including an interview with former adviser to president clinton in civil rights veterans vernon jordan. but first, we need to get you caught up on the other big story of the day. the high school stabbing attack in pennsylvania. we're hearing for the first time from one of the victims. >> what was going through my mind? will i survive, or will i die? >> we hope that he can make amends on what he's done and hopefully he'll come out with the truth on what his display of action, what caused it. >> i just hope that one day, that i can forgive him and anyone else who got hurt can forgive him. first of all, he needs to forgive himself. >> 16-year-old alex ribal is being charged as an adult in the rampage that hurt the victims in murrysville.

right now, the suspect's motive remains a mystery. however, murrysville police and investigators were checking reports of a threatening phone call between a rival and another student on tuesday night. still, a defense attorney for the 16-year-old who classmates describe as the shy kid in the corner, insists his client didn't know what he was doing. >> he wasn't considered a loner, or a weirdo. and nobody saw this coming. he's never had any mental health issues, never been in trouble, not in the juvenile system. he's a well-behaved, well-mannered kid at home. >> residents came together in the small pennsylvania community last night, holding several candlelight vigils for several hospitalized victims. ron allen is outside the hospital in monroeville, pennsylvania. ron, we know at least one of the victims is in critical condition. can you tell us what the latest is on that condition? >> reporter: well, we just got an update on his condition, he's

17 years old, and he has a very severe injury. he's described as being in extremely critical condition. the doctors said the other day that the knife entered his body and was within millimeters of piercing, or cutting his heart. so he has some damage to a lot of other internal organs. everybody in this community is hoping and praying that he makes it. he seems to be in the worst circumstance at this point. there are also a couple of other critical cases at this hospital where i am. they will be here for some time because they have surgery planned in the coming days, more surgery planned in the coming days. there are patients here who expect to be discharged either today or tomorrow. including that young man, who you were playing that sound byte from. extraordinary press conference with he and his mother, amanda leonard, this morning when they were talking about exactly what happened. and very perm and very deep terms. it was interesting how the young man described how had enever saw this attack coming. he was stabbed in the back without any warning. and the doctors here tell us

that just about all of the victims have wounds to their torsos, and none have defensive wounds to their hands, or arms as if they were trying to block someone who was attacking them. so this came totally out of the blue, with just complete surprise. which explains why someone was able to attack 20 people in a close place. because you would think that with a knife, it's harder to do that, certainly than with a gun. this attack apparently went over five or seven minutes or so in the early-morning hours when the students weren't expecting it. we also understand the defense attorney for the young man, the defendant, is going to try to get this case moved to the juvenile court. he's also trying to get a complete psychiatric evaluation of his client, whether he is competent to deal with the judicial system now. yes, the question is, why, the motive. there are reports about that

phone conversation, that angry phone conversation. interesting, the lawyer said he did not think that had happened. there are also reports that the young man may have been bullied. so again, trying to get to the bottom of how this could happen. of course, it will never make sense to most people here. >> yeah, indeed. nbc's ron allen, thanks very much. we don't have metal detectors in the school. we never really needed them. nothing like this has ever happened. >> i would hate to say we should be putting metal detectors in every school. what does that say about our country? it's really about anger. it doesn't matter what the weapon is. >> in the wake of yesterday's violence, preventing something like this from happening again leads directly to those two questions -- how secure do our schools need to be, and are we doing everything we can to help our teenagers cope with their emotions? i want to bring in a management coordinatary the center for safe

schools, and dr. kimberly williams. dr. williams, i want to start with you. just really take note of the description of this suspect. as just the quiet kid in class. not showing out as an overly emotional kid, not a volatile kid, just a quiet kid. how do we guard our schools against the quiet kid, not the disrupter? but just the quiet kid? >> first of all, let me say this story is incredibly heartbreaking. the quiet kid, the shy kid in the corner, we never really know what that means. that could be the well-adjusted young student, or that could be the child that is harboring something that is very distressing for them. they could be very quiet, which kind of stands out to their peers, which makes them more of a victim, or a target of some type of teasing because of that. >> right. and if they're not being actively bullied, and just happen to have a demeanor that is introverted, i have a toddler who's introverted, but what if

that's just their personality, or they're somebody who's that way because they're being persecuted, how does the teacher know that? >> it comes with other factors, other things to look for. is this a child that has inconsistent grades, a child that sits alone during social time, at lunch or recess, and transition time? is this a child that's irritable, or grumpy, or maybe volatile at situations where they should not be? so there are many other factors that coincide with that shy kid or that introverted kid that are kind of red flags for something may be wrong. >> in this perspective, when these things happen, we sort of feel like one incident is a trend. the fact that school violent deaths between 1992 and 2011, they're actually down. so we're not seeing a spike in this kind of violence, but we are seeing, i guess, a spike in the sort of extreme nature of the violence, the number of victims, the sort of scale of the violence. how does that strike you?

