thurgood marshall and his lawyers never knew about it. amy: i want to go to the comments of norma padgett. the, well, nows she is 86 years old. she testified in front of the florida clemency board on friday. this is the first time she has spoken pubcly since 1952. >> my name is norma padgett upshaw. . am the victim has beenll you now, it on my mind for about 70 years. this hasyears old and never left my mind and i can tell you from the time it started until today -- if it was last night, i could carry on that route that i went that night. this, if youou have a gun held your head and told you if you scream i did not do what they said, that they would blow your brains out -- what would you do? and a you had a daughter mother and a wife and a sister were in nice -- or a niece, would you give them pardon? no, i don't think you would. i really don't. every time it comes up, i just quiver on the inside. , nowthat is norma padgett 86 years old, testifying in front of the florida clemency board. carol greenlee, your response to what norma padgett

that's what thurgood marshall got. this is a funny clip.rgood marshall was asked a question about when he decided today retire. watch >>> justice when did you make the final decision to retire? when did you come to this decision? >>> i don't have the slightest idea! [ laughter ] >> laura: the whole place burst out laughing. he's like i don't know. but he thought it was time for him to go. and he was -- but he was funny, he was holding court there, but he's like i'm getting old. i don't know i kind of like that idea of going out on top. like you go out on top and give the press conference, i thought that was cool >>> am i adding value to the job whether in the law firm? >> laura: if you're not showing up in oral argument -- how can you vote? >> laura: right >>> i think we all have that, that we want to add value. when we don't, you don't want to go on the office that's even worse. if you can't it's time for you to retire. >> laura: this is going to be a bruising confirmation battle. we played the clips and the young people getting rbg, no to

i remember watching the announcement closely when justice thurgood marshall handled his retirement back in june of 1991. >> the medical facts, what's wrong with your? >> what's wrong with me? i'm old! i'm getting old and coming apar apart. >> laura: remember how democrats made a big deal about president trump's health, they endlessly questioned his stamina and mental acuity, white house physician ronnie johnson reported the president was in excellent health, people didn't believe it. now some are asking if it was appropriate to ask questions about the physical condition of the president and his fitness for office, is it also appropriate to ask similar questions about supreme court justices, beyond ruth bader ginsburg -- all of them. everything from immigration to obamacare's contraceptive rules, the stakes are really high now. we all wish that justice is long and happy lives but do americans have the right to be reassured that 28-year-old law clerks aren't exercising undue influence especially when the court has outsized powers over matters of life and death? questions, and that's the a

school had won two state championships, and i was home about five years ago, after finishing my thurgood marshall book and i ran into garnett davis who was on the baseball team that year, and we were walking down the street and we were just talking about east high, and similar year, 1968-1969, and that they won this wonderful basketball championship, and the said to me, he said, but, wil way, on the baseball team. we won the state championship that year, too. and i said, no way. and he said, no. we lost five games in the milled of the season. we had a five-game losing streak but we stormed back, made it into the state tournament, and won eight straight games, and i said, are you serious? he said, i'm absolutely serious. we won the state baseball championship so i ran to the library the next morning and looked it up, just to make absolutely sure, and there it was, columbus east high wins second state championship in two months period. and i said, to myself, i said, now that's a book. that's exactly what i said to myself. and i set about finding all the athletes and finding teachers and students an

of what we are constantly reminded of into be equal and treated that way one of my heroes is thurgood marshallnother great power. [laughter] keep going. i wanted to go to howard and i did so thankfully i did and gw was also a great school and you do right was such reverence for the university and at howard, as you were and leave as the person you aspire to be. we were just told me have the capacity to be great but we were challenged to live up to that. >> and from 2008, i was an early supporter of president obama when he first ran. do you remember that conversation that is he black enough? and i was a surrogate so i remember interviews and i would talk in response to that question at howard university and this is what i would say. one, when you ask that question you display your lack of exposure to who is a black person and what a black person can be and is. [applause] i would explain this and this area in the middle of campus everybody dresses their best and we would all promenade. so on any day of the week? you could look over there to see young black students in the fine arts department per

