i'm michael smerconish, and the greatest is gone. mrl muhammad ali, boxing legend and

civil rights activist died last night age 74. he was the most known man of the planet and his journey amazing. and on the program, it is the end of the primary season, and virgin islands today, and puerto rico tomorrow, and then new jersey and california, and the presidential campaign is more of a brutal battleground than ever. more violence out sooside of a donald trump rally this time in san jose, and the ri ports say that the supporters started it, but others say that trump created the climate. and hillary clinton's gloves are off to say he is undeserved, but did she get the best of him? and the press goes from contentious to dismissive to hostile, and the years of bashing and talk radio, the mainstream has credibility

remaining? and finally, bernie sanders making a last play for california, and can he prevent hillary clinton from locking up the nomination? but first, h called himself the greatest and with good reason. as cassius clay, he won the gold medal, and the crown of heavyweight champion of 1964, and then as muhammad he became the most conscientious protester to the war. wolf blitzer has this story. >> i have still got the world. i have still got the world.

>> muhammad ali first put on a pair of boxing gloves at age 12 and six years later burst on to the scene as a brash, but talented champion at the 1960 olympics. his star and voice rising as he turned pro, ali stepped up against sonny liston for the heavyweight title four years later. >> it's going to take a big man to whoop me. i'm loaded with confidence. when liston could not answer the bell for round 7 cassius clay had arrived. >> come here. >> come here, champ. >> i'm the greatest thing that ever lived. >> reporter: but almost quickly as he had arrived he was gone. after joining the nation of islam, clay changed his name to muhammad ali. he criticized the vietnam war and refused induction into the army as a muslim and conscientious objector and the year was 1967. ali was sentenced to five years in prison, which he never served and was stripped of his heavyweight championship and was

suspended from boxing for three years. the supreme court reversed the decision in 1971. ali's undefeated record as a professional came to an end in '71 when he lost to joe frazier in 15 rounds. it was the first of three fights with smoking joe, culminating with the famous thrilla in manila which ali are won after the 14th round. after two decades of redefining the heavyweight division ali retired with a ring record of 56 victories and just five defeats. in 1984 he was diagnosed as suffering from parkinson's syndrome, but while over time his voice was quieted, his spirit was not. he provided one of the emotional high points of the 1996 summer olympic games in atlanta when with trembling hands he lit the olympic calderon. in 2005 ali joined the company of people like former president jimmy carter and pope john paul

ii and won the highest civilian award. muhammad ali, one of the charismatic figures in sports history and he knew it. >> i am the greatest. as a philly guy, the first thing that sprang to my mind on hearing the ali's passing was not frazier or foreman fights, but it was chuck beckner. because it was the fight that inspired silvester stallone to bang out the script for "rocky." the only time he was off his feet was when ali sent him to the canvas in the 15th round. a movie about wepner starring naomi watts will be released later this year. he joining us now. mr. wepner, what was it like to

climb into the ring with muhammad ali? >> it was great. i was excited and i was ready and it was the greatest night of my life. and i was ready for ali. i just wasn't ready for how great he was. you know, i could have fought anybody that night and probably beat them because i trained full-time. the only time in my career of 20 years i went away to camp at all. so by the time the bell rang i was ready for ali. he was just so great that even in as great a shape as i was in i wasn't good enough. >> you are the real deal. you the original rocky balboa and he gave you a shot at that title. how did that make you feel? >> it made me feel great, but i was ranked eight mt. the world, and i had beaten just about everybody in the top tep, and to be honest, they were looking to the a white heavyweight contender to fight ali, and i was the only one left. he had beaten kwqrori and shava.

i was ranked eighth in the world and i earned my shot and he gave it to me which i'll forever be happy with. >> you reference being a white fighter. what was the hype like for that fight? because i know there was some aspects of it that made you uncomfortable and others that you engaged in. talk to me about that. >> well, you know, i was a white contender and he tried to make it into a racial bout. he tried to get me to use the n word and hype up the fight and i wouldn't do that and years later he told the press how much he respected me because i wouldn't be taken in with that kind of a rhus and i wouldn't use the n word and as a matter of fact they everyone made big buttons for the fight, give the white guy a break. and you know, it was -- he promoted the fight magnificently and they made a lot of money with that fight. we caught the interest of the public and i put up a very good fight going 15 rounds.

