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You know? >> anthony: well, yeah, that would be the nightmare scenario. >> tony buba: yeah, exactly. >> anthony: in the mid-20th century the population of braddock was 20,000. today, its down to 2,000. more than 40% of whom live below the poverty line. >> tony buba: this is where i went to junior high school. >> anthony: closed? >> tony buba: yeah, closed. >> anthony: so who is moving in, is anyone moving in now? >> tony buba: nobody is moving into pittsburgh actually. >> anthony: i thought you ...

>> i got the best product but could stand a little more territory. >> of teachers, of politicians. just make the entire city into the character itself. >> you follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. but you start to follow the money, and you dont know where the [ bleep ] its going to take you. >> "the wire" broke down systemic racism and the cycle of poverty like no other television show had. >> come on, get up. its a school day, youre going to be late. >> it wasnt just about, hey, ...

Cops. it was like reading a great novel or a great series of novels. >> i think "the wire" showed the architecture of a full city and the way it layered its characters, particularly omar. omar was, by all other facets of his life, pretty awful. >> yeah, the cheese stands alone. >> but he had this code that he lived by that made him very touchable and very human. >> hey, yo, mike. >> people were very afraid of him. and his sexuality was not necessarily weaponized against him. and for me, i didnt ...

Actually did. and theres always a story of someone who did something extra. maybe they could have stayed hidden. maybe they could have gotten away, but they dont. >> what motivates people is theyre with their comrades. a brief story. a friend of mine enlisted in the marine corps, lied about his age. he was 16 years old. wound up north of the -- by the dmz, pace on during the tet offensive, very bad place to be. one of eight marines in a squad. theyre outside the wire. squad lead is a 20-year-old...

Crossing over into the pop charts. >> kanye is another one. hes producing and working with jay-z and alicia keys and ludacris and janet jackson. but in there he wants to be his own star. he releases his first album the college drop out. >> the first single for college drop out was a song called through the wire. kanye west gets into a car accident in los angeles and in the hospital with his jaw wired shut, he records the song. it was essentially him rapping about how bad he wants to be a rapper....

Doing the math by about 687 votes over, this is jeff colyer. this is the incumbent governor. the lieutenant governor who took over when brownback, the republican governor left. this is sort of an unelected incumbent governor here seeking a full term in his own right being challenged by kobach playing the role of insurgent. trump coming out for kobach at the wire yesterday. bob dole, as soon as trump did that he endorsed colyer. outstanding vote, trying to get a sense where thats from. theres a n...

Himself in the homestretch was the kansas gubernatorial primary siding with chris chris kova kr. boy, this is a nail biter. kris kobach is leading right now doing the math by about 687 votes over, this is jeff colyer. this is the incumbent governor. the lieutenant governor who took over when brownback, the republican governor left. this is sort of an unelected incumbent governor here seeking a full term in his own right being challenged by kobach playing the role of insurgent. trump coming out f...

Editor, and jason, mayor of kansas, author of a new book, out this week of outside the wire. let me start with you. ive been seeing a variety of articles with a version of this case. the sort of swath the greater midwest, pennsylvania, ohio, minnesota, the industrial midwest, you might call it. particularly white voters, white noncollege voters, swung toward trump in 2016. the last two years have seen a lot of those voters move back. at least in the polling. what do you think of that? >> well, l...

Big board to brick us up to speed on everything else. >> so the president donald trump inserted himself into this ohio race. weve talked a lot about that. the other race where he inserted himself in the homestretch was the kansas gubernatorial primary siding with kris kobach. boy, this is a nail biter. kris kobach is leading right now doing the math by about 687 votes over, this is jeff colyer. this is the incumbent governor. the lieutenant governor who took over when brownback, the republican g...

Chilling drugs on the street. you were in the apartment with them where they had no parents, where they were taking care of their siblings, where they were trying to scrounge for food. >> wheres your book bag? >> so you start to get a much more realistic, three-dimensional picture of what poverty looks like in a city. >> one of the things about the wire that was so interesting is, it didnt rely on this traditional representation of gangsters. it didnt rely on this traditional representation of c...