any npr fans here?s ] today is the 45th anniversary of npr, and i hear the party got pretty crazy. [ laughter ] terry gross put a little extra agave nectar in her green tea. sarah koenig drunk dialed adnan. that's never good. ira glass wore a red cardigan. it was insane. [ laughter ] you're going the opposite -- i'm now going to shift to the opposite of npr. picture what the opposite of npr is, because that's where i'm shifting with this next joke. the kardashian family -- [ laughter ] oh! oh, i just did a 180, and i threw my neck out. [ laughter ] the kardashian family has signed a deal keeping them on the air for four more years and paying them $100 million. [ audience ohs ] $100 million. so let that be a lesson. if you really work hard -- [ laughter ] -- and apply yourself, you are wasting your time. [ cheers and applause ] you are wasting your time. they're not giving away money for that anymore. eddie redmayne -- any eddie redmayne fans here? [ cheers ] yeah. i've been told i look like a young eddi

brian lamb: npr? david brooks: "all things considered," also on friday.done that since the late 1990's. every friday afternoon i have a routine, i drive to npr and to pbs and i commune with catholic liberals from massachusetts. brian lamb: two columns a week. when do you read them in hard copy and online? david brooks: tuesdays and fridays. used to be monday and thursday night but now tuesday and friday. brian lamb: how often do you speak? david brooks: i would say on average once every 10 days. brian lamb: for money? david brooks: sometimes for money. brian lamb: when you go out and have public performances, what is your approach? you look at michael lewis and his public approach, what do you do to get attention? david brooks: a couple of things. first, never waste a sentence. my speeches, if i am giving a speech to a college, they will be 40 or 50 minutes. every sentence i utter has a note attached. if you have filler, it gets boring. you have to learn to trust the audience, let them hold you up show what you have and they will hold you up. be vulnerabl

on npr today i heard an expert cite they're not giving him the appeal because they thought the podcastat. they're giving it because the podcast shook out some relevant information and media scrutiny. jurnl >> what happened here in creating what was basically not a high profile case and making it high profile. all these witnesses started coming out of the woodwork. >> that's why it makes it less of a cold case because you still is the cell phone records and the towers and the witnesses, so you have the evidence to redo this trial. that's the problem with cold cases. we have it all, so we can do this again. >> let's assume nothing changes. he continues his sentence in jail. the family has had to revisit one of the most painful chapters probably, of their life. we're listening to it and talking about it because there is an high intrigue entertainment value. i wonder ethically whether the discussion alone is -- >> this is one i have wrestled with. i thought to myself i would make a joke about it because it became this pop culture phenomenon. if you're the family of that friend or girl some

news leaked to npr reporter that supreme court justice david suitor was about to retire.only 69 years old which is quite young for a supreme court justice. npr got the scoop he was leaving the court and president obama three months in to being president obama is faced with one of those this is not a drill moments. think of that for a moment. your president, you have only been president three months but you alone nominate the next member of the united states supreme court who will then seven for life. few weeks after that brand new president barack obama announced his choice would be sewn ya sotomayor. here's how she described getting that call. she said this quote, i had my cell phone in my right hand and had my left hand over my chest trying to calm my beating heart literally. the president got on the phone and said judge, i'd like to announce you to be my selection for the next justice of the supreme court. i caught my breath started to cry and said thank you mr. president. sonya sotomayor was his first supreme court appointment but not his last. when john paul stevens

npr is another one that has done a great job.hey released another app, sort of like a pandora for npr which is great. charlie: has the "new yorker" adapted? that is a longform journalism magazine. chris: in terms of the case of the adaptation it would not be at the head of the pack but journalism is influential. charlie: i am struggling with why there has to be a conflict between keeping a great magazine and honoring its tradition, and at the same time having an entree into the global marketplace that you get from online participation and online presence. do you believe there has to be a conflict? chris: no. charlie: these smart people did. was it because -- did you fire frank? chris: we did make a decision in late november to change editorial leadership. chris: i will answer your question. first i have to say that frank i count myself privileged to have worked with frank for two years. i got a small view into his tenure. he was without question from my view and the view of his peers one of the most influential editors the magazi

