lynda blackmon lowery wasjust turning 15 during the 1965 voting rights march from selma to montgomeryt of only 300 people allowed to march that day, and during the protest she got caught up in the violence. shejoins me now from selma, alabama to speak to me about her struggle for civil rights and her interactions with martin luther king. welcome, thank you forjoining us. welcome, thank you forjoining us. you have live your life as a campaignerand you us. you have live your life as a campaigner and you have told us a campaigner and you have told us you have beenjailed nine times before even your 15th birth day. what was it that happened in your life that made you such a determined civil rights activist? the death of my mother in 1957, when i was seven my mother in 1957, when i was seve n years my mother in 1957, when i was seven years old. and the older people said my mother wouldn't have died if she hadn't been coloured. and there was a hospital here in selma, and my mother needed blood, but they didn't have "negro blood". so the blood she needed had to be sent 96 miles from birmingha

and he took us to selma. for two decades, mr. president, he took us to selma.eferenced 25 years, including the 50th anniversary, where president bush was as well as president obama. he wanted us to see how important was, how important it was, to understand the spirit of nonviolence. i hesitate to speak about in the presence of the master himself, reverend lawson. we were together recently in selma when he and john spoke in church and he taught the world about nonviolence. i just want to say this. in sanskrit means two nonviolence and insistence on the truth. all is what john lewis was about. nonviolently insisting on the truth. he insisted on the truth at nashville, selma, washington, d.c., the lincoln memorial, wherever he went. and he insisted on the truth and the congress of the united states. every time he stood up to speak, we knew that he was going to take us to a higher place about what our responsibilities for and our opportunities were. no matter how, shall we say, be, hed someone might would insist on the truth. in mye said, he said life, i have done

has she ever mentioned real life selma?robably she have hasn't done has kamala harris done to make selma better? you know the answer. progressive democrats took control of selma and that was the end of the story because taking control was the whole point. the lives of the actual people who remained there didn't matter. and they still don't. but to kamala harris, this is the blueprint for the rest of the country. >> and the excessive use of force by police and in our broader criminal justice system, there is no vaccine for racism. we have got to do the work. for george floyd, for breonna taylor, for the lives of too many others to name, we've got to do the work to fulfill that promise. of equal justice under law. because here's the thing, none of us are free until all of us are free. >> tucker: yeah, okay. what's interesting is what kamala harris didn't say in that speech. at no point did she mention any of the people dying as she was speaking, the beatings, for example, that took place, the assaults going on as the democrat

at the ripe, old age of 25 john was asked to lead the march from selma to montgomery. he was warned that governor wallace had ordered troopers to use violence. but he and jose' williams and others led them across that bridge anyway. and we've all seen the film and the footage and the photographs. president clinton mentioned the trench coat, the nap sack, the book to read, the apple to eat, the tooth brush, apparently jails weren't big on such creature comforts. and you look at those pictures and john looks so young, and he's small in stature, looking every bit that shy, serious child that his mother had raised and yet he's full of purpose. god's put perseverance in him. and we know what happened to the marchers that day. their bones were cracked by billie clubs, their eyes and lungs choked with tear gas, they knelt to pray which made their heads easier targets, and john was struck in the skull, and he thought he was going to die, surrounded by the sight of young americans gagging and bleeding and trampled, victims in their own country. state-sponsored violence. and the

you're alabama's first black congresswoman, the first black valedictorian of selma high school.on't have to tell you about the history of that. tell us what it means to you personally to see the first black woman chosen as vice presidential candidate on a major ticket? >> this is such a historic moment in time, but it is deeply personal for me. i've had the opportunity to work with kamala over the years and she has actually traveled to selma several times as part of the faith and politics pilgrimage that john lewis used to lead. i most recently spoke to her during -- we both attended -- we're part of the delegation that pelosi put together to go to the funeral. but i have to tell you, she's not only a wonderful colleague, fighting for -- she's also my sorority sister and i'm wearing pink in her honor today. >> right, the colors of your sorority. to build on jim's question, you know, when you talk about selma, and you talk about the infamous edmund pettus bridge in your district, you spoke to senator harris at the funeral for the late congressman john lewis. and one of the things

