captioning made possible by johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations >> osgood: good morning. i'm charles osgood this is "sunday morning." a delicate constitutional question flared up this past week, do transgender people have the right to use the restroom that they feel matches their identity? mark strassmann will explore that issue in our cover story. then it's on to a young man who is making a remarkable recovery

against his odds. just keep going is his personal motto. >> there was a time when doctors were saying dylan rizzo suffering massive brain injuries would probably never walk or talk again. how do you plain this? you gaff gave up? >> no. >> your parents never gave up. that was three years ago. look at him now. dylan, ahead on "sunday morning." >> osgood: mouthing off is usually an unl welcome behavior unless it's being done by a man named fred newman. with jane pauley we'll give him a listen. >> what ned truman actually does for a living is hard to say. his special gifts found perfect

home on public radio's prairie home companion with garrison keel lower. >> so far you are would do in radio. >> i'm really doing what i used to do behind teachers' backs. >> fred newman, the maestro of sound ahead on "sunday morning." >> we received a postcard from morocco with some unusual activity in the trees. the sender is correspondent jonathan vigliotti. >> from cot mess particulars to foods. you might be surprised where it comes from. goats in trees it's like a moroccan mirage. >> the first time i same here i saw these goats climbing the trees i thought i was hallucinating. >> a visit is morocco where

these goats are pointing the way to a billion dollars industry. >> rachel maddow is a cable news headliner, not afraid to pursue pastime some fans might find surprising. >> we've got some breaking political news. >> as self-confessed politics nerd, rachel mad depo is having the time of her life. >> what do you make of this ye year? >> everybody thought this was going to be a boring year. this is the universe giving that a one-finger salute. >> later on "sunday morning." straight shooting with rachel maddow. >> osgood: morocco quizzes a young geography whiz. steve hartman watches a dad change his daughter ace life by

a hair. and we salute our colleague morley safer upon his retirement. first the headlines, the 15th of may, 2016. today, federal investigators will take closer look at yesterday's texas bus roll over crash. that killed eight people. 40 others were injured. at an air show near atlanta a biplane pilot was killed yesterday when he crashed while performing a opportunity. today's "washington post" reports that group of republican leaders actively plotting to draft an independent presidential candidate to block presumptive nominee donald trump. one possible contender mark cuban who turned them down. it's queen elizabeth's 90th birthday year. a never before seen color photo

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mmmm, yoplait. >> osgood: it should be the one that matches the student's gender identity. that came after a lawsuit north carolina filed filed action taken by u.s. attorney general loretta lynch. our cover story is by mark strassmann. >> this is about the dignity and respect that we accord. laws that we as people and as a country have enacted to protect them. indeed to protect all of us. >> joaquin wants that protection.

the 27-year-old activist living in raleigh, north carolina, was born a girl. last year he transitioned into what he believes is his proper gender, a man. he sees himself at war with his own state. >> as transindividuals, for me personally, there's always a fear that you carry with you. but that never had an issue. >> and what message in this law was the governor and the legislature do you think sending to you? >> north carolina is basically sending a message that we are not in a welcoming area. >> north carolina's public bathrooms are the new frontier. that's because almost two months ago state lawmakers paled a bill saying that transgender people have to use the bathroom that matches their birth certificate. backlash was immediate and fierce from nor town 500

corporations, celebrity critics like bruce spring teen and president obama. >> i also think that the laws that have been passed there are wrong and should be overturned. >> but the law's supporters insist it was enacted to protect women and girls, both their privacy and risk of attack from sexual predators. >> our nation is dealing with a very new, complex and emotional issue. how to balance the expectations of privacy and ineye -- and equality. >> lost monday, a republican up for election would sue. he was responding to the department of justice charge that north carolina is violating civil rights law which could cost the state almost $5 billion in federal aid. >> we believe a court rather than a federal agency should

tell our state, our nation and employers across the country what the law requires. >> in many ways this battle is latest chapter in story that has its roots in the supreme court landmark obergefell decision last union that guarantees same sex couples the right to marry. lawmakers have proposed so-called bathroom bills and reledge us freedom laws that critics say target gay, lesbian and transgender people. these state actions descend from a little known bipartisan bill signed into law by president clinton back in 1993. >> the free exercise of religion is the first freedom that which originally sparked the development of the full range ofability of rights. >> the restoration act or rifra prohibited the government from

