congressman john lewis. (cheers and applause) senator john lewis!heers and applause) >> jon: thank you for being here. >> i'm happy to be here. >> jon: we're -- >> delighted to be here. >> jon: couldn't be more honored, sir. i want to talk to you just to get a context of this. because i think we have a tennessee, even in the images, you see them they are black and white. they tend to feel like history, that they are not recent history for americans. when did you begin your journey into the civil rights movement. >> i grew up in rural alabama 50 miles from montgomery outside of a little place called troy. and i was only about 7 or 8 years old. we would go downtown to the theater. and all of us black children had to go upstairs to the balcony. and all of the little white children went downstairs to the first floor. bless my mother my am father, grandparents when i asked y they said that's the way it is. don't get in their way. don't get in trouble. i saw the sign at the water fountain, white and coloured. but in 1955 15 years old i heard of rosa parks

this is john lewis' life.is body that was on the line and this was him defying martin luther king jr. in a lot of ways. this was him asserting himself in his own terms as a civil rights leader. as a very, very young man and being incredibly brave. i think people forget the risk, the incredible physical risk that he was taking to come into the heart of the south and not just the police officers, but volunteers who were volunteering to brutalize people. this for john lewis is not just a moment to sort of look back at history. this is his own personal story. i think that every time he talks about it you hear that little choke in his voice. melissa, you can agree, this is personal to him. i think when you talk to him, too, you get the sense that it's not history. he sees us as a continuum and that the movement really continues for him. >> i think it's part of what is helpful to remember because we see these old black and white images. that was back then. but when you're standing there talking to congressman lewis,

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i present to you the civil rights icon john lewis. john lewis: thank uyou, my dear.hank uyou, my sterbgs -- sister, my colleague, for those kind words of introduction. my beloved brothers and sisters members of the american family on this day, we as a nation have a great deal to be thankful for. jimmy lee jackson, jimmy lee jackson, whose death inspired the selma march along with so many others did not make it to see this day. but you and i are here. we can bear witness to the distance we have come and progress we have made in 50 years and we must use this moment to recommit ourselves to do all we can to finish the work that still is left to be done. get out there and push and pull until we redeem the soul of america america. now i want to thank president barack obama and mrs. obama, president bush press george bush and mrs. bush for being here today. i want to thank all the members of the cabinet and the administration who are here my colleagues in the congress, all the elected officials including the great give robert bentley and including the phaeurmayor of selma

and john lewis is one of my heroes. now, i have to imagine that when a younger john lewis woke up that morning 50 years ago and made his way to brown chapel heroics were not on his mind. a day like this was not on his mind. young folks with bed rolls and backpacks were milling about. veterans of the movement trained newcomers in the tactics of nonviolen nonviolence, the right way to protect yourself when attacked. a doctor described what tear gas does to the body. while marchers scribbled down instructions for contacting their loved ones. the air was thick with doubt, anticipation and fear. and they comforted themselves with the final verse of the final hymn they sung. no matter what may be the test, god will take care of you. god will take care of you. and then his nap sack stocked with an apple, a toothbrush and a book on government, all you need for a night behind bars, john lewis led them out of the church on a mission to change america. president and mrs. bush, governor bentley, mayor evans, congre congre congressw

and john lewis. one notabley absent was diane nash. explained why. >> the march, the photographers i was all set to much. they had me on the front line. and then george bush came out and got in the march, and i left. [cheers and applause] i determine that i was not marching anywhere with george bush. the selma movement stands for nonviolence and peace and democracy and fairness and voting rights, and george bush stands for just the opposite. he stands for violence and war and stolen elections. and, for goodness sake, his administration had people tortured. i think this occasion was not appropriate for him to be here. i think for him to appear to be leading people involved in the nonviolent movement in this country for a photograph to go across the world would make it look as though we have sold out. i think that is an insult to people whose lives were taken. reverend reed, jimmy lee jackson . it is an insult to me, and i think it is an insult to everybody who really does believe in nonviolence. that being said, i want to mention just a

