say that they have done everything they can to alleviate the terrible delays that we've seen at airports around the country. we have not seen lines in excess of 40 minutes at any airport over the last three weeks or so. that those hour, two hour long waits we've seen else where they had dealt with that. so this being an extreme situation and should not be categorized as a failure of the tsa in my view, because they're dealing with an emergent police situation on the ground that is necessitating to rescreen everybody for their own safety. this is not failure of the tsa by any stretch of the imagination. clearly, if you are going into love field, you are going to be looking at a significant delay tonight and you might even consider whether you want to rebook if that's at all possible. southwest airlines, by the way, which is really the airline that owns more or less love field is putting out tweets saying get there in plenty of time and be prepared for delays and check with southwest in advance.

one would suspect that they might be awfully forgiving if you miss your flight based on the circumstances on the ground there. >> that's exactly right. going to be hard to take off unless you can fill up the flights with passengers who including one of our own producers is stuck in that long line right now. we have a witness who saw this episode unfold. he's joining us by phone. can you walk us through where you were and what you saw? >> my wife and i had just landed from albuquerque and our in laws were picking us up as we walked out of baggage claim we heard a long honk from a car. probably lasted about 20 seconds and i thought maybe there was something -- someone had cut someone off. shortly after that i heard a car being -- like, thud sounds. i looked to my right and i saw the guy who got shot beating a car, i couldn't tell with what. i thought it was with one of those cones at first then i saw

he had rocks. i was quickly trying to get to my in law's car who had pulled up. i saw the officers holding their gun out and the guy who they shot -- before they shot him, was kind of saying yelling to the cops go ahead and shoot me or just being confrontational. and so that may be trying to hurt the car quicker. at this point was when i heard gun shots behind me. and after that, quickly threw my bags into the car and drove off. >> let me try to dig down on some more details. you said you heard the vehicle we've been showing pictures of. as it was there honking for maybe 20 seconds that obviously caught everybody's attention before it was attacked by this man who ultimately became the individual who was shot. could you see in that short window of time who was inside that vehicle?

was it just one woman, were there childrenina in the vehiclo you know? >> i don't know for sure. i didn't see anyone in the vehicle but i did see when the officers came up, i did see another lady there with him. and i just thought they were going to arrest him and that's when things went south. i did see a lady there with him and i believe it's the same lady that's in the video towards the end -- of the cli that's been airing. i don't know for sure. that's the only person i saw in the area. >> i imagine, obviously, you've been able to get home in time. you were fortunate that was there as this happened and you were able to leave before police briefly and airport officials locked down the airport right now. we're glad you're safe. we're appreciative for you sharing your story with us right now i hope you can enjoy your weekend at this point. >> i appreciate it, thank you. >> all right. thank you so much. obviously, a frightening day for anyone to come out at baggage

claim waiting for your loved ones to pick you up and the next thing you see is an officer involved shooting. that's what we understand took place there. the muhammad ali memorial service is expected to take place a short time from now. i should let you know. you can see some live pictures right now as it appears they were seeing loved ones of the heavyweight champ there gathered. other individuals gathering on stage right now. my colleague nbc's bryan williams is going to take over our coverage of the funeral service for muhammad ali a short time from now. as we look at these live pictures taking place. this in louisville, kentucky at the kfc yum! center. louisville was muhammad ali's home. there was a traditional muslim service held. there will be this ceremony, this funeral service to be held a short time from now and just as soon as it takes place we'll

take you there. we do want to move on to some other news on what just rapidly turned into a very busy news day. it's 2016 politics right now. hillary clinton taking aim at donald trump with the weight of a united democratic party now behind her. today she met with progressive icon senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts who announced her endorsement of clinton. shortly after president obama endorsed his former secretary of state on thursday. clinton and donald trump both in washington, d.c. this afternoon. clearly in general election mode and speaking on social issues important to their respective bases. clinton first, it was her first speech since those endorsements came before the political action committee of planned parenthood. donald trump just wrapped up his speech before a faith and freedom conference here in washington. so first here's hillary clinton with a stinging rebuke of trump and his treatment of women. >> we are not going to let donald trump or anyone else turn

