amy: i want to ask you about thurgood marshall, about the man that you wrote about extensively and his role in this case. >> this is interesting because this groveland case is beginning at the same time that ron versus board is beginning. marshall is being talked to by his colleagues at theldf saying, thurgood, your indispensable to the civil rights movement. we cannot afford to lose you. you can't go down to florida and take this highly dangerous case were you having to move from house to house so the klan doesn't get you. we can't afford to lose you. marshall was really adamant about this, which i found interesting. he said, look, these cases are just important. these cases save lives. in a way, he was in the four forefront of black lives matter. he knew he was the last step come the last rate hope that there were men who work falsely accused of these crumbs facing the death penalty. marshall said it would move him because he was standing the lobby with the mothers of these boys and it would be begging and to save their boy because they knew they were innocent. that made a big impact

thurgood marshall college fund, maybe not limited to hbcus, we find the students, do we represent the institutions with the students? fair question. i am pleased to say to you that very diverse board said hbcus are important. if we abandon it it will give others the license to abandon support for the institutions so we have committed ourselves to dig in and support hbcus, and be appropriately critical, constructively so, because that is how we will ensure hbcus are here for our children. i have to shout out, we came up with a strategy a couple years ago, we have to figure out what industry works, no question how can hbcus serve industry? industry wants black folks. there is a supply and demand issue and the bigger problem is and supply because coming from industry we wanted black folks. there is a supply challenge and we need to sort that. as you heard several years ago apple gave us $47 million to solve that. they said we can't talk about diversity in silicon valley, we designed a plan. the initial design was giving 20 engineers, this is not the genius bar. i'm talking about product

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thurgood marshall, zora neale dr. lasala fall, mr. i coates,rdan, ta-nehis elijah cummings, and mayor kasim reed. you are ready to join the ranks. you are finally at your commencement, and i want you to look around and catch it this moment. holdit in your heart, and it in your mind. you are now looking at people you will read about for the trailblazing work they do. you are looking at the faces of friends who will one day ask you for their children. you may even be looking at someone you will grow your family with his one or both of you do not know it right now. it's going to happen. also, look back on the experiences you have already had. remember those first days on the quad moving into the injury -- [applause] senator harris: learning how to navigate that howard run around so you can get that dorm room for sign-up up for a class. i know. remember or even maybe try to late nights ate found theirs and those other late-night at the punch out for lj. ror el ray.- above all, above all, above all, remember you are blessed because whereve

harris: it includes people like charles hamilton houston and thurgood marshall. [cheers and applause] sen. harris: who are among mine and your inspirations for going to law school. history has proven that each generation of howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world. now, graduates, it is your turn. let's look at the world you are now entering. you are graduating into a very different time than it was when you arrived a few short years ago. you are graduating into a time when we see a revival of the failed war on drugs and a renewed reliance on mandatory minimum prison sentences. a time when young people who were brought to america as children fear of midnight knock on their door. a time when throwing millions of working people off of their health insurance to give tax rates to the top 1% is considered a victory to some. a time when we worry that a late-night tweet could start a war. a time when we no longer believe the words of some of our leaders and where the very integrity of our justice system has been called into question. gra

and then thurgood marshal. then thurgood marshal. i later had a teacher who had been -- thurgood marshal brought a lawsuit to the general council of the naacp in the mid '30s on equalization. there was a black tax. so similar qualifications, it became much more because of the white. one of my teachers had been one of his lead plaintiffs in the virginia case. and so, she would talk about thurgood marshall and the naacp. >> so this was not a history lesson. this was first-hand experience. that is so interesting. because when the sit ins come along, one of the original sit in students had a high school teacher who was on the 1947 journey of reconciliation. and so this information is transmitted to you and to all over the country and the south. >> i'm sure it was because people were affected. you know, the litigation was that we couldn't do anything with the executive branch. we couldn't get an antilynching law. we had no hope in congress. you know, with the southern senator in this the position of authority. so the only place we could g

