butterfield, he was not very surprised.smile and a nod, and i looked right at him. i felt very good. yeah. i can sleep at night now. >> we talked to butterfield only moments after he left the courtroom. and he told us what the verdict meant to him. >> so a free bible study for the rest of my life, free meals included. that's what it is. free bible study for the rest of my life, free meals included. how can you beat that? it's not a joke and i'm trying not to make light of it. i'm trying not to go crazy in this place. >> it was a horrible thing he did to his daughter and a parent is supposed to be the person that protects and loves you. and he was the boogie man that we try to save our children from. >> you guys only see her as dead. she is in the cell with me every day. i just wrote another song two days ago. i feel she helped me with these songs. i've written nine songs in jail, 314 poems. so in my opinion, she's not dead. i hear from her all the time. >> go straight back to your cell. go back to your cell. >> back in his

and i'll issue a challenge to congressman butterfield. like to join with him to make sure that if we can identify anyone that need a photo i.d. between now and january 1 of 2016 i hope his congressional office and my legislative office can work together to make sure that anybody that needs an kidd get one by january 1, 2016. will you work with me on that, congressman? >> well, representative, we're going to try to get this law overturned. the voting rights act is still enforcement, we're going to try to pursue a section 2 claim under the voting rights act. this is clearly not only a discriminatory impact on minority voters but it has a discriminatory intent and we're not going to just sit by and watch it happen. >> woodruff: congressman butterfield, representative murry, we thank you both. >> thank you. >> brown: and we turn now to the new york police department's stop-and-frisk program, a policy that a federal district judge yesterday said unfairly targets minorities. correspondent william brangham spoke with new yorkers about the ruling

butterfield? >> guest: umm, oh, some of thement -- them we found through google or people who knew people. we put out the word that we were doing these. initially the nixon foundation -- the private nixon foundation provided the funding for the first group. i was upfront about what we were doing. i promised the things nixon foundation and the federal government we could a nonpartisan oral history program. >> host: we don't see you in the interviews. >> guest: that's by choice. i remember going an l.a. festival of the book, i listened to david hall we -- it was in 2005. before i got this job -- that job. i'm not there anymore. he was talking about the best interview. he said the best interviewer is the peers. and i thought, what i would do would be to disappear. that my job would be to help the interviewee recall events to encourage them and create a zone of comfort, but to disappear. also, because the goal was for this to be video that could be used for documentaries in the future, as well as for

butterfield and dr. william barber, thank you both for your time. >> god bless you. >> thank you. >>> one program note. tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m., msnbc will air dr. martin luther king's i have a dream speech in its entirely. that's a special broadcast of the whole speech, wednesday at 8:00 on "all in with chris hayes." it will be a special show. please tune in. >>> coming up, the incredible inside story of what happened behind the scenes in the bachmann campaign. most incredible of all, how she made the decision to run. >>> and donald trump firing back against the $40 million fraud lawsuit he is facing tonight. we'll hear tonight from some of the victims. stay with us. [ female announcer ] you walk into your laundry room and it just hits you! that nasty odor coming from your washer. say farewell to the smell with tide washing machine cleaner. it goes straight to the source of the stink to lift odor-causing residues off your washer's drum. tide washing machine cleaner. ♪ male announcer ] to lift odor-c

butterfield, represents elizabeth city where we are tonight.a former voting rights attorney, himself. former north carolina supreme court justice. congressman butterfield, thank you for being here tonight. >> thank wow. thank you for having me. >> how do you explain what's happening in your state? north carolina is a southern state with a pretty progressive history especially on these issues. what's happening? >> first of all, rachel, let me thank you very much for coming to the region to report on this very sad story. everything that you have said over the last 30 or 40 minutes is absolutely correct. it's an embarrassment for our state. we're not that kind of state. down through the years we've. a progressive state. the republicans have been locked out of government in north carolina for many years. this is their power grab, their opportunity to seize power. there were three things standing in their way up until recently. first of all, they didn't control the legislature, didn't have governor's mansion. they had section 5 of the voting rights

butterfield, he represents elizabeth city, north carolina, where we visited and took this show last weekcongressman butterfield is a former voting rights attorney and former north carolina supreme court justice. thank you for being back with us. i appreciate your time, sir. >> thank you, rachel. it's good to see you again. >> so after what the supreme court did with the voting rights act earlier this summer, i have not been hopeful that the voting rights act could be restored by this congress, in particular. but there was congressman sensenbrenner saying it can be done, he will see that it will be done. what do you make of that from him? >> well, rachel, first of all, thank you for continuing to put the spotlight on this issue. this is very important to so many people. i am cautiously optimistic that we can reach a bipartisan compromise in the house of representatives to amend the voting rights act and to get section 4 alive and well again so that we can enforce section 5. the supreme court really surprised us on june the 25th when it invalidated the formula. but thanks to congressman se

. >> schieffer: nixon aide alexander butterfield at the senate watergate hearings 40 years ago revealing existence of a white house taping system. today, the national archives released the last of the tapes secretly recorded by president richard nixon. bill plante has been listening in. >> i'm not a crook. >> reporter: in the spring of 1973, richard nixon was consumed with watergate. his national secure advisor, henry kissinger, assured him no one would remember. but white house counsel john dean had been called before a senate committee. by the end of april, nixon was ready to fire dean and let his two top aides, bob haldeman and john ehrlichman, resign. he spoked to haldeman. following the speech, the president spent the rest of the night taking calls of support. this one from california governor ronald reagan. a call from the reverend billy graham. nixon asked about tv coverage of the speech. in the midst, nixon was instructing diplomat david bruce, his envoy to china. three months before anyone knew about the white house taping system, nixon asked haldeman to destroy the tapes. for w

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