unduly interfering in the way americans express religious beliefs. >> basically the civil rights groups dropped the ball, everybody was just so excited about religious freedom, how could you be opposed? the very smart evangelical group knew. >> marci hamilton teaches constitutional law. rfra granted a license to discriminate. >> it's tilted the balance so that people now have a concept that whatever they believe they can get around the law. when i go to a stop sign, it just doesn't matter that i'm presbyterian. i got to stop. now, every law is under 'track because of this message of complete liberty. >> b he treasures that liberty. she's the owner of arlene's flowers, a 35-year-old family run business in richland,

washington. rob was a favorite customer who shopped here for nearly a decade. >> he's so much fun, i so enjoyed working with him. he'd pick out these unusual vases, tell me what the event was for. then say, just do your thing. >> thee years ago, ingersoll, who is gay, asked stots man a 5-year-old devout christian to do the flowers. >> why couldn't you do it? >> because teaches me that marriage is between man and woman and symbolizes christ and his relationship. as much as i love rob my love for christ is more important. >> if your lifestyle offends me, why should i be obligated to provide a service when i'm uncomfortable with you as a person? >> because that's how the free market works. when you walk in to best buy,

nobody should be asking you what your religion is. or what your sexual orientation is or what you did yesterday. it's just that there are different targets at this point for some of the people. >> the targets are? >> the lgbtq community sadly. not just same-sex couples, the entire community is being targeted. >> i think what we're see continue unprecedented attack against people of faith who have religious beliefs. >> kristen waggoner leads a team of lawyers at alliance defending freedom. this advocacy group represents christian conservatives and have advised several states. >> it has nothing to do with how someone identifies in terms of lgbto saying they're straight. >> may gauge is the objection? >> yes. >> that's what this is really all about? >> i think there's more fundamental principle whether we will continue to allow diversity of viewpoints or we will allow

the government to personally and professionally ruin someone because of religious convic in this they have? >> do you understand why some critics see this as extreme. >> you wouldn't want to force someone to engage in speech and promote messages that violates their religious convictions, or why it would be extreme that you would want to live and let live and let other people who have a diverse viewpoint or different viewpoint on marriage to live consistently. >> the law on this matter is clear. what this these individuals are arguing is that they have rights in order to be able to discriminate against others. but the rights are made up. they are not from the constitution. >> in the case of baronelle, they sued her for discrimination. washington state's attorney general also filed suit claiming she broke washington's anti-discrimination law.

and a state court ruled against her. he is appealing, but says potential damages could reach seven figures and bankrupt her business. she says she is also had menacing calls and e-mails. did you feel threatened? >> yes, sir. >> genuinely threatened? >> yes, sir. >> how many death threats? >> i don't know. a few. >> too many? >> yeah. >> but in states like north carolina, it's people like joaquin who feel threatened. to you, this goes well beyond bathrooms? >> definitely. i believe bathrooms are just a cover for the real attack here. and i think it's pure hostility. >> not long ago, the washington state attorney offered to drop the lawsuit against barronelle if she paid $2,000 and agreed to do flowers for gay weddings. you said? >> no. my freedom's not for sale. >> even though that would of ha

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>> osgood: there's a an exotic elixir cropping up on store shelves that has a most cure use origin in a far-off corner. as we learn in this postcard from morocco. >> the sounds of morocco come in many forms. from the music that reverberates through the bustling markets, to the ku ktuk and cars that conguest the streets. but 80 miles west of marrakech in the country side of essaouira there street tranquility in the enchanting argan forest. they were once at risk of being wiped out for lumber.

