tm howard talked about the recent acquittal of the two killers of emmett till. dr. king introduce fascinating and howard was there to spread the word. howard had been one of the key organizers in trying to get even a trial of those two men and after those men he had been acquitted was on a tour through the country to spread the word and to continue the organizing after that travesty had happened as the two men who had lynched emmett till have been found not guilty. so this is november 27, 1955. rosa parks sits there and she is talking about the lynching of emmett till and he is talking about the deaths of two other organizers in mississippi who would try to register to vote and have been killed and she is angry and she is sad and she is despairing because she came to that night having spent more than a decade organizing around cases like this and what was particularly sort of exciting about this case was there have been enough organizing and enough awareness that there had been a trial and yet still the two killers go free. and i wanted to start there because i thin

they are pursuing an agenda. >> does it tarnish the memory of emmett till and medgar evars? >> a lot has happened since then but it is interesting to me the president in his statement about the trayvon martin tragedy did not use the word race. did it not come into his discussion of this. he talked about gun violence and he talked about the stand your ground law. he did not talk about race. >> eric holder do it for him. >> stand your ground. >> the justice department is still going after george zimmerman or potentially looking at the case as -- if they may intend to charge him under federal law. >> yeah. i don't think there is anything unusual about that. after the dash riots in the rodney king riots, you will remember the first george bush also -- pursued federal action. >> there is something unusual about it, though, if -- if one crime -- i mean, murders happen every day and black on black crime is the far bigger problem. >> look, i don't think that -- i thinking the fact george bush did it demonstrates that it is not that unusual when there is -- a situation that has -- so

and i think one of the things -- and this is true of emmett till as well. one of the things that this symbolizes is that america is starting to see that race indeed still is a factor. that's something that happened when emmett till was killed. the violence in mississippi. it's happening now. oh, we do still have to think about race in america. >> some are seeing that. some are not. professor diamond, do some of these stories become intergenerational stories that last forever like rosa parks, perhaps trayvon martin? and some stories don't. there was a person who would not get up off her seat on the bus before rosa parks. jordan davis was shot right after trayvon martin. his name is not resonating. why is it that some stories go on and last forever and some don't? >> unknown. but one thing that we do know is that with trayvon martin we have the benefit of a media which is treating this matter. we have the benefit of the internet. we have the benefit of social media. it's worth our while to note that when emmett till died, it was at the beginning of a time whe

in place that justified the death of emmett till. there was a legal mechanism in place that the work of the justification, or at least tried to declare that it was justified in taking trayvon's life, and i think that we have come to a place now when this issue of taking life in the name of issues of race has got to be identified for what it is and we have to step to the plate. and let me just make another observation. there is a nation that is here waiting to ascertain how what is going on here in florida is to be defined in relationship to its future. i'm one of those catalysts of definition. i've come down to put the disposal of the young people here, not only the history, but also to offer a host of artists who are high-profile. a number of leaders who are very high-profile who are waiting to hear, how do we look at the strategy for the immediate future? part of my visit here is not just to show support for the demonstrations that are going on and will continue, but it is also to ascertain what is the larger strategy to all of thi

a fitting birthday present for emmett till.re is racism and injustice but there is still bravely and hope. emmett till would be 72 years old today. thank you for joining us in "the war room." we say good night to lauren ellis, a member of our team who has been such a great soldier. i promise you will hear from her again. commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? alright, in 15 minutes we're going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm g

remembered with medgar evers and emmett till.t comparison. >> that's probably true but it doesn't bring him back. it doesn't bring his life back. how many emmett tills and medgar evers and trayvon martins must be sacrificed before the wheels of justice, which grind so slowly, grind for meting out justice for all. i would have been very concerned when that jury was set to see six white people. i would have been very, very concerned. i don't know how or why the prosecutor would allow that to take place without some degree of closed session to say, hey, wait a minute, let's go talk to the judge. you know where the strikes came from. from the defense. you can't tell me there were not people of color, black people, that the jury would have been selected from. somebody had to strike certain people. it would be interesting to see if the people stricken were black. if they were not included, why not? >> we're short on time, but i wonder as a lawyer if you can answer that quickly. do you look -- could the prosecution have done better? >>

