. >> reporter: by now, christian county commonwealth's attorney, lynn pryor, had been notified.d you think when you heard that a soldier from fort campbell has been gunned down? he's barely been home from his tour of duty. >> it hurt. we take a great pride in having fort campbell as part of our community -- the fact that our soldiers protect us everyday. and we wanted to make sure that we got justice for him. >> reporter: was jessie able to describe the person who shot her husband? >> she initially described him as a black man. and i believe that's pretty basically all the description she was being able to give. >> reporter: jessie also described the killer's car. >> what kind of car? >> an old one. one of them big ones. >> what color was it? >> i don't know, like a reddish brownish color. >> reporter: it wasn't much for police to go on, and to make it even more difficult, the eyewitness, walter ferguson, had seen something different. describe the truck that you saw speeding off. >> um -- as he passed me, i could see that it was, like, a white truck. and i saw the four-by-four o

, and roger pryor was a fire-eater. he was really pushing to get virginia to secede, but they hadn't at that point, and what's going to happen is chestnut's going to tell the commander of the mortar battery there who is this man that you see on the left and his name was captain george s. james who would actually die later in the war at the battle of south mountain. he gives him the command to fire the first shot at 4:30. james is going to give roger pryor, the opportunity to fire the first shot and pryor demurs and he says he cannot fire the first gun of the war. so instead a lieutenant henry s. farley is given the command to fire and he'll yank the lanyard and fire the ten-inch mortar and it goes over the sky and explains and that was the signal to open fire on fort sumter and this was the first shot of the civil war. some people say that was aren't the first shot, and often you hear the first shot was this man who fired the first shot, and this guy is edmund ruffin who is a really fascinating, historical figure. he wa

james is going to give roger pryor the opportunity to fire the first shot. so instead, a lieutenant henry s. farley is given command to fire. he's going to yank the lanyard. the cannonball arcs into the sky. that was the signal for the batteries surrounding. this was the first shot of the civil war. some people say that wasn't the first shot. and often you hear the first shot was this man who fired the first shot. and this guy is edmund ruffin, who is a really fascinating historical figure. he was very much a fire eater. he actually gained national fame for being an agriculturalist before the civil war. he was from virginia. from 1855 on, he devoted himself to nothing but preaching secession, sometimes known as the father of secession. he traveled all across the country, giving speeches. he writes pamphlets, always looking to provoke secession. he actually snuck in and was able to witness the hanging of john brown. and he went down to charleston to watch the secession of south carolina. and he goes out to morris island, and here he is almost 70 years old, an

career got start here soon after i left the ohio solicitor general's office, then attorney general bill pryor hired me to happen cases in u.s. supreme court and happily did not yet have a solicitor general to that was my window of opportunity. had that position been filled earlier i'm not sure what would have happened in my career but i was fortunate to get to know bill and so many fine people in the bam attorney general's office, so fun to come here and fun to come back. i've been knocking pull out this a lot. we have been talking notice book with other people, and someone said i'm starting to think justice scalia has become more influence shall since the died than he was while he was living. that's an odd thing. how could that be? and what might explain the impact and why she is so central a part of the conversation but the courts, originalism and textualism, and i feel like my on path to getting to know justice scalia offers a little explanation. so, i -- there's a little out autobiographical. i came from a progressive family in new england. he first presidential election in i voted for ji

got started here soon after i left the ohio solicitor general's office, then attorney general bill pryor hired me to handle cases in u.s. supreme court, and happily he did not yet have a solicitor general so that was my window of opportunity. that position had been filled any earlier i'm not sure what would have happened in my career put it was fortunate to get to know bill and so many fine people in the alabama attorney general's office. so it's a lot of fun do come here and fun to come back. so i've been think bought this a lot. we have been talk about the boom with other people, and talking to someone the other day and they said i'm starting to think justice school ya has become more influential since he died than he was while he was living. that's an odd thing. how could that be? what might explain the impact he is having and why he is so essential part of the conversation but the courts, originalism and textualism, and i feel like my own path to getting to know justice scalia offers a little bit of an explanation. so, i -- there's a lot autobiographical but i came from a pretty prog

richard pryor said the biggest enemy of creativity the fear. >> ient d ew don't want to go back. i want to take my fantasies on the statement. >>> i don't know, michelle, he didn't look too red. we'll see. >> he didn't. he looked maroon or something. i drop know. >> the sizes good though. so that is a good thing. still ahead. >> an incredible rescue on mount st. helena. y would gets credit for the up credible raider calls. >> an college basketball made its return last night. tipoff coming up . >>> kpix 5 want to bring you the good news happening in the bay there's no bad time to start at amazon... ♪ i like the flexibility. it also allows for picking up shifts. safety comes first, speed comes second. safety. safety. safety. we're making sure that somebody is getting their very important items. it makes me very happy. ♪ >>> good morning. back in march, the nieto turn manhattan was the first major sporting event to be canceled because of covid. wow! last night, eight months later, it's back a new season tipped off. mark fox and cal opening up their campaign with a nonconference game

