Changing culture landscape. Joining me now, renzo piano, and adam weinberg. This is a remarkable story. It is about a city. The driving passion of people to make sure that the whitney would live on and reflect our time in the future as well. It is a great honor to have them back at this table. Welcome. It is complete after some dozen years of planning and building. How do you characterize this moment for you . Adam the whitney has been trying to expand for 30 years. We tried to expand next were building uptown. It was four directors ago. The collection when we first moved in with 2000 works. Today it is 22,000 works. The idea of being able to see not just what we have, but to offer possibilities and aspirational spaces for artists to do things like we have never been able to do before. Charlie and youre going back to your roots. Adam it feels very comfortable. The greatest complement we have received in the last weeks has been it feels like the whitney. Even though it is a different ki
Depth series achievement, and the citys changing colter landscape. Joining me now, renzo piano, and adam weinberg. This is a remarkable story. It is about a city. The driving passion of people to make sure that the whitney would live on and reflect our time in the future as well. It is a great honor to have them back at this table. Welcome. It is complete after some dozen years of planning and building. How do you characterize this moment for you . Adam the whitney has been trying to expand for 30 years. We tried to expand next were our building was uptown. It was for directors ago. The collection when we first moved in with 2000 works. Today it is 22,000 works. The idea of being able to see not just what we have, but to offer possibilities and aspirational spaces for artists to do things like we have never been able to do before. Charlie and youre going back to your roots. Adam it feels very comfortable. The greatest complement we have received in the last weeks has been it feels like
Senator sanders my fellow americans, this country faces more serious levels today than in any time since the Great Depression, and if you include the planetary crisis of Climate Change, it may well be that the challenges we face now are more dire than at any time in the modern history of our country. And here is my promise to you for this campaign. Not only will i fight to protect the working families of this country, but we are going to build a movement of americans who are prepared to stand up and fight back. [applause] senator sanders we are going to take this campaign directly to the people in town meetings, door to door conversation, on street corners, and in social mediums. This week we are going to be in new hampshire, we are going to be in iowa, and were going to be in minnesota. That is just the start of this campaign. [applause] senator sanders let me be clear. This campaign is not about Bernie Sanders, it is not about Hillary Clinton clinton, it is not about jeb bush or anyo
Could you talk about events in the South China Sea. Had the president been briefed on chinas alleged island building. Is he aware of some of the backandforth of the u. S. Military reconnaissance and aircraft . Josh earnest the president has often talked about how critically important it is. It is critical to the Global Economy as well. The free flow of commerce may South China Sea is something that needs to be maintained. The United States is committed to working with other countries in the region to protected. The cousin of the priority, yes you can expect the president has been briefed on the latest in a situation and will continue to be. About the approaching deadline, june 1 is when the taliban five are alleged to be released. They were swapped in the exchange. I read that general crystal knew immediately that bergdahl had walked away. He suggested that the admiral knew immediately. Im curious, did the president know immediately that bergdahl head walked away . Josh earnest there i
The colbert report the colbert report the colbert report cheers and applause stephen welcome to the report stephen, stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen cheers and applause stephen well come to the report. Good to you have with us, lady its and gentlemen, let me begin by saying ellen silla lumen omentielvo. applause stephen i slipped in a little quenya there, im just so pumped about the new hobbit movie about that hobbit, the hobbit. Hobbit, hobbit, hobbit. You ever say a word so pain times it sounds like Somebody Just made it up . Anyway, this thursday is the new york premier of Peter Jacksons j. R. R. Tolkien the hobbit part one, an unexpected journey, tokyo drift. laughter and this week we got all the big stars. Sir ian mckellen, gandalf the grey. cheers and applause we got sir martin freeman, bilbo baggins. cheers and applause sir Peter Jackson who played a very convincing film director. And sir andy serkis who is e