back the clock. he actually said women should be punished for having abortions. anyone who would so casually agree to the idea of punishing women like it was nothing to him, the most obvious thing in the world. that's someone who doesn't hold women in high regard. >> donald trump was greeted very early in his speech by protests, including at least one protester from the anti-war group code pink. while he took a moment to present a friendly face to americans of all race and creeds. he spent most of his speech attacking his likely democratic opponent. >> freedom of any kind means no one should be judged by their race, or their color, and the color of their skin, should not be judged that way. hillary clinton, or as i call her, crooked hillary clinton, as

crooked as they come. all of this requires ethics rules to restore dignity to the office of the secretary of state. which it hasn't had in a while, folks. >> on thursday night, senator elizabeth warren laid into the republican's presumptive nominee. >> donald trump is a loud nasty thin skinned fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and served no one but himself. you, donald trump, are a total disgrace. we will not allow a small insecure thin skinned want to be tyrant or his allies is in the senate to destroy the rule of law in the united states of america. >> warren made her endorsement public on the rachel maddow show

here on msnbc leaving no doubt she believes clinton is the best candidate to carry the progressive mantle. >> i'm ready to get in this fight and work my heart out for hillary clinton to become the next president of the united states and to make sure that donald trump never gets anyplace close to the white house. >> we want to start now with my colleague, nbc's hallie jackson. donald trump wrapped up the speech at the faith and freedom forum a short time ago. a simple question to get us started here, what did he say? >> reporter: it was a quick speech, peter, he talked fairly briefly. he read off of teleprompters for the second straight speech, the second time this week. he talked about issues that are important to conservative evangelicals. this is an issue on which trump himself acknowledged he has evolved over the careers, you remember the 1999 interview with

tim russert where trump portrayed different views. he came to the old post office. he didn't take any questions, shouted questioned about the speech or elizabeth warren. trump going after her again today going after hillary clinton. it sounded like a lot a general election speech. it was something intended today show his fellow republicans he is prepared now for the general election. he's prepared to go after hillary clinton in what appeared to be a more disciplined even a more subdued speech, particularly when he was interrupted by protesters. now i know you've been to donald trump rallies. we ever been there. he gets interrupted by protesters often. he's got the line he always says. get them out here. the crowd begins chanting. we didn't see that today. donald trump sat there, he was patient, waited for secret service to take out the protesters, he talked about freedom speech and called it rude. and it wasn't the yelling and energy we see from donald trump

when he is interrupted. as far as the reaction from the crowd, we talked to a lot of folks, one woman who was there in a trump tee shirt. she said i love donald trump's tone that's why i support him. i don't want him to change. this is politics. the group in attendance ended up giving him a standing ovation at the end. they seemed enthusiastic. in the words of one gentleman, this crowd was not to hear donald trump, he was there to see them. that sums it up. >> i think that does. i want to get another sense of you what else was significant about this today it was the for the first time we were hearing from donald trump since the dedord endorsements. we heard a little different tone given the controversy swirling within his campaign and the republican party over those recent repeat comments where he was effectively criticizing a mexican american judge, judge curiel born in indiana. what did he say without using

the judge's name but appeared to be that episode that so many of his critics says he needs to apologize for? >> reporter: what you've heard from donald trump is this idea that he will not be talking about this publicly. that's what he reassured donors about over the last 24-48 hours as he's held meetings, we were in new york for those. sources said he won't be bringing it anymore. that's something top republicans want to see, even senate majority leader mitch mcconnell going so far to say that trump does not have a good handle on the issues and wants him to choose a running mate that would help bulk up that area for trump. >> hallie jackson on the ground for us in washington, d.c. covering donald trump's campaign. tonight he goes to richmond, virginia, kicking off several days of hitting key battle ground states. according to the campaign manager on that list, virginia, florida, pennsylvania, and then on monday he heads to new hampshire where he has been

