dr. martin luther king jr. she's joining us on the phone right now. dr.ing, thanks very much for joining us. tell us about the impact, the role that nelson mandela had on your dad. >> well, my father unfortunately didn't get an opportunity to meet mr. mandela. but there was a bond in their freedom struggle. the struggles we were fighting for in america and the struggle they were fighting for in south africa. ironically next year will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of daddy receiving the nobel peace prize. just a few days before in london called for a worldwide movement of economic sanctions and for the fact that nelson mandela was languishing in prison. and so he identified with the south african struggle, the apartheid struggle obviously. and saw it uniquely and intimately similar to our struggle in america >> yes, he did indeed. your mother, dr. king, recalled there was a picture of nelson mandela when he came to the united states, and he laid a wreath at your father's grave. there's the picture right there. tell us about that day. >> it was a very

dr. martin luther king, jr. >> being in prison for 27 years, you hear me, 27 years and then walking out oft prison as a new person completely, there's no doubt about it, he liberated the world in many ways of. >> reporter: mandela was already in his 70s when he walked out of prison, but his anti apartheid message resonated strongest with a younger generation. john bailey thinks real change always happens because of young people. >> i don't think you can make the change without the youth. i think the youth see themselves growing up in a different world. >> i feel like me, i'm going to do everything in my power to make sure i teach my children about him, keep updating my status because i feel like he's a man that needs to be celebrated forever. >> reporter: nelson mandela often said he wanted to create a rainbow nation. today's service showed that doesn't have to be just a dream. in san francisco john ramos, kpix5. old its own memorial for mandela on >>> in san francisco flags are flying at half staff all week in mandela's honor. the city will hold its own memorial for mandela wednesday morn

dr. martin luther king, as well as nelson mandela? >> i would say that my uncle was always a peaceful warrior. he fought for peace, justice. he wanted to end oppression. but he held on to that his whole life. of course, nelson mandela only acquired some of those qualities later in life. however, i believe they both went through the fire. i believe that they were forged to be leaders and to resist oppression, and martin luther king, jr. fought for that here in america, and nelson mandela fought so hard in south africa, but those two movements did finally meet, and i think that was their commonality. >> i think both of these men were nobel peace prize winners. both remarkable in that they overcame extraordinary odds of racism, and in for nelson mandela, national apartheid. when he came out of prison he came out different. filled with humility and grace and a gentleness he took with him when he was elected to office and worked with the very people who villainized him for a all of his life. how does a person come to the place where they c

dr. martin luther king jr. that is as great an honor as i could ever dream of.ever did dream of it. let me tell you about a miracle that i am hoping for. it's that miracle that, that occurs in the educational context. and i know that -- in a classroom if you could put a desk there. if you could maybe -- just improve that student's line of sight to the blackboard, if you could just finally have that student making eye contact with the teacher, all day. we don't know what miracle could happen. we don't know if that student who was drifting away -- suddenly becomes a good student. we don't know if that student doesn't become a great student. if that student doesn't become a nurse. a doctor. or the next nelson mandela. because there has to be a next nell s nelson mandela coming from some where, some place, in some one of the classrooms. >> we had bake sales, spaghetti sales. and car washes. and -- and every month we did a different project. and the boys were there every step of the way. >> she talked to us. asked us. yes we wanted to. it touched us that they needed

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dr. martin luther king.rld away in a sense paralleled those of mandela's. bernice king joins me to talk about it. such a pleasure. nice to have you on. >> thank you, brooke. glad to be here. >> let's begin with when you were 27. it was 1990, and that was the year mandela was released, and you had this realization as a 27-year-old, this man had been in prison your entire life. >> my entire life. >> your entire life, and you decide to go to south africa because you wanted to hear him speak. what were you listening for? >> well, i was listening for any traces of anger, any traces of bitterness, because i was still wrestling at that point with a lot of anger and bitterness in my own life because of my losses. and i just knew this man had to have some. and so i told my mom, i wanted to go to the inauguration. and she said, well, she can't afford to pay for it, and i told her at that time because i had been doing some public speaking, i said, i'll pay for it. i did just that. my own money, and i went to the inaugu

