And an incredible journey, and an artist whose images led the way. Christopher putzel, with a drawing captured by lawrence, and the resonance it has for us today thanks for joining us, hill joie chen. On this im joie chen. Tonight we look at the voices and vision of america. The greatest art often captures the most ordinary struggles. So was the work of the late artist Jacob Lawrence, known for his depicts of the great migration. 100 years after 6 million black americans began their journeys from south to north. Christopher putzel takes a look at the Mass Movement and the extraordinary images from history that carried meaning today. When i left in september i had one suitcase. I was a country girl, scared. I didnt go to sleep. I was scared, hungry. In 1956 the then 20yearold ida taylor boarded a train and said goodbye to the only place she called home, the family tobacco phone. Carolina. In search of opportunity taylor left the difficult and thankless life on the farm behind her. Its h
Representation in parliament are all on the list. We will speak to them injusta on the list. We will speak to them injust a moment. The former american soldier, Chelsea Manning, who passed thousands of confidential documents to wikileaks, will be released from a Military Prison today. Well speak to someone who campaigned for her release. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. Are you fat and fit . The bad news is there may be no such thing. Some doctors now reckon its impossible to be overweight without increasing your risk of future health problems. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning. Use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. In a moment well get the latest on Election Campaign here. First, though to the us, where the white house is denying reports that donald trump asked former fbi Directorjames Comey to stop an investigation into alleged links between an advisor and russia. Mr c
J myimsatthy v im jimmy. Im the host of the show. Thanks for watching. Thanks to all of you for coming. I appreciate that. [ cheers and applause ] i do. I want to apologize. We had so much fun stuff planned for you tonight. We worked on it all day. We had a bachelor in paradise, kids going back to school. We were going to talk about theres a horrible new pair of uggs we were going to discuss. I even thought hey, maybe we wont talk about donald trump much tonight. And then he opened his mouth and all manner of stupid came out. [ laughter ] and im not joking when i say i would feel more comfortable if Cersei Lannister was running this country at this point. [ laughter ] this press conference today. I dont know if you saw this. I know a lot of you are here on vacation. It started it was supposed to be a press conference about infrastructure, and it ended with our president making an angry and passionate defense of white supremacists. It was like if your Book Club Meeting turned into a coc
Jimmy thats very nice. Im jimmy. Im the host of the show. Thanks for watching. Thanks to all of you for coming. I appreciate that. [ cheers and applause ] i do. I want to apologize. We had so much fun stuff planned for you tonight. We worked on it all day. We had a bachelor in paradise, kids going back to school. We were going to talk about theres a horrible new pair of uggs we were going to discuss. I even thought hey, maybe we wont talk about donald trump much tonight. And then he opened his mouth and all manner of stupid came out. [ laughter ] and im not joking when i say i would feel more comfortable if Cersei Lannister was running this country at this point. [ laughter ] this press conference today. I dont know if you saw this. I know a lot of you are here on vacation. It started it was supposed to be a press conference about infrastructure, and it ended with our president making an angry and passionate defense of white supremacists. It was like if your Book Club Meeting turned in
The president i feel like i can say this with reasonable certainty. The president is completely unhinged. The wheels are off the wagon and hurtling toward the moon right now. [ laughter ] i have some clips to show you. And before i do i want to say clips are one thing. You know, theyre edited down. We choose them for content. But if you get a chance go online and watch the whole press conference from beginning to end. Its astonishing. The only thing i can compare it to is remember when mike tyson bit Evander Holyfields ear off . And then he bit his other ear off . [ laughter ] this was the president ial equivalent of that. Trump wasnt even scheduled to take questions today. He was going to give a brief update on an executive order he signed to boost infrastructure. But reporters wanted to ask about his weak response to what happened in charlottesville, and things went infrastrucking nuts from there. [ laughter ] honestly if the press were not fake and if it was honest the press would h