touting what he describes as a major speech where he will attack hillary clinton. as for hillary clinton, msnbc's kasie hunt covered the clinton campaign. she's in washington, d.c. today. we heard from her in front of the planned parenthood crowd, obviously a crowd that heavily embraces hillary clinton here. it could be a controversial speech to make, given all the things that republicans have to say about that group. >> reporter: that's right, peter. i think that her decision to speak here as her first address out of the gate as the presumptive democratic nominee should tell you how they feel about that. they're taking this head on and embracing the progressive values in this particular area. and that the campaign itself is really focused on making sure that the gender gap between hillary inton and donald trump is as wide as it can possibly be. and i want to play for you a little bit of what hillary clinton had to say. this is more of what we've been

hearing the last couple weeks as she starts to get in a groove attacking donald trump. take a look. >> don't worry, donald assures us as president he'll be and i quote again, the best for women. anyone who wants to defund planned parenthood and wipe out safe legal abortion has no idea what's best for women. this is a man who has called women pigs dogs and disgusting animals. kind of hard to imagine counting on him to respect our fundamental rights. >> reporter: you could hear that mocking tone that she has mastered when it comes to talking about donald trump this speech coming on the heels of a day that included vice presidential speculation the meeting with elizabeth warren raising questions about whether or not hillary clinton might try to lean in as one advisor put it

to me today to history a little bit and put another woman on the presidential ticket. i think that full throated endorsement of hillary clinton combined with what's, obviously, an effective way of attacking donald trump, at least in the mind of the clinton campaign, elizabeth warren emerging as a potential figure for vice president in a way that, you know, a month or two ago she probably wasn't necessarily. we heard from warren last night. that's absolutely scathing speech calling donald trump a fraud and a bully. >> yeah, as you were first to report, a clinton aide saying that elizabeth warren has in effect become a weapon of war against donald trump for the clinton campaign. whether it's as a running mate or just a surrogate. we better believe we'll hear her voice over the course of the next five months. kasie hunt, thank you very much. joining us now is robert costa. a report for the washington

post. i want to get your thoughts about a couple other pieces ofnesof news over the course of the weekend. one is an ideas festival that's taking place right now in gorgeous park city, utah. this is mitt romney who is there this is where the never trump folks are gathering and reluctant trump supporters there. is there any chance from what you hear whispered within the party and within the never trump movement of a coup against trump? >> up on the slopes, there is a wish, a desire among some of these top donors to get rid of donald trump, but there's a reluctant acceptance that it's probably not possible. that millions of votes have been cast for trump and the time frame is too short and too hard at a convention to yank away a

nomination. >> i want to play a clip for you if i can. this is mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader talking about donald trump, to bloomberg politics, take a listen. >> trump needs someone highly experienced and very knowledgeable. because it's pretty obvious he doesn't know a lot about the issues. you see that in the debates in which he's participated. >> this was senator mitch mcconnell need today join his ticket. he wouldn't rule out rescinding his support of trump. give me a sense of your reaction when an individuals like mitch mcconnell are saying in effect they don't believe that donald trump understands the issues? >> they're communicating to donald trump and the way that trump kmacommunicates through t media. it's not back channel conversations, mcconnell wants to preserve his senate majority. he sees pat toomey of

pennsylvania as very volnerable. especially in light of the controversy over judge curiel. they're giving trump a prompting to move more center, at least when it comes to tone and temperment. >> can we talk about what's going to happen on monday? a lot of people will enjoy the weekend and when they come back on monday they'll turn on their televisions and see talks about a speech that donald trump has been touting since tuesday night. i was there in briar cliff manner manor where he was reading off a teleprompter and touting a speech saying he's going to go right after the clintons, a couple of the lines he sort of previewed for us were the idea that hillary and bill clinton have turned the politics of personal enrichment into an art form. what more are you hearing from within the trump campaign about what they're going to say on monday and break new ground and not relitigate a lot of the

scandals a lot of americans are already familiar with. >> what's most important about the speech on monday is it represents according to the people close to trump and people close to the top ranks of the gop, it's a test of whether trump and the rnc can work together and coordinating a message against secretary clinton. trump has been sometimes incoherent how he attacks the clintons. other times he's talking about her record and conspiracy theories. he's going to try to take talking points from the party and from the past and thread them together and in some kind of message he hopes all republicans can run on with him this fall. this is not a traditional way that trump builds his message. we'll have to see what happens. >> robert costa, my friend, an msnbc analyst, nice to see you. >> have a great weekend. we're going to take a short break. when we come back, we're anticipating -- there's more breaking news ahead.

