melin melinda ballard fell in love with dripping springs and bought these acres. in 1994 she met ron allison. after dating for less than a year, the couple married. >> well, he was everything i had ever wanted in a man. very intelligent, a real go-getter. a workaholic, so we seemed to match up in that regard. just a super guy. >> we both had had the same interests. we both wanted to have a family. i think that was the key. career-wise, but similar interests. >> melinda had been head of her own public relations business, a firm she sold in 1989 but she still continued her career. >> i sat as a board member of a bank and still represent a number of clients that are -- i guess holdovers from my company in new york. >> ron worked in investment banks and was head of corporate finance at his firm. in 1996, melinda gave birth to their son, reese, ron loved being a father and a weekend baseball coach. then, in february 1999, 3-year-old reese developed what seemed like a flu. >> he started having some respiratory problems. and he would have a real hard time catching his br

>> frankie ballard toured with taylor in 2011 and says nobody connects with an audience like she doesank you for coming tonight. >> i've never seen anything like it. ♪ ♪ >> i swear a couple of times i felt taylor was looking at me. ♪ >> the energy connection and the personal connection with her audience i would compare it to springsteen, but it was a level above, the energy between her and the fans is phenomenal. >> good night, nashville. >> it helps that she has bruce springsteen's songwriting skills. >> taylor is one of the greatest songwriters ever to put a pencil to a piece of paper. >> many nashville artists agree. >> i go back to the song ""15" that she wrote. >> the first time i heard her sing it it was a writer's night in new york city and she sang that and it was vince gil, trisha yearwood, taylor swift and me and she hits 15 and vince says listen to this lyric coming out of this girl. >> john rich co-wrote this song with taylor swift after she called him out of the blue. >> i said yeah. come on over and she pulls that guitar out and has some words already down and she starts

> schieffer: well, you know i mean while edmond perez is still on that bridge, his name but judge ballard who is a probate judge in that courthouse, he got up saturday morning and went up and opened up the courthouse for us so we could conduct that interview and as often is in the south made coffee for everybody and when we came over there to do that interview as you saw which john lewis he came out on the front steps and said welcome. we are glad to have you. >> it is just incredible to think there are people alive today, our parents, their grandparents who couldn't drink out of the same water fountains. >> that wasn't that long ago. >> to be able to keep in our head the two things, that we have made extraordinary progress but we have a really long way to go, and you really said it, bob, in the setup for this, when you said that these people walked across the bridge and they changed america for the better and i think that is what we have to understand. when we see these protests happening today about police violence against unarmed african-americans, it is going to make this country bett

. >> this time judge ballard came out to greet him. >> it is good to have you here. >> you are more than welcome this time. >> al i guess i did take some risks. anncr: bode, bode miller!!! trained a little bit differently. a little too honest sometimes. the media is useless. you were out of control. but not always. >> schieffer: congressman a little different reception at this courthouse than back in that day. >> well, it is altogether a vast different from more than 50 years ago. i remember being arrested near this courthouse, walking around with signs saying one man, one vote. 1963, 64 65, it was very hard and very difficult for the average african-american citizen to become a registered voter here in dallas county in selma. >> schieffer: do you think 50 years since then that we will ever be a color blind society? >> i think the day will come. it will come. in the past 50 years, we have witnessed what i hike to call a nonviolent revolution, a revolution of values a revolution of ideas. i come back to my native state of alabama. i visit places where i grew up and i see black children, w

let me begin by saying thank you to marry ballard for the introduction.or all the great work you are doing for the people of indianapolis. and for your service as a marine. we are very proud of the partnership that we have had with the city. i also want to recognize the ivy tech chancellor. where are they? [applause] some outstanding members of congress, our senator, where is he? congressman andre carson. [applause] and somebody who has been a great friend for the people of the state and nation. a great friend to me personally. one of the people who has ensure that america is safe for so many years, former senator and mayor of indianapolis a cis. [applause] on the way over here, we were reminiscing about the first foreign trip i ever took, it was with takeover, -- the cooper. we went to russia. he had recently written a book on it. he seems like a kind of relaxed guy, but if you go on a trip with him, he will wear you out. at one point, we were actually held by a russian colonel at the airport for about three hours. normally, it might have made people ner

