in october down at moore house college and met john lewis at the same time.came from my parents and associates in college and went through to today and here we are, june john lewis and i having spent 22 years in the congress together. >> host: you are the democratic leader in the house of representative, right? >> guest: yes. >> host: what do you were growing up in the jim crowe era? >> guest: in 1955 my high school band was invited to march in the christmas parade. it was the first time there were black units. it was customary in those days for santa clause to be the last unit riding on a fire truck. after santa clause the horses from a local equestrian stable would march. they were the last things because of the droppings they left along the way and their aroma that flowed from those droppings. when he got down there to march in the parade it turned out we were placed in the parade behind the horses. it was very, very difficult and very memorable to try to play that clarinet while side stepping droppings and trying to breathe in and out the way you have to

i think that john lewis always a powerful spokesman.re ones the white house surely is listening to. he said that it reminded him of his days as a civil rights protesters. the national guard saved his life. >> right now i want to -- speaking of those days, jonathan and susan and chris, bear with me because right now we're joined in atlanta from human rights activist martin luther king iii, son of the late civil rights leader dr. martin luther king jr. tell me, dr. king, about what your father would be saying to the people of ferguson, missouri. >> you know, i don't know that anyone can actually speak to what he would say, but we can certainly look at his readings and writings. one of the things that i think that quickly has to be instituted is a process of implementing human relations, sensitivity and diversity training. and it seems to me that the police departments need that all over america. now, of course, my father would want the community to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience. to some degree it looks like some of that has happ

i'm joined now by congressman john lewis, democratic congressman from atlanta, who of course, marched with dr. martin luther king, jr., more than half a century ago and survived this brutal beating by police in birmingham, alabama. congressman, what do you see as the solutions going forward for this terrible situation in ferguson, missouri? >> well, i think it's important for people to come together and begin a dialogue. begin to talk. that's what we did during the '60s, when we had difficult, when we had disorder, black people and white people came together. in a place like ferguson, it is not just ferguson, it may be ferguson today, but tomorrow, it could be some place else. we have to get police officers, locally elected officials to respect the dignity and the worth of every human being, it's a a shame and disgrace in a city, that's almost 70% african-american, to have only three african-american police officers. ferguson, it's not in the american south, but we are doing much better in the small towns and cities in georgia and alabama and mississippi. this is shameful. this is a d

>> well, john lewis, congressman john lewis, a veteran of the civil rights struggles in the 1960's wanted president barack obama to call out the national guard to relieve the ferguson police and the st. louis county please because they had been doing such a miss handled job of doing crowd control and so much mistrust. it is unusual. i'm told by justice department officials they never for one moment considering that to happen or considered that as an option. what they wanted to do here, gwen, is demilitarize the situation, diffuse the situation and focus on the fact that in ferguson, the police force of 50 odd people has two or three african-american officers and that's something that eric holder at the justice department says needs to be a subject of conversation moving forward. >> you used the term demilitarization, we talked about demilitarizing gaza and now an american city. so now let's move to iraq. two significant developments this week. the humanitarian crisis atop mount sinjar has easted aided perhaps by u.s. air strikes. and iraqi p.m. nouri al-maliki saw the political handwritin

listen to civil rights activist and current congressman john lewis who warns discontent could spread.>> maybe ferguson today, but tomorrow it could be some place else. we cannot have peace and order without justice. >> al sharpton, meanwhile, takes direct aim as what he claims to be a rigged system. >> all of my life, i've never seen nothing more despicable than while this mother and this father and their families haven't even had the time to bury their son the police chief would release a tape trying to disparage his name. how can the young folk of the city believe in a system that would try to spit on the name and character of a young man who hasn't been buried. we are not burners, we're builders. >> doesn't look like that from here. >> and finally a black panther-led group was far less subtle, as they said, what they are calling for. >> what's his name? darren wilson. >> what's his name? >> darren wilson. >> what's his name? >> darren wilson. >> who do we want? >> darren wilson. >> how do we want him? >> indicted. >> how do we want him? >> darren wilson. >> how do we want him? >> i

