congressman john lewis. [applause] [applause] >> were going to start with a few minutes from each of these here this evening to talk about anything they like to talk about, their lives, their own stories. we'll begin with trent three. >> well, forgive me. [laughter] i must've went to the restroom. [laughter] as i stated, it's a real honor and pleasure for me to be here in charlottesville and this has been stopped, i was about to say extreme pleasure and honor for me to be here with congressman lewis. we've been traveling parallel rows for a long time, but we never cross one of those paths until tonight. [applause] i'm just so thankful god this together before we leave to go be a one-on-one with the lord. he's a great human being and i'm so honored to be here to share this evening with you tonight. get ready for a good show. >> thank you very much. dr. john carlos, i'm a study of i'm delighted pleased to be with you. thank you for your service. thank you for your great and good work. i want to thank the virgi

. >>> a former ku klux klan member apologized as he beat up john lewis.georgia congressman won an award for reconciliation. next, that moment remembered after his death. you can part a crowd, without saying a word... if you have yet to master the quiet sneeze... you stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts... well muddlers, muddle no more. try zyrtec®. it gives you powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because zyrtec® starts working at hour one on the first day you take it. claritin® doesn't start working until hour three. zyrtec®. love the air. >>> a form ku klux klan member who later apologized for his racist ways and violent beatings has died. back in 1961, elwin wilson beat up freedom rider john lewis in a south carolina bus station. 48 years later he wept as he apologized to congressman john lewis, and i spoke with wilson and lewis after the 2009 apology. >> i didn't think i'd ever see the day when i find out who i beat up at the bus station. my daddy always told me that a fool never changes his mind and a smart man chang

. >>> a former ku klux klan member apologized as he beat up john lewis.he and the georgia congressman won an award for reconciliation. next, that moment remembered after his death. heyyy, you're going out like that? yeah, why? well, what would the neighbors think? i see you! c'mon, get mister feather! look what i have. mister bird. remember? quack quack quack! we're just playing! we're just playing! i'm trying to get you out of there! even still... announcer: you don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent. there are thousands of teens in foster care who don't need perfection, they need you. >>> a form ku klux klan member who later apologized for his racist was and violent beatings has died. back in 1961, elwin wilson beat up freedom rider john lewis in a south carolina bus station. 48 years later he wept as he apologized to congressman john lewis, and i spoke with wilson and lewis after the 2009 apology. >> i didn't think i'd ever see the day when i find out who i beat up at the bus station. my daddy always told me that a fool never changes his mind

. >>> a former ku klux klan member apologized as he beat up john lewis.and the georgia congressman won an award for reconciliation. next, that moment remembered after his death. e night britta e about a tradition in denmark, "when a person dies," she said, "someone must open the window so the soul can depart." i smiled and squeezed her hand. "not tonight, britta. not tonight." [ female announcer ] to nurses everywhere, thank you, from johnson & johnson. >>> a form ku klux klan member who later apologized for his racist was and violent beatings has died. back in 1961, elwin wilson beat up freedom rider john lewis in a south carolina bus station. 48 years later he wept as he apologized to congressman john lewis, and i spoke with wilson and lewis after the 2009 apology. >> i didn't think i'd ever see the day when i find out who i beat up at the bus station. my daddy always told me that a fool never changes his mind and a smart man changes his mind, and that's what i've done. >> lewis and wilson accepted the common ground award for reconciliation in 2009. he

. >> congressman john lewis, a longtime democratic power in the house, was an important young leaderer circle. >> j. edgar hoover never understood, and others around him, that when you've been discriminated against, you don't need someone from moscow or someone from any other part of the world to tell you that you are being discriminated against. >> but in october of 1963, robert kennedy signed off on wiretaps. atlanta agents broke into dr. king's home and office to install them. did you know the fbi was tapping your phones? >> oh, yeah. >> you assumed it or knew it? >> no, we knew it. >> nothing was sacred. young remembers how fellow minister ralph abernathy discovered an fbi bug while speaking at an alabama church. >> he said, look here. he took the microphone out and put it up on top of the pulpit. he said, little doohickey, i want you to tell president johnson, i want you to tell j. edgar hoover, i want you to tell george wallace, i want you to tell everybody. that no matter what they think, we are going to be free. and the whole church just cheered. >> but there were no cheers w

