john lewis barkley was in the third division of the american expeditionary forces. on october 8, 1918, he was acting as a forward observer and he realized there was a german regimen going around him if he did not reveal himself and he came up with a plan to protect his regiment. he climbed inside an abandoned french tank, took a german machine gun that was laying about, and he knew how to repair it, and he let the germans go by him. in the ensuing battle, he killed at least 200, maybe 240 germans and saved his regiment from being attacked from the rear. when he left the tank, he only had a couple of burns on his uniform and when they went back after the battle, they looked at the tank to assess what he had done, they found over 4000 expended cartridges in the tank. for his action on that day, thinking of no one but his own men, he was awarded the medal of honor. after the war, he became a celebrity. he was in new york with the publication of a book he wrote about his time in world war i. it was called "no hard feelings." he was approached by a very famous artist. ho

john lewis is the one who affirms that. speak up, speak out, and participate in the democratic process. decades before his service on fighting for equal rights. this year congressman lewis wrote a letter to his younger self. he reflects on his journey and his push to bring people together in our ongoing series "note to self." >> young john lewis, you're so full of passion. in your lifetime you will be arrested 45 times, and your mission, to have redeemed the soul of america. in 1956 when you were only 16 years old, you and some of your brothers and sisters and first cousins went down to the public library trying to get library cards, trying to check out some books. and you were told by the librarian that the library is coloreds. i say to you now when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to continue to speak up, to speak out. >> i can no longer go along with an evil system. >> you became inspired by martin luther king and rosa parks. something touched you and suggested that you

it has an introduction by john lewis.t has a piece written by baldwin's sister and has about 120 of my civil rights photographs from 1963 through 1968. >> tell me specifically -- we can talk about your civil rights work for hours. tell me about hanging out with james baldwin. >> james baldwin was amazing. in 1962 i read the new yorker piece he wrote which became part of fire next time. i asked if i could do a photo essay with him. through the month of january '63 we travelled from harlem, mississippi, new orleans. it was an adventure for me being a new yorker who had no experience with the south it was amazing. i was just amazed by his intellect. i was amazed by his love. there is a picture in which he is holding an abandoned child. just the feelings he had for people were so strong and just his ability to talk with leaders and the importance he had behind the scenes was really important in terms of the whole movement. >> because it is my show i get a chance to show you pictures and highlights. we will identify about six

john lewis started hearing about it. so it really did come from the grassroots. host: and that's a moment in time that sort of translates into where we are now. so when i'm talking about expanding the base in the climate movement we know there is still a lack of diversity in the leadership and in many of our organizations that are focused on that space. al gore: that's right. host: and if we're going to win then that means we have to be inclusive. al gore: absolutely. host: and we have to make sure that innovation is in that space. can you talk about the need in that space and talk about the climate reality project and the trainings that you've been doing and how or addressing that issue. al gore: the climate reality project holds regular training programs to -- over a three-day period to give people from the grassroots the skills and training they need to effectively persuade their elected officials, and many of the ones that go through the training go on to do other things, too. starting renewable energy businesses, becoming elected officials, the woman who ran

john lewis started hearing about it. it really did come from the grassroots. now was a moment in time that translates to where we are now. when i'm talking about expanding the base in the climate will and, we know there is still a lack of diversity in the leadership and many of our organizations. if we are going to win, that means we have to be conclusive and we have to make sure those ideas and innovation are in that space. can you talk about the need in that space and the climate reality project and the trainings you have been doing and how you are addressing that issue? mr. gore: the climate reality project holds a regular training program to give people from the grassroots these skills and training they need to effectively persuade their elected officials and many of the ones that go through the training go on to do other things, too. starting renewable energy is this is. he coming elected officials. the woman who ran the paris conference was a graduate of this training program back in 2007. to build a cadre of experts at the grassroots level. the next tra

