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will challenge affirmative action in college admissions and carrie johnson previews the news conference on attorney general sessions on the leaks investigation. host: good morning. the senate adjourned with the august recess yesterday. with the house already away it means there will be no legislating on splill until september 5. as congress winds down its work, robert mueller ramps up his interference of the russian actions in the elections. subpoenas have been issued pertaining to donald trump jr.'s meeting. yesterday president trump sponleded to a meeting in west virginia. we'll respond to all of it on "washington journal. ." we want to hear your thoughts, republicans 202-748-8001. mocrats, 202-748-8000, ndependents, 202-748-800 it. catch up with us. 202-748-8002 for independents. also find us on twitter and facebook. we show you the front page of "the wall street journal" who wrote the story about the grand jury being convened in washington, d.c. here's the lead. special council robert mueller impaneled a grand jury in washington to investigate russia's interference in the elections.

approach to civil rights and the fact it will challenge affirmative action in college admissions and carrie johnson previews the news conference on attorney general sessions on the leaks investigation. host: good morning. the senate adjourned with the august recess yesterday. with the house already away it means there will be no legislating on splill until september 5. as congress winds down its work, robert mueller ramps up his interference of the russian actions in the elections. subpoenas have been issued pertaining to donald trump jr.'s m

the two children carried away by harris county deputy rick johnson. no one around here seems angry. >> are you able to walk? >> reporter: just grateful, like laura blinten who left behind her husband's ashes saving her own life on her birthday. do you regret not leaving sooner? >> yes, i should have. >> reporter: as the rain gets heavier, the coast guard just left, the rescuers are gone but there is one woman in the corner of this neighborhood where the water is rushing in, who was determined to stay behind. i asked her why. and she didn't want to say. she knows that the water is rising and 911 is overwhelmed with calls for help. but she said, "i'm not leaving," norah. >> o'donnell: that is a decision that some make. david begnaud, thank you so much. scott padgett is chief meteorologist at ktvt, our tv station in dallas, fort worth. what have you learned? >> reporter: that harvey has gained strength and the unfortunate thing is that harvey is out over the open water right now drifting to the east southeast at three miles per hour and will be out over

the two children carried away by harris county deputy rick johnson. no one around here seems >> are you able to walk? just grateful. like laura blenton, left beef hind her husband's ashes saving her own life on her birthday. >> do you regret not leaving sooner? >> um, yes. i should have. >> as the the rain gets heavier, the coast guard left. rescuers are gone. but there is one woman in the corner of this neighborhood where the water is rushing in, who was determined to stay behind. i asked her why? she didn't want to say. she knows that the water is rising and 911 is overwhelmed with calls for help. but she said i am not leaving, norah. >> that they the decision some . thank you. chief meteorologist at ktv, that is our cbs station in dallas fort worth. what have you learned? >> what i learned, norah. harvey has gained strength. and the unfortunate thing is that harvey is out over the open water drifting to east/southeast, 3 miles an hour. will be o o through the night, morning and tuesday afternoon. even closer towards wednesday morning. by wednesday

milligan decision when it came down wouldn't have carried the implication that it carried because it came after andrew johnson had issued that peace proclamation. that proclamation wouldn't have been there. we don't know just how lincoln would have restored southern states, and that's a real what if. but he would have understood -- one thing lincoln wanted to do was to keep a lot of it in his own hands. that would probably have continued to make problems in congress over reconstruction, but he certainly wasn't going to give up his authority to protect union soldiers in the south to the supreme court. so that's where it would have come, and of course democrats would still have argued that peace does exist there. lincoln would have tried to restore some semblance of order including si including civil courts down there and so the argument still could have been made, but lincoln would have been in a far better position to resist. yes? >> he hadn't arranged for it but he had told milligans lawyer that he was going to get -- that he was going -- or the way he put it -- and i think it is important how he put it. he

