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Jazz artist Jason Moran revisits the deep influence of Black composer and bandleader James Reese Europe, best known for serving with the Harlem Hellfighters in World War I.

Jazz artist Jason Moran revisits the deep influence of Black composer and bandleader James Reese Europe, best known for serving with the Harlem Hellfighters in World War I.

Jazz artist Jason Moran revisits the deep influence of Black composer and bandleader James Reese Europe, best known for serving with the Harlem Hellfighters in World War I.

Was very complicated. we knew we werent going to leave carillo behind. that was never really in discussion, but at the same time, it was very difficult to ensure our success. i knew we would get there eventually, but we were close to getting them out pretty much everyday for the last three or four weeks. >> wow, and you just didnt know, until now, until these past hours? >> we, you know, kept chipping away at the ice -- >> sorry, go ahead -- >> yeah, we kept chipping away at the iceberg and kept...

Hall again, there was a marked difference in his appearance. he looked like somebody who was going through chemotherapy, but he seemed in really good spirits. >> really nice at the cancer treatment place. good people. they treat you like a human being instead of an inmate. >> so whats going on with the cancer? >> i dont know. i guess its going away. i used to have a big knot, as big as my fist right here on my neck and its all gone. >> what kind of treatment do you think you might be having out ...

Hodgkins disease. >> when we caught up with dennis holligan, there was a marked difference in his appearance. he looked like somebody who was going through chemotherapy, but he seemed in really good spirits. >> really nice at the cancer treatment place. good people. they treat you like a human being instead of an inmate. >> so whats going on with the cancer? >> i dont know. i guess its going away. i used to have a big knot, as big as my fist right here on my neck and its all gone. >> what kind o...

>> really nice. good people. they treat you like a human being instead of an inmate. >> whats going on with the cancer? >> i think its going away. i used to have a big knot. its all gone. >> what treatment would you have on the street versus here? >> i dont know. i dont know they would have treated me or not. if they would have took me as a patient with no money. >> had he not come to jail, he could very well have died from this cancer.

>> when we caught up with dennis holligan, there was a marked difference in his appearance. he looked like somebody who was going through chemotherapy, but he seemed in really good spirits. >> really nice at the cancer treatment place. good people. they treat you like a human being instead of an inmate. >> so whats going on with the cancer? >> i dont know. i guess its going away. i used to have a big knot, as big as my fist right here on my neck and its all gone. >> what kind of treatment do you...

Look, we have seen the edge, and weve looked over the precipice, lets pull back. thats really the utility of a longer term debt extension is to give these guys a little bit of space and a little bit of time. nobody in washington and nobody thats watched washington thinks somehow were going to have an epiphany over the course of the next six weeks that unwinds this big knot that has been in governance and particularly in budgeting. move the debt ceiling much further down the road. lets get away f...

Around them. thats one of the reons they moved some battery of their antimissile defense system, the iron dome, to the north of the country because the dont think any real threat is coming from the iranian military or the syrian military that would be a suicide mission from both countries. the real threat is from hezbollah, the militant group in southern lebanon, and thats a real fear, that iran and syria might use hezbollah as proxies and carry out attacks not on israeli territory itself but te...