in 1997 then newspaper editor don brown claimed as many as 265 illegal votes were cast in his run for council. votes cast by fraternity and sorority members. >> i think that the machine is - it's a symbol of larger issues in american politics. are we going to have a political system that is controlled behind closed doors by a small group of people, and lead to greater cynicism about politics, or are we going to conduct ourselves with integrity, be open about who we are, why we are running and who is backing us? those are the issues that we have to ask in tuscaloosa and those are the issues that every voter across the country needs to ask. >> reporter: we wanted to ask the machine about all of this. trying to find a secret society is not easy. the frat houses didn't want to talk. neither did most of the students we approached. with the spiller's election, it steam. >> the majority have spoken. we are progressing. you know, you can hop on the bandwagon or not. >> reporter: that from a young man who has something in common with george wallace. as a student wallace ran for student body pr

. >> fill lez don brown is going to start the season on the disabled list, and ken giles left today's game with a back strain. phillies-blue jays. it's sean o'sullivan on the mound, and he could be the fifth starter now because the phils released kevin sloany today, and o'sullivan serve it up to batista. one of the two homers he allowed. then there's giles leaving with back pain in the eighth inning but he says it's just tightness. he believes he should be okay for monday. the phillies lose again. 10-6. not going good down in clearwater. i'm john clark. we're right back. ♪ i am never getting married. never. psssssh. guaranteed. you picked a beautiful ring. thank you. we're never having kids. mmm-mmm. breathe. i love it here. we are never moving to the suburbs. we are never getting one of those (minivan). we are never having another kid. i'm pregnant. i am never letting go. for all the nevers in life state farm is there. >>> we can put the umbrellas away? >> yes. tomorrow very different than what we saw this afternoon and evening. it's going to be sunny, cool and breezy tomorrow. 50 de

don. >> brown: do you see a connection between peggy and heidi? >> absolutely. absolutely. but i see a connection between both of them, and all women, and myself, you know? i always thought peggy was the every-woman. i always thought that she was the one who is-- you could identify with, you know, as a woman of any age. and i think that heidi is the same way in that sense. they're very different people though. >> brown: have you ever thought about what would have happened to her through time? >> to peggy? >> brown: yeah. >> yes. >> brown: yeah, and? >> it would be difficult to say without-- saying things that i can't say about the last season. speculating about what happened to her is like-- well, we know what happened to those women, you know? they continued to work. and sometimes they got married. and sometimes they didn't. sometimes they had kids. sometimes they didn't. and-- they became the women who were our bosses. they became the women who forged the path for all the other ladies in advertising now. >> see, this is why i don't like working with women- you have no sen

. >> don brown is healthy enough to play for the phils but he started the season with achilles tendonitis'll get time in with the iron pigs. cole hamels got the first win of the season and great defense behind him and even run support. ben revere drove in two runs in a ground-rule double in the seventh. cole hamels had nine strikeouts and tonight is severino on the mound. >>> now here is something you have to see from the kansas jayhawks look at 27 taking the pitch, that is brian speary an 89-year-old world war ii vet and member of the kansas orange bowl team in 1997. he heard the jayhawks were having a scrimmage and thought that would be fun he dpnt know if he could run he weaves his way through the defense and barry has still got it. >> they are blocking for him too. >> i could not do that. >> i could do that but i would need a nap afterwards. >> very cool. >> sharrie? >> rick, you are hilarious, marine time a south jersey cat named sprinkles gained a noticeable amounts of fame because of her sizeable figure. a tale on how she became so big nora muchanic has the story from sea isle city

in may 1856, don brown and his sons and a couple followers, dragged five men from their cabins along the pottawatomie, and they were hacked to death. that effectively cleared that area of southern settlers. >> here and to be good, if you look at the schools you would be hard-pressed to determine whether white students are african-american students attended. the school board really did provide all the same materials that the white schools offered. even more interesting, they find that after graduating from elementary school, african-american students attended integrated middle and high schools. while they certainly were no supporters of segregation and obviously saw the injustice the african-american community also was very proud of their schools, because these were excellent facilities. while there was support for the idea of integration, there was also some resistance, especially from the teachers and the local chapters of the naacp who fear the loss of these institutions and the loss of those jobs. >> watch all our events from topeka, saturday at noon eastern. >> next, vision ameri

don draper. my guests enjoying brown liquors is not a boys only club.ident and andrea wilson has over a decade of experience in the whiskey industry, the first woman to chair the kentucky distillers association. you have an impressive resume. you oversold johnny walker brands. what has been the shift? how has that shifted over the years? andrea: what men -- women have always drank whiskey. it wasn't hot, it was about vodka and vodka has been on a huge run for a long time. now people want something different. whiskey offers a complexity. it is not gender specific. it is something that if you produce a great quality whiskey people are going to love it and drink it. alix: you were a former wall street attorney. how did you wind up here? connie: it was buying accident. -- by accident. i had done legal work for the company. i joined them as director of marketing. after that i was also named evp of ministers -- michter's. i join a lot of senior women enjoying whiskey. he had a skill set that was transferable. what we don't see in the whiskey industry, we have