today they are lifeline and the pioneers have hooves. the goats of morocco have an extraordinary skill. with the finesse of a tight rope walker, they scale up the precarious branches. >> it's terrifying that they can get that high without fear of falling. >> it's the darwinian talent goats developed to reach what was dangling on the other end of the stick, argan fruit. the nut contains the valuable argan oil known for anti-aging properties. it's popping up in everything. from shampoo and body lotion to food products. but, somewhere on labels will you find the full story behind how this oil was born. >> goats in trees, it's like a moroccan mirage. >> first time i came here and saw these goats climbing the trees i thought i was hallucinating. >> along these roads it is normal to see hundreds of goats in trees.

and as they show me this is where their new york based argan oil brand takes roots. >> they are basically eating the fruit and digesting it then they either spit it up or poop it out. >> poop it out? >> you heard that right. centuries ago locals discovered the goat's digestive track made it easier to crack the fruit's nut so they could reach the oil trapped inside. the only catch, the nuts need to be collected, by hand. >> there's one. >> that's a little goat poop. you know, just getting -- >> we did, collecting dozens of nuts that went in one end and came out the other. >> this is how it starts. >> it comes out in this? >> yes.

>> welcome to marjana coop. >> it's one in a number of war began oil production sites run by berber women. you won't find fancy machines here. every ounce ever oil is pressed by hand. it's an ancient recipe. the nut is cracked, the seeds extracted, they are then ground into a thick paste using the traditional stone wheel and finally filtered into this golden liquid. just how much time goes in? >> takes like actually around 40 hours of laborz 40 hours? >> 40 hours. to make one liter of argan oil. >> 40 hours for one heater? >> after the goats have done their work. >> one argan tree can only

produce one liter of oil a year. it's one of the reasons the precious oil earned the name, liquid gold. so what does this golden goat oil taste like? this is culinary oil made with the help of goats. >> does it taste like goats? >> it tastes like peanuts. >> don't taste any trace of goat. >> today because of demand fueled by celebrity users like angelina jolie, one liter of pure argan oil sells for up to $300. it's some of the most expensive oil in the world. practically overnight berber women went from poor housewives to business women. each gets percentage of the profit. that makes him a home in to hero for the demand he brings in and oil producers like hadija who he first met when he was a teenag

teenager. she is 86 years old has been making argan oil since she was a child. >> like before i was like, life was very hard. there was no income. >> thanks to argan oil she bought a house and traveled even paid for brand new set of teeth. and there is plenty of wealth being spread around essaouira. all across town you'll see signs advertising. along with bus loads of tourists who poor in to buy the oil. but that means the goats are now struggling to keep up with the demand. after all they can only process so much fruit. as a result, most local companies have started phasing out the goats and even replaced some berber women's traditional roles machines which can produce 40 liters per day compared to two when done by hand.

>> some people start businesses to make money. you started this business as passion to give back. >> i appreciate the culture. i appreciate what these women are doing. >> what point do you sell out? >> i don't think i will sell out. when we sell a bottle of oil that is bottle that has lot of work of women, good quality. it has a story behind it. >> a story that begins in these tree tops. and ends in shops like ahmed and gabrielle's in new york city. they could be the last few drops of an ancient moroccan tradition, unable to keep up with modern demands. >> osgood: still to come. cable news host, rachel maddow. >> if the story is here on this show before is anywhere else.

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>> osgood: that's fred newman mouthing off with garrison keillor on "a prairie home companion." newman is a man with a thousand voices and a million sounds. he shares a few of them with our jane pauley. >> ♪ i hear that old piano >> for more than 40 years a prairie home companion has been saturday night ritual for millions gather around the radio. >> as they danced the night away -- >> it's an old-fashioned variety show p. by a family of troubadour. >> here we are in lennox, massachusetts. >> fred newman is the maestro of sound.

