host: katie reilly covers national news and education issues for time magazine. she has a new feature piece in time that has a headline, "applying to college was never easy for most students but the pandemic made it impossible." welcome to washington journal. guest: thank you for having me. host: what caused you to focus on the lost senior class? guest: reporting started when it became clear that college enrollment declined significantly. the goal was to figure out why and how the pandemic was affecting current high school seniors as they applied for college or decided whether they would apply to college. i a lot of students were facing extra challenges, stresses this year as they apply to college. applying to college is never easy, even in a difficult year but the pandemic upended the pathway to college. especially for those hit hardest by covid-19 and the economic crisis. freshman enrollment fell significantly, a record 13% across-the-board. it felt even more at the community college. more than 20%. experts are worried about signs of that trend repeating itself

i don't trust time magazine i don't trust the new york times. i can't go to a teach in every. what do i do? it's when he six-year-old graduate student in new york in english literature major. writing a doctorate. she is part of this new left. she is involved in the early 60's. she's trying to take advantage of her skill set. research, i know how to do these things. i will set up an alternative media. on this issue. and really, and incredibly rapid time with almost no money in her pack -- pocket, she gets a grant from the teachers union in new york. remember the united auto workers health fund? here's another group. these teachers union. hundreds of dollars. enough to get a mimeograph machine. magazine is too grandiose of a term for it. an alternative magazine focused on vietnam. that's sweet. how do you fill the pages? think practically. what goes in there? she had an intriguing idea. she did not trust that american writers, journalists, even academics knew enough to really substantiate a monthly journal on vietnam. she luckily spoke some french. she had some connections in en

"time" magazine, a lot of people are reporting on it.t you know, have heard or believe is credible as a suggestion, the idea that giuliani may have been engaged in undisclosed, foreign lobbying, either for officials in ukraine or business interests in ukraine at the same time that he was seeking the ouster of the u.s. ambassador, yovanovich, do you believe those are questions worth pursuing? do you have any reason to believe that? >> well, i definitely think they're worth pursuing. i wouldn't go as far as to evaluate them. i don't have, you know, enough legal background for the legal profession to assess it. but definitely that episode needs to be pursued further. as are a couple of other episodes. so the defense contract acquisition needs to be looked at. the infamous derosh tapes need to be looked at. that was a definite attempt to get ukraine once again, another attempt to get us involved in u.s. domestic politics. and thank god we contain ed tha threat as well. >> are you open to working with the united states department of justice?

official numbers do you have a sense of just how how big the numbers could be when i wrote this time magazine well b.s. mark 4 days ago i had there was an estimate that the depth of this estimate came from my conversations with journalist healthy shoes doctors across the country and i said the estimated number could be about 10000 in a day in the last 3 days i've been speaking to journalists into a lot of people in who were in india including my own family members my entire ancestral family in oz and by which isn't the largest state of the british the entire family school with positive my uncle is critical arm on a ventilator and i spoke to a lot of doctors got to go through part come to come to about 20000 deaths in a day i don't listen to me a video. from a clinic tory and he says close to 200 bodies are we could meet did at one thing the british get out in a small city of a certain age but you can only imagine what the scale of the devastation across the country it was at least 10 times more than the usual number of this government is i'll tell you many times and more i mean but again we d

my husband was in "time" magazine. okay. here we are. the first week in january, and they reported the differences of our family. some of them were industrialists, academics, and others were military and financial market. they divided the family, actually, in this article. it was very strange. which that's not like that family. yes, they were very different but we didn't argue politics during the vietnam war. we didn't discuss those kinds of things. but yet "time" magazine did. so that was another big piece. after i came home, i tried to teach school on valium. well, that wasn't working. not with 40 kindergarteners, have a session morning, half a session afternoon. i couldn't function. the pills went out the door in a hurry. i got to live, people. i got to live. so not only was i teaching kindergarten but i chose to teach at a local community college, sponsored by arkansas state. so i taught at night and i worked all day. i became the typical workaholic. you know, after the news media had done their bit, i had to go back to real life. if

