[music] i titled it the Promised Land because even though we may not get there in our lifetimes, even if we experience hardships and disappointmentsalong the way , i at least still have faith we can create a more perfect union, not a perfect unit but a moreperfect union. [music] good morning and welcome to a very special edition of Washington Post live. Im michelle noris, opinion columnist for washington pos and founding director of the race cd project and for this special conversation this morning i enjoyed by my dear friend elizabeth exander, poet, scholar and president of theandrew w mellon foundation. Good morning elizabeth. Good morning michelle, its wonderful to be together. It is wonderf to be together and together we both welcomed our guest for ts conversation, the 44th president of the United Statesbarack obama. I assume you recognize that guy there, good moing. Hey guys. The Washington Post brought outthe big guns for this. Are so excited to see you. I am very gratef that you
I title this a Promised Land because even though we may not get there in our lifetimes even if we experience hardships and disappointments along the way, i at least still have faith we can create a more perfect, not a Perfect Union but a more Perfect Union. Good morning and welcome to a special edition of Washington Post lives. I michelle lewis, opinion columnist for the race card project and for the special conversation this morning im joined by my dear friend elizabeth alexander, poet, scholar and president of the Andrew W Mellon foundation. Good morning. Wonderful to be together. It is wonderful to be together and we both welcome our guest for the conversation. The 40 fourth president of the United States, barack obama. Assume you recognize the guy in the middle. Washington post brought out the big guns. We are excited to see you. Im grateful you took the time. This is a News Organization so we have to begin with a little news. Overnight we learned astrazeneca has joined two other D
Founding editors of the intercept. And for those of you who have never been here. To get some of your essential news. As an amazing online news service. Hes an Investigative Reporter and work and the international bestselling book. The world as is a battlefield. And blackwater. He has reported from afghanistan iraq somalia yemen nigeria the list goes on and on. Scale served as the National Security correspondent for the nation. And democracy now. He was twice awarded the prestigious george polk award. He is a producer and writer of the Award Winning film dirty wars. His latest book the assassination complex is based on leak secret documents on the u. S. Global drone program. Another superstar who is here with us tonights distinguished professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the author of core coal author. The politics of race and education. Her wisely acclaimed biography one and 2014 naacp image award and the leticia woods brown woods brown a war. Her work has appeared i
And many crash overnight. Maybe theyre bursting bubble is hurting us. One last one. Food police joined the president ial debate. Varney company is about to begin. Dont look now but it looks like we are in for triple digit selloff at the opening bell. We should be down 120 points. Chinas stock market was down 2. 5 overnight. The worries over there will affect their money over here. Full story coming up. Oil also down on the china selloff now 47 per barrel. Is that good for the economy . Good debate later. It is getting fairly close to 100 a share. Very much in focus this week they report earnings on wednesday. Some talk maybe they will have this urge we saw for amazon and google last week. We shall see. President obama in ethiopia this morning defending the Administration Deal with iran specifically citing Mike Huckabees criticism of the administration. If youre asking me how the arguments are going, its great. If youre asking me how the arguments are going, its great. If you ask me abo
The billionaire populist frontrunner. Well have the full story tonight. Also tonight, Hillary Clinton embroiled in another pay to play scandal. Thats right. Another day, another clinton scandal. This time, the former secretary of state is accused of working out a favorable irs settlement for a swiss bank that rewarded clinton by pumping millions of dollars into her familys foundation. We take up the strength of the clinton camp to see here tonight with leading conservative and Citizens United president david bossie. And a minnesota judge today ordering Tom Bradys Deflategate court to new york jurisdiction where the new judge told both sides to tone down their rhetoric. The commissioner says all along he wanted a level Playing Field and ordered an entrapment, a kangaroo nfl investigation, and his direct report suspend the nfls champion quarterback and judged the merits of the appeal. Will a federal court call that a level Playing Field . We take it all up here tonight. Our top story don