we are taken back to emmett till and others, on and on, we're not shocked.was possible from the beginning. we waited 45 days for an arrest. we knew the not guilty verdict was possible. it is the bitterest of pills. i'm numb and hurt and crying inside but i'm not surprised. i am not surprised that my people, white and black and asian marched peacefully and demonstrated peacefully. that's what we had to do. you know what i imagine will happen, this hyper partisan divide we have, they will find some incident that has nothing to do with this and say, look, the store got broken into, that was related to the trayvon martin verdict. >> i want to pick out something very important. that is the lack of shock, that one of the disprivileges of blackness in america is that you simply don't even expect to be on the winning -- that the riot, which would have only been a positive outpouring would have been over the shock of it being somehow different. i think of the outpouring of emotion in 2008 when president obama was elected. no matter what the polls said, we were a litt

and by the way, if you want to know what emmett.ekilling kennedy, we physically examined why he was murdered. in a statement sharpton said, quote, national action network doesn't want the end result to be the penalization of artists, although they clearly need to be corrected, unquote. well, that's kind of wholistic, isn't it? here's a shocker. the parent company of lil wayne, cash money content, the vile stuff that hurts children is a partner with al sharpton's upcoming book. that's right. al sharpton is in business with people who put out entertainment harmful to children. his spokesperson says that's not al who made the deal. his publish ler did. but that's bogus because authors have the final say. the truth is al sharpton is allowing a kparp who harms black children to distribute his book. talking points will make this point again. the civil rights industry not addressing the core reason why many african-americans are not succeeding in the marketplace. because of that, young blacks continue to be at risk and have enormous obstac

crump envoking emmett till and evers, their role as advocates has ended. and now they are spokesmen. do we want race tension to go forth in this country or come together, white people, brown people, yellow people and brown people and say who can do better going forward? can our criminal justice do better? can nbc do better? cnn? can they stop fueling the flames of racial tension? how can all of us do better including the president who injected himself in this particular issue. >> on capitol hill there are moves apparently to despite the verdict have some type of action. here is senator harry reid of nevada discussing it this morning. >> is there a new racial wound that you think needs to be addressed and healed as a result of this in this country? >> i heard the mayor. i think he should continue on the path that he outlined. >> and the president, does he have a role in speaking about it as he did after the shooting? >> of course. and the justice will look at this. this isn't over with. that's good. it is our system. it has gotten better not worse. >> the j

anyway this is a letter after emmett got out of jail. he went to hollywood and started making several movies and frank latta had written him to try to put a book together. these are some interesting things that make up a collection. if i go over here in this area we have a couple of outlaws are candidates or outlaws i guess that were known as son tag and evans. or evans and son tag. these are actually local men who went the way of the train robber and ended up dropping several trains who were eventually captured. this is a major sting letter. when they were in the real estate business i was in the gusto and it is signed by son tag and evans the realtors. this is an example of what goes on in the world of a robber. let me take you over here because there are a lot of other things that are pretty interesting. as we walk through the archives here i have a wonderful document that is actually signed by my great great grandfather colonel thomas mayfair and it's on a slip of paper which is what they use back then because paper was scarce. it's

. >> trayvon martin will forever remain in the annals of history next to medgar evers and emmett till. >> he's a free man in the eyes of the court but he's going to be looking around his shoulder for the rest of his life. >> if he could, he would carry a gun again. >> yes. even more reason now, isn't there? >> i can tell you this is long from being over. any child can be interfered with going home for commit nothing crime. that's the bottom line. >> and so after 56 witnesses,ings 12 days of testimony, and 16 hours of deliberation, the jury in the case of the state of florida versus george zimmerman came back with a verdict. >> in the circuit court of the 18th judicial circuit in and for seminole county, florida, state of florida versus george zimmerman, verdict, we the jury find george zimmerman not guilty. >> some called it shocking. others said it was entirely predictable. but for defense attorney don west, it was simply long overdue justice. >> i think the prosecution of george zimmerman was disgraceful. i am gratified by the jury's verdict as happy as i am for george zimmerman, i'