. >>> if i call any of you >>> two years out of college working for "time" magazine, i was copy boy.told a story about this guy who came up to him. >> i put these pages in the "time" magazine envelope and i gave him my envelope. the show starts, jack would say. a woman said "what do you think the pirates i ship found." this got a big hand. >> some of the jokes are pretty good. i hired him. that was the introduction to show business. >> topical stuff was a favorite with jack. more educated than he felt he was. >> i ask you so that i don't look too naive. a top question right afoff the bat. >> jack paar, invented for better or for worse the idea of a late night show being a campaign stop for a budding politician. >> it was nixon's idea. he thought he was good. >> really? >> no. he was going up and down the scale. jack loves the whole idea of being apart of history. >> fidel castro had just came down. >> he went to cuba and filmed castro and talked about how he was a great man and how we can use somebody here like castro in the united states. >> you are a good neighbor. you live right u

i don't trust "time magazine," the "new york times."on't trust the president of the united states, but i can't go to a teach-in every day, so what do i do? an english literature major, writing her doctorate on english literature, she tries to take advantage of her skill set. i can write. i can do research. i know how to do these things. i'll set up an alternative media on this issue. and really, incredibly rapid time, with almost no money in her pocket at all, she gets a little grant from a teachers' union in new york. remember the auto workers helped fund some of the snicc activity. here's another little group, a teachers' union, you can grab a little money out of it. i'm talking hundreds of dollars at this point, but enough to get a few things. and she starts -- magazine is too grandiose a term for it, but a magazine focused on vietnam. well, okay, that's sweet. how do you fill the pages? think really practically. okay, i got this cool idea. what goes in there? she had an intriguing idea. she didn't really trust that american writers,

and of course the 1st wave of cold it 19 in the country and yet despite all of that you rate in time magazine last week of the current situation if the apocalypse had an image it would be the hospitals of india what makes this circumstance worse than anything you've seen before. well mark i've been reporting for the last 15 years but i have never and i've seen of course not in the movies only only covenants the carnage in the year 2002 as a relief worker but what he's doing to the country right now when it isn't in this devastation it is of like a writer friend said last evening it's a holocaust. the prime minister has criminally abdicated his responsibility when the 2nd vive of with 19 has been devastating indians has has ravaged the rest of the country and the prime minister is fixated with elections in the country stretching into 8 pieces all over best bengal and assam from barrow we are recording the highest number of cases in the last one or 2 weeks the hospitals resemble a war zone are crippled torrijos are so full that the rich are trying to use their contacts to book book a slot in th

his essays have appear to -- appeared in time magazine, the new york post, the journal of contemporary photography, and the harvard review. he has appeared on national radio and television shows. currently he is completing a book on radical into racialism and unionism in civil war era mississippi. the story "free state of jones" will appear as a major motion picture by film maker gary ross, with whom he served as a scholarly consultant. after this lecture there will be a book signing at the archive shop. without further ado, let's welcome dr. john stauffer. [applause] john: thank you very much for the wonderful introduction and thank you for coming. can everyone hear me in the back? i would like to speak for about 45 minutes and then i will open it up for questions and criticism and comments. i want to speak for a few minutes just about how this book came into being, the background of "giants," and then i want to summarize some of the key themes i describe in the book, hopefully to whet your appetite to read it if you have not. then i want to spend the last five or 10 minutes discussin

book the tramp of nancy reagan in addition to working at the washington post she has worked at "time" magazine of the los angeles times in the recipient of many awards including the prize for excellence and recording as four years ago by simon & schuster to write the prior gravy it is being published tomorrow on april 13, 2021. they call nancy reagan a luminous and exhausted biography which chronicles the private life of influence of nancy reagan, the book draws on interviews with cabinet members, friends and family members and she became one of the most influential first ladies of the century. we invite you to join our virtual program joined in conversation by reagan foundation institute board of trustees kathy busch. >> good afternoon i am so pleased to welcome you today for the very special sneak peek at a much-anticipated biography on former first lady nancy reagan, the book, the tramp of nancy reagan written by washington post columnist karen to multi-would be officially released tomorrow and karen has graciously agreed to make the reagan library one of her first thoughts on the book tour

