Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers, America Ferrera, author and host ina garten editor of the new yorker, David Remnick, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now seth meyers. Seth good evening im seth meyers and this is late night. We hope youre all doing well. Lets get to the news. According to a new report, some white house Staff Members are concerned about President Trumps behavior has changed because of a steroid hes taken to treat the coronavirus, which can cause mood swings, a false level of energy and a sense of euphoria and it may have been a mistake to start giving it to him in 2015. President trump announced yesterday he will attend next weeks president ial debate in person unless, of course, they decide to hold the debate at the top of the stairs. [ heavy breathing you guys, go ahead without me. President trump announced yesterday he has ended negotiations for the next Coronavirus Relief package until after the election dude, you yourself just got covid.
So that when i go into the second paragraph where im like what if we took this identity apart, those people would not sort of, have a different history or body. But it would be a different relationship to identity. I think as a consequence, we have a more humane relationship to each other. When i got leader into the first paragraph when im saying an individual can be a heaven. Certainly, both someone who was raised by a white man or as someone who thinks of so many figures like, take for example, john brown. Who i think are some of the most precious people in the world. Its important to me to not have a formulation that removes them. So thats what i was thinking. One more question before we move on to some of your other books. Mothering black boys in america is a special calling. Yeah. Its a sentence my mother said to me. I think about it in a number of different ways. People talk about, in some ways that are difficult and maybe not a really hopeful about the challenges that black boys
Sort of the frenzied pace, but it was beautiful. I learned so much in i was nurtd by all of the generations of people who came before me and helped me understand the world. Youve written a biography of the song. May we forever stand is the name of the book. James johnson and john rosa monde they are the author and composer. They were brothers born in jacksonville florida. Renaissance men and of course back in the day they were called race man. People who thought every achievement they had as being in the service of the race. He became the first secretary general of the naacp. Really extraordinary. One of the signature accomplishments was the accomplishment of the song. They were firstgeneration freemen. Born in the 1870s . Yes, they were of that generation that emerged from slavery with these hopes and dreams and aspirations that were so quickly dashed with the end of reconstruction. What was extraordinary is that the song caught on like wildfire. It was the most immediately embraced a
Were excluded. And the window to contain the coronavirus is narrowing a warning from the w. H. O. As an outbreak in northern italy gets worse. Welcome to the new agreement that supposed to usher in peace in afghanistan has come into effect the taliban and the u. S. Will begin what theyre calling a reduction of violence if the 7 day deal is a success both sides will sign an accord at the end of the month paving the way for talks between the taliban and other afghan groups the u. S. Says it wants to pull its troops out of afghanistan. Now americas longest war began in 2001 the u. S. Presence in afghanistan came a month after the 911. 00 attacks it launched air strikes and a Ground Invasion to remove the taliban from power more than 12000 american soldiers are still in the country thousands more from nato allies and partners countries are also there some 2400 american troops have been killed since the operation began and the u. S. Is estimated to spend more than one trillion dollars in it
Were still on fire. Theres snow on one part of the country and fire on the other, like a bipolar vortex were experiencing. In washington the president is melting down. Today we learned by the new york times, the president repeatedly considered firing the inspector general. He is ordered by law to submit any complaint he finds to be credible. This is a guy who was appointed by donald trump. Trump wanted to fire him, because he doesnt understand that he isnt still hosting a Reality Television show. Tomorrow the public portion of the impeachment hearing begins. We get to hear live, inperson testimony about the president s double dealing in ukraine, and to counter that, trump is planning a bigly reveal of his own, he wrote, i will be releasing the transcript of the first, and therefore, more important phone call with the ukrainian president. His defense has gone from read the transcript, to, wait, hold on, read this other transcript. Because its first, and therefore more important. His you