dr. martin luther king jr.'ive. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> 50 years ago, john lewis was 23 years old, the congressman. he was the youngest person to ever speak at the rally, and now you have that dubious distinction. and you had a lot to say. ase asean, congratulations. what was it like standing up in there in front of the mall, in front of all those folks? >> i felt pretty proud of myself, just to know that i have changed the world, and i have made a big difference in my life. >> well, it has made a big difference. where do you get the guts at a young age to speak up at the age of 9 years old, getting up there and telling it like it is? >> well, i really think i get it from my parents and my great grandfather. because tess he was at the march when dr. martin luther king spoke. so i'm proud to know that my grandfather was here 50 years ago. and now i'm here 50 years later. i have a dream. >> up next, our favorite trenders of 2013. plus, forget the scripts. we're doing it live! look at the show, uncenso

dr. martin luther king jr.' >> congratulations back 50 years, john lewis was 23 years old, congressman and youngest person ever to speak at the rally and now you have that dubious distinction. and you had april lot to say. asean, congratulations. what was it like standing in front of there in front of all of these folks? >> i felt pretty proud of myself just to know that i -- i have changed the world and i have made a big difference in my life. >> well, it has made a big difference. where do you get the guts at the young age to speak up at the age of 9 years old and telling it like it is? >> well, i really think i get it from my parents and great grandfather. he was at that march when dr. martin luther king spoke. i feel proud to know my grandfather was here 50 years ago and now i'm here 50 years later. >> i have a dream. >> our favorite trenders of 2013, plus -- forget the scripts we're doing it live. >> look at the show uncensored stay with us. >> he's a dancing machine. ♪ to the left to the left honestly, my

dr. martin luther king jr. or gandhi, mandela was able to live long enough. he wasn't killed. he was able to see the fruits of that struggle to reach the presidency in south africa and truly a descendent figure because of his personal virtue and our presidents paying tribute to him only magnifies that. >> and over the past few days we've heard so much about his extraordinary story and the life that he led. there really isn't another figure like mandela now to compare him to, right, david? >> no, there isn't. the arc of his life and international acclaim that he received, the era in which he lived. we live in an information age where all of one's shortcomings would be excessed more than perhaps his were, but the his cunning as well throughout the struggle is inspiring. he inspired a generation of politicians like barack obama for whom the apartheid fight, the fight to end apartheid was their civil rights struggle that they were able to emotionally connect to. >> remembering mandela, you'll be talking about that on "meet the press" coming up at 10:30 here on nbc 4. thank you so

dr. martin luther king.n told that there were men looking to kill him that night. and they drove up to a house, and bill and king were staying in the house together with a group of other people. bill told the story that people were petrified that night. i mean, they thought that the house was going to be bombed, and they darkened the house so there were no lights at all. and he was afraid for his life. and king must have sensed this fear in the room. and he walked over to a piano and started to play "this little light of mine," and the whole group just started to sing this song, and they sang songs all through the night. and bill said at the end of this time, it was like there was nothing to be afraid of. i mean, he himself, a non-religious person, was moved by this music and himself strengthened by it. [light piano music] [explosion] [folk guitar strumming] ♪ it was back in 1942, ♪ i was a member of a good platoon. ♪ (seeger) plato was supposed to have said, "it's very dangerous for the wrong kind of music

dr. martin luther king would say. so i choose in that way to celebrate his life. i think it is because it was a life well lived. -- kadir kadi risen nelson talking about mandela. you can watch "bbc news" for constant updates. check your local listings for our channel number. tomorrow we will have full coverage of the massive memorial being held for nelson mandela at the soccer stadium soeto. from all of us here, thanks for watching. please tune in tomorrow. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good for over 30 years, union bank, and united health care. >> my customers can shop around, see who does good work and compare costs. it can always work that way with health care. with united health care i get information on quality ratings of doctors, treatment options, and estimates for how much i will pay. that helps me and my guys make informed decisions. i don't like guesses with my business, and definitely not