. >>> foe years out of college, i was a copy boy for time magazine.ges of what sounded like jack parr jokes to me. his version of this is that i cornered him in the men's room. >> he told this story about a guy who came up to him -- >> put pages in a time magazine envelope and that caught his eye. i gave him any envelope. >> and the show starts. jack with a hand mic in the audience. a woman says what do you think about the pirate ship in the papers? jack said, used to be a strange feeling for those phoenix hear a voice come over and saying hello this is your pirate speaking. well, this got a big hand. jack says some of those jokes are pretty good, so i hired him. so that's dick cab other's introduction to show business. >> topical stuff was a favorite with jack. he liked to look smart and more educated than he helt he was. >> may i ask you so that i don't look too naive, a question off the bat? >> a democrat or a republican? >> jack paar invented for better or for worse the idea of a late night show being a campaign stop for a budding politician. ♪ >>

"time magazine" said it "may well be the most politically radical and intellectually challenging work of nonfiction ever made for television." we will air excerptsnd speak to the award winning haitian filmmaker raoul peck. then to the african-american writer richard wright, the author of "native son" and "black boy." he died over 60 years ago but he has a new novel out, "the man who lived underground." the manuscript was rejected by publishers in the 1940's because of its detailed descriptions of racist police violence. >> the publishers, who were white -- it was controlled, white-controlled -- did not want those descrtions of white supremacist police violence upon a black man because it was too close to home. amy: we will speak to richard wright's daughter julia who discovered her father's unpublished manuscript and helped get it published. all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. republican lawmakers are continuing their attack on schools for teaching students about the true history of the united states -- from

. >>> two years out of college working for "time" magazine, i was a copy boy. above the janitor. typed out two pages of what sounded like jack paar jokes to me. by the way, his version of this is that i cornered him in the men's room. >> jack told a story about this guy, who came up to him. >> i put these pages in a "time magazine" envelope. that caught jack's eye and i gave him the envelope. the show starts. jack with a hand mic, in the audience, and the woman says, what do you think about the pirate ship in the papers? jack said one of my jokes. must have been a strange feeling for those people. you know, hear a voice come over saying, hello, this is your pirate speaking. well, this got a big hand. >> jack says, you know, some of the jokes are pretty good so i hired him. and so, that's his introduction to show business. >> topical stuff was a favorite with -- with jack. he liked to look smart and more educated than he felt he was. >> so that i don't look too naive, a tough question right off the bat? >> whether i am a democrat or republican? >> jack paar inve

jack told a story about this guy who came up to him in the john. >> i put these pages in the "time" magazineelope. the show starts. jack with a hand mic in the audience, and a woman says what do you think about the pirate ship in the papers? jack said one of my jokes. it must have been a strange feeling for those people to hear a voice come over saying hello, this is your pirate speaking. well, this got a big hand. >> jack says you know some of the jokes are pretty good. so i hired him. so that's dick cabot's introduction to show business. >> topical stuff was a favorite with jack. he liked to look smart and more educated than he felt he was. >> i ask you so that i don't look too naive. a top question right off the bat. >> whether i'm a democrat or republican? >> jack paar invented, for better or for worse, the idea of a late night show being a campaign stop for a budding politician. ♪ >> it was nixon's idea. he thought he was good. >> was he? >> no. ♪ boom. it was just running up and down a scale. jack just loved the whole idea of being part of history. >> fidel castro has just come down fr

