dr. king's birthday. one night you were at the station -- tell the story about how you met dr. king? >> i told you i had a clerk's job. if i was being a d.j. and a clerk, i worked long days. both could be full time jobs. our sales manager was a close friend of dr. king. martin luther king had a hard time finding a quiet spot to be alone and just be himself. this sales manager would bring him to the station at night when the station was closed except for belva still doing the log back there for the next day's cast. they would come in, often just shadows i could see in the other room from where i was sitting. i saw him a number of times. one time frank came in with dr. king and said to me as he was there, you know martin, don't you? >> i said, no. i don't know martin. in any case, we had casual words. it was an honor to note that i had the opportunity to shake his hand and later covered him as a reporter, which was also a wonderful thing. >> what do you remember about him that perhaps people who have only heard about him would be interested in knowing? >> i think just seeing him in the

he went to dr. king who was one of bonds' physicians, got information from him and brought to it bonds in the locker room. so the centerpiece have what mr. hopkins is going to testify is a recording he made that allegedly has bonds talking about injecting steroids. joining us now, legal analyst dean john and it all led up to the recording which has not been presented in the court. what is going on as far as the prosecution case right now? >> every lawyer knows the rule of primacy, first big piece of

he went to dr. king who was one of bonds' physicians, got information from him and brought to it bonds in the locker room. so the centerpiece have what mr. hopkins is going to testify is a recording he made that allegedly has bonds talking about injecting steroids.

he went to dr. king who was one of bonds' physicians, got information from him and brought to it bonds in the locker room. so the centerpiece have what mr. hopkins is going to testify is a recording he made that allegedly has bonds talking about injecting steroids.

dr. king's corrine and so forth -- dr. king's dream and so forth. there is a point to which you can stomach some of the nonsense, but enough. that also was a bridge too far for me. >> do you watch him regularly? >> it's not a regular thing. -- i do not watch him regularly. i do think there is a certain entertainment value. they are provocative and shocking because it makes them a lot of money. i even have a hard time believing they believe all the things they say. it is so ridiculous some days. to each his own. i do not have to take part in that and watch it. i would discourage everybody from watching it. if you want to be entertained go ahead. >> how often do you dig into the conservative talk-show host world? >> i try to follow them on social networking to see what the headlines are and what people are saying. i will check the bigger websites from time to time, particularly if there is something in the news i think they will be weighing in on. i want to see what they are saying. sometimes there is fair stuff. it can get money with things that i do

he went to dr. king who was one of bonds' physicians, got information from him and brought to it bonds in the locker room. so the centerpiece have what mr. hopkins is going to testify is a recording he made that allegedly has bonds talking about injecting steroids. joining us now, legal analyst dean john and it all led up to the recording which has not been presented in the court. what is going on as far as the prosecution case right now? >> every lawyer knows the rule of primacy, first big piece of evidence is the one they remember best. so they want to drop a bomb of a recording of barry bonds and greg anderson talking about the use of steroids. if they can deliver on that, that will set the tone for the state and very indicate a shift of momentum toward the prosecution. >> reporter: to that end there was also some examination of irs agent jeff novitsky. they were asking him about the transcript of the recording, recording is not a really clear quality. there is dispute what exactly is being said and t

he went to dr. king who was one of bonds' physicians, got information from him and brought to it bonds in the locker room. so the centerpiece have what mr. hopkins is going to testify is a recording he made that allegedly has bonds talking about injecting steroids. joining us now, legal analyst dean john and it all led up to the recording which has not been presented in the court. what is going on as far as the prosecution case right now? >> every lawyer knows the rule of primacy, first big piece of evidence is the one they remember best. so they want to drop a bomb of a recording of barry bonds and greg anderson talking about the use of steroids. if they can deliver on that, that will set the tone for the state and very indicate a shift of momentum toward the prosecution. >> reporter: to that end there was also some examination of irs agent jeff novitsky. they were asking him about the transcript of the recording, recording is not a really clear quality. there is dispute what exactly is being said and t

