that is the line that the writer toni morrison penned from years ago another daughter the great lakes from ohio. it really stayed with me when i came across it and i don't think i fully understood the reasons. as i started to pay attention to what was happening a lot of our cities and communities that are struggling with water and access to something that we all need to live. it just seemed more and more resonant and it's a theme that is something that i want to come back to. we know that we are in the midst of one of the most abundant freshwater resources on earth. the great lakes, the five lakes that we learned in school and learn to memorize their names. here ontario michigan eery and for many of us this is our home. mrs. and unfunded source like a fifth of all the water on earth. it's a scarcity of drought of changing climate. water is not something that we have a problem with. but somehow when we deliver it to people we have problems. it's not just fled. i'm sure many of you have connection to the community. maybe you have been there but just in case i wanted to bring a little bi

now i have one more page to read and i will ask a democrat to get one of my favorite quotes from toni morrison from the last page. >> it is a short one. the future of reading and good readers as the title. she says word work is sublime because it is generative and makes meaning or secure differences the way in which we are like no other life. we die. that's maybe the meaning of life, but we do language, and that's maybe the measure of our life. from my first letter to this last, these pages celebrate the human driven achievement that is the reading brain. in between its pages, my hope is to engage in a dialogue with you, the reader about my concerns first with the very plasticity of the reading brain that reflects the characteristics of digital media, precipitate the atrophy of our most essential thought process, critical analysis, empathy and reflection to the detriment of our democratic society. second, will the formation of the same processes be threatened in our young who have not acquired the same gray metal if you have. to be sure, each of these processes is endangered yet each has accel

tony morrison's writing, word work is sublime because generative, the way in which we are like no other life, we die, that's makes -- that maybe the meaning of life. but we do language and that may be the measure of our lives. >> pages celebrate the achievement of the brain. in between the pages my hope to engage in dialogue with you, the reader, about my concerns, first, the plasticity and precipitate most essential thought process, critical analysis, empathy and reflection to the detriment of our democratic society. second, will the formation of the same processes be threatened in our young who have not acquired the same brain that all of you have. to be sure each of the human processes is endangered, yet each has accelerated across the centuries. we can take comfort from that, but less comfort is to be found in my third concern. for just as there were miss in evolution in which whole species traces vanished because the environment did not support their continuation, there can be misses in the genetic changes to cognitive capacities as we rightly enthusiastically acquire new essential

one of the things that tony morrison said that racism, inequality, all these things serve as a distraction. that's what it is, a distraction, because the president refuses to take accountability for the kinds of things he's been doing. we're not focussing on the things we should be focussing on. >> i appreciate that, something to meditate on, an important point. thank you. hal will stick around, you know how to works here. we have a lot more coming up. roger stone first associate by mueller camp to be in contempt in court today of and trump attacks nfl players. will have all that and plus yes we will still get to fall back bravo star is here. will hang out. you're watching "the beat with ari melber" on msnbc. dent - no g deal, right? wrong. your insurance company is gonna raise your rate after the other car got a scratch so small you coulda fixed it with a pen. maybe you should take that pen and use it to sign up with a different insurance company. for drivers with accident forgiveness liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. liberty mutual insurance. ♪ liber

i wrote a lot -- i read a lot of toni morrison because she's a genius.and then they kind of short stories. i could go on and on. there's so many great writers. you take the ones that speak to you than there are some amazing writers that i enjoy reading, that they are nothing like i write and they don't give me ideas about how to write. and then there are some writers that do and that is the beauty of having control over how you learn. >> host: so back to your childhood, what were you reading them? >> guest: i read a lot of religious books. we had other books in the house. i didn't read them. i read the bible and a lot of 19th century speeches by the kind of mormon prophet. so that was the language i looked up frequently. >> host: pretty interesting window to school for the first time at byu, you go to this archaic title. >> yeah, because that is what i had been reading. a lot of my professors were very bewildered as to why some would like a 19th century -- it took a while to kind of get that waste out. >> host: it's amazing the writing voice is often so

toni morrison uses the term race talk to capture, quote, the explicit insertion into everyday life of racial signs and symbols that have no meaning other than positioning african-americans into the lowest level of the racial hierarchy. casual race talk is a key component of white racial framing because it accomplishes the interconnected goals of elevating whites while demeaning people of color. race talk always implies a racial us and them. so this sets us up to say some pretty superficial things. so i do discourse analysis. that's my area of study. and that's a critical study of language. language doesn't describe some fixed reality. the language that we have actually shapes our perception of what we would perceive as reality, right? and i do tend to think in metaphors, and so listening and talking to white people day in and day out and hearing the same narratives again and again when the topic of racism comes up, i got in this image in my mind of a dock or a pier. and is what that -- and what that signifies are two things. one, how surface or superficial these narratives are, right?

