he is joined by james "shack" harris who went on to be in various halls of fame.hat's a lot to say, that this season in black college football not only transformed the sport -- it changed the course of civil rights. for those who think that might be hyperbolic, let's take it one at a time. how did what happened transform the sport? >> look at the nfl. this season you have had as many as eight or nine african- american quarterbacks starting in a given week. these african-american head coaches. ,ou had african-american gm's ozzie newsome of the defending super bowl champs -- none of that would have existed without the pages that came out of black college football in 1967 in particular. also the fact that schools that hadn't desegregated their teams until the late 1960 possible or early 1970 path -- now they are african-american. there are other changes. that's just on the field. what: before we get to happened on the field, how did what happened that year changed the course of civil rights? >> that's a fair question to ask. the thing you have to remember is football

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james? >> harris, good evening. obama returned to the nation's capital with less political capital than he had a year ago. the gallup poll find out went in ten americans approve of his job and that is down from the start of his second term. to regain the ground, the president plans to pursue a populous tone and agenda in this cycle, including a push this week for extension of unemployment benefits. >> just a few days saver christmas, more than 1 million lost a lifeline, that helps folks meet ends meet while te look for a -- while they look for a job. >> gallup said the poor ratings were not due to the economy, but to the fallout due to the spying scandal and the rocky rollout of obamacare. the man who president obama defeated to win assailed the incumbent for dishonesty on the quote of obamacare. >> you will have people finding their premiums going through the roof and the -- they -- the doctor they had they can't keep, the policies they were promised they could have they aren't able to keep and the american people

it was directed by a very interesting gentleman an american man named james t harris. he's eighty five now and then he started out producing the very young stanley cooper said. rubrics the legacy is secure and counties. he has helped make them the killing which is wonderful. past glory which is a masterpiece in the league in which you may have heard of but hardly anybody stated is the harris interactive on films including this one is doing a retrospective of his work for the canadian defence and attack. and i'm this perception to the movie some call it loving what is perhaps a little different here in europe hits the stands. words it was sunlight can be the total opposite extreme. you are in the united states. nutrition is very successful. it contends coast festival in nineteen seventy three. to his senior directors for the a league fixture know when i open the picture in the market was the complete opposite. for some reason they just did not understand the film they didn't think of it is as. the same way that the french did. the change you have this habit of heralding

harry? >> the microphone? >> james torano points out several decades ago there was a u.s. supreme court decision that essentially outlawed the use of iq tests in lieu of college degrees to permit people who are not college graduates to get jobs that matched up with their iqs because in some way they were racially discriminatory, i believe. i don't remember the -- >> that was -- yeah. it was disparate impact. >> disparate impact case. it strikes me that when you speak of credentialing of some sort that isn't a college diploma, you might encounter -- and people, for example, who have taken the online courses, i noticed that harvard has now started an online course ram very recently. so this is moving into the ivies as well. so you might encounter some sort of similar credentialing problem. what are your thoughts about that? >> i mean, i think it's possible, but i don't think it's likely. >> [inaudible] >> oh, i'm sorry. i think it's possible, but i don't think it's likely for two reasons. one, i think iq tests occupy sort of a very special place in american social and politi

[applause] >> that was singer, actor, and civil rights activist harry belafonte opening ceremonies. swornitia jameslso in as the city's new public advocate, the position previously occupied by bill de blasio. she is the first african- american american woman to be elected to citywide office in new york and she condemned widening inequality. >> the wave of progressive victories our city has enjoyed thanks to the city council was in some ways an inevitable. the fabric of our city is made strong by the untold sacrifices of so many that i left defenseless, -- that are left defenseless, unspoken for, but at some point the tide must turn. we must give way to a government that speaks for them, that cares more about a child going hungry or a new stadium -- then a new stadium or a tax credit for a luxury development. to live up to that challenge and to be morally centered in our decisions is the task before those of us that think of ourselves as the progressive wing of our city. as the tide turns toward progress, we do not have the luxury to rest. the growing gap between the haves and the have-nots underlin

so you can go on a harry potter tour or a sherlock homes, downton abbey, james bond. >> everybody needse perha the most iconic location of them all. the place where javier rallied the troops. >> almost the entire second half was held here. the funeral of lelemark. the revolution. this used to be a royal navy college. now it's still a place of education. it's open to the public. you can just walk in here for free. >> or if you are johnny depp, walk in here under quite a bit of duress. depp shot "pirates of the caribbean" throughout this place. >> it was filmed inside the painted hall. it doesn't take much to transform this area to the 1700s. >> the golden compass transformed it into a completely different world. >> slithering around like an alley cat. >> they used both thieves buildings and cgi'd it to make it look like a different universe. >> the patriot mes. the mummy returns. and sherlockolmes all got the royal treatment. want to feel like you're inside your favorite movie? this is definitely the britit sites to see. >>> america's fascination with all things royal is nothing new.