. >> popular -- >> went down to birmingham to support dr. king.arry belafonte, the jay-z of his day marched with doctor king. today i'd have to march with jay-z. >> let me pick up with the institutions. one the critiques is it is no longer independent, it's been co-opted. >> in my church new york city politician speaks on sunday morning. there's churches that fling their door open if the mayor is running or governor is running, that he gets center stage. in our church, if they don't stay for the whole service, i won't even call their name. >> we are in a position to independently decide what political positions we will take, what political arrangements we will have. to me that speaks to the independence of the african-american church. >> everybody speaks to the power of black preachers. >> i'm going to be a cynic for a minute. >> that's why we have the professor on the panel. >> what we have to be very clear about the way many churches function. they don't cultivate a kind of democratic space for every day ordinary folk to engage in the kinds of e

we met with dr. king. he came to our church. he was beaten. you could see that on television every night where the ministers were beaten trying to get people to vote down in new orleans and baton rouge. when i came down here, the same thing was going on. we went to san francisco state university to get my credentials and my master's degree. we had to close the school down to get to ethnic studies. the police marching on us at san francisco state. after leaving new orleans and coming here, it was still a fight. comparing the schools, yes, i can see the different -- i can see the difference. those parents are there, and they bring in money for those schools, and they have all kinds of book fairs and arts festivals, computer labs, and at hunters point, it is a whole different story. you do not have a computer labs there. we do not have a parent involvement. it is a total difference. >> your perspective on jamal, awaiting the decision on whether he will be executed or spend his life in prison. >> he should be released. [applause] one of my profess

as you well know, dr. king said this many years ago, that the most segregated time of the week in this country is sunday morning. white folks go to their church. black folks go to their church. sunday morning is the most segregated time in this country. you now see some multiculturalism, some of that. but i am curious of what you have learned. what did you take away from the episcopal church and visiting, spending time in a different kind of holiness black church? >> i have never been asked that. we still go to both. but we're still the only white congregants at house of prayer. look, we are christians. we are still living in the word and trying to read here to the two british commandments. -- two greatest commandments. we are all neighbors. it is a sense of who our neighbors are. i know who my neighbors are now. that's what we understand as people, who our neighbors are. the hungry, the thursday, the greeting, -- the hungry, the ieving., the greetin what do we want out of this? what do we really hope for? i do

. >> jimmy: dr. kingsmiling on you now. >> i have a dream that one day, little black boys will get together with little white girls and have a baby. i'm kidding. i'm kidding. you foe that is going to be on youtube. jamie foxx defiles dr. martin luther king. >> jimmy: it's a dream. sometimes you dream weird things. you won an academy award across the street from here. [ applause ] where do you keep it? >> i don't keep the oscar with me. i have a lot of friends that don't have a social security number. then in the back, they're like, man, that's why he don't keep that around. i'm not saying their criminals. even when i won the oscar, i didn't go to the "vanity fair" joint. everybody was like, with you going to "vanity fair "? i was like, no, i'm going to kick it with the homeys. i went to the party and they took the trophy out of my hands and i lost the trophy for 45 minutes. >> jimmy: no way. >> and over in the corner, i think people were smoking medicinal. and he was like, man, i got contact. and you know

"they were trying to take out our eyesight" by going after-- and what's really true is that what dr. king and andy young and the strategists and people like john and others did was take the monster of racism and legal, state-sanctioned racism which existed in the south and which was covered up and bring it out into the sunlight so that america, with this new national sensibility of a national media, both print and television-- but television is so important, because the new york times can cover it. that's national media, but it's a small constituency. but if the new york times affects nbc, abc, cbs and they cover it, the whole county watches this national morality play. was the new york times covering it at that time? oh, yes. before television accelerated? oh, yeah. that was a decision made by turner catledge of philadelphia, mississippi, the new york times executive editor, immediately upon brown versus board of education that they would cover this, assigning johnny popham, a wonderful reporter, to do it and then eventually two of my personal heroes, claude sitton and john herbers. i me

