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Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f from you actually. This is over. David fahrenthold welcome. Great to be here so a reporter in 2016, who people like and admire laughs youre like half unicorn, half bigfoot. It wont last. No it couldnt possibly be. Were not in a business that people like or admire very much these days. Were kind of between child molesters and irs investigators, right . The journalism business has seen better times. Right worse than Congress Actually right. What happened . How did we get here . How did we get to such a low ebb . What did we do wrong . I t...

You have done, essentially, is dedicated your life to looking at poor, disadvantaged communities and people and saying, i see amazing potential. Correct. I believe that most people are born into the world as assets, not liabilities. Its all in the way you treat people that drives behavior, so on the basis of the insight which is largely autobiographical i built a center in pittsburgh beginning in the 1960s to work with kids in the streets during the riots and unemployed adults during the early 1970s. And i redefined the strategy to work with Public School kids who are at risk by using the arts...

This is overheard. cheers and applause dr. Gates, welcome. Thank you. So nice to see you sir. Its an honour to be back in austin. Oh my god i love what i have seen of the series. I love it. Yeah . What do you like about it . What i love about it most is that it takes a subject that we think we know something about. The experience of black america since Martin Luther king at a moment when we need to be talking about race in this country in a serious and sober way and it looks at the political, the cultural, it looks at every conceivable aspect of life in this country and it just comes alive. It...

Find his mother in the United States, and he did it all alone. And you spent five years essentially recreating his story and reporting this book. And i have to tell you that the reporting in this book is extraordinary. Thank you. Hinojosa i mean, you actually. You meet this little boy when hes 15 years old on the u. S. mexico border, and what makes you decide to say, im going to tell the story of enrique . Well, i wanted to tell more broadly the story of these millions of women who have come to the United States from mexico and Central America. You know, around the country, we know these women...

I think i just got an f from you actually. applause Margaret Atwood welcome. Thank you. Very nice to have you here. Lovely to be here. So interested in this new book, congratulations on it. May i say nobody does dystopian like you do dystopian. laughs is that a compliment . Oh my god its the biggest compliment in the world. I mean the world that youve created in this book will come back to the handmaids tale at some point here soon reminiscent to my mind of the dystopia in that book. But i love the plot of this story, i love the characters and i think it goes in odd places that make it a very ...