majority leader harry reid says he is confident that it will pass the senate. jamesburling says it is a krurl issue. >> people have to remember that emergency unemployment benefits only go to people who are actively looking for a job. for a lot of people that encourages them to keep looking when they are getting discouraged. and tomorrow is the day that 1.3 americans will go to their mailbox and find that check missing. he is for extending the benefits and republican marshia blackburn of tennessee. congresswoman let me begin with you. why wouldn't you want to extend unemployment benefits? what we would love to see happen is for the president and mr. sper ling to say what can we do right now to create the environment for jobs growth to take place. i hear that the uncertainty that is coming from washington and what is happening with the new 40,000 pages of regulations that are coming out. people want to see less government over reach and they would like to have washington out of the way and get back to creating jobs and getting back to work. >> what do you say to the p

i'm sharing the sorry because i am his mother and eric harris' mother, i'm james holmes' more, jury red locker in's mother. she's boys and their mothers need help in the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it's easy to talk about guns but it's time to talk about meantal illness. she shared her story with my subcommittee of parents with children with mental ill necessary. as chairman of the energy and commerce oversight subcommittee, we discovered those families who need help the most are least likely to get it and where there is no help, there is no hope. . the federal government sets up barriers that make it increasingly difficult for a mother to care for a son or daughter coming you have age. they block our -- funds are wasted on ineffective programs and scientific standards are not used to go for grants or treatments. they have replaced hospital beds with prison cells and homeless shelters as options for the seriously mentally ill. it's wrong and immoral. that's why i introduced h.r. 3717 to deliver care to those with severe mental illness who need treatment, real treatment, n

tonight dan harris sat down with the man whose fellow jump percent helped to defy gravity and the odds. >>reporter: when is james lee went out on the evenly of the airplane even though he had done more than 1,000 sky dives he had no way of knowing that his fellow jump percent were about to have mere seconds to save his life. >> i 11 the aircraft afterwards came town knocked me unconscious from then i have no real recollection of what happened on that part of the sky dive. >> fellow jumper leg had smashed in his helmet. lee is knocked out. his arms gone limp with the camera on the helmet still rolling as he free fall at times more than 120 miles an hour over the british countryside. from this camera on another diver you cap actually see lee falling. experts say to land safely you need to deploy your chute about 75 seconds into the dive. about 30 seconds into their dive something amazing happene happened. his fellow divers realize lee is in trouble. as you can see from the new footage they leap into action. >> my leg were his extremely bent. i was traveling backwards very, very quickly so the signal they were tryi

tonight dan harris sat down with the man whose fellow jump percent helped to defy gravity and the odds. >>reporter: when is james lee went out on the evenly of the airplane even though he had done more than 1,000 sky dives he had no way of knowing that his fellow jump percent were about to have mere seconds to save his life. >> i 11 the aircraft afterwards came town knocked me unconscious from then i have no real recollection of what happened on that part of the sky dive. >> fellow jumper leg had smashed in his helmet. lee is knocked out. his arms gone limp with the camera on the helmet still rolling as he free fall at times more than 120 miles an hour over the british countryside. from this camera on another diver you cap actually see lee falling. experts say to land safely you need to deploy your chute about 75 seconds into the dive. about 30 seconds into their dive something amazing happene happened. his fellow divers realize lee is in trouble. as you can see from the new footage they leap into action. >> my leg were his extremely bent. i was traveling backwards very, very quickly so the signal they were tryi

harris inside story is next on al jazeera america. wharves., ii'm ray in a hearing before the senate intelligence committee the country's intelligence chief, james clapper, made his first public acknowledgement that his agency in his view doesn't need a court order to get location information from cell phones. he defended the widespread collection of data and it's continued usefulness and called on edward snowden to give back what he took last year. little by little americans are learning more about what their government has been up to around the world, and at home. flapper had plenty to say about the value of what was taken and the man who took it. what i do want to speak to, as a nation senior intelligence offer, is the profound damage that his disclosures continue that us ca. the director of national intelligence james clapper appeared before the senate yesterday. what snowden has stolen and exposed has gone way way beyond his professed concerns. as a result, we have lost foreign sources including some shared with us by valued partners. >> in blistering testimony, he told the committee the snowden leaks pose a greater threat to national secur