the petition wants jeb stuart high school renamed to thurgood marshall high school in honor of the supremee and civil rights advocate. >> back in history he was a -- he was a confederate soldier so we, we don't align with those views any in virginia, or at least in this district and we're one of the mt diverse schools in cps so, we do not believe in any of the views he had or any of the things he upholds. >> it's a part of american history but people need to understand history. you can't eradicate history. >> reporter: and there are reports that the cost to change the name here could be upwards of a million dollars to change the name and the logo on everything associated with it. critics of the name change say that that money could be better spent on education and other resources and programs needed for the school. tisha lewis fox5 local news. >> ♪ >> aall right, well we certainly start to see some storms popping up. it was hot today. is this part of -- > all part of that and real feel of summer today with the humidity up and so we've got a little bit of energy for these storms to feed on

this is also by the thurgood marshall fund and is just getting underway. >> welcome to our headquarters. we share this building with gallup with the work we will

the question was how do we thurgood marshall college fun play in the space? we went way far. we submitted we can represent black students. that it matter where they go to school because as unkind to grow my business, my consumers the navy i am not limited to hbcus. maybe we need to go find the student of the questions to represent the institutions for the students? fair question. it was on the table. i'm pleased to say to you that that very diverse board of mine said hbcus need us. hbcus are important. if we abandon it then it would give others the license to abandon the support for the institutions. we have committed ourselves that we're going to dig in, support hbcus, look at them and be a properly critical constructively so, because that's how we're going to ensure hbcus are here for our children. i have to get some shout outs, we came up with a strategy couple of years ago as an institute. we have to pick up what industry wants. there's a question, how can hbcus serve industry and industry wants diverse and want black folks. there's a supply and demand issue and the bigge

the thurgood marshall college fund hosted this event. [indiscernible conversation] >> good afternoon. it is really quiet in here. we will have to do something about this. i'm johnny taylor. the president and ceo of the thurgood marshall college fund. welcome to our headquarters. we share this with gallup. to our to welcome you home. i would like to start out before i tell you why we are here in turn it over to the panelists, is to introduce a very special person. there are a whole bunch of special people. but a very special person here is the founder of the thurgood marshall college fund. please stand. i don't spend it a lot of time calling out people but at the end of the day we would not be here if it were not for her vision to create an organization that would really focus on the historical black .ollege and educational we represent all of the community and our advocacy efforts, scholarship, programs, capacity building and the like. i cannot thank you enough for having the vision. it is wonderful that we can look to the person who fou

new information about the man who rammed his car through a fence at the thurgood marshall airport. a have learned that he is former marshall with 17 years of experience and was stationed at d.c. superior court. authorities say that he crashed his car through a gate -- security gate. charges are still pending. it is anchors away in alexandria. the spanish tall ship galleon docked in old town. back up to lead it back out into open water. it is sailing down the potomac into the chesapeake bay to dock in baltimore on thursday. well, houston, we have liftoff. a dramatic crash caught on camera. the video everyone is talking say hello to the new frozen dunkin' coffee. real dunkin' coffee, blended frozen, creamy smooth. a whole new way to enjoy your favorite coffee. try a small for $1.99. america runs on dunkin'. of providing reliable energy and that'll never change. what is changing, is our name to dominion energy. it's a reflection of our commitment to energy innovation and renewable sources like solar, wind... and cleaner en

we hear from the head of the thurgood marshall college fund starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern live. you can watch both events live on www.c-span.org or listen live using the c-span radio app. this holiday weekend, on book tv on c-span2, saturday at 8:30 p.m. eastern, former u.s. secretary of state condoleezza rice looks at democracy around the world in her book "democ racy: stories from the long road to freedom." america was blessed with founding fathers that understood and institutional design that will protect our liberties, our right to say what we think, to worship as we please, to be free from the knock of the secret police at night, to have the dignity of those governing you asking for your consent. were were blessed -- if we blessed with that, and we believe we were endowed with our creator of those rights, it can't be true for us and not for them. >> then the controversies around and perceptions of sounding black in his book "talking back, talking black." >> we have to be comfortable saying black people have a different sound because they spend time with more one another jus

live coverage from the thurgood marshall college fund tomorrow on c-span. >> it resulted in a naval victory for the u.s. over japan just six months after the attack on pearl harbor. american history tv will be live all day from the macarthur memorial visitors center in norfolk, virginia for the 75th anniversary of the battle of midway. featured speakers include the author of the five star admirals who won the war at sea. , the odyssey of the code breaker who outwitted yamamoto and -- yamamoto at midway and the untold story of the battle of midway. and the co-author of "never call -- watch the 75th midway anniversary center live from norfolk virginia on

