i want ken and daria to see this. we're getting a lot like this, but some people are responding with the other side and saying, wait a second, why shouldn't you help people buy whatever car they want? why should they only get the deal if they buy american? talk to us about this ultimately, wasn't this just fair to make it available in a broader way? >> thank you, josh. >> i don't even think it is an issue of fairness. if you think about it, we're members of a global economy and what would the rest of the globe think if we said, okay, we're just going to buy our own. we would set off all sorts of ramifications around the world, we can't afford to do that as members of the world trade organization. >> and, josh, i agree with george, the e-mail that it should have been limited in my opinion to american cars. we have nothing against new cars. all we're saying is some people are very much tempted to go into a debt for a new car when they weren't going to buy one in the first place. >> also, remember this too that a lot of

we appreciate it, ken. thank you very much. ken, stick around as well. we want to talk to you about captain speicher in just a little bit. >>> the iranian government is holding a mass trial. the defendants, hundreds of protesters who hit the streets following the disputed presidential election back in june. mir hussein mousavi said today some defendants have been tortured and former president mohammad khatami, a reformest, a calling the trials unconstitutional and an insult to iran and islam. the trial goes on as ahmadinejad is sworn into a new term this week. no word on any the opposition has any plans to protest around that inauguration. >>> 18 years after his jet fighter was shot down over iraq, closure tonight for the family of navy captain michael scott speicher. evers the first u.s. casualty of "operation desert storm" lost in the opening hours of the u.s.-led air strikes. here is how cnn reported the story back in 1991. >> reporter: the pentagon has identified a united states navy pilot as the first american missing in action. he's lieutenant comm

is ken lewis on his way out or did he survi all of this? >> i think ken lewis is very strongly in contl of bank of amera. i don't think ere's any likelihoodhatsoever that anyone isoing to pus him ase. i know that it's discussed often by politicians, by the pres but oubt that there is going to be any change there. i think mr.oynihan moves in to top positio asnext possible successor of mr. lewis, sply because the guy who run t retail bank generally takes or the he of bank ever america -- >> susie: are you saying that sally, the n executive who was just hired today fmerly from citigroup will -- i not being groomed to take ov from ken lewis? >> i don't thi there's any likelihood whatsoever of her taking over. but i think that this will harm herf this type of nversation continues. in other words, if the press decides thatthey are going to set up sally the way they did at citigroup, it's only goi to hu her and only going to harm her. she's avery effectiv executive, she's an extraordinarily bright and capable won and she should be allowed to just

ken lewis. the bank settles s.e.c. charges it misled investors about bonuses for merrill lynch execs. and b-o-a hires one of the best- known women on wall street shaking up its top management. we get insight on both moves from veteran banking analyst dick bove. >> susie: cash for clunkers drives a rebound in auto sales giving ford its first positive sales growth in over a year. but the program's future and funding are still up in the air. >> paul: then the markets start the month on a tear with the s&p 500 pushing above one-thousand for the first time since last fall. how long will the rally last? some answers, coming up. >> susie: then, a problem at apple's core. google c.e.o. eric schmidt is stepping down from apple's board of directors. we'll tell you why. >> paul: i'm paul kangas. >> susie: and i'm susie gharib. this is "nightly business report" for monday, august 3. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >

ken, back to you. paul krugman, the economist and columnist at the "new york times," had said of these type of health care forums before your incident popped up -- does this sound familiar? neil: in other words when people are getting all worked up at forum and town hall meetings, that they're really racially motivatedded. what do you think of that? >> well in all actuality, i don't think -- it really shouldn't be about race or anything like that. but sometimes race is involved. that's a sad case when it is. but for someone to actually go in and actually try to perform a duty or a job of the caliber that i was doing, which is trying to interact with the people, to get roughed up in the matter that i was, you know, it's just totally outrageous. neil: ken, you never even had a chance to get inside. did you get inside or were you too banged up? >> no. i had to go right to the hospital. i didn't get a chance to get inside or nothing. they actually broke my glasses off of my face when they started beating m

you heard the great ken langone. ken mentioned profits, a lot of this for summer is earnings per share, doesn't mean everybody is making money, means they're doing better than all the doubt ers thought. and i want to shout out stefan abrams for soaring profits. you heard ken langone, what's your best guest. >> the recovery started last november. we put $350 billion in the banks. did we put it as a loan for the congress wanted on tv and hyped the banks not loaning? no, they put it in there to stabilize, doesn't mean you're breaking a wrist, you put a cast on it to heal and then the recovery starts. this is no different than the past. look at 2002, are you the ceo sitting in the corner off fishings your stock is down 60, 70%, why not let go of some of your employees and why not let your inventory deplete itself? why not get lean and mean. >> is it possible on this cost cutting point, real market capital lipse, businesses are still doing it, cutting inventory and cutting jobs and hours worked. the question for, you i wi