news leaked to npr reporter nina totemberg that security justice david constitutore or suitor was abouto retire. he was only 69 years old. but npr got this scoop that he was leaving the court and barack obama, just three months into being president barack obama, he's faced with one of those "this is not a drill" moments. think about that for a second. you're president, you've only been president for three months but you alone get to nominate the next member of the united states supreme court who will then serve for life. a few weeks after that the brand new president, barack obama, announced his choice would be season na sewonia sotomayor. she described getting that call i had my cell phone in my right hand and i had my left hand over my chest trying to calm my beating heart, literally. the president got on the phone and said to me judge, i would like to announce you as me selection to be the next associate justice of the supreme court. i caught my breath and started to cry and said thank you, mr. president. sonia sotomayor was president obama's first supreme court appointment. but not

project have been carried on a invading public programming a fourth will soon be carried on one the npr magazines in the coming week scombu just to give you a sense that people are listening to the work that c r a w and i want to share a poem we've broadcasted this april and last april called restraining order poets we partnered with americans scores bay area is a nonprofit that provides literacy and work on soccer with kids in schools one is in the set of pictures that was shared with you we've got this opportunity to bring those are kids into the station and put the poems on the air i'll send them out in an abbreviated power point but it's role this scratching the as far as of k r a we i design a pod casts been doted 21 millions times in the point of order cast it is the biggest tinge out there this last year last year we launched a project which is called this american life spanish pod cast i want to talk about k r a w a lot of programs being proud we're also thinking about ways to partner with our communities to make something new and valuable so you may or may not be aware invocati

and npr the evening news on the npr and bbc. i used to watch al jazeera which i found was more informative than the major topics -- the major news networks in america. but i was just -- my opinion for a short time. host: what do you do down in key west? caller: what do i do for a living? i'm retired off of my oil and gas income. host: congratulations. caller: i was a great beneficiary of my ancestors which got a bunch of oil leases in 1910 and we held onto them and they finally panned out, as they say. of course, it is down a little but such is life. host: nic in key west enjoying the sunny 72 degrees get from "houston chronicle," "oil job cuts reach 25,000." robert weets in, "williams is too big to fail?" finally, "williams' capillary, ratings could save his job." this is from "usa today." "williams' admission has caused a firestorm. the reaction speak to the jarring oddity of automa -- of a network news anchor, fading in ruins as a group, but still the most visible paragon of trust and journalistic integrity, caught in a lie t

npr is another one i think has7s done a great job. just released another app which is a pandora for npr which is great. so the idea that legacy. >> rose: that's a long term journalism magazine. >> it certainly has adapted somewhat. i would say in terms of the pace of the adaptation they wouldn't be at the head of the pack but of course the journalism is still incredibly influential. >> rose: i'm still struggling with why there has to be a conflict between keeping a great magazine and honoring its tradition and entering the global marketplace that you get from on-line participation and on-line presence. do you see the conflict in that? these smart people did. did you fired franklin ford. >> we did make a decision in late november to change editorial leadership. >> rose: why was that? >> i'll answer your question but first i have to say that frank, i mean i count myself incredibly privileged to have the opportunity to work with frank for two years. i got a small brief view into his tenure at the new republic and he was without question

juana summers, congressional reporter for npr. and john harwood, chief washington correspondent for cnbc. >> award winning reporting and analysis covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capitol, this is "washington week" with gwen ifill. corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- corporate funding is also provided by: ibew bb. additional funding provided by newman's own foundation donating all profits to charity and nourishing the common good. annenberg foundation the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. house speaker john boehner was on the receiving end of a hearty slapdown late this afternoon as 52 republicans joined the vast majority of democrats to reject a stopgap plan to fund the department of homeland security before a midnight deadline. republicans wanted to force democrats to back down on g.o.p. immigration reform provisions attached to the