dr. martin luther king jr. >> being in prison for 27 years. you hear me? 27 years. and then walking out of that prison as a new person completely. no doubt about it. that they needed to liberate the world in many ways. >> reporter: mandela was already in their 70s when he walked out of prison. but the message resonated strongest with the younger generation as they think that the real change, they will always happen because of the young people. >> i don't think that you could make the change without the youth and that you can see themselves growing up in the different world. >> i feel like me, that we're going to do everything in our powers to make sure to teach the children about them. and to keep updating my status because i feel like, you know, he's a man that will need to be celebrated forever. >> reporter: he often wanted to create a rainbow nation. today's service shows that it does not have to be just a dream. in san francisco, john ramos, kpix 5. >>> in san francisco flags are flying at half staff all this weekend. they will hold their own memorial for mandel

dr. martin luther king jr.. >> being in prison for 27 years, you hear me? 27 years and then walking out of that prison as a new person completely. there's no doubt about it, he liberated the world in many ways. >> mandela was already in his 70s when he walked out of prison but his message resonated strongest with a younger generation. john bailey thinks real change always happens because of young people. >> i don't think you can make the change out the youth. i think the youth see themselves growing up in a different world. >> i feel like me, i'm going to do everything in my power to make sure i teach my children about him, keep updating my status because i feel like he's a man that needs to be celebrated forever. >> kpix5. >>> flags are flying at half staff for mandela's honor in several bay area cities. >>> 4:36 right now. it's chilly out there. >> i know, day after day these cold temperatures of course we're seeing frost damage on some of the plants and looks like a couple more days with these deep freezing temperatures and then things will start to mode

dr. martin luther king made a visit to dallas. it's not widely known by historians. they try to amplify the story for perhaps the first time. he had been warned to stay away from dallas. yet he decided to give a speech about unity and ending the polarization in america and a bomb threat was lodged against him not long after that. the leading head of the anti-kennedy movement it's americana meant general edwin walker booted out of the military by kennedy, a kuester brainwashing has troops and reading john birch society literature a few months after the attempted assassination perhaps dr. king, general walker was almost assassinated in dallas by lee harvey oswald. an alleyway behind general walker's house put it gone on a notch and try to kill general walker. 1963 just kept getting more and more hot. neiman marcus, the famous store downtown, a lot of you know from the finest store in this part of the country was coated with swastikas. folks are coming out. the holocaust survivor in the spring of 63 came out and found a cross burning and it culminated in october a month

dr. martin luther king was accepting the nobel peace price, going into prison and fight are for the majoritysic right to go freely in their own country. it really is if you talk about the way that nelson mandela after 27 years in prison just the fact that his grace to his former opponents and he shared a nobel peace prize was able to bring that country together. how do you suppose he was able to find that grace towards people who treated him and his people so brutally. >> it's remarkable because he began while he was still in jabl. >> they were prisoners and isolated. it was also very risky for him to deal with a lot of that. for him to be big enough for those who have robbed him of the freedom of his dignity and the ability to even touch his wife's hands for many years while visiting him in jail. to go home any prisoner would be allowed to not only forgive him and negotiate with them and advocate peaceful reconciliation. it was remarkable. i remember i was in a small circl circle. we asked how did you have the strength to do this? you must put your goal that you breathe behind your feelings

dr. martin luther king. it's giving back is in my dna. to my grandparents and great grandparents who always had an open home and always helped people in need. we all, i think, as humans have an inner responsibility to want to give back and want to help. in many cases, we just don't know how. we think givelocally.net creates that vehicle. >> with your own personal story, is it as much a burden as a responsibility? as you come on and talk about your family, people are going to have preconceived notions. how do you cut through that? is it go to givelocally.net and separate it all from the background? >> i think i'm a very socially conscious person, and i'm involved in my church and local ymca. at the same time, i do have a personal responsibility, as i think most americans do, to give back. with givelocally.net, it is a fun and easy way to point and click. we also have a new game that we have launched, give galaxy. >> what is that about? goes have a character that around the world, trying to help save people in need through different mediums