>> i'm going to do a chiropractic move for you. okay? >> remember -- it's radio. >> hey, jane. >> what fred newman actually does for a living is hard to say. >> that was the thing that drove my mother crazy. she just needed something at bridge club. what does your son do? boom. >> i'm really doing what i used to do behind teachers' backs and getting paid for it. >> this thing where you run in place and -- >> fred has harnessed his weirdness. nobody else could do dolphins as fred can. >> i see. dolphins doing the gettysburg address. >> nobody else in radio could ever do helicopters.

the chopper could come in. >> newman makes most of the sounds with his mouth so keillor is free to improvise. >> submarine surfaced -- garrison does. that we go out. next thing you know my tie is caught in the xerox machine. >> it was like basketball, tennis nothing but fun to be able to challenge fred's genius. because he's so far beyond what we ordinarily would do in radio. two roots, one of whom has the hiccups, a show i did by myself would be too high minded. so we bring in somebody to do primates. >> the guy we associate with

sound is primarily a listener. >> that's for sure. >> and this is his listening post. >> only one easy way to get out here. >> a bright red kitchen chair on branch reaching out over a pond in his connecticut home. >> it goes from birds to amphibians. and there's a whole vocabulary of frogs, equally as beautiful as the birds. >> there was a similar spot in his childhood home. >> we lived on the edge of town. on the lake. you'd hear the dog. mama, somebody's coming up the driveway. these weren't interruptions, these were opportunities. and then there were the bugs. >> fred newman grew up in the deep south, la range, georgia,

in the '50s. >> we had a black maid and her name was dot. dot introduced me to a little store. the currency there were stories. and blacks and whites mixed, just to cool off, get a cold coca-cola. and tell stories. >> and perform some astonishing tricks. >> fred the yard man could swallow lit cigars. he'd take coca-cola and swallow like this. then he'd blow smoke out of his nose. i went, oh, my, gosh. >> at five years old fred found his calling. >> dad, i want to swallow lit cigar like fred. that's good son, you aim high. >> the maestro of sound learned from the masters like the old man scald snipes. >> fred, you ever watch the

water drip? watch it. watch it with your -- watch it all the way down. the two sounds. he goes, woop. you breathe through your nose. you make your mouth into a cup. just cap. what you're going to do is push the water out like you're brushing your teeth. >> after that, he started collecting sounds. >> what do you think that is 1234. >> some old tools of the trade. >> it's a flock of starlings. >> others he's fashioned himself. >> this is a tuna can. >> making music that almost defies description. >> just bottle caps flattened. or something that might sound familiar.

♪ remember doug from the '90s? fred newman cowrote the music, did the sound effects and many of the voices for the animated hit show. when hollywood needs a really special effect. new newman's phone rings. >> hello? how are you doing? this is joey -- we got this movie with sandra bullock and nicole kidman and this frog swallows a wedding band, can you do that sound of a frog swallowing the ring and then throwing it up? could you do that? i said, yeah, i could do that. could you do that right now? >> it's 9:00 in the morning. i'm in my pjs. yeah, okay. >> on a prairie home, fred

newman has found a perfect home for his unique gifts. >> my daddy barks and meows, mrs. lewis. oh, i see, why? i don't know. let me ask you, do you feel safe at home? >> and garrison keillor a perfect collaborator. >> there are moments that we have out there that things are not exactly spoken, but there's communication. through his eyebrows or something and you know that i know it's got to be a little bit bigger. >> picked up by a farmer on a farm-all tractor. i didn't know tractors have horns. >> he rides this like a surfboard. >> and other tack reports, i don't know. >> i would say it is just a big piece of jazz. >> i love being around musicians. >> but garrison keillor is stepping away from the mic at the end of the season and this unique collaboration will end. but on a playful note.

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>> osgood: just keep going, words that are easy to say, much harder to live by. yet one young man who suffered a near title injury is managing to live by that principle and then some. lee cowan has his story. >> despite what dylan rizzo may say, his bowling skills are pulley pretty good. especially when you consider what dylan has been this through. >> no. >> did you guys ever have doubt that he'd be back having beers with you guys again? >> i would say that there was definitely a doubt. >> five years ago, dylan rizzo, then 19, was driving to his friend ryan's house to play

video games. his car hit a patch of black ice and he spun sideways into a telephone pole. his parents, steve and tracy, got the call every parent fears. >> the pole seemed to hit him directly on the head and from there he went forward and hit the windshield and had damage on the other side. first impact then second. >> the driver salt, where dylan sat, there was a big indentation in the car. >> he was rushed to massachusetts general hospital in boston. neurosurgeons removed the left side of his skull and part of the right to make room for his brain to swell. but dylan had slapped into a deep coma. >> not being able to move my feet. extremely surreal. >> i didn't know what to think. >> dylan had been an athlete. he was accomplished track star