congressman john lewis, rosa parks and many of today's participants and guests. many of you, in this auditorium, as well as countless others, who, in the face of bigotry and violence, called upon our nation to live up to our nation's equality. congressman john lewis, rosa parks and many of today's participants and guests. and many of you, in this auditorium, as well as countless others, who, in the face of bigotry and violence, called upon our nation to live up to our nation's equality. a one with enormous ramifications for our country and the world. the civil rights movement and the ultimate passage of the civil rights act of 1964. ambassador young met the challenges of segregation and discrimination with truly remarkable sacrifices helping to transform america into a better, a stronger and a fairer nation. kyo= depths of depression and gym crow segregation, ambassador young accepted the responseblety of service at a young age. in 1960 after receiving his undergraduate degree right here at howard university, and his divinity degree in hartford, connecticut, he j

i was on the side of cesar chavez but i was on the side of john lewis. was on the side of the chinese railroad workers. i was on the side of wage fairness but i was on the side of expanding opportunity. that's who we are as a nation. and in your position, that's what you're doing day in and day out. keep up the great work, keep the pressure on washington. we can move this nation forward. i come to you with an unrelenting sense of optimism, because you know what? we have tackled more series of challenges before in our nation's history and we defeated them. we moved of this nation forward. we will do it again now because there's a lot of human capital talent in this room and across this country and we -- with your leadership we will indeed continue to build a more perfect union for everyone. thank you so much for having me. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations] senator padilla, thank you so much for that introduction. it's been a pleasure for me to be here with naleo to meet so many people. you know, i had an experience today. alex mentioned i used to wo

. >> that was civil rights icon georgia congressman john lewis.issouri's democratic senator claire mccaskill says the situation must be demilitarized. as more critics against protesters against ferguson, they are calling for a federal civil rights organization, similar to the one opened regarding the shooting of michael brown. joining me is pete williams. what can you tell us about what the justice department actually plans to do? >> well, in fact, senator mccaskill and the attorney general have now talked. he also talked to other members of the congressional delegation. first of all, in terms of the investigation itself, the justice department on monday opened a civil rights investigation that is led by the u.s. attorney out there and the fbi. and normally in situations like this, you see the fbi open these investigations, keep a close eye on what the local police are doing but not be too aggressive on their own at this stage. but this situation in ferguson is different, we're told, that the fbi has already been doing interviews with witnesses. o

teaching people like john lewis, james bev.imit, diane nash, how to not swing back if somebody hits you in the head with a nightstick. >> we actually practiced sitting in. some took the role of students who were sitting at a lunch counter and others took the role of white thugs. we were practicing how to remain non-violent even in the face of violence. >> there had been other sit-ins in those early months of 1960, but no one is centrally organizing or coordinating this like the student group from nashville. >> it was on february the 13th. and we had the very first sit-in in nashville. i took my seat at the counter. i asked the waitress for a hamburger and a coke. >> the students sit down at the lunch counter asking to be served, knowing full well that it's against the law. >> we were prepared to be arrested and go to jail and if necessary, stay in jail. >> it was a moving feeling within me that i was sitting there demanding a god-given right. i could no longer be satisfied or go along with an evil system. >> the big surprise fo

you're right, we just got a statement from congressman john lewis, representative john lewis, a great pioneer on civil rights. he says the death of michael brown is a grave tragedy. the community should not have to bare how many more young men of color will be killed before we realize that we have a problem in america? and senator claire mccaskill just put out a statement saying we need to demilitary rise this situation. it's become the problem instead of the solution. i respect the work to provide public safety, but my constituents are allowed to have a peaceful protest and the police need to respect that right and protect that right. today is going to be a new start. we can and need to do better. the reaction clearly coming in. on iraq, jim sciutto, the president seemed to open up the door to more efforts to deal with the plight. let's not forget the past couple months or so since isis made the big push into iraq, there have been about 600,000 iraqis, where christia christians, shiites, displaced from their homes. some have fled to jordan or turkey. more than a million and a half ir

. >> thursday, congressman john lewis, well-known civil rights leader, appeared on msnbc and comparedthe police response in ferguson to what he experienced during the civil rights movement when he and others were attacked by police during peaceful protests. >> take me back to the 1940's, the 1950's, the 1960's. to have a city that the majority are african-american and only three african-american on the police force? ward have a local police officer referring to the protesters as animals. to have people dressed in military garment and pointing rifles directly at the protesters, that is only going to incite people. so my own feeling is right now, is that president obama should use the authority of his office to declare martial law. federalize the missouri national guard to protect people as they protest. ,nd people should come together reasonable the community leaders, address what is happening. if we fail to act, the discontent will continue to burn -- the fires of discontent will continue to burn not only in missouri, but all across america . >> that was congressmember john lewis. rad