jose diaz ballard will interview the president and focus on the issue of immigration. what do you want to ask the president? send your question via instagram, twitter or facebook with #obamatownhall. and that is your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> 22 minutes past the hour. i'm joined now by jonathan allen of "bloomberg news." good morning. >> good morning. >> well, a department of homeland security shutdown looming, and as we just talked about, gop lawmakers are battling it out behind closed doors, leading majority leader mitch mcconnell offering up a compromise plan. does that indicate deeper concerns about how this will affect his party politically? i mean think about this. 24 gop senators are up for re-election next year. >> that's exactly what's going on here. mitch mcconnell yesterday, by offering this compromise plan basically threw speaker john boehner and house republicans under the bus. he's isolating them making them the only ones who aren't willing to do a clean funding bill for the department of homeland security. and i think what mcconnell's thi

i know mayor ballard believes the same thing. i certainly do. let's roll up our sleeves and work together and try to get some stuff done. that is what all of you elected us to do. not just turn everything into a washington food fight. not to refight old partisan battles. let's have a debate that is worthy of this country and build on economy that is picking up steam, and make sure that it is serving everybody. that prosperity is broad-based. that not only everybody sharing in america's success, but everyone is contributing to america's success. that is what we are trying to do. that is what is on my mind now. i want to hear what is on your mind. we will start taking some questions. the way this will work is it will be simple. you raise your hands, i call on you. if you could stand up and introduce yourself, try to keep your question relatively short. i will try key might answer relatively short. in fact, the only rule that i will impose is i will go girl-boy-girl-boy. make sure it is even and fair. let's get started. who wants to go first? this

(projector and camera shutter clicking) his name's jake ballard.int chiefs of staff. put him under the microscope see what you find. the more dirt, the better. it'd help to know why i'm doing this. he sleeping with your husband? in a manner of speaking, yes. so this source of yours-- the one who gave you the fax transmissions on the kashfari hostages... yeah? you think there's more blood in that stone? (pouring) there might be. why do you ask? i want you to look into it. me? don't you have a building in langley that does that? i do, but so far all they've done is rule themselves out as the leak. you need some backup. i need some backup. someone i can trust. which these days-- it's a very short list. and who knows? if things go well, maybe we find a place for you here that's a little more official. (projector and camera shutter clicking) (keys jangling) (clicks switch) (sets down briefcase) (object shattering) (rustling, door opens) (floor creaks) (exhales) (projector and camera shutter clicking) so i've been thinking-- about your family. it's just

in the name of terrance ballard but everybody. guys like you articulate a gritty view of life that is not heard generally in the media. >> for one, and it's unfortunate, not just in the african-american community a lot of people can't think for themselves. i'm a man who relies on god's dependence, the holy spirit for dependence. so we have to rely on him each and every day. this man is causing more division than i've seen anyone than i've ever seen in my life. have you to understand, this is why i say all lives matter and this is why i say humanity and represent humanity across the board. the young man in north carolina looking for a tie, he went to target looking for a clippon tie, those who want to take out of context and make race an issue, those whole target employees were not black. this young man was looking for a job, he was going to a job interview. these people helped him. let's go to james robertson in detroit. this young man created a fund that donated over $260,000 to a man who walked 26 miles each and every day to wor