dr. martin killious is professor of criminology at university of st. gallen.points out that many swiss gun law is are much stricter than those in america. >> there are not these fools they used to be in the past. >> everyone who buys a gun must pass a back gound check. automatic weapons are banned and gun registry must be known to the government. >> i wouldn't say it is a communist country, definitely. >> in the militia, soldiers can take home their weapons but not their ammunition. >> ready, fire! >> after a soldier has completed his service, he must now reapply for the right to keep his gun. >> you are penalized, every militia member is a potential murderer. >> president of the protel, switzerland's version of the nra. named for switzerland's mythical marksman who according to the legend shot an apple off his son's head. sounds a lot like charlton heston. >> only over my dead body. i will not give my personal arm away. >> the truth is, many gun owner's attitudes in swits are land are very different from the nra. >> from the looks, the pistol-packing 70-year-

dr. martin luther king made a visit to dallas but it's not widely known by historians and i think you try to amplify it in the book. he had been warned to stay away from dallas and he decided decided to give a speech essentially about unity and maybe ending the polarization in america and the bomb threat was lodged against him. not long after that the leading potential head of the anti-kennedy movement in america who had been booted out of the military by kennedy accused of brainwashing his troops and reading john birch society literature, a few months after the threat the attempted assassination general walker was almost assassinated in dallas by lee harvey oswald. he went to general walker's house and put a gun on the fence and tried to kill general walker 1963 just kept getting more and more hot. neiman marcus the famous store downtown in downtown dallas a lot of you know i'm probably the finest store in this part of the country was coated with swastikas. folks were coming out in putting graffiti and swastikas on buildings around the town. a holocaust survivor in the spring of 63 and f

dr. martin luther king jr. speaking on the same steps with his father delivered his "i have a dream speech" 50 years ago this week. >> we're amassed on the mall. about to march, it's been a really inspiring day. >> it's an amazing -- coming into the city, all of the people streaming in and love. it's a great day to be reinspired and reinvigorated and recommitted to the cause. it's amazing. >> i've been thinking about the situation with the fed as they are trying to ease support from the stimulus, and this is what it reminds me of. ♪ >> the odds of a severe long lasting shutdown are even less than the odds of ari not saying something awkward in the next hour. >> awkward. >> what will happen -- ♪ >> crazy, the general reaction today to the partial government shutdown. not over money but over the future of obamacare. let's make a deal. no matter which door we choose, we'll be back in needless crisis land after the new year of the congratulations, folks. >> the idea was always to be the fun show. everything the mus

dr. martin luther king jr.ma presidency will be perceived 20 years from now. my suspicion is that a man that tried to make sure people had access to health care, i don't think they're going to say you know that's a lot like slavery or apartheid. i don't think that's going to be the legend of barack obama that we remember. >> you know, i think that people don't have a sense of how controversial these struggles were and how to fight opposition. i mean, i've been in the civil rights fight for the last several decades. and i remember the beginnings of the fight against apartheid here. robinson and gray and others who were castigated and attacked for that. and they were able to turn public opinion around. having to fight people like dick cheney and others who are now with these great eulogies on nelson mandela. >> that's right. i think people forget that. when people like you and mary francis berry were in the beginning of that fight, it was demonized and you were attacked for that. and it was not a popular position