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. >> i'm going to be talking to john lewis marching with dr. king and can reflect back on what happened more than 50 years ago and charles ogletree from harvard the famous law professor who studies this as an issue and will have reports from the scene as well and west lowry the reporter from "the washington post" who got into a confrontation with police. a lot to talk about on "meet the press.." >> ferguson is talking about it, but we want to talk about your round tables. you touch on hillary clinton and criticism of president obama's foreign policy. >> and we have experts on foreign policy, people from congress as well as ann gerring who came back from going around the world for "the washington post" with secretary kerry, so we're going to talk about where hillary clinton is dividing herself from president obama on foreign policy and what are the risks. political risks as well. >> see you talk about it all on "meet the press." >> thank you. >> for sure to be a jam packed show. >> a reminder you can see "meet the press" every sunday here on nbc

a national figure and how black folk like john lewis who had grown up in the south in the christian church really didn't know what to make of malcolm x. sign both of these instances you really see what was always out there, which is that the black community in this country is a diverse one. in both reconstructions the crucial demands were for equality and access and i talked about the fact that i liked the word access better than the word inclusion because to me inclusion has a little bit of a ring of wanting to get into the other fellow's game, whereas access somehow feels more neutral to me. it's about the idea that if there's a society that has institutions that has a government that's supposed to be for the people that everybody ought to have the same access to this. in both reconstructions, and i have to be a little bit careful here -- the first reconstruction, if we talk about that portion of it which is the civil war, the first part of reconstruction, you get a real measure of black political power. up through the end of radical reconstruction, blacks have political power tha

the moment you accept a ride from john lewis, our relationship ends because we need to stop celebrating crucifixion. that is the story of christ. >> preach it. >> it is the resurrection we need to be celebrating. [applause] >> lightning round. i said we would be looking at examples that you could suggest of leaders who are out there, names we could recognize or maybe unknowns that we need to learn. who's doing this right to help us exemplify an america that is not divided, labeled, silenced, paralyzed, neutralized? do you have a name or two of people who are doing it right? black, white, latino? >> the whole latino thing is a great mystery to me. if you want to know who really believes in america, who really thinks that america is the greatest country on the world, it is some of those people who are traveling across central america and snaking through our borders at night. believe ine ones who that statue of liberty. i'm here to tell you if you want to end illegal immigration, it's rocket science -- it's not rocket science. we've done it in the past. it's not about the holding fences. i

and one of those guys was buddy lewis. john k. lewis jr. was best known as the first baseman for the washington senators. when posted overseas to the cbi originally to fly the hump, he had buzzed griffith's field during a game to say good-bye to his teammates. luckily no one thought to get the tail number of plane that zoomed low over center field. in india, he named his transport the old fox for clark griffith, the senator's owner. lewis ended up flying more than 350 admissions over the him la yas and to china. this was a -- really a new thing. nobody had done anything like this before. so the project nine combat team would not be able to call upon existing forces in the region for support, everything from cigarettes to combat aircraft would have to be planned for before they headed out. phil cochran said, we had to figure out what aircraft we wanted, what we wanted them for, how many pilots we needed, how many mechanics we needed and how much ammunition you need. there wasn't any animal like this in the air force. we were inventing a whol

>> john lewis had to change his speech. one he changed, he talks about how we are going to march through the south like sherman, all right? and burn it to the ground. of course, he had to change that obviously. the civil war is everywhere. it's all over the place. >> right. and this is the reason we call the civil rights movement the second reconstruction. jen? >> i think it wasn't like the monuments didn't exist. when i was in d.c., the professor took us on a tour, said it was paid for by free slaves, that had lincoln and the slaves he was freeing. even today it isn't like on -- you know, where you're going to go to look at the monuments and statues. it's on any special tour unless you know it's there. >> there are places to go, but they're dwarfed by the number of monuments that were put up in the throes of reconciliation. austin? >> about arlington national cemetery, the graves of the united states colored troops, who died during the war, and they're on the back end of it. >> we've talked about this before. so if you've

