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jesse jackson returned from gambia with two americans that were released from prison.y were noshd n than that by that country's president. one was a navy veteran that served in desert storm and another tennessee professor had been convicted of treason. they could have faced the firing squad until jackson stepped in. a story that didn't get much media coverage. why not? >> nobody got killed. it was a happy ending. murky circumstances, who knows what is going on there. but reverend jackson has done this before. he did in this in the 80s in lebanon. but the media is too busy pounding on romney. >> media was very busy in the last couple weeks. we do have a presidential campaign. we have a crisis in libya. we have a whole bunch of questions that should be asked about that. >> we know they have one brain. [ laughter ] >> it was a tough week to have a good news story and story, by the way, this muslim country, a country in which most of the people are muslims and they did a good humanitarian thing, guaranteed not to make headlines. >> it should have made headlines gambia, the
jesse jackson returned from gambia with two americans that were released from prison.y were noshd n than that by that country's president. one was a navy veteran that served in desert storm and another tennessee professor had been convicted of treason. they could have faced the firing squad until jackson stepped in. a story that didn't get much media coverage. why not? >> nobody got killed. it was a happy ending. murky circumstances, who knows what is going on there. but reverend jackson...
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jesse jackson returned from gambia with two americans that were released from prison.re noshd n than that by that country's president. one was a navy veteran that served in desert storm and another tennessee professor had been convicted of treason. they could have faced the firing squad until jackson stepped in. a story that didn't get much media coverage. why not? >> nobody got killed. it was a happy ending. murky circumstances, who knows what is going on there. but reverend jackson has done this before. he did in this in the 80s in lebanon. but the media is too busy pounding on romney. >> media was very busy in the last couple weeks. we do have a presidential campaign. we have a crisis in libya. we have a whole bunch of questions that should be asked about that. >> we know they have one brain. [ laughter ] >> it was a tough week to have a good news story and story, by the way, this muslim country, a country in which most of the people are muslims and they did a good humanitarian thing, guaranteed not to make headlines. >> it should have made headlines gambia, they ar
jesse jackson returned from gambia with two americans that were released from prison.re noshd n than that by that country's president. one was a navy veteran that served in desert storm and another tennessee professor had been convicted of treason. they could have faced the firing squad until jackson stepped in. a story that didn't get much media coverage. why not? >> nobody got killed. it was a happy ending. murky circumstances, who knows what is going on there. but reverend jackson has...
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they were the first executions, by the way, since 1985 in gambia. jesse jackson joins me on the phone now. thanks for doing so. release of two americans didn't seem to be on the agenda when you went there. how did you get their release secured? >> well, being there from their families and their embassy we knew 37 people are scheduled to die and because of the moratorium, he extended their schedule from there. scheduled to be in prison for 22 lifetimes, scheduled to come back to america on the 9th and that's good news. >> good news, indeed, for two americans. and now we've heard that the president has been putting these other executions on hold, if you like. must be a lot of pressure put on him. you were there but also african union and many others are being applying the screws on him. what did he tell you about the executions? why he was doing them? >> well, he made the case the sovereignty of the country, the sovereignty of the government he had the right to execute them. nine had been. my point was that the growth of the gambia and the reputation
they were the first executions, by the way, since 1985 in gambia. jesse jackson joins me on the phone now. thanks for doing so. release of two americans didn't seem to be on the agenda when you went there. how did you get their release secured? >> well, being there from their families and their embassy we knew 37 people are scheduled to die and because of the moratorium, he extended their schedule from there. scheduled to be in prison for 22 lifetimes, scheduled to come back to america on...
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he was director of immigration in gambia. he was deputy inspector for police.was a former soldier that fought in iraq during desert storm. he was serving a life sentence we are told because he had been convicted of also treason. he confessed under torture. also worth noting here, is that following the meeting with reverend jackson, gambia's president decided that instead of simply suspendedding a moratorium on the death penalty in that country he would extend it indefinitely. in august, jon, the president of gambia said all 47 prisoners on death row were going to be executed. nine of them were. he came under a great deal of international pressure. now appears for the moment 38 lives have been spared. we expect to learn a great deal more when reverend jackson arrives in the room in john f. kennedy airport in a few minutes. jon: keep an eye on it for us. david lee miller, thank you [ rosa ] i'm rosa and i quit smoking with chantix. when the doctor told me that i could smoke for the first week... i'm like...yeah, ok... little did i know that one week later i wasn'
he was director of immigration in gambia. he was deputy inspector for police.was a former soldier that fought in iraq during desert storm. he was serving a life sentence we are told because he had been convicted of also treason. he confessed under torture. also worth noting here, is that following the meeting with reverend jackson, gambia's president decided that instead of simply suspendedding a moratorium on the death penalty in that country he would extend it indefinitely. in august, jon,...