dr. martin killias is professor of criminology at university of st. gallen.ints out that many swiss gun laws are much stricter than those in america. >> there are not these fools they used to be in the past. >> everyone who buys a gun must pass a background check. automatic weapons are banned and gun purchases must be registered with the government. the nra, killias says, would not be very happy. >> i wouldn't say it is a communist country, definitely. >> in the militia, soldiers can take home their weapons but not their ammunition. >> ready, fire! >> after a soldier has completed his service, he must now reapply for the right to keep his gun. >> you are criminalized. every militia soldier is a potential murderer. >> herman suitor is the vice president of protel, switzerland's version of the nra. it's named for william tell, switzerland's mythical marksman who according to the legend shot an apple off his son's head. suitor sounds a lot like charlton heston. >> only over my dead body. i will not give my personal arm away. >> the truth is, many gun owner's att

dr. martin luther king, jr., in a 1958 article and later in 1964 during a college commencement speech.der closely watched what was going on in africa and inspired by him. joining me now the son of martin luther king, jr. it's great to have you with me, sir. your mom and your sister bernice, they all traveled with you as you attended the inauguration of mandela. tell us what it was like, that kind of impact that was had on you and your family in 1994 and what that meant knowing the history you were coming from here in america. >> first, i would say thank you for the opportunity. as we mourn this loss for our world. but i remember in 1986 actually protesting at the south african embassy along with my mother and sister where we were arrested. of course, in 1994 going to south africa twice, on two occasions, one during the electoral process and, of course, for the inauguration, which was, of course, a celebration, which was really, in a sense, earth shattering to see the first african head of state of that wonderful country who really taught us about the power of forgiveness. that is what

dr. martin luther king's i have a dream speech. and ted cruz praised jesse helms.ring obama care to slavery. even sarah palin embraced the term shuck and jive. i mean, these kind of outreach attempts are the most backfiring i've seen in american politics probably in my lifetime. >> it is a bit handed in the way they go about doing this. you see what they might have been trying to do here. one hopes that tomorrow they might send out a tweet ending poverty and then all warfare tomorrow. it doesn't work that way. people are not inclined to give this republican party the benefit of the doubt because of the record of statements and because of the record of policies. the most prominent of which right now is immigration which is being bottled up entirely because of the republican leadership. look, you've got a republican leadership in washington. then you've got the tea party. and that's certainly where the latter is certainly where the racism is bubbling up right now. but you've got a republican majority in power in the house that is refusing still to take on this tea pa

dr. martin luther king went through when he was jailed in birmingham, alabama, and after he was released, went on to become an abdomanybodiable force bringing about justice for america. >> how do you pacific that on to young people? because he has been out of public life for quite awhile before he died. >> that, he was. and one remarkable thing about him, when you look at him and look at king, falling to an asass in's bullet and god allowed nelson mandela to live until he was 95. it's a phenomenal expression to all of us and realize young people can look back at what he did from his jail cell and delib -- to liberate his country from apartheid is something our children will have to understand and look to understand and know that this he can can do the same thing in various parts of life. >> if you were telling a stranger about nelson man dela and there was one thing you wanted them to know, what would it be? >> when the world puts you to your lowest point, never give up. never give in. never give out. keep on going and know that inside of you is the seed for liberation and, also, for the

dr. martin luther king and many in this country, especially people of color, were looking for hopeful someng had changed. many had not changed. nelson mandela came along and offered many people hope. jake? >> what a nice sentiment. thank you. joining us now on the phone is general colin powell. your reaction to the news of man tell tell -- mandela's passing? >> i heard it on the plane. we've been waiting for this day to come. it still hit me as if it was nothing to be expected. he was a remarkable man. i was privileged to know him. i was privileged to spend time with him. and so many things are being said about nelson mandela. my memories will always go back to his inauguration in 1994. i was privileged to be there in front of the union hall when he was inaugurated. i will never forget. as came up on the stage to become the new president of the new south africa, he was preceded by the four generals. you see things through the filter of your experience. as general i could not help noticing these four white generals came ahead of him as a guard of honor. and it was showing him, that they acc