. >> no, by the time - i worked at npr on the news when i was 19. i worked for the network news, on the afternoon news show "all things considered", when i was 19 and 20 and 21 and going to sledge studying semiotics, which is a pretentious body of french theory but is useful in my daily job, because it's about how narrative works, how to structure a story so it will be compelling and get its oaks into you. semiotics is interested in the questions like what keeps you watching. what keeps you listening to a story on the radio. what is - what keeps you turning the pages in a book. what is the pleasure of it that is moving you forward, that is pulling you in and pulling you forward. you know the feeling at the end of a great story. if a story is working, you know, a great episode of tv, movie, book, like the feeling you get. it's about what is producing that, what is the machinery that produces that. when it doesn't happen, what fails. studying that gave me tools that i used every day this my job. job. >> there's a skill in broadcasting that has to be d

there is a great story npr did yesterday, as a matter of fact which is about the platoon i was then in falluja. [applause] >> i have lots -- several. i have had two of my books made into films. one the return, which is a true story behind ingrourious basterds and it's a film that they made. and then there's been several documentaries for the history channel your her instance, there is a great game in falluja where they reenacted the ambush i was involved in. i was almost killed by chechen. they interviewed the man and they reenacted the entire ambush. one of my favorite books is called give me tomorrow, which is on the korean war. the same unit that we were in falluja, but in korea. when i came back from camp pendleton, was created by these old senior marines he said to me combat historian. poor george company 31. and then they said we held a key hill in the chosen reservoir in the chinese regimen. that is amazing. a small company of 180 men. maybe 2500 strong maybe more. how did they do that? come to our reunion. so for me it's all kind of like the story seem to find me. it's always s

enter alex blumberg, a former public radio producer of npr's planet money and this american life.d that but now he is doing this. founding his own podcast production company called gimlet media. i talked to him about why they are suddenly cool. >> there is podcast players that come now preinstalled with your phones. i think that has driven a lot of increase that we have seen. >> the founders of twitter famously aimed to start a podcast company after they left google and they thought podcasts, man, that is going to be it. are there execution lessons that you think you're going to learn from the skeletons of podcasters past? >> the reason i did this is i saw an opportunity. i saw an opportunity when i was working at planet money. our audience was growing. it seemed like there was a demand for this kind of programming. to me, it was like -- it wasn't that much thinking. if you listen to the podcast you know i wasn't thinking that deeply about it when i started bit just seemed like something that needed to be done so i went out and did it. >> i love you're thinking both on a programmi

enter alex blumberg, a former producer at npr, but now, he has founded his own podcast company called and he is betting there is a comeback in audio downloads that is here to stay. he is interesting. i want to see what you look like. i have listened to you for so long. look at you. you look like a real person. i just love this. i love listening to audio in the car and when i run. tell me what has changed to make this work when they fell on their face in the age of the ipod. alex: it has changed. our habits are changing a little bit. right now, if i went out to the back, i would make sure that i had my headphones, that i had my headphones with me so that i could listen to the podcast. i think that is a big one. and then the podcast players that come installed with your phones. i think that has driven a lot of the increase that we see. cory: the founders of twitter, williams and stone, aimed to start a podcast company after they left google, and they got podcasts, man, that is going to be it. are there execution lessons that you think you're going to learn from the skeletons of pod cast

. >> greg myrie npr international editor, thank you for your time. >>> the intelligence community broke the law when it looked at electronic records collected by the u.s.'s nsa surveillance itself violated european human rights laws. rights groups challenged the british government after nsa leaker edward snowden's revelations. >> improve their policies, improve the safeguards they've put out some of 1.which we've which we have been able to find out about after the courts forced them. we're still not happy with the state of play and that's why we're going to continue to appeal parts of this to the courts of human rights. >> responded by saying today's ipt ruling reaffirms that the processes and safeguards within the intelligence sharing regime were fully adequate at all times. it is about the amount of detail and processes and safeguards that need to be in the public domain. >> well, there are new allegations in the scandal surrounding the death of an argentinian prosecutor aler alberto nisman. >> this is scene every day outside the courthouse in buenos aires where the judge must decide