he invited john lewis one of the victims of violence on the edmund pettus bridge, lewis moved from alabamaa and was elected to congress. >> i said governor why did you give the order for people to beat us? he said we had to stop you. on the bridge. because there were people waiting to cel kill you on the other side. i said governor do you kill people to keep other people from killing them? he didn't have an answer. i'm not really convinced that governor wallace ever really believed all of the stuff that he was saying. i think he used the issue of race to get ahead. >> wallace also met with the two students he had once blocked from entering the university of alabama. jameshood and vivian malone. >> did your sister ever share with you being frightened ? >> you know, this is something that continues to amaze me. because of all the emotion she had, i think fear was not one. i think that she never gave into that fear. she and my parents were people of great faith. and they felt that they were doing the right thing and that, you know all would be taken care of. >> wallace died in 1998. it took a

lewis? do i dare call him john?is a civil rights icon and a little black girl from selma stands in his shadow. it is because of you john, that so many of us get to walk the halls of congress.john get to sit in the oval office.e foot it is because of you, john and your bravery and the bravery of those foot soldiers.hat it is because of your bravery and the bravery of those foot soldiers that i get to be lause] alabama's first african-american congresswoman.nough. to say thank you is not enough. let me just say, we know that we have unfinished business to do, john, and i promise we know icon there's much work to do. i present to you the civil rights icon, john lewis. thank uyou, my dear. thank uyou, >> thank you, my dear. thank you, my sister, my colleague, for those kind words of introduction. my beloved brothers and sisters. members of america's family on the stage. jacks we as a nation have a great deal to be thankful for. jimmy lee jackson. jimmy lee jackson. whose death inspired the selma march along with so many

john lewis will be introducing him. yesterday, debbie wasserman schultz tweeted out a picture of herself and congressman lewis along with andrew goodman of the andrew goodman foundation gi. again, eight week from debbie wasserman schultz -- a tweet. coming up in 10 minutes, we expect to start hearing some of the speaking program in selma. we will bring that live. in the meantime, we would like to get your comments. you can join us at 202-748-8900. if you live in the pacific time zone 202748 8901. patricia, you are on the air. caller: i signed a petition recently online for a change name -- this bridge was originally named after the alabama grand dragon of the kkk. this name change would help heal psychological wounds from injustices met on this bridge. thank you very much. host: thanks for the call. rodney in california. go ahead. caller: hello? host: you are on the air. caller: good morning. i was curious, the great divide we still have been this nation with the police departments's misconduct etc., everyone seems to be

i had never met john lewis, but i knew his voice and there he was on the phone, the real john lewis.meetings with the president, and many more famous washington power players, but this this was something else entirely. this was one of the great heroes of the civil rights movement. one of the country's greatest living heroes. and on that day, in that moment he needed a favor. he was trying to get something done for his district in georgia and he needed help with getting it through the senate. now, i was ready to do whatever he asked for before he said a word. the bridge he was beaten for trying to cross, the bridge that he eventually successfully crossed with martin luther king jr., was named and is still named the edmond pettis bridge. edmond pettis was born in 1821 into a wealthy slave owning family. he became a decorated confederate general in the civil war and then became the grand dragon of the alabama klu klux klan. university of alabama history professor john gigi says -- >> if edmond pettis had still been alive and in command of the alabama state police that day in 1965, john

they saw what john lewis had done.s of tunis to the ukraine, young people can draw strength from this place. where powerless could change the greatest power and push their leaders to expand the boundaries of freedom. they saw that idea made real right here in selma, alabama. they saw that idea manifest itself here in america. because of campaigns like this the voting rights act was passed. political and economic and social barriers came down and the change these men and women wrought is visible here today in the presence of african-americans who run boardrooms, who sit on the bench, who serve in elected office from small towns to big cities, from the congressional black caucus all the way to the oval office. because of what they did. the doors of opportunity swung open not just for black folks but for every american.h those doors, latinos marched through those doors, asian americans gay americans, americans with disabilities they all came through those doors. their endeavors gave the entire south the chance to rise aga

