Know. Nightline starts right now with juju chang. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Protests calling for racial equality spreading across the nation, sparking conversations in our homes. Fathers and sons from black and white families having their own versions of the talk. Conversations on race, policing and prejudice. My coanchor, byron pitts, has the story. Will you take a breath test for me . Yes or no . I dont want to refuse anything. Rayshard brooks, did you see about that . The cops come up. Put your hands behind your back. And when they tried to arrest him, he starts fighting them off. Stop and i thought what i told you about you have an encounteder with the police, like your job is to live through the encounter. Yeah. Reporter for Solomon Jones jr. , Difficult Conversations like this one with his 15yearold son arent optional, theyre essential. But then i thought about how george floyd was cooperative, and he still died. Mmhm. Just like what do we do. Yeah. Reporter we call it
Still not many people. We will be tracking this story throughout our three hours. Nearly half a Million People will be returning to work in the city. And they are returning to work, by the way, to a city whose mayor is pushing to defund the Police Department in the wake of the george floyd protests. A lot of pushback on this, as you can imagine. We will get into it. Including from the president. He tweeted this just moments ago. Law and order, not defund and abolish the police. The radical left democrats have gone crazy. And Hillary Clinton, by the way, well, shes had another deplorables moment when speaking about trump reporters and we will have that for you as well. Im Ashley Webster. The big story for dyou today on monday, the markets pointing upwards. Varney Company Begins right now. This will go down in history as the biggest positive data shock for the markets and the economy. Its some combination of an incredibly resilient economy thats bouncing back, the impact of government me
What brought down the boeing jet. Wicked weather. Back here at home, snow and ice causing accidents across the east coast and now the major new storm about to blast the country. Charged with murder, the estranged husband of the missing mother of five behind bars. How investigators think he carried out his attack. Race against time. Crews on the front lines trying to contain more than 100 fires tearing through australia before temperatures rise again. Ginger is right there as team heroes save these koalas. Who is jeopardys greatest of all time . Ken jennings barely ahead after day one of the epic primetime showdown. How jeopardy james is planning to fight back tonight. Good morning, america. Thank you for joining us. We want to get right to the major breaking news out of the middle east. Breaking all throughout the night. Iran retaliated for the u. S. Strike against their Top Commander launching more than a dozen missiles at u. S. Military bases in iraq. No u. S. Casualty reported and o
Professor of english at university of vermont. Her latest book stories from my grandmothers time, my mothers time and mine is an extraordinary exquisitely written memoir to look at race and a fearless and penetrating and honest way. These essays that explore up close the complexities and the haunting memories of growing up black in the south with the family name inherited from a white man, getting impeached for mail and marrying a white man from the north, adopting two babies from in the loan ethiopia Henry Louis Gates calls it a major contribution in the Washington Post says it is magnificent. Caroline is an american poet editor and translator and activist. Her books of poetry are blue hour, the country between us in 2013 she received the American Academy of poets fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement in 2017 she became one of the first two poets to receive the campbell prize back a professor at georgetown university. Her newest book what you have heard is true is call
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make