first time on thinking past tomorrow we re going to rise up time to take a shot not throwing away my shot charlie: leslie odom junior is here, who played aaron burr on this program. what brought you to hamilton? leslie: i was invited into hamilton. sometimes you find that the best jobs that you get in this career and business, you did not audition for. you have no idea how you got there i just asked tommy last because i have a superstition, sometimes if i get a straight offer, i do not want to ask how it came about. i m afraid they might realize why did we ask this guy? i got invited about two years ago to do a reading for this show. and then i saw it at vassar. i saw them do about half an hour of it. i saw them do maybe 45 minutes at music stand. i was blown away. when i was invited to do the reading, i prepared like i have never prepared before. i knew all of my music. i knew what they were working on. charlie: you knew it had powerful potential. leslie: i knew
bloomberg politics.com. he reports that primary state that the primary state is key to locking down the gop nomination. it comes as the political world asks who in the field might try to take down trump before then. for which of those candidates is it most important to do that and what is the best way to go about it? al: 16 of them. nobody can get any traction. there is no oxygen. they all need for him to come down if they want to have any chance. it probably mostly affects jeb bush right now. how do you do it? they don t want to do it themselves because they have seen it backfire. they would love to find some outside groups to do it. john: i think you have some candidates. jeb bush is elevated by this fight. the imperative is really strong. walker has some money. his super packs have some money. he has been affected negative lee negatively by the trump ride. he has seen his fortunes fall. a lot of these other candidates would like to take down trump but they don t have t
[applause] president obama: what has changed is that in recent years eyes have been opened to the street. partly because of cameras. this truth. partly because of cameras. partly because of tragedy. partly because the statistics cannot be ignored. we can t close our eyes anymore. and the good news and this is truly good news, is that people of all political persuasions are starting to think we need to do something about this. charlie: bryan stevenson is a public-interest attorney and the founder and executive of a nonprofit organization that represents prisoners whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. he has won relief from death row for wrongly convicted prisoners and secured life sentences for parole for juveniles. his efforts have been recognized by numerous awards, including the macarthur genius grant and 21 honorary degrees. archbishop desmond tutu has called him america s young nelson mandela. his memoir, just mercy, was named among t
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