she ended up in selma. she worked for a rich white plantation owner who became president of a bank there. and she lived to 19. we've had to put a footnote on everything, that she lived. she was younger than lewis, but she lived two years longer than he did. most of them were somewhere between the ages of 12 and 21 years old when they came. she was one of the younger ones that came over during that time. we'll go to kudja lewis's, there's still some people that practice voodoo. every now and then when i'm doing tours, i can see they've had a celebration, they leave remnants. it used to be around his head stone, they released several times, which is symbolically significant in their practice. every now and then, i'll see candles strategically located. so i happened to meet some of them. and they invited me to their services. i'm reading up on voodoo, so i'll have a basic knowledge when i go to the service. i'm going to be totally oblivious. so that i can talk about it more intelligently when i do the tours. t

in march of 1965, attacked by state troopers in selma.ges shocked the nation, mobilizing congrs to pass the ting rights act. president johnson sne the landmark law, the achievement of dr. martin luther king jr. and his followers >> the act is actually successful civil rights acts. so before 1965, you had pervasive this commission in voting. you have the application of things like a literacy test tt prevented african-americans from voting. correspondent: in 2013, the supre court struck down a provision of the act requiring southern states to get fedoral approval b booting -- before changing voting laws. the late john lewis, who led marchers in selma, faced this ominous moment. >> history cannot repeat itself. walkn shoes. correspondent: the voting rights act,hich followed the walk on washington, was supposed to end racial discrimination in voting, but some legal protections have been removed. so now as america faces a reckoning over ranial injustice a high-stakes election, there are increasingly questions about whether barriers toot vg bas

they changed it to sally smith and she ended up in selma. she worked for a rich by plantation owner who ultimately became president of a bank there and she lived until 1937. so we had to put a footnote on everything. she was younger then cudjoe lewis, but she lived two years longer than he did. most of them were between the ages of 12 and 21 or 22 years old when they came. she was one of the younger's that came over during that time. we will go to cudjoe luis, and there are still some people to practice voodoo. every now and then when i'm doing chores, i can see that they've had a celebration because they've left remnants. it used to be around his headstone that they would leave silver dimes. that is symbolically significant in their practices. every now and then i will see candles strategically located. so i happen to meet some of them and they invited me to their services. so i'm reading up on food do so that i have a basic knowledge when i go to the service. i won't be totally oblivious, so that i can talk about it more intelligently when

charged with carrying forward animation from seneca falls to selma to stonewall.and vice president obama and vice president biden was in the white house, they made us proud, their leadership and our country great. not to decry the darkness but a lighter way forward for our country. that is ourguiding forward for our country. that is our guiding purpose for house democrats fighting for the people. we have sent the bill for lower costs, bigger paychecks, protecting john lewis's voting rights and enacting george lloyd justice policing act. protecting dreamers, lgbt queue equality, gun violence and preserving the planet for future generations and even more. all of this is possible for america, but who is standing away7 which mcconnell and donald trump. our nation faces the worst health and economic catastrophe in our history, more than 5 million americans in fact by the coronavirus. over 170,000 have died. the science —based action in the heroes act we enacted three months ago is essential to safeguard lives, livelihood and the light ——in the life of our democracy and

at the ripe old age of 25 john was asked to lead the march from selma to montgomery and he was warnedt the governor had ordered troopers to use violence and that he and josÉ williams and others led them across that bridge anyway and we have all seen the film and the footage in the photographs and president clinton mentioned the trenchco trenchcoat, the knapsack, the book to read, the apple to eat, the toothbrush, apparently jails weren't big on such creature comforts and when you look at those pictures and john looks so young and he is small in stature and looked, and every bit that shy, serious child that his mother had raised and yet he is full of purpose and god put perseverance in him and we know what happened to the marchers that day, their bones were cracked by billy clubs, their eyes and lungs were choked with teargas and they nil to pray which made their heads easier targets and john was struck in the skull and thought he was going to die. surrounded by the site of young americans gagging and bleeding and trampled, victims in their own country of state sponsored violence and t

all right, now, you became friends with congressman john lewis while directing "selma."ll, yw even know if i'd say "friends" because i was always kind of genuflecting and bowing, and just-- i couldn't quite get myself together. we spent a lot of time together during the making of "selma" and he was instrumental in my writing of that script and throughout production and post, and we presented it to the world together, and so we were able to spend a lot of time, and i was able to ask him a lot of questions about life, you know, about the way i should approach my work and think about it and history. and so, i think my thought about his legacy is more about personal advice that he gave to me. and one of the things that he said to me that really has stuck with me in the last few days since his transition was i said, you know, what do i do? i don't know what i was talking about. "conan do i do he said, ava, do everything. and i'm like, do everything? what does that mean? he was like, "yoda, do everything." and then he left. and i'm like, do everything? what does that mean? and

