we are getting down to real commerce. are these girls just crazy? yes, they are. you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes your children but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for complete revolution in the music business in this country. mtv makes the hits. it s as if there was just one national radio station for new songs. ending the 80s in terms of rock music you have a lot of hairbands. poison, rat, warrant. a lot of hairspray going on. a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. it s not deep music but mtb pushing it. they were expected to have a certain facade. mtv s ratings are small. but those who do watch mostly teenagers and young adults by a lot of records and tapes and cds. and they buy the most of what they see the most. two members of the heavy metal band aerosmith dropped by mtv s offices to screen their new video. they brought a big bag of cash as an incentive. estimate the companie
u.s. federal holiday. tonight it is going to be extraordinary. a concert that s uplifting and educational and only seen here on cnn. enjoying an extraordinary display of black talent of genres and generations here. the all-star lineup with earth wind and fire with september and the legendary chaka khan live on stage with ain t nobody. that s michelle turner next to me. and khalid with talk and ne-yo performing and also featured special messages. michelle obama and the first black vice president of the united states kamala harris and will hear from president joe biden. we ll set the stage for the show in less than an hour by talking to the woman known as the grandmother of juneteenth which is opal lee. amazingly young at 95. played a leading role to push lawmakers to formally recognize this holiday. so happy to be with you. it will be a production unlike anything we have seen. the first thing you hear groaning is next to me, michelle turner. i want to know who authoriz
he said, i am watching, and i will be watching all of the hearings, i can assure you that january 6 prosecutors are watching all of the hearings as well. nothing wrong with watching television, there is a lot of good stuff on lately, college baseball, nba finals, u.s. open golf, men s and women s, curtis company. i have been watching a lot of tv, but difference is, you and i don t have much of a choice when it comes to getting information, we get to have an army of investigators and prosecutors at our disposal, garland does with federal law enforcement as his beck and call. and prosecutors and search warrants and he can access financial record thes and phone records and seize computers and e-mail accounts, if done lawfully and compel witnesses to testify, and offer immunity. to anyone he wants, why is he watching television? why does the chief prosecutor, the managing partner of most powerful law firm in the world need to watch television to gather facts? he can interview any
there s no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. incoming! who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. there s so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long time, movies and boxing were the bread and butter of hbo. people watch a show because you re partly a [ bleep ]. i think what we learned through shows like the larry sanders show or oz is that we could do serious television. there s somethin
i m using every lever available to me to bring down prices for the american people. when will prices start to fall? energy secretary jennifer granholm joins me exclusively to discuss ahead. plus, marking juneteenth. the nation celebrates a momentous day in american history. i ll speak to a democrat who worked to make it a federal holiday. congresswoman sheila jackson lee ahead. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is worried about our democracy and our wallets, yet there is one bright spot this father s day. children as young as 6 months old are now eligible for covid-19 vaccines after more than two years of the pandemic. but this bit of good news comes as even president biden is acknowledging in a rare interview that americans are, quote, really, really down. here s why. americans are watching their 401(k)s plummet as the economy faces the highest inflation in decades and reported high gas prices. the threat to the economy is sharing a spli