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📺 “Madam Secretary” Family Separation: Part 2 | CBS
Directed by Martha Mitchell. With Téa Leoni, Tim Daly, Keith Carradine, Patina Miller. Elizabeth goes head to head with a U.S. governor over the state's new policy of separating unauthorized immigrants from their children.
Not as powerful as part 1, but still interesting.
📺 “Madam Secretary” Family Separation: Part 1 | CBS
Directed by Rob Greenlea. With Téa Leoni, Tim Daly, Keith Carradine, Patina Miller. Elizabeth goes head to head with a U.S. governor over the state's new policy of separating unauthorized immigrants from their children.
A gut-wrenching episode to be sure. It took me several attempts to make it through. Definitely an example where art has a place in helping to shape and change our lives.
📺 "Blue Bloods" Milestones | CBS
Directed by Heather Cappiello, Jonathan Lopez. With Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou. After a former officer waits on Frank at a restaurant, he feels guilty about the circumstances surrounding why she was fired, and he tries to reinstate her.
📺 Meet the Press: January 13, 2019 | S71 E7115 | NBC
When will the government shutdown end? The bombshell Russia story from the New York Times: is Trump working for Russia?
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas); Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.); former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo); roundtable discussion with Cornell Belcher, Al Cardenas (American Conservative Union), Carol Lee (Wall Street Journal) and Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal)
Somewhat interesting to note that the source for the web page for this episode includes the non-standardized meta data
"sameAs":"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103396/". This feels reminiscent of the function of the microformats for u-syndication or rel-syndication which gives the folks at the network a trail to the copy of the data for the episode that they likely syndicated to imdb.com so that it’s findable there. Sadly, the URL link incorrectly points to a page for Dateline, so I’m not sure if their data is pointing to the right place, though it appears that the data for the episode on imdb.com is correct for this episode. It would also be nice if they were using the correct markup so that web parsers and crawlers would pick up the data properly.📺 “Face the Nation” on January 13, 2019 | CBS
On this "Face the Nation" broadcast moderated by Margaret Brennan:
- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (read more)
- House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (read more)
- Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro (read more) (full interview)
- Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson (read more)
- Michael Crowley, Jeffrey Goldberg, David Nakamura, Seung Min Kim (watch)
📺 "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" The Downsizers | Netflix
A couple from Michigan moved from a 4 bedroom into a 2 bedroom apartment in Los Angeles.
This was at least a fun family to watch.
📺 "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" Empty Nesters | Netflix
These episodes don’t really do a very good job of selling the stronger ideas in her books. They’re vaguely entertaining, but could be much more content rich, particularly with the outlines and details she’s got in her source material. The problem is compounded by the fact that the families they’re featuring aren’t really that interesting or watchable.
📺 “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” Tidying With Toddlers | Netflix
Created by Marie Kondo. With Marie Kondo.
📺 Washington Week: January 12, 2019 The shutdown showdown continues | PBS
This week, negotiations between President Trump and Democrats broke down, extending the partial government shutdown toward what will be the longest in U.S. history. The president also visited the southern border, and thousands of government workers did not receive their expected paychecks. What’s next for the shutdown showdown?
📺 The Hustle | YouTube
Time flies when you're hustling.
What a great piece of satire!
📺 January 8, 2019 – PBS NewsHour full episode | PBS
Tuesday on the NewsHour, the nation awaits a speech from President Trump regarding his insistence on a border wall. Plus: One Republican lawmaker’s view of why the government should reopen before border security negotiations continue, evaluating whether border crossings are at a “crisis” level, the personal impact of the shutdown, and much more.
The first half hour of the usual episode was interrupted by the Trump plea to support the border wall funding and the Democratic Party response by Pelosi and Schumer.
📺 January 9, 2019 | Amanpour and Company | PBS
Christiane Amanpour speaks with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel about what's at stake for the country; and film director Barry Jenkins about his new film "If Beale Street Could Talk." Michel Martin speaks with U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy about diversity and immigration.
I particularly like the discussion that Jenkins had toward the end of his interview and the example that he gave about a particular television show dedicating itself to only hiring female directors as a means of providing opportunity and then those women going on to direct other works. The thinking about the process portion definitely needs to be happening to create the change we all deserve.
📺 “America’s Got Talent: The Champions” The Champions One | NBC
With Terry Crews, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, Mel B., Simon Cowell
Dear God, what am I doing with my life?!
Fortunately, I spent a lot of time while watching doing other things around the house…
📺 Clemson vs. Alabama – January 8, 2019 | ESPN
Orange Crush: Clemson topples No. 1 'Bama for national title
I watched the first three quarters the other night just after it started airing, but didn’t get a chance to finish it until now. What a brutal slaughtering…