i will explain what that meant. also, another trump aid headed to prison. a day to turn himself in but we have that story later this hour and why it matters. that bannon will join convicted felon peter navarro in prison but that is coming up plus a report on president biden marking the important d-day anniversary. why is it important to the president, to our nation and some of the threats and issues we face now. as i mentioned, by the end of this hour, the return of kermit the frog. why? legendary director ron howard makes his debut and how he is teaming up with kermit and the whole gang. i invite you to get comfortable for that hour. we have a lot of news tonight. and some fun. our top story draws on a long history of tradition of respecting jury verdicts that is key to understanding what we are witnessing right now, dangerous and largely unprecedented attacks on jury verdicts from the highest levels of the government that we are seeing. it has been about one week are abou
people were not just conservative, black people always have been conservative minded, but more black people voted conservatively. and lyndon johnson, then you go down that road, and now we are where we are. that was byron donalds suggesting there were positive aspects to jim crow. he joins me tonight. plus, president biden is in normandy on the 80th anniversary of d.-day, delivering a stark warning about the state of democracy. and the grandson of a key member of the black panther party, david hilliard, is pushing back against a video of hilliard saying allegedly that he supports trump, saying it is misleading. and that grandson joins me later. but we begin tonight with the 80th anniversary of d-day, the day some 156,000 allied soldiers arrived on the beaches of normandy, charging head on into nazi gun fire, land mines, and barbed wire. pushing the occupying nazi era germans out of normandy and then out of the rest of france. the invasion marked a definitive turning p
lover, the dreamer and me we are joined now by ron howard, the legendary director, filmmaker and producer he has got a new project out. jim henson: idea man. kermit, the muppets, summit sesame street and a whole lot more. thanks for being here. a pleasure. you tell jim henson s story. we learned that some of what he was making was not necessarily only going to be designed for kids. most of it did in the beginning. although, boy it. it s interesting, he wasn t interested in puppets. he was a young creative guy in mississippi. then moved closer to washington. and he just loved television. and he just wanted to find a way to get on television. we have these hilarious interviews that orson welles did on all people, and out of it, you learn that he never even
last quote mentioned that early exposure improve school performance, researchers found. it boosted not only how the children did in school but also their earning potential later in life. you may know a bit about the show and it can t and its characters. there is a story behind it that is striking. it includes the resistance base by its creator, the legendary jim henson, who had the kind of reject his would-be media and hollywood projectors. he had to find new ways to get the ship out because people did not want to run it. that was a pattern he dealt with in dealing with trying to get out the beloved muppets. he is profiled in this new documentary, jim henson: idea man. when you get an idea, you have to look at it from every direction. along comes a new fresh idea.
are you more kermy or ms. piggy? kermit all the way. jim henson, that was his alter ego. i relate to that. kermit was a pretty nice guy, trying to make sense of a bunch of crazies around him. i feel like i fall into that category. don t we love kermit because we see him going through it. getting frustrated and losing it. doesn t always say the nicest thing, but his heart s in the right place, isn t it? i think so. i love it. i hope you come back. ron howard here on our summit series. the film, jim hanson idea man is out, now streaming on disney plus. the reidout with joy reid starts now. tonight on the reidout during jim crow, the black family was together. during jim crow, more black