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today we're bringing you live coverage the memorial service in his birthplace of louisville, kentucky, of muhammad ali born cassius clay

74 years ago. it was a week ago tonight that it was announced he was in the hospital. there have been days in between for remembrances, americans have learned a lot more about muhammad ali, especially the younger generations who didn't come up following him as so many of us did. it's been part civics lesson, part biography these past few days. through the eulogists at this service, we will learn even more. as we have from friends and former competitors of muhammad ali, one of whom is live with us on the telephone. it's a great privilege to have george foreman who like ali was a multiple time world champion and like ali was an olympic gold medalist. mr. foreman, thank you for coming on. what is it you'd like the world to know about your friend and former competitor? >> especially when he first came on the scene we never seen anything like that. he called him pretty and

beautiful. but in reality, he was that and a little bit more. and to see all of the people from all over the world grouping up like that, that's a glimpse of the greatness of muhammad ali. >> do you think that was indeed as we look back on it the golden age of boxing? >> i'd like to think so. but i think the future holds bright, too. there are a lot of young people with great ideas. when they start being a little bit more than just athletes and speaking a little bit more, they obtain similar greatness. but we'll never see another muhammad ali. that was something even more special than boxing. >> george, you know people have expressed these concerns about head injuries and the sports that involve concussions from boxing to football to soccer to lacrosse. and some people have said there is no way the sport can enjoy a future as robust as the time when you were in the sport. >> it's good that they keep

organizing all the sports, because as long as they are boys there will be balls hitting them in the head, football players will be tackled and basketball players being knocked down. as long as you have athletes and people who want to compete you can't stop that. what we can do is bring medical correctness closer to the sport to make certain that we're protected as best we can. >> what was your relationship like with muhammad in the later years? >> the last of the 70s we started talking on the phone. he wanted me to come back to boxing. he called and pleaded me to come back and beat ken norton for him. i said i'm a preacher now i can't come back. from that day forward there was a love affair that grew. he knew he needed him and i certainly needed him always. we loved one another. >> i'm curious and forgive the question, but what prevented you from being there today?

>> i just couldn't make it there. you know what? that's a true friend of mine. a lot of times you can stop and enjoy those situations but i loved that man for a lot of years. i'm not able to go there. i'm not able to with stand that. i think you may find me on the ground with all the cameras looking at me, what is george lying out for. i don't want anybody to find me laying out fainted. >> how are you doing generally? you've gone on to great success as a businessman and entrepreneur. you can't watch cable for more than ten minutes without seeing george foreman. >> yeah, i'm having a good life. a great life. but it was always better when i could look to left and to the right and knew humuhammad ali w watching me and listening to what i had to say. it's a lot different now. it's really different now to look up and your friend is not there. not anything that i want to

just -- what i do, i'm watching some of the report on television and the funeral and all of that and seeing his family walk in. it's touching me even more so. >> something tells me to barn you to stay sharp, because he's still going to find a way to keep an eye on you. you know that. >> it is so strange because i was doing so many interviews and television and i told my wife, boy, i don't think i could do it. he said george he would do the same thing for you and that's why i'm available for you today. >> we certainly appreciate having you. george foreman, has been live with us on the telephone today. george, we'll be watching along with you. and we'll all remember him with you, you at least get to have your fantastic memories, not all of them good, some of them painful. but fantastic memories competing at the top level in the world with the greatest competitor as he liked to tell us of all time.

