Important issues the senate will miss the but i heard the say they will turn pages is with a bid chapters they would rise of the shed show our appreciation to them for their years of service on behalf of our country. [applause] i literally ted keep you hear many hours talking about these amazing women but i will not do that. And also some were out there is my former colleague the this is an amazingly distinguished group for go literally they have so much courage and smarts the grit and grace and applies to all of them is the honor and privilege of my life to serve with them to learn so much from them now the senate will be in good hands when unfortunately the to barbaras leave because we have these extraordinary senator still serving. And i will be counting on them concealed do everything we can to put our country on the right track and i am hoping that because of the election next year, this time we can celebrate more Democratic Senators and maybe even take a majority back. [applause]
You will hear his remarks to the obama administration. And we introduce you to huddle house, a Company Making a business footprints across the United States. Lets start in washington, d. C. Mark zuckerberg and five other Technology Executives meeting with president obama at the white house right now. They are talking privacy and government reforms. Bloombergs megan hughes is outside the white house and means me now. What do we know about this meeting . This meeting got underway at 4 00. No sign of them coming out just yet. They have been in there for an hour now. You mentioned facebook ceo Mark Zuckerberg. Also google chairman eric schmidt, Reed Hastings from netflix, another from dropbox among others. Among those who declined the invitation, marissa mayer, the ceo from twitter. Some of the things were watching number one, zuckerbergs growing public frustration with nsa surveillance. We know that he spoke with president obama earlier this month over the phone. He posted of facebook blo
Thats floating around that is all torn and whatever that i think that i had before this. But this inspired me to do something. This has been 30 years in the making. So maybe 35, chris. And so what during the george floyd thing, as you know, i was sitting here and leading a lot of the coverage and people were asking me what do i do, what do i do, what do i do . And i didnt know what to do. And i one night i sat down and i started scribbling things and i contacted someone and so and we came up with this, which has been really rushed, its been really short, less than six months to put this out. And so, um, this is an ode to James Baldwin and the fire next time and its called this is the fire. And for me this is not about selling books because you know i have a fulltime job, i do two hours here, i do a bunch of other things. I really think this book will help heal america, in the way that conversation you just had with secretary cohen about white people having conversations around the dinn
You ever heard this line . God gave noah the rainbow sign. In more water. The fire next time. It is a slave hymn and it became the title of a book that rocked peoples minds in the 60s, a collection of essays. It was written by somebody who was a colleague of kings, who was mesmerized by king and frustrated as well. It is a perfect statement of where we are today. Why am i saying it to you . Because one of us has taken time to look into it and see where we are and see ourselves in the same mission. Cnn tonight with its big star dilemma, he is that man. No more water, fire next time. Fire next time. Either you learn to love and reject hate or things can only get worse. So i have been do you see that . Thats from James Baldwin. This is, i think, one of my first copies from the 1990s. I thought it was my first one, but i have been informed it has notes like on almost every page, right. It is all but theres one that is floating around that is all torn and whatever that i think i had before
MEMORIES OF teenage boys I once taught at the International School of Port of Spain (ISPS) and in YTC (now YTRC) popped up unexpectedly after Paper Based bookstore, which specialises in Caribbean literature, posted a picture of the cover of Wide Sargasso Sea by the late Dominican writer Jean Rhys.