one of my heroes was thurgood marshall as another example of the great graduate.or all of those reasons, i dreamt of going there and i did thankfully. gw is also a grade school. >> you write with such reverence for the university you would come as the word and leave as the perso person that you aspiro be. there were no false choices we were not just what we had the capacity to be great, we were challenged to live up to that potential. you remember because we would run into each other during that cycle and i was an early supporter of president obama when he first ran do you remember that conversation tha that would hapn about is he black enough. i was a surrogate and i remember having a few interviews they would talk in response to that question of howard university and this is what i would say. one, when you ask that question when one asks that question, you are displaying your lack of exposure to whom is a black person and with a black person can be and is. [applause] so i would explain what it means to stand on the yard at howard university. the yard is an area

thurgood marshall was one of the more popular picks. soledad: yes. and he is no longer on the court. ms. sotomayor: and 15 percent of the population can name the chief justice john roberts. those are sad statistics. soledad: i really want to bang my head into this table that's depressing. ms. sotomayor: what's a worst statistic of all. one third of young people believe don't believe that democracy is important in the united states. that's a shocking figure that is more troubling to me than anything else. soledad: chief justice roberts was responding to something that the president had said he called someone an obama judge and he said this quote we do not have obama judges or trump judges bush judges or clinton judges. we have an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. how do you remove politics from something that is teed up politically? ms. sotomayor: our founding fathers figured it out give us lifetime tenure. we're not beholden to any president. no president can remove us fro

professor of law at yale university where he has taught for over 30 years serving as a law clerk for thurgood marshall, eight honorary degrees and delivered w e-b to boys lecture at harvard. the author of 15 books of nonfiction which include the confirmation and the emperor of ocean park spending 11 weeks on "the new york times" bestseller list. tonight he is here to present his new book invisible the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down the most powerful mobster remarking it is brimming with intellect and grit and "new york times" best-selling author walter isaacson praises it as a moving story with enormous residence for our own time. we are so pleased to have the author here with us tonight please join me to welcome stephen carter. [applause] . >> thank you for that kind introduction. also the harvard bookstore for inviting me. the last time i was supposed to be here i canceled because there was an illness in the family and i could not make it. they said don't worry we will reschedule. now i'm here three years later. [laughter] it is a real pleasure most of you know, me better fo

because of that, the t-s-a is closing one checkpoint early at baltime- washington international thurgood marshallirport. the t-s-a tweeted saturday that one of the airport's "security checkpoints was shut down saturday. passengers were asked to arrive early for evening flights and check with the airport and airlines for updates. t-s-a employees are among the 800-thousand of federal workers affected by the partial government shutdown ...... which is the longest in u.s. history. ( marty ) in national news...a video on social media shows a group of kentucky high school students mocking a native american elder. this video from friday's in-digenous people's march in washington was posted on instagram.. it shows what looks to be a teen, wearing a "make america great again" hat, staring at an older man who is drumming. other young people surround the two, jeering and chanting. activists say the drummer is an elder from the omaha tribe. an organizer for the march called what happened extremely disrespectful to native americans everywhere. <"when i was there singing, i heard them saying 'build that wall,

lawyer thurgood marshall won them a new trial. vit the local sheriff, willis mccall shot and killed one of them in cold blood, claiming he l ied to escape. odrough the years, supporters of the groveland four have stitioned for a full pardon, even though the men have all passed away. there was one surprise at today's clemency hearing. >> i don't want him pardoned. no, i do not. >> reporter: the alleged rape victim, norma padgett, who hasn't spoken publicly about the case in decades, defended her story. >> that's not no lie. if i had to go to court today, i could tell you the same story. >> reporter: but over the years, findings from federal and independent investigations disagreed, and, today, so did the clemency board. voting unanimously to remove this stain of injustice. carol says she carries no bitterness. neither did her father. >> he said, "forgive them." >> reporter: forgive them? >> forgive them. my father said hatred and anger destroys you from within. love will bring you out. >> reporter: manuel bojorquez, cbs news, miami