>> one of the greatest human beings i've ever met in my life. >> the great george foreman with us today. thank you very much for your time. now we will listen in with the help of some of our guest whose are here to talk about the life and times of muhammad ali as we offer live coverage of this memorial service. mike was our first phone call the night when we learned muhammad ali's health was failing. and then, indeed, when it turned into news of his death. mike was among those reminiscing as someone who has covered sports and written about sports for so many years. someone who came up watching the champ and we covered this, you're lucky you actually -- you saw him in person. >> yeah, i saw him first in the second frazier fight and saw him in the saddest night i think i ever covered in boxing, his fight against larry holmes in

1980. i was thinking watching the procession today, he came back from the olympics in 1960 and there was a motorcade from stanford field airport in louisville all the way back to central high. and, brian, the principal of the high school said that day that ali was an ambassador that louisville gave to the world. and when you watch that procession today, i was thinking, louisville did give him to the world a long time ago. and today in all the meaningful ways, the world kind of gives him back to louisville. >> that's absolutely appropriate. that's absolutely what louisville did and what this man did for his hometown. those watching the night the champ died also remember the contributions of writer dave ziron who joins us, you're down there in louisville, correct?

perhaps dave cannot hear me. we thought we were in communication with him. you're in louisville? >> yeah, and i hearia lo you lod clear. >> i went home the night after our coverage and listened to more of your coverage and listened to you talk about the champ more. i followed what you said in the days sense. do you think everyone in your line of work has done their job in these intervening past days in teaching a master class in the life and times of muhammad ali for those who didn't know it prior to this? >> i'll be honest with you sometimes i like to fashion myself as a critic of other sports writers, i've been impressed by the coverage. by and large it's been beautiful. i think a lot of that has to do with the fact that there are so many people on social media sharing their memories of muhammad ali and sharing what

inspired them about muhammad ali. that's the thing i've learned this past week, every time he met somebody he left an impreg. he touched people. he made them remember they met the champ. today walking along the line as ali's car passed as i stood next to a family from louisville and scotland. we chanted ali together as the procession went by. i heard more stories in the ways in which he touched people's hearts. >> i will say this, often this medium, and especially cable news, in the days following a death can kind of ruin something through overcovering it. they can ruin a legacy. we've seen it happen. in this case, though, i think his legacy has been given new luster, the coverage has been so poetic some of it.

and so positive. >> i agree with you and credit where it's due. the credit goes to the fact that muhammad ali led the kind of life that could lend itself to an entire year of coverage, 24/7 of different aspects of his life. and there still will be more stories to tell, lessons and people he inspired. that's something bryant gumble said years ago and i'm sure he'll speak about it today. he said muhammad ali made people brave. anytime you have someone who makes people brave, everyone's going to have a story about how he inspired them to reach a little bit higher whether it's for social justice or believing in themselves that they are worth something in a world that maybe sometimes makes them feel like they're not worth a great deal. >> thank you, and to mike, to your point about louisville. we're watching the pictures, especially for people who have been busy today and haven't caught up with this. it says something that so many

flowers were thrown upon the hearse baring his casket they had to use the windshield wipers at one point. >> i was thinking about this. these were pictures out of another america, brian. when babe ruth died in 1948, for two days 55,000 people a day filed past his body lying in state at yankee stadium. this is a much grander scene than that today. louisville, for an american life that began in a house that his father paid $4,500 for in the 1940's on grand avenue in the west end of louisville, kentucky. >> could not have been more modest roots that he came up from. and achieved the highest highs of our time. to the service itself, we have many different eulogists. a kind of like a baseball batting order.

at the end, you'll hear from no one less than billy crystal, bryant gumble and former president bnill clinton. a number of people from a number of faiths will talk, this is a protestant minister, he has apparently finished. but let's listen in anyway and we'll listen in the entirety of our next speaker. >> yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. don't give a teenager a telephone and don't give a preacher a microphone. we like to bring senator orrin hatch to the stage now in his seventh term as utah's senator. one of utah's senators. he is the most senior republican in the senate, author of some of the most far reaching

legislation in recent decades. senator hatch is a seasoned and distinguished public servant. we are deeply honored by his presence today. [ applause ] >> wow, reverend, that was really good. it's hard for this poor old senator to have to follow that is all i can say. well, ahead of the first fight with sonny liston muhammad ali stood before a crowded pack of reporters and told the world unapologetically who he was. i'm the greatest. that's what he said. but this simple proclamation all took the pen of history, ali took the pen of history and wrote his own title in the textbooks.