>> john lewis had to change his speech. one he changed, he talks about how we are going to march through the south like sherman, all right? and burn it to the ground. nonviolently. of course, he had to change that obviously. the civil war is everywhere. it's all over the place. >> right. and this is the reason we call the civil rights movement the second reconstruction. so what is -- jen? >> i think it wasn't like the monuments didn't exist. when i was in d.c., the professor took us on a tour, said it was paid for by free slaves, that had lincoln and the slaves he was freeing. even today it isn't like on -- you know, where you're going to go to look at the monuments and statues. it's on any special tour unless you know it's there. >> there are places to go, but they're dwarfed by the number of monuments that were put up in the throes of reconciliation. austin? >> about arlington national cemetery, the graves of the united states colored troops, who died during the war, and they're on the back end of it. >> we've talked abou

momentum of other investors and companies who joined the boycott over the last year last month john lewis which is one of the largest department stores in the u.k. removed all soda stream products from its stores because of growing pressure from the public until announcing that decision one of its london stores had been the site of bi weekly b.d.'s protests around the same time britain's largest trade union unite voted to withdraw from commercial support of the conflict in israel that means putting pressure on the companies involved such as the only out g four s. and sans worries the union has requested its members estimated to be over one point five million to take bolder steps over the next year to do just that additionally earlier this year norway's finance minutes. the bard is eight hundred ten billion dollar government pension the world's largest sovereign wealth fund from investing into israeli companies because of their alleged and volman and constructing settlements in east jerusalem b.d.s. is spreading so quickly in europe that israel's finance minister says a european wide boyco

that's john l. lewis. does anyone know what i'm talking about when john l. lewis punch the carpenter -- head. this was the famous human industrial unions came into power and they wanted to draw how frightening it was. you can see lewis is very tall. it's a wonderful man to draw because he was so big and interesting. this is a display of union power subsequent to the passing of the act. this was a simple page where we apply the sumner idea. and cartoon cartoons you need to give readers breaks. which is different from print books. one more thing, the way his convey narrative. i think what i learned from paul in doing this book is enough to tell the stories one at a time. there's a famous case in the new deal called schecter. schechter poultry, right? the schecter's work chicken butchers in the government came, right in brooklyn. do you know them? we can talk. [laughter] they broke the rules of one of the national recovery administration codes and they were prosecuted and targeted sort of like al capone. the administration was at pains to demonstrate the constit

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that's john l. lewis. does anyone know what i'm talking about when john l. lewis punched the car carpenters' unin head? that was a famous scene when the industrial unions came into power, and we wanted to draw how frightening it was, you know? so this, you can see lewis is very tall. he's a wonderful man to draw because he was so big and interesting. this is sort of a display of union power subsequent to passage of the wagner act. this is a simple page where we replied that sumner idea of who the forgotten man is. i think in cartoons you need to give readers breaks which is different from print books, and i'm just going to show you one more thing. the question of how do you convey narrative, i have narrative all over the place. i think what i learned from paul and in doing this book is you have to tell the stories one at a time. there was a fake case in the new deal -- famous case in the new deal called scheckter. scheckter poultry, right? little chicken butchers, and the -- >> [inaudible] >> right. and -- right. in brooklyn. do you know them? >> [inaudible]

sandra day o'connor and john lewis are among authors there signing their books. also discussions of books made into movies. >>> the national zoo will also open at 10:00 and you can go to a new exhibit there today. look at these guys. kind of cute if that's your thing. they're bison and they are named zora and wilma. students at howard university named them because the bison is the mascot of both schools. and when the zoo first opened, bison was one of the first animals on which ibt. now they are back 125 years later. >> prehistoric creatures and they weigh a ton. but they can race up to 40 miles an hour and they're about six feet long. they can jump vertically six feet in the air. >> wow. they should show that off. >>> great weather to be outdoors today. >> dry today. scattered showers later today and labor day. >> that's going to do it for news4 today. thanks for joining us. >> we'll be back here dark and early at 6:00 a.m. make it a great saturday. >>> the following is a presentation of the redskins broadcast network. >>> preseason is over. only eight days away

a national figure and how black folk like john lewis who had grown up in the south in the christian church really didn't know what to make of malcolm x. sign both of these instances you really see what was always out there, which is that the black community in this country is a diverse one. in both reconstructions the crucial demands were for equality and access and i talked about the fact that i liked the word access better than the word inclusion because to me inclusion has a little bit of a ring of wanting to get into the other fellow's game, whereas access somehow feels more neutral to me. it's about the idea that if there's a society that has institutions that has a government that's supposed to be for the people that everybody ought to have the same access to this. in both reconstructions, and i have to be a little bit careful here -- the first reconstruction, if we talk about that portion of it which is the civil war, the first part of reconstruction, you get a real measure of black political power. up through the end of radical reconstruction, blacks have political power tha