>> as we know first of all that there was a need for board of education thanks to thurgood marshal. >g the heros. >> yes. there was a need for them to make clear that anything about segregating children in schools based on race was ant thet kal to our constitution and the values and priorities and ideals of our country. there's no question that bussing was the right thing to do as an attempt towards integrating the public schools of america. i am sure that all good people support the idea that children should not be educated separately and that we should have a society and leaders that want to integrate and bring all children together as y'aequal. >> i have two more questions. >> okay. >> you were a leader of the me too movement. an unfortunate thing happened, y larry wallis. he is mentioned helping you run the in california and fixing the problem of implicit bias. as somebody that is a leader of the me too movement how did this happen and you didn't know about it and what did you learn about it given that it kind of struck close to home? >> sure. first of all it was a painful experie

i'm sure the book is going to give you much more information about judge thurgood marshall's back story. >> host: well, jacqueline woodson, we've had a slew of older people calling in to talk to you. is this -- do you get this at a book signing or at a fair as well? >> guest: i do. at book signings i really do get the spectrum. everyone from very little kids like jay to 90-year-olds. i don't get as many, much older people because they're not mobile like that, so they can't come to the event, which makes this so good. [laughter] so i do, but i do get a range of ages. >> host: another brooklyn. gigi's mother? i hope i'm getting the right girl here. was it drugs or mental illness? >> guest: so gigi's mom. angela's mom. >> host: angela's mom. okay, sorry. >> guest: it was drugs. yeah. >> host: was that part of the crack epidemic that happened in the '80s? >> guest: no, it was the heroin of the '70s. so, yeah, so finish you look at the period, you can trace the drug. so she was a heroin addict and od'd and was found on the roof. >> host: dorothy's in baton rouge, louisiana. hi, dorothy. >> c

thurgood marshall had 1100 students when i went there, and seven years later, it had 450. the community gave up on the school. i'm looking at a report that miss rosina tang gave me when i was in high school. balboa was not a school that anybody wanted to go to, and it's in the top five of most highly requested schools in the city. it has a capacity of 270 students, and the requests are 16 1670. a decade ago that's not the story of balance bowl boa, and naive enough to think that the board was responsible for that. what i want to do it create a system that's easy to understand, and it feels like it serves families. i think we operate in a district where we're just jumping through way too many hoops. like, we have to completely rethink how we engage our community so that they feel like we want to make this a convenient process for them, and we want to make it easy for them. so that's really my main -- what i'm going to be most focused on is that aspect of this resolution. but the work of making schools incredible is also going to be driven by people at the site. i don't want

i think his name was thurgood marshall. read the story of port chicago. when i was growing up in my native state of texas and all of my early 24 years was under that doctrine of separate but equal, god knows there was nothing equal about that. but our hero in those segregated times was doris miller. real about the city of waco have developed a beautiful park on the story of that sailor. of course he has commemorated pearl harbor at the u.s.s. arizona memorial. read about my home boy. please. >> i was sitting here thinking. i think the first gentleman asked about sergeant edgar caldwell. i thought i remembered that name and i was doing a lot of research for one of the posters for my poster session on veterans. and there is brian stevenson, equal justice initiative. his new paper is on targeting african-americans, lynching, i mean the soldiers. there's a chanter called learn more, the legal lynching of sergeant edgar caldwell. that paper -- i referred to it -- it's a recent one. legend in america targeting black veterans. you can get it online. >> excellent

she went to howard university where you had notables like thurgood marshall graduate from there and tonyn. so there is a lot there for kamala harris. she's had a progressive record the last two years. she's been talking about medicare for all. she's been talking about other economical issues that affects everyone. and so i think we are seeing a really interesting group of people coming forward. >> joe, you covered her for some time. that's why we wanted to have you on. you wrote harris will have her challenges, too. she served two years in the senate, all itn the minority. she often describes herself as a career prosecutor, some of her positions will be controversial in a democratic primary. positions like what, joe? >> well, she's -- let's look at her record as attorney general. sort of a mix of being bold, being cautious and innovative. you know, when the mortgage meltdown was happening, a lot of states got together and negotiated with the banks. the original sentiment california would have gotten only $2 billion to $4 billion. she acted boldly. she held out. california eventually got