john lewis is not anybody's slave. he is a great man. he's a hero. but what dr.arson was talking about was the hell that black conservatives and by the way, woman conservatives, latino conservatives. you are listening, marco rubio, the double standard and heck and unfair vicious attacks that are launched on people of color or women that dare to break out of the box. >> all right. >> the republicans are trying to reach out to minorities right now. they're trying to reach out to mi nort minorities right now s this the way to do it? to say somebody that has a policy that is not conservative is somehow on a plantation to divide and stereotype african-americans as being on or off a plantation? dr. ben carson is now in politics. people will criticize him. people will criticize him. >> all right. we have to leave it there. thank you very much to both of you. really appreciation that conversation. still to come, is it your college's fault if you don't get a job after graduation? people behind a class action lawsuit say yes. tort reform, anyone. >>> prisoners drinking and

haley, what do you say about gay marriage, what john lewis has described as the civil rights issue ofe -- my state had a referendum on this and voted 81% that marriage is an institution between one man and one woman as a union. that's my state's position. that's my position. there are people that disagree with me and i respect that. i don't think you'll see our state change its position on that i thought it was interesting to hear msnbc on the previous program advocating state's rights on gun control. i'm just this is all a new day to me to see y'all advocating states rights on so many things. >> in fact the supreme court may settle the issue of gay marriage by not settling it and making it basically a state issue. overturning doma and letting states make their own decision. anyway, immigration reform. that's the topic. where you two are coming together across party lines. ed rendell, what do you think can be achieved? are you lining up behind the gang of eight and where you think they are emerging in this group led by chuck schumer and a number of republicans. >> first, haley and i a

i've seen the head of la raza, janet and other hispanic leaders join john lewis and retrace the steps back in alabama. i have seen the african-american congress people from south florida join hands with the republican cuban-american congress people in asking for the freedom of cuba. so i think that there are many, many joint projects that we are doing together. we're getting used to being allies and not being just competitors. we're getting smarter. we've realized that two speak louder than one. and let's face it, it's fun. black and brown, that's a fun combination. if you ever go to a black and brown party, it doesn't get much better than that. tavis: i'm down to my last few minutes. i'm a student of history i -- i want to role this tape so see what you told me, what your greatest hope was and your greatest fear going forward. we will start with adriana at the end with her greatest fear and her greatest hope. >> my greatest hope is that we're going to find a way to truly engage in the full power of the community by solving the immigration and bringing people out of the shadows to own

but i was also interested in the speech of john lewis who was the chair of the student nonviolent coordinating committee. just days before the march, i had met one of the snick activists at a conference. his name was stokely car michael. and from that time on, i understood that when we refer to martin luther king as the leader of the movement, we're also referring to him as a symbol for something much larger than any one person. i think that that's so important for us to understand as we teach young people about the meaning of martin luther king on martin luther king day, that they understand that they -- their generation is what made the movement possible. that the people who staged the sit-ins, the young children in birmingham, they made the movement possible. and i think that this is a extremely important as we commemorate martin luther king. now, also in the 50 years since the march on washington, some amazing things have happened, in my life and many of the lives of the people in this room. if someone had come to me at the march and said, guess what, in about a dozen years you'll be teach

john lewis was beaten and decades later received an apology from wilson. today lewis says he felt sorry he was saddened to learn that wilson had had died and praised him for his courage. lewis said wilson showed that we all can make what he called blunders but can get on the road the right road toward building a greater sense of community. >>> from south africa tonight and update on the health of nelson mandela. a statement from the government said that the 94-year-old former president had a restful day and that his condition has improved further. mandela continues to receive treatment for his latest bout of pneumonia. he has been in the hospital since wednesday. >>> a health scare to tell you about in part of china. a new outbreak of avian flu otherwise known as the bird flu. authorities say two people have died in shanghai and a third is in critical condition in another part of that country after contracting the h7n9 strain of the virus. this strain has not been transmitted from chickens to humans before and there is no vaccine for it. >>> when nbc news

