but lincoln even then stands by him, says i know andy johnson. he messed up but he's going to find his footing and he's a good man. it can't be emphasized enough that rhetorically speaking johnson had been known as one of the great stump speakers in america, really. he was flown for his fiery rhetoric and particularly his absolute uncompromising condemnation of secessionists and of the southern elite. he represented the common man. the plebians, as he liked to put it. this was thought to be an argument that could appeal to jacksonian democrats in the north as well as in the south. >> we know how the information was communicated to hamlin whether there was a conversation with lincoln -- >> that's a really interesting question. i'm sure we know. i don't know. there is a lot of debate about this question of lincoln's choice because we don't have smoking gun in the form of documents in which lincoln talks about the choice. much of this was kind of behind the scenes negotiation of which there is no written record, so we are left to speculate. and the p

and that is the reinterpretation of all this when in fact i think andy and johnson the civil rights leaders, were in the role of modern founding fathers. they were confronting subjugation and setting in motion equal citizenship, but we don't remember it that way always. that's why i think this 50th anniversary is such a great opportunity to get the memory more in balance of what really happened. [applause]. >> there's no question that i think for historians 200 years from now those tapes will still be the gold star because you understand where the president is coming from, you understand where the people he's talking to are coming from. i'll never forget years later i met this man named don kindle the ceo of pepsi cola. and he told me i know you knew johnson when he was a young girl but i bet you don't know the following story. he told me when nixon was first made president he, kindle, was told to go to the randolph air force base to talk to johnson. and johnson was saying how am i going to remember anything. he said i have these tape machines and i have verbatim conversations. those chapte

andy young says the one part of the film that he had never seen was king stand up to johnson face tohere is a scene where johnson and king stand face to face. symbolically. king is standing there looking right at his eyes. he said, king might have looked away or been a bit more giving to the president in that moment our goal was to symbolize the power of both sides coming together. i think the dignity he demanded of everyone around him for everyone around him is what he means to me. >> thank you. great to have you here. congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for joining us. see you next time. ♪ >> from pier three in san francisco welcome to "bloomberg west.” here is a check of top headlines. french police are surrounding -- three villages northeast of harris looking for the "charlie hebdo" suspects. here is former nsa director, general keith alexander. >> i think actions like this will become more frequent and law enforcement in the intelligence agencies are going to be expected to do more. they can't do it without tools. we have to come up with a reasonable way to do it

rose: andy has stepped forward to say johnson was very important, as you know. >> absolutely. i say he was very important. our johnson character in the film gets wild applause at the end of the film when he makes the "we shall overcome" speech. that is a moment that's been constructed by our team in the film to be the triumph the american triumph that it is. no one is taking anything away by saying that these were two great minds. neither man was a saint. neither was a sinner. there is no -- there are no extremes here that we are playing with. we are playing with the gray area where life happens rose: in the trenches of history. >> they were men. they were real living, breathing people. they remember human beings in their relation -- and their relationship relationship was complicated. i am not here as a film maker to congratulate, compliment, any of these things. what we were looking for was the truth as we saw it. there are a lot of questions. there are a lot of gray areas. that was the truth as we saw it, and that's what we made. but at no point did we say johnson was not t

sonny johnson always a pleasure andy levey joanne nosuchunsky. that does it for me. party are very worried about the way you are getting very, very down. >>> hello everyone i'm eric bolling. it is 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." >>> today president obama held a joint news conference at the white house with british prime minister david cameron and pledged a united effort to fight terrorism. i want you to listen closely. one identifies the terror threat we face by name the other one not so much. >> we do face a very serious islamic extremist terrorist threat in europe, america, across the world. we have to be i

andy young says the one part of the film that he had never seen was king stand up to johnson face toace. there is a scene where johnson and king stand face to face. king is standing there looking right at his size. -- eyes. our goal was to symbolize the power of both sides coming together. i think the dignity he demanded of everyone around him for everyone around him is what he means to me. >> thank you. great to have you here. congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for joining us. see you next time. ♪ >> i'm mark halperin. >> with all due respect to those who say that elvis would have been 80 years old tonight, we are having dinner with him. >> how about sports fans? john boehner singing when you "squish" upon a star. first, the three terror suspects in france have been identified. paris is in mourning and on edge.

andy. >> this is one of the best classes of all time. you've got the big unit randy johnsonmy favorite players, craig biggio. biggio is getting in a year after missing the cut after two votes. biggio the first houston astro to ever make it into the hall of fame. bigger stars like barry bonds remained far from election. mike piazza may be getting in the near future. >>> somebody break up the pistons, defending champions san antonio spurs last night. brandon jennings after the buzzer beater. pistons have now won six in a row after paying josh smith nearly $27 million just to go away. >>> john jones who is widely ask-ced the best pound for pound fighter in the world is going to be out of the octagon for a while. the usc light heavyweight champion has admitted himself into a drug rehab center after testing positive for cocaine. jones' tests was considered an out of competition test. in his win over cormier this weekend stings. >>> and cowboys owner jerry jones said he want weres chris christie sitting next to him in green bay. the cowboys are 3-0 with christie in attendance this

andy young who was a top aide to martin luther king junior, was part of this. he said the movie got that part dead wrong. yesterday clifford alexander one of johnson's aide, an african american later secretary of the army he says they got it wrong. what happened here? >> well there's no litmus test for movies that based on history. there's no standard that says you got this wrong, you got to correct that. on your very air on cbs two mornings ago the great civil rights leader concluded that the movie needed a villain. and what better villain than president of the united states. unfortunately just doesn't ring true historically. >> schieffer: i want to thank you very much for joining us this morning. i'll be right back with personal thoughts about some good news in washington. ♪ ah, push it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ push it. ♪ ♪ p...push it real good! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ow! ♪ ♪ oooh baby baby...baby baby. ♪ if you're salt-n-pepa, you tell people to push it. ♪ push it real good. ♪ it's what you do. ♪ ah. push it. ♪ if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. it's what you do. ♪ ah. push it. ♪ i'm pushing. i'm pushing it real good! ♪[ soft hol

andy hargraves -- thank you very much. what will yahoo! do with its stake in ali baba? >>we will look at mercer mayer's options -- marissa's -- marissa mayer's options, next. ♪ >> i'm cory johnsonfacebook and instagram were hit with an outage overnight. it was not the snowstorm. facebook -- facebook says it is due to a technical error. they say it was not a cyber attack. i can only imagine if it happened if they were changing internal systems. yahoo! reports fourth-quarter earnings later today. the big question, what is marissa mayer going to do with the $48 billion stake in ali baba and yahoo! japan? how can yahoo! avoid the tax bill seemingly do? ue? crawford, i will start with you. what is yahoo! to do? >> what got needs to do is keep their investors engaged and keep their investors happy. what that means is that they have to figure out a way to limit their tax exposure to this transaction. whether that tax respin out or some things do it ali baba if they can exchange their shares for cash. they need to make an effort here to limit their exposure. if they do not do that i think you are going to see massive shareholder callings for change. 35% is a big number. there are ways