And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Delighted to welcome filmmaker scott hayes and dr. Chrls mulli to this program. Their docudrama depicts dr. Mullys unlikely rise to power. Known as the father of the Worlds Largest family his work helped support more than 12,000 orphans in kenya. Before we start our conversation, here now a clip from mully. He needed to sell everything and start hipping the poor in the society, the children who were abandoned. How did you let go of what you hold dearly and how do you decide when to share your love . Kenya was burning. We cant let this happen. We have to do something. The children dont have food. If we dont step in, children are going to die. We had three children, four children, and the number kept on growing. The day will come, this is your family now. These are all your brothers and sisters. Its a miracle. We are one family. We are one i see the impossible becoming possible. First of all, honored to have you b
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome tom petty to this program. The rock roll hall of famer has reteamed with his band, the heartbreakers, for their first c. D. In eight years. The new disc is called mojo from the project. Here is some of the video from i should have known it. I should have known it i should have seen leave it to you to treat me mean every promise was just a runaround i should have known it yeah youre gonna knock me down and i should have seen this is the last time youre gonna hurt me youve. Youve been rocking for a long time. You having fun yet . Im always having fun. Yeah. Playing is fun. Yeah. Music is fun. After all these years still . It has to be. I love the music. Im never, ever tired of playing it. Now traveling, some of those things get a little wearing. Yeah. I love to play. I love i love the audience. And its still just as much fun i think. Yeah. No matter how long you are around, there are certain cla
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Jonathan eig is one of my favorite writers etch hes a New York Times bestselling author. His latest is a biography called ali a life. Ali is the only guy who could put his face on the cover of a book, and you aint got to say nothing else. I know. The photo the cover literally has a photo of the guy, only ali. Heres a clip from a 1971 conversation with journalist and talk show host michael parkinson. What did you think about the other black athletes like them who in their time have had influence or would have been in a position to have influenced people, their own people and sort of thing about their attitude which is certainly slightly less moderate than yours . Slightly more moderate than yours . They go down in history just as athletes. Im im given more praise and credit for what im doing now, coming here and beating the 5yearold english champion. Right now black people, when you show them home jumping, home s
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. So pleased to have willem dafoe back on this program. The appleton, wisconsin, native is best known for spiderman, the last temptation of christ and oscar nominated roles in platoon and shadow of a vampire. Hes getting high prize and oscar buzz i hate to embarrass him for his role as bobby in a project called the florida project. Before our conversation, a clip from the film. Yeah. I got a videotape of the kids illegally entering the utility room. Okay. [ whispering ] did you hear what i said just to her . I got it. Im going to talk to him. Youre out of here. Only second week of the summer, and theres already been a dead fish in the pool. We were doing an experiment. We were trying to get it back alive. That was my idea. And water balloons thrown at tourists. You cant [ muted ]. Tourists. It didnt tip us. Are you serious . Oh my god, this is unacceptable. Ive failed as a mother. You disgraced me. Yeah, mom, your
Being a refugee is much more than a political status. It is the most pervasive kind of that can be accessed against the human being. You are forcibly, of all aspects that would make human life not just tolerable, but meaningful in many ways. Amy well also get a sneak preview of his new massive new art installation that spans across new york citys boroughs. It critiques the global rise of nationalism and the closure of borders. Its called good fences make good neighbors. The fence is to divide. It is about territory. About dividing to push the others away or to stop others from crossing. Rally, amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The powerful head of the Senate Foreign relations committee, Tennessee Republican bob corker, warned sunday that trump is treating the presidency like a reality show and setting the u. S. On the path to world war iii. Senator corker made the comments to the New York Times afte