susan swain: on... jay hakes: you can see in that clip that she wasn't going to let that legal opinion close her down. so she, you know, was able to do it, and, you know, had a great impact.you know, she was so committed to reducing stigma for mental illness, to getting it treated as a medical condition. and in her own sweet way, she was running that commission. grace hale: and her issues really are still very much with us. i mean -- and recent health care reform is just winning some of the goals that she was working on back in the '70s. susan swain: well, they -- she had a signature piece of legislation that made its way through the congress. can you talk about what that did, and what its legislative trajectory was? jay hakes: ok. well, the mental health commission issued reports in 1977 and 1978, and then in 1980, you know, fairly late in the carter presidency, they passed the mental health bill, which was basically requiring that mental illnesses be treated like other illnesses.interestingly enough,

susan: how did he get arrested? karen: he was on a street corner in san leandro, california, which is a suburb next to oakland in the san francisco bay area, and he was visiting his girlfriend that day on the corner and he went into this kind of corner store to buy some cigarettes and he thinks he was spotted. somebody recognized him. he was on the corner, and all of a sudden the san leandro police showed up and said something to him like, have you seen any short japanese guys around here? and my father said no. then the military police came and that was it. then they took him first to the san leandro jail, and then to oakland. they do not know what to do with him. host: one of the important things to know about fred korematsu. peter: the initial steps were very rudimentary, to say the least. he was put in to the federal jail, and while he was there, he was visited by the director of the northern california aclu, a man named earnest. he had read about fred's arrest in the newspaper, and he was hoping to find somebod

susan: ok, thank you.yra: well, barbara bush had trouble understanding how anyone could elect bill clinton. she felt that her husband had done a superb job as president and deserved re-election. and along came the governor of arkansas, and there were disclosures about his having had an affair. she just could not understand how people would go ahead and elect him. as far as hillary clinton went, she thought she was bright, she thought she was sharp, but she -- barbara bush did not entirely know how to deal with her, because she really was someone different. so there was a certain level of discomfort with both of them. jeffrey: this difference is really quite crucial, because there is a real cultural shift, even a generational shift going on in america at this time, that barbara bush was from a generation where a traditional woman's role was to stay home and raise the kids and support her husband's career. hillary clinton did not come from that model. and consequently, barbara bush had really sort of inadver

susan: interracial marriage? karen: yes. susan: what about the legal side of the case? what happened? peter: this is one of the great experiences you never anticipate. back in 1981, i decided to write a book about these cases, an academic book, really. you have a copy of it, it is called "justice of war." in the research for the book, i learned about these cases in law school in my constitutional law class. we read them. everybody agreed these were terrible cases, terrible decisions. my question was how could this happen, with all these liberal justices to make such a terrible mistake? i started researching it. i came up with documents. in the government's own file, it showed that during the prosecution of these cases, before the supreme court, lawyers had warned charles fahey that the evidence he was playing -- planning to present, that there was evidence of espionage, that it was absolutely false. the fbi had found no evidence to support it. they had all agreed there was no evidence to support this. he demanded, he said it is highly unfair to this racial minority that

susan: staying with the story. there was a commission created to look into the hole in term process -- interment process. they decided to do what? karen: during the reagan administration, the redress of reparations movement started. just before my father's case was reopened. war relocation authority, they were reviewing how the japanese-americans were treated during the incarceration. when people in my community got wind that my father is going to reopen his case, there are people that were not in favor of that. they thought that if my father vs. unitedatsu states, that would hurt their chances. my father, as he said before, said he wanted to go on with this. people took risks. the legal team took a risk. my father was the chairman -- determined to go along with this. susan: the thousands of japanese who were interned were found to be due reparations. was an official apology issued by president reagan, who initially opposed preparation. -- reperation. was changed by conservative members of congress, including leadi