grateful for his contribution >> just by way of background, scott morrison originally supporting malcolm turnbull a couple years ago against tonyvents now moving swiftly. turnbull's tenure was a few weeks shy of a three-year term but the stinger of an early defeat was fresh speaking earlier this morning the outgoing prime minister described the week as madness. >> there was a determined insurgency from a number of people in the party room, and backed by powerful voices in the media really to if not bring down the government, certainly bring down my prime ministership it was extraordinary itdescribed as madness by many >>> blackrock launched a number of emerging market debt funds with environmental, social and government factors joining us is julia pellegrini a portfolio manager at blackrock give us a sense of how these emerging market debt funds work. >> yes we launched four new funds they're focused esg funds, emd funds, they focus on emerging market dead. they have both a positive and negative screening approach. we aim not to invest in sudden activitiies and we aim to give incentive to improve performance and to behave bette

people suggesting tony abbott may now be brought into the cabinet ina minor may now be brought into the cabinet in a minor role, but maybe as a way of keeping your enemies closer. scott morrisonre not on the backbenches. an interesting story there, and continuing to develop. thanks for joining us there. the vatican says more than 300,000 people attended an open air mass led by pope francis on the second day of his visit to ireland. addressing worshippers he begged for forgiveness from god for what he called the ‘open wound' of sexual and institutional abuse uncovered in the church. our religion editor, martin bashir, reports. at a shrine where 15 people believed they witnessed an apparition of the virgin mary, a man said by the roman catholic church to be the successor of st peter arrived at knock this morning. good morning. applause in a brief speech, pope francis extended greetings to the people of northern ireland, and prayed for a continuing commitment to the peace process, and again, he promised to be firm and decisive in dealing with child sexual abuse. well, has has he won the people of ireland back? he certainly spoke very proximately to them, he spoke very simply to

morrison and the ship, there are much more popular, and could stand a chance of winning the election, by went nuts appease the right wing. when of tonyer advisers -- that would not appease the right wing. the phrase that strikes fear at the heart of every politician in the last year or so, section 44. paul: yes, we have seen many politicians, unglued at that. malcolm turnbull is not going quietly, he has been laying a few landmines as he retreats, one of them to call th to ofstion the viability peter dutton. a wants to see if he is even eligible to be there, and that could be referred to the high court. and that happens, this could drag on for months. also, if trumbull loses, that could be the end of the majority. one seat what ever way you slice and dice these outcomes, this is a government on very, very thin ice, and with an election by mean next year, you wouldn't want to bet on there being a seven prime minister this time 2019. haidi: we will see what happens today and in the coming days, anything could happen, given that the last few days have been unprecedented. in the meantime, australian business leaders have been weighing in

challenged tony abbott pardon me with malcolm turnbull earlier in the week initially lost that first vote on tuesday another one was called here today but instead it was the former treasurer scott morrison who ended up emerging as the victor and he is seen as more conservative then malcolm turnbull but still not the man that the conservatives had back in this vote elizabeth and so one of the scott morrison with the new leadership the more white swing the liberals are now in power what are you saying that means cathy for australian policy on key issues like energy like immigration. well that remains to be seen because coming to this vote scott morrison really had been on malcolm turnbull's side he had been backing malcolm turnbull to remain in his position as prime minister when peter dutton first mounted the challenge so there is an argument that now that maurice than has come out on top that perhaps there will be some of the same that we saw under malcolm turnbull well when he spoke in his first news conference he talked about some areas for example addressing the drought keeping australia's economy strong and he said that there would be an change in areas where it's needed but continu