was there, jackson, we were all walking together in selma over the bridge. i watched african-americans standing there, all these people and they came over to you and wanted to talk to you and shake your hand and thank you so i never have any doubt that you are and have always been a good guy. [applause] >> thank you. >> in today's atmosphere, when you talk about political corruption, if you file a complaint with attorney general, you will not get any satisfaction from these individuals. so what do you do in that situation? how do you make complaints politically for personal gain for anybody? >> if you want change, put people in charge who will want change. as attorney general, i went into the office, there were three african-americans and one of them, i told the african-american lawyer -- he said mr. walter is going to be in charge of all parts and promotions. everybody got the message and got in line and 28% african-americans did. if you want more change, but people in charge who want change. ... in back in. >> i think we have got to deal with, we have got

for the latejohn lewis, who led the marches in selma, it was an ominous moment. i say come and walk in my shoes. the voting rights act of 1965 which followed the march on washington and all of dr king's activism was meant to end discrimination in voting but some of those legal protections have been removed and so, now, as america faces both a national reckoning over racial injustice and a high—stakes presidential election, there are increasingly questions about whether barriers to voting, based on race, have really been removed. news report: the court called it the most restrictive voting law north carolina has seen since the era ofjim crow, saying the law's provisions target african—americans with almost surgical precision. states that could not amend voting laws without approval from thejustice department have now tried to introduce changes, claiming they will prevent voter fraud. you have seen an ushering of many different kinds of requirements that make it more difficult for low—income people and people of colour to vote. they are things like getting rid of e

we must not forget the freedom rides, the birmingham movement, selma. we won't.orter: a great deal of emotion and passion at the march today. there has been no end to police violence. we are likely to see an escalation of protests in different cities in the country, particularly in the run-up to the election. more peaceful demonstrations being organized. the message was not only to make the best voices heard, but at the polls. there was a very adamant anti-trump opinion here with the people i spoke with. the believe that this president has not heard the pain of the african-american community. presentedats have various options for reform. those have not come into fruition. republicans have not agreed to pass that legislation. certainly, people are making their voices heard on the street. also come election day at the polls. anchor: thank you very much. lawyersacob blake's told al jazeera his client is no longer handcuffed to a hospital bed. it upset his family. the restraint was applied because of a previous arrest warrant that has now been lifted. >> the underlyi

by mohammed bin selma and just days after jenna's jamal khashoggi was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october 2018 the attorneys general of new york and washington d.c. of announce a lawsuit aimed at dissolving the national rifle association there accusing the organizations lead as a financial mismanagement the n.r.a. is described the lawsuit as a baseless premeditated attack and is countersuing the new york attorney general if he should james for violating their right to free speech and the number of covert 1000 cases in africa suppose 1000075 percent of the continent's infections are from just 5 countries as concern that many cases are going on recorded because of a lack of testing i want to when he says coming up next investigating the forces at play in russia's brutal mixed martial arts scene. 3 tensions could cause economic growth by $700000000000.00 we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in the government in a shift of focus from saving lives to saving the economy. counting the cost on al-jazeera. in russia and him a

we are expanding those efforts oeffort neighborhoods like selma and the mission.hile we are seeing some progress, frankly it's clearly not enough. we need more than short-term hotel rooms. we more than parking lots for safe sleeping sites. we need housing. lots of housing. that's why this budget funds 1500 new units supportive housing. which is part of our homeless recovery plan to move 4500 people from hotels, shelters and the streets into housing in the next two years. it will help us as a city meet the needs of the unsheltered and our residents who are frustrated by the conditions they see everyday in our neighborhoods. we also can't lose the progress we've made on improving our mental health system. including funding mental health sf. that means adding more mental health beds, expanding our behavioral health access center so people can get immediate care when they need it and improving the system of care so that people struggling with mental illness and addiction. we're also creating a new crises response team so that when you call 911 or 311, because someone

