it but >> prosecutor pryor wasn't window without a fight.ee. how did you feel about both jessie and jarred being out on house arrest? we just ankle bracelets? >> i was livid. i argued to the best of my ability to the judge about why someone that was charged with such a heinous murder should be out on an ankle monitor. none of the arguments that i made were convincing to the judge. >> then, everyone waited. and waited. four long years went by before the appeals court finally reached a decision. cited sided with the prosecution. was that moment like when you get word that it's been overturned and the statement will be allowed? >> i was very much relieved. >> pryor considered her options and concluded of the two jarred deserve the harshest punishment. >> jarred long was the one who pulled the trigger nine times. jarred long was the one who took the life of vincent goslyn. so, we want to make sure he received the maximum punishment that he could for this. crime >> to do that, that prosecutor needed not only jessie's videotape statement, she need

imagine people were once upon a time unknown but think we arbor streisand, george carlon, richard pryor, jerry seinfeld robin williams eddie murphy ellen degeneres chris rock in david letterman. carson also advance the careers of emerging like steve martin and woody woody allen and jay ld joan rivers and then of course he provided a venue for an established performers like don rickles and but he hackett. there are really four ways to measure cars and success. first of all of course it 10 year. 30 years as the head of the tonight show compared to 22 per jay leno and six so far for jimmy fallon. the tonight show is the longest-running entertainment show in the united states. started in 1954 at the dawn of television. even though he has long been off the air the late night format fields -- is built a lot the way cars and buildup in terms of an audience carson had an audience of 50 million people. that's an astonishing number for his time and for hours. jimmy fallon the tonight show which ranks third has less than 2 million viewers a night on average. a lot of that has to do with the rise o

joining museum pryor, executive director of fight for schools and senior counsel for him silenced majority harmeet dhillon, founder and ceo of the center for american liberty. you are on the front lines of this fight in the schools. i want to ask a simple question. are you a member of q1 on? >> i don't know much about q1 on other than what i've seen on nbc news but i will tell you this whole thing about going after parents because they may have worked in politics or they may be republicans is laughable and all it does is fire up people. i have been a lawyer. i have forked in politics but those things are jobs. when you come for my kids, for our kids, it becomes personal and i will take every skill, every lesson i have ever learned throughout my career and fight to ensure our children all have an educational future that guarantees that they will be successful in life. laura: the supreme court jurisprudence on parental rights is very strong on the side of preserving him. at some point the left is going to run into a buzz saw of legal claims against what is being done to teach this hatred of

joining me now is ian pryor, executive director of fight for schools, and senior counsel for unsilencend harmeet dhillon, founder and ceo for the center of american liberty. en, you are on the front lines of this fight in the school. i want to ask you a simple question tonight, are you a member of qanon? >> i honestly don't know much about qanon other than what i have seen on, you know, nbc news lately. but i will tell you, this whole thing about going after parents because oh, hey, they may have worked in politics, or they may be republican, is actually laughable, it all it does is fire up people. yes, i have been a lawyer, i have worked in politics, but now those things, those things are jobs, right? when you come for my kids, when you come for our kids, it becomes personal, and certainly, i will take every skill, every lesson i have ever learned throughout my career and fight to ensure that our children all have an educational future that guarantees they will be successful in life. >> laura: harmeet, the supreme court jurisprudence on parental rights is very strong on the side of pr

liberals are pushing harder. 82-year-old justice pryor retires.ive with or take for granted today came from the justices, the basic rights for people to get married regardless of the gender of their partner. >> reporter: two gay men are challenging a state law that makes it illegal for two members of the same-sex engaging in a sexual relation. the biggest decisions of the history of the supreme court, the court struck down a texas law, a total victory for the advocates of same-sex marriage. the courts the whole way and said there is an absolute constitutional right to same-sex marriage. >> today made history. the biggest gay rights ruling ever in american history. >> depending on how far back you go, some of the newscasters might look extra spry there and that's because we've been combing through a quarter century as msnbc marks its quarter century this month. the loser of the last election tried to get the supreme court to intervene. the court refused because donald trump's lies and rudy giuliani's arguments were so empty there was no valid reaso

there's a lot of people out there who could be dolly parton or who could be james baldwin or richard pryor or ralph ellison or gabriel garcia marquez or you name it . who, if they just got a start , they would take it. >> yes. >> absolutely. >> you got to have grit. my first book was turned down by 31 publishers so you've got to keep believing in it and moving it forward. just keep chopping wood. >> for our next question, tom from connecticut would like to know how have each of you grown as a writer from working together? >> i think of these for me is as i said, concentrating even more on making sure that these, that the characters are fully believable and rounded and don't get lazy. just because you've got the plot right doesn't mean that -- it needs more than that, it needs more than just a strong plot. >> for me it's paying attention to how he does it. when i get a draft from him, i'll just sit there andshake my head . i should have never gotten that much stuff into that few words and how he's never let you forget who the character is or the drive of the plot. i had no primarily his art

i remember talking to richard pryor about an episode with lou gossett jr.atch that today and it's funny. >> say just kidding. there you go. what would a 2021 version of the partridge family look like? what kind of music would they play? what would their home on the road and at home look like? >> by the way, this is not the first time i've thought about that, let me confess. i'd be reuben. i'd be the manager of the band. the band would tour. here's the thing they never did before. the band would not sell out every time. i went on tour with david cassidy to lines around the block. then the next night 40 people and thee of them were servers. i'd make it a little more gritty and make me not a one trick pony. >> you said you thought about it before. why not make it happen? a modern version of the partridge family? >> i'd love to do that to be honest. my reputation could use a little bit of polish, so i would actually put it on the air and modern it up a little bit. david never got a chance to show the musician he was. he was driven crazy by ♪ i think i love you