susan: thank you. it is useful to put together a few different threads of the first amendment from the last two callers. one is the first amendment being absolutist, which was the first amendment says congress shall pass no law bridging freedom of speech. it is written as if there will be no law. but what holmes says and with the supreme court said, it it depends on the context. that is where the notion of crying fire in a crowded theater comes from. that is why everybody would agree, certainly we could prevent someone from being able to do that. from there, the idea that context matters and that the first amendment is not absolute the supreme court goes on to , say, here are the circumstances that the government can prevent you from doing something that interferes incites mobilization or crime. that standard has varied from justices over time. schenck is the first time they announce a rule, and it is that there if there is a clear and present danger. when it does not mean is there has to be a problem

susan: tom foley, from washington. can you talk about his career and, again, what he was doing during his career to promote this kind of globalization and diversity? christopher: tom foley is very involved on a number of fronts. a little bit about his background, he is born in spokane and raised in eastern washington. from an early period, he goes to the university of washington to do graduate studies in the early 1950's. he is in the soviet studies program at one point. very early on, he becomes an international. he becomes very interested in what is going on outside of his home state. another really formative moment for him and this is much later on. he becomes congressman from the fifth district in eastern washington in 1965. he is assigned to the house agriculture committee, which is a really big assignment for eastern washington congressman, because he can directly affect the lives of his constituents. one of the things that happens to him is that he is in a meeting of the agriculture committee, i think in about 1

((sot)) susan williams "i can't.. i can't even.. i'm sorry.." in an emotional interview with abc's amy robach.. susan says her husband was secretly fighting depression, anxiety and paranoia.. ((sot)) susan williams "it was like this endless parade of diagnosed with early stages of parkinson's disease.. and his autopsy later revealed.. he was also suffering from "lewy body dementia".. a debilitating brain disorder.. ((sot)) dr. dan kaufer director of unc memory disorders program: "lewy body dementia is a complex disorder with many different presentations. you can see very dramatic effects with thinking, emotions and behavior." ((sot)) susan williams "lewy body dementia killed robin. it's what took his life." turns out.. the same week the 63-year-old took his own life.. doctors wanted to check him into a facility for neuro- cognitive testing. ((sot)) amy robach "was this robin's way of taking control back?" ((sot)) susan williams "in my opinion, oh yeah. and-- i think he was just saying, "no." and i don't blame him one bit." elizabeth hur tag susa

tell bus her. >> susan berman was a mob daughter.er dad was davy berman who was partners with bugsy siegel in las vegas. she met robert durst when they both went to ucla. they became fast friends. and she understood him. they both came from money. they were sort of the entitled background. and they stayed friends. and when she graduated she moved up to san francisco, graduated with a master's degree, and then followed robert durst to new york city. >> and in fact, didn't he walk her down the aisle when she got married? >> he sure did. she called him "the brother i never had." and he walked her down the aisle. >> and everybody knew how close they were, but did they ever have a romantic relationship? >> they were never, never that way. she was never interested in him that way and vice versa. but they told each other everything. >> but kathy, did he ever talk to the media? i don't believe he did. >> he never talked to the media. she was -- you know, robert durst had a way of hiding very well. and he hid behind susan. >> i do firmly beli

we begin tonight with robin williams' widow susan, silent for more than a year after the beloved actor and her beloved actor committed suicide. opening up in an emotional interview with abc's amy robach about her previously undetected medical condition that changed everything. >> your last conversation with robin, what was it? >> it was time for bed. it was getting late. he said, good night, my love. i said, good night, my love. and then he came back again and he looked like he had something to do. and that was like, i think he's getting better. i thought, this is good. then he said, good night. good night. that was the last. >> reporter: tonight, susan williams is sharing for the first time the private pain she has endured since losing her beloved husband robin williams who took his own life last year. now susan is ready to set the record straight about yet another illness, beyond the depression and the parkinson's he was diagnosed with, a mysterious illness that was also eating away at her famous husband's brilliant comedic mind. >> most people think your husband killed himself becau