. >> ken lewis' day just got really bad. this is huge. >> and the stock was up 6%, now up less than that by a great degree by about 2.5% and moving lower from here. >> after all of that testimony in front of congress. paulson, everybody involved. >> i wonder what your traders think of that in "fast money" too. we will see. >> good question. >>> battle over health care, that bill is is still raging, the controversy over it, the dems bashing the insurance companies while the republicans are bashing the plan itself. john harwood will handicap the fight on the other side. >>> check out how some of the health insurers have been trading so far today, a mixed day, aetna, lower today, metlife up $1.40 at this hour. back after this. has the fastest hands boxing has ever seen. so i've come to this ring to see who's faster... on the internet. i'll be using the 3g at&t laptopconnect card. he won't. so i can browse the web faster, email business plans faster. all on the go. i'm bill kurtis and i'm faster than floyd mayweather. (announcer

thank you, ken robinson. we appreciate it. >>> speaking for the first time since that beer summit that we have been talking about, take a listen to this. >> my newest friend is sergeant james crowley. and sergeant crowley and i really did have a bonding experience. this is not a joke. i mean, we really hit it off. >> there you go. that is professor henry lewis gates on his new relationship with the cop who arrested him. >>> and how do you fix a $24 billion budget deficit? the state of california, they may turn to pot. >>> you thought you heard it all? well, we'll hear a performance of some newly discovered pieces by mozart. that's right, i said newly discovered by mozart. announcer: some people buy a car based on the deal they get. - others buy the car of their dreams. - ( beeps ) during the lexus golden opportunity sales event, you can do both. it's an opportunity today. it's a lexus forever. special lease offers now available on th. >>> okay. the white house beer summit may have done some good. may have. pr

ken? >> i don't think it's going to be the same. i mean i don't think housing prices are going to come back. i don't think credit's going to be the same. i hope it's not going to be the same. i hope they're going to do some regulation. they are being very soft now but they have to reigning it in. we have to depend on exports and more on the government. i think eventually there will be another stimulus package, eventually there will be higher taxes. >> susie: mark? >> yes, i think we're at a point with respect to consumer spending. u.s. consumer power is growth. the global economy really for the past quarter century that's evident in the declining rate. and i think u.s. consumers will do their part and no more than that going forward. but the good news is we are seeing much stronger and will see much stronger growth from overseas in many emerging economies, india, china. those consumers will spend more. their spending rates will come down and we will have the goods and services to sell to them. >> susie: let's hope they do buy things

he says it won't and that ken lewis should say. bill pattison is executive director of ctw investment group. he disagrees. thanks so much for joining us. dick, let me start which. when i heard they were going to be paying $33 million for all these billions and bonuses and they didn't have to admit any wrongdoing and everything was fine, i didn't really think it was going to be that easy and it looks like it's not going to be. >> according to this judge it looks like it's not going to be. but the fact is it should be because the real issue for shareholders in bank of america is did they benefit from the acquisition of merrill lynch or someone and it's clear from looking at earnings of bank of america in the first and second quarter that they clearly benefited. merrill lynch was accretive to the earnings of bank of america, as by the way was countrywide. the other point is after the longer term is bank of america stronger or a weaker company as a result of having merrill lynch? it's clearly a much stronger company. it has 16,000 sale

is it the end of the road for bank of america ceo ken lewis?e's been sued by at least five pension funds and the bank reportedly is grooming his successors now, his fall stems from misleading shareholders about the merrill merger. we found a strong supporter on his side. dick bove. i read a couple of your dispatches and you're kind of outraged like they want to reward failure. kind of anti-capitalist wave going on. >> no question about that if we take the situation at bank of america versus merrill lynch, if anybody took the time to actually look at the income statement and balance sheet at bank of america, they would see, number one, merrill lynch has aed to the earnings of bank of america, the acquisition has been good for bank of america and therefore bank of america's shareholders benefitted by it. amazingly from september 29th, when i guess people thought the deal should have been called off to the present time, bank of america's stock has gone up. what is this guy being criticized for? because he strengthened the company, increased the ea