two sons of an iraqi npr are also among the dead. there has been more fighting in the area since the group ceased the town in anbar province. it's five kilometers from an air base. the pentagon confirmed a group of fighters attacked on friday. >>> the liter of an anti-corruption party has been sworn in as chief minister. he won the landslide majority in the new delhi state election this past month. >> nothing was going to stop him from taking the oath of office as delhi's chief minister. he has been sick with fever for the last four days. after winning an overwhelming majority state assembly seat, he said that his party will focus on fighting corruption. >> my promise to the people of delhi is that the money you pay in taxes has always disappeared because of corruption. i promise you that i will not let one cent of that tax get lost in corruption. >> in his first speech as delhi's chief minister, he cautioned the party to be mindful of its new power. that's when the common manpower stepped down from a government after it was unable t

once again, i want to thank npr for having me here.ant to thank my own amazing this is manager mrs. krebs who is seated in the middle of the room. had to put all with an unbelievable amount of crap on my behalf for five years in thank you for having me here. [applause] >> our next award is as loose in online journalism to take -- for exceptional coverage. it features smart commentary, top-notch reporting on the industry that is constantly changing. repost has shown quality journalism brings success in this highly competitive environment, accepting the award is amy schaltz. [applause] >> thank you very much. i am a senior editor for f re/code. my bosses wish they could be here but they are moderating a conference tonight and they could not make it. one of six conferences and that re/code will be hosting and they are important in this brave, new digital world. it is really only been a year since the re/code team broke away from "the wall street journal" to form our own organization. we post seven days a week from new york, washington, l.

tonight she is joined in conversation by bilal qureshi a producer and writer for npr's all things considered. please join me in welcoming them to politics and prose. [applause] >> i think you need to hold that. sorry about that. i will get my microphone on. this is actually rafia's verse booktalk affords a great privilege to have her in d.c. on the dispersed discussion she's doing him a book that i want to start with in addition to the introduction was made in pakistan average's week she writes for a leading english newspaper and her work is on human rights and women rights and discrimination all kinds of issues and i'm curious but when you have written a something as personal as this book is which is part memoir and part history of pakistan what was the origin of taking the writing you do every weekend saying something in the way that you have done your? >> first of all thank you everybody for being here. i'm sure you hear authors say this all the time. writing it -- writing is a lonely job. there's nothing better than sitting in front of people who read your work and have an interest in it

last summer there was a recorded conversation on npr's story core and her words are patriotic yet soto hear. >>> growing up in america has been such a blessing and you know in some ways i do stand out such as the hay job i wear on my head the head covering i wear on my head i feel so embedded in the fabric that's our culture. that's the beautiful thing here. it doesn't matter where you come from. there's so many different people from so many different places of different backgrounds and religions but here we're all one, one culture, and it's beautiful to see people of you know different areas interacting and being familying being, you know one community. >> one of the victims here. my next guest knew yusor well. he was her husband was a second year student at dental school. thank you so much for being here and i'm so sorry. >> thank you for having me. >> i understand the funeral was last night. can you take me inside that room? >> yeah. so basically we all got together at one of our friend's houses and rather than mourn the loss of diae deah instead of talking about his funeral, we w

. >> terry gross at npr and not a right-wing crazy person.rful. >> yes. >> she asked hillary clinton about changing her mind. like most of us did over same-sex marriage, which we now call marriage equality. it is a social thing. you don't just make up your mind as if you're in a cave somewhere. you make it as part of a community. what's wrong with saying that it's very hard to answer a question that wasn't hard to answer. i didn't think it was possible, now i realize it is. i know somebody would have jumped on that, but it would have been honest. >> right. >> it isn't all in a vacuum. politicians don't operate in a vacuum. >> sometimes they're too polished. >> lincoln never explained where he was on slavery. he said no more expansion in the territories. >> roosevelt never said we're going to war with the nazis. he wanted to. but when you tell them, you tell them the truth. anyway, the roundtable is staying with us. up next, the highlights in last night's major "saturday night live" 40th anniversary special, which is all about generations. thi