susan went to work that morning thinking he was still asleep. >> i said call me when he's up. she sent me a text and said he's not up yet. what should i do? i said, in that moment i knew there was something horribly wrong. and then she called -- she called me back. >> what did she say? >> i can't -- i can't even -- i'm sorry. that 20-minute car ride. i just screamed the whole ay, robin. >> did you get to see him? >> yes. i got to pray with him and i got to tell him, i forgive you 50 million percent, with all my heart. you're the bravest man i've ever known. you know, we were living a nightmare. >> reporter: that nightmare at its worst in the months leading up to his suicide. this 63-year-old was secretly battling depression, anxiety, and paranoia which drove him to take his own life. >> paranoid? >> apparently at the end, yes. we would be out at dinner and if people were looking at him because people couldn't help themselves, he would say, are they giving me the stink eye? no, they're freaked out because you're robin williams. >> reporter: throughout his life robin had been op

i don' t blame him one bit. >> susan says robin had been completely sober for 8 years when he died. tomorrow on good morning america, you can hear more from susan and her legal battle with robin' s children. jc: adele' s new single became a record breaker in its first week on the charts. hello is the first song to pass one million u.s. downloads in a week, it got one -- 1.1 million downloads. the previous record holder was flo rida' s right round with 636,000 downloads in a week. hello also debuted at number one on the billboard hot 100, it is the singer' s fourth number one. phil: a discrimination decision to tell you about. the federal government says a school in chicago did treat a transgender teen unfairly. jc: this is the first ruling of it' s kind, now the high school is being told to make changes or face financial consequences. phil: the man who calls himself spiderman is living up to the name again this time climbing in paris. harvey: it is so nice out now it is hard to think that winter is not far away. some interesting information "hurry! you gotta get fios" but why? time,

susan was telling the media they thought she just ran away.t she was left and susan putting that out to the media so i think that was why she sort of spoon fed them. she was a member of the media. she would have walked on fire for the man and she did. >> we recently took a trip down to the pine barons in southern new jersey. why? because it's the dense million acre forest. a really great place to bury a body. mobsters did it all the time. when i first reopened kathleen durst's case we began piecing together a puzzle in the pine barons fit right in. the durst organization had a long-held policy the only collect calls to accept were from seymour and robert durst. two days after cathy disappeared, a collect call was accepted from here which was once a laundromat in the small town of ship bottom, new jersey. ship bottom is located on long beach island around 25 miles north of atlantic city and just four miles from the pine baron. that put durst near a known burial ground right after cathy vanished. i sent john down there in 2002 to meet up with a

>> yeah. >> susan's friend narrowly escaped losing his life that night. he was just an innocent bystander in ronald brook's desperate act. >> ron, what was your intent when you picked them up? what were you going to do? what did you think you were going to do? >> probably to humiliate her. to have power over her. >> and the guy was just along because he was there? >> he was there, yeah. and i had power over him, too, with the gun. but she was the one that i had been put down by, the look at me, and so when i seen her again, i decided to show her. >> on december 7th, 1975, ronald brook was arrested in connection with the death of susan worthen. he was convicted of kidnapping, sexual assault and murder and sentenced to life in prison for his crimes. >> i am not a bank robber, and i'm not some guy that ripped off a bunch of drug dealers. i didn't do something that you brag about on the yard. i say, hey, i killed an innocent girl that didn't have it coming. >> ronald brook may claim he is not afraid to talk about his crime, but admitting to sexually assaultin

susan: i want to dial it back one second.everyone wants to understand more what lessons you have learned in some of your previous workings together. how you wield levers of power in an institution that increasingly is fragmented? first, we want to know, how did this odd couple come together? you guys are kind of an unlikely duo. you have mentioned your background in law enforcement. but seriously, there are 100 members of the senate. tell us, what is your story here? how did you hook up? sen. leahy: tell them what your wife said. sen. lee: i have mentioned this to senator leahy before. a few months ago, when he and i were working on the usa freedom act, which dealt with a collection of metadata under section 215 of the patriot act and got rid of the domestic collection of this bulk metadata under the patriot act, i was calling pat leahy so much that my wife said to me, you talk to senator leahy more than you talk to me. but we started working together fairly soon after i got to the senate. 4.5 years ago. i recognized early on

a very dark tunnel. >> susan told me that they had a diagnosis of early parkinson's. but that diagnosis was just the tip of the iceberg and something that she would only find out children over the estate could soon be over and tomorrow susan speaks exclusively to "gma" and "nightline" to clear up rumors about the suicide. >> we all heard the reports they were sleeping in separate bedroom. >> i had preconceived notions in my mind and i was blown away whether i heard her tell her side of the story. >> no one could have been anything more for robin. it's chemical warfare in the brain. you can't find it until someone dies. >> our hearts are with susan and robin's three kids. former u.s. senator and "law & order" actor fred thompson pass add way after a long battle with lymphoma. he was 73 years old. >> it's been three years since whitney houston passed away. bobby kristina also died. haven't heard from the one person in the center of it all, pat houston. pat was whitney's best friend, confidante, sister-in-law and christy's aunt and the person who was with her until the v