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and, you know, what a thrill for me to be able to introduce my children to john lewis, explain to theme texted me and saying, they did in fact text all the students and said, don't talk about this on social media, but come out. we're now back to putting our bodies on the line. that's what heather heyer did. she put her body on the line in front of a white supremacist and gave her life for the values that we all hold as americans. and i have to say, it's humbling to see the heyer family at that service and the sacrifice they've laid on the altar of liberty. but it's also depressing to realize that in the 21st century, there are still heather heyers who have to do that. and these young people, they know what they're doing. they know that there is a risk, a real risk to their physical person, as young people. and they're going out there, anyway. and it's real courage. >> they have more courage than the president of the united states or the members of the republican party that are not coming out and they should, you know, participating in these. republican members of congress should be tak

when i think about now senator john lewis and -- congressman john lewis and the pettis bridge, the day dr. martin luther king was killed, all of these things are coming back to so many of us. so these fights and these battles are still going on. but americans are talking to each other i think in very different ways right now. we need to recognize the moment we're in. the president is the president. he does whatever he does and has no standing to even try to bring people together. but there are leaders out there. i think those leaders need to step forward, say what needs to be said, then do what needs to be done. we are americans. that's who we are. that's what we're about. >> one of those leaders is heather heyer's father, mark heyer. she wanted to put down hate. we just need to forgive each other. we will take a quick break. her mother, susan bro, will speak very soon. the panel is sticking with me. we'll be right back. what's going on here? um...i'm babysitting. that'll be $50 bucks. you said 30 dollars. yeah, well it was $30 before my fees, like the pizza-ordering fee and the dog-si

one of the books i'm currently reading with my 8-year-old son are the graphic models by john lewis that talk about the civil rights movement and my son is transfixed by the stories in the book talking about how people fought for civil rights and equal would be in this country. one of my favorite authors i'm looking forward to reading this book. it is the fight for freedom so i will be reading that the editor at large take us back to august, 2015 and how you felt about the election. >> i was not optimistic. my co-author felt quite differently and predicted trump was not only win but would go on to win pressure and he did that on the basis of the data that he was looking at particularly the large number of democrats in places like northeastern ohio that were pushing the registration for democratic to republican because they watched the first presidentia first pree and realized he was thinking about issues that many of the democratic voters cared about. trump is where the action was. i was much more skeptical though i did see something was happening i think you can trace the date to the el

hometown of a man who has taught us the importance of necessary trouble, my friend and my hero john lewis. what a man. [applause] sen. warren: i look out in this room and i see 3000 progressives, people of every race, gender, religion and color, all committed to building a better future. i look out here and i see donald trump's worst nightmare. [applause] trump's worst nightmare, but also a big threat to everyone who kind of likes things the way they were. a few weeks ago, i read an op-ed in "the new york times" from a so-called democratic strategist and the title was "back to the center, democrats." [booing] sen. warren: sounds like some other people read it, too. it was all about how we have to stop caring about "identity politics." and how we have to stop waging "class warfare." according to this author, the path forward is to go back to locking up nonviolent drug offenders and ripping more holes in our economic safety net. i even got a shout out, apparently i am the face of the problem and so is bernie. [applause] let's be really clear here. the real power, the real threat is not to m

one of the books i'm currently reading with my 8-year-old son are the graphic models by john lewis that talk about the civil rights movement and my son is transfixed by the stories in the book talking about how people fought for civil rights and equal would be in this country. one of my favorite authors i'm looking forward to reading this book. it is the fight for freedom so i will be reading

my friend and my hero, john lewis. what a man. [applause] out in this room and i see 3000 progressives. people of every race, gender, religion and color, all committed to building a better future. i look out here and i see donald s worst nightmare. [applause] nightmare, but also a big threat to everyone that kind of likes things the way they work right now. a few weeks ago, i read an op-ed in the "new york times" from a so-called democratic strategist and the title was "back to the center, democrats." [booing] sen. warren: sounds like some other people read it, too. [laughter] it was all about how we have to stop caring about "identity politics." and how we have to stop waging "class warfare." according to this author, the path forward is to go back to locking up nonviolent drug offenders and ripping more holes in our economic safety net. i even got a shout out, apparently i am the face of the problem. [cheers] sen. warren: so is bernie. but let's be really clear here. the real power, the real threat, is not me -- it is you. all o

