sound, me, jackson brown and the eagles. we need some new blood in this town.ce full on blues band. >> an english band that became the dual citizenship band. they were as american as they were british. ♪ in all your life you have never known ♪ ♪ and never been taken by the wind ♪ >> we had an album out, two years out, the buckingham nicks. nick really liked the music. they asked us to join. ♪ rihanna >> fleetwood mack, first, stevie and lindsey album for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. ♪ freedom >> describe being rich and famous in california. >> this is it, kids. ♪ freedom ♪ freedom ♪ forever ♪ ever ♪ >> the records sometimes bore an audience. they're not going to have another hit. or this one isn't as good as that. >> record companies, like frothing at the mouth, the imaging of the band was becoming a whole thing. so we were getting ready to make rumors. with everyone falling apart. ♪ if loving you isn't the right to do ♪ ♪ how can i ever change things that i feel ♪ >> the band is five people, five very independent, quite strong minded, quite stubborn

he had just spoken to jackson brown over the last couple days. met when they were teenagers getting started in the business and gregg actually covered one of jackson's songs on this last record and jackson harmonized on it as well. it's going to be a beautiful tribute when this record comes down. i know the world is going to love the word. >> we look forward to it. michael lehman thank you and again so sorry for your lost. gregg allman passed away today age 69. >>> still ahead in the newsroom the president wraps up his trip abroad not without ruffling feathers overseas. we'll break down the mem moral moments. live in the cnn newsroom. we can be the generation remembered for ending the global water crisis once and for all. ♪ even if you're trying your best.be a daily struggle, along with diet and exercise, once-daily toujeo® may help you control your blood sugar. get into a daily groove. ♪ let's groove tonight. ♪ share the spice of life. ♪ baby, slice it right. from the makers of lantus®, ♪ we're gonna groove tonight. toujeo® provides blood sugar-l

>> yeah, well i grew up on like fleetwood, and jackson browne, and the eagles, and anything basicallye very hospitable. so the gigs were always crazy. i went to my first eagles concert when i was four. it was my first concert. >> jimmy: that's around this age. [ light laughter ] it was hard to see you because you were in camouflage. [ laughter ] they couldn't see -- like, where is that kid? we lost him. yeah, well. he's wearing a camouflage jumpsuit. oh, we'll never find him. but you finally reunited with your parents, which is a great story. no, but you went there at 4. just because your parents -- because weirdly i was reading this article, and there's a a great quote by don henley, saying that you guys are close. you like call and talk to each other on the phone. >> yeah, that was nuts. his daughter came to a show one time. she was like 15 at the time, or whatever. then she just kind of came up to me and said, i'm don henley's daughter. i was like, oh, i'm even star struck by you. then i just -- she introduced me. i went to an eagles concert one time, and she introduced me to him.

>> some origin an music as well as a number of covers, including a song for adam, which jackson browns. i think it's going to be a special record that the world is going to celebrate his life and as i said earlier, to you guy, he did get to list rnen to a lot of that music two nights ago, maybe 12 hours before he passed an was peaceful. he was commenting on the mixes and just so excited. i made a promise to him two nights ago that i would carry on his legacy and deliver that record to the public. >> so that record will be coming out. i know his fans will appreciate it. quickly, michael, you have been by his side for so many things. what was his impact on you? >> you know, he was an incredibly warm person that was so smart. i don't think people really realized how smart he was. he taught me different lessons about life every single day. about compassion, friendship, love, understanding the arts and music and just really how to feel thing mrs more deeply and forever grateful for that lesson. >> i know his fans are as well and again, we wish you all of the best and sending strength and p