john lewis and they went down, and i walked up here and i said, i want to ask you a question. he said, do you think barack is sexy? and i listened very carefully to the answer. [laughter] and she said, no comment. [laughter] i am coming home now, al. i will not be here next year. but i want you to hear, god is sending us a message. what better message can he send us than to put a man in charge all the white fellows, they take orders from barack. be evert think i would able to see it, but i'm glad i did. i'm glad i did. god, this is a new day for us. we have no business acting like we used to. negro. calling for a new thattch the new leadership he has given the world. but the know about you, leader of the free world is a black man. [applause] if that does not make you become a new person, something is wrong with you. if you are still acting like you used to act when you have a new leader of the free world, something is wrong with you. you have got to stop turning on each other and turned to each other. -- findingt to stop fault with each other. alhave got to stop thinking versu

>> john lewis was waiting for kennedy to come back upstairs to his hotel room. >> it was too much. i broke down and cried. >> it was a lot of loss back to back. >> 40 years later, it is too much. and i felt then that the assassination of dr. king and robert kennedy, something had died in all of us. >> with his bank robbery money, ray was making one last effort to reach white areas of africa. >> i finally contacted a newspaper reporter who said the mercenaries had an office in brussels, belgium. i then bought a ticket to brussels. >> with this ticket in hand, and both passports, ray went to the london airport on saturday, june 8th. >> i went to the boarding zone, i was told by one officer that he wanted to ask me a few questions. >> the officer recognized the names on ray's two passports were on a watch list. ♪ hallelujah ♪ hallelujah hallelujah >> it was the morning of robert kennedy's funeral when the news broke. james earl ray, accused killer of martin luther king jr., had been arrested in london. >> this is a picture of my dad and me. >> ray wanted arthur hanes and his son arthu

let's move to representative john lewis. he's a really spiritual man.u able to capture this through your photography? >> i think he simply gave it to me. we had a wonderful conversation first. i interviewed him for the text that accompanies each photograph then we went outside his office, and he simply stood there. he had a centeredness, patience, and he gave of himself. a truly good portrait has to be given, it can't be taken coerced manipulated. the person has to feel good enough in their own skin to give themselves and he was able to do that. >> michael: you alluded to the interviews and text in the book. i think it's remarkable. all of your photographs they're first-person accounts written by these people presumably, and how did you make a decision to do that rather than writing about them yourself? >> i wanted it to be in the first person because they're portraits. i didn't want to have an appearance of an objective third person in relation to the first person. i prefer to have a juxtaposition of the visual, and then the verbal--not that one illust

john lewis was hit over the head with a bat by alabama policeman.it was a nonviolent movement that changed this country for the better and quite frankly served as an inspiration for the rest of the world. their inspiration was gandhi, but the point of the matter is nonviolent can be used in a way where you can change the world and we are don't even talk about what are the alternatives. if you don't do this, we'll bomb you. we have to have more discussion about the other peaceful ways without killing everybody to sell some of these problems. i know there are, there have to be. [applause] >> i'm bill outfielder i work with the d.c. democratic party and the district of columbia. i want to commend you for your work on hunger, which renault impacts the whole world emissary citizens vulnerable. we are not a state amnesty route a few moments ago we don't have a representative to call. we don't have senators who call upon and are delicate, eleanor holmes story to does a fantastic job introduced a bill, the new columbia mission act. when i checked before the

you have politicians like representative john lewis who says we need more work to be done.me on, these individuals are very divisive with these comments. >> this is why i'm saying, i essentially agree with you if you listen to me. i'm saying we in the 21st century have racially gerrymandered election district. get the blacks to elect blacks. that's leading us into a blind alley, everything. everything should be based on skills and content but barack obama didn't get elected on couldn't tent or character, he got elected on race identity and he uses race when he wants to get ahead personally. he is the most divisive, polarizing, race conscious president i have no one in my life time. >> thank you. appreciate it. coming up next, tonight on "hannity." katie will take us inside the gun control debate and along for the ride as she goes through an intensive self-defense course, intensive self-defense course, we are going to see how man: how did i get here? dumb luck? or good decisions? ones i've made. ones we've all made. about marriage. children. money. about tomorrow. here's to

