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right now on andrea mitchell reports, a victory. sexual assault prosecutions away from the commanders bill was killed. >> a lot of folks don't feel comfortable reporting the crimes because they feel they'll either be retaliated against or marginalized in their career or even blamed. >> i don't personally believe that you can eliminate the command structure in the military from this process because it is the culture, it is the institution, it's the people within that institution that have to fix the problem and
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that's the culture. i don't know how you disconnect that from the accountability of command. breaking his silence, edward snowden tells a paper he is no traitor as he promises to reveal even more nsa secrets. after closed door meetings tuesday, they want more of the secret program to be made public. >> i think it's important that there be public hearings, that there be an opportunity to get straight answers. >> we have an obligation to watch them carefully. >> the government spooks are drunk on power and it's time for congress to intervene. an uneasy calm today in turkey after a night of violent clashes after a night of rioting in istanbul's central square. happen any birthday, mr. president. george h.w. bush turns 89. the man who loves his wild and crazy socks, bush's library
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foundation is asking friends and fans to upload photos of their own. and that's our senior producer, matt's socks. so there. we're getting into the act. good day. i'm andrea mitchell. happy birthday, mr. president, george h.w. bush. here in washington, senators today are pushing for big changes in the way the military handless sexual assaults. they've come up against powerful defenders of the brass. democratic armed services chair carl levin is stripping out a proposal to take away prosecuting authority from military commanders. it is a rare slap at a new york democratic senator. she has vowed to try once again to get back into the defense bill later this summer before final passage. joining us for our daily fix, capitol hill correspondent,
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kelly o'donnell. eugene robinson. kelly, the action is on the hill. there is going to be a markup. gillibrand loses. there are other measures that levin putting in. commanders cannot overrule jury verdicts. is this going to be enough? >> reporter: some would say it's a step in the right direction and that democrats have said carl levin is a man working in good faith, has a lot of experience. they wish he had gone along with the gillibrand proposal, they think he's trying to move things forward. they say this is a crash of traditions and you had so much attention when gillibrand came up with this idea to take the most serious crimes out of the chain of command. she said that was in part because victims said it was so critical for them to feel like they could report crimes without fear of retaliation, fear of
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losing their careers. that's not going to happen now what may occur will be something that brings so much attention to this. i see this as possibly one beginning of a slice that will take a lot of time. the attention that has been brought to this even though gillibrand will not get what she has hoped for. >> eugene, is this one step forward, one step backwards. there are 20 women senators. they got a lot of attention. gillibrand is clearly one of the leaders of the group. and she's been set back. >> you know, andrea, i think there's no question. i think if you watch the hearing, i think if you watch the hearing and saw what the witness list looked like. we wrote about this last week on my blog. you've got a very clear sense where carl levin's head was.
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you had a lot of voices saying this is, you know, sexual assault in the military. there are very few voices aside from senator gillibrand, barbara boxer and a few others. they would take it out of the chain of command. so i think if you saw it here i don't think we should be terribly surprised by this. there was writing on the wall here. the question to be asked is what will it take? is there an external event that can change this. t it's not going to change, at least this policy that senator gillibrand is hoping to change. >> eugene, what does it take. we've had instances even on the eve of a hearing where you've had commanders in charge of prosecuting these cases who
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themselves were charged with harassment or accused of harassment. how many more incidents have to happen. >> you know, i think it's obvious from what we've learned over the last few months. this is a huge problem. this is unacceptable and intolerable. senator levin, i'm not sure about the policy of not taking away from the commanders. when people say it's a cultural problem inside the military, that's absolutely true. that's absolutely right. it's got to change. i think this whole process does put pressure on the military commanders, on the whole chain of command. i don't know that we have a choice. >> it's always ironic to hear people talk about the importance of preserving the chain of command. he could not tell a parent that he would advise his daughter to