one of the books i'm reading with my 8-year-old, the graphic novel's march by john lewis, colleague ofmine which talked about the civil rights movement and my son is transparency -- transfixed. one of my books that i will get in the summer, theft by finding by david, one of my favorite authors, very much looking forward reading that book and also a bit of historical book, the fight for freedom. so i will be reading that to kind of bone up a little bit on my history. >> book tv wants to know what you're reading, send us your summer reading list via twitter at book tv or instagram at book underscore tv or post it to our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> next from the annual libertarian conference freedom fest a debate of late author and community organizeers alinsky. david alinsky and ralph banker, president of the alinsky center. let me introduce the speakers. first dinesh dsouza, he has 35-year career as writer, scholar and public intellectual, we have ralph benko from the alinsky center, president of the alinsky center, the seco

john lewis leads everybody in this march. they walk 43 miles are some of the worst black poverty in the country. what we did at the woodson center is go in response to the county residents who had no sewage, no recreation centers. we invested about $11 million bank, theyears, hsbc bush administration, we built two industrial parks so on back it up in a plant that h -- hyun dai could open a plant. this is the work we need to do to help rebuild those communities and set of just symbolicallyere whining about race in america. we are the most polarized. has he is talking about nothing to do with the reality of poor people in this country. bernie talks about income. you can't really generalize about white income versus black income. the biggest gap is between low income blacks and upper income blacks. racism --on is if wire blacks suffering equally -- why aren't blacks suffering equally? where low income blacks suffering and systems run by their own people? these cities are run by black elected officials. black professionals are ru

king and john lewis and all of us. and here we are now 57 years situation withme people at the white house trying to impede our progress, but we will resist and we will stand firm and we will make a difference. [cheering] >> i never thought i would look at the world when i was there in nashville in 1960, the preamble. the preamble was written for folks that had privilege, but i thought about today the first three words of the preamble "we the people." breaking news -- i must in the today that we the people have been disregarded. they have overlooked the needs of those who call ourselves we can people. we have been renovated -- we have been relegated to the position of collateral damage. our value systems have been eroded by a person who believes that he knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. we have to change that so this man will understand the value of the, the value of humanity, value of protecting the environment when it is getting ready to go down. i came this afternoon as a veteran of the civil ri

the election and paralyzed but at this point in 2017, after birmingham and the freedom rides and john lewisng that this country has been through and what we have fought for to confront racial violence, we cannot pretend that it is normal for the president of the united states not to speak out forcefully against white supremacy that we've been seeing throughout this country in the last few months. >> i left off with the second half of the statement from jeff sessions, the violence today is totally contrary to the american values. the question i think a lot of people are sort of asking from the pit of their stomachs is whether or not a situation with affiliations, somebody like sebastian gorka who has a relation with a nazi-affiliated organization and the poem on the statue of liberty and legal immigration being challenged in a way that seems directed, whether or not people of color can feel safe. that's the basic question a lot of people are asking. there wasn't police presence on the streets there like we saw in baltimore, ferguson. are people too paranoid today? >> i don't think people are

opportunity for him to become better educated and acquainted with a living history of so many folks from john lewis mother and some new others who have gone through a very painful part of the history of country, so that, when he acts, when he responds, would he speaks, he is not reading the words that are so positive that he is breathing the very air that brings him to a very conclusion, a conclusion that comes from the wealth of his heart. that is what america wants to see. that is what we are seeing in some of the -- in so many of the cap protests. >> president trump said this week that jefferson and washington were slave owners. where does it stop? where does it end? i think most african-americans understand that many of the founders of our nation were slave owners. but most of us are not advocating that we take them off the currency or drop washington's name from the nation's capital. first cousins, cousins whose names are washington and they are not changing their names. they are proud of their names. what alarms so many of us from a security perspective is that so many of the statues, the con

