southern united states is sort of the rehearsal for us imperialism. the first twenty years the world companies had in the twentieth century in the easy and there was no tax on what they're appropriating from the receipt of the sociologist called internal formulas is we're kind of a colony of the united states or a colony where you can get oil and gas you take all the resources but you really don't ever correct the problems of government and the corrupt state as the demand for oil growth the oil companies grew in power the first ran the wheezy and there was no one could stand up to them. until a larger than life character came along. he called. the confession managing their own record or you can't beat it yeah yeah. but if you really he was a populist very much for the little man against big corporations and the exploitation of the state by big corporations that crap but out of it they ran the fact that they finally ended up there now that. he made his reputation on fighting federal and getting them to pay for things that the state could not afford on

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southern lebanon. >> the united states and europe are urging dialogue between political leaders after the president dismissed his entire cabinet on wednesday. the move follows an apparent power struggle. they're concerned the dismissals could threaten the country's stability. france has delivered a strong message against legalizing drugs. the speech was made at a rio hospital that streets substance abusers. some latin american leaders have been suggesting some drugs should be decriminalized or legalized. the head of the roman catholic church, though, wants nations to address the underlying easons for drug abuse. gabriel reports. >> rain and usually frigid weather in sunny rio was not enough to keep thousands of well-wishers to get a glimpse of pope francis. they waited for hours to see him, ending a long day to a visit to a naugrauted drug rehab center might seem an odd move for some but not this pope who did just that. he listened to recovering drug addicts speak directly to him. >> for a pope who is not afraid to get close to people and also not afraid to speak politics in his home region. >> a reduction i

shore,ricane is just off with heavy rain coming across the gulf of mexico to southern parts of the united states and around the panhandle. the weather is going up appalachian mountains. it will be dry on the eastern seaboard. 91 york is still hot degrees. in the lastnews half hour, a boeing 777 asiana after a crashire landing in san francisco in california, after the airplane flipped over. 214 crashed at sfo at 11:36 local time. thatg 777's are big planes can travel nonstop and there were 290 people on board. these are the first pictures we have out of san francisco. we're looking for more pictures as soon as possible. elbaradei is the new prime minister in egypt as supporters of mohamed morsi continued to protest. gunmen in northeastern nigeria have attacked a school with 29 children and their teacher. 60 people reported missing after a train with crude oil derailed and exploded in canada. it came off of the rails in quebec. >> flames jumped hundreds of meters in the air. this exploded in eastern canada, near a town in quebec province. this smoke fills the air and the town is home to about 6000

these are some beautiful looking anaheim chilis that are so popular in the southern part of the united states. i'm going to turn all of these chilis until they're blackened and blistered. and while i'm doing that, i'm going to slide a sliced red onion alongside them here. be sure to brush it with a little oil, let it brown and soften, and then when all of the chilis are thoroughly blackened, rub that blackened skin off, cut a little slit in the side of them, then reach a finger in there to dislodge all of the seeds, and then give them a quick rinse to get all the seeds out. okay, we've got all of the chilis roasted and peeled, and now on to the filling. i'm going to combine here some grated jack cheese, and you could use cheddar cheese, you could use the chihuahua cheese, with some cooked shrimp. easy combination. use anything that you want to flavor this, or just do it straight cheese. i'm using a sort of luxurious thing here, because i want to make these kind of special. now i'm going to season it with a little bit of mexican oregano, crumbling it between my palms to release all of its beau

they geroux line at the mason-dixon line at one point and said nothing that is in the southern part of the united states is even going to be considered and it is about the prospect of racial discrimination. they had a great discussion about how well you could find that anywhere in 1945 but the truth outline. at the point where they did that they had a whole raft of competitors complaining that they had absolute no racial discrimination in their communities. so it built over time that way as well. thanks, that's a great question. >> hi. >> in your research for your book did you come across any information about the houston family of chestnut bill same wanting to bring the united nations -- nations to chestnut hill? >> that part of northwest philadelphia was in a territory that was being eyed or potential housing for the u.n. and staff. i'm going to go off my prepared slides here to show you a map. this is one of the historical society maps that you saw flashing earlier. this is this google and appear in this territory was the additional land that they were looking at. they toured up there and lo and beho