>> well, what strikes me is the fact that many times folks that plan attacks is not as necessarily planned out as other ones, they're trying to beat the record, or do more damage and harm than previous attackers so they can get that moment of fame. so the attacks are becoming more severe, more significant. the good thing is, the fact that school attacks are down -- >> so in terms of advising schools, because what you're seeing are attacks, don, are bigger in scale, there are multiple victim attacks, not one-on-one student violence, what should schools be doing? what should teachers be doing to make the school more secure? >> well, one of the things is, the physical security of the building. they've done a good job since columbine of tightening up that. and visitors. the insider attacker, where the students belong in the school,

are the more difficult ones to protect. the more schools can do to prepare for an all-hazards preparation, for all types of events, not just focusing on a shooter or knife attack, but looking at all things that could happen in a school, prepares the staff. and good situational awareness of the staff, being aware of the surroundings, being aware of the students. it sounds like a lot of staff yesterday responded in a very appropriate manner. it sounds like there was good situational awareness between the administrators and the students. >> dr. williams, i want to go back, as a parent myself with kids in school, that have to get used to the idea that kids are doing drills on how to escape from the school in event of violence. where they had lockdowns, in a suburban safe neighborhood. what does that do to the psychology of the other kids? now we're essentially preparing our kids to have kind of a bunker mentality in what's supposed to be the safest place that they could be, besides home. >> it definitely increases their

level of awareness. that things could happen, things could go wrong. i think that really heightens their sense of, am i safe. what we have to do as parents, as educators, is help children understand that, they have to put these isolated incidents in context. it's very important to be very real, very upfront about them about what's happened and why we now have to have the safety and secure measures in school, but also solidify their safety. it really heightens their awareness. in some instances, you can say it helps them protect themselves. but it lets them know that they really do need to be vigilant. they really do need to speak up when they see something or hear about something unusual. >> i'm struck by what we're asking teachers to do now. the sort of full spectrum. teachers don't make a lot of money. let's be real. like $55,000 at the top. $85,000. not high paid workers. now we're saying, some people are saying we want to arm them and make them the second round

of defense for kids and shoot at potential attackers. we want them essentially to be a psychologist to do like your job, to see whether a kid is just quiet or dangerous. to do all of that in addition to trying to get kids to learn in the classroom. are we just asking too much of educators at this point? >> you know, the responsibility in a job is to protect the children. do they need to carry arms? that's a question that we can't answer. but we do know that increased training and awareness of just how to spot a child that might be the troubled child, the quiet child in the other room, and notice that child just as much as the one with who may be more volatile and verbal about their discomforts or distresses. >> it's a heroic job often. we're asking the teachers to be heroic in the face of violence. thank you for being here. >> oh, absolutely. >> thanks to both of you. coming up, another huge court fight over same-sex marriage that could head to the supreme court. it all starts today, and it's

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500-square-mile search zone. now to denver, where same-sex marriage is back in court. today three judges from the u.s. tenth circuit court of appeals appeared to be sharply divided over whether to uphold a ruling that throughout a same-sex marriage ban in utah. the panel will hear appeals from the state of oklahoma next week. it's a battle playing out in lower courts across the country. just today, a federal judge in indiana has ruled that the state must recognize the marriage of a gay couple before one of the two women who have cancer dies. yesterday north carolina couples facing urgent health issues filed a similar suit in that state's ban. same-sim marriage is allowed in 18 of the states. colorado, kansas, new mexico, oklahoma, utah, and wyoming, although new mexico's supreme court legalized gay marriage.

eight federal judges in all have struck down state bans on gay marriage or the recognition of same-sex marriages from other states. the question is, will gay marriage advocates be able to keep their momentum going. this week they ramped up the political pressure, launching an ad out west including one from wyoming former u.s. senator alex simpson. >> i'm a republican. the party's basic core is government out of your life, and the right to be left alone, whether you're gay or lesbian or straight, if you love someone, and you want to marry them, marry them. i've had this wonderful married life, why shouldn't somebody else have the joy of marriage. live and let live. >> joining me now, evan. what is the purpose of running those ads now? >> we're now entering a new stage in the struggle of the freedom to marry.