he was not muhammad ali the prize fighter, or even muhammad ali the world champion. he was muhammad ali the greatest. ali's doubters dismissed the declaration as mere brag doeshio. he was speaking truth. he was in the world of boxing, he truly was the greatest. [ applause ] with a cutthroat quickness of a street fighter, and the simple grace of a ballerina, ali moved with achilles like agility and punched with strength. to assume ali's greatness stems solely from his athletic prowess

is to see only half the man. ali was great. not only as an extraordinary fighter, he was a committed civil rights leader. an international diplomat. a forceful advocate of religious freedom and effective emissary of islam. he was something. he was caring as a father, a husband, a brother, and a friend. indeed, it is as a personal friend that i witnessed ali's greatness for myself. i first met muhammad ali 28 years ago, almost to the day to this day. i was in my senate office and an assistant called in and said you have a visitor outside. and i was really surprised that it was none other than the champion himself. friendship we developed, i think was puzzling to many people,

especially to those who saw only our differences. i might say that -- but where others saw difference, ali and i saw kinship. we were both dedicated to our families. and deeply devoted to our faiths. he took islam, i to the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. we were both products of humble backgrounds and hard scrapple youths. he grew up poor here in louisville and i grew up poor in pittsburgh. our differences fortified our friendship. they did not define it. i saw greatness in ali's ability to look beyond the horizon. and our differences. to find common ground.

this shared sensibility was the foundation of a rich and meaningful relationship that i will forever treasure. one of my fondest memories of our friendship was in ali joined me in the salt lake to go and listen to the salt lake mormon tabernacle choir. i have to say, it was the famed mormon tabernacle choir. ali loved music. and he enjoyed the choir's performance. but he seemed most excited to share his own religious beliefs with those who came to hear the christian hymns. ali attracted big crowds that day as he always did and eagerly gave everyone autographed pamphlets explaining his muslim beliefs. hundreds of mormons lined up to grab ali's pam thereabouplets.

i took one for hiefmself. our relationship was anchored by our different faiths. ali was open to goodness in all of its diverse realities and varieties. on another occasion i took ali to primary children's hospital in salt lake city. we visited with down trodden children who perhaps had never smiled a day in their lifetime. until ali shows up. he held those kids and looked into their eyes, they would grin from ear to ear. these are kids that never smiled they were so pained. the nurses were astounded. never before had they seen someone who had connected so immediately and profoundly with these sick children. ali had a special way with kids as we all know. he may have been a tough and

tenacious man in the ring, but he was a compassionate and tender around those that he loved. for all of this vuerosity as a fighter, ali was also a peacemaker, a particular radio host in utah berated me constantly on the air waves, week after week. one day the host asked if i would arrange for ali to meet utah's middle weight champion for an interview. ali agreed knowing the appearance could help build good will. it was an unforgettable experience. here were two champions face to face reminiscing about the best fights the world has ever seen. and i have to say, and in the process, ali claimed that radio

host -- he charmed the radio host so much on my behalf, gently transforming an unrepentant antagonist into a respectful sparring partner. so dedicated was ali to our friendship that he joined me on the campaign trail during several election cycles. he came to utah year after year to raise funds for a charity benefitting needy women, women in jeopardy and families in our state. ali didn't look at life through the binary lens of republican, democrat. so common today. he saw worthy causes and shared humanity. in ali's willingness to put principles ahead of partisanship he showed us to the path of greatness. i will never forget that

