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but some of the new faces linebacker derek johnson and colton the new rookie they have. and they all talked about jon gruden and you will see a theme here. >> jon gruden a special coach. he is kind of like a player on the field. he's very energetic. he is loud. he is talking noise. he is talking trash. >> high energy guy. what you see is what you get. if you messing up he gonna let you know. you doing good he gonna let you know. >> there's never a time i have seen jon gruden not excited. he is just a guy that can pump you up. >> he doesn't change. he is always fiery. he loves football. he wants to win. he loves his players. he loves his coaches. he demands from you. i think all of those things are things that i knew about him that day and things that i know about him here five years later. >> and derek carr referring to a quarterback camp that was fiv years ago. derek carr now in his fifth season. but it's going to be fun and exciting from a media standpoint. i can't wait to just cover this team all year long. >> all right. so it's a new era for the raiders. jon gruden i

. >> thank you so much for joining me, derek johnson, president of the naacp. >> thank you >> woodruff: now, back to the looming high-stakes showdown overustice anthony kennedy's seat on the supreme court, a debate that could very well define the politics of this summer.an johnbegins there. >> yang: judy, we will talk about that, and more, in politics monday. we're joined by amy walter,al natiditor of the "cook political report," and susan page, washington bureau chief for "usa today." amy, welcome. we don't even have a nominee yet but we're already debating the nominee's poitions on issues. >> of course, john, this is where we live now.to we don't havhave a candidate to already have battle lines. we know this in this polarized environment we pretty much know how most peb meers of the senate will vote regardless of who the nominee. is so the actual targets in terms of vulnerable or senators who could flip their vote is very narrow, that is why we are talking so much about a handful of democrats in red states wh are up in 2018 and then a couplr publicans, lisa murkowski from alaska, sus

johnson convicted. just a few miles away with information that might have proven his innocence. in july of one thousand nine hundred two derek hamilton was on trial for the murder of nathaniel cash hamilton has a big similarity with tyrone johnson's it came down to the alleged eyewitness testimony of one person in hamilton's case her name is. the police say smith aidid hamilton as the shooter but it isn't so simple when the defense doesn't know is there is actually the same person as the woman who called herself karen smith at the crime scene and told detective frank she didn't see the shooting. the fact that she gave two different names and two different versions of events would have raise serious red flags at trial about the reliability of her idea of hamilton as the killer. smith said you didn't do it. and then she went to the police station. and said you didn't do what transpired to make her change her testimony i don't know what happened in a prison because i was in the well i'm going to use what they said that according to jewish smith she said that she went to the prison did told us she was going to jail for murder sh

just a one-time idea based off a friend of mine, chick johnson on "the new girl," he was drunk and telling a story about otis redding. >> reporter: derekmark. >> derek called me up, i want to do like the history channel does, you talk about a thing, then we re-enact it. i said, great. oh, and i want you to be really, really drunk when you do it. >> he was the one that i went to and said, what's a moment in history that you feel more people need to know about? and he said, alexander hamilton and aaron burr. >> today we're going to talk about alexander hamilton. >> how far in did you stop remembering what was going on? >> i remember moving from a chair to the couch. after that, everything is a little hazy. >> reporter: the guys thought it would be a one-time video, until jeremy's former boss, jack black, saw it. >> i was jack's assistant at the time. and i showed it to him. he was like, oh my god, i want to do one! and we did the ben franklin one. then all of a sudden now we were doing a series. >> reporter: five seasons later, the show comes full circle tonight with mark as narrator once again. how do you choose which stories? >> we hav

look, derek, we have talked about this and you have written about it, i have a piece of legislation up on the hill working with chairman mccall and chairman johnson, just to change my name as an organization. >> sure. >> from nppd which i will give 5 bucks to anybody in the audience who knows what that means to cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency. >> that legislation has been languishing for quite a while. who is against it? >> you know, i don't know anybody that's against it. i just think that -- >> what's the hang-up then? >> you know, i don't know. i think maybe what we need to do a better job from the department but also industry is communicate why this is so important. why we need to do this. it is going to help me recruit. it is going to help me cement my position across the federal family, but also it will make things easier for he when i go out in the -- for me when i go out in the field and provide services to the critical infrastructure community, across the private sector and state and local market of who it is -- who i am and what i do. and that's honestly that's part of the reason that we we had some initial challenges,