wind gusts, reaching gusts of 26 miles per hour at reagan national, 28 at bwi thurgood marshall, similar wind gusts around the region. even tonight, much later wins. winds will be much lighter throughout the day. highs tomorrow, low 70's to mid-seventies. tomorrow, it looks like we will be around the mid-80's. we will hang out some upper 70's. a nice-looking weather pattern coming our way all because this high-pressure center ith position to pump up southwesterly winds. right now, that system is off to our west. or so, and wers are going to go from spring the summer just like that. developing now, the search for what caused a triple fatal crash on the suitland parkway and prince george's county. q mccray has the latest. intersection of suitland parkway and forest hill road is back open, and that's great news for the cars driving by. many have been out here waiting for hours to get on their way. we have some video to show you of the intersection where this happened. they say it was a fiery crash. two cars were involved in this it,h, a maroon-colored suv, ag, and a second vehicle -- suv, a

sterling has a pair of movies on the slate labeled "black panther" and a biopic was thurgood marshall> still ahead -- cindy crawford's look-alike >> i channelled my inner cindy. >> she does cindy better than i do. >>> plus, our s""nci season finale sneak peek. >> no ordinary case. >>> and -- our can cam series continues. as cameron challenges his pal josh duhamel in a maserati race. who will win? >> told me we going miniature golfing. >>> closed captioning provided by -- >>> all right, quick, is that quick, is that cindy crawford on the cover of "vogue" or her daughter? i'd think twice. so identical. that is cindy when she was 20. kaia is now 15. we talked all things mother/daughter when we do dating, have you had to approach that yet? >> no, no. she hasn't had the first boyfriend yet. and if randy and presley have anything to say about it -- >> i think she's the last one that would have an issue with it. they would have to go through my brother and dad. so she wouldn't - if they got through them she would be ecstatic. >> kaia's 15. cindy is 51. both look flawless. and, you know, thos

attended stewart high and are advocating the school be named after the supreme court justice thurgood marshall. peggy fox reports, the other side says that is simply false. >> this area is where he had an encampment during the civil war. >> reporter: this parent wants to keep the name because of its historical significance to this part of the church. >> it was the strategic height that look down over washington dc. >> you probably driven on route 7 right by the historical marker . it is here where stuart saw union observers spying on him. he built fake cannons out of logs to make his troops look bigger. >> if you come in neighborhood behind that historical marker, you'll find apex hill, which is even higher ground. you can see how strategic it would have been. over there you can see the tree tops and the tops of the buildings. >> you start talking about names , you've got mostly woods, a number of them related to civil war landmarks. >> why do you think the name should not be changed? >> i initially did not want the name change based on a cost basis. i've become increasingly distressed by what

live coverage from the thurgood marshall fund tomorrow at 1:15 p.m.an. >> it resulted in a naval victory for the u.s. over japan just six months after the attack on pearl harbor. and friday, american history tv will be live all day from the macarthur memorial visitor's in 5ththern virginia for the 7 anniversary of the battle of midway. the five star admirals who won r at sea. anthony telly, co-author of shattered sword: the untold story of the battle of midway, and timothy or, co-author of aver call me a hero: legendary american dive bomber pilot remembers the battle of midway. watch the battle of midway 75th anniversary center live from norfolk, virginia, on friday, beginning at 9:30 a.m. eastern on american history tv on the span three. we want to welcome den caldwell, the director of policy for the concerned veterans of america. we want to talk about a piece you wrote for "the hill." "money cannot buy via a reform." by veterans affairs reform." has received mass budget increases on terrorglobal war began in 2001. under the obama administrationing s

sterling has a pair of movies on the slate labeled "black panther" and a biopic was thurgood marshall> still ahead -- cindy crawford's look-alike model daughter. >> i channelled my inner cindy. >> she does cindy better than i do. >>> plus, our "n scis"eason finale sneak peek. >> no ordinary case. >>> and -- our can cam series continues. as cameron challenges his pal josh duhamel in a maserati race. who will win? >> told me we going miniature golfing. >>> closed captioning provided by -- for color this bold are you ready... and hair this nourished? garnier nutrisse ultra color with avocado, olive and shea oils. it nourishes hair to boost color. from dull brown to our bluest black. nutrisse ultra color. nourished hair. bolder color. washed up? never.times. l'oreal's new age perfect rosy tone moisturizer. increases cell renewal. boosts skin's rosy tone - instantly. new age perfect rosy tone from l'oreal paris. and we're still worth it. we love nutro feed clean recipes. they're made with non-gmo ingredient