, the edmund pettus bridge in selma, who spoke in washington, in the march on washington. how the president answers this question. >> john lewis is lying in state in the u.s. capitol. how do you think history will remember john lewis? >> i don't know. i really don't know. i don't know. i don't know john lewis. he chose not to come to my inauguration. he chose -- i don't -- i never met john lewis, actually, i don't believe. >> do you find him impressive? >> i can't say one way or the other. i find a lot of people impressive. i find a lot of people not impressive, no, but i -- >> did you find his story impressive? >> he didn't come to my inauguration. he didn't come to my state of the union speeches. and that's okay. that's his right. and again, nobody has done more for black americans than i have. >> i understand. >> he should have come -- >> i think he made a big mistake. >> but taking your relationship with him out of it, do you find his story impressive, what he's done for this country? >> he was a person that devoted a lot of energy and a lot of heart to civil rights, b

, he had just spoken at to td so he send selma and he-- doctor king is in jail and he tells her that i'm not here to hurt the movement. i admire your husband. i'm here to help him and he's talking those white folks to know that unless they give king what he wants there will be other forces he has to deal with so between them the meeting would not have helped king in that historical context. king needs to be someone who is perceived by the mainstream and someone who can negotiate with kennedy, who can negotiate with lyndon johnson. .. he comes to see he has to go for broke and talk about the death and breadth of racism and white supremacy and that's why there's more meetings with lyndon johnson and lyndon johnson does not show up at his funeral. all the celebrities of the time. jackie kennedy, hubert humphrey, bobby kennedy . they all go to doctor king's funeral . the only person who doesn't know is the president and that's because by then, they've been broken irretrievably , saying this great society, war on poverty and the we shall overcome speech, the howard university commencement

he was a political activist and captured the 1965 voting rights march from selma to montgomery. he remained an active photographer and ran his own photographer agency. >>> in san francisco today a protest calling for i.c.e. to release detained immigrants, especially those most vulnerable to covid-19. it began on market street and ended at the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agency. organizers want to close the camps and free the children. the conditions are too unsafe to remain in custody. they accuse governor newsom of sleeping on the job and held up a large puppet of the governor's likeness. the event is a day of nationwide protests of people protesting i.c.e.. >>> people lined up for the fortune cookie factory celebrating its 58th year in business. abc 7 news was in china town where crowds came out to support the golden gate cookie factory. performers danced to mark the occasion. the owner said he normally wouldn't celebrate a 58th anniversary, but surviving the pandemic for this long is worth celebrating. he says he hopes he can make it to a 60th anniversary because

he captured the 1965 voting rights m rights march from selma to montgomery. nbc bay area interviewed him about his work earlier this year. and he even told us about wanting to buy a new mini glider. when joe asked him if he was worried about his safety, he said he'd much rather go out flying his glider than with an illness. >> in less than 24 hours, east bay commuters will have a new option to get around. check this out. tomorrow, ac transit is launching the first-ever rapid bus line. it's called tempo. the new line replaces bus line 1. it will connect oakland to san leandro. riders will not pay fares for the first three months this new line runs. >> fortunate to set a milestone but struggling to stay open. the toll the pandemic is taking on an iconic fortune cookie company. >> and a casino is back in business. we'll tell you how that's possible, despite a statewide shutdown of casinos and card rooms. >>> and we're seeing a warming trend for the weekend. who could be seeing mid to upper 90s in tomorrow's forecast, when we come right back. tonight. those who k

. >> the history of the first black residents, sydney and selma during and their two children, who were driven from their home in piedmont in 1924. >> reporter: the resolution calls for a complete review of policies and ordinances for any discrimination or negative stereotyping. the data shows more than 70% of their residents are white, less than 2% are black. >> i am always cognizant of the lack of diversity in many of our institutions in town. this is a very important step. i look forward to reviewing policies. >> reporter: the council voted. 520 in favor. >> reporter: the police chief says he supports this action. >> we need to be notable being uncomfortable with a lot of these discussions. >> there will be opportunity and desire for robust community engagement in this important work. >> reporter: reporting live, ktvu, fox 2 news. >>> happening today, county supervisors are starting to work on a program recently approved to fight racism. last month, supervisors voted to create an office of equity to eliminate county laws, policies and procedures that discriminate against people of co