we're hitting the federal appellate courts. we come in with momentum. the american people now support the freedom to marry by 59%. supported in every region of the country. we want to continue to create that climate of empowerment that says to the courts, you can finish the job. you can do the right thing. you can bring our country where it needs to be. >> sort of the core of what the defensive marriage act's purpose was to essentially wall off massachusetts, right? to say if massachusetts passes same-sex marriage, but you're in utah, and your state has a constitutional mandate saying we don't recognize this, if a couple from massachusetts moves to utah or travels to utah, their marriage essentially ends at the border. is that sort of where the next stage of the battle is going? >> it was even worse than that. what it said is when you're married in massachusetts, the federal government's going to discriminate against your marriage and not treat you as married. that's what we changed last year and put the federal government now on the side of the families and the constitution.

now, couples who get legally married are treated as married, because that's what they are, by the federal government for federal purposes and programs. but states like utah continue to discriminate both against those couples who are legally married and against the couples who want to get married. and so the real struggle now is to end this discrimination nationwide. to make sure that all couples have the same freedom to marry, take on that commitment, that responsibility, if that's what they choose for their lives, and to make sure all marriages are respected. >> what are the practical consequences? let's say you have a state with a population of overwhelmingly passing the constitutional amendment, or a florida that passed a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage. to argue the other side, why should they recognize the decisions of another state? >> it's not necessarily that, it's respecting the couples for what they are, married. although states issue marriage licenses, there's a floor below which they cannot go. and that floor is the

constitution. we are one country. and in this constitution, everyone has the same freedom of speech, the same freedom of religion, and the same freedom to marry. everyone has the guarantee of equal protection under the law. states can't violate that, even if there's a temporary majority vote to do so. we have too many chapters in our conditi country's history where they voted away the minorities. that's not the way to go. we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act. it was a huge struggle. this is the same core principles of equality under the law. >> what do you make of the irony, let's say the court should rule a state has to respect the marriage licenses issued in a state that has same-sex marriage. then you could have the idea of like in utah, a couple in utah cannot have marriage rights, but a couple visiting utah from massachusetts can. is that sort of an area of legal struggle that's yet to come? >> actually, it's all in play

right now. the case in utah actually involves the freedom to marry itself. not just respecting marriages from other places. but that couples in utah who want to get married should be able to get married. in fact, 1,300 couples did get married during the period of time when the court ruled, and before it got stayed for this appeal. those 1,300 couples are now married. the federal government is treating them as married. utah is discriminating against them. >> it is a very strange situation where you have people who are considered one thing in the federal courts and the other in the states. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you. and meanwhile, in south africa, it's been another emotional day at the oscar pistorius murder trial. as we learn new and intimate details of the relationship between pistorius and his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. he fatally shot steen champ last year in the bathroom. today the prosecutor suggested

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an update on our top story, the school stabbing in pennsylvania. we've just learned the school officer who helped take down the suspect 16-year-old alex hribal is back on the job today. the school is set to reopen on monday. president obama celebrated the third and final day of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the signing of the civil rights act of 1964. in his speech at the lbj presidential library in austin, texas, president obama reminded audiences that no right, not even those embodied in the landmark piece of legislation, are ever fully secure. >> we are here today because we know we cannot be complacent. for history travels not only forward, history can travel backwards. >> president obama's words come one day after former president bill clinton used his speech to denounce the strict voter i.d. laws in some states that some

believe are directly aimed at suppressing the vote. some of the very people who fought thor that 1964 law, and the voting rights act that passed a year later. president clinton also used his speech to say while many may remember president johnson as the vietnam president, he thinks lbj will ultimately be known as the civil rights president. the next guest has been a key leader since the 1960s when he worked on expanding voter registration in the segregated south, as well as field secretary for the naacp, and ultimately as the head of the national urban league. vernon jordan was a top adviser to president bill clinton and i'm so pleased you were able to join us. >> thank you for having me. >> first of all, give me the m ruminations in austin, the controversy between the democrats because of vietnam, to one who sort of finally is coming into his own as the civil

rights president. >> well, it was an extraordinary day. and i think about it last night when i was there, with andrew young, with john lewis, with julian bond, president clinton. it was like a reunion of the righteous, reunion of the warriors, all celebrating what lyndon johnson did 50 years ago. and it was such a warm feeling, and we did not deal with how things are now back to almost where we were in 1964. we've all been positive and feeling good about it. but things are not so good either. >> no, i do want to talk about

sort of that retrenchment we're seeing among a lot of people saying that all that you and as you said the other warriors you fought for, just for one second, i want to have you take us back at the time. what did all of you young people who were in a lot of cases, young men and women fighting for the basic civil rights of african-americans in the south, what did you all think of lyndon johnson? >> for me, he was my hero. he was a guy from the south who stood in the well of the congress and said, we shall overcome. he was a guy who confronted richard russell, the senator from the state where i lived and was born, and said, i'm going to do this. and that was -- now, keep in mind that government by its very nature is not an initiating