it's not clear what that means they also want the right to carry out animal rights demonstrations there twice a year group spokesman mark johnson explains a bit more about this mission. as with the successful social movements throughout history when we when we do these public demonstrations we are intending to dramatize an issue and get an issue on the table because we feel like it's an issue that we are inevitably going to win when it is discussed on a wide enough scale we know that we are on the side of of justice we are on the side of compassion and nonviolence we know that people don't actually want to support violence towards animals and it's only because we we live in a society that that that normalize it so much that it is allowed to persist we intend to make berkeley california the united states leader on animal rights issues we intend to liberate the city of berkeley by banning all violence towards animals by twenty twenty five in effect banning meats in berkeley as part of a broader plan to pass a constitutional amendment for animal rights and on human discrimination that's pervasive in our society. the show belongs t

slated to use an anesthetic drug developed by a division of johnson & johnson in the execution of death row prisoner mark asay. if carried out, it will be the first time this drug is used in an execution in the u.s. in response, the johnson & johnson division said -- "we do not condone the use of our medicines in lethal injections for capital punishment." a federal judge has again block texas' harsh voter id law, saying the revised version of the law does not correct the discrimination in the earlier version, and in fact, could even further restrict voting rights. the texas law, first imposed in 2011, created a list of id's required to vote that skewed heavily toward id's carried by whites, such as gun licenses, while excluding id's often carried by people of color, such as government employee id's and public university id's. the new version does not expand the list of acceptable id's. instead, it allows people without the id's to vote if they bring additional paperwork and sign an affidavit. but judge gonzales ramos says the criminal penalties attached to lying on the affidavit could deter people from voting because the

carried posters sometimes overcome with emotions. >> we can't have this happen. >> reporter: passionate words came from johnson the uncle of oscar grant>> white supremacy is real. we were saying this nine years ago when oscar was murdered. we've been saying it years ago, you know what i'm saying? 461 years ago we were talking about white supremacy. >> reporter: this group mobilizing to ensure the violence in charlottesville will never be repeated knowing there are no guarantees it won't be seen again. >> i think things are escalating and they have been escalating. it could happen again. yet i'm confident we are going to survive. >> reporter: tonight's event was peaceful with organizers saying they wanted to create a welcoming and safe environment for the community to share their message with the rest of the country. in oakland rob malcolm ktvu fox 2news. >>> a vigil was held tonight in petaluma to show solidarity. the vigil is one of 400 taking place across the country. all in response to yesterday's deadly violence against peaceful protests. a moment of silence was held for 32-year-old heather heyer. congressman jerry house attended

carried posters and sometimes overcome with emotion.>> we cannot be empowered [ crying ]>> reporter: impassioned words coming from johnson.>> white supremacy is real and we were saying it nine years ago and we were saying that 461 years ago. do you hear what i'm saying, 461 years ago we were talking about white supremacy.>> the group mobilizing to ensure that the violence in charlottesville will not be repeated knowing there are no guarantees it will not be seen again. >> things have been escalating and it can happen again and i am confident we will survive. the event was peaceful with organizers saying they wanted to create a welcoming and safe environment for the community to share their message with the rest of the country. rob malcolm, ktvu fox 2 news . >> the reports are that the protest in the city were peaceful.>>> president trump is facing criticism for not condemning white supremacy and his response to the violence in charlottesville. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.>> even republican lawmakers criticized the response of the president. >> this is wh

remarkable image, there's an incredible story, sheriffs deputy rick johnson saying he doesn't know the name of the kids he was carrying, but he will be linked to them forever. >>> help is on the way, but these high-water rescues are extremely dangerous. emergency teams of volunteers are helping those trapped in the houston area still this hour. rescues like this we're told, could go on for days. and in some cases, entire apartment complexes are being evacuated at one time. >> all the flooding i've seen in all the years, it's the craziest thing i've ever seen. >> absolutely scary. paranoid because you have kids and you worry about them, you don't know what's going to happen. >> we're going to be here until the last person leaves. >> getting into the boats is only step one. families are now being piled into moving trucks, manned by volunteers. once they reach solid ground, their next struggle is to find some kind of temporary housing. >>> in the immediate aftermath if that's what you can call of it a disaster like harvey, what do people need? money and blood donations, that's what officials are telling us. we've compile