jackson has details for us. >> reporter: when norman brown was 22 he received a mandatory life sentence for distributing crack cocaine. >> i do deserve to have served some time. but that much? i think that was overkill. >> reporter: after 24 years, his sentence was commuted by then president obama in 2015 as part of his push to rollback what he described as excessive penalties for non-violent, lower level offenders. >> their punishments didn't fit the crime. >> reporter: today, a significant shift back to stricter guidelines. >> this is a key part of president trump's promise to keep america safe. if you are a drug trafficker, we will not look the other way. >> reporter: attorney general jeff sessions is ordering prosecutors to go after the toughest possible sentences, including those with mandatory minimums allowing for certain exceptions if approved by a u.s. attorney or assistant attorney general. it reverses obama era policies that gave more leeway to prosecutors. >> what we'll probably be seeing is increasing prison populations in a federal system. >> reporter: civil liberties advocates argue the decisio

jackson has details. >> reporter: when norman brown was 22, he received a mandatory life sentence for distributing crackaine. >> i do deserve to have served some time, but that much? i think that was overkill. >> reporter: after 24 hours his sentence was commuted by then president obama in 2015. as part of his push to roll back what he described as excessive penalties for nonviolent lower-level offenders. >> their punishments didn't fit the crime. >> reporter: today, a significant shift back to guidelines. >> this is a key part of president trump's promise to keep america safe, if you are a drug trafficker, we will not look the other way. >> reporter: attorney general jeff sessions is ordering prosecutors to go after the toughest possible sentences including those with mandatory minimums, allowing for certain exceptions if approved by a u.s. attorney or assistant attorney general. it reverses obama era policies that gave more leeway to federal prosecutors. >> what we'll see is probably increasing prison populations. >> reporter: civil litigants argue, with ag holder who implemented the old policies call

us to talk about all of this, republican strategist jack berkman, democrat david brown and legal analyst jessica ka jacksonloan, thanks all of you for being here. of >> pleasure is ours >> jack, starting with you. we learned comey asked for more money to further with this investigation. how do you fire the fbi director who is investigating whether your campaign colluded with russia >> i don't know that the optics looked terribly bad. i think this is kind of funny in in the sense only weeks ago democrats were making fun of comey blasted him, now he's a hero. i'll make you a prediction. i like predictions he'll run for president as democrat in himself in the spotlight. - trump fired him two reasons both of which good, one he screwed up the hillary investigation, two, he broadened the russian thing. >> you believe he fired him over >> i think both. >> there's a concern he wasn't nice to hillary clinton, that's what i got from reading the paper yesterday >> i believe both reasons. look, for trump the main reason sure is russia but i believe the hillary screw-up had a lot to do with it. he messed that up. democ

jackson was 48 years old. he played for the ravens and the cleveland browns.f his injuries. no word yet on what caused the deadly motorcycle accident. >>> coming up an ebola outbreak has been declared. >>> michelle obama criticizing the trump administration over its school lunch policy. we'll have those stories coming up. for vacations that exceed expectations, make it busch gardens virginia! with surprises hiding around each corner, and good times guaranteed. busch gardens and water country usa. a whole other world awaits. plan your two park getaway now, and eat free with select packages. >> 8:20. in today's health watch an ebola outbreak declared in the democratic republic of congo after one person died tested positive for the virus. two others may have also died from the disease. this is the eighth outbreak in the country. more than any other country has experienced. >>> and drinking among high school students in the u.s. has dropped in recent years. that's according to the cdc. a new report says high schoolers who say they drink dropped from about half of

crossroads africa or kenneth clark who had brown verses board of education or john marcelle who became assistant at the naacp or juanita mitchell, juanita jackson she was then. the time that we spent -- and i mean we worked at this every week. we had anti-lynching group one time. we were working another time against chain gang. we had angela herndon come to the city. >> really? >> and we had him -- and dave robinson wrote a whole worship service around him. we had it at paul robeson's brother's church. we put on arm bands with our group -- we had the harlem youth council and we had the harlem christian youth council, and we would wear arm bands when the naacp would hang out a sign saying a man was lynched today. all we had to do -- we had 88 youth groups and we would call them and say, a man was lynched today and therefore we would go down to times square, wear our black arm bands and walk around chanting, "stop the lynching, stop the lynching." we did not let a week go that we did not meet and shout what we were going to do. i was very active and became at that time president of the united christian youth north america which had the largest yo