john's church. lewis leon delivered the holiday sermon urging the congregation not to turn back on faith. >>> one member of the first family was not at that easter service but celebrated in his own way. how cute. the white house dog, bo, tweeted this picture of the first dog. the white house did, in fact, bo wearing funny ears and getting in the spirit. >>> and caroline kennedy is out with her tenth book. this time an anthology of poems for young people titled "poems to learn by heart." she went through one of her mother's scrap books for inspiration. it includes entries from her own three children. that, my friends, is your dish of scrambled politics this morning. >>> now for a look at the national weather outside. it is finally here, april fool's, no joke though. >> no. >> nice weather. >> it is a big april fool's for everyone in the midwest. today is the white house easter egg roll. weather should be okay in d.c. for that but not for baseball game. these opening games are going to be frigid. let's star

among the guest speakers at this rally -- republican representative john lewis of georgia. he marched on washington with dr. martin luther king in 1963 to push for civil rights. >> major development coming to oakland's waterfront.right next to jack london square. here's a google earth map showing the specific area that will be developed starting next year. it will be along the embarcadero. deveopers plan to build on 65 acres of land. you can see downtown oakland and lake merritt in the background. we have artist and computer renderings of what the transformed area will look like. these buildings here are the new development. we're talking residential and commercial buildings.as well as parks and open space area. check out the high rise residential units. 31-hundred residenital units are going in. there will also be a marina component with boat slips. 30 acres of parks and open space area. walkways for pedestrians and bikers. lots of restaurants and shops. governor jerry brown announced the jack london square transformation today while travelling in china. and a chinese inve

we were led on the pilgrimage by my friend and congresswoman sewell's friend, congressman john lewis, who from personal experience, as we know he was beaten many times himself. the 16th street baptist church is still a vibrant place of worship, but on that day, 50 we just a few months ago stood in a moment of silence in remembrance of the haunting act of evil that occurred there a half century ago. churchgoers gathered peacefully on that fall morning, as they faithfully do every sunday, to praise, pray and worship. in fact, 26 children were making their way to the downstairs assembly room to prepare for a sermon entitled "the love that forgives," when the bomb went off. the four little girls whose pictures are on the floor of the house, addie mae collins, denise mcnair, carole robertson and cynthia wesley, were almost instantly killed. looking at those faces now, they speak as strongly to me on the house floor today as they did to newspaper readers and television viewers at the time of the bombing. as congress and the country, eyes were opened, they were shocked enough to passively ri

, selma and john lewis was beaten and almost killed marching over that bridge but one of the things that was so inspirational to me was that whole civil rights movement in the country was non-violent. he was hit over the head by an alabama policemen. it was a non-violent movement that changed this country for the better and quite frankly served as an inspiration for the rest of the world. with the plight of the matter is non-violence can be used any way you can change the world coming and we are so fixated with military interest to everything that we don't even talk about one of the alternatives. if you don't do this we are going to occupy this. we ought to have more discussion about what are the other peaceful things without telling everybody that we would be able to solve some of these problems and i know there have to be. [applause] >> i want to commend you for your work on honegger that we know impacts the whole world. being here in the district of columbia we are not a state and as you heard a few moments ago we don't of a representative to call. we don't have senators that we can c

, i'm not naive, but, you know, i just came from this civil rights pill garage with congressman john lewis, great civil rights leader, took a group down to alabama, went to tusk loose is a, birmingham, selma, marched over the bridge where 48 years ago john lewis was beaten, almost killed for marching over the bridge, bun one of the things that was so inspirational to me is that that whole movement, that civil rights movemented in the country was nonviolence, you know, john lewis was hit over the head, you know, with a bat by an alabama policemen, but when he was well, he didn't go and hit the policeman. it was a nonviolence movement that changed this country for the better, and, quite frankly, is an inspiration for the rest of the world. their inspiration was ghandi, but nonviolence can be used in a way to change the world, and we are so fix sated with military answers to everything that we don't even talk about where the alternatives, you know, if you don't do this, we're going to bomb you or occupy you and if you don't to -- do this, we're going to do this. there's another part, and we o

