on the last class, professor bray played a video of steve earle's listening one oh have become a correction officer in a texas state prison before becoming a country singer. mcguinness letters were in my backpack in the same way they may scratch their names, their lives on cell walls that remind people that they were there. he is part of life and letters and swofford. the supreme court ruled in roper v simmons that executed people for crimes committed before they 18. at least eight. the members prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. if mcginnis had been on death in just about any other state in the country his appeals would have been taken taken a few years longer. and we have lived to see the he would have lived to see the supreme court decision. today only his letters are left. his letters and memories. thank you. it's gorgeous. there is a line in mary about you. take out a line from one of mcguinness's letters and it talks about. and so this next is really hitting on these ideas of light and texture inside text. so when the reader to the second section, which is redaction one,

on the last class, professor bray played a video of steve earle's listening one oh have become a correction officer in a texas state prison before becoming a country singer. mcguinness letters were in my backpack in the same way they may scratch their names, their lives on cell walls that remind people that they were there. he is part of life and letters and swofford. the supreme court ruled in roper v simmons that executed people for crimes committed before they 18. at least eight. the members prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. if mcginnis had been on death in just about any other state in the country his appeals would have been taken taken a few years longer. and we have lived to see the he would have lived to see the supreme court decision. today only his letters are left. his letters and memories. thank you. it's gorgeous. there is a line in mary about you. take out a line from one of mcguinness's letters and it talks about. and so this next is really hitting on these ideas of light and texture inside text. so when the reader to the second section, which is redaction one,

at the same time, i was at a show here at the troubadour about a week ago with steve earl, no coastala place where we can have conversations with people who we know are going to disagree with us from the very beginning of the conversation. if we can't have that, we can't make progress on any front, and what you're pointing to is an example of the further siloing of america in the way that media writes. it's a recipe for long-term decline of america if we can't get it together on this front. >> well, and we've seen this from extreme sites. i've said this for many years. we've seen this from chinese religious cults that have conspiracy websites. what we're seeing now are more mainstream republicans that have spoken out against trump actually dropping their guard and circling the wagons. to me that's disturbing because we've got to move pro-democracy forces, pro rule of law forces in the other direction, and sadly, right now it's not happening. >> much more on this tomorrow, that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage after a quick final break. fter a quick final

steve has referenced. we're giving it up for these plants, but the earl thes for these plants -- but the materials for these are we giving away something we fought so desperately for to be at the whims of china, whether or not they want to give it to us? often they threaten not to give us rare earth materials. >> absolutely. i think, you know, the president has focused on making sure that materials and things are american made, made here in the country -- >> charles: some of that stuff doesn't exist here, the lithium, and the cobalt, and all that stuff we need. you build an ev plant, but where do you get the materials to make the batteries? do we have to go hat in hand to china? it seems like economic suicide >> that's something that we have to, you know, focus on with the companies that, you know, why can't they be made here, what is the benefit analysis of buying it or producing it over in china versus here? that's something i think the president and his administration has to focus on with many of these production companies and these owners, because that's not something that one administration will change