don. >> clerk: your time is up. >> testifier: >> presidentis the commitment of the commission that we have from everyone. i like to hear from everyone tonight. next please. thank you rev. brown. >> testifier: you been racist ignoring our people. denying us equality and justice under the law. i think it is time. you all be accommodating. you be sensible. if there were an earthquake don't -- you will stop this meeting. it was an earthquake you got to business as usual. we've got an earthquake of rage in this town of racist police and it's time to stop business as usual. >> president: thank you rev. brown. thank welcome. thank you. >> testifier: my name is renÉ davis and i'm here to speak aboutthe most unfortunate cops and robert chase that happened last friday night. there've been a series of these and every time i hear that i am horrified. i am angry. they make no sense to me that people walking on the street buck up driving in a car stuck up are likely to be victimized by out-of-control pursuit and out-of-control pursuers. the people being pursued. it became personal last friday when my daughter was in one of the cars that was involved in an accident. so, i determined to com

brown people vote. excuse me if i butchered your name there. how you doing e erica? >> hi, don. thanks for having me up here again. i attended the gray's funeral today. and, you know, i was able, you know, to pay my respects and stand in solidarity, not with just the gray family, a couple other family members of police brutality. and, you know, what i get from what these kids is doing is like, you know, they had enough. they don't know what else to do. i mean, they don't have no jobs, they don't have proper schooling. i was driving through baltimore earlier and i noticed how many abandoned buildings is out there. it's like there's no hope. these kids have no hope. i not condoning what they doing. but like, every -- they seem like they have no hope. like eventually, this is going to happen to me, so why not go out there and get my message across some way. but burning down your city is not right, but what other choice do we have. they scared. >> and it's sad, because you know there is sentiment and erica has a point. >> it's interesting that you say that first -- before i go forwa

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host: don ritchie tweets in the people who impose them -- oppose him just don't think brown people. couple of facebook comments we have been getting this morning. keith says that holder is the most corrupt ag and history. don says the most racist ag in history. dot says that historians will write holder as being a very good attorney general and he will go down in history as such. jeremy says that he was the worst of all time, but loretta lynch will probably take his spot soon. cindy says not good until the last month. some of the facebook comments. if you want to participate in the conversation on facebook, facebook.com/cspan. darrell, what do you think of eric holder's performance? caller: i think mr. holder was a great attorney general. i don't think a lot of americans are used to black people being well-versed in their language. i hear a lot of the comments about people saying how he is a racist or not a racist. they do not go on to say that they are not a bigot. the is another important thing. they refer to the president as being halfway like that half white makes them a better p

don, john, and yahoo president among many others. you can hear the bull's toll, let's get back to headquarters, scott wapner and the half. >>> welcome to the halftime show, our starting lineup starts with josh brown, along with pete and steven. we have a big game plan for you today as well. we have that twitter downgrade that we're going to talk an awful lot about. bob peck will be here live as well. we're going to count down to the big apple earnings report, we're even going to talk to an investor with billions of dollars under management who says to stay away from china, even with the great gains that we've seen in the stock market over there. we're going to toss it out to the conference in los angeles. two big interviews with two big people today. blackstone's chairman and ceo steve schwarzman. he's sitting alongside brad sullivan. >> scott, thank you very much. steve schwarzman, runs a bunch of stuff. all of our audience knows what he does. they teased you with china, steve, welcome, thanks for joining us. i want to start with real estate. a lot may not realize you are the biggest owner of homes in the united states. what's your view? is housing still a good investment? >> housing is a good i

don, john, and yahoo president among many others. you can hear the bull's toll, let's get back to headquarters, scott wapner and the half. >>> welcome to the halftime show, our starting lineup starts with josh brownand steven. we have a big game plan for you today as well. we have that twitter downgrade that we're going to talk an awful lot about. bob peck will be here live as well. we're going to count down to the big apple earnings report, we're even going to talk to an investor with billions of

garner where there was a video, michael brown, there was no video, may now in a sense, those situations are acting as the template for these police shootings. >> sunny, donill all be back with me later. stand by. >>> this important note to our viewers. don will be back at 10:00 p.m. eastern, much more on his program "cnn tonight". >>> a lot more coming up from north charleston but we are also following another breaking story right now. what's next now that a jury has convicted the boston marathon bomber? >>> also ahead, new worries that air strikes could open the door for an al qaeda comeback in a country president obama once pointed to as a success story in the war on terror. people ship all kinds of things. but what if that thing is a few hundred thousand doses of flu vaccine. that need to be kept at 41 degrees. while being shipped to a country where it's 90 degrees. in the shade. sound hard? yeah. does that mean people in laos shouldn't get their vaccine? we didn't think so. from figuring it out to getting it done, we're here to help. aww, this audit will take days. what a headache! actually...i...don't have a headache anymore! excedrin really does wo

pamela brown, cedric alexander a member of president obama's task force on 21st century policing and president of the national organization of black law enforcement executives arnds our cnn anchor donn, start with you. what's your reaction to all of the news we're getting today, especially that bombshell, it's a bombshell citing multiple law enforcement briefed on the police report's investigation saying freddie gray actually sustained those injuries in the back of that van? >> reporter: well listen a lot of people still don't believe it and especially if you're paying attention to what people are saying on the streets and what people are saying on social media, but if you actually read into that report wolf, you see it's not conclusive. they don't know if it was self-sustained or if it was is a sustained through excessive force. the interesting thing is when i spoke to a family member a very close family member of one of the officers involved in the apprehension of freddie gray, they say that most of the officers there and especially the officer close to her, believed that freddie gray sustain those injuries before getting into that van. here's what she said, wolf. take a listen.