casinos to hotels to office blocks the name trump is plastered on many prime addresses but is really selma named after the u.s. president does a thank you for his barking in a territorial dispute is looking much less resplendent artie's policy or went along to see for herself. what is president trump left more than seeing his name in gold in letters on a big sign well praise and recognition what would say and here in northern israel he's got both trump heights in the middle of nowhere a thank you from benjamin netanyahu to is american by the foot doing what most of the international community would not recognize this is the golan heights as part of israel you've been an incredible friend for israel and you've done extraordinary things for the jewish state which we are eternally grateful to much bad fame celebrations you might imagine and until it place the 1st thing you see is the sentiment gate which doesn't close completely and there's a gap here. to which i can just go into the but jarring of sentences and then you find that no boulevard or fancy entrance leading into the village instea

says the crown prince wants him dead will president donald trump be forced to stop supporting 100 in selma this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian said again what's reported to be a 4 year old murder plot as putting further strain on the relationship between saudi arabia and the united states a former saudi intelligence agent is suing the saudi crown prince in the u.s. sagal jobbery says that the home had been solomon sent the same so-called hit squad the murder jamal khashoggi to kill him in canada in a rare rebuke of the kingdom the state department praised and demanded answers about the safety of his children who went missing in saudi arabia in march it's the latest test of president donald trump staunch support for been salmond al-jazeera as mike hanna reports from washington. patrick leahy was one of 4 senators who sent a letter to the white house last month in the letter the senators express their concern about what they call the abduction in saudi arabia of sadat jobbery son and daughter. in his court filing our jobbery said his children now aged 20 and 21 were

right now there are evacuation orders in five area counties and a complex in napa and selma counties is still at 0% containment >> a stressful time for so many people. >>> kauai so-called another stage 2 emergency today, but never went to stage iii and never needed to initiate rolling blackouts. of the states power grid says people and businesses conserve enough energy to avoid outages. there were other power problems around the bay area. >> reporter: when looking at the pg&e outage map just now, thousands of customers in san jose are without power, many residents in the east bay city of livermore were also left in the dark for most of the day. at the height of tuesday's triple digit heat in livermore sean siobhan was charging his phone in his car, keeping his elderly dog cool after the power went out for the third day in a row. >> people are so frustrated. >> reporter: since early sunday he and his neighbors on the city's northwest side have been dealing with intermittent outages lasting for several hours. he says it's forcing them to leave their homes to seek relief. >> you are jum

. >>> further north now, sir francis drake high school in selma has a temporary name now. it's high school 1327, at least for now. as the school's street address. the sign of the school was taken down this week in response to concerns about the explorers ties to slave trading and white colonialism. the district plans to hold forums on racial equity in the coming weeks and hopes to have a new name by the end of october. >>> solano takes a stand. why they can safely operate and should be allowed to reopen their businesses. >>> plus, we update you on a wildfire burning in southern california. it forced the evacuation of hundreds. businesses are starting to bounce back. but what if you could do better than that? like adapt. discover. deliver. in new ways. to new customers. what if you could come back stronger? faster. better. at comcast business, we want to help you not just bounce back. but bounce forward. and now, we're committed to helping you do just that with a powerful and reliable internet and voice solution at a great price. call or go online today. >>> developing news

anyway selma to help support her mom. the boys own a bit of additional cash to help their families scrape by but this does she work takes its toll. as professor usually is full bill from the university of ghana i can confirm. but children so you can affect your level system as the organ system can also affect your brain development in terms of kidney is one of the organs are. usually. very affected moods. but how contamination fees and both blushing and what danger to the people who live here thanks. to these soil samples should give an idea that. deliberately findings later show that the soil contains toxic heavy metals asked nick teen but in particular at extremely high levels of light. and professor phobia tells us these substances also accumulate in the bodies of the workers. and among the e.u. which were. both the organics in organic compounds. caught me and they curl a certain leg and all these are highly toxic. metallic quo terms they are quite high far far far higher than what is throwing their body to reach. the

gulf so saudi arabia is a very in a very vulnerable state and having and we don't like mohammed in selma is not taking things to a more safe state also we've seen that mohammed bin samantha talking about starting relations with china and america so the old alliance between america and so if you're a viewer is not even value it by so the. 'd routine mohammedan someone is willing to walk with the americans or europeans or whoever with them oh and there are and the following terror that how much are they willing to walk away to an undemocratic behavior on. war crimes if anybody is not willing to play his game he will cut relations it really ok ok let's stay with the story joining us live bruce fein for me us associate deputy attorney general he's talking to us out of washington bruce good to get your thoughts on this developing story as of issuing a summons what does that mean. well the summons delivers the complaint to the various defendants that obligates them under our federal rules to answer within 20 days so it means that now the case is gearing up 20 days not a long time. but i think

crown prince wants him dead will president donald trump be forced to stop supporting the hammock in selma this is inside story. and i welcome to the program i'm adrian finighan what's reported to be a 4 year old mud applauses putting further strain on the relationship between saudi arabia and the united states a fall a saudi intelligence agent is suing the saudi crown prince in the u.s. saad algae.

