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coming up this weekend, don trumps on the campaign trail as the 2024 republican front runner, but i wonder, he will be on trial. expected to take a stand in the civil fraud case in new york. first it seemed like the least of trumps legal worries, but this case has proven to be quite explosive. we have another hour of velshi right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and good morning, it is sided eight of him to the fourth. im ali velshi. we begin this morning with a split screen image that perfectly re...

Ahead of Jantsankhorol Erdenebayar’s debut at Art Basel Hong Kong, he and his fellow Mongolian artists share how their artworks are visual metaphors that draw from the country’s nomadic heritage.

Rather, slave holders were made large people by virtue of holding others as slaves, and quote. professor perry goes on to know that three excuses were all probably heard by folks who would rather not hold our founding fathers accountable for the three fifths compromise, or the institution of slavery. quote, there are three kinds of apologetics for this disingenuous argument. one, they operated out of political necessity. to, they were men of their time and three, their version to the word slaves...

Im going to talk about this at the end of the show. its about love lost. the poor kid cant marry the rich girl. we get that. its about self-creation, about america. why does it keep coming back as a movie, first question? >> oh, i think because those things will never go away. i mean, were constantly reinventing ourselves individually and as a nation this is the great sort of american project that were embarked on and, as you said, this novel is the great suma of so many principles that drive up...

Let me finish tonight with this. theres a reason "the great gatsby" written nine decades ago is at the top of the bestsellers list. its about two great themes, one is love, of course, in this case, the love of a poor boy for a rich girl. the other thing is self-creation, were a self-created country. jay gatsby put together his name, bootlegs, hope, and decided to trade it in for the girl he couldnt afford when he was another poor soldier heading off to war. gatsby was a dreamer, a great one, a m...

I want to talk about one thing. people forced to read it in high school and every year ever since. about lost love and the poor kid cant marry the rich girl, we get that. also about self-creation. why does it keep coming back as a movie, first question? >> because those things will never go away. were constantly reinventing ourselves individually and as a nation. this is the great project were embarked on and this is the great suma that affects us. psychological drives and financial drives. this...

Let me finish tonight with this. theres a reason "the great gatsby" written nine decades ago is at the top of the bestsellers list. its about two great themes, one is love, of course, in this case, the love of a poor boy for a rich girl. the other thing is self-creation, were a self-created country. jay gatsby put together his name, bootlegs, hope, and decided to trade it in for the girl he couldnt afford when he was another poor soldier heading off to war. gchl atsby was a dreamer, a great one,...

It every five or ten years since. im going to talk about this at the end of the show. its about love lost. the poor kid cant marry the rich girl. we get that. its about self-creation, about america. why does it keep coming back as a movie, first question? >> oh, i think because those things will never go away. i mean, were constantly reinventing ourselves individually and as a nation this is the great sort of american project that were embarked on and, as you said, this novel is the great suma o...

Malcolm-xs autobiography, well known for the term blue-eyed pebbles. >> only malcolm-x autobiography seemed to offer something different, the repeated acts of self creation spoke to me. the blunt poetry, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, discipline through force of will. the talk of blue-eyed devils and apocalypse was incidental, religious baggage that malcolm seemed to have safely abandoned toward the end of his life. >> sean: he did point out that ma...

Family to me. >> he married them. >> sean: he appears to praise malcolm-xs autobiography, well known for the term blue-eyed pebbles. >> only malcolm-x autobiography seemed to offer something different, the repeated acts of self creation spoke to me. the blunt poetry, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new a uncompromising order, discipline through force of will. the talk of blue-eyed devils and apocalypse was incidental, religious baggage that malcolmsd ward thend of his life. >> se...