[applause] john lewis: thank you. thank the group for bringing us together one more time and the core leaders of our delegation senator tim scott senator sherry brown, and the representatives. thank you so much. it sis good to mrs. boynton of course our first contact when we came to sell ma in 1962. she was registering people to vote long before we arrived. i'm also glad it see the daughter of governor george wallace here peggy wallace kennedy. thank you for being here, peggy. i want to thank each and every one of you who marched across the bridge on bloody sunday. you didn't have to do it but you did it. thank you! i will tell you it is good to be in selma one more time just one more time. people often ask me why do you come back? what purpose does it serve? we come to sell ma to be renew renewed. we come to be inspired. we come to be reminded that we must do the worbgk that we are called to do. on march 7, 1965 a few innocent children of god, some carrying small things, a plain purse or a backpack were inspired to w

john lewis is one of my heros. now, i have to imagine that when a younger john lewis woke up that morning 50 years ago and made his way to brown chapel heroics were not on his mind. a day like this was not on his mind. young folks with bed rolls and backpacks were milling about. veterans of the movement trained newcomer in the tactics of nonviolence. the right way to protect yourself when attacked. a doctor described what tear gas does to the body. while marchers scribbled down instructions for contacting their loved ones. the air was thick with doubt, anticipation and fear. and they comforted themselves with the final verse of the final hymn they sung. no matter what made be the test god will take care of you. lean weary one upon his breast god will take care of you. and then knapsack stocked with an apple a toothbrush and a book on government all you need for a night behind bars. john lewis led them out of the church on a mission to change america. president and mrs. bush governor bentley, mayor evans, congresswo

host: john lewis of georgia. also in attendance, former first lady laura bush and former president george w. bush. we will have live coverage of the ceremony at the baptist church in selma, alabama. among the speakers, andrew young , former mayor of atlanta, and martin luther king iii. mark from henderson. should john boehner remain as speaker? caller: i think john boehner and mitch mcconnell should both go. you have been asking the question about who should replace john boehner as speaker of the house. why don't we take a look at mr. louis goldman? that gentleman stood up and said a lot of great things. as far as mitch mcconnell, i think ted cruz would be a real good candidate for it. as far as speaker of the house. i got tired of hearing john boehner talk about how he is one third, two thirds of the representatives. now he is two thirds, the president one third. the reason why, going behind doors with nancy pelosi. after netanyahu spoke, they go behind closed doors. they waited when everybody was not looking. t

i present to you the civil rights icon john lewis. john lewis: thank uyou, my dear. thank uyou, my sterbgs -- sister, my colleague, for those kind words of introduction. my beloved brothers and sisters members of the american family on this day, we as a nation have a great deal to be thankful for. jimmy lee jackson, jimmy lee jackson, whose death inspired the selma march along with so many others did not make it to see this day. but you and i are here. we can bear witness to the distance we have come and progress we have made in 50 years and we must use this moment to recommit ourselves to do all we can to finish the work that still is left to be done. get out there and push and pull until we redeem the soul of america america. now i want to thank president barack obama and mrs. obama, president bush press george bush and mrs. bush for being here today. i want to thank all the members of the cabinet and the administration who are here my colleagues in the congress, all the elected officials including the great give robert bentley and including the phaeurmayor of selm

he invited past opponents to his home and office, including john lewis, one of the victims of police violence on the edmund pettus bridge. lewis moved to alabama and was elected to congress. >> i said, governor, why did you give the order for people to beat us? he said, we had to stop you on the bridge because there were people waiting to kill you. i said, governor, do you kill people to keep other people from killing? he didn't have an answer. i'm not really convinceed that governor wallace ever really believed all of the stuff that he was saying. i think he used the issue of race to get ahead. >> wallace also met with the two students he had once blocked from entering the universe of alabama james hood and vivian malone. >> did your sister ever share with you being frightened? >> you know what, this is something that continues to emaze me. because of all the emotions she had, fear was not one. i think she never gave in to that fear. she and my parents were people of great faith. and they felt that they were doing the right thing, and that, you know, all would be taken care of. >> a

there's one terrifying photo of a trooper bringing down a club on john lewis's head.at day so for this he's a folk hero not just in the movement and selma but across the country for so many people and not just a man like john lewis who everyone knows and loves and applauds for his efforts. there were so many people whose names we simply don't know. or you don't know outside of this community. and there are moments where there's a gentleman named reverend f.d. reese who actually wrote the original letter inviting dr. martin luther king to selma to join in their fight for voting rights. i saw him coming and the crowd kind of parted to let him through. now many people outside of selma do not know who f.d. reese is but to see this crowd respond with the level of respect that they did adds to the level of amazement to stand back. >> take us to sell marx alabama, as we're watching this live pictures of people crossing the edmund pettus bridge. smell, alabama 50 years ago, selma, alabama, today. what's different? >> when you look at the city leadership from the mayor, the po