up at a young age wanting to be a lawyer and that h the heroes among they words of lawyers, thurgood marshallhey were the ones who took the passion from the streets and translated it into the courtrooms of our country and did the noble work of reminding us of things like a great point we are all equal and should be treated that way. one of my heroes is thurgood archbold. for all of those reasons i dreamt of going there and i did. [applause] and gw is also a great school. [laughter] you do write with such reverence forr the university and you woud come as you were and leave as ae person you aspire to't be. there were no false choices. we were not just told we had the capacity to be brave. we were challenged to live up to that potential. >> at howard it's interesting, you remember because we would en into each other around 2008 during that cycle and i was an early supporter of president obama when he first ran. do you remember the conversation about is hen black enough? i remember having a few interviews and i would talk in response to that question and this is what i would say. when you ask th

thurgood marshall, in one of his opinions, one of his dissents, i believe it was -- maybe it was in baki he wrote -- i'm not sure it was bakim but he said if -- it was baki, but he said if america had done what it was supposed to have done during this time period, he doesn't cite andrew johnson but he talks about this reconstruction period as a sort of lost opportunity. and i think you can't blame -- you cannot blame one person for all the good that happens or all the bad that happens, but a president -- and this is my approach in the book -- a president is the leader of the country, is a symbolic leader. people in times of crisis -- people don't look to the supreme court or the congress. there's too many of them. the president is the energy of the government. and the president exercises actual leadership and symbolic leadership. and the kind of leadership that he exhibited during this time period wasn't enough to make -- he didn't ruin everything all by himself. but he made it much more difficult for the right thing to be done, and that's the real tragedy, i think, of his presidency. bu

. >> she was following in the footsteps of the great civil rights lawyer thurgood marshall who was theity, basing it on the clause of the constitution that guarantees equal protection of the law. she wanted it to apply to equal protection for women. they help restore my natural barrier, so i can lock in moisture... and keep us protected. we've got to have each other's backs... and fronts. cerave. what your skin craves. >> my first argument before the u.s. supreme court was in frontiero v. richardson. >> i was way back in the 1970s a second lieutenant in the air force. i went in the military because i needed the money. >> who says a woman has to settle for a routine job just because she's a woman? discover the united states air force, and you'll discover the world. >> i was newly out of college. this was a new job. i had just married, so it was the start of new everything. it became clear pretty quickly that the men i was working with who were married got a housing allowance, and i wasn't getting paid a housing allowance because i was a woman. i assumed it was a mistake, so i went off t

the legal defense fund, he was brought in to the work of brown versus board of education by thurgood marshallere partners at law firms and law professors but part of the trust and he was one of them. the first african-american clerk of the supreme court in one holiday he was working and all the clerks decided he was going to go down and have lunch at the mayflower hotel. he said i will join you in 10 minutes. his best friend, the co-clerk, elliott richardson, elliott richardson said i will wait for you. when bill coleman came out and said why don't we go over to union station, it's closer and we have so much work to do and not eat there and go back they went to union station and aden only when they got back to the chambers today learned that his friend elliott richardson had called to the mayflower hotel and learned they would not serve back people and that is why they went to union station. it took a case in 1953, dc versus thompson to ensure that all dc facilities had to serve african-americans. as we look around this room, [ applause ] i want you to remember it wasn't always like this and