and watching richard pryor do what he did from the wheelchair he was in the wheelchair and still slaying you are still, you know, bar none one of the greats. also, robin i saw there quite a bit. it's wonderful -- it's a a wonderful memory because you just -- you don't think about it while you are doing it. you only realize how amazing it was when you get past it and you are doing your own thing and they were all like what do you do i was like, well, i kind of tell stories they were like really? okay, let's go and see people would say, well, you are not a standup. no, i am not, because i can't tell jokes i can mess up a joke better than anybody i am not good at them. but i am a good storyteller. >> jimmy: is that where mike nichols came to see you? >> no, mike came to see me in downtown manhattan it was great because he was taking -- he was doing all three plays at the same time, hurley burley, death of a salesman and the real thing. so he decided they would take each other to different shows, and that was the show he got taken to it's quite amazing to see him because he would say, you kn

as much as he was a rock god, he was like a george carlin, richard pryor.t just a musical genius, but eccentric genius. >> he made films, art, nothing he couldn't do well, but his story hadn't been told. i pitched it to his widow gail. they gave me access to his entire vault, which was like the end of "raiders of the lost ark." >> jimmy: really? >> floor to ceiling, suffas far as you could see. >> jimmy: you kick started a campaign to get this going. >> yeah. >> jimmy: did you go through everything in the vault? >> pretty much, raised about $1.25 million, preserved a lot of the media. we had like 10,000 rabid backers waiting for this movie, it took six years to make it. >> jimmy: did you find anything you did not want to find in the videos? >> well -- i mean, look. every day we found something. but you know. when you're making a movie about a guy who's at the forefront of the sexual revolution, some of that media you don't want to see. [ laughter ] i would call the family, i got this. they're like, place don't. you don't ever need to see that. i'm like, oka

. >> well, you signed a book for me once, and i'll make sure to show that to judge pryor. >> he won't enjoy that. >> if there are questions, please come to the microphone and ask them and i'll probably relead them for the benefit of the camera. if there are no more questions, then we can go ahead and wrap up. are there any questions? >> well issue'll ask myself one. i noticed a bunch of people here from the state court system and state government that was my entry ducks to montgomery and alabama was working with the state attorney general's office, and getting to know the state courts. one question you might ask is whether justice scalia had any thoughts about one of hi hobby horse state constitutions or ask a slightly different way. were there areas where justice scalia and justice brennan agreed? justice brennan the leading liberal for decades at the court, and of course the flag burning case is one where justice brennan wrote and justice scalia joint. but one thing that might be surprising to people is justice brennan in 19 7 wrote a landmark article but the importance of state con

protesters are demanding the resignation of prime minister pryor, china china, the amendment of the constitution and curbs to the monarchies power. and joining us now from bangkok is journalist provigil rajon, a folk hello to you. thank you for being on our program. now we've seen months of anti-government demonstrations in thailand. why was this particular army regiment targeted today? well, it's part of the demonstrative proposal or demands for reform. the monarchy, you know, they want the 2 units in which the one they visited today is one of the 2 to be returned and the government's control and not directly under the king's control . because we're supposed to be in, you know, under a constitutional monarchy and not absolute monarchy. and now i have to ask you, we keep seeing in footage of the demonstration in thailand, these large yellow inflatable docks. can you explain to us the significance of those stacks? while the demonstrators have always tried to present themselves as peaceful cute and this rubber that was use about a week and a half ago to in an attempt to blockade the parliament by,

it's kind of as if, i don't know, chris rock, redd foxx or richard pryor told you the story of john browni think, as you know, humor is a great teacher. humor doesn't lie. you know when your body just laughs your brain doesn't laugh so you don't have a political attack on it, you just have an emotional human hit on the story. so that's absolutely why i wanted to do it. >> seth: and then, obviously, you put together an incredible cast, which this has up and down the board. and one cast member, obviously, close to you, we've talked about her before your daughter maya was in it as well i mean, it must be so fun to get to work with her, not just because she is your daughter, but because of her immense talent >> well, it's a little mind blowing, you know? people are often all over the internet and news and tv shows and stuff, you know, trying to stay young and trying to talk about how awful it is getting old. then you find yourself on a set telling a story that you really want to tell, that you have a passion to tell and your 22-year-old daughter wants to tell it with you and she has got ideas

. >> we could have a diane sykes or you could have a bill pryor.okay with everybody or not. it's up to mitch mcconnell to stop it. it's called delay, delay, delay. >> this nomination should not be filled by this lame duck president. >> president obama's nominee, u.s. court of appeals chief justice merritt garland never even got a single hearing. >> outside adviser to the president for judicial selection leonard, says you're the man to aspire to the supreme court. >> leonard leo, cochair of the federalist society, joined trump's team. >> he wanted to put out a list of individuals for the u.s. supreme court. >> one of the most important things we'll be doing, whoever the next president is, naming judges. >> he wanted first someone who was, in his words, not weak. what that did was it basically said to the american people, this is what i donald trump stand for in terms of judicial selection. >> many felt that judicial selection campaign helped pave trump's path to the white house. with trump now in office, and a republican-held congress, legal adviser