but, you know, the adthat this is reverse racism against white farmers ignores basically a century of history. it s damaging for trump to weigh in on policy in this matter and i will note one thing. this is the first time that as president he s tweeted about africa or used the word africa in a tweet and for him to do it in this particular fashion is gross. predictions yesterday morning was that he would jump into the arms of fox hosts and tweet about a foreign country, trying to deflect. strangely the news headlines are so big and so serious and the facts are so strong that the deflections don t appear to be working. coming up investigators in new york subpoena michael cohen for information on its investigation into the trump fusion. we ll talk to the washington post reporter who won a pulitzer for his reporting on
versus harvey weinstein. it will be me and my sisters. and then in industry after industry that has fallen and that s because this is not an individual issue. this is not about one bad guy, although this is a very terrible guy. it s about a structural power dynamic that has been a part of our society for so long. we ve seen rapid change on these issues in just the past couple of generations. but this is why social movements are necessary, to tip the balance of power so that no one person is alone fighting something which is a structural issue. all right. we know you have to go get ready for your show. you have a big show tonight. tell us about t. we re going to be covering this with megan tooey who helped break the story, won a pulitzer. it will be interesting to get her views on this. and broadening beyond that we have andre, with hal reins for a special fall back friday, so a little bit of everything. i never miss it. i m not going to miss it tonight. we have to sneak in a brea
welcome back. whenever i have a panel of young journalists in on a saturday morning i ask what they are reading. but first my book because i always run out of time and it s not fine. world without mind. josh is on the panel with me right now and he recommended it a month ago. and i have read it twice. once on i books and then i got a hard copy to annotate it. i cannot recommend it strongly enough. it is creepy how much silicon valley has a massed that. facebook is not a neutral thing to be using. it is guiding you and prompting you, as is google search machine and bezos is basically running the world. tim, what s on your bookshelf? i ll be honest, i am rereading something right now. charlie duff, won a pulitzer
associated with erika are offshore but by tomorrow into monday we ll see her moisture lift to the north and with that we could see a couple inches of rain for areas that need in the south florida but up near tampa, unfortunately, flooding from the storm. that looks like the real threat for the next couple days. alex? thank you so much steve. new orleans today remembered those lost in hurricane katrina ten years ago. a wreath-laying ceremony was hold honor the more than 1800 people who perished as a result of the storm. msnbc s trymaine lee who won a pulitzer for his coverage at the times-picayune joins me. i m curious your sense of the mood in the city today. what are you feeling? i tell you what, alex, here in the french quarter it s business as usual. tourists are hopping on and off of buses. they re taking pictures in front of jackson square. but when you talk to people native to this city who had to
should we be granting an anymore toit most i hold a position that is not common. i have for 25 years since the paper i edited won a pulitzer. the woman who wanted to be named who had been raped. while there has been a agreement for many years we won t name adults and only this one case only crime. that s the exception because we want to protect them. for understandable reasons. a horrible crime. the worst sort of crime. violent, invasive in every way because we wanted to protect them we won t name names. i believe it resulted in underreported. it s robbed our reporting of credibility. i think it lead directly into what the rolling stone did. they did a completely unsourced, essentially, piece, and the editor suspended her best journalist judgment and said we re going to go along with