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new documents reveal the china daily paid $1.6 million for advertising campaigns, time magazine, the ncial times, foreign-policy magazine, millions of american newspapers to print copies of its own publication. chinese state run media paying our news organizations to print propaganda. that is how desperate our media happened to be for ad dollars. what are we accomplishing here? >> is you mentioned donald trump signed an executive order in november that would require companies that are listed by the department of defense as being owned or controlled by the ccp, that us investors can't invest in them anywhere in the world and that they can't be was to the us market so we can invest in them in frankfurt -- i'm sorry, in shanghai or anywhere in the world, that is the first time we have ever done sanctions against chinese companies. last week china mobile, china telecom and china unicom were delisted from the new york stock exchange, that is a good start. we are worried that president biden, you want him to continue that and broaden it to companies that -- laura: we've got to move the ball

and joining me now is the writer of this article, senior correspondent for "time" magazine.it. you write that elise stefanik was once hailed as the fresh face of the new gop when she was elected to congress in 2014. very detailed article. but in summary, what do you make of that moment and where she is today? >> well, when i first started talking to representative stefanik in my book, she is one of the main characters, she was kind of the archetype of the modern millennial gop. she was someone who was trying to bring her party in line with her generation on issues like climate change, immigration, college affordability. she seemed to have a real understanding that millennials like her cared about a handful of really particular issues, and she was trying to offer conservative solutions to those issues. and now her party has changed in such a way that embrace of trumpism was really the only path forward for her. and so that's why you see this pivot from somebody who was really trying to bring the republican party forward into -- in order to embrace a new generation of voters t

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more than $1.6 million for advertising campaigns in "time" magazine, "l.a. financial times, foreign policy magazine and paid another million to american newspapers to print copies of its own publication. chinese state run media paying our news organizations to print propaganda. that's how desperate our media happen to be for ad dollars. what are we accomplishing here, michael? >> as a mansion, president trump signed an executive order in november that would require the companies that are listed by the department of defense as being owned or controlled by the ccp. u.s. investors can't invest in them anywhere on the world and they can't be listed in u.s. markets. we can't invest in them in frankfurt, shanghai, anywhere in the world. that is the first time we have ever done sanctions against chinese companies. last week, china mobile, and china telecom, china unicom were finally determined to have to be delisted from the u.s. stock exchange and that's a good start. we're worried that president biden, we want him to continue that and to broaden it to companies. >

the university of north carolina at chapel hill are speaking out in defense of "the new york times" magazineze for her work on the 1619 project for "the new york times" magazine will join the faculty in july but the university board of trustees had not approved her application for tenure. previous professors in the same role were offered tenure when they accepted the position. ed o'keefe has more on the controversy and "the 1619 project." >> i'm saying that history is history. and we have to tell the truth. >> reporter: journalist nikole hannah-jones appeared on "cbs this morning" back in august 2019, as "the new york times" magazine launched "the 1619 project" an ongoing series the magazine says aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black americans at the very center of our national narrative. the project marked the 400th anniversary of slavery in america. >> we don't know about 1619 the same way we don't learn very much about slavery. it's shameful. no one wants to talk about their sins or their worst moments. >> reporter: mat

>> well, i assume her professional distinction and her initiative at the "times" magazine makes her an appropriate candidate for a school of journalism. tenure? that's at the heart of the university. where is the sustained body of work. she has a master's degree. you might want to see more depth. i am not surprised that the trustees putting political issues to the side. my understanding is their position is let's see. 5 years. renewable appointment and we will see. >> laura: the other thing that i think this is driving people bonkers about this critical race theory is what it intends to do is equalize outcomes. across the board. explain what that does to the pursuit of excellence in education. >> so, the issue is the distinction between the quality of opportunity and equity. we want to see disparities between groups go away. the same number of black and latino and white or asian doing this and that. the groups are not performing to the same extent if you insist on equal outcomes but don't have equal performance the only way to get is by lowering standards. the insistence upon equity is

including the new york times magazine in the los angeles times and he has received multiple nominations and when that 2012 library little review, poetry prize for his poems. his many was the mother of god. "by broad potomac's shore" great poems from the early days of our nation's capitol, by kim roberts and by both well-known and overlooked poet. working and living in the capitol in the city's 18 hundreds to 1930. included are poems by celebrated writers such as francis - walt whitman and frederick douglass as well as the work of lesser-known poet. kim roberts is the author of the literary guide from washington dc. walking in the footsteps of american writers from francis to others. in five books of poems. it and most recently, the scientific method. political af, "political af" by tara campbell is a hybrid book of poetry. the collection focuses on topics such as race, corruption, gun violence, police brutality, confederate monuments, reproductive freedom and the sexual harassment and abuse of women. tara campbell is a writer, teacher, a fellow and fiction editor. she received her msa f

