gates] that's right about jackie robinson. - about jackie robinson which he says is as much a race, or more a raced film than a baseball film. - it's true and you know much of ken's work. - [evan] deals with race. - the subtext is race without a doubt. but i remember vividly, i was 10 years old when jfk and nixon squared off. - [evan] yes. - and my parents were republicans. many black people were republicans, we're still the party of lincoln. and there was a liberal wing of the republican party. and jackie robinson begged presidential candidate richard nixon to intervene when martin luther king was in prison. - yup. - and there were black democrats lobbying jfk. - [evan] right. - and nixon refused to do it, jfk did it. daddy king, who had committed all of his tremendous resources. you know, when a black preacher, particularly in the old days, says the lord spoke to me and said we should vote republican, it was yes, republican. (audience laughs) well he had done that. - yeah. - but after, jfk intervened to get martin out of jail, daddy king said the lord spoke to me again. (everyone lau

asia including a business in tanzania that was founded by david robinson son of baseball legend jackie robinsonorld. >> i love that cupping technique where they taste it, slurp it a good technique. >> thank you. >>> you can nominate your local hero for a jefferson award online at cbssf.com/hero. >> always good to recognize the folks in the community. >>> or news throughout the evening the latest is always on ou r website, cbssf.com. >> joi n us for nightbeat at 10:00 on our sister station, kbcw 44/cable 12. >> and then right back here tonight at 11. enjoy the evening. ♪[ music ]♪ ,,,, ,, final four for the 13th time in school history the cardinal left for dallas after practice on tuesday. they will play south carolina on friday as they try and knock off another #1 seed mississippi state will try to end u- conn's 111-game winning streak in the other semifinal. gonzaga is in the final four for the first time ever and it's been a long time coming for coach mark few. announcer: it's time to play "family feud"! give it up for steve harvey! [captioning made possible by fremantle media] steve: how's e

meeting that branch ricky had with the minister that helped push him over the temperature to pick jackie robinsonoblem is it's signed to kennedy. no, just kidding. it's signed to dagen. dagen: i'll still read it. she gets nothing. [laughter] thank you so much. >>> the senate intelligence committee today started hearings on whether russia melded in the 2016 -- meddled in the 2016 election, but president vladimir putin strongly rejected those claims. as you know, the white house has been trying to shake allegations that russia did everything it could to get trump to win and hillary clinton to lose. the hearings today trying to determine to what extent russia spread propaganda and so-called fake news to achieve that, and senators say they're trying to prevent this from turning into a political quagmire. >> russia deployed this deluge of disinformation in a broader attempt to undermine america's strength and leadership throughout the world. the chairman and i agree it is vitally important that we do this as a credible, bipartisan and transparent manner as possible. dagen: so will this investigation y

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jackie? >> reporter: and a lot of preparation goes into removing this last piece of the bay bridge. we actually have the bay bridge spokesperson lea robinson leech with us, dark and early. thanks for being here again. what a day. what an engineering feat for you guys. >> this is incredible. we are completing the process of bringing down 100 million pounds of steel. the high style that is obvious to the public, we are ahead of schedule, under budget, and we have been environmental student stewards and we are very excited and it opens up the vistas, it is incredible in terms of the bike path and the views all the way around. we are very pleased at this landmark moment. >> ahead of schedule, but this was a complicated process. it involved a lot of environmental factors, a lot of n us about any challenges that crews may have run into over the years? >> well, it has been a great deal of planning that had to go into it. because it took as much precision to bring down the bridge as it took to build it back in the 1930s. so all of the planning, all of the time and effort from our teams, our experimentle teams, we are very pleased with where we are