. >> i'm thinking about the iconic lawn maker john lewis. >> yes. >> to think about what he went throughat he withstood to make a change. nonviolence an important point to make. der derreck, thank you. >> after the break, we look at the escalating tensions between washington and pyongyang. that's ahead as cnn "newsroom" continues here around the united states and around the world. stay with us. nada. really? dish issues? throw it all in. new cascade platinum powers through... even burnt-on gravy. nice. cascade. this school year, it's okay for your kto struggle.ared. they're learning resilience, and tenacity. here's to the moms who show their kids that every step -even a misstep- is a step forward. stay with me, mr. parker. when a critical patient is far from the hospital, the hospital must come to the patient. stay with me, mr. parker. the at&t network is helping first responders connect with medical teams in near real time... stay with me, mr. parker. ...saving time when it matters most. stay with me, mrs. parker. that's the power of and. ♪ [brother] any last words? [boy] karma, danny..

other notable attendees include georgia congressman john lewis and former attorney general, eric holder. >>> you might want to consider biking to work today. there's car pooling and public transit. poor air quality today, that could lead to potentially bad health problems. during the hottest part of the day, limit those outdor activities. >>> live now where things will heat up today. p kbrks & lerks show people thousand stay cool in the heat while saving energy and money. some parts could see triple kijts. kerry hall has the hot details on that. >>> will be a hot day. 6:09, we wake up with sunshine looking reporting live at san jose. as the sunrises this morning, we have a nice, come start and it's national day out, national night out as we go into this evening. starts at 6:00, and all around san jose, all around the bay area, you'll be able to interact with the police department and some local officials and also just enyou some time out with the kids. temperatures will still be very warm at 6:00, el degrees, and then dropping back into the upper 70s we 8:00. and we have the full list.

former attorney general eric holder and congressman john lewis will also be in attendance.'m yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf. "morning joe," everybody, starts right now. >>> previously on the trump administration. >> i heard that your role is changing it at the white house. >> i'm right here. >> i want to thank personally sean spicer. this is obviously a difficult situation to be in. he's a great guy. >> "reince is a paranoid schizophrenic." >> i'm not reading this. no, you're not reading this. donnie, i don't want to hear from you. >> i just think it's an annoying distraction. >> he's a billionaire. >> everyone eats cheeseburgers and pizzas. what are you talking about? >> let's see where the chips fall. thank you. ♪ u take tyou take the good, yo the bad and there you have

. >> good morning. 74-year-old john lewis is savvy, he was thrown a curve ball.e called us because the cemetery told him his plot next to his parents, was already occupied by a stranger with the same last name. >> i said this is supposed to be a grave spot. no, it's not, there's another james r. wilson. well he's not related to us, but he shouldn't be there. >> john was offered a refund, a whole $15. why the refund was so small. what the cemetery later did to make amends, and the second curve ball that leaves john and me wondering who's really in his grave. if off consumer complaint, please call us. i'll see you tonight at 6:00. >>> all right. so, sometimes it's too hot to walk the dog. all of these folks are going to go out. they want to make sure when they adopt that dog, they're responsible and they walk them, the kids walk them, like they promise they're going to do. >> yeah, inland spots it might be too hot. i mean i know i've carried my dog a couple spots too. >> shoes. >> you have him decked out. >> the does not like them. but when you look at somebody car

to put out there that presidents grow in office with the reflection on history one forgets, but john lewis has repeatedly reminded me when we talk about these things that john and robert kennedy did not immediately grasp the significance of the marshawn washington until they saw after the fact that it was a peaceful demonstration. that's when they first invited dr. martin luther king to the oval office. so democratic as well as republican presidents have had hits, runs and misses in this regard. race is complicated. but this president has a special burden because of the kind of campaign he ran, i think. >> right. and there are people in the democratic party and liberal movement who pushed kennedy to go further. many others had been identified with civil rights. i guess i was very much struck by mark warner's comments. i think i voted against mark warner many times for governor and senator. >> we won't tell him that. >> he knows. but he was very good today and the point that was very useful, it's very important other people make the case. and look, president trump said what he's said. i don

