months ago marco rubio announced his race for presidency, now he's no longer in the race. the characters still keep being changed. but the race goes on. >> tonight, my campaign is suspended. >> the once promising campaign of marco rubio came to an end. ironically, the site of his final defeat in this presidential race. >> it is clear while we are on the right side this year we will not be on the winning side. >> it was donald trump winning over 50% of a state for the first time, who found himself in the winning side in florida and just about everywhere else. in addition to the winner take all state of florida trump won in illinois and north carolina, meaning he has won every confederate state except texas. >> we have a long way to go but at some point it's going to get done. >> the tenor of the trump campaign is under scrutiny. >> the fact is we have to bring our party together. we have to bring it together. >> despite his, well, huge night, he did lose the state of ohio to governor john kasich who was jubilant winning the 66 delegates in his home state. the departure ever marco rubio means john kasich is the last pan standing among the establishment republicans. >> i want you to campaign goes on and i also want you to know that it's been my intention to make you proud. >> but the path remains daunting for irch kasich. even if he won every delegate left he would not have enough to win. >> i will be president of the united states. >> senator ted cruz, who did not have a if night, finishing second in north carolina and illinois and third in florida. was undowntowned by trump win. >> only two campaigns have possibility to win, ours and trump's. the others have no path mat cal chance whatever. >> alreadmathematicalchance wha. >> i will remind you again tonight i will not take the low road to the highest office in the land. >> donald trump increased his lead in a race that began with 17 republican candidates and little clarity, now moves on with three candidates and perhaps even less clarity. and paul as we lose these candidates as the herd thins, we also find this race going in other directions. today, former speaker of the house boehner said he with endorse the former speaker. john kasich says he's not going and fox news has cancelled that debate paul. >> michael you really get a sense here of a party almost in disarray. we've been talking for days about how scared the republican so-called establishment is ever a donald trump nomination but they don't seem to have a plan to stop him. do you think they're going to take another crack at it maybe force what we've been talking about, this contested brokered convention? >> i think that's exactly right, that's what john kasich thinks would happen. john kasich would have to win 110% of the remaining delegates in order to win the nomination, you know you can't do that. the only thing is to sway some of the delegates, at the convention and see what will happen in july. for now, that's the only plan forward for john kasich. but ted cruz says i can still win enough delegates. but last night was not his night and as john kasich said, this is going to cleveland. >> doing the math, michael shure, thank you. on the democratic side it looks more and more likely that bernie sanders will not be able to stop hillary clinton. she widened her lead by several big states last night. mike viqueria is with us. >> good evening paul. it's about the math. bernie sanders is likely to win upcoming contests if the next few weeks but the math for him is very daunting. his path to the nomination virtually impossible, it would require a miracle. meanwhile, hillary clinton is piling up delegates and turning her attention to the upcoming fight in the fall. hillary clinton is back where she started at the beginning of the campaign. odds-on favorite otake the fight to republicans in the fall. >> we are moving closer to securing the democratic party nomination and winning this election in november! >> reporter: clinton routed bernie sanders in florida and north carolina and fought to what amounts to a draw in missouri and illinois but it was her double-digit win in ohio where sanders focused time and money that debunks the theory that clinton is vulnerable in the industrial heart land. but bernie sanders has plenty of money to carry on. he launched into his now familiar attack. >> she has received money from the drug companies and the fossil fuel industry. [ booing ] >> she has given speeches on wall street t for $225 tow a,00. >> other states hawaii and washington have upcoming caucuses where sanders does well. but after her victory on tuesday, the win puts sanders in a delegate hole. clinton is now turning her focus to the fall and a possible if not likely confrontation with republican donald trump. after calls for democratic unity she trained her fire on trump. accusing him of bluster and bigotry. >> when we care, a candidate for president called for rounding up 12 million immigrants, banning all muslims from entering united states -- [ booing ] >> when he embraces torture that doesn't make him strong. it makes him wrong. [ cheering ] >> and paul, bernie sanders chose to spend his election night speaking to voters in arizona, the site of an upcoming contest. clinton is not conceding anything. but the former congresswoman gabby giffords, injured in that attack, and hillary clinton staunch in her support of gun control and bernie sanders for the gun industry. paul. >> is there any way that bernie sanders can somehow turn this around and snatch the nomination away from hillary clinton? >> it's funny, everybody seems to be a delegate bractologist bt lately. john kasich on the republican side could