justice in one of the most difficult and important jobs there is as an assistant united states attorney in the southern district of new york. he quickly rose to become the deputy chief of the criminal division as a former united states attorney myself, i know how important that response oblivious in a practical hands-on sense of making extraordinarily difficult decisions about balancing individual rights, and also the need to prosecute and achieve greater security and safety for the community. he took on another difficult job as house managing assistant, i united states attorney for the eastern district of virginia and he was recognized by his superiors as an unusually skilled prosecutor who could be counted on to get results and to get the job done. he had personal responsibility for prosecuting one of the most heinous terrorist attacks in the united states and saudi arabia and he quickly delivered 14 indictments. he was promoted at that time to be the united states attorney for the southern district of new york, one of the major prosecutorial areas outside of washington. he showed the same fearlessne

richard from the southern cap this was one of our witnesses, and i would mention, i quote him because i thought it was such a great line, but his testimony was that from any years, the united states had two sides of the southern border, one said no trespassing, and the other said help wanted. people said, you should do this the right way, and we all agree with that, but we have about 1.7 million undocumented migrant farm workers in the country. and with 5000 visas a year for obviously, we did not set this up so he could work. we need to make it work, and then we need to enforce it. >> i want to ask you at the visas in just a second. one quick question on the price tag -- how surprised were you with the cbo's score on the senate bill? you have an end product that reduces the deficit. >> i was not actually surprised that it was a positive score. in fact, in the prior effort for immigration reform, we have positive scores as well. it is our hope that we will have a great score. you cannot send your bills to cbo until it is done. so that would be happening as soon as we finalize the final portions of it. but i expect that we will have a good score because immigration is great for ame

. >> the southern california agency that arranged for the students to fly to the united states are helping them out. the 16-year-old wang linjia and ye mengyuan were killed in the trash. the travel company was to greet the girls and students and teachers when they arrived and were here to sharpen their english skills and tour universities. the travel agency is assisting students and working with the chinese consulate to determine what the students do next. >> the san francisco fire department has confirmed all five fire truck drivers who responded to the crash passed drug and alcohol screening after the san francisco fire chief says there is evidence the fire apparatus may have struck one of the victims during the response. investigators are looking through airport surveillance video but are finding nothing conclusive. an autopsy will take weeks. the chief says her department will help. >> we are working closely with the ntsb conducting their investigation on all aspects but particularly on this aspect. >> the two girls were sitting in the back of the plane, one found near the broken tail

slave trade which was a long time before slavery itself ended in the united states that the issues were seen as different and even southerners were in support of banning the slave trade >> there were a lot of different reasons. it was the more in humane part of the traffic but also the economic self-interest. they already owned slaves and the environment in the u.s. is such that mortality wasn't in the plantations that is it was in places like to the or brazil because the environment and the diseases as they could be they would live for a decent life span so by banning the slave trade that would increase the value they already owned that limit the ability of their neighbors. so it was an odd coalition. >> you have a part in your book that shows. where is this going here? >> there is a strong despite right before we ban it because we know that position as it turned in 1808 congress was going to ban the trade. >> the other half is about the international human rights law. when does the human rights law start becoming a part of this discussion? >> around the turn of the century but people think that international human rights l

this lizard, like many of the lizards, that we find here in southern san diego county range mostly in mexico and barely enter the united statesng at the lizards here gives us yet another reason why this place is so diverse, it's a mixture of what moves up from mexico and what's moving down out of the united states. but more than that it gets us to thinking about how these things actually move. are they migrating from mexico themselves or is something else going on? why are these lizards restricted to just the parts of california that came from mexico? to answer this question and to really think about migration from a totally different mindset, we need to look at an even lowlier creature, one that's not found in the desert. we need to look at salamanders. the salamanders we're after are far above us here in the desert so we head back up hill and into the cool forests above 4,000 feet elevation. so, you know how they say california is full of freaks? well, they're right - when it comes to plants! i mean, imagine, in this state, we have the tallest tree on earth in the coastal redwood. and imagine that tree gets to be over 300 f

treatment of hiv aids which has been a scourge in particularly in southern africa and south africa so there is a lot of good the united states is doing in the african continent so. yes of course jump jump in there because the fact that a man is a large checkbook in a big wallet if you said this in any other context what you would be saying is that we must be guilty of corruption. the fact that a man is a large checkbook in a big wallet does not give you my license to use the entire world. to murder innocent civilians ok richard you want to reply to that i think that's yeah i think that's a rather cynical view to say that just because united states has a large check that's why it's getting involved trying to buy loyalty i think there is a genuine humanitarian driving force behind a big project like the president's emergency plan for aids relief that was driven by humanitarian. more than anything else ok it's fortunate that the united states had money to spend on a program like that but i don't think it's doing it to win favor around the world ok clearance or jump in the troops to go to clients go ahead. yeah i think yeah it s

