harlem renaissance man it is two thousand and nineteen you know we the american people have watched the final nail be driven into the coffin of our democracy or have now before we start pulling for this is america and this is the land of due process let me break it down for you you're fresh of course impeachment you hear that word in history books you hear it on the news what does that word actually mean for starters it is not a criminal charge it is not an indictment and it is not and it mission of guilt piece of it is simply this a charge of misconduct made against a holder  public office ok shame on you we don't think we want you to have that job any more we don't want you to represent us now in america you will rarely hear that word unless we are talking about the president ok and when it comes to the president we get a little bit more specific ok according to the constitution a civil officer shall be removed from office on can pick shin cake not suspicion but conviction of treason bribery other high crimes and misdemeanors for those of you that remember the clinton scandal he was impeached for sexual misconduct ok here's the rub because of former president nixon and the watergate scandal the u s justice department has a policy that does not allow a sitting president to be indicted or prosecuted for it for criminal charges now if you remember your social studies the branches of government checks and balances under a criminal prosecution you would give the judicial branch a power to overthrow the government you would not have acting president he would have to answer to the actual prosecution the actual crime the crimes that he was accused of you in fact would create a police state this also equates to the same due process that you or i would go through in a civil court so again no trump bashing patriot act nine hundred and eleven compromise so many of our freedoms that we just take for granted today i don't know if you guys remember this you used to be able to walk into an airport go right through security go right to the gate and watch the planes take off and land all day long if you wanted to cross the mexican or canadian border you could do it with a regular old government issued id i could go on and on but we lost something when those towers fell and right now in two thousand and nineteen we as americans are fighting on all d fronts to preserve that which we hold most sacred in this country it's simply this democratic freedom and the right to choose where to take a small break and when we come back we will have gregory harrington right here on by invitation from from i cheated a little bit you guys i do that from time to time i cheat just a little bit and i have heard a little bit of your work and i'm excited for what you're going to present for us today but how did you get into what you're doing i was a young kid and i was shorts short story when i was a young kid and i was with my mother in this beautiful horse show in dublin there was a string quartet playing i think was four years old it was just something that watching you see this right this is this is public schooling at is best ok so all you violin players i was a violin player in rd grade my st instrument all you stick with it and you can be here now i think it's been and look it's been a wonderful journey it's been my passion this is the thing that i've wanted to do never been afraid of failure and i would you know i would always say just go towards the place where you are scared of you know because that's the only way you grow to the only way you're going to get on your show standing up in front of whether it's two people or seventy thousand people you know terrifying in every moment bust you know the more you do it the more fun it is the more you realise that it's not about the little things that potentially go wrong it's about sharing this beautiful gift and i think the beauty music is that there is no alphabet he just you know you want you know like you do you look at miles davis  soloist classical you know with all questions for so long and then you know i was doing a couple a couple of transcriptions and a couple of these things and i opened the carnegie hall about seven years ago doing this string quartet story we were just sort of stuff it was the know that the question on everyone's mind i mean you're if you're a classically trained player how much music theory do you actually know buckets i mean it and that's the one thing i mean i you know when i was young and that's my vide and teacher when i was four so unless you were in music theory every single week our class on its own we can't do this and i was actually in hindsight one of the best decisions i made or he made for me i should say you know because it's i much harder now how they're how much theory would you say they would say little little plug here and i had a little music career you know signed for three years also and i can look at it and you have to tell you what it is yeah and other than that i go i got i need an instrument but i had an experience i took music theory at a at the art school for about a year  in our final project was to write a composition and so far just about everybody in my class you know they put the notes on paper and they want i wonder how this sounds and i went well you know what i've learned this theory yeah i want to see what happens if i don't use an instrument if i just use theory and we had we had a trio no no no it was it was a do you do it was the violinist and show us or something to that extent come in and play our compositions yeah and it was only two other people in my class that actually used or they actually just used theory you know instruments and the same thing happened the the the musician said i can play this i would just need to practice it versus someone who picked up an instrument they were pretty much able to play emotion so definitively there's not one right way to do it and when somebody says there is you'll always find the person that breaks the mold you know so it's whatever method that you can get it out of your system and just onto a page where you can share that with somebody else whether you do it with theory i mean you know i think the best thing that i ever did was i studied to i took a course because i want to push myself conducting course and juilliard when you have to look at a score and be able to sing every part and just you know it just pushes you in a way that you just that you experience music in such a different level and for me that was the right step because now there's a depth that i get of a single line thing that i can just you think of  like it like an orchestra all the different colors all the different sounds you can get so that was my thing and it for everybody it's just a different way of finding the voice to come out and you know put it on a piece of paper and share and more important  retailer all right sounds good we're going to take a short break and when we come back we will have selections from mr gregory harrington right here on by invitation you know they say one is the loneliest number and to be honest with you when i'm doing this show sometimes i get a little lonely so if you want to be here while i'm doing by invitation go ahead and check out social media and find out how to be a part of my studio audience well thank you very much think our sponsors in fact are think you young boss media go ahead and check out never enough coffee check out our boss we still got the july th event going on check out event right for that from all of