dr. martin luther king. and that's a picture of reverend wyatt t.alker, nelson mandela, jesse jackson and i when he came to harlem the first time after he had returned to this country having been a prisoner. and to be in his presence to talk with him and then later we went to south africa as election observers. this mixture of humility, this mixture of greatness, it was very hard to describe how much it would impact you. and to have the leaders and lions of the civil rights movement that i grew up admiring and grew up finally and when i got old enough to work under in the northern part, to really applaud and defer to him was awesome. because in many ways the anc learned from the civil rights movement here, but the giants of the movement here really, really exalted what nelson mandela had done and what he represented. because he became, he personified the very change that he had come to represent universally. and it was reminiscent of the stories i heard from mrs. coretta scott king often about her husband, he late martin luther king. and joining me

dr. martin luther king jr. his contributions are often confined to racial equality battles when his message was, in fact, much larger than that. remember, it wasn't just the march on washington. it was the march on washington for jobs and freedom. king's own economic message of a radical redistribution of wealth was not well received, and at the end of his life, he was not a national hero. he was reviled. and in his family life, king was far from perfect. his interpersonal failings and infidelities and at times intellectual dishonesties are well documented but frequently expunged from public memory. king's image, his word and legacy, have been appropriated by those whose policy ls he would have opposed and even those two stand firmly in king's tradition. for them the tendency is often to remember the man and the movement of which he was a part as sanitized and glorified rather than as messy and complex and human. the story of how martin luther king jr. has been misremembered in the u.s. context is a cautionary

dr. martin luther king jr., because he knew about dressing up your bigotry in the garb of religion as opposed to exposing yourself so that all peoples who oh fall above god recognize they're sinners and therefore in the need of love. i don't see the self critique among these christians on the right. where is your self criticism? what would god be distressed with? what would oh god be disgusted with? how would god be critical of you? they are so righteous. everybody thinks if jesus were to come again, they would embrace him. no, they all are the kibld putting jesus on the end. we don't want anybody who is snotty-nosed, black, gay. these are the people jesus came for. i have come for the least of these. and as a result of that, the people's inability to make those distinctions reinforces the very bigotry that jesus stood against. >> dr. michael eric dyson, well-said and hopefully somebody on the right will listen. at least to jesus. if not to michael eric dyson. remember to answer tonights question at the bottom of your screen and do share your thoughts on twitter at ed show and facebook. i do

dr. martin luther king, jr. by the time of his death that spring, it seemed like any awful thing might be possible, even in a little town in indiana. 1968 opened with the united states escalating the war in vietnam, the ted offensive. it opened with police officers killing three students who were trying to integrate a bowling alley in orangeburg, south carolina. then there was the murder of dr. king, who represented hope to so many people, and to really, the future of our country. and then the riots in which dozens more people were killed and miles of american cities were burnt to the ground. so, when deadly, huge explosions struck little richmond, indiana, 41 people dead, it seemed natural at the time to assume that maybe history was coming for you, too, right? 1968 was just that kind of year. it was not only that so many big events and terrible events happened in that one year, it was that things happened in a way and in a sequence that made people worry that things might never get put back together again. 196

dr. martin luther king, junior.he list, presidents theodore roosevelt and ronald reagan, winston churchill and margaret thatcher, pope john paul ii and israel's first prime minister david bengoria. adolph hitler and mao. "time" went on to name the last century's three greatest people. >> the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. >> osgood: runner up for franklin d. roosevelt and muhammad gandhi who led india's campaign against british colonialism. >> it is complete independence that we want. >> ghandi inspired among many others, nelson mandela who praised him in an essay for "time." growth ghandi and i suffered colonial oppression, and both of us mobilized our respected peoples against government, is that violated our freedoms. when it came to choosing the greatest figure of the 20th century, "time" looked beyond politics to choose albert einstein, the scientist who derived the equation e equals mc squared. a choice defended by walter isaacson. >> he said politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.

