to do it making music, because i think the world needs music. >> reporter: david crosby was 81. >> just a short time ago, graham nash posted a statement on his facebook page. i'm going to read some of it to you. "with a deep and profound sadness that i learned my friend david crosby has passed. i know people tend to focus on how volatile our relationship has been at times, but what has always mattered to david and me more than anything was the pure joy the music we created together, the sound, and the deep friendship we shared over these many long years." he added "david was fearless in life and in music. he leaves behind a tremendous void as far as sheer personality and talent in this world. he spoke his mind, his heart and his passion through his beautiful music and leaves an incredible legacy. these are the things that matter most. my heart is truly with his wife jan, his son django, and all the people he has touched in this world." joining us is author of "rock me
a recent book that is not directly about this subject at all, has helped me crystallize my own thoughts on this subject. cnn's senior political analyst ron brownstein's book "rock me on the water," he begins by describing american popular culture in the early and mid 1960s, particularly the movies and television shows, as bland, apolitical and lifeless. hollywood was addicted to world war ii movies, westerns, mu musicals, and above all, historic epics like "the ten commandments." television up to the late '60s was dominated by what was considered wholesome fare like "gun smoke" and "the wonderful world of disney." the rising tide of baby boomers were tuning it out. admissions at theaters fell from 50% from 1950 to 1960.
spirit of innovation that is unusual and powerful. a recent book that is not directly about this subject at all, has helped me crystallize my own thoughts on this subject. cnn's senior political analyst ron brownstein's book "rock me on the water," he begins by describing american popular culture in the early and mid 1960s, particularly the movies and television shows, as bland, apolitical and lifeless. hollywood was addicted to world war ii movies, westerns, musicals, and above all, historic epics like "the ten commandments." television up to the late '60s was dominated by what was considered wholesome fare like "gun smoke" and "the wonderful world of disney." the rising tide of baby boomers were tuning it out. briefly, admissions at theaters fell from 50% from 1950 to 1960. then came rebellion and
office. >> ron, you wrote during the pandemic one of my favorite books "rock me on the water" about 1974. you had a lot of information about the eagles who were quite big that year. after 1974 hotel california became their biggest hit. >> their masterpiece. >> there's this whole thing where some manuscript has allegedly been stolen. what's going to be revealed about the deep dark secrets of "hotel california"? >> don henley is not someone to suffer fools gladly or shy away from litigation. i'm shocked that it has gone on this long because he can be a pretty confrontational guy when he thinks he's being wronged as david geffen will tell you. what's really interesting is when the eagles first started the great robert hillburn wrote in his review of their first album the question was whether they could write. i mean, many of that i ever original songs, their best songs early were written by other people like jackson brown. by the time you got to "hotel
and that imbalance in the playing field has created the dynamic we're in now where the force is trying to repress access to the ballot have the upper hand. >> ron, i thank you very much. we talked about rock me on the water and now we have to talk with laura coates now. laura, please stick around pause we need to talk about your book, a black prosecutor's fight for fairness we were thrilled to see on the front page of the sunday "new york times" book review. la laura. >> i was thrilled and really humbled. this is the book i don't think people expected me to write. i think they would assume i would write a very dry supreme court book, not that i don't like the supreme court for the reasons ron is talking about but the idy of having a supreme court opinion and talking about it, it person sonified the
basis. the supreme court has made all of its key decisions on a party line, majority rules basis. the only place where you can't change the law on a party line, majority rules basis is the senate, and that imbalance in the playing field has created the dynamic we're in now where the forces trying to repress access to the ballot have the upper hand. >> ron, i thank you very much. we talked about rock me on the water, and now we have to talk with laura coates now. >> congrats laura. >> laura, please stick around because we need to talk about your new book, "just pursuit" which we were all thrilled to see on the front page of the sunday "new york times" book review. laura. >> i was thrilled. i was really, really humbled by that. just think that this was in the national conversation because as you know, don, this is the kind of book that i don't think people expected me to write. i think they assumed i would write a very sort of dry,
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health side but also on economic recovery. he's focused on helping small businesses, helping the community, getting support to hospitals. we're united behind the governor and california is a model. you look at what's going on right now in places like florida which is a mess. we're happy to be out here in california. >> thank you, mayor. and thank you for putting that ear worm in my ear, i'll be hearing that music for quite some time, the music playing behind you in the background. thank you so much, i appreciate it. >> thank you so much. i want to bring in senior cnn political analyst ron brownstein. ron, you don't have that music. >> i don't have the music. >> you wrote the book, "rock me on the water." >> which has music in it. >> thank you so much for joining us. you've been keeping us up to date on what's happening out there, top operative with the newsom campaign telling reporters, quote, there is no scenario where we lose tomorrow. they're confident. when does this stand right now? >> i think, you know, the late polling and the early returns on
>> thank you, mayor. thank you for putting that ear worm in my ear now. i'm going to be hearing that music for quite some time, the music that's playing behind you in the background. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> i want to bring in cnn political analyst ron brownstein. ron, you don't have that music. >> i don't have the music. >> you wrote the book "rock me on the water," which is about music. >> which has music in it. >> thank you for joining us. we appreciate you. you've been keeping us up to date on what is happening out there. a top operative with the newsom campaign telling reporters, quote, there is no scenario where we lose tomorrow. they're confident. where does this stand right now? >> i think the late polling and the early returns on the mail ballot, both point to newsom being in a commanding position. as we talked about before, as you kind of alluded to with your question with the mayor, the arc of impact of covid on this race is striking. as john king noted, the recall got on the ballot in the first