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go into the military. >> just the sound -- >> for john mccain to say that. >> which is astounding. you know, i think all-americans and the state of our military, just on the basis of that. this is a huge problem. >> one of the things that came out of the hearing is the military does not disaggregate the data so that they report inappropriate comment or harassment, what we would consider an unfriendly workplace. what the law considers a hostile workplace with forcible rape. so there was that number of 26,000 incidents combines them all so that there's no way to figure out, you know, what we're really talking about here. i wanted to also bring up the nsa issue because keith alexander is going to be the -- the head of the nsa will be back on the hill. eugene, where do you come down on the debate between protection
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and privacy? >> well, look. look, clearly we face threats. we have enemies. where i come down is that i think the nsa has gone too far. i think the pendulum has gone too far. secret court orders from secret judges based on secret interpretations of the law that allow really huge and ongoing collections of data that we didn't know about. i, for one, am happy that we know about the stuff now. whatever damage has been done to national security, i don't think it's much from this, i think it's outweighed by the fact that this is something we need to talk about. >> kelly, when general alexander faces the appropriations hearing today, it's not in his prepared advanced remarks but he is going to be questioned about pressure even from dianne feinstein and leaders of the intelligence committee who want to see
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whether the vacuum cleaner approach can be narrowed, whether it can be further declass si 2350id and whether there is a better way to target those who need to be targeted. >> in tualking to chairman feinstein, she is very much a supporter of wanting to have the tools to prevent future attacks. she believes some of these systems in place have been effective and appropriate. she's had as much information as anyone given her role as the long-time chair of the intelligence committee. i've been struck by talking to susan collins. she was the top republican on homeland security and she told me despite monthly national security briefings and being fully engaged in these issues she has not known about these programs and so there's been a real disconnect up here about who knew, who didn't know, did people show up for briefings or not. to have someone like susan collins say with all of her access information that she didn't know, that's part of the puzzle of this whole story as it
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has unfolded. >> definitely is puzzling. thanks to you, kelly. we'll be watching you for updates. eugene and chris. one person who i know was briefed on everything is democratic whip steny hoyer. he's going to have the briefing with alexander on tuesday afternoon. thank you very much for being with us, mr. leader. >> you bet, andrey a. glad to be with you. >> i know you support the concept of these programs but tell me why you think the balance doesn't need to be adjusted or changed. >> i think we need to look at the balance, andreandrea. i think we had a briefing yesterday, it was a classified briefing so i can't talk about the substance. what i can talk about, however, is that it was one of the most thoughtful briefings in which i've participated with the whole caucus invited. the whole caucus wasn't there. republicans, democrats, the congress. it was very interesting in terms of the bipartisan views that were expressed.
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some support it, some not supported. some thinking we need adjustment. it was not along party lines. it was a very thoughtful consideration that as a nation, as policy makers we have to balance the constitutional privacy rights that americans want and must have consistent with our constitution and on the other hand america's desires and congress's desire to make sure they're safe and secure in their safety. so i think we're going to have to look at this carefully. i agree with dianne feinstein. we need to look at this more carefully and we need to come to grips with a policy. i think this program as i made the point a few days ago was being conducted legally. that is, consistent with american law, law that was adopted by the congress subsequent to 9/11 so that this
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is not a rogue policy. unlike the bush interception of information which was not done pursuant to law, was not checked by any court, we changed that in the fisa reauthorization bill some years ago, but the fact of the matter is this is a legal exercise of the authority given by the congress. the question is, do we want to limit it? do we want to make it more specific and what are the tradeoffs that will be involved in that limitation. so i think this is going to be on the front burner for discussion and debate and i think it will be done so in a bipartisan way. not in a partisan way. there are different points of view of democrats and different points of view of republicans. >> did edward snowden perform a service for the american people by forcing congress and forcing the public into this public debate?