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jesse jackson returned from gambia with two americans that were released from prison.were noshd n than that by that country's president. one was a navy veteran that served in desert storm and another tennessee professor had been convicted of treason. they could have faced the firing squad until jackson stepped in. a story that didn't get much media coverage. why not? >> nobody got killed. it was a happy ending. murky circumstances, who knows what is going on there. but reverend jackson has done this before. he did in this in the 80s in lebanon. but the media is too busy pounding on romney. >> media was very busy in the last couple weeks. we do have a presidential campaign. we have a crisis in libya. we have a whole bunch of questions that should be asked about that. >> we know they have one brain. [ laughter ] >> it was a tough week to have a good news story and story, by the way, this muslim country, a country in which most of the people are muslims and they did a good humanitarian thing, guaranteed not to make headlines. >> it should have made headlines gambia, they
jesse jackson returned from gambia with two americans that were released from prison.were noshd n than that by that country's president. one was a navy veteran that served in desert storm and another tennessee professor had been convicted of treason. they could have faced the firing squad until jackson stepped in. a story that didn't get much media coverage. why not? >> nobody got killed. it was a happy ending. murky circumstances, who knows what is going on there. but reverend jackson...
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two americans in prison in the west african country of gambia were rescued by jesse jackson.e, feared for their lives, but are now safe, thanks to the reverend. here with more on this amazing story is peter johnson, jr. you're a friend of reverend jackson. >> i know him the last 20 years, met him with mayor in new york. this is a remarkable american story. american exceptionalism at its best. reverend jesse jackson intervened on behalf of two muslim americans who were also citizens of what's called the gambia, the smallest country in south africa. they both were in jail for treason. up with for 20 years, one for life. one a veteran of the iraq war. one a university of tennessee professor. so he intervened in the wake of nine executions in august in the gambia and said, i need to pull these americans out. the state department has been work at it. but i think i can by my international reputation go there and get them out and he did. >> gretchen: wow. so this is not the first time he's done this. >> he's got an incredible history. >> gretchen: yugoslavia, now -- >> over three de
two americans in prison in the west african country of gambia were rescued by jesse jackson.e, feared for their lives, but are now safe, thanks to the reverend. here with more on this amazing story is peter johnson, jr. you're a friend of reverend jackson. >> i know him the last 20 years, met him with mayor in new york. this is a remarkable american story. american exceptionalism at its best. reverend jesse jackson intervened on behalf of two muslim americans who were also citizens of...
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when we heard that we immediately called the president's office in gambia and ask could we commie meet with him. that was granted. a, the result was we were able to get a moratorium, indefinite moratorium on killing the other 38. those who were expected to die now expected to live. those who were in prison now are home. so salvaging lives and getting them free was a big deal. bill: he talked about the profound respect he had for you and the fact you went there to get them free. here you have two men, american citizens, amadou, you were given a life sentence? >> yes. bill: you served 15 months in prison. >> yes. bill: you're a former professor at university of the tennessee. >> correct. bill: tamsir, you were given a sentence of 20 years. you served six years and six months in that prison. what was that like? >> it was a very difficult time. being separated from your family and your loved ones. prisons all over the world are not easy to be in especially in poor country like gambia, it wasn't easy. but you just have to be strong and hope that one day somehow good lord almighty will come
when we heard that we immediately called the president's office in gambia and ask could we commie meet with him. that was granted. a, the result was we were able to get a moratorium, indefinite moratorium on killing the other 38. those who were expected to die now expected to live. those who were in prison now are home. so salvaging lives and getting them free was a big deal. bill: he talked about the profound respect he had for you and the fact you went there to get them free. here you have...
