And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Dczn Herby Hancock has embraced just about every musical genre possible from jazz to fusion to funk to hiphop. Now after more than 50 years as a musician and composer, hes considered one of the towering forces in American Music with 14 Grammy Awards and, of course, a Lifetime Achievement honor from the Jazz Foundation of america. Hes now written finally a new memoir. Its titled d hersheby hancock possibilities, and talks about the influence of jazz great miles davis. Lets look at the two of them performing together. What do you make of the blessing of being such a Long Distance runner . Im just glad were still here. When you see that clip, though, herby, when the clip was playing, made the joke in studio, whos the skinny guy on the piano . I dont know him. Youve been at this a longgd time, hesrbie. To capture my life into 332 pages, thats a lot of stuff thats happened along the way. I mean, so many different dir
Good afternoon. I would like to welcome you all to this very special conference in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the u. S. China diplomatic relationship. Director of the china center here at brookings. Im thrilled to see such a big crowd of people. I had no idea i was this popular. Just as we finally saw a thaw in the temperature in washington this week, after a very long in u. S. Chinaaw relations more than three decades ago was almost equally as long awaited. The thaw began with pingpong diplomacy during the presidency of richard nixon. The ice finally fully mended by andtime president carter the chinese leader agreed to the 1979 joint community on establishments of diplomatic relations. It seems quite fitting that we are holding this event during a week when we have seen pictures streaming back from china of First Lady Michelle Obama playing pingpong, learning tai chi. Quite impressive, if you saw the picture. And appearing at schools to speak to the future generations of c
This. It will be broadcast again on wndb and we will let you know when our partners that shes been will be carrying this, most likely in the next month. We have an event coming up on the 18th. It will be a live town hall and you are all invited to come after questions of congressman desantis in a live broadcast. That will be the 18th right here in the auditorium. Dr. Matusis will be selling his dvds in just a moment. You can line up and say hello and pick up a copy. We will be making those sales right here. Ladies and gentlemen, once again, dr. Jonathan matusis. [applause] thank you for being with us tonight. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] next representatives of the National Basketball association about sports and cultural diplomacy. After that, the american director the director of the American Legion. Then, weekly addresses with Vice President i and Vice President biden. On the next washington journal,
Phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Next, a look at the internal politics of the Chinese Communist party in the future of chinas role in global relations. Litical information but only at the span do you get its at cspan do you get it straight from the source. No matter where you are from or where you stand on the issues cspan is americas network. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word if it happens here, or here, or here, or anywhere that matters, america is watching on cs band powered by cable. Next a look at the internal politics of the Chinese Communist party and the future of chinas role in public global relations. [indiscernible] good morning to those of you joining us here in washington, good afternoon and evening for those joining digitally across the world. I am Suzanne Maloney the Vice President and director at Brookings Institution i am delighted to welcome you to brookings deep expertise on china has been at the forefront of informing decisions by the u. S
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