dr. martin luther king j.r.'s letter is here to his private misses, his wife.he writes from a state prison. >> this is to his wife on october 26, 1960. hello, darling. today i find myself a long way from you and the children. i'm at the state prison in reedsville, about 230 miles away from atlanta. they picked me up with the dekalb jail at 4 a.m. this morning. i know the experience is difficult for you, especially in the conditions of your pregnancy, but as i said to you yesterday, this is the cross that we must bear for the freedom of our people, so i urge you to be strong in faith and this will in turn strengthen me. i can assure you that it is extremely difficult to think of being away from you, my little yokie and marty for four months, but i ask god hourly for the power of endurance. i have the faith to believe that this excessive suffering which has now come to our family will in some little way serve to make atlanta a better city. georgia, a better state, and america a better country. just how? i do not yet know, but i have the faith to believe it will,

. >> it is the idea that it is a play on the dr. king "i have a dream"speech .spent a lot of time trying to coopt. itunes into a couple of programs where -- i thune to into a couple of programs where he took the marching orders that were given and said this is what we should do in the tea party. he said this is king's dream and we're the fulfillment. there's a certain point where i consummate this but enough. that was a bridge too far for me. >> when you watch glen beck -- >> and not a regular viewer. >> doesn't the n.y. times of view him in a certain way? >> i have a hard time believing all the things that he says. to each his own. i don't have to take part in that and i don't have to watch it. i would discourage everybody from watching it but if you want to be entertained -- >> how far you dip into the conservative talk-show world? >> i thought -- i try to follow them on twitter and social networking to see with the headlines are or i will check web sites from time to time, particularly if there is something in the news they would weigh in on. i want to see wh

dr. martin luther king's letter from a birmingham jail is here along with his private message to his wife who in 1960 he writes from a state prison. >> this is a letter from dr. martin luther king jr. to his wife, coretta scott in 1960. hello, darling. today i find myself a long way from you and the children. i am at the state prison in reedsville which is about 230 miles away from atlanta. they picked me up from the dekalb jail at around 4 a.m. this morning. i know this whole experience is very difficult for you, especially in the conditions of your pregnancy. but as i said to you yesterday, this is the cross that we must bear for the freedom of our people. so i urge you to be strong in faith, and this will in turn strengthen me. i can assure you that it is extremely difficult to think of being away

dr. martin luther king jr off the wall. we asked carlos, what is going on with you? he replied he is now a new convert to islam and everything he does from now on will be to honor allah. carlos was growing up with martin king's picture on the wall, but now he is treating that picture as if dr. king was nobody to him. we asked carlos not to take the dr. king picture off the wall. he take it off the wall anyway. this became a big concern to us. we went to nashville to visit him more and learn more about who was he hanging around with and what was going on with carlos. carlos dropped out of school at the beginning of 2005 semester. he was working at a temporary job a job and got a doing. he turned the dog loose in the woods because he was told it was a dirty creature. i couldn't understand how he could do that because he grew up with dogs in the house since he was 5 years old. something and someone is getting into his head and changing his waif thinking. it had gotten to the point he had no interest in coming home even for the holidays. all this was part of his brainwas

if dr. king was nobody to him. we asked carlos not to take dr. king's picture off the wall, but he took it off the wall anyway. this became a big concern to us. we went to visit him in nashville because we wanted to learn more about what was really going on with carlos. we discovered that carlos had dropped out of school, at the beginning of the 2005 fall semester. he was working a temporary job. he had gotten a dog while in college, and now we found out that he had turned the dog loose in the woods because he was told that muslims consider dogs dirty creatures. i really couldn't understand how he could do that, because carlos grew up with a dog in the house since he was 5-years old. so my wife and i thought that there something or someone was getting in his head and changing the way he thinks. it had gotten to the point where he had no interest in coming home, even for the holidays. all of this was part of brainwashing him, and changing his thinking a little bit at a time. he had a job in nashvi