now, there are a lot of similarities between johnson and trump and how they are carrying out the whitet to see the johnson impeachment being cited by so many is very troublesome. >> i agree with you, but it seems to me that the issue here is the president's impairment. he seems incapable of governing. he's erratic. he says many things every day that aren't true, knowing that people or hoping -- i hope that he knows that people aren't going to believe him. soy agree with you, we can't lower the standard from impeachment. what do you do? what about the 25th amendment? people keep talking about that. i personally think that's probably hooey, but i would love to hear your views on that. >> yes, indeed, that falls under the constitutional doctrine of hooey. i'm glad you mentioned that. no, the 25th amendment is a fascinating amendment, in that, in the system that it sort of kicks in, it's never been used in the sense of there have been temporary removals, essentially, of authority of presidents, but not to actually remove someone deemed as unfit. and so what happens is that you have to have

dan johnson, bbc news. 0ur our top story this lunchtime. four men have been convicted of planning to carryt a terrorist atrocity similar to that committed on lee rigby. and british athletes are back in the country after their french preparation for the world championships. coming up in sport. an f1 return for robert kubica — the polish driver is testing in hungary todayjust over 6 years since a rally crash cut short his career. road safety campaigners say proposals to remove speed bumps in england to help cut pollution, are ‘dangerous, daft and irresponsible.‘ the government has suggested it‘s willing to pay for councils to rip them up, because when drivers brake and then accelerate to get over them, they increase exhaust emissions. here‘s roger harrabin. children are vulnerable to polluted air. it can harm the development of their lungs and aggravate existing conditions like asthma and hay fever. but the government‘s plan to combat pollution includes offering to pay councils to rip up speed humps installed to protect those same children. here is why cars will typically break as they reach

so when lyndon johnson comes into office he tries to carry forth the spirit of reform that john kennedy wanted to enact. one of the ways he does is by launching a war on poverty, right. when you're looking across the united states in the 19 sixth it's a period of economic growth for certain segments of society. but for others it's absolutely not. and johnson had this brief that if we're the richest country in the world we shouldn't have people living in the conditions i've been describing. in curran county, that same organization i was talking to you about the curran civic unity movement p one of knows organizations that made it up was called the community service organization. and the community service organization is where caesar chavez cut his teeth as an organizer, right, before he organized farm workers. and so there was a -- an organization of the c.s.o. in bakersfield. it was statewide organization also spread beyond california as well. and the c.s.o. was one of the early organizationless working through the civic unit movement to gain federal money to fight poverty, right. how d

carry states, it makes me nervous. i want to bring my panel in. jason johnson, an msnbc political contributor and politics editor at the root.com and my friend, kate kelly who covers wall street for "the new york times." jason, president trump blaming the media for the nation's divisions last night, going harder after the media than he does -- he says i got the ku klux klan but going harder after the media than the klan or radical sclaislamists. he loves to say we twist everything. we don't need to, these are his words. >> it's time to expose the crooked media deceptions and to challenge the media for their role in formenting divisions. and yes, by the way -- and yes, by the way, they are trying to take away our history and our heritage, you see that. >> wink wink, nod nod. you know who loves that? richard spencer, our heritage. what's your take on all of this? one could say his ratings are in the tank but his base, they're loving him some trump. >> his base loves trump. he gave them plenty of things to be excited about. he went and attacked the media. i think

were calmer as speakers held candles, carried posters, reading poems, sometimes overcome with emotions. >> we can't have empowers. >> reporter: the words came from johnson, the uncle of oscar grant. >> white supremacy is real. we were saying that nine years ago when oscar was murdered, but more importantly we have been saying that for 461 years. you know what i'm saying? all 461 years ago we were talking about white supremacy. >> reporter: this group making sure the violence in charlottesville will never be repeated knowing there are no guarantees it won't be seen again. >> i think things are escalating and they have been escalating. things could happen again. yes, i'm confident we're going to survive. >> reporter: back here live that rally tonight only lasting about an hour and a half. there was a police presence. oakland police keeping a very wide perimeter around the events tonight. it was peaceful. that's just the way the organizers wanted it to go. we are live in oakland rob malcolm ktvu fox 2news. >> definitely a sigh of relief seeing how it got last night. it didn't happen tonight. good thing to see. rob malcolm, thank you so much. >> i commend t