emmett folgert tries hard to keep his jobless teens out of a trouble but, he says, the competition is brutal. >> we're not the only youth program in town. gangs are a youth program, too. they organize kids, too. it's just a bad youth program. >> reporter: but a program that more than a few turn to when barely 25% of all teenagers in this country have a job of any kind at all. a legal one, that is. >> woodruff: find more of paul's conversation with economist andrew sum on our making sense page. >> brown: we turn next to the continued reverberations of the supreme court's end-of-term rulings. justices struck down a key provision of the "voting rights act". ray suarez recently hosted a debate on how the decision will play out at polling places across the country. >> suarez: looking ahead to the practical affect of the high court's voting rights ruling and coming election cycles in a changing america, i'm joined by nina paralis vice president of litigation for the mexican american legal defense and education fund. and james burling, director of litigation for the pas civic legal foundatio

office at the university of alabama he had a right to walk through that complex the same way that emmett till had a right to be at that outside that store at money mississippi he had a right to be in a complex just the same way that maggot has had a right to be in his driveway carrying a box of t. shirts that said jim crow has got to go what what we are facing and this is what i said to him is not the jim crow of our parents' generation it is james crow esquire it is it is far more sophisticated it is far more subtle and i will it will be interesting to see what those six jurors once they start talking what went through their mind and i suspect that they were convinced that trayvon martin was to be feared. as many young african-americans are stereotyped and profiled it look we all do it it's part of our cultural conditioning is as i call it so. i think these protests are honest they are spontaneous i would warn people to be careful of provocative words who would try to turn it into a violent situation that would only bring sympathy to zimmerman and right now he doesn't need the sympathy

anyway, this is a letter out of emmett got out of jail.went to hollywood and was set up to make several movies. and these are some interesting things that make up a collection. if i go over here in this logo area, we have a couple of outlaws or bandits, outlaws, i guess, that were called -- they were known as son tag and evans or evans and sontag, and these were actually local men who went the way of the train robber, ended up robbing several trains and were eventually captured, but this is an interesting letter. when they were in the real estate business. it was out of modesto, and it's signed by on sontag and evans, e realtors. just a fascinating example of what goes on in the world of a bandit, of a robber. let me take you over here because there are a lot of things that are interest withing. interesting. i have a wonderful document that is actually signed by my great, great grandfather, colonel thomas baker, and it's on a slip of paper which is what they used back then because paper was scarce. and it's actually a loan note. colonel ba

another piece, this week, the media -- media gets to -- america is in mississippi in the 1950s and the emmettl case. it is just not so. but i think the media are -- "new york times" has been the most guilty and time to say if you don't hear the race every five seconds in trial we have been here, we will put it in for you. >> one of the concerns is that the media and fanned racial arguments or racial concerns, racial tensions about this case, one of our favorite cartoonists created this to drive that point home. take a look at that. you have some sense of his take. did the early involvement of some of the -- you know, big names in race relations in this country in this case did they drive the coverage? >> of course they did in the beginning. i think there is a paradox here. in that this was a case that really was driven by social media in the beginning. and tweeting and facebook and interests that propelled the police of -- florida police to take another look at it. when arianna huffington writes this week wall-to-wall coverage is not the way to honor the memory of trayvon martin, well, you kn

a civil case may heal the family but we still live in the same america that emmett till lived in, ben judged to be a threat to order and citizens are able to destroy their bodies and be protected by the justice system and the black community is left in the pain. and black parents like me are left to teach their sons the lessons my parents taught me about how to survive. don't run in public if you don't have to. keep your hands out of your pockets if you're in stores. if you're confronted by the police, if compliant. insure ability to the molly phi white people could be the difference between and death. doesn't have to be this way. as this case proved in america, it still is. martin, i know you know what i'm talking about. >> i do, sir, thank you. good afternoon. it's monday, july 15th. and what is the value of a black teenager's life in modern americ america? >> members of the jury, have you reached a verdict? >> we the jury found george zimmerman not guilty. >> you have no further business with the court. >> what it boiled down to is a kid minding his own business being followed by

emmett burns said he will not seek reelection next year. he has been a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage. he was cautioned for using his official letterhead to try to silence a baltimore ravens player in support of legalizing gay marriage. the legislation has changed on social issues, same-sex marriage. i am opposed to same-sex marriage. policy, as bad economically, socially, clinically. --politically. just badd policy.-- policy. >> 6:37. >> officials had to cancel an auction that was supposed to feature items that belong to halley barry, or so they thought. >> we are still taking your answers to our water cooler question of the day. what new features -- like a movie theater or a park -- would you like to see added to airports? you can share your response on our facebook page, on twitter, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> now weather and traffic on the 1's. >> good morning. kim dacey checking on your morning commute. we have a problem spot in glen burnie. .here are some downed wires 83 is looking great in both directions.