hoyer, and i have had the privilege, he more than i, to travel to alabama with john lewis. thank you this morning for informing the members that that was -- that's a transformative experience. anybody who travels there and sees what happened in the lifetime of many of us here, certainly in the lifetime of everyone's parents here in our very own country cannot help but be moved. i'm pleased to join you, congresswoman sewell, thank you, mr. chairman. mr. bachus, and mr. hoyer, and other colleagues in coming to the floor. mr. bishop. mr. speaker, as we are all acknowledging, 50 years ago on a sunday morning, four precious little girls walked into the 16th street baptist church in birmingham, alabama, the same day they did every week. these four little girls were there for sunday school. they were not civil rights activists, they were not agitators or advocates, they had simply come to church to learn, pray, to be with their friends, and classmates. when you visit there you see they didn't really have a chance. there is such close quarters when they went down those steps into t

was it john lewis. one of the ways in which i try to explain to students is rosa parks made martin luther king possible to get martin luther king didn't make rosa parks possible. if she hadn't done what she did by refusing to give free seat on the montgomery bus martin luther king would have been an articulate well meaning but this minister. they have the qualities that they had to rise to the occasion >> they join other civil rights historians of the organization of american historians annual meeting in san francisco and solving the panel the professor takes your questions why and it all starts at nine thanks 30 a.m. on c-span3 urging the approval of the keystone pipeline they will leave with members of congress and environmental groups this week. president obama is expected to decide later this year whether to approve the line which would take oil from alberta to the gulf coast of texas. they spoke of the brookings institution for about an hour. >> we are also delighted the ambassador and the other di

i rise today to associate myself with remarks of the legendary john lewis. mr. larson: i also stand in praise of cathy mcmorris rodgers who yesterday came with all the grace and eloquence about the need to bring the country together in the aftermath of what took place up in boston and to bring comfort to families. yesterday in the other body brought little comfort to families, especially families from newtown, connecticut, who traveled there, who had lobbied and were looking for a commonsense practical answer to a solution that plagues this country. they got a vote. the vote was 54-46, but no fifth grader waking up in america today says, how could ou get a vote of 54-46 and lose? this is the most deliberative body in america, the house of representatives, and we owe the people of this country and whether from newtown or whether from aurora or wherever you are in chicago or across this nation of ours, we come here with a responsibility to vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. larson: thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purp

several weeks ago, the vice president of the united states and john lewis stood at the bridge in selma, alabama, commemorating a horrific event there in the 1960s. at that time the united states senate was controlled by democrats. russell long of louisiana and many others. had they been in the united states senate today, had they operated then the way the united states senate operates today, the civil rights legislation of 1964, the voting rights act of 1965 would not have been passed. 50 plus one is a majority. not 60 votes. >> all right. >> you know, mika, i've got to go back to the beginning of this session. there was a lot of talk about filibuster reform. i was out there talking about the need for filibuster reform. for whatever reason, the democrats didn't push. i remember saying it. the day they made the rules to get rid of the filibuster, make 50 plus one pass, if they had made that decision when they set up the senate, then this bill would have passed. i got to say just really quickly. i know we got to go to break, but mark halpern, kelly ayotte of new hampshire. voting against

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evers, carmichael, john lewis? >> all of the above. all of them had different roles in the movement. one of the ways in which i tried to explain to students is that rosa parks made martin luther king possible. martin luther king did not make rosa parks possible. if she had not done what she did by refusing to give up her seat on that montgomery bus, martin luther king would have simply been an articulate, well- meaning baptist minister. it is because the rosa parks that we are talking about him today. she opened up the possibility for him to display those qualities that he had and to rise to the occasion. >> this weekend, stanford university professor labor and carson joins other civil rights historians at the organization for american historians annual meeting in san francisco. all of the panel, professor carson takes your questions live. it arts saturday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on east and three's "american -- american history tv. "washington journal" continues. host: we are back in two congressman peter welch, democrat from vermont, si