come way offer the pace and overtake the delegates at this point. for primaries and caucuses, california, new york and pennsylvania, by the clinton campaign's calculation bernie sanders would have to win each of the states by 60% to 40% for clinton, considering hillary clinton represented new york for a term and a half in the senate. bernie sanders would still be looking at the taillights as far as the delegate count of hillary clinton. doesn't look like any plausible scenario could actually put bernie sanders into the lead between now and mid summer. >> it ain't over until it's over. mike viqueria, thank you. coming up at the bottom of the hour, the possibility of a brokered convention, what that would look like, in the republican party and how long bernie sanders could hang on. president obama nominated merrick garland for the post of supreme court justice. but the republicans say they won't even consider him. they want the next president to make the call. john terret is in washington. john. >> good evening paul. the republicans are adamant, there will be no confirmation hearing for this very, very popular circuit court judge from d.c. he appears now to be caught in a major political ga gargantuan drama. his republican opponents announcing a nominee to replace ultimate conservative associate justice antonin scalia who died last month. >> i have selected a nominee who is widely recognized not only as one of america's sharpest legal minds but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency, modesty, integrity, even handedness and excellence. >> 63-year-old merrick garland is chief judge for the washington, d.c. circuit, known in legal circles as the second highest court, a position he's held for 19 years. a conservative on criminal justice issues, earlier his career he oversaw the prosecution ever timothy mcvey and unibomber ted kazinski. >> for a judge to be worthy of such trust he or she should be loyal to the constitution, he or she must put aside his personal views and preferences and follow the law not make it. >> reporter: president obama called on republicans in the senate to giver garland a fair hearing. and give an up or down vote. if you don't it will be aan abrogation of the constitutional duty. >> beyond repair, it will mean everything is subject to the most partisan of politics. everything. it will provoke an endless cycle of more tit-for-tat, and make it increasingly possible for any president, democrat or republican, to carry out their constitutional function. >> reporter: if the president hoped his words might bring the two sides together he was wrong. ever since the death of justice scalia, the battle lines over this issue have been clearly drawn and it didn't take long after today's ceremony here at the rose garden at the white house for the treebles stat repo state, for them nothing has changed. they want to choose the successor to ca scalia not obam. >> in order to politicize it for purposes of the election. >> reporter: in other words, if the senate doesn't give garland a confirmation hearing and an up our down vote it will become a 2016 campaign issue and overy big stick for the democrats to hit the republicans with. well, merrick garland spoke this afternoon by telephone to the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who refused to meet with him. also to charles grassley, chairman of the judiciary committee. he says he will meet with garland, if a meeting is scheduled for him. you know paul it seems as if the republicans are really pinning their hopes on a republican win in the 2016 race for the white house. they know that the risk is that hillary clinton may win it and appoint somebody who is far younger far more to the left than merrick garland is. paul. >> they are placing their bets now, john terret in washington, thank you. the political world and rest of us will all be hearing the name merrick garland, in the next few months pfn who i. who is he? david schuster has the story. >> raised in the midwest, merrick garland may as well have been issued from central casting. garland practice corporate law at arnold and porter one of the nation's most respected firms. he became a partner after only four years and four years after that he ditched wealth and prestige to join the justice department as an entry-level federal prosecutor. >> it was the sense of responsibility to serve the community instilled by my parents that led me to leave my law firm to become a line prosecutor in 1989. >> president clinton appointed garland to the federal bench. jewish and married with two daughters, he has spent 19 years on the federal circuit court. he is known as a consensus-builder and likable. >> because he is so likable, such a soft spoken decent human being that it's going to be harder and harder for the senate republicans to stay we're not even going to meet with him. >> on the issue, garland last no paper trail on boors rights, ab, scotus blog notes says he rarely writes on criminal justice appeals. lower court justices are generally beholden to supreme court precedent. >> even if we can read his paper trail on the court of appeals essentially it is a moderate paper trail, it is unknown how someone will vote once they become a justice on the supreme court. >> reporter: still at 63 years old, garland is the oldest nominee since the nixon era. he would be surprisingly to serve for 20 years. scalia served for 30. may ratchet up president obama's pressure on the republican led senate to allow a vote on garland's nomination. >> i am grateful beyond words for the honor you have bestowed upon me. [applause] >> reporter: david schuster, al jazeera. >> steve rapile is a professor at american university's washington college of law and a contributors to scotuus blog. be for those of you not in the know, that's supreme court of the united states. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> sri srinavasan was a hot candidate, i want to talk about him in a moment, but was picking garland the impetus to have republicans cave in and confirm him? >> it was seen that he would be more confirmable by republicans, that's not the initial reaction we have been hearing, second, he is able to withstand the storm that he has just set sail in. you know if he ends up staying in the court of appeals and being its chief judge for a while longer he's had a distinguished and impressive career. the other nominees like sri srinavasan are younger, just starting out their careers. the impact of the fight might be greater on them. garland is in a position to weather the storm. >> more durable more near the end of his career should things not work out. now some liberals might be unhappy with how the obama administration is framing him as a moderate. they would want someone more liberal but conservatives say he is very liberal on guns. tell us about his record and whether he really adds up to a moderate. >> well, you know the record on guns is pretty thin. the pro-gun forces have been going after him with both barrels blazing if you will pardon me. it's based on one vote right before the supreme court decided there was an individual right to bear arms. that case was in garland's court. he didn't like the way the three judge panel decided the case and he voted to rehear it. and that's really all they're going on is that he seemed to have concerns about the lower court opinion. that's you know that may be an indication but it's not a lot to go on. i don't think we know that much about his views as some of the pieces already indicated. on very controversial issues he really hasn't made his views clear. >> so there will be more digging to do. now a little bit of a history lesson here. garland was law clerk to justice william brennan, nominated in annal election year. brean wabrennan was confirmed ba democratically led legislature. >> it was so uncontentious, brennan was a recess appointment, democrat appointed by eisenhower a republican and took his seat on the escort immediately without senate confirmation. and then was renominated in 1957, and confirmed easily, by the senate. so the conten shoul should concn a different atmosphere. and we haven't had a recess appointment in years. >> this is going to be an interesting one, isn't it? we'll all be watching. steve vermile, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> coming up why peace talks on syria have stalled and sentenced to 15 years in the north korean prison. what the obama administration is doing to help an american student. v >> ifu.n. sponsored talks on the syrian conflict resumed but planning to declare an autonomous zone. james bays has the story. >> the group that's not been invited forbesed themselves on to the agenda. u.n. envoy staffan de mistura decided to seclude the pyd for now, clair declared by the turke a terrorist group. representatives of syrian people at the talks. >> translator: the u.n. position is very clear. every syrian stands with the unity and the sovereignty of the facing. >> the head of the pyd actually turned up for the last round of talks in january before he found out he wasn't invited. his father should be secluded they felt because he had been working with the assad regime. >> translator: only when they openly announce they are disengaging with the regime completely only then will they have a place in the syrian revolution and be welcomed with open arms in geneva. >> mr. ambassador are the delegation ignoring you? >> he ignored my question. later he explained that was a joint decision. >> our friends and allies the russians came to syria by a joint decision and the day they will leave, it will be done through a joint syrian-russian coordination action. >> reporter: he then used the opportunity to attack the high negotiations committee, who had been at the same podium a matter of hours earlier. and in particular mohammed allouche who is a prominent member of the committee. >> translator: it's not an honor at all to sit with a terrorist in direct talks. he belongs to a terrorist faction that hit embassies and killed citizens. that's why we will never have direct talks unless this terrorist apologizes for what he has done and withdraw the suggestion. then he should shave his beard. >> reporter: those most undiplomatic comments showing the mistrust behind the scenes on the day when the announcements by the pyd only make this process even harder. james bays, al jazeera, at the united nations in geneva. president obama imposed new sanctioned on north korea, in response to its rocket launch and bomb test earlier this year. american student was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. otto warmbier was convicted after stealing a problem began today poster. propaganda poster. >> after last night's primaries, donald trump has a big delegate lead in the republican race for the white house, but jason hopes last night will be the start of something big for him. john hendren reports. >> john kasich's home state of ohio has put him back in the race. >> when you listen and you have purpose you're on fire. >> analysts say he has one strategy left for him. team up with the other republican candidate, texas senator ted cruz to be block the billionaire. >> his possibility is virtually zero but perhaps he and ted cruz as well could deny the trump the absolute majority of delegates and then we go to the summer and see