here's a look at the highs for today, look at this 82 at reagan, 830 at dulles and 78 at bwi thurgood marshal with all the sunshine. temperatures now are still pretty comfortable into the 60s and 70s. 58-degrees, a little cooler to the north there. but other than that it is still a pretty mild night outside and the winds, that was another factor today; the winds were pretty gusty and they're going to be a little breezy tomorrow. just anticipate that. forty at 35. pretty strong winds today out there. if you were outside you probably did feel it, but i'm sure it didn't take away from the enjoyment that you had for the day. current winds gusts are still up there quite a bit. anywhere from 18 to 29-mile per hour wind gusts currently and our overnight lowe's, it will be fairly comfortable. clearing skies so not too bad. overnight lowe's into the low 50s and upper 50s. we've got clearing skies and the clouds are finally starting to move out a little bit. we didn't have much in terms of cloud coverage, but tonight we had a few more clouds. but that is going to improve and we are going to end up seei

seventy at bwi thurgood marshal. definitely leading the 90s in the dust for sure. our current temperatures not bad, fairly mild outside, with temperatures being into the low 60s. to the far northwest we've got some 50s. your overnight lowe's tonight into the 50s and we'll let you know what to expect in the week ah head with my full cast. montgomery county fire officials believed this fire at a school bus lot was accidental. it happened overnight on near shady grove road. the fire destroyed one bus and damaged three others. the damage isis mated at about $100,000. a fire at a furniture refinishing businesses caused nearly a damage. this happened last night around 8:00 in clarksburg the business was closed when the fire broke out and fortunately no one was hurt. no word yet how the fire started. police in but, virginia are asking for help tonight tracking down a suspect who is allegingly wanted for illegally recording women and a young girl inside a walmart among burke commons road. the suspect recorded up the dresses of a 36 year old woman and her ten year old daugh

she went to school here and she wants the name changed to honor supreme court justice thurgood marshall. there is a meeting at 6:30 at the high school and we will let you know what happens next. q mcray, abc7 news. lindsey: another sizzling, summer -like day out there. doug hill is here with a look at your forecast. doug: as temperatures continue to climb slowly but steadily, beautiful shot from nationals park. 85 degrees, light wind. let's check the temperatures. as of noon from 88 in leesburg. 88 in frederick. 82 in quantico. reagan national and 81 degrees. the numbers will climb -- the average high this time in may's six come so we are well above those values. some this afternoon, cloudiness and the potential for an isolated thunderstorm or two. the best chance of that will be west of the metro area. nothing close to the area on radar. west virginia got a couple thunderstorm stopping. we will watch for those to develop closer to the rush-hour in our area. tomorrow," run out west will move in and that will give increased chance of showers and thunderstorms. this is by tomorrow morning

everyone from john adams defending british soldiers in boston to thurgood marshall who fought for desegregation. it's not lawyers and it's not the law. we have to look at ourselves collectively as citizens. it is true that our politics have become poisonous and uncivil. we have a race to the bottom, not just in terms of rhetoric, but just dealing with each other. these politicians are reflections of us. they do what is popular. it is not the lawyers. as citizens, we have to say that we've had enough of this and we want mature decisions. that's reason for an independent investigation. these investigations going to long, that's why in the past i've discouraged the idea of having a special counsel. there are times where you reach a tipping point. you see that in some of the voices on programs like this. host: one of the voices in the pages of "the financial times." the first calls to mount the special prosecutor to take over the russia investigation -- mr. nixon was compelled to do so, as was bill clinton. guest: the funny thing is that the independent counsel -- there's a lot of confusion in term

a very special person is the founder of the thurgood marshall college fund. please stand. [applause] >> i don't a spent a lot of time calling out people but at the end of the day, we would not be here if it were not for her organizationate an that would really focus on the historically let college and university community. all of the hbc you community and our advocacy efforts, our were intervention, capacity building and the like. i cannot thank you enough, dr. payne for having the vision and it is wonderful that you can look to the person who founded the organization and they are alive and well and vibrant and we left eye for cup action -- africa and china and she outdid me. i was like, well. i came on the back end of the trip area -- of the trip. thank you. two organizations would like to recognize because talking about this not happening now for the charles foundation. -- charles koch foundation. this is a very special moment, our first run at creating what will become an iconic and history institute. her, i have i see to make sure, i do not typically call out people, m