body, it's a responding, responsive entity. and so lyndon johnson heard it when he was in the white house, and demonstrators were outside singing, we shall overcome. he got the message. and he got republicans and democrats together, and we got the civil rights act of 1964. >> and given how much blood was shed, you know, rivers assassinated, killed in his own driveway, the work and toil, a year after getting the civil rights act, still needing a voting rights act added on top, what do you think when you hear somebody like chief justice john roberts saying none of that is necessary anymore and open the door to reestablish barriers to voting? >> i think about a 90-year-old black man in wilcox county, alabama, on august 6th, the day that the voting rights act became operative, he stood in

the line of some 3,000 black people most of the day. when he got to the registrar, he had to give them his age. and the registrar said, if you are 90 years old, what took you so long to get here? and the old brother said, because i've had a philosophy all my life to never get in the way of trouble acoming. so the registrar said, well, why are you here today? and the old man said, because trouble ain't acoming like it used to did. >> yeah. when you think about the idea of having an african-american president, i can just ask you, is this something you could have imagined at that time? >> no. >> well, then, assess for us, you did a lot of comparisons of president obama to lyndon johnson, where people say, lyndon johnson went down and jammed his finger into the chest of those senators.

he was able to make them get things done. and president obama is given a negative comparison saying, why can't he get the tea partiers to do it. would you have conceived of a civil rights act of 1964, passing this congress today, no matter who the president was? >> no, i can see this congress doing something just the opposite, as the supreme court has been doing in the shelby county case and the recent case involving political contributions. it's -- we're back to where the old man was. i didn't come because trouble is acoming, and it's trouble acoming like it used to did. it's just different. there are no -- nobody's in white sheets, they're in three-button suits. and signs are not saying colored and white. and there are no signs even saying black people go home. but implicit in these new voter

registration laws, in these new supreme court decisions, it's taking us back. and that is, in my judgment, the challenge going forward. >> and so advise the young activists of today, who is wanting to do what you did during those formative years, what can and should people be doing to fight back? >> well, i think the first thing they have to understand is the history of how we got where we are today. yesterday i was in austin, texas. and i thought about the time that i was in austin, texas, to dedicate the county courthouse to the plaintiff, heman marion sweat, who was a plaintiff in sweat versus painter. he was a young postal worker who

finished college and decided he wanted to go to the university of texas law school. thoroughgood marshall was his lawyer. in that courtroom, the black women who fed marshall and put him up, because everything was segregated, were in that courtroom. that was a great moment. they need to know who heman sweat was, and what his sacrifices were, how his wife left him because of the threatening telephone calls. one of the great experiences of my life is that heman marion sweat worked for me at the national urban league. he's a real hero. nobody knows him. primeus king the plaintiff in king versus chapman, the georgia white primary case, was an itinerate baptist preacher, who the establishment of columbus,

georg georgia, muscogee, followed suit in challenging the white primary. and they told him if you don't withdraw that suit, you could end up in the chattahoochee river. and in 1943, primeus king said, well, if i end up in the chattahoochee river, white people, at least i'll be thrown in there for something, because all of those other black people were thrown in there for nothing. that's courage. so history understands how we got where we are. i have a success of where i am in life. i am absolutely certain about one thing. i did not get here by myself. >> vernon jordan, who i respect in part, because you don't just talk about this, because you did

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if you haven't heard the news, there is a new contender for the king of late night. hours ago, cbs announced steven colbert will replace david letterman sometime next year as the host of the late show. colbert will play himself, not the character he currently plays on comedy central. colbert said this, simply being a guest on david letterman's show has been the highlight of my career. i never dreamed i would follow in his footsteps. though everyone in late night follows dave's lead. i'm thrilled and grateful cbs chose me. now if you'll excuse me, i have to go grind a gap in my front teeth. he'll join friend jimmy fallon on the light night circuit. both have appeared on each other's shows. i'd like to welcome the great steven colbert to late night and

congratulate him on his new name, jimmy colbert, the reference to the number of jimmys hosting late night shows. jimmy kimmel tweeted this, i funnier man i do not know. sha >> i say if stephen colbert wants to play soldier, it's time to cut that man's hair. >> wait a second, wait a second! >> we'll be right back! >> he definitely goes in. joining me now, the "daily show" co-creator said, okay. everybody's tweeting about arsenio hall. rush limbaugh said that cbs has declared war on the american heartland. >> i quit weighing in, sir. >> what is your reaction? what do you think? >> i think it is great.