treatment of hiv aids which has been a scourge in particularly in southern africa and south africa so there is a lot of good the united states is doing in the african continent so. yes of course. jump in there because if it did to many of the large checkbook wallet if you see any of the what you would be seeing us that we must be guilty of corruption the fact that a man is a large checkbook in a big wallet does not give you my license to use the entire world. to murder innocent civilians ok richard you want to reply to that i think that's yeah i think that's a rather cynical view to say that just because united states has a large checkbook that's why it's getting involved somehow trying to buy loyalty i think there is a genuine humanitarian driving force behind a big project like the president's emergency plan for aids relief that was driven by a humanitarian agenda more than anything else ok it's fortunate the united states had money to spend on a program like that but i don't think it's doing it to win favor around the world ok clearance or jump in the troops to not go to clients go ahead. yeah i think it seems to me that

treatment of hiv aids which has been a scourge in particularly in southern africa and south africa so there is a lot of good the united states is doing in the african continent so. yes of course jump jump in there because the fact that a man is a large checkbook in a big wallet if you see this in any other context what you would be saying use it we must be guilty of corruption the fact that a man is a large checkbook in a big wallet does not give him a license to use the entire world. to murder innocent civilians ok richard you want to reply to that i think that's yeah i think that's a rather cynic. used to say that just because united states has a large check that's why it's getting involved trying to buy loyalty i think there is a genuine humanitarian driving force behind a big project like the president's emergency plan for aids relief that was driven by a humanitarian agenda more than anything else ok it's fortunate that united states had money to spend on a program like that but i don't think it's doing it to win favor around the world ok clearance or jump in troops to another go to clarence go ahead. yeah i think yeah

united states government. he was blown to pieces in a drone attack by the united states military. he was sitting in an open air restaurant in southern yemen. six other civilian bystanders were killed including another teenage boy. born in my town of colorado. he moved to yemen when he was seven to live with his grandfather. his father was a clerk who was reportedly on a c.i.a. and pentagon kill list as a suspect terrorist but never charged with a single crime. he was killed by an u.s. drone attack along with his aide, another u.s. american. that separate attack happened two weeks before the drone attack.attack. the rationale was that the targets were up to no good. the american civil liberties union filed against the government. tomorrow they'll be in court with oral arguments. we'll to go maria lahood, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us here in "the war room"," maria. >> thanks for having me. >> there was an op-ed asking the question, the government has killed a 16-year-old american boy. shouldn't it have to at least explain why? can you explain the death of the american and how the government is blocking the ca

i've always thought it was much easier than people think to control the south, southern border of the united states, that it is not as impossible a task as people make it out to be. eyed look at the size of the border. i think about i reorganized the police department to reduce crime in new york city, and i know this sounds like a strange statement that i think it would be issued to control the southern border to reduce crime by 50 or 60% in new york city. the scale is about the same. we have 77 police precincts. you need about 50 border patrol stations. we had about 40,000 police officers. you probably need only about 20-30,000 border patrol to do it. and if we did it, we would end up with a much better, an in tht with a much better economic system, to. then if we had over control who's come in legally and we knew who they were, then we could expand the number of people coming in legally. we could make it easier for them to come in legally, make it impossible for them to coming illegally. i think will help reduce the risk of terrorism and it helps in about 100 other ways. >> i think simple, you wo

it happened saturday in southern quebec, about 20 miles from the border with the united states.in's owner says the 73 tanker cars were parked up hill when they somehow came loose. officials say at least 13 people are dead, about 40 others missing. the explosions destroyed some 30 buildings, including a library and a bar filled with people at the time. the secretary of state john kerry's wife is in the hospital as fox reports tonight. theresa heinz carrie is also the multimillionaire heinz ketchup harris. tonight we are getting update on her condition. first, it was the former sexting congressman anthony weiner running for new york mayor. now, client number 9 to make a come back. can eliot spitzer get back into politics after his prostitution scandal? that's coming up as fox reports live tonight. (announcer) flavors this delicious are worth searching for. friskies. feed t senses. ( bull roar ) ...if you don't attend the running of the bulls. ole! >> shepard: the disgraced former new york governor eliot spitzer who was once named forever and always client number 9 drew some heckli