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arguing that it should be named for supreme court justice thurgood marshall. >> where we want an opening discussion of the issue. >> stephen is an ad hoc committee member that believes everyone should be welcome at the meeting, including the naacp. >> we don't think it's appropriate to have a school in 2017 who fought to defend slavery. >> it's best for school to change the name. it will make everyone feel welcomed. >> if you change the name just because some people don't like it that is erasing history just because of people's opinions. jeff: it starts at 6:30 tonight at j.e.b. stuart high school. we got word late today that a so-called keeping the name meeting will be happening here on tuesday night at the school. the issue will be voted on by the fairfax county public school board next month. jeff goldberg, abc7 news. alison: anger in the streets of tulsa, oklahoma, overnight after a white police officer was acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed black man. officer betty shelby said she shot terence crutcher because she thought he had a weapon. video, though, showed he had his

besides eating raccoon in the wilderness he has a bio pic of thurgood marshal. >>> coming up, the can challenge continues as he challenges josh duhamel in a maserati race. >> you told me we were going miniature golfing. >> who will win? >>> can cam survive his biggest fear, >>> well, welcome back, everybody, now hold on i got to give you your lights. you have been having quite the week here, my friend. earlier we showed you cameron's attempt to become a ninja warrior. >> i got four hours of practice. i made it half way through the course. not bad. >> it was cam kind of can. and then we upped the ante. can cam outrace josh duhamel in a maserati? >> come on. three, two, one. >> we are here at little springs international raceway. the wind is blowing and the cars are going all over the place and josh duhamel, car racer extraordinaire. >> it's josh and me duelling it on the track. >> bring it on. >> i had reason to be confident thanks to time spent four days earlier with a secret weapon. that's my instructor. the location, a track in west palm beach florida with a maserati racing instruct

eighty-two rat reagan national air pockets 830 at dulles and 78 at bwi thurgood marshal and right now really mild outside. seventy-two in the nation's capital. we've got p 30-degrees in annapolis, 66 at gaithersburg, 64 at winchester. so still fairly mild and at all. but the winds were a big factor today and peak wind gusts anywhere from at least 35 to 40 miles per hour and it's still pretty gusty out there. let's take a look at what's happening. wind gusts from about p 20 to 36 miles per hour we will see improvement in the overnight hours, but i want to tell you that tomorrow it will be another windy day, not quite as windy as tomorrow, but just fair warning. the clouds are gradually moving out. we've got a ridge of high pressure that's going to be a little bit more in control to help get rid of these clouds and just an odd little sprinkle l or two, nothing to be too concerned about, most of it to areas of our north. and overnight lowe's are going to be in the 40s to low 50s. it will be fairly comfortable out there for tonight and things are really improving into the week. as we set

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and what becomes controversial much in the same way as charles houston and, i don't know, thurgood marshall were controversial is that they looked at this inconvenient truth and said but wait a minute why then should my children not have access to the same education as everybody else when they're the same. aren't they american? see, what's so troubling to me is that in our conversations we often overlook the obvious. the obvious is that there is a system in the united states of america that is designed to insure that poor people and black people in particular but people of color in general do not gain access to the quality of life that chief justice warren talked about. earlier dr. smith talked about a book by another controversial figure, you may have heard of mihm, dr. king. -- about a lot of things. in the final book that dr. king wrote, he talked about education. dr. martin luther king said that american schools do not know what to teach or how to teach. that's dr. king. guess he's controversial because he pointed out something that should have been obvious to many of us. that this syst

bwi thurgood marshal 58.these temperatures some 14 to 15-degrees cooler than the seasonal average for the day. a far cry from where we should be current temperatures right now in our. sixty at manassas, 58 at dulles. fifty-five at leonardtown and 56-degrees in annapolis. as we take a look map in i think i just did. let's go past that much let's go to the overnight lowe's, 51 tonight in d.c. we're going to start out with some clouds and some graduated showers. winds will be pushing in from the north or so. it will a little cool. temperatures into the low 40s for you. as we take a look at national map we're going to show you an indication of what's coming our way. i think you're going to like it once we get into the week because we're going to get an influx of the bermuda high that's going to start to boost our temperatures up in the middle of the week. we're going to be a far cry from where we are in terms of our temperatures and highs for today and even yesterday once we get into the seven day forecast. we're

