. >> 33-year-old inmate herman johnson is doing 12 years for a felony drug conviction. he is currently housed in cellblock 5. >> in here you lose a lot of things on the outside. and you really find out a lot about people by coming to prison, you know. >> paul poplin has been to prison several times over the last ten years for drugs and fighting. >> this is a big cell actually because of the way it's situated with the toilet over here. there ain't much to them. you know. i guess it ain't that bad here, you know. it could be worse. been in worse. >> like being in a cage basically. that's why i try and stay out as much as possible. i go out to the yard and when i come back from eating, i try to avoid mine. that way i'm only in there from 8:30 at night until about 7:30 in the morning. then i'm out the rest of the day. >> donald avila is serving a four-month sentence for parole violation. >> just a bunch of guys living together. somebody's going to get on your nerves, and you're going to get on somebody's nerves one of these days, you know what i mean? >> inmate johnson reca

and there was a time in johnson's early career where he had a problem with his chief financial backer, herman brown, of brown and ruth and they, brown was a man nobody crossed, and johnson and him were on a collision course, and it was alice glass who devised the compromise. give herman the dam and let lyndon have the land, which really saved his career in that sense. c-span: did you write, i can't remember the details, that lady bird johnson and former president johnson would spend time at his mistress' home? >> guest: yes, they went down to, well it was a great estate in virginia, and they would both go down there, and on other occasions he would go down and leave lady bird at home. c-span: so you don't know whether or not she knew or not? >> guest: no, i do not. c-span: this is really off the subject, but warren g. harding, fdr, john f. kennedy, lyndon johnson, i must be leaving some, general eisenhower, all rumored, in some there was evidence, had mistresses -- what is it about presidents and mistresses? >> guest: or men. i don't know. but in johnson's life, alice glass played a role, you

johnson has one call to make to decide whether to run for the and her advice. supporter, herman brown, a breaking feud which would have financed lyndon's rise. they had really clashed overshe was very beautiful. they say she was the most lyndon johnson without giving>> are you still going to vietnam? >> do you have a planned time? >> let me get through this book tour. years. including a document during at never conceived of writing books political power. i was covering politics. i found that does not really whenever you pay the toll on any bridge within the boundaries of moses. he wanted. leader, he ran the senate as noduring the last two years, he appropriated this office. you were not even supposed to speak the first year. the assistant leader of his party. majority leader. then he set out to pass the first civil rights bill since this. this is what i saw. life, well not the only moment, when i felt like quitting. i was overwhelmed. the papers of the lyndon baines johnson, the 36th president of the united states. when you want to do research in the boxes, you sit in this room

johnson. >>> in a few minutes, our favorite legal minds, our favorite brilliant legal minds, avery freeman, richard herman are going to be along. we're going to talk about every under the sun from the george zimmerman case, trayvon martin case, to jonathan vilma and taking on the nfl commissioner and we're also going to talk about john edwards and the jury cl driberating again come monday. you have favorite thoughts on these cases coming up? >> well, every one of them, fredricka, are explosive. we saw developments we never expected to see. we'll see what happens here. >> all right, richard? >> i think john edwards is going to get convicted, fred. i think george zimmerman's credibility was bolstered by some of the evidence turned over. some of the findings and discovery. and crink that's going to be shocking to a lot of people. >> thanks so much. all that and more straight ahead with our favorite legal minds. >>> jurors in the john edwards trial have plenty to think about this weekend before getting back to dleliberations on monday. he's charged with six criminal counts of campaign frien ans fraud, which c

herman the dam and let him have the housing. then it is reached. you cannot write the life of lyndon johnsonithout giving respect to alice. >> are you still going to vietnam? >> do you have a planned time? >> let me get through this book tour. >> we talked about lyndon johnson with you through their years. i want to show you a montage including a document during at the lyndon johnson library. [video clip] >> what i realized was not that i wanted to do a biography, i never conceived of writing books of the lives of famous men. i had no interest in it. what i wanted to do was explain political power. i was covering politics. i found that does not really explaining what i had gone into. whenever you pay the toll on any bridge within the boundaries of the city of new york, you're paying it directly to robert moses. authorities collected the tolls. he had absolute power. he did not have to go to a mayor or governor. that was his money to spend as he wanted. in this room was some of the use of power. when lyndon johnson was majority leader, he ran the senate as no one has in a century. during the