it is the diversity. it is what we stand for. it is how we were founded. who would have thought i could be successful. you know, my parents, my father was born in russia and came here when he was three months old with nine brothers and sisters. my mother didn t finish high school. and yet they wereh able to creae a life for themselves and raise their two children. we all know that lazarus wrote poem by give us your tired, your poor, but they forget the part, huddled masses yearning to breathe free. i get emotional thinking about it, because, you know, talks about your wretched refuse of your teaming masses, the teaming shore, send us the homeless, the tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp aside the golden door. it iss emotional because, it is, we will take the refuse from the
there is a true yearning to respond to the singing river and the wise rock. so they the asian, the hispanic, the jew, the african, the native midwestern, the catholic, the muslim, the greek, the irish, the rabbi, the priest, the chic, the gay, the straight, the preacher, the privileged, the homeless, the teacher. they all hear the speaking of the tree. what a breathtaking body of work renowned in its eloquence and its power to endure. maya angelou has passed away. her book i know why the caged bird sings, her poetry, her final message, everything will endure and just make us stop and think every time we hear her voice. welcome back to morning joe.
call. american morning continues right now. i m ali velshi. the obama administration trying to defend its decision to award stimulus money to solyndra. a solar power company that went bankrupt. taxpayers are on the hook for more than half a billion dollars. i m christine romans. u.s. officials concerned about terrorist groups setting up long-term residence in post-gadhafi libya. should our lawmakers cut back? we will talk to one senator that says yes on this american mornin morning . good morning. good morning. it is thursday, september 15. welcome american morning. good to be back with you guy. nice to have you back. havena lot of good news. you will love it. up first, taxpayer, you are on the hook this morning more more than a half a billion dollars. here is why. solyndra, a solar panel company in california, declared bankruptcy after receiving $535 million in federal stimulus money from your tax $. the white house trying to defend its decision to award th
than the testimony in court? none. none. he s set to be put to death next wednesday unless they grant clemency. no two hours, john boehner will reveal the republican plan to create jobs and close loopholes. they said they could go along with some of the president s jobs plans until they found he would raise taxes on wealthy americans. the line for first time jobless claims jumped 11,000 for a total of 428,000. it s the highest number of first-time claims since june. the postmaster general is outlining a plan that could cost 150,000 jobs. they want to close more than 300 mail processing facilities, saturday deliver could end, first class mail would be slower to arrive. they are $10 billion in the hole this fiscal year. in los angeles today, lawyers in dr. conrad murray s manslaughter trial are going over juror questionnaires with the judge. the final phase of juror selection is next week. they say murray had a hand in michael jackson s death. jacqueline kennedy is
here s what we re hearing. the country band sugarland was just about to take the is taken when that accident occurred. again, this video just coming into cnn. these are live pictures coming from our affiliate wthr. we re going to be following up on the news. ann ramsay was at the state fair on a ride and ann, you said you felt it shaking. was this weather, did a system come through you felt like? we were at the fair. i was with my kids and my sister-in-law back in the midway and all of a sudden is, the wind started blowing. things started blowing around. luckily, my son was ushered off the ride and people just started running and screaming. and i watched a mom and her daughter almost get trampled. the worker got her up and we got up to the front and tried to get on a tram to see if we could get to our car. and they shut the tram down and ushered us into a building for safety. and they said there were tornado warnings around. we had driven by the stage and you could see peop