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Its pronounce d hiraeth with a kind of little. its a welsh world. i have written down what it means, a homesickness to a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was. the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past. its a longing for something that never was. so its not your past if it never was. its a longing for something that were you ever had, you know. and its really kind of the essence of all of these paintings in a certain sense.

Segregationists and racists. its not the right thing to do. the things that jim eastland had said in his past, were trying to get past that in our nation. theyve got to pivot very quickly today. all the democrats ought to be out there. lets not have this fight continue. the fight needs to be fighting for the american public. theres not one person today who knows who jim eastland is. they just dont. >> i guess everything youre saying makes perfect sense. why doesnt the former vice president know ...

Eight. >> oh, will this horrible year never end. >> when the 90s began were starting to see a lot of experimentation. and the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired not necessarily a hatred of television but a distrust in which a lot of the ways tv was talking with us. >> tv respects me. it laughs with me, not at me. >> you see, the kids they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. >> and i think there was a real yearning for another type. >> we were able to spoof father...

Mockingbird." jeff daniels is playing him on broadway. at the end of this hour, we will show you some dramatic and moving moments from the play that will leave you no doubt why jeff daniels is nominated for a tony award for his performance. jeff daniels will join us at the end of this hour to discuss why the courage and strength of atticus finch in trying to lead people to do the right thing resonates so powerfully with todays audience who are living with todays politics and yearning for somethi...

Congress saying we cant go on like this with a president committing obstruction of justice. in american fiction, the enduring model of the one person trying to get others in his community to see the light is atticus finch, created by harper lee in our 1960 novel "to kill a mockingbird." jeff daniels is playing him on broadway. at the end of this hour, we will show you some dramatic and moving moments from the play that will leave you no doubt why jeff daniels is nominated for a tony award for hi...

Performance getting acclimated to the new stump speech wasnt as strong and i did hear that from voters at events. but with this big crowd here jooird more than any other politician feeds on the energy of a crowd and you did hear him playing off the crowd. sometimes there was a heckle or two, some whistles from far away. but he was feeding off the energy of the crowd. you saw him on prompter, on script following his message. it was probably one of the stronger performances weve seen since he anno...

Museum there on the benjamin franklin parkway there in philadelphia. it is a beautiful there in philadelphia and some 75 degrees and sunny but give us the sense of the side of the crowd and the makeup -- >> reporter: it is a little warm here. i just got a crowd count from officials here and they said it was over 6,000. as always im skeptical of quite whether that number was reached. i will tell you, there were a lot of folks waiting in the shade because of the direct sunlight here but they could...

And it was a big deal. which reminds me. i think we should step back and say something we dont often say enough as a party or a nation. barack obama was an extraordinary man. extraordinary person. i watched up close. he has character, courage, and vision. he was a president our children could and did look up to. he was a great president. and i was proud to serve as his vice president. but never more proud than the day we passed health care. health care. a lot of presidents before tried it. other...

Educated white voters, where elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, you know, have some strength. not the strength that biden has right now. i dont think he believes its inevitable, but he is trying to frame this as the most important thing you can do in this campaign is beat donald trump. i think the contrast hes drawing is both on character, where hes clearly saying his character more accurately reflects americas character than donald trump, and also on this idea of this shouldnt be about anger,...

So i dont trust the polls any more. i dont think that joe biden has this sewn up even though he was good today. >> i notice that you were tweeting about that upset election there in australia. and a lot of people have questioned the polls over the last few years. but if you are joe biden and his campaign, looking at the current polling situation, it seems as if hes up by double-digits. jim, picking up on where hugh left off, what stood out to you this week? >> i thought it was very strong speech...