let's go to you first, ken.oes this in and of itself, what they are doing, modestly upgrading the economic forecast saying rate cuts are off the table, does this make you more or less excited about stocks? >> they are starting to see the signs of the turning economy. the new order index for the month of july was 55, a very strong sign for manufacturing. we're now producing far below the level of which we consume. it is very evident in the automobile industry, scrapping cars at the rate of 13 million and only sell teg rate of 10 million. taking the sales level back to the level of which cars are being scrapped would be a big increase in sales, you're seeing this with inventories coming down to low levels, the cash for clunkers is a stimulant, but i think you'll see a pretty sharp rise in business activity sooner rather than later. that's going to bring increased jobs and increased spending. there's a bigger turn in the economy coming than people are looking at. >> does that mean it specifically ken, another big s

ken lewis, bank of america's ceo, hurt his shareholders. why do i say ken lewis.buck stops with him. why does the money go to the government instead of the shareholders. and worse, why is the cash coming out of the shareholder's pockets? shouldn't it come out of ken lewis' products? what's the point in doing it this way? why should ken lewis care about the size of the penalty or even breaking the rules when he's not the one who pays for snit why should any ceo care about misleading shareholders when the s.e.c. makes them pay any way rather than the executives? to me it's stupid. government doesn't deserve this money but it's getting it. in the same role, ken lewis will get fined, money will be distributed to shareholders. instead, we got this messed up fine from the s.e.c., does nothing to make things right or do anything for good behavior. that's more like the lottery than a regulatory regime. so if the shareholders hadn't benefitted from an infraction, the fine should be levied against management. the way we do things now, the shareholders who have gotten hurt g

these are people close to ken lewis. show that list, i can point to negatives, positives obviously, but negatives on every one of them. sally was one of the best brokerage analysts i've ever reported on. she wasn't a very good cfo of citigroup and i'm not saying this isn't what most analysts say. joe price, he's the cfo of i guess b of a right now. brian boyny han was a lawyer in the past. a lot of people say there's the chuck prince principle right there. tom montag, a guy that ran merrill lynch's trading desk when they lost the $15 billion. barbara desoer, i don't know much about her. >> she's probably thrilled about that. >> right. but what people are telling me, these are all very smart people, not necessarily someone you think is going to run something as big as b of a. they're telling me lewis doesn't want to leave immediately, year, year and a half. that does give him the time and within that period of time, they may opt for an outside candidate. here's the fly in the ointment on the outside candidates, the need t

. >> reporter: this is where ken sees his future, in renewable energy.b to his driveway, that's where his real love is parked. >> yeah. very important part of my life. >> reporter: cars. he's worked in the auto industry for eight years. for a long time with general motors, but like tens of thousands of other auto workers, ken was laid off a year ago and his first worry as getting health care for his wife and two kids. >> i had a feeling that this was going to be bad, aened i was right. 2 was real bad. >> reporter: they get by on his unemployment and his wife's job working at a veterinarian hospital, bus with few jobs available in the auto industry, ken being forced to switch gears i. just figured 2 was time i got to learn something else because the whole industry's going to change and stay changed. >> reporter: applied to no worker left behind helping retrain the unemployed by sending them back to school. he's taking classes in renewable energy. is the stuff you're learning now interesting you or just trying to get a paycheck down the road? >> at first i

forget ken lewis. they could fire him or not fire him.nk the thesis behind bank of america is much bigger than the problems you hear about all day of its ceo. the thesis is a turn in the economy, and i think perhaps the single best vehicle to play that turn right now is the bank of america. ricky in new york! ricky? >> caller: hey, jim! >> hey, rick. >> caller: hey, i want to give you a big boogie down bronx boo-yah! >> i'll take that. i'll take a bomber boo-yah, how about that? >> caller: all right, all right. right now i own visa. it's more of a long-term play for me, and i'm kind of worried that because since last year, it's taken a while to break past that $70 mark, it may be a while before it gets to that point. my question is, should i stick with the long-term play or go ahead and sell it and -- >> ricky, listen to me and listen good. you should be more worried about the yankees' prospects versus boston than you should be about visa. here's why, all right? visa was a stock that reported a great quarter last week. so did mastercard.