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>> you know, we just had a meeting with hendrick smith, who you know, andrey a "new york times" reporter -- >> i do. >> -- during the course of the pentagon papers. he believes -- i'm going to state his belief. i want to find out more information. his belief is that snowden performed a service to the american people and that he brought to light and he does not believe at this point in time that any compromise of individuals was made and we'll see whether or not that's the case. snowden obviously acted contrary to law. there is not much doubt about that. i think he admits that himself. we'll have to look at further exactly the ramifications of what snowden has done. very frankly, we need to deal with that in congress and why whistle blowers are important. we can't have whistle blowers
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compromising the security of the united states in such a public and broadway. >> do you think that we have gone too far in contracting out our national security to millions of people who have top secret clearances of these defense contractors? >> you know, i think that i've been wore brid contracting for a long period of time. i've talked to many people in the defense department. a, the loss of control of oversight to a significant degree and secondly a lack of expertise within the government itself. frankly, contracting out was a way to mask costs of doing things and to pretend that we had reduced the numbers of people working for the government or working for the department of defense. but the contracting numbers of course escalated very rapidly. we have to be very careful that we keep the ability and the
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oversight to control these very sensitive matters. obviously contracting out makes sense in the sense that we don't do some things on a long-term basis and having an infrastructure for a long term is not what we need. we need them done on a contract basis. this raises the issue we need to look at as well not just of the program itself but in terms of what authority this young man seems to think he had and the broad abilities he had to intercept information and see what was going on so i think that needs to be looked at. we'll see how extensive that was, whether his claims are accurate, if they are, what controls we need to put in place. >> steny hoyer, thank you for being with us today. >> thank you. out west, 60 homes have been destroyed by the fast moving fire in colorado springs.
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a special advisor in the past for both president obama and hillary clinton. someone who has worked in the foreign policy field and administrations, republican and
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democrat. dennis, thank you very much for being with us. >> pleasure. >> you've seen the allegations, shocking allegations, which seem to be very different from the way the secret service handled the punishment. immediate dismissal. is there a culture of tolerance and of coverup at the state department do you think? >> you know, i don't really believe there is a culture of tolerance and coverup. i think there are some examples which can happen in any walk of life. i'm sure they will be systematically reviewed. having spent, you know, about 25 years in different branches of the government and about 12 years in the state department, i did not see such a culture. i really don't think it's pervasive and i don't think it's typical in terms of what we've seen in terms of the people who serve our diplomatic service. >> i, of course, have covered the state department since 1994
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and wouldn't be witness to it. we certainly see the diplomatic security agents who are professional and they put themselves into potentially dangerous situations and have gone into all kinds of tense places with them protecting us and also, you know, principally the secretary. >> right. >> is there an attitude of, you know, at night they go off on their own and we're hearing about drug rings outside the embassy in baghdad with contractors. again, contractors who have taken over most of the security in baghdad. >> right. sorry, andrea. >> i was going to say there has not been an inspector general approved and confirmed for years now. doesn't someone have to take control of it? >> well, the short answer is yes, absolutely. there can't even be a hint of abuses without dealing with it. there's no doubt about that. i worked for a number of secretary of state, traveled with them, knew the people who ran diplomatic security, saw how they performed with the
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secretary. i spent an enormous amount of time with them through three different secretary's ten urs and they were always professional. i think there is a profound difference between the contractors, who i think live in a different world, are part of a different culture, and those who have grown up and been part of diplomatic security. they, i think, are highly professional, highly disciplined and i think they're largely selfless as well. >> i want to ask you about syria because there is a meeting of the top foreign policy team today while the president is traveling in boston and then florida. the team is reviewing the options in syria. we've got a real situation here where hezbollah's entrance in a big way into the conflict has tipped the balance, say the rebels. a lot of pressure from the u.k., france, other allies for us to be more involved. is it your sense that the administration is considering more involvement, not boots on the ground, but more involvement in terms of helping the rebels? >> it is my impression that that's the case.
