there you go. bob marley said it best. stolen from africa, gentrified in harlem. american black folks keep losing our connection to the places we come from. so i m headed to central appalachia, a place many folks don t realize black folks still live, to hunt, eat, farm, and harmonize on the harmonica with the folks that fight to keep this place known as one of the homes of black folks. this is black appalachia. again! yes! nice! when i say appalachia, you probably picture something like this, or this. harmful stereotypes of poor white folks. we ll have to take those on another day, because what you probably don t picture is this. but the history of black folks here runs as deep as any other nonindigenous people. they are a critical part of appalachia, and i m here to help tell their stories because it is in danger of disappearing forever. so i m actually walking the appalachian trail right now? you are. you are. those mountains there, those are some of the old
the united states is not going anywhere. it s come mmitted to that regio the president spoke in the plus three summit, saudi arabia, kuwait,egypt, i iraq, jordan, the plus three there. near the top of the agenda for biden, the issue of energy production, also security in the region, the war in yemen countering iran and overall of this, also the murder of a washington post journalist. reporter: jamal khashoggi clearly very much high on the agenda for the president of the united states. he s trying, though, to turn the page on u.s. relations with saudi arabia right now, which are so important. he wants to strengthen ties with saudi arabia and other countries in the middle east. listen to how he summed up the u.s. role in the region just a little while ago going forward. listen to this. let me state clearly that the united states is going to remain an active engaged partner in the middle east. as the world grows more competitive and the challenges we face more complex,
angeles. and new day continues and new day continues right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the worldment of it s friday, july 15th and i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. the secret service denies doing anything malicious after a government watchdog report claimed the agency erased text messages from january 5th and january 6th and that it did so after oversight investigators had requested them. the secret service claims any lost data was due to a planned tech migration and that the texts investigators wanted were not among those that disappeared. it s the latest example, though, of the agency assigned to protect the president coming under scrutiny for its actions on january 6th. joining me now is donald trump s former acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney. he later served as special envoy to northern ireland but resigned from the post following the capitol attack. thank you so
my finger went in a hole. mike, marcus dad, is the chef. a master of coalfield cuisine where you make good with what you got. in this case, venice son, biscuit, and that sweet squirrel gravy. before you start making fun of appalachians eating squirrel, this is not an everyday meal anymore. squirrel is how they teach newbies to hunt. they re doing this for me. my welcome to the family. wow. all right. there we go. nice. give it a shot. make sure you don t get some buckshot. no buckshot. i think it passed. i think it passed. you have to have a lot of skills. that s the thing i m starting the learn living out here. necessity is a good teacher. well, i grew up in the coal fields. and there were no deer. and the only thing that my dad taught us how to hunt was squirrels and rabbits.
bee bees to hunt. this is for me, welcome to the family. there you go. give it a shot. make sure you don t get some buck shot. no buck shot. thank you. i think it passed. i think it passed. you have to have a lot of skills. that s what i m starting to learn living out here. necessity is a good teacher. there were no deer, the only thing that my dad taught us how to hunt was squirrels and rehabilitates. a succulent of united shades of america airs tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. right here on cnn. don t go anywhere, smerconish is up next, but then we re back in a moment. succulent, you thought the squirrel was succulent. i d try some, would you? maybe, if i was desperate. we ll see you guys in an hour.