. >> ken, what do you have on that end? could these air traffic controllers be blamed at some point? >> well, as of right now, the national transportation safety board and the faa, the federal aviation administration, are saying, no, they are not to be blamed for this. it's sort of like a parallel investigation, if you will. in the course of trying to put this together exactly what happened, they discovered that some pretty serious procedures weren't followed. but as of right now, there's just no evidence that, you know, conclusively can say that these gentlemen have a direct responsibility. >> let me read a statement, air control statement. here it is. accusations that insulting. mary, your reaction to that statement? >> they're going to have to examine, as i mentioned, the air traffic controller rule 2-1-6 that requires these alerts. because he gave the alert and the pilot didn't get it, he filled his duty, that will probably be an issue for the court. >> mary, let's look at -- as you saw the video, mary, what set the tab

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ken burns on the last great speech in denver exactly one year before his death. lawrence o'donnell on the meaning of the lion of the senate. michael on the man history should judge as the greatest of the kennedys. and senator bernie sanders on how his passing will affect the lion's final quest and how it will affect a new president's pledge. i promised teddy. >> this is the cause of my life. new hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every american -- north, south, east, west, young, old -- will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege. >> the life and death of senator ted kennedy of massachusetts. >> for all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. the work begins anew. the hope rises again. and the dream lives on. >> all that and more, now on "countdown." the flags at the united states capitol and the white house tonight flying at half staff as are the flags at every public building in this country, at every u.s. emba

you are really optimistic but, ken, you sound positive. recovery. are you as bullish on stocks, let's say, today as you might have been, let's say at the beginning of this summer rally in july? >> well, i mean, the market's up 60% so i don't think in the next three months the market is going to go up 60% so the market to some extent reflects the very favorable outlook we're talking about. >> are you selling into -- you're right. 60% or 50% plus. you had gone on top of that almost 20% in the summer rally. are you still buying? are you still adding to your positions, ken? >> absolutely. i think the big banks are up. they have a lot of room to go from here. they're going to move toward the period when they can reduce their provisions for bad loans. i think in the case of the automobile industry, getting back to the point that we've been underproducing, there's not enough cars. and in the month of july on ford, the incentives were down by about $5,500 a car to $3,500. and i think in the month of august they're going lower. you can see a multib

he's picked off by ken lucas. orton 17-23 and a touchdown. fourth quarter, scary moment. chris simms to ken mckinley, simms goes down in pain. >> professional football, jeremy shockey and the saints taking on texas, shockey got into a training-camp scuffle with the texans. shockey can work and play well with others. shockey, look at that, hurdling a defender on the way to a seven-yard gain. later in the second quarter, mike bell takes the handoff then takes off, finding a seam through the right side, runs 46 yards -- it's an open house and everyone is invited, saints blow out the texans 38-14. >> semifinal, cincinnati masters, roger federer against andy murray, murray has won four in a row against roger. when roger was told about the streak, he said, "when my game is on, i know i can beat any player in the world." it's not cocky. he has the cool confidence. >> never joking around. >> murray backhands it into the net, hits his knuckles against his racket. the knuckles would bleed. he would be treated on the sideline, play would resume. murray with the backhand down the lin

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will this latest debacle seal ken lewis's fate? joining me now to discuss, robert hime, senior partner at meyers & hime.. also a former s.e.c. enforcement official. let me get right to the deal with the s.e.c. what do you read into that?? $30 million on 5.8 billion in bonuses doesn't seem like a lot to us. how severe does it seem to you? >> well, it's not when you compare it to the amount of bonuses, but certainly a $33 million fine by the s.e.c. on any company is really meant to send a message to that company that the s.e.c. won't tolerate investors being misled. and i think here you had a pretty egregious example based on the s.e.c.'s complaint of investors being misled to approve this merger. >> i mean, what does it really mean from there, though? because they didn't have to admit wrongdoing, which i understand is standard. but it just -- it seems like kind of a rounding error on their balance sheet. should it have been more? >> well, i think you can always make arguments for having a stiffer fine, but this is really going to ge

