Air force. You ran against Kamala Harris for state attorney general. There has been some criticism from the left that she was too harsh as a prosecutor. Is that a problem for her with a left wing of the Democratic Party . Rep. Lieu i do not think so. My advice is never run against Kamala Harris. In terms of her record, you do not get to be elected as the District Attorney of San Francisco and then elected statewide in california as attorney general if you were not progressive. She has a record she can put up against anyone, and she will prosecute donald trump in terms of showing his failures and addressing this pandemic, in terms of creating job, in terms of his failures on the Foreign Policy front. She has done that with other witnesses before her in congressional hearings. She will do that as Vice President. Ticketdoes she help the in this respect that President Trump wants to make law and order a major issue, does she pull teeth on that argument a little bit . Rep. Lieu as a former
King and not really try and bring about what dr. Kings policies were all about. When i look over the last 18 months from eric gardner and ferguson to some of our leaders, i wanted some of the young people that were not about headlines but about working and sacrifice to be with us and they are my special guests this morning. Brandi and shanae, stand up, from ferguson, missouri. Reverend compton lee, stand up. And many of our Board Members, Lamel Mcmorris and others that are here, reverend michael walron, the pastor, first corinthian baptist church, the largest growing church in the country, certainly in new york, hes with us. The dean of the Civil Rights Movement, they call it civil rights establishment. Somebody said to me the other day i was in the civil rights establishment. I said ive been fighting getting the civil rights establishment all my life. You aint insulting me. I remember i wasnt even established, let alone in the establishment. Wade henderson is with us, the dean. Assist
What is the proudest moment of your career so far . Guest wow. I dont mean to sound snarky or snippy here, but i hope it is yet to come. I feel very fortunate in just a few days well start our 12th season on pbs. Im now on 15 years in public radio. I feel very blessed at start of this year to do all weve done so far. I hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to i hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to pick something it would be that i am still in here and so many people that against me in so much of my life. When i started on npr some years ago i remember the complaint when i first started, that i talk too loud. My favorite was that my laugh was too boisterously last too boisterously. My laugh was too much mike haydns was wrong, i spoke too fast, it was too big for public radio. This is National Public radio and i started the bidding was i was not going to make it, 15 years on public radio. People didnt think, charlie rose had done well for years nobody expected
Peter, tomplaint came pouring into npr wn i first started i talked too loud. My favorite one was my laugh was too boisterous. He laughs too bows tmendously. Laugh was too much. My cence was wrong. I spo too fast. Everything about me isoo big for public radio. You know how npr is. This is National Public radio. My style is so different when i first started at npthe betting i wouldnt make it. Pb the betting wasnt as high. People didnt think it would rk on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years d nobody expecd for me to make it on pbs. Long story short it would be im still here. Host 25 years or so youve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edid. Your different shows that youve done, what do you think youve accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and plic Television Work is the same three things that say all the time. I hope, number one to challen fellow citizens to reexamine the sumption they hold. We all bring assumptions to the
Feel very blessed to be able to have done all that we have done so far. And i hope that the best is yet to come. If i had to pick something it would be that im i am still here and there are so many people who bet against me in so many moments of my life. I remember the complaints that came in, my favorite was he last two boisterously my lap was too much my cadence was wrong, i spoke too fast everything was too big for public radio because npr says this is National Public radio. And my status is so different from that. So the betting wasnt that i was going to make it. So the betting wasnt as high charlie rose had done well for years. But nobody expected me to make it. Long story short it would be that i am still here. Host for 25 years or so you have been doing this 17 books are so that you have edited and there are different shows that you have done. What do you believe that you have accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do everyday to radio Public Television is the same thing that