greatness. i'll never forget him. [ applause ] there were many faces to ali's greatness. his abilities as a boxer. his charisma as a public figure. his benevolence as a father and as a friend. all of these made ali great. but it was something else that made him the greatest. ali was the greatest because as a debilitated yet unbroken champion in his later years, he put us to a greatness beyond ourselves. a greatness beyond even ali. he put in us to the greatness of god. [ applause ] god raised up ali to be the greatest fighter in the world of

all time. he allowed ali to wrestle with parkinson's disease an inescapable reminder we're all mortal and that we are all dependent on god's grace. ali believed this himself. he once told me, god gave me this condition to remind me always that i am human and that only he is the greatest. [ applause ] ali was an surpassed symbol of our universal dependence on the divine. he was the greatest. because he reminded us all who truly is the greatest, god our creator. i'm eternally grateful for my special bond with this special man and for my friendship with his beloved wife, who i love dearly. she is one of the great women in

this world. [ applause ] she was dedicated to her companion to the very end, and boy, i know it. i pray that all may rest peacefully and she'll rest peacefully in the presence of the greatest of all. even our god. i can bear testimony that i believe in god. i believe that we're here on earth for a reason. i believe that this earth life is a time for us to do what's right for god and for our fellow men and women. i don't know that i've ever met anybody who did it any better than my friend, muhammad ali. god bless you, god bless the family. [ applause ]

>> senator orrin hatch of utah, the senior most republican in the u.s. senate modesty perhaps prevented him from saying one more thing that bonded him to an athlete like muhammad ali, as a youth boxer, orrin hatch was 11-1. orrin hatch as an adult wore with great pride his friendships that would normally surprise people. if you know anything about orrin hatch. the late senator ted kennedy was a dear friend of orrin hatch. on and on he has lived a rich life and was invited to speak today. craig melvin has been in louisville watching all of it today. and what an emotional time for that city, craig. >> brian, you would be hard pressed to find someone in the city of louisville that does not

have a muhammad ali story. i spent the better part of the last few days talking to folks all over the city. and there's a woman who went to the same mosque as him and his family. and she said that there was a -- an instance back in 1997 where after service muhammad ali sort of invited himself over for dinner and they sat around and they broke bread for the better part of the evening. he had fantastic stories to tell. i spent some time this week talking to assad ali, the youngest of nine children. and one of the shots that we just put on the screen, he's sitting next to his mother there. and he said something i really had not given a great deal of thought to. he was born in the early 80s. and the parkinson's had started to set in. he did not know the muhammad ali that a lot of folks knew, the

famed boxer, that's not the ali he knew. so he talked about how communicating with his father grew more and more difficult as the years passed. and the bond that they shared was unique and special in that he could look as his father and his father could look at him and they knew what the other was thinking. assad ali was overwhelmed if you will by the out pouring of love and support we've seen the city display all week. thousands of people have shown up at the ali center to pay their respect. 100,000 people lined the route today throwing roses and whatnot. 100,000 people according to the louisville police department. not just a native son, but the city's favorite son. >> no question about it. we could watch these pictures --

they're absolutely mesmerizing. if you want to know what he meant to his town, today they're attempting to turn a corner almost in the new orleans tradition of a second line. say your farewells but celebrate this life. we'll take a short break here in our live coverage of the proceedings from louisville. when we come back, we will talk to someone we all know, someone who knew muhammad ali very well. we're back right after this. iv"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪

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given away for free. you see beneath the olympic flag and the american flag, the early portion of this service which we're in now, calls for several speakers of short length, and then later on the eulogists themselves will come forward and our coverage will dip in and out of the live speakers, featuring the eulogists when they get to the lectern. for now, we're joined by reverend al sharpton, who was a critical part of our live coverage the night muhammad ali died. reverend, it must be surreal in the days since, to watch the coverage of the life of this man you came to know. >> no, it has been. and i think that he is getting what he deserves and more. i mean, i met ali when i was a teenager and it was a much darker period in his life

