about we don't want to change the culture. that is code word for me that we don't believe that there is a problem. >> you think that is code word. >> when you leave out of the room you are demoralized. >> several black agents told cbs news managers inside the fbi who are mostly white tend to only promote individuals looking like themselves. black women make up 1% of the 13,000 fbi agents around the world. jennifer love retired in 2012 as an assistant director, reaching the highest rank of any black woman in the fbi's history. >> it became tiring. i would go in and everybody looked the same. white men with their dark suits on, white shirts, blue and red ties. >> love said she was a champion for the fbi. even appearing in recruiting

ads. near of end of her career she saw the mandatory polygraph examinations for new recruits. >> i had a stack of letters from black and brown people who failed a polygraph and said they felt they were asked inappropriate questions. >> her proposal, videotape the polygraphs to create accountability. >> i can tell you internal to my division they were opposed to it. >> they didn't want to do it? >> they didn't want to do it. >> the number of black agents in the fbi hovered so low for so long they created this. a buffalo nickel. a challenge coin to commemorate the fact that black agents historically only made up 5% of the fbi, a number that is lower today. >> to sit here today and to hear that the numbers have gotten

worse and the personal sacrifice. i moved my kids eight times. two divorces, okay. i want the bureau to be accountable, but you have to believe that it is necessary. >> eric jackson's successful career came to an abrupt end last year. he was gunning for an executive assistant director position. there are only six in the entire fbi. he was told he wasn't eligible because of his rank. jackson said the bureau changed the eligibility rules while he was applying and the job went to a white agent with similar credentials. >> other black special agents in charge, we notice that. the rules didn't apply to us. >> jackson retired last year after 21 years with the fbi. how do you respond to people who think it is sour grapes? >> if they think it is sour

grapes they do not understand what is going on. because if we don't look like the community that we serve, how can that community trust us? >> the former agents that we spoke with said that they are coming forward now because they love the fbi. the fbi officials told us that director wray was unable to schedule an interview before the report aired, but that he was interested in addressing the former agent's concerns and former agent's concerns and pledged to sit life doesn't stop for a cold. [man] honey... [woman] honey that's why there's new dayquil severe honey. it's maximum strength cold and flu medicine with soothing honey-licious taste. dayquil honey. the daytime coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever, power through your day medicine.

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>> the sometimes angry division in the country this election season reminds people of 1968 when violent protests filled the country. a new documentary looks back on the turbulent time and tracy smith has a preview of the trial of the chicago seven. >> reporter: in 2020 as the season of social unrest has become the autumn of discontent. it is remarkable how it looks like another time. 52 summers ago. in 1968 there was revolution in the air. >> one young rebel climbed up to lower the american flag to half-mast. >> the nation was in turmoil over civil rights, split over the vietnam war. >> a handful of police -->>

reporter: in late august outside the democratic national convention in chicago around 10,000 protesters squared off with around 23,000 police and national guard troops. and all hell broke loose. >> in less than a minute what had been a relatively quiet crowd was a raging mob. >> reporter: seven months later the government charged the suspected ring leaders with among other things conspiracy and crossing state lines to insight a riot. at first there were eight chicago defendants. >> we were not arrested. >> we were chosen. >> reporter: their trial is the subject of a new netflix film, the trial of the chicago seven, written and directed by aaron

sorkin. >> you really think there will be a big audience. >> reporter: the movie has been in the works for 14 years but sorkin said it took on a new urgency after president trump took office. >> reporter: was there a moment when you said okay, now i need to tell the story. >> well, it began when he was running for president and at his rallies. he would become nostalgic. >> like to punch them in the face. >> about the old days when they beat the crap out of them. >> you know what they used to do to guys like that in a place like this. they would be taken out in a stretcher. >> the police advanced into the crowd. >> reporter: one of those protesters, chicago seven rennie davis needed a stretcher. >> i was being clubbed by police. the police were literally screaming kill davis. >> reporter: how bad was your head injury?