they have covered dr. king. they have started to move america. i want to be one of them. if i'm going to get harangued, i want to have some power to fight back. why would i make that decision? no college, no training, no education, never -- i didn't have anything to convince me that any white employer would want to hire me. but i started applying all around the place. and, finally, i was doing of all things a beauty pageant for black girls that i considered my civil rights work because it was my fight against miss america that unite our girls the right to participate. so we started our own pageant. i present the girls on television, and a writer from a daily paper wrote that surely somewhere in television there must be a place for belva davis. and i acted as though that was carved in concrete, and just apply to everybody and everything, and to finally in 1966, i read a story about a loved ronald reagan and had said that if he was elected, she would quit her anchor job and got to work for him. that he was elected, i called her boss and i told him, i want to apply for her j

dr. timothy king is one of three directors of the excavation team. he said just about harmland was being there and weighing ten tons, the colombian mammoth roamed 10,000 years ago. it is a relative of the much better known woolly mammoth, it is in part the lack of fame and lack of -- >> under a cloud of secrecy, team as well as as every other schools, not just one but two, an adult and infant. and they found not tusk and bone but still. >> if they are able to extract dna, there is always a tice thing. >> reporter: but making history is rarely easy. and this gig is no longest. our recent wet weather has created a sea of sticky clay mud. making not just difficult but even walking a challenge. so you have to wonder, how why in these conditions? well, they really didn't see mu much, so they'll have to be thorough and last as well. they have already uncovered 10% of what they think is there and that's also really exciting for all of us. >> well, the team likes to think of the two mammoths as a mother and her baby. they said she can't file for sure. the ga

dr. martin luther king jr off the wall. we asked carlos, what is going on with you? he replied he is now a new convert to islam and everything he does from now on will be to honor allah. carlos was growing up with martin king's picture o the wall, but now he is treating that picture as if dr. king was nobody to him. we asked carlos not to take the dr. king picture off the wall. he take it off the wall anyway. this became a big concern to us. we went to nashville to visit him more and learn morebout who was he hanging around with and what was going on with carlos. carlos dropped out of school at the beginning of 2005 semester. he was working at a temporary job a job and got a doing. he turned the dog loose in the woods because he was told it was a dirty creature. i couldn't understand how he could do that because he grew up with dogs in the house since he was 5 years old. something and someone is getting into his head and changing his waif thinking. it had gotten to the point he had no interest in coming home even for the holidays. all this was part of his brainwashin

dr. timothy king is one of the three directors after the mammoth excavation team. he said three months ago as this farmland was being graded in preparation for planting, the tusk and tooth of a columbian mammoth were uncovered. an ice age beast 14 feet tall weighing 10 tons, the columbian mammoth roamed california tens of thousands of years ago. it is a relative of the much better known wooly mammoth. the lack of study may make this discovery so special. >> it is going to change things. it could rewrite textbooks. >> reporter: so under a cloud of secrecy for the past month, teams of volunteer from santa clara university, foothill college and other bay area schools have been carefully uncovering what it turns out is not just one mammoth but two. an adult and infant. and they found not just tusk and bone but hair as well. >> it is kind a dark brown/red. >> reporter: if they are able to extract dna from any of it, it will be the first time that has ever happened. >> we are always very excited by the find of hair because it gives you a very good chance of actually find

still no justice in sight and are police trained well enough to interact with the muslim community dr peter king says of the muslim community isn't responsive to law enforcement a closer look reveals that the problem might actually be the other way around so we'll have details on all those stories and much more but first let's move on to our top story. on saturday we all watched as an international military operation began in libya as a result of a u.n. security council resolution authorizing a no fly zone and all necessary. force still not clear what all necessary force me but we know that french jets entered libyan airspace first followed by tomahawk cruise missiles being fired by the u.s. and the violence continues today obama administration officials keep repeating the line that this operation will only last a matter of days but at this point no one can really say if this is going to be some quick assaults or a long drawn out war is going off he is promising but there is already plenty of anger some coming from congress for lawmakers are questioning how obama could make this decision without