because he was roundly criticized for not going to the war. he was controversial for being a member of the nation of islam, and to see him now become what he has rightfully earned, that is, a global figure of respect, a statesman of honor, to see a former president, one of his eulogists, president obama sitting, valerie jarrett, i'm in touch with his family because i had to do a funeral about a teenage victim, something he would have wanted me to do. but i'm overwhelmed, i've stayed in touch with family, with the widow, back and forth, giving my seats on others. and i think they're overwhelmed, because i think that for you to be a family member, as they are, of someone as great as muhammad ali, there's no way for you to judge it or weigh it or estimate it until you get into situations

like this and see the tens of thousands of people that have come to louisville, but then people all over the world. i think that he deserved this, but i can't help but think of times that he was very much a loner, but he still stood his ground, which has earned him the respect he's getting today. >> tell us about that still picture we showed on the age of you appearing to land a punch. the reason i know it's not real is that you're alive and well and able to talk about it today. >> well, what happened was, this was in around 2003 and there was an event in atlanta, georgia, and i was the speaker and ali came and we were back in the green room and he would always like to play around with anyone. he'd be bobbing and playing like he was boxing. he loved also to do magic tricks and all. and he had the photographer caught me throwing a blow back

at him. while he's -- you can't see his face, but he was frowning like he was going to fire back. but he would always play with people, especially that he knew well. but even before i became known, when i was just a youth organizers in civil rights, he would always be real playful. he liked to tell little jokes. he liked to, as i said, do magic tricks. and he'd say, did you are had this one? do you know this one? sometimes it's like, he remembered where he was the last time he saw you, months ago. people never really knew how playful he was unless you got to know him. >> i was going to say, even well into his illness, the last time i saw him at a charity dinner in new york, in lieu of a handshake, he would dock his fists back as if he was going to clock you. and then had a smile on his face, and it was clear it was all in good fun. you're right, he was always up

to something. >> he was very much always up to something. he always wanted you to watch some new trick. he had a trick where he would look like he'd levitate off the ground and i must have seen it a hundred times, but you had to act like it was for the first time. he was that kind of guy. but he was firm in his beliefs. he stood by what he stood by, but he was a man full of real love, because you get that around him. he was very relaxed, very playful, and he was comfortable in his own skin. i have never met anyone that was as well known as he was -- well, there was no one as well known as he was, as i came along, but that was famous, but who was so comfortable in himself that he could just play, he could go out among common people, wanted to do that. he had no pretense about him. he was truly a great man. >> reverend al sharpton, and reverend, since you've been speaking, i'm told there's quite a hubbub in the hall thanks to

rabbi michael lerner, who just gave a cautionary warning to politicians who would separate by religion, specifically muslims. we've lost the feed, there it is back again. hang on here a second. we'll see if we get our camera angle showing the podium and we can listen in to a bit of this. >> because he was a person who was willing to risk a great honor that he got and a great fame that he got, to stand up for the beliefs that he had, to speak truth to power, when the rest of the people around him said, no, no, you're going to lose your championship, and it was taken away from him for five years. but he stood up and was willing to take that kind of a risk, because of that kind of moral integrity. [ applause ] so i want to say, how do we honor muhammad ali, and the answer is, the way to honor

muhammad ali is to be muhammad ali today. [ applause ] that means us, everyone here, and everyone listening. it's up to us to continue that ability to speak truth to power. we must speak out, refuse to follow the path of conformity to the rules of the game in life. we must refuse to follow the path of conformity. tell the 1% who own 80% of the wealth of this country, that it's time to share that wealth. tell the politicians who use violence worldwide and then preach non-violence to the oppressed, that it's time for them to end their drone warfare and every other form of warfare, to close our bases around the world, to bring the troops home. tell those who created mass incarceration, that it's time to create a guaranteed income for everyone in our society.

[ applause ] tell judges to let out of prison the many african americans swept up by racist police and imprisoned by racist judges. [ cheers and applause ] many of them imprisoned today for offenses like possessing marijuana, that white people get away with all the time. [ cheers and applause ] tell our elected officials to imprison those who authorize torture, and those who ran the big banks and investment companies that caused the economic collapse of 2008. tell the leaders of turkey to stop killing the kurds. tell israeli prime minister netanyahu that the way to get