because stephen colbert is this gigantic talent that has been boxed into being a gigantic talent doing one thing. he's a song and dance man. i don't know if people know this, but a couple of years ago, lincoln center presented the music of the show company and he starred in that. he's an incredible improviser. if you've never seen his "law & order" episode, he would falsify -- i mean, he's amazing. so this guy that you see, he's great at being stephen colbert, because he's a great actor and talent. and i think he's probably not unlike peewee herman, is like, i have so much more to offer with what i do. >> right. i want to take you back and play -- you're the co-creator of the "daily show." i'll play you this clip. this is from "good morning america." this is what you saw that you

decided this guy deserves a bigger shot. >> once again, science triumphs. perhaps we should ask those migrant workers whose jobs are now in danger. >> that was stephen colbert reporting. what is it that you saw in him? >> i had always loved him from strangers with candy, which a lot of people, if you want to go back and have a little fun, if you can get on netflix, i don't know if you can, watch the old episodes of strangers with candy that he's on. but i watched him and i was like, he is winking at the audience. he's on "gma," he's doing reports. but i think that guy has a dark side that might be really great. so when we approached him and said, hey, we saw you on "gma," what do you suppose? he said, yeah, i would like to actually delve more into not doing great reports, but taking on the media and the structure of it. >> late night is not just comedy. it is actually of some

importance. presidents routinely go on the late night shows. presidential candidates have to check in on the late night shows. talk about colbert as somebody who now will be a part of sort of owning that political side of the legacy. >> well, i think that that part of it is key. when you look at the landscape of who is going to be funny enough, who's going to be able to drive the show. but when you look at network hosts, that they've all had to take on a terrific challenge, whether it's 9/11, whether it's interviewing presidents. can your host shift. we've seen letterman do it, we've seen leno did, we've seen all of them do it. i think stephen has the whole package of being able to stop, take a moment, and really do it. his work he does with vets is incredible. people are going to be introduced to stephen colbert in a whole new way that i'm excited about. i love the guy. he's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. for people to see his true talent --

>> i have to sort of bring up the two big meanings out there. there's this other question about the decision to not go with a woman, let's not go with someone of color. >> i think that's always going to be a massive frustration that we live in a very white landscape on late night, white guys. and a lot of white guys who are 50. and, you know, it is disappointing, and also a little bit, you know, like, oh, wow, where are the talented 50-year-old women, 50-year-old women of color, or 50-year-old men of color? we need to start feeder programs of our own. and we need to get money so we can develop the other voices out there in the world doing something. >> luckily we happen to know here at "the reid report" the "daily show." >> i'm saying that he is going

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in the final days of his life, in early january 1973, lyndon johnson was agonized to know that americans thought of him as the architect not of equal rights and medicare, but the hated vietnam war. that's according to presidential historian michael beshlaw who also wrote that johnson, a chain smoker who suffered a series of heart attacks, spent his last days obsessed, and recalling that johnson men died before

reaching 65 years old and he was 64. just one month earlier in december 1972, johnson had gathered civil rights leaders at his newly opened presidential library in austin e, texas, to commemorate the legacy he wanted. with which he completed the legislative work begun under his predecessor, john f. kennedy. during the commemoration, suffering severe heart pain, and startling the audience by popping a nitroglycerin capsule into his mouth, johnson lamented he hadn't done enough to advance equal rights. and repeated his famous 1965 speech to congress, we will overcome. democrats are rethinking the johnson legacy. so stap stained by the war effo from michael dukakis, to john kerry, to bill clinton.

he spoke at the johnson library without mentioning the 36th president. last night he changed that. >> we celebrate the passage of these laws at this place, because of president johnson's pivotal brilliant leadership, and passing them. just as abraham lincoln stewarded the 13th amendment through congress, johnson's leadership embodies the power of the presidency, to redeem the promise of america. >> part irony, part triumph that we find ourselves returning to the ideological battlefield of the era. the health care law that president obama put in place is the most ambitious domestic program since johnson's great so sigh is ti era, where laws striking down barriers stand in

the greatest achievements of johnson's presidency. the party also is putting a new emphasis on income inequality, that carries echoes of lbj's war on poverty. there's a battle before the supreme court that moves to dismantle the voting rights act piece by piece, and to put in new barriers to voting that impact non-white americans. this while republicans insist the war on poverty failed and that the johnson era's anti-poverty programs cut short ironically by the massive spending on vietnam should not be rolled back or repealed. i think lbj would relish this fight. it is, after all, the legacy he wanted. that wraps things up for "the reid report." i'll see you back here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. "the cycle" is up next. >> hey, joy. >> good stuff. we'll continue the coverage of

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