>> hey, chuck, what was the most feared weapon in the arsenal? >> i would say the jab. he jab and hooked off of the jab. he was, you know, very hard to escape his jab, because he threw two to three in a row. the 9th round when i dropped him, before that, the manager said to me, his jab is falling down and he is getting lazy with it, and the next time he throws it slip underneath and hit him with the body and that is what i did, i hit him in the heart, and he was off balance, and it fwhoutz a great punch, but it was off balance and i punched him and that is a knockdown. >> when you were knocked down and i mentioned at the outset it was the only time that someone had sent chuck wepner to the canvas, what kind of a punch was it that he hit you with? >> it was the 13th round. i was exhausted. that's an hour in the ring chasing ali. it was a tough fight and my legs felt a little weak and he hit me

off the left shoulder and caught me in the side of the head. the left shoulder and the side of the head and i went down. i knew where i was. i heard the count. i got up at eight and the referee asked me if i was all right and i said yeah and then he waives off the fight. he said i looked like i was groggy and that's what happened. >> i'm so grateful to have you to be able to share the unique perspective of fighting muhammad ali, but talk to me now about the man, because i know that you have immense respect for muhammad ali, the legend. >> tremendous respect. you know, i got to know him personally. he became a personal friend of mine and we actually toured after that fight for almost a month. i played mr. tooth decay fighting ali and i would knock him down and they would brush his teeth and they would come back to life and they were trying to get the kids of washington, d.c. to brush their

teeth more and i got to know him personally and i -- through the years including his birthday party about three years ago, 70th birthday party, myself, foreman, norton, spinks, a bunch of guys went out to las vegas. they brought us out there and they had us share his birthday party with him. bob aram who is a great promoter and manager, and he treated us very well that night. we spent three days with him, and we had a terrific time. >> tell me before you leave me the negligee story? >> i went out and bought my wife a blue negligie and i said wear this to bed tonight when you sleep with me because you'll be sleeping with the greatest

fighter in the world. so when i come back, and she is sitting in the hotel on the bed with the blue negligee and she says, "i am going to ali's room, or is he come ting to mine?" she had a real dry wit and you know, that story goes a long way because it's true, you know, and my wife was a good sport. >> it's a great story from the bayonne bleeder. i wish good things for chuck wepner. >> thank you so much and thank you for calling me. >> thank you for being here to mourn the loss of your friend and former opponent. tweet me your thoughts. still to come are more thoughts on the death of a legend muhammad ali at the age of 74. and donald trump is attacking the federal judge

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this lead headline sums it up in the new york times. it says that trump's declarat n declarations are seen as threat to rule of law. this week donald trump went after the federal judge who's overseeing two class action lawsuits now pending against trump university. his attack on judge sent shock waves through legal circles. he claimed the judge was a hater appointed by president obama who he believed was in fact mexican. the judge is an american born in east chicago, indiana and he's a former federal prosecutor who was once targeted by mexican drug cartels. trump nevertheless defended himself to jake tapper. >> i have had ruling after ruling after ruling that has been bad rulingsb and i have been treated unfairly. and before him, we had another judge, and if the we had him

this case would have been over two years, and i have had horrible rulings, and i have been unfairly treated by this judge. all right. i'm building a wall, and this judge is a mexican -- >> and a mexican judge could not be pro for you -- >> well, he is somebody who should recuse himself. >> and soerer fa the trump's lawyers have not filed a recusal motion to remove the judge. and joining us now is to a author of "joseph brandeis" and now joining me is the author of

that book jeffrey rosen who is the president and ceo of the national constitution center. i'm concerned that people in a political context might think, well, this is par for the course. help me explain how unusual this is. >> that new york "times'" piece this morning that you talked about explains it is very well unusual and it's very unusual for a litigant to attack a judge, but what's more unusual is that donald trump said if i become president, we might have a civil suit against this judge, okay? that would be very unusual. and it's fine for a president to attack individual cases, to criticize constitutional rulings, but to suggest that he would not obey the rule of law and actually attempt to overturn it might violate the president's constitutional duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. so it is extremely unusual to suggest that donald trump would not abide by the ruling on this case.

