any jewish person anywhere. joining me now is the "the new york times" best selling author, winner of the -- book award and the macarthur fellow among many other things. the new book is out now. it's great to see you. there's been a lot of discussion about this book in this moment, this week, and i want to get your thoughts on all of it. first, for context can you talk to moo and people watching right now about how you first thought of israel in a civil rights context back in the days in the case for reparations, your article in the atlantic? >> probably the honest answer is i didn't think much about it. i now think there was a kind of default zionism probably all around me within, you know, the profession, within the other reporters, within my editors. there certainly wasn't any talk of pa

if you have a book by ta-nehisi coates in your classroom, maybe a student will tell their mom and theyht snitch on you. the purpose here is simply to make people afraid to say or do certain things that are really nobody else's business. you can see this in states like texas and florida where they're sort of creating this snitch state where people are supposed to be afraid to express ideas that conservatives oppose or engage in behavior conservatives oppose because they're afraid someone might snitch on them. >> and meanwhile, olivia, going back to elon musk, he's creating a space on x twitter where you can say nazism unimpeded, where you can say racism unimpeded. the things they're trying to mitigate against or to make unacceptable is anything woke. it's anything that cares about other people. it's anything that's, you know, that's kind to other people. but if you want to do racism, fine. misogyny, fine, but you just can't do anything they consider to be too ben fishiant to people they hate. >> yeah, the hypocrisy, right? free speech for me but not for thee is what he's doing on his ow

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