carry a man into space. but by 1963, jfk had to start to prepare for reelection campaign 1964. texas wasuth and becoming an area, even though lyndon johnson was his vice president of that politicians felt he had to renew his support. a trip was planned to fort worth and dallas. this picture of jackie and a jfk arriving in dallas on november 22 shows the warm reception. as they rode through this motorcade in dallas and entered an area which we call daley plaza three shots rang out. ,and before we knew it the president had slumped forward in his limousine and the secret service had ordered the car to be rushed to the hospital. this picture taken by an unknown tog river, translated by the associated press gives you the feeling of the urgency and the moment. it wasn't long before walter cronkite, perhaps the best-known newscaster on television worldwide had to announce not , only to america but the world , at large that jfk had not only been shot but his life had been lost and he had succumbed to the bullets that had entered his head. memorials sprung up here in new york city. a photograph of jfk placed in a store window is really a reminder

carried the south. that's how important that was to those southern states. and it's kind of sad. >> mann: johnson. he got the highest percentage of anybody who'd run for president. he did what he wanted to do by beating fdr by three-tenths of a point. >> he said, when he looked back upon that night, that he felt that he could picture all these people going into the election booth and pulling the lever for him, and then he knew finally, finally that the american people loved him. >> califano: i think he knew how important political capital was, and i think he knew how he was going to spend it. i mean, look at how he rolled out legislation. and he used to say, you know, that wonderful line of his, "what the hell's the presidency for? let's get this done. let's pass these bills." >> man: it's 3:00 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep. but there's a phone in the white house, and it's ringing. [ telephone ringing ] something's happening in the world. your vote will decide who answers that call -- whether it's someone who already knows the world's leaders, knows the military, someone tested and

johnson didn't. macarthur didn't. mcchrystal didn't. they understood it. grant repeatedly declared that he would carry out any order, whether he agreed with it or not if he came up against an order he could not in conscience obey, he would resign. leee left no such declarations, but i think his actions spoke loudly that he harbored virtually identical sentiments about duty and about subordination. neither had any evident ego getting in their way, though they had human blind spots. grant would never admit he had been surprised on the first day at shiloh. he is about the only one who did not admit it. you will note the wonderful saying that's probably attributed to sherman. surprised? hell no. we were astonished. [ laughter ] grant will never admit lee baffled him when he crossed the james. let me add a bit of dimension to the story of lee's final campaign towards appomattox. what is little known today in large part because i think a lot of the sources that we might have had went up in flames with richmond and also many of the people simply never really spoke about it. it is quite right what ralph said.

johnson, thank you. cory: thank you. vonnie: let's check in now on the first word news. emma chandra has more. emma: the fbi has carriedhe predawn raid of a virginia home of former trump campaign manager paul manafort. he is cooperating with the agency. "the washington post" says agency document and other are being taken for investigation into the meddling of russia in the u.s. election. rex tillerson does not believe there is any imminent threat from north korea. he told reporters that the exchange of threats between the two countries does not mean the u.s. is moving closer to a military option. president trump is warning north korea it will face fire and fury if it keeps threatening the u.s. roughly a says it is considering an attack on the u.s. a military military base on guam. police shot and killed a suspect on the attack in a paris suburb. six soldiers were injured when a car rammed into them. the area where the attacks took place is home to france's main intelligence agency. in florida, tiger woods has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence, but he has agreed to enter a divergent program that will lea

any and all of those who know damn well that that attack was carried out by israel and i don't to die for one second but lyndon baines johnson is a first class traitor on many levels and a pervert to boot so i'm not in any way defending that traitor however to suggest that lyndon baines johnson manipulated the israelis into it in tack for his own personal gains is insulting and absolutely contrary to the facts as i mentioned earlier their radio transcripts which are now a matter of public record in which the israeli pilots themselves are saying or questioning the order to attack what is clearly an american ship and the order is repeated to attack that ship so please don't tell me or anybody else that lyndon baines johnson manipulated that it is insulting now i'd like to get back to another point as well which is that of course as soon as we talk about the jewish state of israel and the jewish supremacists talmudic ideology which effectively pits all of us the rest of us the glory as cattle to be used and we look at the actual pattern the lavon affair the u.s.s. liberty and direct direct involvement in nine eleven in fact it