and rooted operationally for his pioneers. but the accident had done a shocking amount of damage to his brain. dylan remained in his coma for more than the two weeks. did he finally open his eyes but while he was technically awake, he wasn't aware of his surrounding. he transitioned into what's called vegetative state. a month later, there hadn't been much improvement. doctors broke the news to his parents that unless he came out of it soon, he would say in that vegetative state for life. >> everyone was waiting. i said, we can't come out and tell our family that. i can't even say these words. i can't say it. >> but this man, not a medical doctor but researcher brought in to study the case thought that dylan's brain might just need more time. >> we were sort of lumping everyone into this vegetative state category.

>> he's a neuropsychologist at boston's spaulding rehabilitation hospital, and is among a growing number of experts warning of what is called a rush to judgment in cases of consciousness. >> as many as 40% of individuals who have been diagnosed with vegetative state, actually retain some conscious awareness. that's a fairly alarming number. >> he thought dylan just might be one of those cases. and given the right therapy might pull himself out of that fog. >> the adage was, the brain is not a muscle. you know, just simply by exercising it is not going to help it. >> follow with your eyes. okay, ready? >> there's evidence that if you do rehearsal of a particular behavior including a damaged brain it may well get better. >> you can do it, dylan. >> dylan was moved to the pediatric unit at spaulding rehab where they started working

him hard. >> one, two, three, go. >> they helped him stand. tried to get him to walk. eventually to climb stairs. >> he never said no to any challenge. physically, anything you asked him to do, any medications, any shots, whatever it was. >> it was two years after the accident when we met dylan for the first time. >> nice shot. >> not in the nursing home. but back in his own home. >> the boy who wasn't supposed to be able to walk or talk took me down to his basement to play foosbalance. >> very good, man. >> you know how you've confounded all the experts, you know that? >> i have. yeah. >> talking was difficult, but he certainly could string a few words together. >> i feel great. >> yeah? >> yeah. >> you're making progress every

day? >> oh, yeah. >> you can tell? >> yeah. >> hi, dylan! how are the pioneers doing this year? >> his medical team was pleased but not satisfied, not yet, anyway. >> they kept pushing dylan to work even harder on this day occupational therapist. >> muffin tin. >> his movements were slow. but with help he did it. >> every day you see something new that he's doing that he wasn't doing before. >> we watched as he learned to write again, too. >> nicely done. >> and work on his memory. >> do you remember mary jane's e-mail or her phone number? this is a tough one. >> maryjane @gmail.com. >> through it all even when it

hurt dylan was always thumbs up. this past summer we decided to check back in on dylan again and guess why we found him? you seem to love it. >> i do love it. i really do. >> back at his high school track. where he's a volunteer assistant coach. on scale of one to ten where would you put your recovery do you think? >> probably an eight or nine, yeah, i'm doing very well. >> awesome. >> we went to the ymca with him, too, where dylan does weight training at least once a week. >> there you go. >> what are you thinking? >> it's amazing to see the amount of weight that he can actually lift. because it took weeks and months to be able to get him to lift his right arm.

>> that's not what dylan is most proud of. what have you noticed is the biggest improvement? >> i can talk much better. because i would just go, yeah, it was just awkward. >> you can have a conversation now. >> yeah, i can. >> everything happens a lot quicker. >> yeah, a little quicker. i'm good. >> pretty good to me. >> i'm very intelligent, i want to be more intelligent. that's the difference. >> do you see question that's asking when. >> time? >> time, great. >> he's the first to admit he's got a ways to go. >> really nice improvement. you've done great. >> yeah. >> tracy, dylan's mom, is careful to keep her expectations in check. >> i want him to be able to take care of himself in the future. i know he would love to have family some day, so that's

something i'm hoping. >> that's the goal now. the next goal. be more independence. >> and a girlfriend. he wants a girlfriend. >> dylan's not red ready for a full time jock, he can't live alone because cooking remains a challenge. he still needs help managing his long list of medications and taking care of his wounds which are still healing. >> ow. >> joseph concedes there are parts of dylan's brain that will likely never recover. but what dylan's case suggests he says, is that for some people, being in a vegetative state may not be as persistent as it once thought. >> said that for somebody with disorder of consciousness the condition is not permanent until a year. now with this most recent data we know that the small percentage may be 15% will actually recover after one year.