tonight she is joining the conversation by a producer and reporter for npr's all things considered. so please join me in welcoming both of them to politics and prose. [applause] >> it's a great pleasure to have the first discussion for the book so thank you for this amazing book. i wanted to start with sub for the columnist and in it didn't and to the introduction me. she writes in that leading english newspaper there and her work with the question of human rights and women's rights and discrimination in all kinds of issues and i'm curious when you have written something as personal as this book is which is part memoir and part history of pakistan what was the origin and deciding to take the writing you do every week and say something in a way that you have done here? >> first of all thank you everybody for being here. i am sure you hear authors all the time. writing is a lonely job and so there is really nothing better than sitting in front of people who read your work and are interested in it. it is rare that i write mostly for a pakistani audience. i am a columnist for the larges

but npr got a scoop that he was leaving the court, and barack obama just three months in is faced withone of those "this is not a drill" moments. you're president, you have only been president for three months, but you alone get to nominate the next member of the united states supreme court that will then serve for life. a few weeks after in a, barack obama announced that his choice would be sonia sotomayor. she said i had my cell phone in my right hand and i will left hand on my chest trying to calm my beating heart. i caught my breath, and started to cry and said "thank you, mr. president." sonia sotomayor was president obama's first supreme court appointment, but not his last, when john paul stevens announced his retirement, he appointed elena kagan. some don't even get one appoint appointment. president obama has so far had two, and one big question that has linkersger whether or not he will get another pick as well. the oldest serving member is ruth bader ginsburg. she founded the women's rights project at the aclu. she was the second woman to serve on the supreme court. and all o

. >> i'm not talking about the politicians, i'm talking about us the voters, there's plenty of npr listeningds shopping who are also concerned about their children and vaccines. i am pro vaccine i think everyone should vaccine their children. but to demean parents who have concerns about vaccinations, if hillary clinton wants to lead -- >> simon, what does this do for hillary clinton she's been pretty silent lately and now she's come out pretty strong on this. >> i don't think the republicans should be happy that this is what their party is focussing on right now. if you look at this issue, and also we're about to shut down counter terrorism operations in the united states, border security. the republicans look like they're stumbling into february and having a very tough month. i think the leaders of the party would rather be talking about other things. what it shows is that with so many different people running for president now on the republican side, a gaff or a controversial statement even by just a second tier candidate will dominate the news. it's going to be an interesting year for th

i don't always agree with npr, but i think that's a pretty good assessment. second we're going to have actually justice randall shepard speak. he's a former chief justice. and in 2006 led the conference of chief justices. who actually filed am cuss brief of this case also. when he became the chief justice of the indiana supreme court in 1987, he was the youngest chief justice in the united states. when he retired, he was the longest serving chief justice in the nation. he authored more than 900 opinions for the court, and has published more than 64 law review articles in 53 different journals. he has also served on the board of many different organizations and commissions, was a trial judge and federal official. in 2009 he received the dwight d. openerman award from the american judicator society. finally, we'll have robert corn-revere speaking. he also filed a am edd an amicus brief, but on behalf of the aclu. he's a partner of a firm that's a leading lawyer in the nation. the supreme court sided the amicus brief he filed in 2012 for the reporters committee

she was dead broke when they left the white house, she tries to knock out the npr reporter who daresbring up how she's changed on gay marriage she goes out on the campaign trail does little or no good for any democratic candidates but goes to boston and says businesses don't create jobs. and then before christmas she gives this speech in which she says insofar as it's possible we need to have empathy for our adversaries like isil. she's not ready for prime time. so the question is, without any real opposition in the field is she behind the scenes getting herself ready to be a better candidate, or is she simply sort of organizing this gigantic apparatus with, you know, former white house adviser former obama person that, former state department person here is she organizing this gigantic apparatus, and will she merge onto the stage here in three months or four months as bad a candidate as she was that we saw in 2014? my sense is it's smart for her not to ratchet it up. she's going to need to then start spending money and become higher profile. but the question is, is she carefully stu