host: katie reilly covers national news and education issues for time magazine. new feature piece in time that has a headline, "applying to college was never easy for most students but the pandemic made it impossible." welcome to washington journal. guest: thank you for having me. host: what caused you to focus on the lost senior class? guest: reporting started when it became clear that college enrollment declined significantly. the goal was to figure out why and how the pandemic was affecting current high school seniors as they applied for college or decided whether they would apply to college. i a lot of students were facing extra challenges, stresses this year as they apply to college. applying to college is never easy, even in a difficult year but the pandemic upended the pathway to college. especially for those hit hardest by covid-19 and the economic crisis. freshman enrollment fell significantly, a record 13% across-the-board. it felt even more at the community college. more than 20%. experts are worried about signs of that trend repeating itself this fall.

mite of that had a winner that ended up on the cover of time magazine with it so that's going to flee your city. sides with you right now everyone going to. listen j. brooks not going to tell you as i was reading this game of thrones story i told my wife that's the hardest i've laughed in a while when you eventually got to the part where is. i was watching game of thrones it sent in the. that made me laugh so hard but it's not coming at you then so you. it made that things a little meaner i had no idea it was like that man i mean we started like telling you man that. now something else man that was a beast it takes on the can stop once i'm in i sort of feel like i was related to go people didn't like when i was surgery be smooth with somebody that annoyed j.b. smoove or you know malloy you know bugle corps human or oh man if you could help me lower middle and lower. me going to and don't know you i would hate i wouldn't get a job. you know then i just knew it wasn't was the u.f.c. of that medieval time. jobs jobs. i would but i would make out the element of good jobs now listen brothe

in egypt he's also a powerful advocate of women's equality in the middle east and was named by time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. when it comes to the laureus sports man in the ward many names are up for this year's honor like buying is robert lewandowsky and lakers of bron james won the clay dust cleared if you see where i'm going with this one that one of tenses brightest stars came out on top and on the same day the spaniard. the quarter finals of the major open roughly on 7 a doll was named the 2021 laureus sports another year he was a nominee 4 times winning his 1st award 0 a decade ago in 2011 nidal won the french open in a covert intacta 2020 year on the a.t.p. calendar that was his 13th persian trophy at roland garros he also made his 20th grand slam obviously with that win becoming the 2nd player in history to achieve that amazing feat after swiss test great roger federer and a doll had some thoughts when accepting the award on all that he's accomplished and his fellow nominees take a listen. means a lot to me and to receive this amazing there are

in egypt he's also a powerful advocate of women's equality in the middle east and was named by time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. when it comes to the laureus sports men in the ward many names are up for this year's honor like buying is robert lewandowski and the lakers of bron james won the clay dust cleared if you see where i'm going with this one that one of tenses brightest stars came out on top and on the same day the spaniard reach a quarter finals of the madrid open rafi on a doll was named the 2021 laureus. it's another year he was the nominee 4 times winning his 1st award 0 a decade ago in 2011 nidal won the french open in a covert impacted 2020 year on the a.t.p. calendar that was his 13th persian trophy at roland garros he also made his 20th grand slam obviously with that win becoming the 2nd player in history to achieve that amazing feat after swiss test great roger federer and a doll had some thoughts when accepting the award on all that he's accomplished and his fellow nominees take a listen. means a lot to me to receive this amazing there are

book the tramp of nancy reagan in addition to working at the washington post she has worked at "time" magazinee los angeles times in the recipient of many awards including the prize for excellence and recording as four years ago by simon & schuster to write the prior gravy it is being published tomorrow on april 13,