>> his amazing journey has surprised everyone, his friends, his family and his doctors. only person not surprised by it tall is dylan rizzo himself. >> you sort of knew were going to get better. >> i was guaranteeable, just keep going. that's what i always say, just keep going. that's it. >> every time i put a little hair clip in her hair it would fall out. >> next -- it's so easy. >> by a hair. >> go under, over, under. ,,,,,,,,,, ,,

>> osgood: the clueless dad, out of his depth when dealing with his kids, is a pop culture. steve hartman met real life dad. >> phil morgese of daytona,

beach, florida, has always been good with his hands on guy stuff. but when it came to the finer points of styling his daughter's hair, phil admits, he was about a quart low. >> every time i put a little hair clip it would fall out almost immediately. >> i'm with you. >> what were you sending her out looking like? >> used to wear a lot of hats. >> phil is obviously a single dad. and he hated that he couldn't put in a measly clip, let alone a four-strand braid. >> i told him it's so easy, just take four strands -- >> this is his daughter, emma. what she didn't realize -- >> you lost me. >> that the y chromosome makes us follically challenged. >> i'm like, daddy, i'm going to do a three-strand braid. >> at that point lot of guys would have given up. but not phil. he watched a ton ever youtube videos, when he eventually mastered it, a light went off. >> something as simple as

sending your daughter out and her being proud of her hair and you being proud of your work, it's beautiful. the cup of the class just go through basics. >> he now gives restyling lessons to other like-minded dads. daytona beach police officer is typical client. kevin says arresting crooks is a cakewalk compared to capturing a ponytail. phil presents it in way that even the most macho man can understand. >> like wrapping a rubberband around the extension cable. >> his girly girl 101, their styling skills are stoked bun. >> wrapping the braid around the ponytail itself. >> phil says the real reward has nothing to do with hair. >> that's excellent time to sit there and just talk about your day. >> yeah. my dad has a motto, it's not about the bun it's about the bond. or it's not about the braid it's about the bond. or anything that has b and then

bond. >> it kind of works. >> whatever the marketing it's a success. since launching the class in october, lots of other dads have started workshops, in pennsylvania, texas, even netherlands. what more can i say. >> the only question you haven't asked, have i ever done hairstyle on a cat? >> require right. i threat out. have you ever done a hairstyle on cat? >> no. >> i should have quit when i was ahead. >> osgood: rachel, get your gun. rita braver spent some time with rachel maddow. later, a quiz. which is the largest of the great lakes. >> it's lake michigan. >> lake superior. >> probably from michigan.

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ta-da! >> it's "sunday morning" on cbs here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: any doubt where rachel maddow stands on issue, she's a cable news headliner and rita braver has been watching her in action on the air and off. >> this is beautiful. >> maybe you wouldn't expect the woman wielding the colt .45 pistol or the ar15 rifle. to be unabashedly left leaning rachel maddow. >> i'm like a real liberal. that said i think ha shooting is fun and i think that shooting ranges are an excellent place to both learn about guns and to freak your friend out. >> indeed as the host of her own msnbc show -- >> there's laundry lift around gift giving and receiving.

>> rachel maddow delights in doing the unexpected. >> a story in which it is starting to become inconceivable that nobody has gone to jail. >> for example she's credited as one of the first national journalist to, spotlight the lead in drinking water crisis in flint, michigan. >> local doctor started studying blood samples. her results were scary. >> spooling out the story as she usually does in a long, impassed monologue. >> the kids of flint, michigan, have been poisoned by a policy decision. >> her goal, to make you really listen. >> under your watch, governor, through the actions -- >> you tell me you're never going to guess what happened. i have to sit there find out what happened. >> storytelling is fun. it's fun for me, but i also think when you're telling a good story it sinks in more. that's a more influential way to