on jeopardy filed a lawsuit accusing saudi crown prince mohammed bin selma of sending a hit squad to kill him 2 years ago he's now in canada where the police and private security guards are reported to be giving him increased protection bruce finds a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general he says the summons is an important step in this case the summons delivers the complaint to the various defendants that obligates them under our federal rules to answer within 20 days so it means that now the case is gearing up 20 days is not a long time. but i think having myself litigated many cases under the torture victim protection act that it signals that m.b.a.'s will now vigorously lobby president trump and secretary of state might come to issue what's called a letter of suggestion of immunity it's rather an odd. realm of law but they simply it asked the court to dismiss a case because it would interfere with the foreign relations of the united states in relations with a head of state or high level officials it is not required that a court accept a suggestion of immunity by the state

the police in 1963 when he marched in summer and spent his life trying to expand voting rights —— selma americans to get out there and vote and honour the legacy ofjohn lewis. there and vote and honour the legacy of john lewis. that is a huge cause to

for cypriot passports from the kingdom have increased since the rise of crown prince mohammed bin selma like china he announced a crackdown on corruption which critics say only targets his political enemies one member of the bin laden family holds a cyprus passport their business empire has been effectively confiscated by the crown prince another is a relative of one of the hundreds of wealthy saudis detained in 2017 at the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh without charge until they paid for their release there's also a broker of the saudi foreign investment deals although still well connected a cypriot passport provides a potential refuge should the political tide. that was deborah davis from our investigative unit reporting there now here's what cypresses interior minister has said about the investigation the years that are going on with the media the interior ministry has investigated all the information al-jazeera has given to the public and all the names brought up on the investigation have been looked into when they applied for the visas there were 100 percent entitled to it was no cri

the police in 1963 when he marched in summer and spent his life trying to expand voting rights —— selmaidea behind this tribute is to encourage americans to get out there and vote and honour the legacy ofjohn lewis. there and vote and honour the legacy of john lewis. that is a huge cause to honour. beyond joe biden's speech when he will no doubt pick up on those themes you talked about, what else do we know that he will be mentioning, what are the other big names they will touch on? his aides say he's going to talk about how he would build back better as president. the theme of this week has been that democrats say the country is facing three crises. the crisis of the coronavirus pandemic which has killed more than 170,000 americans. the resulting economic calamity with unemployment, over 10%, means unemployment. and we saw that a further one .2 million lost theirjobs in the last week with the unemployment figures today. and also this moment of reckoning with racial justice. joe biden is going to make his message that he is someone make his message that he is someone who can unify and e

going to jail to push us closer to a more perfect union 55 years ago john lewis marched and bled in selma because that work was unfinished tonight i'm thinking of the girls and boys who see themselves in america's future because of kaamelott harris a black woman the daughter of jamaican and indian immigrants and our nominee for vice president this is our country story breaking down barriers and expanding the circle of possibility and to the young people watching don't give up on america despite our flaws and problems we've come so far we can still be a more just equal country with opportunities previous generations could never have imagined there's a lot of heartbreak in america now and the truth is many things were broken before the pandemic but as the saying goes the world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places that's joe biden he knows how to keep going unify and lead because he's done that for his family and country so come november if we're strong together will heal together will redeem the soul and the promise of our country led by president joe biden and

and again, at our best, from seneca falls to selma, to stonewall, that's been the american story. and it's never going to be perfect. and victory will never be total, but you know, what john lewis taught us and what joe biden talked about and will do is that at least we can march in that direction. >> well, when john lewis was marching over that bridge in selma, alabama, it was amar'e to montgomery to demand the right to vote. and you know, president trump has made a pretty clear that he wants to stand in that way. here's what he had to say in -- let's go to element two here, the story in politico about leaked audio where trump hailed low black turnout in 2016. many blacks didn't go out to vote for hillary because they liked me. that was almost as good as getting the vote, you know, and it was great, the president elect said, according to an audio recording of the meeting shared with politico, joy, you know, the president says he's done more for african americans than anyone, maybe even lincoln, but there he is hailing the fact that black people who didn't vote basically voltted f