congressman john lewis sits down with al jazeera's john significant about his life-long fight for civill jazeera special report "race in america: selma." >> here is look at our top stories at this hour. marking 50 years since bloody sunday. that day in 1965 was when peaceful civil rights protesters were attacked. some survivors of that day in today's crowd and heard the president's speech in which he said that racial history cast it's long shadow upon us. more than 50 people are dead. the bombings caused another 140 injuries. it comes a day when boko haram aregioned pledge. >>> now back to our top story the 50th anniversary of selma. one of the leaders of that march on bloody sunday 50 years ago was john lewis now an u.s. congressman, who has been serving on capitol hill for three decades. he's also the only surviving speaker from that march in washington where dr. martin luther king gave his "ii have a a dream speech." >> i was arrested, 40 times in the 60s and five more times since i was in congress. beatbeaten left bloody, unconscious. there is a picture of you in this office where y

, congressman john lewis, is here. my conversations with another civil rights foot soldier, reverend andrew young. you're going to hear the extraordinary sentiment from the daughter of the man who was mayor at the time of bloody sunday the mayor joe smitherman. i had a sit down conversation with his daughter diane, mayor smitherman held office here for 36 years and is -- and she will defend his history so they're at an extraordinary emotional journey you will hear from so many throughout the afternoon. a lot of breaking news. my colleague suzanne malveaux in washington. take it from here. >> all right. great to see you. going to be an incredible afternoon. we also have other news here the daughter of slands russian opposition boris nemtsov says officials haven't shared any details about the arrests in his death. we're talking about ana nemtsov. everything about the two men taken into custody today comes from media reports, more than a week after attackers gunned nemtsov down just yards from the kremlin. cnn's matthew c

john lewis will be introducing him. yesterday, debbie wasserman schultz tweeted out a picture of herself and congressman lewis along with andrew goodman of the andrew goodman foundation gi. again, eight week from debbie wasserman schultz -- a tweet. coming up in 10 minutes, we expect to start hearing some of the speaking program in selma. we will bring that live. in the meantime, we would like to get your comments. you can join us at 202-748-8900. if you live in the pacific time zone 202748 8901. patricia, you are on the air. caller: i signed a petition recently online for a change name -- this bridge was originally named after the alabama grand dragon of the kkk. this name change would help heal psychological wounds from injustices met on this bridge. thank you very much. host: thanks for the call. rodney in california. go ahead. caller: hello? host: you are on the air. caller: good morning. i was curious, the great divide we still have been this nation with the police departments's misconduct etc., everyone seems to be

tony when we think about the heros of those marches, of course john lewis, and martin luther king, buthere were way more heros involved that a lot of people frankly just don't know. >> well i -- i will tell you, we're talking to some of those people this weekend to be sure. but when we're talking about 1965, important to remember here michael, by the time we get to march 7, 1965, snik the student and non-violent coordinating committee had been on the ground here for more than a year trying to register african americans to vote. 80% of the population in dallas county was african american but less than 3% were registered to note. so snik was frustrated so they turned to the southern christian leadership conference, and dr. martin luther king, jr. for help. in early february 1965, the reverend martin luther king, jr. and his conference took to the streets. a move that landed him in jail for parading without a permit. >> thanks went fairly well as well as you can expect in jail. i think as a result of being there, a result of the created witness of hundreds and even thousands of negroes in

in 1965 john lewis was the chairman. of the most brutal attacks by the alabama state troopers. the arc i havehival photo of what he endured, he remains a violent, passionate, effective advocate for equality and yesterday i had a chance to speak with congressman lewis. >> people tried to keep us from voting, keep us from registering, so we felt it must be important, it must be powerful. and i think we all concluded that to vote is precious. almost sacred. it is the most powerful nonviolent instrument or tool we have in our democratic society. and we wanted to use it. we wanted to be able to have some say, some control over our own destiny. >> sometimes when we talk about courage, we talk about courage as though there is no fear. as you, as the other protesters as you marched in that orderly, nonviolent fashion across that bridge and faced those police officers, were you afraid? >> i was not afraid. growing up i saw the signs, i didn't like the signs. i was inspired by rosa parks. i lost all sense of fear. on that day and d