dr. martin luther king, it is this subversive aspect of mandela's legacy that is most in danger of beingd as he enters america's pantheon of sanitized moral icons but it is precisely the aspect that americans most badly need. tell us what's being left out of mandela's story today. >> for most of his life as an activist against apartheid, the united states government was supportive of south africa's apartheid regime because they were our allies in the cold war. we have been taught since the cold war by politicians that have said it again and again that the cold war was simply a struggle for freedom in which we were on the side of the angels and the soviet union was on the side ofevil. the soviet union was an evil regime but there is another story of the cold war, a story that mandela's life shows, that americans don't like to talk about that much. those are all the moments during the cold war where, in the name of anti-communism, we supported brutally oppressive regimes and stood against freedom fighters like mandela. >> ana, you lived in miami. you have a unique perspective because you r

dr. martin luther king. on the surface, atlanta was a well integrated city.eneath the surface, it remained separate and unequal. >> my prayer and the prayers of everybody in there was we wanted the person to be black. and the reason why you wanted him to be black, i knew what it would do to this town if it had have been a white person or somebody of another race. >> in the black community, in the early '80s, a black serial killer was unheard of. all the classic serial killers were white. never black. >> didn't mean we didn't have one now. >> today black serial killers are not rare. in 2009, here in cleveland, as well as in milwaukee and los angeles, each time the accused serial killer turned out to be african-american. dr. eric hickey is a psychologist who keeps track of serial killers. >> overall in my study, one out of every five serial killers is african-american. in the past since 1995, over 40% are african-american. we're finally saying, you know what, blacks do this, too. >> there were whites who fed the fear in atlanta. as fbi chief, john glover had mo

dr. martin luther king who said, "you are living by what you get. you are a life by what you give." think about that for a second. "you earn a living by what you get. you earn life by what you give." think about that and think about all the times that jeh -- jeh johnson has left the comfort of the private sector -- three times before -- so that he could give back and serve the people of our country as a leader in our government. with that in mind, i think we know what kind of leader we're getting in jeh johnson and what he will bring to the department of homeland security. i urge my colleagues -- i urge my colleagues to join me in voting today for jeh johnson. thank you, madam president. i would note, madam president, the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. sessions: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: i would ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sessions: madam president, i want to share for a few minutes first

dr. martin luther king was assassinated, so i decided to move over to south africa and help him. >> great the american teacher that was shot and killed in benghazi made a video sharing his reasons for going to such a dangerous place where u.s. citizens will look at his message. that's next right here on "cbs this morning." ♪ i love it! ♪ thank you grandma for the dolls. ♪ ♪ i love it! ♪ i'm ninja kicking through the halls. ♪ ♪ i love it! ♪ mom's posting pictures on your wall. ♪ ♪ that's my kind of holiday. so when my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis them. was also on display, i'd had it. i finally had a serious talk with my dermatologist. this time, he prescribed humira-adalimumab. humira helps to clear the surface of my skin by actually working inside my body. in clinical trials, most adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis saw 75% skin clearance. and the majority of people were clear or almost clear in just 4 months. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types

dr. martin luther king appeared to preside together over the ceremony awarding the congressional gold medal to nelson mandela. as president mandela started to speak, rays of sunlight began to pour into the rotunda. they illuminated the base of the statues first and then rose gradually until by the time president mandela finished speaking, both lincoln and king were bathed in bright sunlight. with a little imagination, you could almost hear lincoln say did you notice that sunburst? it made my heart jump. like lincoln, president mandela now belongs to the ages, and while our hearts are heavy today with president mandela's passing, the world can take inspiration from the lessons he taught us while he walked among us. mr. president, i ask consent that the following remarks be placed in a separate part in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: thank you, mr. president. as we mourn the passing of nelson mandela, a great, noble leader who changed history, we also take a moment to recall other leaders closer to home. one of those leaders and a friend of mine had his memor