authored by me and john lewis signed by president bush. those are three things i want you to consider. >> what's your question? >> the business leaders strike me as a little bit sanctimonious coming out and denouncing trump. let's say that's what you want to do, you got the right to the that. what are they doing in their own corporation? >> that's not a question for julius. >> if he's in touch with them, i would like to know. shouldn't these businesses be doing something proactive within their own corporations besides denouncing things and passing human resources laws that are already the laws of the land. what steps are -- >> jack this is irrelevant. >> they tried to do that with president trump. >> i'm asking as a thought leader. >> let me get julius back up, please. >> jack, i think they wanted to do that with the president and figured out they couldn't work with someone who wouldn't denounce racists. that was the last straw. that's the bottom line on that. julius,let get back to your op-ed. mr. trump once boasted he could shoot someone

for him to become better educated and acquainted with the living history of so many folks from john lewis to my mother and so many others who have gone through a very painful part of the history of this country so that when he acts, when he responds and when he speaks he's not reading the words that are so positive that he's breathing the very air that brings him to a different conclusion, conclusion that comes from the wells of his heart. that's what america wants to see. that's what we're seeing in so many of the counter protest, we're seeing america rise in a way that it did not in the '60s which i think is powerful and symbolic to the rest of the world that we reject the dar darkness and we embrace the light. these are good times for those who believe that darkness must be put out and light must shine even brighter. >> dickerson: another thing that the president could have said and might say is to those white supremacists, i don't want your support. i raise this because two republican senators who suggested perhaps a reason he hasn't, the first is ben sass who wrote there are some whi

during the civil rights movement of fire hoses being turned on children in the children's marches or john lewis getting his head cracked. it's those kind of vish sues are -- those kinds of visuals are very, very important to our commitments. one other thing, elections, we have to be able to transform all of this energy and also into elections. it's not too soon to do voter registration. one thing i want to emphasize is candidates. think of yourself as candidates, all who started individual -- indivisible groups. i'll go to some of the women, most are women by the way, and men and to say why aren't you , running for local office. >> some are. >> some are, i know, but we need to convince more and more people to think of themselves as candidates to be talent scouts, to decide if you can pull an organization together, an invisible organization or whatever, you should be members of planned parenthood and all of the different organizations. we we need those candidates at the local level not just as a pipeline, but because a lot is happening at that low-level. raising minimum wage and what the insuran

at this point in 2017, after bedrooming ham and the freedom rides and john lewis and edmond pettis bridgebird and everything that we have fought for in terms of racial justice we cannot pretend that it is normal for the president of the united states not to speak out forcefully against the white supremacy that we've been seeing for the last few months. >> i looked at the second half of the statement from jeff sessions and he says it's contrary to american values and cannot be tolerated. the question that people are asking at the pit of their stomach is whether or not people with affiliations, somebody like sebastian gorka or stephen miller or being challenged by this federal government, whether or not people of color can feel safe there wasn't a huge police presence like we've seen in baltimore or ferguson. are people too paranoid to feel unsafe today? >> first of all, i don't think people are paranoid. what you just laid out, the onus is on this administration to prove that they are prepared to fully protect african-americans and racial minorities and so forth because their rhetoric has

it's not people like congressman john lewis and others who lived through that are still here today. he can sit down and talk to them. it's also about cultural competency, the ability to learn and grow, the ability to understand your own culture and that of other folks and how they intersect and intertwine and what that means in america. and the president has not done that and he still -- i mean, i'm still holding out hope that he will do the right thing, i'm probably among very few democrats who do that, but in order for this country to be successful, in order for us to move forward this president has to understand that and not go backwards on that and also push policies that then lift people in this country. that is his moral imperative, that is his duty as the president of the united states of america to not just brush this kind of pain aside. this is real. the trauma that african-americans and other people of color, our native american sisters and brothers have faced in this country at the hands of bigotry and racism systemic racism and bigotry, not just what we saw in charlottes