would like to see us adopt a resolution that just says, basically, until the united states' soren border is secured as -- southern boarder secured as confirmed by the governors and the legislatures of the four south earn border states, the house of representatives should not bring any legislation, including any conference report, regarding immigration to the floor of the house for a vote. and i think that's what we ought to do. we've got americans upset, concerned about the i.r.s., upset, concerned about benghazi, upset about this administration snooping. of course we have to say, though, as matt salmon said, the people finally have a president who will listen to them. or at least his administration is listening to these things. but anyway, there are all these other issues that need to be taken up and i think our position ought to be very clear to the white house. do you your job and then we'll get an immigration bill. and one other thing on the comprehensive, since the gentlelady mentioned that, you know, since i got elected in november of 2004, it's my experience that when somebody in either the house or the na

slow to keep the south and southern border of the united states is not a and impossible task as peoplemake it out to be. look at the size of the border. how they reorganize the police department for organizing crime and it sounds like a strange statement but it is easier to control the southern border they reduce crime in new york city by 50 or 60% in the scale is the same. 77 precincts you would be 50 border patrol stations. we have 40,000 police officers but you only need 20 or 30,000 border patrol to do a. if we did it we would end up with the much better system if we have more control who was coming in illegally then we could expand the number of people coming in illegally. we could make it easier to. to help reduce chris the terrorism. >> i think simply but that is like a few still have a hole in your roof? >> yes. this committee did pass the results act unanimously which is almost unheard of in today's environment. so the chair now recognizes the gentleman from california. welcome to our other witnesses. i really appreciate your leadership. and you really led the city. in to talk

unite states. he delivered 14 indictments. promoted to become the united states attorney for the southern district of new york.what are the major areas outside of washington -- one of the major areas outside of washington. he has shown dedication which has become his trademark. -- he has shown dedication, which has become his trademark as a prosecutor. he is recognized for his performance there. he had the director's award for superior performance. throughout his career, he has been recognized in the public private.d by the his success led to his nomination. a lot has been written and said about his tenure in that role. i've worked with them in a number of respects as an attorney general. i came to admire his career us -- of standing up and speaking truth to power. he defended the most fundamental liberties and guarantees that our constitution provides. whatever the members of this committee think about his views, they can count on is complete integrity and devotion to the rule of law. his dedication to excellence and the pursuit of civil liberties. he has demonstrated this not just in words, but in actions. i

i always thought it was much easier than people think to control the southern border of the united states. that it is not as impossible a task as people make it out to be. i look at the size of the border, i think of how i reorganized the police department to reduce crime in new york city, and i know this sounds like a strange statement, but i think it would be easier to control the southern border to reduce crime by 50% to 60% than new york city. the scale is about the same. we have 77 police precincts. you need about 50 border patrol stations. we had about 40,000 police officers. you probably only need about 20,000 to 30,000 border patrol to do it. if we did it, we would end up with a much better -- end up with a much better economic system, too. if we had control over who was coming in legally and we know who they were, then we could expand the a sufficient number having arisen of people coming in legally. we could make it easier for them to come in legally. make it impossible for them. i think this will help reduce the risk of terrorism and helps in other ways. >> i think simply put y

the southern california tour agency that aned for the students to come to the united states is stepping up efforts to help them out of the 16-year-old ye mengyuan and wang linjia were killed in the crash. the "los angeles times" reports that golden international travel was to cigarette the girls and students and teachers when they get to sfo and they were here to sharpen their english skills and tour universities. the travel agency now is assisting students and working with the chinese consulate to determine what the students will do next. >> the san francisco fire department has confirmed to abc7 news all five fire truck drivers who responded to the crash passed drug and alcohol screenings after the fire chief said there is evidence that a fire truck may have struck one of the victims during the response. investigators are also looking through airport surveillance video but they say so far their findings have been inconclusive. an autopsy to determine the cause will take weeks and the chief says that her department will help. >> we are work chosely with the ntsb as they conduct their i

terrorist attacks in the history he united states in saudi rabia and he quickly delivered 14 indictments. he was promoted at that time to be united states attorney for southern district of new ork, one of the major prosecutorial areas outside of washington. showed the same fearlessness and tirelessness and relentlessness in his dedication to justice there, which have a ome his trademark as professional prosecutor. pursued corporate crime in some of america's biggest business businesses, and he was recognized for his performance with the director's award for superior performance and seven -- stenson medal. he has been recognized not only in the public sector but by the bar.ate mr. comey's success led to his to be deputy attorney general for the united states, econd highest ranking official at the department of justice. a lot has been written and said that role.enure in i had the privilege of working respectsin a number of as attorney general for connecticut during that period of time. but i came to admire his xtraordinary currently and standing up and speaking out to his superiors and willingness to speak truth to power and defend the most fundamental liberti