dr. martin luther king. and she said i've had the opportunity of hearing dr. king speak.'s a moving speaker because he's simple and direct and the spiritual quality that made him the leader of nonviolence in this country touches every speech he makes. so far we've seen the draft of the my day columns but we thought it would be interesting to share what they look like when they appear in the newspapers. this is from november 6, 1940, election day. in here, mrs. voeltz writes about how they had a quiet afternoon, some of us took a walk and returned to the big house for tea where we found johnny and ann and a little datsun percy arrived from boston. later on she talks about how a larger park than usual came in in hyde park. the president went out to greet them. this is a tradition on election night. the roosevelts would come to hyde park, gather the family around, await the election results. when they were announced, the folks from hyde park were down and the president would come out to greet them. >> what was your comment while we were watching that? >> she's such an intell

dr. martin luther king was there. he was living in louisiana. how could he not know?eople enjoyed using separate parts of the bus or separate entrances? i think it's selective memory. >> but that said, we are really good at performing -- i mean, and dancing. >> yeah, i was going to say, there is a survival performance aspect of race that is about, in fact, making people believe that you are happy, when you are not. there's a whole poem about it. beware the grins and lies. >> are you telling me that i cried while watching "the help" for nothing? i didn't support it. i didn't see it. >> that's right! you know, you can't get me started on "the help." >> what's the new one? "the butler"? >> but speaking of southerners who were sort of speaking from their own experience, let's listen to paula deen, which happened this year. >> well, i have a young man in my life and his name is hollis johnson. and he's black as that board. >> is he here? >> stand up with, hollis. >> is hollis here? >> come here, hollis. we can't see you standing against that dark board. i tell people, this

dr. martin luther king jr. well, dr. king never met nelson mandela. did keep close tabs on the fight for equality in south africa. martin luther king iii said his constant fight for equality personified what me and my father often said, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." martin luther king iii joining me now. i'm quoting your dad. this is bringing so many people of all walks to reflect ton a giant man's life and the market that he left. >> yes, it is. he personified more than anything else and taught us the power of forgiveness. love and forgiveness was the essence of nelson mandela. dignity. dignified presence. i remember, for example, on one occasion there were a number of us in atlanta at the king cen r center, and this was the second visit to atlanta, and maybe a few thousand people outside. as he came outside, everyone was trying to get his attention. he went directly to a young kid, about 5 or 6 years old, because he understood the future is as it relates to young people and if i can make an impact on this young man's life -

dr. martin luther king jr., an ordained christian nister, now we have turned full circle and now are starting to persecute and eward those who have persecuted the very churches that made america the freest country, the only country that has fought and died, that people have fought and died for, liberty of others, the most generous and giving nation in the history of the world, where more freedoms, liberties and assets have been attained by individuals than any country in the history of the world. it is exceptional. but we're losing our exceptionalism because we're refusing to stand up for the beliefs of christians here and around the world. and it's time, if we want to extend this little experiment in democracy, as one of the unders said, if we want to acknowledge ben franklin's comment, it's a republic if you can keep it, if we want to keep it it's time to rise up, not do violence, but just stop rewarding those who persecute christianity. those who burn churches. those who kill christians. quit rewarding them. uit providing them arms. because if we don't, we will slide of history into the du

so he's up there with martin luther king and the other greats who fought against oppression in their own context. >> dr. middleman, thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> we have much more on the life of nelson mandela at www.wusa9.com including some of his best quotes and a timeline of his 95 years. >>> a look at some of the other top stories from today inincludg a proposal to raise rates for some of you pepco customers out there. >> and that's not the only place you might be asked to pay a little more, how much metro's general a subaru... ...are the hands that do good things for the whole community: the roenvinment, seniors, kids, and animals. that's why we created the share the love event. by the end of this year, the total donated by subaru could reach 35 million dollars. you get a great deal on a new subaru. we'll donate 250 dollars to a choice of charities that benefit your community. it feels good to be a helping hand. >>> everyone seems to want to get their hands in your pockets and tonight you can add metro to the list yet again. >> reporter: i'm debra alfarone at the gallery place metro st