john lewis? >> all of the above. i explained to madents -- rosa part martin luther king possible. made martin luther king possible by refusing to give up her seat on that bus. martin luther king would have been an articulate, well- meaning, baptist minister. ares because of rosa parks are talking about him today. she opened up the possibility for him to display those qualities that he had an to rise to the occasion. >> this weekend, stanford university professor joins organization of american historians meeting in san francisco. following the panel, he takes your questions live. it starts saturday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span 3's "american history tv." wilentla tussia, jacob are therian bosem winners for the c-span's student cam contest. >> what exactly is the deficit? the deficit is in excess of liabilities over assets or expenditures over income. in simpler terms, the amount of money the united states spends that he can't pay for. >> the four components that influence the deficit our budget, a plan for expenditures, savings, how much money our government keeps each year, leade

everies,ng, malcolm x, john lewis. >> all of them had different roles in the movement. one of the ways in which i tried to explain to students is that rosa parks made martin luther king possible. if she hadn't done what she did by refusing to give up her seat martin ontgomery bus, luther king was an articulate minister. because of rosa parks we are talking about him today. she opened up the possibility for him to display those qualities that he had and to rise to the occasion. >> this weekend, stanford university professor joins other civil rights historians at the annual meeting in san francisco and following the panel, professor carsons takes your questions live on c-span3's american history tv. here's a look at our schedules on the c-span networks at 8:00 p.m. here on c-span, president obama releases his 2014 budget request. senators announce a bipartisan deal on expand ping background checks for gun purchases and on c-span3, a hearing on the keystone xl pipeline. they are starting tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the c-span networks. > correspondent with "national jo

he will always be a part of the john lewis family.e was born in atlanta and lived there and attended law school and just then a wonderful staff person, but a wonderfully human being. i wish them the best of luck as we move forward. thank you very much, mr. chairman. >> i too wish them the best of luck. liana whenever the stats come away with risking staff. we wish you the best of luck as well. [applause] >> in there to welcome everybody to the subcommittee on oversight hearing on the internal revenue service's operation budget. last week millions of taxpayers scrambled to meet tax and obligations in april 15. taxpayers have growing complexity. indeed, nearly 5000 changes to the tax code in the last 10 years as a result of the complexity of the tax code, individual taxpayers and businesses spent an estimated 6.1 billion hours in $163 billion every single year complying with tax sign requirements. these burdens onto taxpayers alone. their task of processing tax returns and administering broken taxcode. at the same time come the irs must

i would observe that he and i co-chaired, honorary co-chairs, john lewis the chair, our leader, along with terry sewell and spencer bachus and congresswoman roby, delegation, to march across the ed mupped pet tiss bridge to recognize -- edmund pettus bridge to recognize the voting rights act and the acts that led up to that. the goad medal bill, the majority leader is bringing ngresswoman sewell, y recognizing those four little girls who at the birmingham church lost their lives to what was frightfully referred to i think as a terrorist act, a bomb going off with no specific objective in mind other than to kill people inside that church. the little girls were the closest to that explosion, and lost their lives. as the majority leader pointed out, that event and the events that he occurred in the square just across the street from the church led to this country living out its principles better than it had done to that date. but some lost their lives, these four little girls, and some gave dearly. i thank the majority leader for facilitating that bill coming to the floor. . leader, i no

was it came or malcolm x, the death of medgar evers, was the john lewis? >> olive the above. each of them had different roles in the movement. one of the ways i try to explain to students is that rosa parks made martin luther king possible. martin luther king did not make rosa parks possible. if she had not done what she did by refusing to give up her seat on that montgomery bus, martin anher king would have been articulate, well meaning baptist minister. it is because of rosa parks that we're talking about it today. she opened up the possibility for him to display those qualities that he had, and to rise to the occasion. carson.weekend, prof. following the panel he takes your questions live. it starts saturday at 9:30 a.m. on american history tv. >> president obama's nominee received bipartisan support tuesday at a confirmation hearing. the testimony and other confirmation hearings any time at our website, c-span.org. april 1 this year, 3:42 p.m. that toldan advisory their clients about the medicare decision and they supported related stocks. the consequence of a political i

