. >> what presidentses, aside from johnson, have had positive influences in recent history on civil rights? >> gee. it's hard to say because none of them have had an overwhelmingly positive effect on civil rights. if you take away president johnson, there is not a president who has been way up here in my estimation. johnson is way up here but none of the others are. >> is there someone who is surprisingly good that we don't think about too often who did good things? >> no. >> no? >> no. there is none. >> let's talk about president obama then. you know, president obama walked across the edmond pettus bridge, a bridge named for a confederate general, an original member of the ku klux plan in alabama. tell me what that felt like? >> i watched it on t.v. like most people did and have walked across that bridge several times and hope to walk across it again. i was happy to see it i think it meant something positive that the black president of the united states has walked across this bridge. segregation was named after -- this bridge was named after a seg gregationist and a black president has wa

. >> the great egyptian dream kings and presidentses gathered for an inauguration rich in pomp and patriotism. leaders from across the arab world attended and the french president, francois hollande. the suez expansion is designed to double the number of ships sailing between europe and asia. it has great political significance for egyptian president al sisi, who after years of unrest says he now wants to unite the nation. >> the new suez canal is not just an engineering achievement. there's a great dimension to what's been done. we've given egyptians confidence more peace of mind and less worry about the future. >> earlier in the day he traveledual the widened canal by presidential yacht. flanked by the egyptian navy, the $8 billion project created a bypass along the original route and deepens and widens the waterways. it took 10 years to build. the new channels have taken only 12 months to dig employing more than 40,000 workers and soldiers laboring around the clack. the egyptian government heavily promoted the new look canal describing it as a channel of prosperity. on the streets of cairo