. >> jeff :susan west and her husband rick just got back from paris.near any of the attacks but say they felt vulnerable because of the unknowna city under attack paris was gripped by fear. susan and rick say they did not know the extent of the carnage until laterand when they found out how bad it was, they were even more uneasy about being there. >> susan : we had heard the borders had been closed. we heard about the numbers. we heard all the terrorists had been killed. everything was closed. security in the hotelthe revolving door was shut and there was always someone there at the doorin and out. >> jeff :susan says she was afraid of more attacks. >> susan : then, of course, too, what went on in my mind is there is no guarantee that there was not more of these terrorists and that they were going to continue with their attacks the next day. >> jeff :susan and rick say the whole thing was like a bad dream and they say they are happy to be back here in the bay area. i'm jeff bush in mill valley, kron four news. >> pam :in there has been a backlash again

susan: let me take some calls. this is dennis in palestine, texas. >> i just want to say jeffrey rosen is correct that richard kroger isichard and is anwork epiphany for this southern boys would only heard one part of the argument. i wanted to ask about a justice -- a law clerk of justice jackson by the name of william rehnquist who, at his confirmation in 1971, the issue came up that he had written a dissent for justice jackson in the brown case when it came before the war and -- for the court, and he said that they were just covering their bets and he did not really feel that way. i just wondered if either of your guests have checked to see the veracity of justice rehnquist's comments. jeffrey: you summarize it very well. it was an important controversy. then memo was quite vivid. he said basically that the fact , is that southerners don't like black people and will never admit them and the truth is, i believe that plessy versus was good law. jackson had asked him to express his own thoughts because jackson was u

so why do you believe robert durst killed susan berman? >> because she knew too mumuch. robert durst knew it would be inevitable that i would want to speak to susan. >> reporter: but not everyone agrees with pirro's account here. st month her formerr co-author, lisa dipaulo, filed a lawsuit claiming among other things that pirrfired her when she raised accuracy issues, a claim pirro denies. >> everything in that book was accurate. i know, i was there. >> reporter: following susan's murder in 2000 durst goes underground, moving to texas,s, disguising himself as a mute woman until a fisherman in galveston bay finds a garbage bag washed up on the shore. >> i was shocked to see that there was a torso. no head, no legs, no arms. >> reporter: other bags containing arms and legs were found. the head, still missing. the victim, 71-year-old morris black, robert durst's neighbor. durst was arrested and tried for murder. >> good morning. >> reporteter: at t trial, durst admitted to killing morris black and dismembering his body but claimed that it was all done in self-defense. >> w

it is moderated by susan glasser of politico. [applause] susan: good morning, everyone. thank you so much. thank you, louisa. thank you very much, mrs. kennedy. it is an honor to be here this morning. this is a perfect representation of what the new kennedy institute is aiming for. our conversation here this morning. i can tell you that there is such a thing as bipartisan legislating. i have seen it in action backstage in our union station greenroom here. ,eople thought that it was dead but i can tell you that it is not a dinosaur. i actually heard these two senators from different parties discussing legislative tactics right here and who they should call from across the aisle to lobby this morning on their bill. that is a perfect starting point for our conversation this morning. these two have teamed up on perhaps the most interesting project. which is criminal justice reform. it has brought together a very unlikely coalition of advocates. you have the koch brothers sponsoring the big event today on criminal justice reform. president obama, earlier this and, having his