>> you need to read this new york times magazine piece. as you read it, you see that you had greg abbott, a guy as you said was on the texas supreme court for over a decade, was attorney general, was sort of mainstream, was head down, you have him morphing into a trumpian figure, pulled to the extremes by allen west a guy kicked out of florida politics a decade or two ago and somehow reappeared in texas. and we even get that maddening scene at the end, that scene of madness at the end where allen west is going around talking to people and one guy comes up to him and says, tell me where you want me to start shooting. i'll stack the bodies right up. that's how extreme so many of them have become regarding this, quote, stolen election. >> yeah. and you know, having covered trump rallies, republican rallies for the past five years now i would say that rally in texas in particular, the first sort of gop gathering i went to post the 2020 election, post january 6th, i've never been in a rally where there was such a sinister edge and undercurrent

it's called the human genome project that was pretty amazing to put on the cover of time magazine. that is all we did was read the genes. and for what genes you had. and thatge is what jennifer doudna did. host: so the human genome project lay down the road mapu now she was one of those that you talk about in the book that spearheaded with the route to gene editing. so in the c book you get very detailed. very comprehensive but walk us through because it is a little confusing to people because you talk about dna and messenger rna and mrna. so give us the latest version to lay out with the science behind it. >> it is easy but they are not much smarter than we are but it's like a man shot but is a snippet of the genetic code. so they have the's repeated sequences and that sequence is the bacteria to remember the viruses that it attacks. and then that's not interesting unless you get into a virus pandemic so then to say all right but what it does to bacteria with little pieces of rna and then it sees the virus coming again it chops it up. and then to create the gene editing tool that

contributor and tv shows, she has written for major newspapers pier articles among the new york times magazineharvard law review, christian science monitor in new york magazine and others. as npr's senior national correspondent, linda brings her unique insights and experience on the top news stories and 40 years since she first joined npr, she served in a variety of roles including reporter and developing all things considered 13 years. her 1974 -- 9089 provided highly encouraged politics serving as national political correspondent. congressional elections for npr in 1976, first woman to anchor coverage of the presidential nomination convention and election night. first person to broadcast live from inside the u.s. senate chamber and 37 day coverage of the senate panama canal one her special columbia university award. numerous journalism awards including public broadcasting for angry iran contra affair social report. for her story, illegal abortion and npr's coverage of the treaty debates. 1995, 25 years in the nation national public radio celebrating npr's history. thank you for joining us to

. >> "time" magazine said the biggest problem facing americans is litter.of those stupid subscription cards out of the magazine. >> be sure and tune in, "the story of late night" airs tonight at 9:00 here on cnn. >>> now, a cat testing out how many lives it has. you have to see it to believe it. take a look at this. a cat trapped inside a burning building on the fifth floor in chicago finds itself stuck as smoke billows at with little time to spare, and finally it jumped, landing miraculously on a narrow patch of grass and prances away seemingly unharmed and unscathed. wow. look at the cat. good job. that's the news, reporting from washington -- i still have nine lives, and i am jim acosta, and jessica dean takes over the news after the break. it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. it's a simple fact: nothing kills more germs on more surfaces than lysol spray. it's a simple fact: it even kills the covid-19 virus. science supports these simple facts. there's only one true lysol. lysol. what it takes to protect. the harry's razor

>> not really because this is one of those things that applies to an article in new york times magazinech a lot of people point to as an example of the old traditional shareholder value version of capitalism and a lot of people who refer to it but never read it and pretend it is strict and unyielding and is about corporate greed. in reality in american law corporations have pretty wide latitude to spend money on all kinds of stuff. generally very low to interfere in the decisions of corporations if the managers and directors can provide the most space saving version of an excuse so under armour could say funding in medical research on traumatic brain injury we will acquire a positive pr value if people will like us and we are great company for doing that, what they call business judgment rules, we will let that fly. a case like that which would end up with under armour spending money on the wrong things. >> let me bring you back for either of you. we have these options, right? people can voluntarily take their companies public or private. we have options for how you organize, you can be