>> can we also underscore that there is a process, where in fact there is evidence of bias on the part of a member of the bench where you file a motion for recusal, and his attorneys haven't done that. >> absolutely right. and of course, the notion as jake tapper was getting at, that a judge would be biased merely because of his heritage would be unlikely to persuade any reviewing body. so it's an extremely -- he's really going out on a limb here. >> take a look at donald trump at a rally this week speaking on this issue. roll it. >> i have a judge who is a hater of donald trump, a hater. he's a hater. he is the judge who happens to believe is mexican, which is great. i think that's fine. >> you've just written this book on justice brandeis. let's carry to conclusion where trump's logic if i can use that word takes us. it would mean that an african american couldn't preside in a case concerning discrimination or in divorce or child custody by case i could say remove her, she's biased against me? >> in his confirmation hearings there were words of accusing him of being unscrupulous.

and even old world testament cruelty. but because he was jewish, he could not rule on cases involving jews. it's an unusual claim that if you are a member of a particular race or ethnicity you're biased. by definition, and that could have very sweeping consequences. >> and finally, is as an attorney, if i were representing donald trump could not make extrajudicial statements like he has just gotten away with because i would run afoul of the code of conduct, and he as a litigant gets the first amendment right, and you get the final word? >> first amendment right although he said he wants to open up the libel laws and make it easier for politicians to sue those against him. brandeis was the greatest champion of free expression, and privacy as well as the greatest critic of bigness in business and government since thomas

jefferson. it's a great time to honor his legacy. he reconciled populism with constitutionalism. donald trump is being criticized for confusing the two. >> thank you for being here. good luck with the book. >> thank you so much. more of cnn's continuing coverage of the life of boxing great muhammad ali who died last night at the age of 74. and this. the media is asking tough questions of donald trump. instead of answering trump is calling them names. is this disregard working thanks to the undermining influence of conservative talk radio? and what a whacky moment this was yesterday. check out donald trump's handling of someone in the crowd. >> look at my african american over here. look at him. are you the greatest? you know what i'm talking about? okay. ♪ ♪

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we're remembering muhammad ali today. he called himself the greatest and not many would disagree. that is ali lighting the torch to the 1996 summer olympics in atlanta. very emotional moment. he passed away last night in phoenix. he was 74 years old. now, with securing the gop comes intense scrutiny. the media has been buckling down to ask donald trump to point out the policies, and point out falsehoods and probing statements and actions, and he is not not taking it well. as the washington post just wrote, the media have reached a turning point in covering donald trump and he may not survive it. a key milestone was another washington post story by one of my next guests. four months after trump claimed to raise $6 million for military charities including a million of

his own dollars, he asked trump to show us the money and trump took umbrage. >> i think the political press is among the most dishonest people i've ever met. on behalf of the vets the press should be shamed of themselves. what i don't want is when i raise millions of dollars have people say, like this sleazy guy over here from abc. he's a sleaze in my book. >> why am i a sleaze? >> because you nknow the facts and you know the facts well. >> i'm joined with seth who wrote the piece about what it's like to cover a candidate who hates you a week on the trail with disgusting reporters covering donald trump is the title of the piece. the quick recap here. four months ago he said i raised six million, a million of my own money as well. you wanted to know what happened to all that money. >> that's right. we started asking questions

about where -- whether he'd given away the million dollars of his own or whether he'd given away most of the money that other people had entrusted to him to give a a wway. and there was stonewalling and then we were given an inakt rat account by trump's cap pain that said that he had given away the money when he had not, and then he gave away the money in one fell swoop to a charity that he already new. that is what happened before we got to the press conference tuesd tuesday. >> does the excuse on his part that he is vetting the charities hold water? >> well, i will tell you a couple of things, one, the charity that he gave the $11 million that was the excuse, i needed four months to vet them, but the charity, trump had donated to them in the pastk and they had given donald trump a leadership award at a black tie galla at the waldorff astoria, fand he didn't know them, he could have asked them at the black tie galla. and another one of the groups had an f-rating for the charity