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i still think there is a lot of discussion and debate that will go on. i think there's also a question about the scope of what it is that we do. you're right, we're not talking about boots on the grouchbtnd, there is an awful lot of room that we can did. are you going to do training, are you going to provide money? are you going to try to organize the effort and ensure for the first time that there's a kind of systematic coordination? do you have a senior official who does this? that's very different from if we make a decision to provide lethal assistance or if we decide in terms of the syrian use of chemical weapons to have a specific, discrete response against those units that might have been responsible for using it. conceptually you could have a one off response that doesn't change our fundamental approach to what we're doing in syria, which has been geared much more towards diplomacy, the use of economic sanctions, trying to build a political alternative
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working with the opposition and trying to change the balance of power not only with the regime but also the balance of power within the opposition itself. >> dennis ross, thank you very much. thank you for taking us behind the scenes with what the conversations are probably at the white house. meanwhile, in moscow, thousands of protesters rallied in central moscow to show support for two dozen demonstrators who have been arrested on the eve of president slat mir putin. there are charges that could send them to prison for up to ten years. the boys used double miles from their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion. you must be garth's father? hello. mother. mother! traveling is easy with the venture card because you can fly any airline anytime. two words. double miles! this guy can act. wanna play dodge rock? oh, you guys! and with double miles you can actually use,
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to clear taksim square. it flies in the face of the prime minister's comments about syria. here's what erdogan told ann curry last month. >> governments who do not respect their people, who do not respect the will of their people cannot survive. >> joining me from istanbul is nbc news chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. it's good to see you in a calmer location without a gas mask. this has had political ripple effects. we've never seen anything like this before in istanbul under erdogan. >> i think the -- no, you certainly haven't. i think the prime minister, while the protesters say he was responsible for this, i think he was quite surprised that things got so out of hand. he was so surprised that the protesters were so resilient, that they were gathered in such large numbers.
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i think he was surprised that anyone in this country was opposing him. maybe in that statement is the root of the problem. today, as you said earlier, what a difference a day makes. very calm here in istanbul. when you look beyond taksim square, if you look on some of the side streets a few blocks away from here, you would never have known there were any clashes at all. thousands of people in cafes, shops, bars. tourists taking pictures. most of istanbul, 99% of the city of 13.5 million people looked perfectly normal. here in taksim square there is still some tension. there are hundreds of riot police. there are few thousand demonstrators. the demonstrators are worried that there could be another round of clashes tonight. it should be getting dark here quite soon. to brace for that the protesters have been stockpiling some helmets. they've been bringing in some gas masks. they've been fortifying their tents a little bit but not
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erecting barricades and molotov cocktails we saw yesterday. most of those burning barricades have been removed. they've been clearing out the spaces. there's a lot of pedestrian traffic that has returned here. if it continues like this, it's a domestic problem. it is an internal domestic dispute that turkey really can overcome f. it goes back to the scenes we saw yesterday with thousands of people running battles in the streets and large parts of this city shut down and flooded with tear gas, then it's a different situation. >> richard engel, thank you very much for the update from turkey. and meanwhile, jury selection continues in the george zimmerman trial in florida. before the prosecution and lawyers for zimmerman could question individuals from the pool judge nelson asked the defendant if he was satisfied with the steps taken by his counsel. >> your attorneys making
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nelson mandela remains hospitalized in serious condition. today one of his grandsons expressed the family's gratitude for the worldwide outpouring of support. >> my grandfather is the father of the nation and he's embraced by an entire global community. we appreciate the support. >> msnbc chris jansen joins me live from pretoria. chris, i know this situation continues. he is very frail. the family's all arrived. what else do we know about whether he is pulling through this or whether this could be a real crisis for the family?