how does that impact b of a's succession plan for ken lewis? charlie gasparino tells us what he's hearing when we come back. >>> welcome back. former citigroup cfo sallee krawcheck being named to run bank of america's global wealth and investment management operations. on-air editor charlie gasparino joins us now to explain how that could impact b of a's succession plan. before we get to that, charlie, you know what amazed me, $33 million to settle this whole claim. no admission of guilt on this whole controversy over paying $3.6 billion in bonuses.s. i'd say that was a pretty good deal for bank of america to put this behind them. >> well, you do know the s.e.c. is a civil -- doesn't charge you criminally. as part of its standard settlement agreement you neither admit nor denying wrongdoing which is kind of one of the big problems a lost people point to with the s.e.c., basically saying here's some money and the s.e.c. goes away. it does give you some insight into the severity of the charges, though. listen, i have to see exactly what they dis

the now network. >>> we're back with joan and ken. let me start with ken on this one. party has a clear ambition now -- sack the quarterback. humiliate the other team. they get a double win here if they win. they defeat the president on health care and claim he was trying to be a socialist. >> i agree. there is somewhat of a risk they could be seen as obstructionists. polls show a majority of americans support some version of health care reform, the specifics aside. i think that risk is vastly outweighed by handing barack obama what would surely be perceived as his first major defeat and a repudiation they would certainly try to present it as a repudiation of the sort of big government agenda obama and congressional democrats they say are trying to institute. >> joan, you talk to a lot of democrats in your reporting. do they realize especially the moderate democrats if they pooh-pooh this and find problems with the president's plan and don't think it is perfect and bring this thing to defeat they have handed the other party something to hammer them with for years to co

but ken kind of flew over and smashed his head on to the cement.that's what we hear, but he might -- hopefully he doesn't call in sick now. i didn't know about this at all. >> jimmy: yeah. but he's unbelievably hilarious in the movie. neal brennan directed it. >> he co-created the dave chappelle show, a little comedy show on comedy central. >> jimmy: a little show you might have heard about, yeah. he's awesome. [ applause ] it's such a funny thing. ed helms, in the movie, was the guy who was in "the hangover" with the tooth came out, and he's great. >> yes. >> jimmy: he plays your nemesis in the movie, and he's in a -- he's in a boy band. >> he's in a boy band, but he calls it a "man band" because anyone over 30 who's in a boy band is in a man band. he walks in the room and introduces himself. we -- i'm the leader of this group of used car salesmen that has been hired to sell 300 cars over the july 4th weekend. and we meet the guy that has hired us, and then ed helms makes an entrance, and i think this is the clip. correct? >> jimmy: yeah, let's lo

bancorp, ken lewis when they sad merrill lynch geiner and paulson ne essentially put ken lewis in theyve a lot and ordered him to bail out merrill lynch. if you put people in headlocks you could put the seal of u.s. bancorp and said phe reason that is important you can have 700 billion worth of commercial residential real-estate oil, ld, stocks andonds they had a lot of assets when you have a company that goes into bankruptcy come you have a reorganize the -- a reorganize there come in and they are just interted in selling assets and unwinding their risk and this was the most horrifying of unwind in theistory of all bankruptcy is. no preparation. of the documents, the initial document was only5ages long this is almost a 700 billion-dollar bankruptcy and the initial document that they've presented to the judge's only 15 pages long. this document should ha been pre-hundred pages to articulate how they would unwind theirisk per after it failed to have this and why did that was so nasty that is where when you're sittingt home and you remember how the stock marketent down every day that is

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let's start with ken. ken in connecticut is our first caller. ken, what do you have for me?m, how are you doing? a big boo-yah from connecticut. how are you doing tonight? >> i will tell you, i think connecticut has now surpassed ohio and florida as the land of fabulous callers. >> caller: i appreciate that. >> no problem. >> caller: let me know if i'm diversified. i have goldman sachs, ebay, dell computer, halliburton and gilead sciences. >> all right. very interesting. i own a lot of these stocks personal for my charitable trust. gig yack is a viable company, terrific. halliburton is an expensive drilling service company. and goldman sachs, the best bank in the world. i suggest people read the time article about them to learn the truth. show, ken is an trouble. regard ebay as two techs, i would absolutely throw out dell and given that senator feinstein said it's unlikely we see any change for health care, put it this way, i need you out of del, you can go buy tech strong. >> let's go to lynn. >> a boo-yah to you. you have horse sense. >> tell me if i am diversified. bp, br