lewis legion from st. john's episcopal church facing backlash for what some say are politics at the pulpit, attacking christians for their belief. but when fox news's ed henry confronted jay carney about it, this is what he had to say. >> was he surprised? were you surprised that reverend leon decided to get so political and attack leaders at one point saying they want blacks to be back in the back of the bus? sort of odd for easter. >> i wasn't there. i haven't spoken with the president. this was a sermon at a church here that's been visited by presidents of both parties for many, many years. and i think -- you know, i don't have anything more on it for you. >> charles krauthammer is talking about that issue saying he doesn't believe this is a reflection on president obama. >> it was -- it appeared to have no connection intrinsic with him. i don't think he owes him any allegiance. i think what jay carney said is he has every right to stay away from this. i don't think it implicates him at all. what i found incre

what john stamos is to the beach boys, i am to huey lewis and the news. come to that one, too. >> i'm a huge fan. watching them live was so great. >> you worked in a video store, right? >> yeah when i was in, like, high school. >> did you watch, like, back to the future on a loop on the storm? >> i walked at the mall at suncoast video. i thought that would be a really great idea. every time i wept into the video store, they were playing a cool movie. and then went i started working there, i realized they only play one movie the entire summer. that might be bad if it were, you know, a classic. it's a lot of times to see a movie. but unfortunately it was "space jam." >> jimmy: wait, what's wrong with "space jam." it's good. >> there's a couple of things wrong with "space jam." it's not starring an actor. it's a basketball player. but he's almost as good at acting as he is baseball. >> jimmy: i never met anyone who didn't like "space jam" before. >> are you kidding? >> jimmy: did anyone not like "space jam"? all right, one [ bleep ] and he probably came with

lewis. the wanted. john legend. little mix. and emblem 3. and look who is coming back to new york. alicia keys, too? friday mornings, this summer. >> i can't. i won't. i never will get enough of "gma." take it from pitbull. >> it's "good morning america's" summer concert series. >> again, from times square, on the party bus. we'll be working that every friday. >> macklemore, so excited for that. they're going to rock the house. >> you get your carly rae there, sam. >> and we're going to have the double-decker bus, i'm told. take a look. there we were, on our way down to -- i believe that was -- that was with red fu, right? >> yeah. >>> coming up, "game show confidential." the half-minute to win it. >> now from abc7 news. >> good morning, police have made an arrest in the vallejo shoot that nearly ended a little league season. investigators say the 24-year-old was taken into custody in richmond on suspicion of attempted murder. police say he and another attended a t-ball game and they got in an argument and he followed the the man to the parg lot and fired. some bullets hit the man'

birthday of daniel day-lewis jerry seinfeld, and two years ago prince william married kate middleton which is about 70 in hollywood years. this is "viewpoint." [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> johnod evening, i'm john fugelsang. this is "viewpoint." let me ask would it pump up your lifestyle if the c.i.a. agent regularly dropped off a suit case backpack or a shopping bag at your home or office, stuffed with millions of dollars in in untraceable cash. it would? welcome to of a began prophet hamid karzai's world. according to a story in "the new york times" the c.i.a. has been delivering tens of millions in cash to mr. karzai without apparently getting much of anything in the way of influence in return. at the white house press secretary jay carney told reporters if they had questions on the story take them to the c.i.a. >> i have no information on that report. i can tell you that, you know, as we have said many times we and our afghan partners remain committed to our shared strategy and goals of a fully sovereign afghanistan that is not a safe haven for al-qaeda. >> that is like george bush dodging a shoe. but karzai was more open telling the reporters, i quote yes the office of

lewis powell supported capital punishment throughout his tenure on the court. only after he left the court did he say, "i actually think i made a mistake. it doesn't work. justice johnpaul stevens, in his last few days on the court, was saying, "we looked to capital punishment to serve society's interest and deterrence and retribution. it really doesn't either." >> but did you find any justices who were vehemently for the death penal, consistently? >> the most articulate proponent would be justice antonin scalia, who not only favors it as a matter of policy, although he doesn't talk much about that. he's very adamant that there's nothing, the constitution clearly authorizes it and nothing has happened since to suggest it should be impermissible. justice scalia is committed to a view of the constitution that it means what it says, and that it cannot change absent of constitutional amendment. so, what is cruel and unusual punishment? he says if it wasn't cruel or unusual in 1791, when the bill of rights was ratified, than it can't be cruel and unusual today. "now, i'd, so, even if it's unusual today," i asked him, "if it rarely happens today, it still wouldn't qualify