let's listen to john lewis now. honestly, this is a little surprising.t listen. >> president obama should use the authority of his office to declare marshal law. use the national guard to protect people. and people should come together. if we fail to act, frustration and discontent will continue to burn. not only in ferguson, missouri, but all across america. >> bobby, are you surprised that lewis, who knows a thing or two about protests, would go so far as to say president obama should declare marshal law? >> no, in his era of protesting, that's exactly what happened. i think john has not -- i mean, the times have -- there have been two town meetings that have been attacked. people have been waiting on the outside to try to get in. i don't know about the rest of you, i saw no coverage of those town meetings, which were fairly dignified. some people were allowed. but i saw plenty of footage of glass being broken. that's the problem. then you have -- when obama says first amendment rights, first amendment rights are exactly right, but it also includes see

jesse jackson was there, congressman john lewis has been speaking out and others. i wonder if it struck a nerve with a different generation of the civil rights movement as well. >> yes. the pictures, the images that we see from ferguson are reminisce ept of things you see in gaza, from the 1960s civil rights movement. you have men and women walking down the street, and they are being gassed and shot at. you have young men without their shirts on trying to defend stores from looters, and they are not helped by police. this brings up painful memories to the civil rights generation, and is par for the course from many gen xors who have seen violence from people of colour. and particularly over the last couple of weeks. we are seeing incidents of questions about law enforcement. use of force. and whether it is appropriate in different communities. i was speaking about the choke hold situation, and the woman who was video taped in a beating situation with officers in l axe. >> the woman in l.a. we had the gentleman just shot in a wal-mart carrying a plastic gun. in ohio

yeah, georgia representative john lewis says today it's ferguson, tomorrow it's elsewhere.try for these types of events to stop happening. jason, what do you think? >> we need to have a full-scale evaluation of police procedures and police training in this country. what happened in ferguson -- the reason we actually know about this is because of social media. i mean to be perfectly honest, these kinds of abuses happen all the time. people are shot and we end up not finding out about it. there needs to be a discussion at the doj level. how are officers being trained? how can we evaluate that training and also national parties. the republican party and democratic party, i know this may not be as sexy, they need to encourage people to vote. they need to tell people that having a 12% -- >> make this -- >> -- turnout isn't good enough. >> and make this an important conversation. gentlemen, thanks so much. that is a wrap of "weekends with alex witt." keep it here on msnbc for the latest news coming out of ferguson including a rally for justice for michael brown two hours from now

you heard john lewis who led the among march talking about emergence of malcolm x as a figure and john lewis who grew up in the south and christian church didn't know what to make of malcolm x. in both these instances you really see what was always out there, which is the black community in this country is a diverse one. in both reconstructions, the crucial demands were for equality and access. i talked about the fact i like the word access better than the word inclusion, because inclusion has a little bit of a ring of wanting to get into the other fella's game. access feels more neutral to me. it's about the idea if there's a society that has institutions, that has a government that's supposed to be for the people, that everybody ought to have the same access to those. in both reconstructions, and i have to be a little bit careful here, the first reconstruction if we talk about that portion of it, which is the civil war, first part of reconstruction, you get a real measure of black political power. up through end blacks have political power that they never had before. and then again i

congressman john lewis, who endured a police beating when he marched more than 50 years ago says whatguson is a disgrace. >> we have to get police officers, local elected officials to respect the dignity and worth of every human being form it's a shame and disgrace that in a city that's almost 70% african-american to have only three african-american police officers. ferguson, it's not in the american south, but we're doing much better in the small towns and cities in georgia and alabama and mississippi. it's shameful. this is a disgrace. we must teach people the way of peace, the way of love, the way of nonviolence, but we cannot have peace and order without justice. >> i want to bring if re tired u.s. army lieutenant russel honore. you will remember him well. thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. >> good evening. >> what do you make of the congressman's comments? does he have a point? >> well, i think he's talking about some enduring things that are challenges in communities around the country, which speaks to the point of how will we work our way out of this crisis, which s