speaker, the opportunity to walk in the footsteps of john lewis with john lewis is an unforget rble experience that is true -- unforgettable experience that is truly transformative. the bipartisan participation by republicans and democrats alike was truly something to behold. especially given the hyperpartisanship of washington. it was something to see us gathered together in selma, alabama, to honor the sacrifices of the foot soldiers who dared to fight for voter equality 50 years ago. i tried not to have any expectation from this bipartisan showing. but i must admit my hope was that all of us would be motivated by the experience of traveling with john lewis in his footsteps with him to honestly look at modern-day threats to voting rights today. now that the spotlight is no longer on selma, we must move beyond the bridge and see that there is still a have been legitimatized in state legislatures across this country. photo i.d. laws and efforts to get rid of early voting, weekend voting are modern efforts that have had profound effects on restricting access to voting. any effort that restricts

john lewis was the man in the white trench coat. but it's not a movie for lewis.'s a memory that still burns half a century later. >> i'm trying to protect my head. i really thought i was going to die there. >> when did you realize that bloody sunday was a tu point? >> the american people saw what happened. they couldn't take it. that was a sense of righteous indignation in america. >> reporter: on march 15 president lyndon johnson addressed a joint session of congress and introduced the voting rights act. >> and we shall overcome. >> reporter: lewis was watching on tv along with martin luther king. >> i looked at dr. king. tears came down his face and he said we will make it from selma to montgomery and the voting rights act would be passed. >> reporter: john lewis grew up in rural alabama, went to segregated schools and saw the signs for whites and colors. then he brings up something that happened to the kids in his family when he was 16. >> trying to get library cards, attempting to check out somic boo ssomic -- some books and were told it was for whites only.

there is a lot of opportunity for progress, john lewis spoke about what that looks like going forward, he specifically said education is the key. education is the key. he said it several times yesterday. i wanted to say it twice because my opportunity agenda focuses on the foundation of the american dream and starts with education. you can have a fantastic life here in america in the south, in the north and west and east if you focus your attention on outcomes driven by expectations. >> schieffer: let me ask you this congressman, do you think the justice department ought to dismantle the police department in ferguson as some are suggesting? >> you know, i looked at some of the information, i will tell you that the challenges faced by ferguson police departments goes very, very deep. we have to pay close attention to what happens next. i'm not sure what is going to happen next. i don't think i don't think the justice department knows what is going to happen next. a thorough investigation is important and necessary. >> schieffer: let me just close, senator by saying i called you congres

and appeal to them they went around john lewis, talking and taking pictures with john lewis, talking about what an inspiration he is. they have to understand that they can do today -- >> i think we have to put the pressure on from our various folks. let me go to something else that really stuck out like a sore tlum thumb to me all weekend in selma, joan. that is loretta lynch. i brought this up yesterday. i preached at the brown chapel. she was there. and they haven't confirmed her. attorney general holder spoke this weekend about the progress we've seen with an african-american woman about to serve as our attorney general. but i want to play something else he said. watch this. >> this is a cause for great optimism and it's a sign of tremendous progress. but progress is not the ultimate goal. equality is still the prize. still even now, it is clear that we have more work to do that our beloved community has not yet withinbeen formed and our society is not yet at a just peace. >> 121 days joan. >> yeah. >> nowhere have we seen this long amount of time this length of time, in modern am

and with john lewis they marched to buy two and quiet -- and hosea williams, they marched two by two carried the commitment to nonviolence in resistance to injustice in their hearts minds, and spirits. they were beaten. they were turned back, but only for a time. soon, they were marching onto freedom land, the land where the burden of race so let -- so heavy to carry my delay down. they marched all the way to montgomery. they marched toward a land of new political possibilities. from a deep swell of faith, they confronted adversaries to compassion. they with their lives in acts of courage. they awakened the conscience of a nation. we the faith in politics institute seeks to cultivate conscience and courage stability and compassion -- civility and compassion in public life. for 17 years, we have returned with congressman john lewis to the sacred story of the civil rights movement for guidance and inspiration. and we are grateful and honored to be here in selma today. and i'm especially pleased to be on this platform with the daughter of wholesale williams, who carries on -- of hosea w