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two american citizens imprisoned in the country of gambia have been released and they are coming homejesse jackson meeting with the president yesterday in negotiating for their freedom. the two gambian american citizens were convicted of treason while working in the country. one of the americans had begun serving a life sentence while the other had served five years of his 20-year sentence. he was in studio b talking about bringing the americans home. >> when i did come i put them on the list and i did. their release has been granted. we leave here with the two americans tomorrow and have them back to their families in the state by wednesday morning. >>> jackson also convinced the gambian president to indefinitely extend a moratorium on 37 death row prisoners saving their lives. >>> a terrifying flight in new york city. after the jets are escort to do an isolated runway shortly after the planes landed. passengers given little reason as they waited more than 40 minutes for something to happen. even the pilot was kept in the dark. >> we are surrounded by emergency vehicles there's a rea
two american citizens imprisoned in the country of gambia have been released and they are coming homejesse jackson meeting with the president yesterday in negotiating for their freedom. the two gambian american citizens were convicted of treason while working in the country. one of the americans had begun serving a life sentence while the other had served five years of his 20-year sentence. he was in studio b talking about bringing the americans home. >> when i did come i put them on the...
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not do it in oklahoma and texas law to california we were not successful we were successful in the gambia and we follow that troy davis case closely so let me ask you this what were the circumstances that led up to this point and cumbia without all of the number of executions you said that the two on trial are being held for treason and so let me ask you how the circumstances led up to this point and how you were able to broker the deal. the boss the trees and kind of various. sometimes it's positions sometimes it's difficult fences we do it not going to argue the case of what was treason will not which is logical a legal argument of the right which is one of our an argument we made a humanitarian plea at the present almost like asians in the various african union meetings here really all are really low that they were scheduled to die on their schedule to live and to be imprisoned for a long time with their families out hope that the success of this will be of such until we'll be able to get more prisons out of the prison and print more time on intersecting nomic in the hills of the relev
not do it in oklahoma and texas law to california we were not successful we were successful in the gambia and we follow that troy davis case closely so let me ask you this what were the circumstances that led up to this point and cumbia without all of the number of executions you said that the two on trial are being held for treason and so let me ask you how the circumstances led up to this point and how you were able to broker the deal. the boss the trees and kind of various. sometimes it's...
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in this case, he did it in ganbia with two american citizens gambia originally and became american citizensheat you do, you do good work. these people are delighted to be out. the people we help before. >> eric: think what obama could do if he were doing that instead of hanging out with dade letterman, beyonce and jay-z. my one more thing today i saw president obama in lima, ohio. it struck me that ohio is doing much better, bob, but not necessarily because of obama or obamanopcs but because of the great governor john kasich. >> eric: he is not the one -- >> bob: she is not the one on the presidential ballot. >> eric: but obama takes credit -- >> bob: he should take credit f it. >> andrea: bin laden is dead. you can't run on that much longer. can we percolate the presidential prediction? that is what 7-lieb i-eleven is saying. you can go to 7-eleven and buy romney or obama cup of coffee. in past years this contest has done well and predicted the presidents. predicted george w. bush. it predicted a bunch of others. so cast your vote at 7-eleven. >> bob: george washington. >> andrea: yes. the
in this case, he did it in ganbia with two american citizens gambia originally and became american citizensheat you do, you do good work. these people are delighted to be out. the people we help before. >> eric: think what obama could do if he were doing that instead of hanging out with dade letterman, beyonce and jay-z. my one more thing today i saw president obama in lima, ohio. it struck me that ohio is doing much better, bob, but not necessarily because of obama or obamanopcs but...
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he personally met with the president of gambia. working in the country. one of the american started serving a life sentence while the other already served five years of his 20-year sentence. >> and when i did come to ask would you put them on the list, and i did. hope to have them back with their families in the states by wednesday morning. >> brian: jackson could convince the president of gamgia to take 37 inmates off death row. >> steve: that is shaun white and his latest stunt didn't earn haim gold medal. had landed him behind bars. the snowboarder was drunk in a national hotel, cops say he pulled a fire alarm, forcing all the guests to evacuate. oh, kid. then he tried to leave in a cab, but was stopped by a guest. cops say white, then kicked the guest before running away. the guest chased him and then collided, hence the black eye. white charged with public intoxication and vandalism as well. >> gretchen: florida family fighting city officials after being threatened with a hefty fine for holding week lea bible studies in their
he personally met with the president of gambia. working in the country. one of the american started serving a life sentence while the other already served five years of his 20-year sentence. >> and when i did come to ask would you put them on the list, and i did. hope to have them back with their families in the states by wednesday morning. >> brian: jackson could convince the president of gamgia to take 37 inmates off death row. >> steve: that is shaun white and his latest...