she was quoted on npr, "if i'm not being paid stacy won't be at newark airport.. nobody works for free." james lloyd is a former tsa administrate. welcome, sir. >> thank you, carol. >> why can't lawmakers act like grown-ups? >> that's a question on the mind of a lot of citizens and very much on the mind of the people at homeland security and those agencies charged with responsibilities from preventing bad things from happening and dealing request consequences if they do. i understand the use of the budget process as part of the brinksmanship in this town at this particular point as has been noted, the mall threat is on the horizon and the isis has been successful way beyond the imagination of most of us when we first heard the phrase. this does not seem to be the time to hold as hostage, if you will the funding to the very people that we hope will do what we need to have done as a nation for the purposes of the immigration policy piece. >> look sir, some lawmakers who were in favor of a partial shutdown say nothing will change because people will still have to re

the media correspondent and critic at npr. liz, let me begin with you.an williams putting himself on the bench for a few days. he says. nbc investigating. are those the right moves? what needs to happen now? >> i think it's the right move. i think it's a few days late. i would have said that the network and brian williams should have made a decision to do this earlier, when it first erupted. i think the right move next, actually, is for the network to have this investigation that they've started be done outside. i don't think that there's going to be enough credibility that gets attached to that kind of an investigation when the people doing it no doubt have personal connections, personal relationships with brian williams. they work for a network that has a lot at stake. that would be my recommendation. >> and some reports that maybe nbc had known about this in the past. and that is what -- dave folkenflik what cbs did when dan rather had the questions about the reporting on george w. bush's draft record. they brought in an outside panel. >> they did tha

a few weeks ago, i had jeh johnson, secretary of the department of homeland security same day as an nprreport in which they said homeland security was considering not allowing any passengers to bring on any carry-on luggage and i asked jeh johnson if that was true. i expected him to just say no that's not going to happen. he wouldn't touch it one way or the other. he wouldn't deny it at all. obviously everything is up in the air. wolf thank you so much. appreciate it. look forward to "the situation room" in eight minutes. >>> coming up next, some were wearing valentineovalentino, others wearing politics on their sleeves. in between the back patting, the academy awards got powerful. the messages pushed coming nupup in the pop culture lead. across america people, like basketball hall of famer dominique wilkins, are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes... ...with non-insulin victoza. for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar but it didn't get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor about victoza. he said victoza works differently than pills and comes in a pen. victoza is proven to l

the chicken is so dry, it just got a show on npr. [ light laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, matthew perryght. now, actually that should be in my introducing matthew perry bucket. he's on the show tonight, so i asked my writers to come up with good ways i could introduce him. let's see what they came up with. here we go. ladies and gentlemen, my good friend, matthew perry. all right. that's not bad. ladies and gentlemen, my best friend in the whole wide world, matthew perry. all right, that's a little much. ladies and gentlemen, the love of my life and the father of my children, matthew perry. [ laughter ] you know what? i'm just going to go with "ladies and gentlemen, matthew perry." i don't know why i wasted my writers' time on that. sorry, where were we? right, the naked cowboy performed in the cold wearing only a pair of underwear. of course, now he's going by his new nick-name, dead cowboy. [ laughter ] there we go. that's a joke. so what do we do? we staple it. we stamp it. we ring the bell. then i blow the trumpet heralding to all the kingdom the arrival of the newest joke. [ trumpe

trashy tour, right, it may not be the one you want to start with, even if it was created by a former nprr. the one i want to you start with is called cool gray city of love, the book about san francisco neighborhoods, the author of that has done a tour and it is super cool. >> that is neat. >> called detour. it's expensive, about six bucks but worth it. >> just for the app? >> for each tour. >> oprah has her book club and that's your tour club. that's the first recommendation. >> it's awesome. >>> happening now at 6:15, not the polar vortex but the si siberian express bringing another round of brutally cold weather from the east coast down to florida. massachusetts an avalanche from the roof of an ice ring buried five people. four climbed out but one needed to be rescued. niagara falls isn't moving much. there's water flowing but parts are frozen over creating quite the view for tourists willing to brave the temperatures. >>> a car in baltimore looked more like an ice sculpture. pipe burst and water landed on the car and completely froze it over. >> that could be problematic. 6:16, time