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selected titles include eyes on the prize: america's civil rights years 1954-1965, and thurgood marshall, an american revolutionary. for the sake of time, i truncated to those two. be finally, as the treasurer of the montgomery county democratic party, i'm pleased to announce the democrats are almost a 3 to 1 majority over registered republicans in our county, so, juan with, welcome to friendly territory. [laughter] if you ever need a respite from fox news, we welcome you here with open arms. [laughter] gaithersburg, please help me welcome juan williams. [applause] >> thank you. great pleasure to be here with craig shirley who i have known since the reagan white house. >> early '80s. >> early '80s. i did not know about lacrosse, that is fabulous. but i wanted to start with a very basic question for the people who have been so kind to come into our tent here at thees gaithersburg book festival and ask why did you write this book, because you've writtenen extensively about reagan beforea >> well, first, thank you. first of all, i guess if you're in friendly territory, i'm behind enemy line

he with thurgood marshall and others. and the third was john door who was head of civil rights under robert kennedy. he was the one who walked up to the governor of mississippi and asked him who he was and was shepherding an african-american student into a previously segregated state school and john door answered the question i am the law. i worked for john door in the restoration project in brooklyn. they modeled professional and courage. going from the small towns in virginia they had a lot of guts and neal did to and so did john because he was in danger of being shot at many places and many times. so, for me, writing this part of the book because it was so ambitious and took on issues and it took three times longer to write than my previous books, it took courage on my part to take on something so big. they were of comfort to me in this process and that is why i dedicated the book to them. >> okay. very good. can we give the website again? >> yeah. it is dc-confidential.org. >> is it available on amazon? >> it is. that

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the thurgood marshall fund will host the symposium this afternoon at 1:15 p.m. eastern and we will have it for you on c-span. tonight, conservative economists will discuss the impact of government programs on the poor. stephen moore ban took part in talked about social security. it turns out we round some the numbers with my friend, which we round these with a actuaries of the sick social security -- social security administration. instead of the tax taken from the paycheck, what if we just said 10% of a workers paycheck will go into an ira account? then they own it and accumulate the interest over 45 years that they work. what we found is if you did that compared to social security, assuming an average rate of return, the average poor person would not only get a higher benefit from having to this individual account but they would be able to leave $1 million for their kids. social security, let's cut to the chase, social security has robbed every low income family of $1 million. that is not something you will hear a lot, but it happens to be true. announcer: you

when we saw a lynching, when we heard about that, people like thurgood marshall and walter flight and charles houston would come into our little groups and tell us things that were happening, we got into action. nobody had to tell us. that was enough. >> you're describing a world which i'm not sure coexist today. >> no, it doesn't. >> this combination of the place where you were, the depression around you, the foment in harlem,age station against lynching and all of these social ills, i don't believe that could occur today. >> it is a totally different climate. that's why i have -- but i find myself finding it hard not to appreciate fully the difference. i say all the time, i don't know what i would do if i were in today's society and 17. the only thing i believe i would do because of the fact that from my childhood i had an interest in things that -- as an 11 year old, i had to integrate my little community center. so i always had a sense of driving to try to make things better. but i don't know, because i go through harlem now and i just say, well, this is a very different harlem fr

when students and even celebrities pegged to change the name from a couldn't federal general to thurgood marshallrecords associated with the renaming and the school board's williams says they found red flags when it came to downplaying the 1 million-dollar price tag and keeping the members conversations under the radar. at one point, the e-mails stopped altogether. >> we see transparency issues. where there's one e-mail where they say, let's take this conversation off line. and they were concerned that all their conversations would be foyable. that you can get this through a foy ya. they were couldn't anything sander of people potentially look into this and this is where we requested any information. >> williams warns political correctness will continue to come at a high cost. >> where did we stop? >> robert e. lee. there are lot of names that are associated with the civil war and the confederacy. where does this stop? at what point do people say enough is enough, and we just have to move on from and we're not going to papillons of dollars because we have a small group of people offend beside som