, bobby ken day number of younger ken dis, caroline kennedy, on be veryiously, an interest in fillinghe senate seat hillary clinton had in new york. that needs to shake out. i don't think it will know time soon this is ted kennedy's time and going to be remembered, you know, his passing will be the emphasis for the next few weeks. >> mark and jeanne, thank you so both very much. the office of mission church in boston tells msnbc news the funeral will be there but no information on timing. >>> we want to turn to andy card, the former white house chief of staff under george w. bush until 2006. he is joining us now on the phone, andy, are you there? >> yes, david, good to be with you. >> good to be with you. thank you for calling in. your thoughts about senator kennedy. you have known him over the years but you were in a unique position by president bush to deal with him on education. >> i first met senator kennedy back in the mid '70s when i was in the massachusetts legislature and ran a forgettable campaign for governor 1982, ted kennedy actually went out of his way to show up at one o

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let's start with ken. ken in done con is our first caller. ken, what do you have for me? how are you doing? a big boo-yah from connecticut. how are you doing tonight? >> i will tell you, i think connecticut has now surpassed ohio and florida as the land of fabulous callers. >> caller: i appreciate that. >> no problem. >> caller: let me florida as the land of fabulous callers. >> . >> caller: ebay, del computer, halliburton and gilliad. >> i own a lot of these stocks personally for my travel trust. gilead is a fast growing biotech company. halliburton is a somewhat expensive drilling service company but oil patch. goldman for the travel trust obviously the best bank in the world. they write a lot of bad stuff about i. i suggest people read the bad stuff about goldman to find the truth. dell reports tomorrow. and show, ken's in trouble because i regard ebay aztec. i've got two techs. i would absolutely throw out dell, given the fact that senator fine gold just said it's very unlikely we are going to see any legislation for health care, even though we have gilliad, we have a

now to the latest on the roads with ken. >> reporter: thanks, justin. starting to filter to the major are the ways. on the jfx southbound at chase street, we're dealing with that crash that has the left lane blocked there. the two left lanes remain blocked at cold spring lane. the tow truck is on the scene trying to get that out of the way. in towson, circle road closed. it's busy out there. >> really busy. >>> thanks for choosing "good morning, maryland." for more news, watch "good morning, maryland" at 9:00 or go now to abc2news.com. abc 2 works for you.

for more on senator kenneds io legacy we invite you to vit our website. washington.com. search ted kennedy. >>> in other news tonight. a tire spun off a truck on the beltway, hurdled the median and slammed into an suv. tonight we are hearing from the driver of the vehicle who has an incredible story. craig melvin at the state police barracks. around noon, the indn native and his wife had just finished taking their oath of citizenship. tonight they have two things to celebrate. they're american citizens. today they narrowly escaped death. >> the couple pledged their aloge ans to america as citizens for the fir gs time. allegiance to america as citizens for the first time. they sang as they cised on the outer loop. >> i thought we would die. >> a dumptruck in the opposite lane, hilt debris and lost two tires. one of them headed for the lexus, suv. >> i didn't know what to do. i couldn't stop. hundreds of cars behind me. so i just paused for a moment. tried to slow down. and i saw it coming. >> unable to stop he swerved. >> you know you are going to die. there is nothing to

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tavis a wanted play a clip from senatorennedy onthis program -- i want to play a clip from nator kennedking about brown vs. the board of education. >> when you think of that ce, you thinkf the maa cardoza for blk americans -- the magna carta for black americans and all americans. it opened up the civil-right movementf 1964, the public accommations, the nondiscrimination in emploent, the 1965 voting rhts act. i thnk the brown vs. bod of education was the dcision that rely set the stage it was dr. king it was th iritual -- it was dr. king who was the spiritual leer of the movement, but browvs. board of education opened that way. tavis: education is one of those ways that we appreciateenator kennedy for bng stalwt on, yes? >> senator kennedy h a passion for equal education for all of our children i remeer so well when that decision came down in 1964, -- one that in 1954, iwas 14 yes old. i thought i would get to ride on a better hool bus. innever happened for me. i continuedo attend overcrowded, poorly suprted, segregatedchools. but kennedy, was our champion with education for all children

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