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This is overheard. audience applauding deray mckesson, welcome. Its good to be here. Thank you very much for being here. So, we sit here today on january the 13th, one week from the Trump Presidency beginning officially. How are you feeling . You know, it is sad in so many ways, and so much of the energy of the next four years will be spent withstanding an administration and trying to maintain the progress that we have made so far. Im hopeful that over the next four years that we dont lose our sense of promise and hope whene think about what resistance looks like. In my profession, the journalism business, the saying that has become commonplace is, give him a chance, but hold him accountable. Are you prepared to give him a chance . I dont know what a chance looks like when he is so openly racist and bigoted and islamophobic. I dont know what giving him a chance looks like. I do know that there are people who are ready to hold him accountable and ready to withstand the administration an
To face with Vladimir Putin. Its going on right now. The u. S. And russia prepared, apparently, to announce a ceasefire in southwest syria that according to the ap. To former cia analyst tar rah mahler on what we can expect from all of this. Tara, first of all, the expectations of the media, obviously, far different from the sort of stuff that we expect because we think outside of the box. Going to eat trumps lunch. Thats actually a headline in Business Insider, that he is not prepared for a meeting, he doesnt have an agenda to which i would say what meeting does the president of the u. S. Ever go into without an agenda . Arent folks like you always prepping president s for that . Hopefully, there was an agenda going into this, and id hope on the agenda syria, hopefully, was top and center, and i think were hearing that it was. I hope the ukraine was at the top of the agenda and cyber hacking and other cybersecurity concerns related to russias intervention in the election and otherwise
That collection arrived at the 135th Street Public Library 90 years ago. He was a bibliophile who migrated from puerto rico in 1891 found a job on wall street work in the mailroom saves his pennies and worked really hard and bought anywhere are unique but he could find that was by or about black people. He eventually became famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library to borrow from the Library People like Langston Hughes and eventually people like and when the librarian at the library and library decided she had a lot of lack patrons coming to the library and a large immigrant community at the time she said ive got to find material for my patrons and ultimately schombergs collection of 5000 items was purchased by Carnegie Corporation and a variety of 90 years ago and made up the core of what now today is a 10 million item collection at the Schomberg Center. Host how did the Schomberg Center end up at 135th . Guest this was the settlement zone
Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Face the nations John Dickerson is next on booktvs after words program. His book, whistle stop, discusses memorable moments of past president ial campaigns. Host john, thanks so much for being with us today. Ive been looking forward to us. Youve written a great book or more political junkies, and im one of them. Guest thanks, brian. Im looking forward to it myself. Host right at the beginning you helped to set a theme when you said while were watching one race, theres usually an an echo from the past that gives you a guide to what might happen. Im wondering, as you look back over past races like those youve written about, what do you think is most relevant or compares most closely to whats going on these days . Guest well, you know, thats where it started which is that every one of the races ive covered youre just trying to to figure out whats coming next an