our next guest plays jake ballard, the man who loves olivia pope as much as he hates wearing shirts.heers and applause ] >> jimmy: magic, did you -- i know you met him backstage. >> i did meet him backstage. >> jimmy: he's enormous, right? >> huge. i felt -- i'm 6'1" and i felt short. >> jimmy: you feel like a child. >> he shook my hand and it disappeared. >> jimmy: had you met him before? >> i had, i met him once before, about four -- three or four years ago. there was a -- somebody had written a play called "magic bird" about the relationship between magic johnson and larry bird. my agent called me in to do a reading of the play. and i was to read larry bird. >> jimmy: oh, not magic. >> believe it or not. but magic was there. >> jimmy: oh, he was? >> i got to meet him, took a picture with him, which i couldn't find. but my agent had said, don't worry, it's a very loose reading, no one's going to be doing accents. i get there and everyone's doing boston accents. and i'm just terrified. but -- >> jimmy: larry bird doesn't have an accent, no, larry bird doesn't have an accent. but eve

could it be jake ballard? or even papa pope and b6-13. speaking of b6-13, could that be headed for a spinoff of its own? shondra rymes told "the hollywood reporter" i have three versions of a spinoff in my head that i obsess about constantly. we'll have to wait and see. tonight it's all about "scandal" followed by "how to get away with murder" at 10:00 and make sure to stay tuned for abc 7 news at 11:00 because we go behind the scenes of the hit new show and visit a campus not too far away from here that was the scenic inspiration for the show. that's tonight at 11:00 on abc 7 news. >> this afternoon, harper lee's publisher is responding to claims that the -- or allegations, rather, that the author was not involved in the decision to publish her second book. we told you about this earlier this week. but in the last 24 hours, reports have surfaced that the 88-year-old lee is in poor health and in an assisted living facility and may not have been involved in making this decision. in fact, there are allegations she may have been manipulated.

mario diaz ballard and thank him for joining us. he's a member of the appropriations committee and does us the honor of being here. >> thank you for the opportunity to sit in for a few minutes. i will not be able to stay for the entirety pause i do have other meetings to go. but i could not let this moment pass without first thanking you sir for your just steadfast leadership and your consistent leadership. whether it's been fighting for freedom and supporting the opposition in vietnam and communist china and north korea. wherever there has been oppression, mr. chairman, you have always been consistent just like chairman emeritus ileana ros-lehtinen. and i want to make a couple comments. and the ranking member who was very kind this his introduction mentioned how some of us might have family history. the issue of human rights has nothing do with family history. because i for one am opposed to oppression in communist china, in north korea, in vietnam. and i don't know. i was a very young man when we had sanctions against south africa

mario diaz ballard and thank him for joining us. he's a member of the appropriations committee and does us the honor of being here. >> thank you for the opportunity to sit in for a few minutes. i will not be able to stay for the entirety pause i do have other meetings to go. but i could not let this moment pass without first thanking you sir for your just steadfast leadership and your consistent leadership. whether it's been fighting for freedom and supporting the opposition in vietnam and communist china and north korea. wherever there has been oppression mr. chairman, you have always been consistent just like chairman emeritus ileana ros-lehtinen. and i want to make a couple months. and the ranking member who was very kind this his introduction mentioned how some of us might have family history. the issue of human rights has nothing do with family history. because i for one am opposed to oppression in communist china in north korea, in vietnam. and i don't know. i was a very young man when we had sanctions against south africa. an

ballard who was here this morning and others who are form forming the various caucuses and groups will do something. it will start with border security and move to other things, but in due course this is too big an issue. >> it's due course before 2016 or after 2016? >> i think you'll see action in 2016. that's a long time. >> i'm hoping it will be 2015. '16 will be almost impossible for the person with the national election cycle on its way. i think the president has self-interest. i think the majority of conservatives, republicans know that it's very difficult for them to win the white house if they don't do better with this. immigration is not that important for latinos, but it's certainly an important issue. it's a gateway issue. if you don't address that issue, it's very difficult to get their support even if they agree with you on the other issues. to become competitive, you're going to have to address immigration. >> i'm not sure that something couldn't happen in '16. i know it's hard in a presidential year. we all know the logic of the way the presidential year plays out. but i