made in memphis in many ways, one of the most on a track to sadden moments was in april of 68 when dr. king was assassinated in memphis. from that assassination, like a phoenix distilleries museum husker and from the finest natural rights museum and the country. i encourage you to come to memphis and visit the civil rights museum and learned about the history of the movement, going way, way back to sir turner truth and ida b. wells and, to thurgood marshall and everybody else. but i am pleased to be at jay street. when i first came to congress -- [applause] exactly. that deserves a round of applause. as my fellow colleagues here know one voice about jewish positions including israel or american position known as aipac. there is nothing wrong with aipac. they should have their voice and they are very much pro-israel. but as most of you know, if you get three together, you'll have four different opinions at least. and i think in israel they had some quote about 1000 presidents or a billion presidents. and so, jewish people think for themselves. albert einstein said there were certain things t

dr. martin luther king, how were without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. power at its best is love and lamenting the demands of justice. i want to thank my husband, virgil, and my sons, who love me unconditionally every single day. and many thanks to my sister, yolanda, and to all my other sisters here who love encourage me to move towards this work, and lastly, to my parents who taught me all about love. thank you. [applause] supervisor chiu: now, continuing in alphabetical reverse order, i would like to acknowledge our supervisor from district 6, jane kim. supervisor kim: thank you. i'm also presenting on behalf of behalfmirka -- on behalf of supervisor mirkarimi, who could not be here today because he is in washington, d.c. i will present his first. it is a brilliant honor to present this. she's worked as executive director of the women's community clinic since its inception in 1999. under her leadership, the clinic has focused on providing personalized service to women, by women they trust. the clinic relies heavily on volunteer clinicians

dr. martin luther king jr. was shot in memphis 43 years ago next monday. tonight, we're seeing long-lost photos of his assassin. they show james earl ray as he was booked more than two months after king's murder. he is also seen in a jail uniform being patted down by a deputy standing against the wall of cell. it was 30 years ago today that president ronald reagan was shot by a would-be assassin in washington, d.c. reagan, of course, survived and went on to serve two full terms in office. three others were wounded that day, including reagan's press secretary, james brady. today, he visited the white house and met president obama. senior white house correspondent bill plante reports brady is still fighting for his signature cause. >> reporter: in the press room where he once briefed reporters, jim brady was asked if this president was pushing hard enough for gun control. >> you can never push too hard. >> reporter: the bullet in his brain changed jim brady's life forever. brady was so seriously wounded that news wires reported his death. this recording was

dr. martin luther king, how were without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental anemic. power at its best is love and lamenting the demands of justice. i want to thank my husband, virgil, and my sons, who love me unconditionally every single day. and many thanks to my sister, yolanda, and to all my other sisters here who love encourage me to move towards this work, and lastly, to my parents who taught me all about love. thank you. [applause]

dr. martin luther king when he came here in 61-62. people were involved president albany movement. later, larry wilson, excuse me, larry west, his family, ronny nelson, back guys who played in that period, whose family and mothers understood if you could integrate that football team and not have white fans on one side and black stands on the other side in this big stadium, if you can integrate that team, then you can further integration in the community. >> was there a lot of push back or tension from the community when grady played? there>> there was tension from his own team. they later regretted that, and in the same season they realized that grady was a fellow with strong character. they recognized that. there was early resistance, yes. the high school coach at that period who just recently passed away made a point, he would -- the cafeteria on camp, he would sit by grady and all the other white players would not accept him early on, but the coach cook did that. the other thing he did at night when he felt there were problems, grady slept by him in his bunk. there were people w