. >> that's a former npr reporter and producer. sure i can recommend th garbage tour but i did the one of a great book about san francisco it's cool, walk up to that light post, no, the other light post. stand there and look to your left. you see that box, it's that specific because it uses all this technology. >> which is cool. >> it's really fun daucalled detour. it's about six bucks a tour. >> i don't like activating my gps. especially when i'm at the mall. >> thank you very much scott, i appreciate it. >> that's a secret how you hide shoes in the trunk. >> i'm learning from you. >>> engineering students in india created a cheap and environmentally friendly motorbike. it runs on solar powered bat is, takes six to seven hours to charge. it can travel at speeds up to 35 miles per hour reportedly. you can't get it just yet. the design is being fine tuned before production. >> maybe they could build one for three and who is going to drive right here? >> that is an interesting question. i don't know. you know what? we'll hand the wh

disappeared had it not been for the determination of the martin family - >> reporter:our media insider - nprggans ---- >> the family of treyvon martin got the huffington post to do some major stories that really got people interested. >> reporter:the story finally dominated the 24 hour news cycle - receiving more coverage than becoming a cause celebre ---- a change dot org petition to bring zimmerman to trial garnered 2.2 million signatures. celebrities like jay z and beyonce joined the protests while others, including the entire miami heat team, donned hoodies in support of trayvon. >> reporter:zimmerman was eventually tried and found not - guilty. yet - trayvon's case is buried deeply in our nation's psyche - forever covers similar stories like the shooting of michael brown in ferguson and the death of eric garner in new york city. >> reporter:and this week the u.s. justice department announced that they will not charge george zimmerman with any federal criminal civil rights violations. >> reporter:we'll have more on this story tonight at 7 on the for kron 4 news, i'm thea andrews back to

npr in baltimore. this guy was talking. talking about various people in the book and their experiences. very often i could achieve a very often. annual life and traditions. going too slow. the driver behind me going too fast. i started listening to these incredible stories and the passion -- i had never met you before. and i felt like a light switch i didn't feel needing but wanting to be on that team wanting to feel somehow connected to the experience that you are describing. i am fortunate to be here and listen to you and fortunate to be here with all of you and to get that feeling back felt pretty amazing so -- >> don't -- >> beginning to be fully alive. i am happy to share that. >> thank you but don't underestimate. a moment is a moment. it may have been -- match voice may have been on the radio but something happened for you. there was a click. whatever that was, don't assume there is something else and that is it. keep going and trusting and get good teachers. >> i am 65. you guys have your whole lives. >> any other q

so tonight she's joined in conversation by -- [inaudible] who's a producer and reporter for npr's "all things considered," and -- [inaudible] so please join me in welcoming both of them to politics & prose. [applause] >> i think you need to hold that. >> yeah, you do. >> oh, she does? sorry. let me get my mic as well. sorry. this is rafia's first book talk, so this is a great privilege to have her in d.c. for the first discussion she's doing of the book. so thank you for this amazing book. i wanted to start with rafia as a columnist in pakistan every week she writes for the leading english newspaper there, and her work looks at human rights, women's rights, all kinds of discrimination issues. and i'm curious when you've written something as personal as this book is, what was the origin of sort of deciding to take the kind of writing you do every week and say something in the way that you've done here? >> okay. well, first of all, thank you everybody, for being here. i'm sure you hear authors say this all the time writing is a lonely job. and so there's really nothing better than sittin

alive moment you're looking for but i had this amazing experience when i turn on my radio in my car npr radio. and there's this guy talking and it turns out to be you. you were talking about various people in the book and their experiences. [inaudible] i'm thinking to myself very often i hold back. [inaudible] -- the drivers in front of going to slow. the drivers behind me are going to fast. and i started listening to these incredible stories, and the passion in your voice and i have never met you before. and i felt like some light switch -- that i didn't feel anything but wanting to be on the team, wanting to feel somehow connected to the experience that you're describing, that you were describing tonight. and i'm fortunate to be here to listen to you and i am fortunate to be here with all of you. i've got to practice everyday, as you said to get that feeling back. that sounds pretty amazing. so maybe that's not the fully -- >> no, don't -- >> that it is getting to be fully alive and i'm happy to be up to share that with everyone. >> first of all thank you very much but don't underesti