we have a black man in the white house but this is no different than the goddamn emmett tilt trial. see these fat men sitting there with smirks and they got away with it. so what happens now from this moment? that was in 1956 or 57 so what happens now, jason? where do we go from here? >> well, there's very little that is going to happen. first and foremost, george zimmerman is going to live the rest of his life in relative obscurity. he is going to end up poor and destitute and hidinglike monica lewinsky, and for every other african american in the country, it is par for the course. your life can be in danger. the likelihood that any laws are going to be changed -- people forget that last year after the trayvon martin shooting, several red states actually passed and enhanced stand your ground laws. so i don't see much change happening. conversations will happen, people will be upset, but i don't see anything radically changing that will make someone like george zimmerman or anyone else like him behave differently in the future. >> michael: let's go to what you say, people of all col

this nation has come very far since the murders of emmett till and med -- medgar evers.those? >> i don't think they should be comparing to those cases. they really have nothing to do with each other. diminishes those cases to suggest this is the same. however this is a tragedy. i don't have problem with a question matt lauer asked and i'm surprised people made an issue out of it. if your child was killed, 17-year-old, and the person who shot him and he had been unarmed, i think you would probably would feel like justice failed you. i think that is a fair thing to say regardless where you fall on this issue but unfortunately it has gotten so divisive because of claims, the comparisons, medgar evers, that, and then the other side i feel like the same thing is happening. jon: but it is not as though trayvon martin was shot in the back. you heard the one juror say she thinks he probably threw the first punch. he was on top of george zimmerman, straddling him and punching him and hitting his head in the sidewalk. >> this presumes it is okay to follow people at night. i'm putt

. >> even though i was expecting it, i'm still numbed because i'm taken back to emmett till and all those situations where we understand that black life means a little bit less than white life in america. >> it's an incontrovertible contempt that this nation often shows and displays for black men. >> that's how we feel when it comes to race. les we do this, white americans and others will feel this is a justifiable verdicts. not until, and unless a number of white kids die that approximate the number of black and other kids who die will america see. >> and joining me now, my esteemed audience of legal and political analysts, especially bok bob bickle who's been complaining since we started. can anybody here cite any evidence in the case, not your hypothesis, not your theory that this case was racial, if you can, raise your hand. >> he followed him, he racially profiled him, from the beginning. >> give me the evidence, that's a theory. evidence. >> his heart may have been in the right place, but our brains tell us to do something differently because in this country we are socialized to be

this death of trayvon martin i believe could potentially serve as the emmett till of in generation.et till was killed in 1955. that is what spurred and kicked off the civil rights movement. this generation of young people, they're saying, enough is enough. when a kid is coming home from a store, and a guy says, suspect they always get away, i'm telling you right now there are thousands of young people who are ready to mobilize and organize not just when it comes to voting, not when it comes just to elections but also when it comes to peer on peer counseling, anger management when it comes to really creating this movement and turning it into a movement. we have a strategist meeting happening. i think there is a movement here where we could have a 21st century social justice movement as a result of this case. >> cenk: to point of those guys who want to stop the conversation. >> we have the opportunity where some of the most influential are african-american leaders are standing up. allen west who is now in the media, let's look auto where he wants to take it. >> do you believe this is

. >> emmett till moment. john lewis was your age or younger.t was emmett till that caused him to get involved in the civil rights. maybe this is your generation to say we're not going to let this stay the way it is. we're going to make a difference. >> big thanks to all of you. always wish we had more time for this. we'll have to get you back. thank you. >> thank you. >>> growing up gay. what two former nfl players wish they had known as teenagers. they reveal it in some pretty touching letters to their younger civils. retired player wade davis is going to join me live to share his message in a few moments. >>> also, the doers network. it's our big idea on this saturday. the young brooklynite helps others do something kind for someone else. [ male announcer ] come to the golden opportunity sales event and experience the connectivity of the available lexus enform, including the es and rx. ♪ this is the pursuit of perfection. >>> giving out free money, free money and favors to complete strangers on the streets. that's today's big idea. a group ca