the second part is john lewis. john lewis is an example of black people's democratic in equity.e's been there for 30 years. someone else needs to come in and take that job. host: william from washington dc. by the way, if you get through turn the volume down, it will eliminate the echo. show you some photos from bloody sunday, also some film. by the way, we will have live coverage today i was ceremony taking place in selma, alabama getting underway at 11:45 a.m. the program will re-air at 8:00 eastern time. of course, all of our coverage available anytime at c-span.org. brian from salt lake city, utah. independent line. caller: good morning. i sort of want to go back to 2004. there was this great man who came out and spoke at the democratic convention. i thought, this is a great guy i should vote for him. then, i started learning where he came from. frank marshall davis. his grandfather wanted -- this guy was on the communist list. he went to school in indonesia studying the koran, then he goes to that damn reverend in chicago. he went to that church for 17 years. he just reache

john lewis stopped and said he wanted to speak. he started explaining what had happened at that point where jose williams and he were beat. miss boykins said, let me speak. from her wheelchair, she talked about how she had been registering voters, and she talked about how she was beat that day. she said, i was registering them because i felt if we could vote, we could deal with poverty and deal with the killing of our people and deal with what was going on wrong and unfair. it sounds real simple, but what struck me was that we are, in many ways, caught up in what we are getting out of the journey than what the journey was for. go right back to joshua was story. -- joshua's story. when the children of israel were coming out of egypt and god opened up the red sea, and they marched across into the wilderness, they forgot the reason for the journey and started worshiping the wrong god. the reality is, in this celebration, some of us have been lost in the wilderness. some of us thought that john lewis and hosea williams got beat for you

john lewis. freedom fighters as a native of troy, alabama just 50 miles from here, i am happy to be able to stand here and share this great moment in history. with men like martin luther king and other great men in this great march and struggle for freedom. this is the greatest and perhaps most significant demonstration in the history of the civil rights movement. just a few weeks ago governor wallace said there would be no march. he used our troops to be dust down on march 7. -- beat us down on march 7. you headacyou said you had a constitutional right to march and you did march. the president of the united states made it clear to the american people and also made it crystal clear to the governor that the state of alabama is still a part of the union. we the negro people of alabama have been denied, and dehumanized by the vicious system of racial segregation and discrimination. thousands of you have gone to jail over and over again in marion and selma. today, you stand here as a living witness t

he marched that day alongside congressman john lewis from georgia, but also alongside then senator hillary clinton. she was also vying for the democratic presidential nomination. that march, that day in selma was actually their first side-by-side appearance in that campaign. and now this past weekend, president obama returned to selma for the first time since that 2007 march. he was there for the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday, and this time he stood on the edmund pettus bridge as the first african-american president. >> the americans who crossed this bridge, they were not physically imposing. but they gave courage to millions. they held no elected office but they led a nation. they marched as americans who had endured hundreds of years of brutal violence, countless daily indignities, but they didn't seek special treatment, just the equal treatment promised to them almost a century before. what they did here will reverberate through the ages, not because the change they want was preordained, not because their victory was complete, but because they proved that nonviolent change is possib

the memories of those bad old days and the legacy of all they fought for lives on in folks like john lewishrough politics in america butters who remain committed in other ways through ministry or community groups or trying to educate young people on politics and their own rights so john luis with is a great example of the beacon that so many of these folks that were in this community. >> what we're looking at right now, trymaine and everybody at home. these are pictures from a few minutes ago of president obama and a group of dignitaries crossing the edmund pettus bridge just a few mince ago the president give a rousing and passionate speech on this 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. tell us a very interesting fact you brought up earlier, trymaine, which was the significance of where they were standing on the bridge. >> it was kind of -- it gives you pause a little bit when you think about what happened on that bridge when state troopers brutalized and brutally beat so many marchers, hundreds of them, men and women, young and old alike. so where the president was standing with other true c

beside him to the left is john lewis, and to his left that is the lovely dr. sharon malone a close friend of the family. it was a collard greens and cruelties and ham sandwich until days end upon end, it was not what people might think. >> it was, again, the masses and it was their movement and it was their circumstance that they were driving, and as the president pointed out, courageously to make better. >> camaraderie. he had a few religious. the president had a few religious touches from hymns to isaiah. >>> american instinct that led these young men and women to pick up the torch and cross this bridge, that's the same instinct that chose patriots to choose revolution over tierny the same that may drew immigrants across occasions and the rio grand and women to reach for the ballots, workers to organize against an injust status yeah. the same instinct that led us to plant a flag at iwo jima and on the surface of the moon. >> that was president barack obama a short while ago speaking at the foot of the edmund pettus bridge. you see the motor kade assembled th