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>> i think there's no doubt, andrea, that this is a real crisis, however, the six members of the family that we saw arrive here did get some good news from doctors that he is finally responding to treatment for this respiratory infection after five days of treatment and there are a couple of reasons that there was great concern here. one is that he essentially has a hospital suite in his home and has a full medical team so the fact that they even transferred him to hospital was a cause for concern. and there was traveling by members of his family, his wife brossa was scheduled to give a speech in london. his daughter came home to be with her dad. his former wife, win any mandela, for the last several days has traveled about an hour nava way and visited him as well. but the family made the announcement today that they are feeling relaxed and optimistic after hearing from the doctors that he is responding to
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treatment. and president zuma also made that announcement to members of parliament who then applauded and so there is some sigh of relief here but there is no doubt, andrea, that nelson mandela remains frail. he remains susceptible to these respiratory infections in large part because of the 27 years he was in prison he contracted tuberculosis and that has meant continuing problems for him. this is the fourth time he has been hospitalized since december but at least for now they're feeling a little more optimistic than they did earlier in the day. >> thank you so much. meanwhile, as the assad regime digs in with renewed help from hezbollah, they're considering options to help the rebels. our new wall street journal poll doesn't offer any support for any intervention. we have jeffrey goldberg and david ignatius. what kind of options do you
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think they're considering? dennis ross says he thinks there are some one off steps they could take. i could imagine airstrikes, for instance, against some of the bases from which some of these helicopters and other air power are leaving to attack just today in lebanon. >> andrea, what i'm mostly hearing about is the provision of weapons, a wide range of weapons to the rebels under the command of the general and a continued expansion of the u.s. program to train and assist his forces so they'll have stronger command and control. the u.s. hope is that they'll build up the moderate part of the command so that they're a more effective force against assad's regime and hezbollah fighters. also down the road there's a more effective force against extremist forces. >> do you think that this is a
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decision that's imminent? >> yes. >> what do you think the time frame is? >> i think they're meeting in the white house today, andrea. i think i began hearing rumblings over the weekend. there were some important conversations between general edres, the opposition commander and first john mccain, the u.s. senator has been a very vocal supporter of the opposition and beth jones who's the assistant secretary of state for the near east and conversations have continued. basically what syrian opposition is saying our situation is desperate. you need to move now or we're in danger of being pushed out not simply from the battlefield town of cousair which they lost last week but we're in danger in aleppo. >> in our latest wall street journal poll, only 15% want us to get involved. they don't want military action.
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in terms of favoring the opposition, only 11%. 42% favor humanitarian assistance. >> we're doing that. >> large numbers of people do not want any action taken. >> i think there's zero domestic pressure on president obama to get more involved if you exclude john mccain and lindsey graham. moreover there will be pressure against any deepening of this. nevertheless, i think the obama administration has been seized by the reality on the ground which is that, you know, you have an opposition that's really back on its heels and if you don't support them, you will create conditions in which one day an al qaeda safe haven could emerge in syria. remember, the other side of the opposition are al qaeda influenced radicals. that would be the ultimate nightmare. that's why we went into afghanistan. of course, this is all about the fact that we went into afghanistan and went into iraq. the american people are tired of
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these middle east adventures and middle east wars. >> meanwhile, i want to ask both of you, because you know this world so well, about the nsa leaks and the damage or how serious the damage is. david, first to you, your take on this extraordinary explosion of leaks, the fact that we have contractors who are now able to navigate themselves around the top secret computer programs and what edward snowden did. how serious is it? >> well, it's mind boggling what this young edward snowden, relatively uneducated for a soon i don't remember intelligence person, what he had access to. the secrets he was in a position to blow. these are secrets the government goes to great lengths to protect on the theory that the more that our adversaries know about u.s. capabilities, the better they
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are able to prevent us from following them. that's not a trivial concern. it's obvious that we're now in the season of debate about what kind of surveillance programs are appropriate. polls show that the public supports by a fairly substantial majority this kind of surveillance if it's judged necessary against terrorism. president obama came out with a defense of it. we're going to have debate, i'm sure. it's astounding that this young man was tiebl throw into the public domain the most precious secret the u.s. government has. >> jeff goldberg, you wrote for bloomberg that you compared it to tsa and you asked yourself in rather graphic terms whether you would rather prefer to go through the magnomometers and be