group for deceptive fund-raising practices, and if you had googled this name before trump gave them the money, of the four search results, three of them are warning that this might be a problematic charity. >> and wow. seth stevenson, what is it like to be in the press pen when he points to you and says look at the despicable individuals? >> well, i didn't enjoy it. you sit there for 45 minutes at the rally when he tells you lie after lie after lie, and he looks up at us, and says look at those disgusting lying people, and then the fans will turn around and jeer and applause. it is a applause line for him, but not a fun point for the journalists. >> and you have said that the people who cover him on the et beat have given up fact checking, because it is so many

whoppers that what's the point? >> well, you can look at the work that david did, but after the 12th time that he tells the lie, it ceases to be news and the reporter struggles of how the report it again for the 15th time, and how do you make it still relevant, and it does not have any impact on trump, himself. >> and david, i want you to speak to my father who is i know watching it, and saying, here, see, the media is going to gang up on him because they want to protect hillary, and now that he is is the nominee, you are all coalescing to take him down. >> well, that is impugning the level of coordination to the media doesn't know how we work. the thing for me is that i started to check into the donations, and trump had the fund-raiser to raise the money on january 28th, and i checked into them and wrote the first story saying that half of the money had gone out in march. a at that point, there were a lot of candidates in the race, and obviously, we were not doing that because we wanted to p

protect hillary clinton, but we were trying to do it as fast as we could, but trump people made it hard to make the information. and when there were other people in the race, they didn't care, and other candidates were unwilling to use the coverage of trump against him, because they wanted to appeal to the same people. and another thing is that we are now outside of the cycle of debates and primary nights which served to break up the news cycles, and return to things that trump wanted to talk about, and now we are in a long stretch that there is nothing else to do and trump does not have any external news events to break up the coverage, but it is what people are find iing out about m and asking him. >> seth, final question for you, and what concerns you the most about a president trump on the specific issue of media access? >> well, a lot of the president's relationship with the press is polite norms that we have built up over the decad

decades, but there is nothing for him to completely ignore the media. you can imagine him only communicating in tweets and not riding on air force one, and imagine him kicking the press out of the white house core association, and those things are not hard for me to picture. >> and yep, i can see it. seth and david, thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you. you would think that a war with the media would hurt a candidate and even donald trump, but not so according to my next guest. brian rosenfeld is a ph.d. that he earned studying talk radio, and he said that constant bashing has created a mistrust of the mainstream media explaining why the negative reports of media has fail ed ed dent him, and he quotes charlie psyches, a member of the never tr trump movement saying that we, the media are to blajs because we beat on the mainstream media so long, there are no more

credible sources. brian rosenwald is joining me, and you have said that for years, the press has been bashing the press as insidious finks, and what is the impact? >> well, it is the impact, michael, because they don't view the press as fact-checks, but democratic cheerleaders masquerade aring as objective journalist, and so they don't trust what they say. they don't care what they write about him, and it could be trump university or what he says about the women or minor is the and they don't care, because as long as they are concerned it is an effort to benefit hillary clinton. >> and david here wrote the whole back story of where's the money, and so good quality investigative reporting like that by "post" will have no impact by certain among us? >> that is absolutely right. for the conservatives they have spent years listening to rush

limbaugh and other conservative talk show hosts and other conservative outlets saying don't trust the mainstream media, because they are democratic cheerleaders and trying to hurt the guys that you win, and these people have been yearning for somebody like donald trump to come along to ta take on the mainstream media and they don't believe anything that they say about trump, and it is impossible that there is one quote in my blog -- >> okay. finish. i'm sorry. >> and no, sorry, there is a quote in my blog from a trump supporter saying that she is ra racist and against the women, but i believe it is all lies. >> i get that he has inoculated himself among the conservatives burk what about the more mainstream part of the electorate? >> i don't think so given the high negatives. you know, it is clear that a lot of other people are bothered by what he is saying, but there's certain people who consume the

media that are not conservatives, and they may have more doubts about the mainstream media and the mainstream reporting. >> would you go so far as to say that a smackdown and in fact, i have a tweet, and can we put it up, the trump response to the whole issue of the back and forth with the media in terms of how he is handling this, and if we have it, will you put it up on the screen? it goes to far as to -- and amazingly with all of the publicity for the vets, i have gotten nothing but negative media, and so, brian, is he benefiting from the back and forth? >> i think absolutely, because remember, michael, one problem he has had as the primary is winding down is consolidating the conservatives and even the conservatives who say that we don't like his position on trade for example and we don't trust that he is one of us, they may look at this and say, hey, we have the guy to take on the media and call out their dishonesty and the left leaning nature, and he is going to fight for us, and so we will tolerate all of the other stuff that we don't like as much.