king, doctored to boys, justice thurgood marshall, reverend walter, charles hamilton houston , ernestthat the promise of america is realized by all americans regardless of the color of their skin or their sexual orientation. today is the day that urgency calls upon us to fights against injustice no matter where we find it. violence is not an option in 2018 so we must stand up and demand educational equality, we must fight against police totality. we must fight against discrimination. we must fight against health disparities and we must fight against targeted voter suppression that keeps people from the polls based on the color of their skin. we must fight, we must fight. michael brown, trey von martin and derek gardner they are saying to us from heaven that if you love dr. king keep on fighting. if you love me, keep on struggling. never give up. as we say in the house of alpha we will fight until freezes over and then we will fight on the ice. we will save the fraternity the fraternity of brother king that you did not die in vain my brother. 50 years later we shall fight, we shall fig

kris van cleave is at bwi thurgood marshall airport near baltimore where the shutdown is affecting travelning. >> reporter: good morning. more than 2 million or so people are expected to fly today here at bwi. the airport has had to close one of its checkpoints at times. we notice today, all the checkpoints are open. each checkpoint has several lanes closed that could be screening passengers. this is in part due to excessive callouts. increasingly being blamed on the financial impact of the shutdown. screeners can't afford to come to work for free any longer and it could get worse this week if they are positioned to miss another paycheck on friday if this shutdown goes past wednesday. nationwide, tsa sick calls hit their highest point saturday at 8% of the workforce. almost 94% of the 1.6 million passengers were cleared in 15 minutes or less but the tsa is experiencing acute staffing shortages at major airports in new york, atlanta, chicago and miami. officers from other airports have been deployed, flown into those cities to back-fill. but the tsa says it is increasingly likely airports

. >> reporter: after an all-white jury convicted the men, naacp lawyer thurgood marshall won them a new. but the local sheriff, willis mccall, shot and killed one of them in cold blood, claiming he tried to escape. through the years, supporters of the groveland four have petitioned for a full pardon, even though the men have all passed away. there was one surprise at today's clemency hearing. >> i don't want him pardoned. no, i do not. >> reporter: the alleged rape victim, norma padgett, who hasn't spoken publicly about the case in decades, defended her story. >> not no lie. if i had to go to court today, i could tell you the same story. >> reporter: over the years, findings from federal and independent investigations disagreed. yesterday so did the clemency board voting unanimously to remove the stain of injustice. carol says she carries no bitterness, neither did her father. >> he said, "forgive them. forgive them." my father said, "hatred, anger destroys you from within. love brings you out." >> reporter: for "cbs this morning saturday," manuel bojorquez, miami. >> two of these so-ca

my heros growing up with thurgood marshal and all those folks and then i decided to become a prosecutorved there were vulnerable and voiceless people who deserved to have a voice within that system and i hoped to do what i could in terms of reforming the criminal justice system. >> heilemann. >> i'm going to ask you a question that's not directly about the book but -- >> did you read the book, john? >> i sped read through this thing -- >> index. >> no. >> there is an index. you have to look and see if your name's not in it, people won't read it. >> i looked to see if barnicle's name is mentioned. he's mentioned like 37 times in the book so it's worth reading. the woman who wrote this book sits on the senate judiciary committee and next week will begin the process of confirming a new attorney general, who has written some things as a private citizens, expressing a lot of criticism and doubt of the special counsel, someone who has not been meeting with a lot of your democratic colleagues. i don't know if you've met with him or not yet. >> i have not. >> tell me what your attitude is. what

years before that and one of the people that really helps to do in or helps hoover is there thurgood marshall ironically with a very good relationship with hoover and basically saying howard is a rugged individualist and i hope you can cut them down to size. that is a rather sad story but interesting find. >> that is definitely interesting, not a lot of people know that one. there are a lot of different people that doctor howard had influences on in his life but also faced like you are talking about he was doing this at a very dangerous time and was there pushback from the community at large or was he mostly embraced? what is your take on the? >> a lot of the reason he was killed was gun ownership. about every black person in mississippi delta's own guns and israelis -- i didn't mention this but howard had annual rallies where they would get 10000 people out in the middle of nowhere in rural mississippi, entertaining like mahalia jackson and you saw guns everywhere. whites knew that if they got in close then they might get off they were not escape and had to get close to do anything and they