communicate information rather than just read the news. >> rachel is anything but a cookie-cutter cable anchor. take her on-air wardrobe. a rack of drab blazers. >> it takes me about 15 seconds to get dressed. i only dress from the waist up. >> these are permanent part of -- >> underneath? >> like a mullet. it's business upstairs, party downstairs. >> welcome to the rachel maddow show here on msnbc. >> of course there's the fact that in 2008 she became the first openly gay american to host a national news store show. >> did you ever ask yourself, are they ever going to give me my own show? look, i'm gay, nobody's ever done this before? >> it's funny, i came out when i was 17. now i'm 42. so i never lived an adult day of my life as either a straight

person or a closeted person. that's been a baseline truth about what you're getting when you get me. but they made the gamble and i've tried to be worthy of the confidence. >> raised in california, maddow graduated stanford and went on to win a prestigious rhodes scholarship. she ended up in western massachusetts, working on her doctoral dissertation and taking odd jobs. >> i remember applying to a video store. and not getting a job. >> it was doing yard work job in 1999 that she met her partner, susan mikula, they have been together ever since. you made personal decision thus far not to get married. don't want to rock the boat? >> it's private. sort of a private -- there's a lot about my relationship with susan that we just keep to

ourselves. and so i have strong feeling on equal rights. unabashed advocate that have equal access. in terms of what that means for my own relationship. >> and rachel says susan, who didn't want to speak on camera, is the one who helps her deal with a difficult and recurring problem. depression. do you have a strategy for coping with it? or does it just go away? >> it's hardest when i have forgotten that this happens to me so i don't know what it is and she will say, you're dressed. just being able to identify it then knowing that it's not going to be forever that it will pass, that it will ease at some point helps. >> the two share this manhattan apartment. >> it was actually a paper storage facility. like paper storage warehouse.

the beams, all the beams are original they inform numbers because that was part of the way they sorted the inventory. like, that stock of whatever over by beam 58. >> it's so nice the way you have this dog placed strategically here. >> maddow says she never expected to end up in new york. it was back in massachusetts that she heard a local radio host needed a new sidekick. >> it's minimum wage. it's early morning before i do my other job. they hired me on the spot. >> she did so well by 2005 she was hosting a daily radio show on the liberal air america network. >> i'm rachel maddow this is the rachel maddow show, air america radio's new front page. >> she was in demand as liberal

talking heads on cable news. >> it's clearly, his race is enough to be major factor. >> which in turn let to msnbc offering her a show of her own. it is her own. >> the issue of sanders' past. anybody think that this is a story that we can add something useful to at this point? >> she leads her daily staff meeting in part like a general plotting a battle. >> about to say, speak now or forever -- >> and like general she is clearly in charge of what happens on her watch. >> i have worked with producers who expected that they would set the tone of the show. and that i would follow along. and that has not worked out. >> who what has worked out is she has the show on msnbc. she admits still beaten by fox's

kelly file. still rachel maddow has become face of her network, on the election set and even moderating a democratic debate with nbc's chuck todd. >> we're going to begin tonight -- >> though it was some post debate hugs, that drew conservative ire. maddow claims sanders started it. >> but if i'm going to hug him i better hug her. the die was cast. >> have you sworn off hugging now? >> oh, no, i'm a hugger. i'm going to sneak up on you. >> maddow is really embracing the current political drama what do you make of this year? >> everybody thought this was going to be a boring year. and this is the universe giving that a one-finger salute. >> it has kept rachel mad depo on the run, literally, this is the nightly dash to make up and

on to the set just minutes before her show starts. >> i do feel like i'm a race horse ready to go, ready to sprint. >> doing a job that she still can't believe she gets to do. >> and by the time that camera comes on it's like we're getting shot out of the gun. of i love it every night. says republicans should love the idea of him at the top of the ticket. >> osgood: ahead -- port lewis. >> osgood: the kid who geography put on the map.