>> you've already heard that a little bit in terms of john lewis talking about the national guard being federalized and holder is there in part to sort of learn more about the situation and figure it out. he's meeting with two different groups of people. first of all meeting with community leaders to figure out how to calm things down, worker on the rioting part. and he's also meeting separately with the fbi investigation team. he's talking about there have been over 100 interviews already. so in part he's trying to play both of those roles. oversee what is happening in the investigation itself, having a separate autopsy, but also he's trying well after to figure out what can the government do. the doj has a staff called the community relateses servi relat service and they're trying to figure out a way to calm the tensions down. >> are there formal protests planned tonight?a way to calm t. >> are there formal protests planned tonight?way to calm the. >> are there formal protests planned tonight? and into you see where ydo you e presence of federal officials and is that calming tensions

civil rights legends like john lewis, merly williams and joseph laurie. we are not always serious. we laughed with the folks at snl when they confronted us a couple of times. we also have fun ourselves. >> i would like to welcome a very special guest to "politics nation." welcome, rev. >> hello, al. thanks for having me on my show. glad i could join me. >> welcome back to the "politics nation" science lab. folks, do not adjust your television sets. we have taken a trip back in time. dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn a sad loss -- the loss of another bogus gop talking point. >> tonight i'm coming to you live from a quiet room. >> i want to introduce fake governor romney and fake president obama. >> you didn't see him trying to raise taxes left and right like obama. >> that guy is a bigger turkey than the bird on the table. that's coming up. right after i finish my drink. >> hit it guys. ♪ my head is spinning. >> mine, too. i'm seeing double. the man can never agree with himself. but we can. this is a great show, if i do say so myself. >> we wanted in the last three

. >> on msnbc today civil rights icon congressman john lewis said what he's seeing in ferguson remientds him of civil rights struggles of the 1940s, '50s and '60s. he had advice for president obama. >> my own feeling is right now is that president obama should use the authority of his office to declare martial law. federalize the missouri national guard to protect people as they protest. >> msnbc's tremain lee is in ferguson. he covered the protests last night when police fired teargas. >> i have tried to get away from the smoke. i can barely breathe. my nose is burning. my lungs are burning. can't escape it. the further back you go it hangs in the air. it looks like the police have taken over completely at the end of the street. but again, far down the street the clouds of teargas engulfing everything. >> trymaine joins us now from ferguson. also from usa today and perry bacon. trymaine you have been doing incredible reporting. we appreciate it. it's invaluable, especially last night. so the missouri governor holds a prochbs. we played a clip. he said that people in ferguson would notic

mainly they've been african-american, such as governor patrick of massachusetts, such as congressman john lewis civil rights icon who was here a few days ago marching. politicians don't want to get on the wrong side of an issue. and there is a concern that coming out on one side and then all of a sudden all of these details come out, then they look like they were jumping on a bandwagon that was factually incorrect. >> yeah. i thought it was important, jake, you started out by saying, i'm sick and tired and then he goes on with the rest of his statement and it's interesting that he's getting out in the front of this even though all of the facts of the investigation is not finished playing out. jake tapper on the streets of ferguson, missouri, thank you. appreciate that. we'll be back here live from ferguson, missouri. because we're trying to make the school bell. corner booth beats corner office any day. we make the most out of our time... and our money. the chevrolet malibu. the highest ranked midsize car in initial quality. the car for the richest guys on earth. so factors like diet can negati

and that's why people like colin powell and john lewis speak up about these issues. and so we continue to move to make progress be, but we have a lot of unfinished business. we have a lot of unfinished business in the area of economic justice as well. and it starts with the minimum wage. nobody who works a full-time job in this country should have to live in poverty. [applause] and what we see all too frequently are people working hard and falling further behind, people who have to make choices between do i pay the mortgage, do i pay the rent or do i pay for my be daughter's medicine? those are choices that we should never have to make here in america. i applaud the san diego city council. i applaud other local councils who are tackling this issue. thirteen states in the last year have raised the minimum wage. business owners across this country tell me, tom, this is a consumption-deprived economy -- recovery. i need more customers. and the way to get more customers is to put more money in their pockets. that's why we these to raise the minimum wage. and if we want t

john lewis and i have had a lot of discussion son on what we can do to celebrate this. one thing would be to get congress to support the effectiveness of the voting act. >> host: do you remember where you were when lbj signed the civil rights act? >> guest: 10% of the money in the law had to go where 20% of the population or more was under the poverty level for 30 years. we work on thes things every day to address the issue of under and unemployment and to try to reach people who are suffering today because the economy, the recovery hasn't gotten to them the way it should. we are trying to direct those resources and that is one of the ways we are doing it. >> host: catherine in emuclaw, washington. >> guest: i want to thank the gentlemen for their service and their teaching. i am 70 years old, white woman who remembers very well freedom summer, emit till and all remember all of that. and i don't want to see it happen again. i have been so angry at what happened in ferguson, trayvon martin, the two killings in new york by police man. i just want to see it stop. this coun