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Laying down hate. >> laying hate. >> laying hate down through this avenue of approach from here. i started to engage with him. i ran out of ammo, knelt down, changed magazines. and right as im coming up and i start to re-engage, another mortar hits almost to the center of the building here. and that one, it knocked me back. and thats what hit rone. rone was standing to my left. i got knocked back. and as i stood back up, i saw him out of the corner of my eye. and he was in a fetal position in th...

To be a writer. >> he was a junkie before he was a writer. >> as so many of us were. >> a place to think of yourself as a writer you would come here and somehow working within a romantic tradition. >> yes. >> burroughs said right up front, writer to me lounged around in a smoking jacket or a caftan and smoking littered with sleeping boys. >> yes. >> or girls. >> to what extent did that world exist and to what extent was that world created by the people that showed up with that expectation? >> si...

There is the socioeconomic context and the african-american control of the dollar. african-americans are more likely to work with whomever because when you get a job you dont have a choice. and it feeds into band of box and all these other discussions. if you control the dollar you can pick and choose. and that is not -- what it shows is that we have to be more creative making sure that persons of color want access to opportunity. we dont want a hand out but just a hand up. >> i wonder how much ...

Cummings, sitting to his left. do we know if she will be sworn in publicly or sworn in privately before her testimony? >> we dont know the answer to that. its entirely possible they do it privately for the sole reason that they are bending over backwards to make it look and feel apolitical, nonpolitical, and the image of her with her hand up is something that can easily be used in -- you know, in campaign commercials against her. its sort of the quintessential image of somebody who has some ques...

300,000 new facebook friends and $1 million so i cant complain too much. >> do you feel you do better in a longer format opposed to quick rhetorics that are required in a format like this? >> yes. much better when you have an opportunity to people. that has been one of my fortes. you have the opportunity to develop stories for people and help them see why youre saying what youre saying and why it makes sense. in this format, you dont get a chance to do that. its a matter of how good of a politic...

Drive on that ball. >> 25 years ago, i was looking for something like this. >> these fine details are the things that separate you in a game. its just inches that help you have success out there. >> i can even go through the drop and the foot work and hitch through my reads. if youre just watching on film, there is no reality to it. >> its so real. i feel like when i lift my hand up in front of my face, im going to see my hand. its like the grand canyon. until you see it in person, its unbelieva...

Sound. lifted the helicopter with his bare hands. tiny said, you got his foot? and henry said, yeah. he said, two feet? he had both feet cleared and then he set the helicopter back down. it was like incredible! >> but steve is not out of danger yet. hes breathing but still unconscious when tiny and the other workers lift him onto the bank. >> get some blankets. >> and at that point, he lifted his hand up, and we knew he was alive. so that was a great relief. >> tiny sees steves arm is badly inju...

Time, but certainly theyre doing very poorly. you look at whats going on in every place. i mean, every place. we have powder kegs all over the country waiting to explode. you need spirit, cheer leading and you need jobs. >> and hes talking about race relations in this country. what do you say to that? >> hes absolutely right. listen, with african americans with the unemployment rate being high, particularly among african american men, don, he do need -- we need jobs. listen. we need jobs. >> yes...

Training. and he was just finishing that up. >> as i understand it, he used his gun. the other officer used a taser. >> yeah, it was the rookie police officer that fired four shots that killed christian taylor. this police officer has still not been interviewed by police. >> we understand that is protocol. they usually go a couple of days before they interview in a deadly situation like that. >> thats right. as nick just mentioned, this comes nearly a year to the day after the shooting death o...

Gun. as you have seen the photograph of it, it looks like its in some state of disrepair. its possible that the gunfire from the swat team members as they were shooting back at his arm actually damaged the gun. when montano came out of the theater, out the rear door, he had a hand up underneath the duffle bag that he was wearing over his chest. the officers at that point perceived that he could have an explosive in that duffle bag. he was also carrying his hatchet or axe in the other hand. the o...