>> so the more he is vetted, the more he is vetted, the more he benefits according to that theory. brian rosenwald, thank you, and i appreciate your being here. >> great to be here, michael. >> tweet me your thoughts at smerconish. this is an early one. check it out. oh, boy. no comment. why do some cash back cards keep throwing obstacles at you? first - they limit where you earn bonus cash back. then - those places change every few months? i think i'll pass... quicksilver from capital one puts nothing in your way. you simply earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. you can't dodge the question... what's in your wallet?

so many great moments muhammad ali's life, and at the time he was called a fierce fighter and a man of piece. this week, hillary clinton tried to take down trump by using his

words against him, and she spent a good chunk of time e enumerating actions that proved according to her the lack of knowledge and temperament to be president. >> donald trump's ideas aren't just different. they are dangerously incoherent. they're not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies. [ applause ] >> this is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes, because it's not hard to imagine donald trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin. >> so what will be the impact of this approach? did she get the best of him or only engage him where he thrives? don't forget he took down a whole slew of gop challengers in the primary season, but has hillary found the right way to

take down her challenger. we are joined by a hillary pac s supporter, and what do you think this is the confidence that this is going to be the right brew? >> well, a couple things. first of all we know that the republicans never really ran a sustained strategic effort against donald trump. they didn't really have a plan to defeat him. and so i think the idea out there that well, gee, everything's been tried and nothing worked, it's totally wrong. virtually nothing's been tried. this is sort of the beginning of the general election campaign i think. it was very effective by making him hang him on his own words, and so instead of belittling him, just using his own words. >> and it is wonk and ridicule, and we don't play the won ki aspectbut you are sophisticated and the superpacs are supophisticate ana lot going into the speeches like this, and i have to believe that is what the focus groups and the

polling said to go after him. >> well, this is what we believe will work. and it is three thing, and what secretary clinton was trying to establish with the speech, and the winner of the election is going to be the one who defines the terms. so she wants to make it a fight about fitness for office. she wants to make that the central question, and by the time she is done, and the allies are done, the only answer of who is fit to be president for president is hillary and not donald trump. i think that as, so that goes to temperament, and the second issue is the business career, as it relates to his claim to be on the side of the little guy, and we see it with trump university play playing out and a treasure trove of information regarding his business career which says that donald trump has been in it for donald trump, and he is a total opportunist, and the third is the republican party unfortunately has nominated and open bigot. in the primaries maybe it did not hurt, and sad ly, in fact h was rewarded for some of it with

the primary electorate, but it is not going to be playing in the broad diverse electorate, and those are the things that will move. >> based on the polling and the focus groups? >> sure. >> and this is donald trump's response to what he had to say after her speech. >> the only reason she is behaving like this and the only reason she has been dragged so far left, and believe me, she doesn't want to go to jail over the e-mails. ok okay. believe me. folk, honestly, she is guilty as hell. >> you have seen the negatives and you know what he is referring to in terms of the honesty and the trustworthy issues of the polls, and can you boost the numbers and do better than she is doing on the honesty and i should label it dishonesty -- >> can you boost her negatives? >> yes. your candidate. >> yes, by the same laws that drive the numbers up, you can drive them down, and you can do

better, and she has been vetted for 30 years now, and for the people who don't like her for whatever reason, their mind is made up, and there is not much room for her negative to go up, but for him, he has had wide media exposure, but it is shall doe, a low, and we are starting to get the donald trump story, and we are going to deconare instruct the phony story that he is telling about himself, and tell the world who he is, and room for his negatives the go up. >> i question if she is the right mes ssenger, because you y that he was not vetted, but let me remind you of everybody, of marco rubio in the latter stages of the way he took on donald trump, and roll that tape. >> the worst spray tan in america. >> if he uses labor the build the wall, it is going to be mexican immigrants. >> and make sure that the pants are not wet. >> you know he might be selling