so john lewis and others, james foreman, in spite of the fact that the movie "selma" seemed to think that james foreman really didn't want to do the march, he wanted to do the march. he just didn't want to be overlooked for all the efforts they had put into selma. things were taking place for a long time before bloody sunday. they were working, laying the foundation to try to get the right to vote. after that march, the voting rights act was passed, and signed into law, i believe it was august 6th. so come august 6th of this year, will be the 50th anniversary, and i've been working with john lewis, trying to do what we can with congressman sensenbrenner and congressman john conyers. we are trying to fix what the supreme court seems to have dismantled with that 1965 voting rights act. i'm hopeful that when we leave that bridge on sunday and go back to washington in a week that all the 98 congress people who are there will all sign on to mr. sensenbrenner's amendments, so that we can restore what the roberts court has done to that 1965 voting rights act. >> what do you make of these re

you mentioned congressman john lewis, an icon of the civil rights movement. he's very supportive of this bill. so i believe if it gets a fair consideration, it will sail through just like in 2006 when i voted for that reauthorization, as well. i was proud to support it. again, this voting rights act is the most significant piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in american history. >> but let me ask you this way in terms of where resistance might be coming from. i don't imagine we would hear it it publicly. in politics it's true on basically any issue in politics. politicians often think about their own political self-interests. are there republicans you think who look at this and say president obama got something like 97%, 98% of the black vote, democrats routinely get 90%-plus of the black vote. in the last 50 years, since 1965 there hasn't been a single republican presidential candidate who's gotten more than 20% support among black voters. is there a self-interest politically here for republicans where they look at this and say there is simply noth

john lewis is a living american hero. when you hear him describe exactly every second of what happened that day, it is something -- it was mesmerizing. >>> we want to talk about hillary clinton, also. >> politics also seeps in. we got to get in here it's washington. >> she had a speech last night. the former secretary of state did not mention the e-mail controversy. aside from the tweet we haven't really heard from her. at this point are the democrats starting to show any signs that they're sweating over this? we know donors already are. some saying she's waited too long to address this. >> you'll hear from senator dianne feinstein, somebody very supportive of the clintons over the years, very supportive of hillary clinton. you'll get a sense of a tiny bit of frustration, like why is she having to defend secretary clinton? why isn't secretary clinton defending secretary clinton? president obama speaking out about it was very careful not to defend what she did, simply saying i'm glad she's going to disclose. there is hand

some would like the bridge to be changed to the john lewis bridge.old name of the bridge is poignant. >> a lot of history there. >> a lot of history. >>> growing outrage in madison, wisconsin after the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager by a police officer. the shooting of 19-year-old tony robinson caused protests. the madison police officer involved in the shooting has been identified as 45-year-old matt kenny. he has been placed on administrative leave while the investigation goes forward. >>> a protes rally will be held this morning on the university of oklahoma campus after this video surfaced showing fraternity members engaged in a vile racist chant. the oklahoma chapter of sigma alpha epsilon has been shutdown after the video showing members shouting slurs. the national chapter leadership is disgusted. the university is investigating. >> this story is just beginning. >> it is really gross. >>> a collective sigh from millions of people now enjoying a break from the winter temperatures. is more of the same on the way? let's get to meteorologis

do you feel more connected to it, more part of it, spend, time with guys like john lewis and reenactingnow, i knew about the history, but being able to be an actor in it and now with so much education on it and get to meet john lewis and ambassador andrew young and diane nash, and some names that were unknown but we got to meet the people. it was like wow, we are connected to the movie. i felt like "selma" the film is an extension of what they created during that time period. that film is educating younger people of what happened people that didn't know. and it's also raising the conversation of where we are right now. and, obviously, all these situation happening in america is raising the conversation. >> jon: you mean that racism is over. >> year it's over. yeah. >> jon: yeah. >> is that what it is? ( laughter ) that's what we call it. >> jon: what it is, we just happened to catch the last-- the last one of it on an iphone. that's all. just-- >> that's the last-- that's the end of it. credits go right there. >> jon: the young boys went o the bus went you know what, racism is over. but

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