well i'm sam arbonne in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight the big picture award winning author walter mosley joins me for our first half hour for this week's conversations with great minds discuss the latest book which starts the discussion about how to get out of america's growing poverty rate and destructive way of life. for the reason democratic victory in new york's twenty six congressional district could the republicans just varies fully now before things get any uglier and the nation's largest states are not represented on capitol hill so what's the answer to this problem state division of talent i'll break it down on topics for the fourth shopping brock's internet stealing take. it's friday which means it's time for conversations with great minds joining me tonight is an award winning american novelist who's written thirty four critically acclaimed books perhaps his best known work is it best selling series of historical mystery novels he treated as active named easy rawlins as want to know henry a