united states for a little heat relief. i'm david bernard, cbs news, miami. >>> meanwhile there is a new wildfire danger in southern california. a blaze in the mountains near palm springs has destroyed at least a half dozen homes and is threatening dozens more. officials say that fire doubled in size monday night and early tuesday morning. it is only 10% contained. the national forest service says the fire actually has caused less damage than expected. >>> on capitol hill, a fiery senate debate over filibustering was ended without using the so-called nuclear option. senate democrats canceled the controversial vote on changing filibuster rules after republicans agreed to allow several stalled presidential nominees to move ahead. one of those nominees richard cordray was confirmed yesterday as direct over the consumer financial protection bureau. he had waited two years for senate confirmation. >>> meanwhile the house votes today on whether to vote on two key parts of president obama's health ca health care proposal. the white house has already put one of them on hold. tara mergener is in washington this morning with the story.

united states has welcomed the european union decision to blacklist the military wing of hezbollah. they unanimously agreed to declare it a terrorist group on monday, the result of months of negotiations. southern lebanon is an area where hezbollah is very strong. what are people saying that their reaction is to the european union decision? hand they think this is a two flip move. not have an impact on hezbollah and its capabilities. but for them it is part of them. you have to admit that this is a group that is part populist movement, the members of which come from these store owners and each store owner, they all have relatives, a son or a brother who is a member. for them they are the people that defend them against israel and are not terrorists. they think that this is only part of a campaign to weaken has a lot. as you can imagine, they can sense this move. >> can you explain why the lebanese government's fought against this decision? of then important member government, is it not? >> they have members of parliament, the government, representatives, and they represent and enjoy the support of most of the community in lebanon. another thing to consider is that the situation in lebanon is ve

southern states of the american union announced their secession from the union, they wrote a constitution, elected a president, jefferson davis, and their hastily assembled army defeated and equally hastily assembled unitedarmy at bull run in virginia. in the early spring of 1862 the current began to swerve, union armies and the union navy conquered all but a few stretches of the mississippi river valley and occupied western tennessee. in the east, robert e. lee led his ragtime confederate forces to one victory after another over their opposite number, the union army of the potomac but the victories were all won on virginia soil land in feeble the virginia economy even as they defended its. lee knew better than any southerner that the confederacy's resources were too limited to keep fending off a confederacy's enemies in definitely. only by carrying the war into the union states and only by leveraging the war weariness of the union voting public into a peace negotiations could the confederacy hoped to win. it is not far-fetched hope. in fall of 1862 dissension over abraham lincoln's emancipation proclamation cost unhappy voters in new york and new jersey to install democratic governors there. a new round

he began in the united states department of justice as assistant u.s. attorney in the southerndistrict of new york, and he rose to become deputy chief of the criminal division, and soon he moved to the job of managing assistant u.s. attorney for the eastern district of virginia, where his superiors recognized his exceptional ability and his remarkable combination of scholarship and practical sense of investigation when they assigned to him responsibility for the terrorist attack on the khobar towers barracks in saudi arabia. he quickly delivered 14 indictments and earned another promotion, this time to become united states attorney for the southern district of new york. his service there was recognized as remarkably distinguished and successful, especially in overseeing that office's terrorism investigations and prosecutions. and he made a priority of corporate crime, white-collar crime, never fearing to take on the toughest of challenges, prosecuting big businesses but also terrorism, and he received the director's award for superior performances in the henry o.stimson medal.

united states. but the issues were seen as different, and even southerners were in support of banning the slave trade. >> why were southerners in support of that? >> a lot of different reasons. one was that it was perceived as the more unjust or inhumane part of the traffic. but also they had an economic self-interest. they already owned slaves, and the environment in the u.s. was such that slave mortality was not as high in southern plantations as it was in places like cuba or brazil where slaves didn't live long because of the environment and diseases. here in the u.s. if they were well treated, as well-treated as they could be, they would live for a decent life span. so explain -- slave owners thought it would increase the value of their slaves they own. so it was an odd coalition. >> you have a chart in your book here that shows -- i want to use the word importation of slaves. what does this show here, a real spike. >> a real strong spike in the number of slaves in the u.s., right before we ban it. everyone knew that as soon as the clock turned in 1808 that congress was going to ban the slave tra