how the republicans try to sort all this out. >> reporter: if that happens, the republicans would have their first contested be convention since 19 are 48. the delegates negotiate a solution. anything can happen. any candidate can win the nomination for ultimate prize. after sweeping florida, north carolina, missouri and illinois, donald trump has half the 1247 delegates he needs to seize the republican nomination for president. hillary clinton after winning all five yesterday, the road seems wider than ever. >> secretary clinton is gaining votes. she is enlarging her margin of delegates and i think she is well on a path towards the nomination. >> reporter: clinton's democratic rival, bernie sanders has vowed to stay in the race until the end but increasingly she is focusing her fire past sanders. >> that doesn't make hinge strong. him strong. it makes him wrong. >> to the person she feels is going to be her rivet in rival n november, donald trump. >> form he democratic candidate for congress, joins tonight. good to have you with us. >> good to be here paul. >> in 2012 when the republicans were unhappy with their candidate, mitt romney, there was talk of a brokered convention, now even more likely. how does a brokered convention work and what would it mean? >> a brokered convention works when no single candidate can win 50% plus 1 of the delegates in the first volt, and they work out a deal to nominate and vote with a 50 plus one delegate count for one candidate. it can be somebody who is not even at the convention. if donald trump wins a plurality, less than half, a brokered convention will occur. trump has warned if the people in power in the renal party take it away from him even if he doesn't have the 50% plus one, if they bring in another nominee, someone like kasich for example, the trump supporters are going to be very, very upset. today donald trump threatened possible violence. he said my supporters are not going to take this lightly and there maybe a riot. >> could be messier and we've seen violence at many trump events. you said he said there could be riots. if they couldn't stop him from getting this far what does gop establishment think they're going to do in a couple of weeks or down the road? >> they won't be able to do a whole lot because again as i said he will have the single largest number of delegates. he says look, i've got the most votes, we should have a republican victory. they don't trust tbrawmple trume his ideological views are so different than the republicans. kept put be trump down in so many ways, anyone but trump, it is a big conundrum for the republican party now. >> it's not sure whether romney's speech hurt him or helped him. >> it went up a bit. >> they hate me and i welcome their hatred kind of thing. >> republicans have a few winner take all primaries left. so trump could sew it up in one or two of those. but kasich beat him in ohio. >> i wanted to ask you about ohio. now of course you mentioned kasich won ohio. how much does that do to bolster the chances that ted cruz could beat trump? >> very little, ted cruz is still too short of numbers and a focused candidate on just one basic group, social conservatives, the evangelical christians. he doesn't have the width or broadness of support that someone like trump, so i don't think he's going to be able to do it and it's going to come down to a brokered convention, unless trump could win some of those win are take all primaries. if he could get less but take winner take all delegates, around 1200 stetle what he dele. >> bernie sanders, about the math, how much longer do you think the fight is going to go on the democratic site? >> it's going to go on until the end. bernie is a different candidate, he's a movement candidate, trying to win but he's going to say that look my ideas being out there and catching hold and going for the future is very, very important so i've got to go all the way down to the end. there are some states like california, new york and pennsylvania where he will do better than the states that hillary beat him. but whoever wins each congressional district in the states that that matters, they get delegates there. it is conceivable that one candidate could take all the delegates, california is a big prize, one candidate could take all. >> he's made it clear he's in it to win it. thank you sir. >> thank you very much. >> the washington metro system was shut down, more than two dozen safety problems were found on cables that power the third rail. the system will be up by 5:00 tomorrow. tom ackerman has the story. >> maintenance workers inspect all the cables supplying power to the network's trains. after a tunnel fire raised safety concerns. it's the first non-weather related closure since this mainly underground metro opened 40 years ago. and it's forced 700,000 commuters to search for alternative transportation. >> for everybody's safety you're going to have to move back. >> reporter: all in all the situation might have been a lot worse because all nonemergency government workers would offer the option of taking this as an unscheduled leave day or working from home. the system's passengers have become accustomed to chronic breakdowns. >> it is not the worse bu worstt the best either. >> it is a sign that there's an aging system and we need to replace the cars and replace the structure. >> reporter: but government resources have failed to keep up with the challenge. >> the growth, the sheer growth that the country has been experiencing is, i think, a troubling trend given how much we're investing and hour we're investing today. >> experts say the u.s. has become dangerous neglectful in tending to other