"time" magazine calls her the pandemic's most provocative comedy star.i'm your host briziwe. our goal is to end racism or your money back, and this show is free. >> in 2017 comedian ziwe launched a youtube series with the goal of creating a dialogue. she uses her satirical humor and confrontational questions to have awkward, sometimes outrageous conversations about race. >> would you name any stereotypes associated with black food? could you list them? >> do i have to? >> last spring after her live comedy shows were canceled due to covid, ziwe took her youtube show to instagram live. she soon became a social media sensation as thousands tuned in weekly to watch her ask uncomfortable questions. >> would you consider yourself the christopher columbus of food influencing? how many references do you have, caroline? >> very many. so many. >> very many? >> yes. as donald trump would say, huge, a huge amount of black friends. >> i do not approve of this message -- >> reporter: now the comedian is set to executive produce and star in a new variety series for sho

"time" magazine said the series may well be "the most politically radical and intellectually challenging of nonfiction ever made for television." we are joined by the oscar-nominated raoul peck who joined his friend france. he was born in haiti, grew up in the democratic republic of congo after his parents fled the duvalier dictatorship. his past films include "i am not your negro" about james baldwin, "lumumba" about congolese prime minister, the founding leader of congo patrice lumumba, and the young karl marx. raoul peck, it is great to have you back on democracy now! this is an epic masterpiece, this four hour documentary series. can you talk about how you went from "i am not your negro," which was the story of james baldwin, to creating this masterpiece? >> well, basically after "i am not your negro," i went throughout the world. i was fornate to able to see how the film was received many different places. one of the common threads that was the type of reaion that you just mentioned like senate leader mitch mcconnell, you know, somehow a sign that they feel they are entrenched now,

ron brownstein is here and emily bazalon, staff writer for the "new york times" magazine and fellow atw school. em emily, can we start with you? i want to talk about the supreme court that a 6-3 majority bench. three supported by the president and now they'll hear the case that severely limits roe v. wade. it's what conservatives have been waiting for and trump and mcconnell certainly delivered. >> that's right. i think what you're seeing here is the way in which conservatives decides and rightly so that the supreme court is really important in america life, especially for social issues, abortion, access to firearms, questions about the role of religion in american life. so these three justices appointed by president donald trump joined three other very conservative justices and it seems as if this decision to take this challenge to this mississippi abortion ban could signal major challenges and major changes to access to abortion in the united states. >> the supreme court is also taking up a case of gun rights and may hear a case on affirmative action. are we see how trump's jusdges c

lus told "time" magazine that you actually prayed that donald trump would have gotten his shot on facebook do you think that would have helped? is that where year suing the divide break down? >> i do think there is -- we have seen masks being politicized and normal public health structure. when i do a c section, i wear a mask because i know it works and that's become a politicized -- so many things about this pandemic have been politicized. and i see it divided loosely. it's not a linear correlation. there is political i did viewed over the vaccine. i think it was a successful part of the trump add mags mgs that biden has taken the baton and run with and ramped it up. and it really would be nice to see leaders on both sides have just a quality charitable conversation about that. something that is so necessary for public health. >> quality charitable conversation. we need so much more of that. it's so hard to come by. doctor, thank you so much for your time. thanks for what you're doing. really appreciate it. >> thank you so much. >> coming up for us, it's being described as an insult to de

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they put it on the cover of time magazine but the thing is that really didn't do much. all we got to do was read the genes. put a little saliva into, it can tell what jeans you have. the important thing is to being able to rewrite those genes when there's a bad problem that jennifer doudna did with this gene editing tool called crispr so the genome project laid the roadmap down and she was one of those many that you talked about in the book that found that route to actually gene editing. so in the book gets very detailed so it's comprehensive but if you can talk us through because i think this is book is a little confusing to people because you're talking about dna but messenger rna and you're talking about proteins . so give us the lehmans version if you don't mind of laying out the science behind it. >> crispr is easy because bacteria have been doing it for 1 billion years. and they're not smarter than we are and what they do is they take a mug shot. a new virus attacks which they take a snippet of the genetic code and they weave it into their own dna. so they have th