tonight dan harris sat down with the man whose fellow jump percent helped to defy gravity and the odds. >>reporter: when is james went out on the evenly of the airplane even though he had done more than 1,000 sky dives he had no way of knowing that his fellow jump percent were about to have mere seconds toif. life. >> i 11 the aircraft afterwards came town knocked me unconsci from t from then i havo real recollection of what happened on that part of the sky dive. >> fellow jumper leg had smashed in his helmet. lee is knocked out. his arms gone limp with the camera on the helmet still rolling as he free fall at times more than 120 miles an hour over the british countryside. from this camera on another diver you cap actually see lee falling. experts say to land safely you needhute your chute about 75 seconds into the dive. about 30 seconds into their dive something amazing happene happened. his fellow divers realize lee is in trouble. as you can see from the new footage they leap into action. >> my leg were his extremely bent. i was traveling backwards very, very quickly so the signal they were trying to give were

harry belafonte tee and the new public advocate la tear a james described the city as very divided. department actually referred to new york city as a plantation. so there were very harsh words and through all of them mayor bloomberg sat there rather stone-faced, as you can imagine. >> chris, what does it foretell for the clintons and their connection to deblasio and this sort of split in the party between the progressive wing and the party and centrist democrats? >> right. i mean -- i think kate is exactly right in her analysis of the speech. i would say it is the speech that many democrats hope barack obama would give some version of after he was elected in wait. i think deblasio is in some way it is liberal that liberals thought they were getting with barack obama and have been somewhat disappointed. i think that's somewhat -- the base of whichever party the president comes from inevitably disappointed by what that person does or does not do while in office. but you are right. there is this -- pop list many on the left and the right, i would say. but certainly on the left that de

but tonight, abc's dan harris brings us an interview and a brand-new tape of the man whose friends helped him both defy gravity and the odds. >> reporter: when james lee clambered out on to the edge of this airplane, even though he'd done more than a thousand skydives, he had no way of knowing that his fellow jumpers were about to have mere seconds to save his life. >> a jumper that left the aircraft afterwards came down a knocked me unconscious. from then, i have no real recollection of what happened on the skydive. >> reporter: a fellow jumper's leg had smashed into his helmet. lee is knocked out, his arms gone limp, with the camera on his helmet still rolling as he free falls, at times more than 120 miles an hour over the british countryside. from this camera on another diver you can actually see lee falling. experts say, to land safely, you need to deploy your chute about 75 seconds into the dive. about 30 seconds into their dive, something amazing happens. his fellow divers realize lee is in trouble. as you can see from this new footage, they leap into action. >> my legs were extremely bent. and i was traveling backwards very, very quickly. s

harris. >> a group of skydivers are climb together outside of a plane preparing it jump experienced 25-year-old jumpers james of times, but never has this happened to him. seconds after he leaps, a freak accident. one of his fell why divers legs hits lee if the back of the head knocking hum out. the camera goes wobbly as lee tumbles unconscious from 12,500 feet towards certain death. slowing video down, you can see his arms go limp. look at what happens next. his friends notice there is something wrong with him. they approach. giving lee hand signals to check if he is okay. seeing he's not, they reorient his body to the correct position and then deploy his chute. you can hear the his of the air relent as lee's descent slows down. >> it's pretty incredible when someone is unconscious and tumbling, it is virtually impossible to catch them. >> this is not the first skydiving mishap it make the news of late. just this week a 16-year-old girl in oklahoma making a hard landing after her shoot how about that? >> you don't have to convince me. i love it. >>> coming up, taking a marriage proposal to all new heights.

james far far, has come opportunity cross hairs of al franken. they all rely on gps data and in a new book called the polaris protocol, author brad harris joins us, polaris protocol is in bookstores. glad to have you back on the show. >> thank you. >> in this book, you have a cyberthreat. how vulnerable are we? >> originally i tell you that i was actually allowed on the constellation, that's one of the most secure areas i've ever been to, and that place is super-secure. i would say there's no way for a state system to attack it. so in the book i made a character that is an independent contractor which they have there, a computer technician who also works for anonymous occupy wall street doesn't like the drone strikes and he nsks the cons 38 with thraitionconconst. i thought it couldn't happy but it dr.. >> the system has been in place since the mid '90s. we need it for all sorts of things. would we be able to cope without it? >> we would eventually recover, obviously it wouldn't be the apocalypse. where is the next gas station, where is my fedex, that kind of thing. the positioning system works off a timing feature, because of that the timing sig