southern avenger. a wild and wacky character who thinks poor john wilkes booth was misunderstood and happens to work for a united states senator. that is coming up. >>> first tonight, democrats have said enough and are calling attention to one of the most outrageous acts of gop obstructionism which is, of course, saying a lot given the stiff competition in the category of outrageous acts of gop obstruction. by refusing to confirm the president's nominees, republicans have effectively shut down the supreme court of labor law in this country. the national labor relations board. and today 201 house members sent a letter to senator mitch mcconnell demanding that the filibuster of nlrb nominations come to an end. >> without the nlrb, 80 million private sector workers will have nowhere to turn for legal protection. hardworking americans deserve better than mitch mcconnell's political stunts. >> a pillar of american justice is if you don't have a remedy then you don't have meaningful rights. >> our republican colleagues treat labor rights as toxic. they're wrong. >> if you don't have a remedy, you don't have meaningful rights

southern avenger. a wild and wacky character who thinks poor john wilkes booth was misunderstood and happens to work for a united statessenator. that is coming up.

southern baptist convention. guest: 16 million people, the largest protestant denomination in the united states.oup of people who are committed to the gospel of jesus christ, people who know christ and follow christ. mandate of the affordable care act known as the contraceptive mandate. >> we met with a group of possible religious group. we would not have agreed but we should notgovernment mandate contraceptive coverage through the affordable care act in a way that violates the consciousness of religious organizations. we are trying to say with love and respect we appealed for them to back down on this. if not, we would appeal for a legislative solution to this problem. host: what are the solutions the administration has put forth so far? accounting games to try to say the money is free, when in reality it is coming from the employer. and to define what a religious organization is, which leaves lots of people having to choose. host: where is the line the administration drew on that? worship,uses of churches, and not very much further beyond that. religious organizations, those who carry out the

southern avenger. a wild and wacky character who thinks poor john wilkes booth was misunderstood and happens to work for a united statescoming up. >>> first tonight, democrats have said enough and are calling attention to one of the most outrageous acts of gop obstructionism which is, of

southern family. and he certainly was an unlikely president to desegregate the military, except when one considers the fact that even as a united statesuman always had been attuned to the needs and the precarious situation in which african-americans found themselves through the 1930s and through the 1940s. he was largely dependent on african-american voters for his reelection to the senate. >> yeah. >> and without that reelection, he certainly would not have been chosen to be president roosevelt's vice presidential running mate. >> let me ask you this. i'm rung out of time. but tell us the story of isaac woodward, the black veteran returning home from the war. >> well, very briefly, isaac woodward was a technical sergeant in the army traveling home through south carolina after world war ii. and he asked the bus driver if he could please get off at the next stop so he could make a quick stop to the men's room. and the bus driver said boy, sit back down and stop talking to loudly. woodward said i'm a man and you will speak to me as a man. this was too much for the bus driver to bear. so when they pulled into the next town, the bus drive

southern family. and he certainly was an unlikely president to desegregate the military, except when one considers the fact that even as a united statesuman always had been attuned to the needs and the precarious situation in which african-americans found themselves through the 1930s and through the 1940s. he was largely dependent on african-american voters for his reelection to the senate. >> yeah. >> and without that reelection, he certainly would not have been chosen to be president roosevelt's vice presidential running mate. >> let me ask you this. i'm rung out of time. but tell us the story of isaac woodward, the black veteran returning home from the war. >> well, very briefly, isaac woodward was a technical sergeant in the army traveling home through south carolina after world war ii. and he asked the bus driver if he could please get off at the next stop so he could make a quick stop to the men's room. and the bus driver said boy, sit back down and stop talking to loudly woodward said said i'm a man and you will speak to me as a man. this was too much for the bus driver to bear. so when they pulled into the next town, the bus d

southern how's that function? ♪ >>> that's it for us. thanks for watching. "piers morgan live" starts now. >>> welcome to our viewers around the united states.soon be in the hands of six florida women. they will begin deliberations friday. will they find him guilty or not guilty of killing trayvon martin. a dram day in court punctuated by the most we've heard from the defendant himself. >> did you now have sufficient time to discuss with your attorneys whether or not you wanted to testify in this case? >> yes, your honor. >> i don't need to know what was said, but after those discussions, have you made a decision? >> yes, your honor. >> what is your decision, sir. >> after consulting with counsel, not to testify, your honor. >>> so, he won't testify, but his defense attorney mark o'mara is talking, striking a confident turn after today's dramatic session. >> i think we have a very, very good chance with the jury t