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man handled or whether you would prefer to have your e-mails read. >> no, it's an interesting thing. i believe that organizations like the tsa have softened up the american public for this level of surveillance. that's not a pun, by the way. i think that the -- it's not the purpose of tsa and other surveillance programs, but we have gotten used to the idea of government intrusion. i use the example of ez pass. people understand ez pass is a government agency that can track your movements. because it's convenient, people use it. the pole results are interesting. the american people don't seem to be that bothered by this level of intrusion, maybe because they're used to that level of intruks. >> well, apparently we're going to have a big debate about it because of edward snowden. we'll have to see whether people persist once they know whether this is going on. >> as david said, this is the
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> 50 years ago he stood in the door. in his inaugural address, wallace said segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. facing him down there on orders of president kennedy and we have vivian malone's sister, dr. sharon malone. 50 years later. can we think back as to what was going on in your family as your sister was standing ready to enroll and go through the troops to guard her entry into the university of alabama? >> yes. i mean, i'm sure it was a very, very, very tense time in my
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household. unlike today, you weren't able to stay in constant contact with the family members of the for purposes of protecting her, they were told to -- my parents could not accompany her when she went to the university of alabama. they had to wait and just hope that everything would be okay. >> do you remember or in talking to your parents then, now, later, years later, rather, the decision to be the test case. >> right. >> that took a lot of guts. >> it did. vivian tells the story that she remembers when brown versus board of education was announced in 1954. she was 12 years old. she thought at that time that things were going to change. she said, oh, great, i'm going to be able to, you know, go to any school i want. unfortunately she waited nine years and it actually -- two years for the challenge to even attend the university of alabama. i think she made that decision very early on that, you know, she was going to get the best that alla bamt ma had to offer.
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>> in the years that followed, she must have been aware of the role that she played. she was a path breaker. >> she was. she was very low key about it. i think that -- i don't think she went to the university of alabama seeking fame and glory. she went there as her right to attend the university of alabama. what happened subsequently, it was a surprise to her that it was received that way. >> it was not clear up until that time just how forceful president kennedy and his brother robert kennedy would be. bobby kennedy in a meeting with j.f.k. >> and if he still refuses, then nick will say we've got this court order, we have to go through on a legal basis. this matter can be determined in
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court, it can be determined out here. he's had this opportunity and he should let him go through or otherwise we'll have to take other steps because these students are going to attend the university of alabama. then if he still doesn't move, then we'll try to get by him. >> pushing? >> by pushing a little bit. >> and we also have from this film classic moments with the deputy to robert kennedy, deputy a.g., john doer, talking about briefing your sister. >> you will enter the campus on university avenue right here where the x is, drive down to this corner, drive up 6th street. come out in front of foster auditorium and park here and go up these steps and whatever meeting is held with the governor, it will be held on the -- in this particular area.
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and you should dress as if you were going to church, for example. modestly. neatly. or like you're going to and you that it's a very dignified procedure and it won't take very long. >> just watching that, i know your sister passed away a couple of years ago, a number of years ago. but watching that, seeing the deputy attorney general bv, bef that, bobby kennedy. you had no idea some day you would be married to the attorney general eric holder and her broernl would be the attorney general of the united states. >> yes. it's amazing the progress we've made in the last 50 years because i can't imagine on that day, june 11, 1963, that anyone would envision we would end up with an african-american president and african-american
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attorney general. >> dr. sharon malone, thank you for your brilliant work and your brilliant career in medicine. >> thank you for having me, andrea? today also marks the 50th anniversary of activist medgar evers. he fought against companies that fought against discrimination. he was gunned down in front of his wife and three small children in his driveway back in 1963. it would take years before the suspect to be convicted of the crime. his wife has kept his memory alive by continuing work for change. she spoke with nbc's richard lui about today's anniversary. >> he said when my time comes -- and we both knew that it would be shortly. you just know by everything that happens in the mood, the attitudes, what not.
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so which political story will make the headlines? chris is back with us. we now see they've posted on the bush library foundation, he wearing his favorite socks. first we've got his former cabinet team, condi rice -- bring that back quickly. con by rice, bob gates. there he is. happy birthday, mr. president. you see them in their socks. we'll all contributing to. this i don't know about your socks, chris. >> i wanted a foot cam and it
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