amy: today we look at the history making broadway musical fun home about family, memory, coming out, first love and a daughter s relationship with her father. it is the first ever broadway musical to feature a lesbian protagonist. from home fun home is based on the memoir by the pioneering graphic novelist alison bechdel who will join us for the hour. made the emotions i was trying to get that in the book and in my own self i feel like when i talked about making it proper funeral for my father i wanted to fully grieve him in a way i had not been able to. his life was a trout in these lies. amy: and we will speak to jeanine tesori and lisa kron who just made history as the first all-female writing team to win a tony award for a musical s score. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. in ohio, a grand jury has indicted a university of cincinnati police officer on murder charges for shooting sam
and counting? then, to trump s controversial so-called election integrity commission. i would like to make a suggestion that might possibly help overcome part of this problem, and that is think about applying the background check system that we use for in the systems for voting. amy: as the election commission faces lawsuits, controversy and the fallout from a second meeting on tuesday in new hampshire, we will look at how the so-called election commission integrity election commission may be paving the way for a nationwide voter suppression effort. and finally, as the united states marks the 16th anniversary of the september 11 attacks, we ll look at new evidence filed in the 9/11 lawsuit against saudi arabia alleging the kingdom s embassy in washington, d.c., may have funded a test run of the attacks. andrew speak with writer cockburn. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. on capitol hill, v
brian: sheelah kolhatkar, author of black edge, who is stephen cohen? sheelah: he continues to be a legendary figure in the financial world. he built up an enormous fortune on the basis of his incredible skill for trading. he had a really strong instinct for the stock market. he would sit behind his screens and look at the way stocks were trading every day and was believed to have this intuitive, incredible sense of how to ride the waves in the market and make money. he has this very compelling, almost a rags-to-riches story. he grew up very middle-class in great neck, long island, an affluent town. this family had less money than a lot of others around him. i think from an early age, he saw the hunger to become rich. he was very good at playing poker in high school. he went to wharton, a famous business school, and launched his hedge fund in 1992, and quickly built up a multibillion-dollar fortune, and he has the lifestyle to match. a 36,000 square foot mansion in greenwic