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superior because it's lake superior. >> for the record he's right. of course he's right. >> name the world's smallest country in area? >> vatican city. >> that is it. 's because 15-year-old akhil rekulapelli of virginia was the 2014 winner of the national geographic bee. >> you are a winner. when did your love for geography begin? >> i loved putting puzzles together. my parents got me a puzzle of the united states. i knew the states, most of the capitals. i love the subject. that's what drove me throughout the whole can he glikes to win the bee and $50,000 in scholarship money, akhil studied hard. >> isich longitude? >> with some guidance from his little sister. >> which mountains have higher

elevation? the sierra nevada or ozark mountains? >> sierra, nevada. >> one misconception memorizing what the capitals are, but that's one smart part of this diverse subject. the culture, food, music, language. >> couscous. >> sometimes served with seafood in what african capital city? >> tunis. >> a great article about the geography of baseball. the influence different teams have across the country. >> michael is head of the national gee yes spatial program at the u.s. geological. >> it's study of what connects people to a place. it's really all the things that tie person to particular location. >> he is the country's top civilian map maker. >> we remap the entire united states every three years. >> why one earth would he do

that? >> the world is undergoing really dynamic change. deforestation. >> geography is changing. >> boundaries are changing the kid who says to you, why should i study geography not going to matter in my life. >> i hit him upside the head and i tell him to look at google maps tell me how to get to any place without that information now aways. >> a topographic map. >> students of geography don't just memorize geography. you have to understand resources how it impacts history. all history is geography based. it's understanding the connections. >> just watch akhil connect history with geography for his middle school teacher. >> my father was born in surinane and my mother was born in the netherlands. my father i am grated, they met, i was made in the netherlands born in hoboken, new jersey.

>> so analyze that. >> that would explain immigration. new jersey, quite a few dutch people in new jersey, and new york and so new york city was once new amsterdam and once dutch. >> this year's bee may 27th is being moderated by yours truly. i know the capital of every country in the world. >> owe. do you know the capital of mauridius. >> port st. louis. >> port lewis, yeah. >> maybe it's good thing i'm not competing. >> how about vanuatu. >> don't give me those island nations!

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>> somehow in the whirlwind of doing 919 reports for "60 minutes" he was only -- >> when he made this self portrait. >> osgood: he found time to contribute dozens of pieces to "sunday morning" over the years. most of them about the masters of art. >> at age 42, paul gogan a merchant seaman, successful stockbroker, full time eccentric is about to fulfill a romantic dream to go to the south seas and cultivate his art in, as he called it, its primitive and savage state. vienna at the turn of the 19th century, the twilight of the aistro-hungarian empire. no one captured the moment of poppy lent decadence the way gustav klimt did.

>> a towering figure of 20th century art in america. it was light he loved best. the hodgkin's house in gloucester, a woman in a bedroom. new york's 7th avenue on early sunday morning. >> osgood: tonight it's morley's mastery that will be honored when "60 minutes" presents "morley safer: a reporter's life. a one-hour special. you know all his friends here at "sunday morning" will be watching. memorial day sale. time to get the crossover that's right for you. trax, equinox, or traverse. it's very impressive. it's awesome. this is incredible. it'd be a good road trip car. the wi-fi is cool. it's fancy. i love it. get more than you expect for less than you imagined during the chevy memorial day sale. current qualified competitive lessees can get this chevy equinox lt for around $189 a month. plus find your tag and get an additional $500 lease cash

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tuesday kicks off ireland 100, a three-week long celebration of irish culture at the kennedy center in washington. wednesday is national visit your relatives day. a chance to catch up with some of those distant branches of your family tree. on thursday, music legend smokey robinson is honored at a music cares charity concert in los angeles. friday is day one of ferris fest. a weekend long party in and around chicago marking the 30th anniversary of the film "ferris bueller's day off." and saturday president obama departs on trip to vietnam and japan, including the first visit to hiroshima where the u.s. dropped an atomic bomb in the closing days of world war ii. now to john dickerson for "face

the nation." >> dickerson: good morning, we'll talk to the chairman of the republican party how the party unifies then conversation with former defense secretary robert gates served eight presidents, what should we look for. >> osgood: thank you, john. we'll be watching. next week, here on "sunday morning." by design, from the vanderbilt cottage at newport, rhode island. some cottage. hmmmmmm..... [ "dreams" by beck ] hmmmmm...

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