having to have martyrs like trayvon martin unfortunately like oscar grant going back to 2008, like emmettl and you think that's going to change things. it did change things in the 50's, but i don't see it changing things as much now. when an immigrant in new york was killed in a horrible way, he was shot up--somebody else was shot up, but abused by the police, and i thought that would change the way we talk about it, it doesn't. four times as many people--four times as many arrests and convictions, but the usage is the exact same. do you think black people in america speed on the highways more than white people do? no. but the experience of a black is universally different in our community. >> cenk: we'll talk about a different topic. we've got the filibuster. it might finally be partially taken away by the democrats. they're discussing that in the senate right now. we'll get tommy's thoughts on that as well when we return. er. >> cenk: we're back on "the young turks." we're going to discuss politics. we have a great panel. michael shure the host of the war room is with us from san franci

evers and him it till -- emmett till as symbols for the fight for equal justice for all. to theo turn comments made by george zimmerman's attorney, mark omar, after the verdict was announced. he claimed zimmerman would not have been charged had he been black. >> i think things would have been different if george zimmerman was black read he never would've been charged with the crime. it seems as though what happened , an event that was being looked into by the sanford police department and as we know now looked into quite well, i have taken advantage of police departments who have not done a good investigation of crimes because that is what i do for a living. when i look at the sanford police department, they have done quite a good job. you can compared across the country. what happened was, this became a focus for civil rights advantage, which is a wonderful event to have, but they decided that george zimmerman would be the person who they would blame and sort of use as the creation of the civil rights violation, none of which was borne out by the facts. -- fact that nigh

and we should have learned some lessons from emmett till.e now see some similarities with trayvon martin. we should have learned some lessons from the civil rights activities of the '60s and now we see the same kinds of demonstrations taking place in state houses and on the various events across the country. we've got to the really be very conscious of the fact that if we're not careful, we will really live some of those episodes. >> do you believe, sir that, we are in danger of regressing that far back? >> oh, absolutely. no question about it. let's just look at what happened as we came out of this so-called historical reconstruction and what happened in post reconstruction. if you look at the court decision that dmam 175, serve talks about plessy. but the jim crow loss of the 1880s and '90s came from a supreme court decision coming out of louisiana in 1875. it was that decision that gave license to the jurisdictions all over the country to come out with these jim crow laws. the plessy decision of 1896 only established separate but equal. i

. >> he will forever remain in the annals of history next to emmett till and edgar makers as symbolsor the fight for equality and justice for all states and georthe attorney for the martin family appeared >> the media right after the verdict. to say. in >> george's amendments caloric thanks everyone for coming up with the not guilty verdict. in line."not guilty" the trayvon martin family has taken to twitter to request their supporters remain non-violent. the trayvon martin foundation went on to say that trayvon martin cannot rest in peace if there is not peace in the streets lets switch gears now and check in with janu for your good morning janu. with buster with the view from the golden gate bridge care and you can see it is eighth on a the staff this mornina are this is default oute this morniit is already foggy oe this morning >> 60s along the coastal areas appeared 7 is for the bay shore spirit >> the afternoon highs will be into the 90s in some parts appeared >> to the cheers this afternoon temperatures will cool off into the '60s and '70s. >> afternoon highs low 90s in antioch

trayvon martin is like emmett till.ent in american history. >> thanks so much, i appreciate it. that's it for the lead. now it's wolf blitzer's turn. "the situation room" is on right now. >>> happening now, breaking news, an historic, potentially game changing moment for president obama nearly one week since george zimerman's not guilty verdict. the first african-american president of the united states, as you rarely see him sharing his very personal sometimes painful experience as a black man living in this country, i'm quoting him now, trayvon martin could have been me. now, the national conversation about race it's generating, the legal impact and what does this mean for president obama's legacy? i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room."