watches. >> and i know that are donald trump likes to sue people, and why doesn't he sue somebody for whoever sprayed that tan on his face. >> and he had a couple of days and moments and for xexample on the issue of trump being a con man, rubio was hitting the right note, but no money behind it, and we will be running a real campaign behind donald trump, and the republicans failed to do that. >> and she is a status quo candidate in a climate of where people are desirous of change. >> i don't disagree with, you and that is the way, but if we have this election framed about a choice of who is more fit to be the president of the united states, and who is a genuine hazard and threat to the future, hillary is going to be winning that hands down. >> david rock, thank you for being here. >> sure. and still to come, and you may remember her as pat from is

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they're claiming it's the biggest gathering of nonreligious people in history. tens of thousands of atheists expected on the mall of d.c. this weekend for the reason rally trying to clarify the age-old division between god and state. atheism is on the upswing in america. secular americans now make up nearly a quarter of the american pop layer according to recent polling by gallup and pew research. amazingly, not a single member currently of congress admits to being an atheist. when former congressman barney frank came out as one to bill maher, it was a deeper held secret than his being gay or pot smoker. >> you can come on this show and sit next to a pot smoking atheist and wouldn't bother you? >> which pot smoking atheist were you talking about here? [ applause ] >> boy, you are liberated, whew.

>> among the many celebrity speakers at the reason rally this weekend, bill nye the science guy, the rapper method man, magician penn gillette, my next guest who you surely remember from her portrayal of pat on "saturday night live," julia sweeney. she also did a one-woman show called "letting go of god." julia, thank fyou for being her. if a quarter of americans are secular, you know there are atheists in the congress. why this remaining taboo? >> i don't know. i think our culture in america reinforces this idea you have to show your allegiance to the culture by saying you believe in god or you're part of a religion. i think a lot of people think that it makes someone seem like a good person to be part of a religio religious and believe in god and somehow the congress is way behind the american public. >> maybe it's because no has really tested this, maybe no one has stood up and said, look, i'm a person of moral foundation, i don't derive that moral

foundation from any particular book but here i am and i'm putting myself out there. >> i think so, too. i actually think it's going to happen in our lifetime and happen rapidly. i really feel optimistic out ab it. >> what are you hoping to get out of a show of support? >> i want the american people to realize how many people there are who don't identify themselves with any religion. we call ourselves the nones, another we to describe us. i suspect it's maybe double that if people admitted to themselves what they really felt. and i want our laws of our land and the congress to not be so influenced by the culture of conservative religious thought which it really has an outsize influence, the conservative religious people in congress and in the laws of the land and i really think it needs to change and this rally i think can really help bring a focus to the

people who don't identify with a religion and do not believe in fw god. >> are we more accepting today of gays and lesbians and transgenders than atheists? >> absolutely. which really shocks me. that seems to be the case. >> finally, i wonder if there's a semantic issue here. maybe atheist is too harsh a word. >> yes. >> maybe like liberals became progressives. you need a new label. >> i think that's true. i mean, there was a word that was thrown around for a little while a few years ago that didn't seem to work and i don't think that works. for example, my parents didn't care that i didn't believe in god but when i said i was an eightie aitiest -- >> uh-oh. >> they were very, very upset and wouldn't speak to me. it's a harsh word. it brings up ideas of the cold war and communism. really now people today are embracing that word. i mean, it actually describes them. they're not theists. they're atheist. >> i wish i had more time with you because you'd answer the mystery about pat, but we're out of time. >> yes. you're out of time. sorry. >> thank you, julia. appreciate it. >> all right. okay. still to come, your tweets

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okay, guys, you're toying with me here. "wouldn't it be interesting if press didn't show up for the next four trump press conferences?" that's not going to happen, john hyman. thank you. next. "the phrase the greatest doesn't work --" this is nice "compared to whom or what, there was no one else, it's too small of a phrase for muhammad ali's life." on that note, i'll see you next week. ♪ hello, everyone, you are live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim sciutto. in a moment, our exculusive interview with jason resayan. the journalist shares with me the amazing story of the role that muhammad ali played in securing his release. >> wow. can't wait to hear that. i'm john burman live in louisville, kentucky. i'm outside the muhammad ali