well, then it was susan's turn. susan is a happy-go-lucky kid.ever credit her with thinking beyond her dolls. >>> but she got right into the spirit of it. >> i am thankful we have what we need to ware. mother says it's hard to keep up with us, we grow so fast. i never thought before how many clothes it takes for all kinds of weather, or how it would be to have to do without the right ones. i'm glad to be able to go to sunday school or go to any church i want any sunday. i'm thankful for my mother and daddy, that they are here with us, that both of them aren't too worried about things to take time to have fun with us. i'm glad we're a family, that families are still important in america. >> i guess dick, being the oldest, was having some pretty serious thoughts. >> i am thankful for being able to get an education, for living where schools, all schools, open their doors to a guy who wants to learn. where school books are studied instead of burned. where a guy is rated by how much he knows and a community is rated by how well it teaches him. i'm gla

susan williams: 13:51:23;21 in hindsight, it's-- he knew what he was doing. after his death - a media frenzy ensued... as she became embroiled in a contentious legal battle ...with robin's children - her step- kids... over his estate. amy robach: susan williams: 14:33:55;26 i was forced into it 14:35:01;29 in early october? they settled the case out of court? amy robach: 14:38:19;05 what agreements were reached? susan williams: 14:38:24;19 basically, what my husband wanted, which was just that i could live in the home until i die. that it would be taken care of. she's now .. taking life one moment at a time. amy robach: 12:55:09;23 they say time heals all wounds. susan williams: 12:55:17;05 elias: sam is back now with a quick look at our skycam. sam we have another pretty nice day on tap, but like yesterday we are probably going to have to wait until the afternoon before the sun comes out and brings the warmth. we are likely to have some morning clouds and patchy fog similar to yesterday, but as we get closer to lunch the clouds should roll back and we'll war

the night before he died susan had renewed hope. >> i think he's getting better.aid good night. good night. that was the last -- >> so incredibly difficult. we thank amy robach for nap you can see more of amy's exclusive interview with susan williams opening up about her legal bat well robin's children later this morning on "good morning america." that disease, more than a million people suffer from it, and they don't know until after they conduct an autopsy that they actually have this disease. it's heartbreaking. >> it was a tough interview. and glad to hear her tell that story. >> yeah. well, coming up, neighbors heading to court. at issue, a boy with autism. >> the family being sued and told their child is a public nuisance. you're watching "world news now." ♪ >>> okay. we're back with a groundbreaking lawsuit that has parents outraged across the country. the family of an 11-year-old boy with autism sued by neighbors who say the boy is a number nuisance. >> and citing past incidents, they're arguing that he's a threat to their children. abc's linsey davis now

susan: what is the next one? richard: you have a highway bill that maybe sometime in november or december, you have tax extenders mr. brady was talking about, you have the need to do an omnibus appropriations bill sometime in december. all of those can or might be places where there's an agreement between mitch mcconnell -- [no audio] emma: a major deal with the president, whoever the president is. ultimately, he's the one who's going to have to make certain decisions. it's going to be fascinating to see how he navigates that space with these deadlines coming up. the next two months are going to be huge in setting the tone for how he can handle that. richard: we talk about the big four. they've changed jobs among them. those four have been together -- the same for people negotiating everything and being in those same for jobs, from the public's perspective, when they see those photos of the white house or the president meeting with the leaders from congress, there's no different face at the tables and 2007. they

i know, i was there. >> reporter: following susan's murder in 2000 durst goes underground, moving to texas, disguising himself as a mute woman until a fisherman in galveston bay finds a garbage bag washed up on the shore. >> i was shocked to see that there was a torso. no head, no legs, no arms. >> reporter: other bags containing arms and legs were found. the head, still missing. the victim, 71-year-old morris black, robert durst's neighbor. durst was arrested and tried for murder. >> good morning. you may all be seated. >> reporter: at the trial, durst admitted to killing morris black claimed that it was all done in self-defense. >> why do you think that robert durst killed morris black? >> robert durst only kills when he has to. man. zone. that's when he kills. >> reporter: killing black is confessed to. an admission pirro says should have been a slam dunk for a murder conviction. but durst's team mount an ambitious defense starring pirro. >> bob was driven from new york by a politically ambitious woman. >> reporter: the defense strategy paid off. >> this half-wit jury in texas bou