we're talking about some one dana loesh, said john lewis was unamerican and a threat to democracy.hat is completely outrageous. just shows the extremism out of the leadership of the nra between this ad and between threatening us with nuclear weapons should be used against california. that is outrageous and they should apologize, the nra. >> it feels like dana loesch is a lightning rod. go line by line what she's saying it is more reasonable. than the congresswoman took. calling peep am degs mess particular terrorist goes too far. >> she did not call her a domestic terrorist. >> if you're going to write it in a tweet you said it. lawrence, zach. >> she's a homeland security member! >> still ahead new developments in the google memo controversy. surprising new calls from some on the left who say it's the ceo who should step down for stifling free speech. one day after president trump declares a new national emergency on potoid abuse, two people directly connected to the epidemic. >> president trump: we'll spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the oipoid crisis. c

it took this president less than two minutes to attack civil rights icons like maxine waters and john lewis. but it takes him two days to respond and tell us that white supremacy is wrong? it's like gangrene. we have to cut it off to save the body. and we have to cut it off to save our country. >> in fact, malcolm, as you know, when the president was asked explicitly about whether he was going to condemn these hate groups, he continued to walk away after his initial statement. and they -- there was at least one hate group that posted a notice saying, basically, thank you, mr. president, god bless you, mr. president, for doing that. they considered it a tacit sort of okay from the president of the united states. now, he said something very different in our last hour. but what does it say when the president waits 48 hours to make that kind of statement when you already had his attorney general who said there was going to be an investigation into this? does it in any way, do you believe, from your investigation -- from your knowledge of terrorist groups, and i consider -- obviously domestic te

>> well, i've introduced legislation along with seth moulton and the great john lewis, that would allowervice. you should be able to pick up a chalk, a hammer, a ladle at a soup kitchen and earn college money, just as i much i picked up a rifle, and earned college money. we all have a chance to serve, even if just once a year you go out volunteer, you're doing something. less than one-half of 1% of this nation that wears the uniform. and that's an awful big load for a small percentage to carry. so, let's all do a little carrying. it doesn't mean you have to go join the military, it doesn't mean you got to get blown up. god forbid, i tried not to get blown up. but -- it didn't work too well. but -- but do something. do something. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: how much longer a break do you have? when do you have to go back to d.c.? >> i'm going back tonight. so i -- >> seth: you're going back this soon? >> i'm going back tonight. >> seth: i thought you guys had a recess now. no? >> well, people call it a recess, but it's actually a district work period, i'm traveling the state. i was

i haven't heard from john lewis. i spoke with him personally. he hasn't said anything publicly. who is the moral leader of this country? we are leaderless morally as far as i can see at this point unless you guys can bring someone to the floor. i don't know who is. >> david >>> just as a fact cal matter, you mention the general kelly. i'm wondering what the heck they were doing sending the president out here today. i mean, someone must have had a sense of his temperature. anybody could have understood that -- anybody should have understood that there were going to be no questions about infrastructure today. infrastructure was the last thing on anybody's mind. so, basically what you were doing was you were sending donald trump out there to handle these questions. clearly he must have expressed himself on this internally in the way that he expressed himself ultimately externally. why did they send him out there? part of containing this is to try and sense where the president is at and, you know, yet you can't stop him from tweeting and so on. but you might have been able to preven

john lewis gaddis's "strategy of containment" had been published 13 years before and had populated syllabuses throughout academia. a lot of people thought they knew a good deal about kennan from gaddis's treatment of him. biographies had been published in 1989. david mayer's biography of kennan was published in 1990, yet the author's kennan, the author of the submission's kennan was in good part unrecognizable, for here was an emotional george kennan, a man who for all of his supposed realism clearly felt a great deal. he loved the russian people, he located the soviet government. his writing reflected his frustration at being denied access to ordinary russians whose spirit he celebrated. kennan's language was emotional and gendered. he constructs what the author called a polarity or a binary between the united states and the soviet union. the soviet union, he implied, was monstrously masculine. how else to read kennan's policy as unceasing impression for command. it represented as reasonable a world view that was, in fact, like its author, deeply anxious and emotionally fraught. on that basi