Steve from rockefeller in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight join jimmy and his guests, Keira Knightley. Chelsea clinton. Musical guest tame impala. And featuring the legendary roots crew and now heres your host, Jimmy Fallon Jimmy hey, everybody thank you so much for tuning in thanks for watching the tonight show. My names jimmy fallon and that is the roots right over there, ladies and gentlemen. Lets get to the news and jokes. Well, guys, the big story is still the Supreme Court, and today it looks like the republicans cleared an important hurdle senator lindsey graham, the chair of the Senate Judiciary committee, now says the republicans have the votes to confirm president trumps nominee to fill Justice Ginsburgs seat before the election, before they even know who the nominee is jimmy thats right 51 out of 53 republicans are now on board while the other two stick out like masks at a maga rally [ laughter ] thats right, the republicans are
Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and im the director of aspen digital. Were blunt glad you could be with us today. The New York Times bestseller list can often seem to be a veneer of the National Psyche and this year it seems to reflect a nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists, both fiction and nonfiction. Thats the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest hashtag publishing pay me exposed the disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents and even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels and for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure can be sub optimal. This year of National Reckoning on racism were going to take a look at the industry, the book Publishing Industry and whether it can br
Looking outside this morning. There is some cloud cover that streaming through the bay theres the very top of the sales first hour about the only building that is rising above the foggy layer that is streaming on into the bay area visibility, although just fine for most areas right now will suffer at times this morning from livermore to the north bay visibility falling at times below a mile in this cloud cover and fog is going to stay with us for longer this morning. And it has the past few a deep in marine layer going to take longer to burn off under a tree towards the coast going to have a big impact on our afternoon temperatures, one of the reasons why today is so noticeably cooler in the days before it. Now air quality moderate across the board still in a spare the air alert we will have pockets of green indicating better conditions at times across the bay but not much change in air quality as compared to the past couple of days. Daytime highs today eventually only in the 80s right
Hosting. Good night. And now on cspan2 book tb, more television for serious readers. Hi everybody i am Vivian Schiller and i the aspen institute. Really glad you could be with us today. The near times bestseller list can often be a mirror of the national psyche. As such, this year it seems to reflect the nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction. That is the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest publishing paid me expose a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. Theres a few people of color who served as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure can be suboptimal. And this year of National Reckoning on racism, we are going to take a look at th
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