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Bandcamp / Buy Fifty-some years ago, Nina Simone recorded a song for the children. On its face, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” offers encouragement and hope. Beneath the surface, its somber chords and heavy gait reach for something more complex, unable to ignore the darkness clouding the aspirations of the next generation. In 1969, there were plenty of reasons for a young Black person to feel broken. Within the decade, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and four little girls in...

Member of the senate has to make up their own mind on each nominee and i obviously ammo posed to mike pompeo. i think his record on lgbtq issues, on muslim issues, on issues of war and peace from my perspective cannot earn an affirmative vote from me, but other members have to make up their own minds. >> we will have to leave it there. senator markey, appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you. all right, this is a tough story but we have to talk about it. sandy hook families are taking leg...

But what youre going to see here is also again, not unlike a little bit of what we saw in health care, youre going to start seeing divides within the republican party, within the majority party. you saw lipid say graham in sara murrays piece, the more tea party wing of the republican party, to rons point about the non-college whites. this kind of proposal can en liven the core base of trumps support in many ways. this speaks to some of their most heartfelt concerns about economic pressure on the...

Priorities, rolling back regulation, making things easier for business, cutting on environmental protection. theyre not necessarily the red meat for trumps base so much. >> so do they have a point, the white house, when they say you guys are ignoring all were getting done? >> well, i think its interesting. the things i think are maybe their greatest accomplishments are often not the ones they talk about. they talk about gorsuch, and i think rightly so. you dont hear them talking much about the r...

Responding to that. >> certainly -- i saw that piece as well. hes done stuff in terms of executive orders and thrown some red meat to the base here, as david was just saying. i actually think in the capital, there is growing concern, particularly among republican leaders about what this means for 2018. lawmakers are nothing if not focused on their own self preservation in terms of re-election. as much as donald trump continues to do things they dont feel will help them get elected, i think youll...

About the numbers? we know economists surveyed by the washington post dont think it would help the economy. we know what the data reveals, we know the jobs that most immigrants take are ones that americans will not take and if you talk to the growers and service industry, these lower-skilled jobs, theyre jobs we need them to fill. you ask donald trump, he just made a request to hire more foreign workers and they were not i.t. specialists. we know what the data is about. is this another pitch to ...

The business community is very excited about that. the reduction of regulation. other things at the productivity collapse, the skills gap that we have. labor participation rates, those are things that are more difficult, more structural and things that brought 8,000 jobs back, that aint enough. we shall see. the devil will be in the details. >> a lot of work on capitol hill as far as addressing the economic issues. >> yeah. some that donald trump has thousands of jobs overseas which he personall...

The business community is very excited about that. the reduction of regulation. other things at the productivity collapse, the skills gap that we have. labor participation rates, those are things that are more difficult, more structural and things that brought 8,000 jobs back, that aint enough. we shall see. the devil will be in the details. >> a lot of work on capitol hill as far as addressing the economic issues. >> yeah. some that donald trump has thousands of jobs overseas which he personall...

Important point. clearly miley cyrus is reinventing herself. shes no longer the hannah montana character that evident fied her with. how legitimate is her music considered within the music world compared to this sort of in your face shock branding that shes doing? is one obscuring the other? >> well, you may be right about that. but she can sing. you hear "wrecking ball" or "the climb," this girl can sing. shes a performer. had sometimes, singing aint enough. you got to be able to perform. you g...

Aint enough, whether its republicans or democrats. they take their jobs extremely seriously. they work 27 hours, eight days a week and its hough, hough -- >> theyre underpaid. im telling you, those guys work around the clock. >> they do. i cant agree more. especially the young one who are making the 20s, 30s, low 40s and theyre there seven days a week. >> and i know theres no more revolving door, but lets get real, theyre not making that much now. theyre working very, very hard, but once they le...