>> i had to go to the hospital. i will tell the story i have never shared before publicly. i went to the hospital to get 13 stitches. the police realized i was in the hospital because they knew i had been clubbed. they started a search of the hospital room by room by room. mostly the nurses, they could end their career by what they did. they put me on a trolley car and covered me with a sheet and moved me from room to room. >> reporter: to hide you from the police. >> to hide from the police, yeah. >> reporter: protesters and the police ordered to stop them, it was a dangerous game. but the activists all knew what they were in for said the former defendant lee winer. did you know you were risking prison time? >> always a probability, you know, what are we going to do, not do it just because of that? not a chance. >> your plans for the convention

were designed specifically to draw the police into a confrontation. >> if i knew it would be the first thing i would have aimed a lot higher. >> reporter: after sasha baron cohen studied him before he played him. >> who is this guy is he a fool or the smartest guy in the room. >> what do you think? >> i think he was the smartest guy in the room and developed a whole style of protesting that was designed to get as much media attention as possible, and even in the riots in chicago, he always had his mind on where the cameras were. >> we can't fight it in the court. these are the people that are putting us on trial, see. >> reporter: hoffman and his co-defendant jerry ruben became celebrities in our own right. >> it was raining, cold and it was not a night out for man and beast and it was only -- they

should choose this night to hold a news conference. >> only people to stop the trial are the people in the streets. >> the u.s. attorney wanted a negro defendant to scare the jury. >> reporter: the trial was a different experience for the lone black defendant, bobby seal. he wound up representing himself and ended up clashing with judge hoffman. >> he was gagged and chained for refusing to obey the judge. a white linen cloth reinforced with adhesive tape was knotted around his neck. >> he would pull his hands up and he would be clubbed in front of the jury and it went on for several days. >> i wasn't in any contempt. i told the judge you are in contempt of the american people. >> reporter: eventually the case was a mistrial and the chicago eight became the chicago seven.

five were convicted of some charges but all were overturned on appeal. their trial is history but fight is very much alive. >> we didn't need it to get more relevant but it did. when you see peaceful protesters met with gas and night sticks. you have to care a lot about this country to go out in the street and face that kind of danger. you have to care a lot about america. >> anti-war demonstrators gathered in grant park. >> the demonstrators risked their safety and freedom to make themselves heard. >> surrounded by grim, silent soldiers the demonstrators decided to sing. >> it was crazy, for sure. it was hard. it was brutal. it was dangerous. it was an effort by the

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mission to retrieve a sample from an asteroid. the $800 million asteroid-hunting robot began chasing beno four years ago and right away the asteroid surprised the team. >> we thought the surface was going to be sandy and beach-like. then i saw the first images coming in. i thought oh, boy. we are in for a real challenge. >> reporter: it is covered in bolders. to find a safe spot scientists spent a year mapping every square everyone and settled on this small clearing. >> there is a large rock on the eastern rim i call mount doom about 30 feet tall. >> about the size of a large van having to maneuver into something the size of a small parking space. it ends with a space vacuum

cleaner designed to collect about two ounces of asteroid gravel. it spends about ten seconds before backing away. >> the most intriguing part to me o the mission is the citement of bringing a sample back to earth. >> reporter: nasa's director of planetary science. almost like discovering the dna of the universe. >> it is exactly like discovering the dna of our solar system because this is the material that built up who we are here today. >> reporter: potentially a cosmic jackpot that will land in utah in 2023. >> and that is the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. others, check back later for cbs this morning and don't miss cbs news coverage of tonight's presidential debate startingt

9:00 p.m. eastern reporting from the nation's capital, i am jeff pegues. it's thursday, october 22nd, 2020. this is the cbs morning news. the final debate. president trump and joe biden square off one last time tonight as the fbi calls out two countries for taking voter information to influence the election. cabin cleaning. new research could offer some peace of mind for air travelers in the covid-19 era. breaking from the vatican. pope francis becomes the first pope to endorse same-sex civil unions. good morning.