elements of its infrastructure. the american society of civil engineers rates the energy grid, roads, aviation system and dams in poor condition and a recent report warned a large proportion of the country's water supply infrastructure has approached or has already reached the end of its useful life. as witnessed the crisis in flint, michigan, changing its water source to a dangerously polluted river. the nation would need $3 trillion to tackle its infrastructure needs in the next few years. but where it would come up with, the federal and state be officials e-officials are struggling to find. word the marijuana industry, worth about $44 billion by 2020, that is if current legalization and business continues. the cannabis bis. marijuana is already legal in some form or another in 40 states. already change american life in a big way but more change on the way. our science and technology editor jacob ward has first of a two part report. >> marijuana could soon join alcohol as the other intoxicant of american life. the scene that i'm in right now is about as normal as it gets in american life. just think about drinking and all the occasions at which it is appropriate. oh you lost your job i'm sorry let me buy you a drink. oh you got a new job congratulations let me buy you a drink. birth, death, marriage doesn't even matter, anything can be an excuse to drink, that's why alcohol has become a huge and fundamental industry. so we know what big alcohol looks like as a cultural finance phenomenon and powerhouse. but what about marijuana? bruce runs a watchdog operation, called alcohol justice. it's important to understand how alcohol became so influential. >> the play book has been advertising advertising advertising. product placement creating products that are very youth oriented, controlling the policy sector having massive lobbying at the local, state and national level. >> if marijuana becomes legal across the country its promoters will have a lot to learn from the business of booze. which has worked it into sports movies even our traditions. >> about half of all alcohol in the united states is sold around december during the holiday seasons. it's often given as a gift. in fact if you show up at a party you bring a bottle of wine or a six pack. >> adam rogers who writes about the be system of intoxication, spall batch liquor. >> when you look at what the connoisseurship of alcohol, nobody reviews wine based on you how drunk you get or what that drunk feels like, at least as far as i know. and the different flavor notes the aromatics, the skillfulness with which the distiller created this object. we talk about this as being craft, artisanal. it has to extend to marijuana and california has certainly been good to extending it to everything from jeans to yogurt. >> keith humphries is a member of the governor's blue ribbon constrained by regulation and taxation. >> broccoli, make sure it's clean and the pesticides aren't bad and the public will sort it out. albeit broccoli isn't as good for them and it's hard to regulate. but they change the idea what is good enough, what is safe, what feels good what doesn't feel good. the way you regulate broccoli, let the market handle it. people will judge broccoli on its plairts. merits. you can't count on marijuana. fest. >> some day we may be congratulating new parents with a vaporizer. or sending brownies to a retiring co-worker. jacob ward, al jazeera, san francisco. we turn to boy scouts. the boy scouts of america has become an american institution. today the scouts are helping a unique and very diverse troupe in colorado made up of refugees. >> troupe 1352 is just like any other group, the boys do adventure sports, cook tear own meals at camp and are awarded merit badges for a job well done. >> we go po to som to some campe do activity that one would come back, they give us some badge like this. >> that's so beautiful, is that special to you? >> yes. >> but out of 38,000 boy scout troupes around the world, this is different. this is made.entirely of refugees, possibly the most diverse boy scout troupe in the world. they remember. these refugee boy scouts and their country come from a who's who of failed countries. war, poverty, ethnic% accuse, sometimes are all the norm. burma, somalia, congo, rwanda. >> when they ask me the, i say a citizen from rwanda, i'm congo, not sure where i'm from. >> the scouts from 1532 are from now, is aurora, home of thousands of immigrants and refugees, it is one of the most diverse cities in america. >> my name is p.j. palmer, i'm a family doctor here but i also work with refugees in a number of way but as a scout master. >> a refugee-only medical clinic in aurora, the child of refugees, he felt left out of paper society until he joined the boy scouts, vowing never to let any other kid to feel an outsider he started a troupe from scratch. >> it's like taking the scouts from the city to the mountains. >> palmer pays for scouting supplies out of his own pocket. >> the kids show up sometimes in tennis shoes and jeans. so we bring all this extra gear for them, so they're warm. >> a cold climate was foreign to nanki's family. they are chin burmese. they escaped to live in refugee camps in malaysia before making their way to colorado. nanki says his scout uniform helps him gain acceptance into american society. >> if i wore this they would know i'm a boy scout. and -- >> and then what will they do? >> they will talk to me, even. ask me about if i'm a boy scout. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag -- >> for boys who might are enemies if they had stayed in their war torn countries, scouts is a unifier. >> at this camp, we have eight of them in a row in sleeping bags. this is how they prefer to sleep. >> they pile up on top of each other? >> shoulder to shoulder, yeah. >> for these boys, 1532 is more than an after-school hobby, it is a place to call home. >> i consider myself an african who grew up in america. >> forward. >> carol mckinley, al jazeera, camcolorado. >> coming up two sides of american author arthur miller. >> and judy collins. our conversation with a true music legend. >> aarthur miller was one of america's greatest private play playwrights. >> i'm professor of english and director of the center for the study of social difference at columbia university. as a professor of american literature, i have been looking forward to the revival of the crucible. bus there is an irony that miller was lionized for standing up for those who have been victimized and at the same time, refusing to speak up on behalf of his son and people with disabilities like him. in 1966, arthur miller and his third wife, inga moras gave birth to a son, with down syndrome. within a week of his birth miller committed him to an institution against his wife's wishes. it was norm to institutionalize the child immediately. there were plenty of families who disregarded doctors' advice. the story of arthur miller personalizes the situation to me. i have a son with down syndrome who was born in 2007. over time i have come to a greater understanding of the difference between the time when miller lived, and my own. my son henry is born into a different world, it's not a perfect world, but it is a place where it's possible to raise a child with down syndrome as part of a family. that's the norm. that said, there are still many challenges. there is still a lot of prejudice and misunderstanding. that's the next frontier is to make sure we continue to increase opportunities for inclusion, and daniel's story is a story of re si sill yens resit should also remind us of all the work to be done. >> up next, from sing are songwriter to social activist. a conversation with judy collins. over her rich legacy. al jazeera america. >> in tonight's conversation, judy collins. her career has spanned decades, now in her 70s, the singer songwriter is still speaking out to the issues that have defined her life. john siegenthaler asks judy how she got her start. >> trotted out on stage at four years old in beauty, be montana and never looked back. >> what is life like for judy collins now? >> about 120 performances a year. i never stop working. >> were you always about the politics? >> always about. >> always? >> still am, meta-mad. >> mad about the war in the '60s. today you're pad about? >> posttraumatic stress, in our soldiers coming back to bad health care, lack of understanding, the fact we can't get our congress to work do the things for the middle class to raise the minimum wage for the middle class, it's easy to get mad about a lot of things but yes, i was always politically inclined. my dad was very active. activists spoke out, nornlgd us to speak ouencouragedus to spea. and encouraged us to do our best at all times. >> what about artists? >> i think a lot of people are doing a lot of things, i was very close with pete seeger. this was a couple of years before he died, i asked him how do you feel about people these days? he said i've never been more optimistic. i said why is that? because everyone in the world everywhere are working on change. he saw something i have a harder time seeing but do i have to say that there are lots and lots of good things happening. we don't have the kinds of marches, the kind of organized events this i was involved with. i wasn't necessarily getting arrested on the steps of washington, d.c. >> you were testifying at the chicago 7 trial and being admonished by prosecutors -- >> shut up and not sing, "where have all the flowers gone." ay yi yi. >> with abbey hoffman and -- >> phil oaks, said go down to the -- >> hotel americana. >> yes, for the yippies. i always adored david delinger, he was so wonderful. then when they were all arrested, kunsler was their lawyer. he said would you come to chicago and speak at their trial, or sing or whatever you are going to do? that's when i opened my mouth and said, "♪ where have all the flowers gone" ♪ and the judge said, we don't have singing here. i went on and on and on talking. >> you have shared so much of your personal private life. >> more than probably prudent. >> very painful i would think, you talk about the alcoholism in your family, about boou bull bu. about the death of your son. >> ♪ i lost you on a winter's day ♪ ♪ that cold city far away >> if i hadn't written about my son's suicide i wouldn't have gotten over it. but i knew if i didn't write about it, i wasn't going to make it. i knew if i didn't talk bit i wasn't going to make it. people have disappeared in this cloud of postsuicidal depression and taboo. so i also saw the taboo. as an activist, i know there are certain things we don't want to talk about. we don't want to talk about you know the fact that we need a higher minimum wage. we don't want to talk about the racism that still exists in this country but we have to. which is clear because these things are coming out and we have to talk about them. in order to get well we have to. so that's the answer of why i write about these things. >> thank you for sharing your music, thank you for sharing your stories with us. and continued success. keep on going for a long time. great to see you. >> thank you so much john. it's a pleasure to be here with you. >> that is our news for this hour. thank you for watching. i'm paul beban. 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