harry s. truman. >> where's tyler and james buchanan? who was in office for 40 days before passing away?d after 40 days and got pneumonia giving the inaugural address. little help? we have smart viewers, if you know the answer to that, e-mail us. >> we have google and can do that during the commercial break. >>> here's something to wake you up and get you out of bed and have you seeing red. >> william henry harrison. >> that's right! a blog entitled "i look down on young women with husbands and kids and i'm not sorry" written by a woman called amy glass. and in it she explains that women who get married have children and make the mistake of raising those children are loathsome. she says this, do people really think that a stay-at-home mom is really on equal footing with a woman who works and take cares of herself? there's no way those two things are the same. i hear women talk about how hard it is to raise kids and manage a household all the time. i never hear men talk about this. if you did, women secretly like to talk about how hard managing a household is so they don't have to explain

harry reid. i will get off of the year. guest: thank you, james, for serving. i respect it and appreciate it.ave been an advocate for reducing our presence in a responsible way in areas where i do not think we need such a strong military presence. i am in agreement on that, and i have made efforts in that area and we truly are aligned on that. with respect to your second question, the graduated income tax, to the extent that we have a tax system other than the fair tax, we will have a graduated tax, and i support that, then those who make more have to pay a higher percentage. some do not, but i do. what i really think would be best, and what i am a strong advocate for is the fair tax. we are in agreement on that, james. i believe there are so many benefits to that and i encourage every american to understand it. it really would reduce the complexity of our tax system greatly. it is really unfortunate when an american, and i am one of those in this category -- when you really want to do the right thing, get your taxes right, and if prepare your taxes, and you have a business that is complicate

james holmes is back in a colorado courtroom. holmes attending a hearing on whether to allow certain expert witnesses to testify at his upcoming trial. harrisr is live from our new york newsroom with an update on that. >> reporter: well, jon, you know, reconstructing a crime scene is pretty routine in forensic science. it's one way detectives say helps them to build a timeline of events, and that's what's at issue here. in the holmes hearing today, the judge is expected to consider whether to allow testimony from some of the forensics experts who worked that scene inside that denver area movie theater. james holmes is accused of murder and attempted murder after lis say a gunman wearing a gas mask and covered head to toe in body armor opened fire in a crowded theater for a midnight showing of the then-just-released batman movie. twelve people died, more than 70 hurt. holmes' defense team wants the judge to bar evidence about the crime scene reconstruction saying it is unreliable, and so they were set to get going about 26 minutes ago, and we are waiting. now, this one is open to the public. james holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of i

james bolen, who is the president of international union and brick layers and allied craft workers. doug is the president of the united brotherhood of carpenters. dot harris. a director of the office of the office of imfact and diversity at the department of energy where we are working on initiatives to employ minority communities around the country. and our good friend admiral don liriano who heads up admiral he is for energy. and bill, a good friend who leads our labor mcgee group of the oil and gas industry that constitutes over 15 unions, where we work together in job creation and economic self-sufficiency here in the country. >> maybe you know jim jones. thank you for being here. the general is the national security advisor to the president and has another list of credentials and life of service to the country. tom donahue who headsthe chamber and focused on the energy equation. xt to him is bob costello, the chief haven't of the american trucking association. and don, santa, president and c.e.o. of the natural gas association of america. marty durbin we all know well. we hated to see him leave the a.p.i. paul connors the trade commissioner of the ca

harry. >> i wasn't here, i was in jackson, mississippi. chadwick bosman, he's playing james brown.sit-down interview you'll see with mick next week. >> cool. did he teach you the moves? >> i've been moving his moves for about 30 years. i like to jag. i can do a little chair. it's all up in there. >> it's in there? >> wet your lips and stick you up in a mirror and see how long you stay up there. throw in sandra burnhart for good measure. >> i'm telling you, though, this movie's going to be incredible. >> when does it come out? >> august. >> i can't wait for the soundtrack. >> oh, you've got to see chadwick bosman, he learned all the moves, how to do the split, singing like james brown, looks like james brown. this will be a huge movie. >> and mick owns the rights to his music? >> yeah. they got together with brian graizer and put this movie together. >> can you top that? >> maybe. well, i see your mick and your harry and i raise you a barbara. >> oh. >> the one and only. >> what is she doing? >> barbara was trying to style me. getting up close and personal all for a good cause. we'l