with the state of michigan after he is barred from carrying a concealed weapon as a condition to becoming a foster parent to his own grandson. bill johnsone flat out you are going to have to give up some constitutional rights here if you want to keep that boy. a spokeswoman for the nra. good to see you, dana. does it surprise you at all? >> shannon, so good to see you. it does in a way but at the same time this is one in a long line of examples where we have seen in my opinion the state going about trying to sort of push people into certain belief modes and behavioral -- we saw this with catholic charities in illinois where it concerned same-sex marriage. my heart breaks for the family. the johnsons have already been through something having to take their grandson from their daughter. they have the option of fostering him but with the state telling them he has to give up his second amendment rights to do so. it's weird. when you look in laws of different states where it concerns fostering they say make sure your firearms are locked up, that your ammunition is stored separately but it doesn't address when you are concealed carry, your eve

michigan claiming the policy that bans foster parents from carrying concealed weapons infringes on personal freedoms. joining us now are bill and jill johnsonood morning. ainsley: bill, i will start with you. tell us your story about your grandson and what the state was telling you. >> we took possession of our grandson after he was taken away from our daughter. and my very first encounter with dhhs i was searched when i walked in their building to see if i had a firearm on. in michigan we are not allowed to walk into state buildings with firearms so i was not armed. then there was a confrontation inside. we won't go into detail about that. from that point on they came after my guns pretty heavy. and demanded serial numbers from guns that we don't keep serial numbers on in michigan. it's not required by law. and every time i would ask them about it, they would say you're not complying. we're going to take your grandson away from you. and we led up to the point where they told me i was no longer to carry my firearm with me when my grandson was with me. and then it got to the point where you can't carry your firearm at home as long as your gr

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carrying children to safety. the story behind the picture. you're watching "cbs this morning." >>> many photos have shown the bravery and compassion in houston. we wanted to find out the real images. deputy r. johnsonar veteran and a father of four. when johnson and his colleagues came upon this house on sunday, a woman emerged and waved johnson over asking for help. he picked up two of her kids. >> as we were walking out the door, in order to keep the kids focused on something other than the seriousness around us, i made a couple of jokes in reference to swimming and things of that nature and we were laughing about the water being cold. i was telling them we have some little tubes we can just ride down the road, took them to a local gas station, they said thank you, of course. it's my job, it's not something that i need to be thanked for. >> oh, but you do, mr. johnson. thank you. he said this was just the second rescue of the day. since then there have been too many to count. it's uniting us in a haven't seen in a long time. that does it for us but we'll see you tomorro "w oncb z2fwdz z16fz y2fwdy y16fy >>> good morning and welcome to "great day washington". we are joined by inova all hours long

johnson has done previously and gave it that same kind of outlook. you know workers and one class conscious worker, that is a slogan or model. gene carried made the paper resonate beyond the campus and connecting it with the community.the same time i try to straddle into what they say in the grassroots and the foot in the ivory tower. make sure that these communities come together and gaining the wealth of the resources that it could bring and gene was on the front line of the. he was on the ramparts of the struggle in those days and i have appreciated his friendship over the years as i appreciate his call today because he has to resurrect a few things and of course i have a pretty extensive discussion of that in black detroit. matter of fact old visit gene talked about as far as black studies at wayne state university, because it was a hotbed of political activism. on the way back to the 60s with - that is a swahili word for -- this was both pertinent on campus and off-campus. many ended up being part of the revolutionary union movement, revolutionary black workers. all of these here concentration the work of activism. when i worked at

c-span at ch on c-span.org, on the c-span radio we are joined on the phone by carrie johnson, justice correspondent for n.p.r. good morning. what do we know, heading into announcement today at 11? very serious a show by attorney general jeff sessions and deputy attorney rosenstein will be there and head of the director intelligence, dan working on ill, leaks and intelligence for a long time. glean, we do an not expect criminal charges to be announced today, rather message from administration about cracking down on national security leaks say threaten the nation's position here and abroad when it security.ational host: national security leaks ould be transcripts of the president's phone calls with the president of mexico, the prime australia, the front age of the "washington post," would they fall into that category? guest: good question. administration coming from trump on down has done decrying leaks all year long. criminal.eaks are some are gossip, some are negative information about the president and what he's doing, what is criminal are leaks that implicate national security natio