we are expanding those efforts oeffort neighborhoods like selma and the mission.hile we are seeing some progress, frankly it's clearly not enough. we need more than short-term hotel rooms. we more than parking lots for safe sleeping sites. we need housing. lots of housing. that's why this budget funds 1500 new units supportive housing. which is part of our homeless recovery plan to move 4500 people from hotels, shelters and the streets into housing in the next two years. it will help us as a city meet the needs of the unsheltered and our residents who are frustrated by the conditions they see everyday in our neighborhoods. we also can't lose the progress we've made on improving our mental health system. including funding mental health sf. that means adding more mental health beds, expanding our behavioral health access center so people can get immediate care when they need it and improving the system of care so that people struggling with mental illness and addiction. we're also creating a new crises response team so that when you call 911 or 311, because someone

period that helped create the civil rights movement and the liberation movements that -- from seneca to selma to stonewall, a broadening sense of identity, the images of that identity we have seen all week. the conversation was between sort of franklin roosevelt over here and ronald reagan over here, and we debated two things in america, which was the relative role of the market in the state and the relative force between foes and rivals, and the incumbent president has blown up that conversation. i think biden will restore that conversation and out of that conversation will come reform. >> so it's the natural extension of all the times on this and other broadcasts you've been asked by this and other hosts how much trouble we're in and if our democracy itself in your view is in danger. this at long last answers that question. >> it does. and to get personal here at this late hour, you know, i'm a southerner. i'm obviously a white southerner. i was born after the civil rights movement. and i'd like to think i would have been on the right side of that, but i don't know. i don't know if i would

i think of that all the time i have family that marched in selma they risk their lives for my ability to go vote think how powerful it must be that people would threaten their lives are potentially murder others on the edmund pettis bridge just to participate in democracy. be something worth fighting for. >> this is a powerful quotation in your book. we are accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression. what do you think is the root cause of the rhetoric? how does the president use that and how do we combat that? >> i talk about this every day with my cohost and we are both feminist and we have great conversations how we are raised differently. if you have white skin then you are raised differently and people treat you differently and you don't realize it. it is how it is. >> they don't walk in and people checking your purses are and you're not sure if you can afford something. >> exactly. it adds up. i feel by the end of the day. [laughter] because that person whoever follows you in the store but you are still fuming even though they forgot about it. >> i relate. i understan

. >>> students in selma county have put virtual running on hold and the lnu lightning complex fire s are forcing district to cancel classes. this is the fourth straight year the schools have been canceling classes because of wildfires. the monte rio, montgomery, grenville school districts are close today. in addition to el nino high school, hillsboro unified closed last week and resume online learning just today. >>> it is day two of the rule again national convention. ray bogan is in washington dc with a look at how the first day wrapped up and what is on the agenda later today including a speech from the first lady. >> reporter: monday's theme was land of promise and republicans spent much of the night giving praise to present and trump. >> our family went from cotton to congress in one lifetime. >> reporter: republicans came out swinging delivering a counterpunch to the democratic national convention. >> he shows how much he cares about social justice. >> reporter: in pitching donald trump as a candidate with empathy. >> i have seen how deeply present cares about rebuilding our mi

i've been created one for civil rights to was never went to montgomery and birmingham, selma, atlanta studying the civil rights movement. when i would go to montgomery, and those days there was no memorials for rosa parks. there was one street named after her, jefferson davis avenue intersected with rosa parks boulevard and so i wanted to see where rosa parks lived on december 1, 1955, when the montgomery bus boycott kicked in and she became the mother of the movement. it was the most decrepit underfunded housing project she was living in, , and it's a room without exaggerating, her home was a size of this stage. she lived in it with her husband raymond in this impoverished way, enter integrity level was so high. she can go to college but she went to an industrial school for girls where they taught home economics in those days. it was one of the booker t. washington industrial schools in the south. she worked her way, would do things like work as a secretary for the naacp for no money. ev nixon was the big kingpin of the railroads on the port is union, she would file all those things