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Stay tuned for the Republican National Convention Continues now. Good evening and welcome to and welcome to our special pbs newshournpr coverage of the Republican National convention in cleveland. Im judy woodruff. Im very loud hall, gwen ifill on second night as we will be all this week joined by npr Rachel Martin across the arena from us on the podium. And in the anchor booth with us syndicator mark shields and New York Times columnist david brooks. Also with us Nprs National Political Correspondent mara liasson along with amy walter of the cook political report. And down on the floor we hav...

Said wow, it really works. What role does humor play in your life . That is a good question. Humor, i think, is great for putting life and its trials and tribulations into perspective. It is a great antigoat to self importance, antidote to self importance, a great antidote to pomposity. In that sense, i welcome humor, appreciate humor, and occasionally use it. Can you remember when you first knew an audience would listen to you at all . I do. I was working for senator william proxmire, a democratic senator from wisconsin. As was his custom he was a man of incredible discipline he committed to ...

Story, but i cannot remember that epiphany where i said wow, it really works. What role does humor play in your life . That is a good question. Humor, i think, is great for putting life and its trials and tribulations into perspective. It is a great antidote to self importance, a great antidote to pomposity. In that sense, i welcome humor, appreciate humor, and occasionally use it. Can you remember when you first knew an audience would listen to you at all . I do. I was working for senator william proxmire, a democratic senator from wisconsin. As was his custom he was a man of incredible disci...

Can you remember when you first knew an audience would listen to you at all . I do. I was working for senator william proxmire, a democratic senator from wisconsin. As was his custom he was a man of incredible discipline he committed to the United States ratifying the Genocide Convention. To that end, he gave a daily speech on the senate floor in support of it. I was tasked, that is a word you do not hear often, at least with me my responsibility was to write a daily speech, which i sometimes did under great deadline pressure. Much to the consternation of the senator. Word got out that i did t...

Foe . Also a pope and a politician trading tough talk. Why is the president of turkey taking on the vicar of christ . What does it say about turkey today . Then david brooks games out the 2016 president ial field. And Jeffrey Sachs tells us why 2015 is our last chance to act on Climate Change. But first heres my take. The Obama Administrations Foreign Policy energies are now fully engaged in the middle east. Negotiating the iran deal sending special forces into iraq supporting saudi air strikes in yemen, working with the syrian rebels. Whatever happened to the pivot to asia . Remember the basi...