it breaks my heart that she has a trayvon martin as an icon like my mom had an emmett.hat is heartbreaking that she has that as a distinction. but she and her friends, they don't have the same burden that we do. i'm seeing that some of the young people in this audience that are feeling this differently, so yeah, i'm extraordinarily optimistic. >> when you look at race and class, i don't know if we're getting better. and the significance study that came out, talking about the significance of place, we know ant the significance of place, the significance of education. when all these things come together, it is very difficult to elevate yourself socially. >> we've got to take a break. a lot more to talk about. i want to dig deep into the criminal justice system, the zimmerman trial in particular, jurors, juries, how is that affected by race? we'll be right back. la's known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for it's smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the busses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution to th

trayvon martin joins the legacy of emmett till as a man shot town without a sense of justice as a responsei tell you we're all responds. we deserve better good will and note this kind of miscarriage of justice. >> the issue of race has been a hot topic since we learned the names george zimmerman, trayvon martin, unarmed teen dressed in a hoodie carrying skittles and a fruit drink versus neighborhood watch leader with a gun. with more charges possibly in store for zimmerman, perhaps federal civil vits charges, the issue of race is front and center again. joining me mo arrivery, buck davis, inclusion expert and david webb, co-founder of nyc tea party and host of show. does reverend jackson have a point? >> no, he doesn't. he'd like to inject there's a problem with white people making a decision on the evidence versus black people making a different decision on the evidence. what we're talking about here is not a cry for justice and due process but a cry for justice the way he and frankly those that want to play into the race narrative would like to play out. the fact is this is a tragedy. i

the logic of the way this case has come down, if emmett till had fought back, his abductors would havecuse him of hurting them and could have claimed self-defense. remember, back then it took the justice department to get in. so we are saying the justice department needs to open a civil rights case. also, we've got to repeal these stand your ground laws. we must pass laws in our state legislatures that deal with the issue of racial profiling. >> before i let you go, i want to talk to you about more mondays. you're one of the starters of more mondays in north carolina. at one point in february, i know you guys are 18,000, 20,000 people coming out every monday to rally on behalf of voting rights, public education, employment, things like that. how has that e involvolved? >> well, in the south in particular, we need a new conversation. it's not about democrat, republican, liberal, conservative. it's on the issue of what is extre extreme. our governor just said today he thought our protests meant he was a good governor because he was not stepping on toes. he denied 500,000 people medicaid.

and still, part of why i wanted to start with that november 27th mass meeting on the acquittal of emmett tills' murderers, is if we imagine rosa parks that night, imagine king that night, right? they have no sense that in a week, history is going to be moving in a very different way. and part of it is that sort of taking what you have and taking the fact you have done things before and not letting that be the stopping place but a starting place. >> the other thing i think is a value of your treatment of rosa parks and your work, and also your life, is the connectivity. there's a way in which figures get narrowed at times. but there's also a way in which issues get some returning -- shrunk and how we measure success and defeat. rosa parks wasn't just concerned bat seat on a bus. so, similarly, rosen did not confine her notions of black freedom and black politics, which was her starting point but not her end point to the u.s. borders. she was concerned what was happening throughout the african content and what was happening in asia. she traveled and met with the maury people in new zealand

this sort of situation hurts us because it reminds of emmett till and sean bell and these other sort. we have multiple problems. he's acknowledging that. we know that. we don't forget that. >> do you think john, that this speech in time will prove to be an important moment briefly, if you can? >> i do. i do. i think that it is one of -- it's an example of why he was elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012 and the nice thing about it is, because he doesn't have to run for re-election, he can have more of these conversations. there's been a gap between his public and private persona in terms of what he says about race. he's starting to close that gap. >> we don't have enough time to continue. thank you. we'll be right back in a moment. [ male announcer ] this is george. the day building a play set begins with a surprise twinge of back pain... and a choice. take up to 4 advil in a day or 2 aleve for all day relief. [ male announcer ] that's handy. ♪ if then schwab is the placeing your trato trade. higher level, tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 call 1-888-577-5750 or visit schwab.com/trading to tdd#:

okay emmett till would have been 72 years old. today is the birthday of sonic youth's thurston moore and a big birthday of new york city mayoral candidate christine quinn. however, anthony weiner kind of sort of gave her biggest birthday present two days ago. this is "viewpoint." >> john: good evening i'm john fuglesang. this is "viewpoint." thank you so much for joining us tonight. okay. everything's bigger in texas right? and that includes their hutzpah. earlier this month texas passed strict voter i.d. laws immediately after the u.s. supreme court struck down section five of the voting rights act. that requires preclearance or federal approval for any new changes to voting laws. but help may be on the way from eric holder. >> and today i am announcing that the justice department will ask a federal court in texas to subject the state of texas to a preclearance regime similar to the one required by section five of the voting rights act. we believe that the state of texas should be required to go through a preclearance process whe