i got a call from nancy thurman. she called and she said, joe, in that southern accident. -- with that southern accent. she said i'm here with strom's doctor. strom asked if i would come out and ask you to do a favor. i said sure, nancy, anything at all. she said, joe, strom wanted to do his eulogy. i did strom thurmond's eulogy and i was honest in the eulogy. i did not say anything that i did not believe. although i did start off by looking up at heaven and saying to my grandfather finnegan, grandfather forgive me for what i am about to do. but all kidding aside, if you look hard enough, you can even find the possibility of some in people with the most extreme views. last night we heard some talk about bipartisanship. last night we heard an address that was much more presidential in tone than anything we have heard before. last night we heard a lot about how we will continue to disagree. but there was talk of bipartisanship. but as the old saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. we find someis, m way

it is thurman in the end that gets the split decision. garcia's first loss of his career. that's your look at sports. i'm danny pommells, csn. >>> it is the last day to lays up your skates and hit the ice at penn's landing or maybe a couple spills out there, see somebody down on the ice. this is a live look at the blue cross river rink where folks have been all weekend long enjoying the last few days of winter fest. after today crews will begin transforming the ice rink into a roller skating rink for summerfest. you can ice skate at penn's landing until 11:00 this evening. >> if you want it to feel like winter, that's the case. 25 degrees. a live look outside, it's sunny, looks very deceiving, but it's cold still. we get to 53 monday, 65 tuesday with late day showers. the problem is we will stay windy. temperatures dropping off into the 50s. >> we'll take those 60s. >> it was brutally cold. >> that's going to do it for us on this sunday. i'm rosemary connors. for krystal klei and all of us here at nbc 10, have a good one. "meet the press" comes your way next. dear fellow c

it is thurman in the end that gets the split decision. garcia's first loss of his career.s. i'm danny pommells, csn. >>> president trump and his administration say it's a non-issue, but questions persist about a connection to russia dating back to the campaign. that's all ahead this morning on nbc's "meet the press." joining us now for a preview of the discussion is moderator of "meet the press," chuck todd. good morning, chuck. >> good morning, rosemary. >> attorney general jeff sessions he will give the senate amended testimony about his contacts with russia's ambassador before the election. did this controversy eclipse the president's address to congress this week and is it sidetracking his agenda? >> i think it absolutely did. i think russia is absolutely on the verge of consuming this presidency. it's i think becoming a major distraction on capitol hill. i think the question is going to be how do republicans figure out how to compartmentalize this distraction? is it so politicized at this point that congress can't really do both focusing on health care and tax reform

uma thurman did the same thing. you're a true movie star. >> i have to thank you publicly. in central park. >> stephen: i have a picture. yes. >> stephen: this is global citizen. >> light as a feather, by the way, light as a feather. >> stephen: we co-hosted, you had a long trench coat on your shoulder. >> i came out from way to stage left only to discover my eyesight has gotten bad. i said, could you read it? i stood there the entire time while you covered for me. i now have contact lenses. so thank you for that. >> stephen: i got your back, you carried me on your back. >> yeah. ( laughter ) >> stephen: the thing i find humbling is we rehearsed this once in the studio, and i got on his shoulders, and i was afraid, i don't know why, i was going to hurt your shoulders by sitting on them. but when i got off, i limped away from being on your shoulders. our wives were there. my wife said, are you telling me you hurt your leg sitting on his shoulders? ( laughter ) it was likely humbling. ( applause ) >> thank you. >> stephen: adamantium clause? this is a basal cell carcinoma, at

i got a call from nancy thurman and she said, joe and that southern accent, joe, i am here with strom's doctor. he asked if you could do a favor. i said sure, nancy. she said, strom want you to do his eulogy. eulogytrom thurmond's and i was honest in the eulogy. i did not say anything that i did not believe. although i did set up by looking grandpaaven and saying, , forgive me what i am about to do. [laughter] if you kidding aside, look hard enough, you can even find the possibility of some agreement and change in people with the most extreme views. night, we heard talk about bipartisanship. less like, we heard an address -- last night, we heard and addressed that was much more presidential intel and be have ever heard before -- but for presidential then we had ever heard before. but there was talk about bipartisanship. proof ofying goes, the the pudding is in the eating. is we find some way, some way, some way to make bipartisanship even in this atmosphere, but we cannot continue to denigrate our institutions. thank you for this great honor. i am flattered to be a part of it. [applause

it is thurman in the end that gets the split decision. garcia's first loss of his career.k at sports. i'm danny pommel, csn. >>> if you take the bus in center city philadelphia, the bus stop at 15th and market streets is going to be closed starting at 6:00 this evening. it's going to be closed for quite a while. it's all because of a construction project expected to last through october. so if you get on the bus at 15th and market, you can board that same bus at 16th and market during the length of this project. >>> earlier this week philadelphia mayor jim kenney talked about more than just numbers. he also said philadelphians are under attack. on this week's "nbc10 @issue," we asked him to explain. >> there is this need now to replicate in some elected officials minds, both in washington and harrisburg, the successful trump effect. so they are playing to the things that he brought forward in the campaign like xenophobia and misogyny -- >> we also talked to the mayor about politicians communicating with the public on social media. you can see the rest of the conversation o

i believe that if strom thurman can vote for ginsburg and 98 senators for skalicalia, there a point in time you would expect you would vote for somebody you would not have chosen, would you use the qualifications of that person. so we find ourselves here today confronting a nomination of one of the most qualified people i think president trump could have chosen from the cservative world. you're not an unfit person. i don't think there's any reason to suggest that you're his favorite. had you ever met president trump personally? >> not until my interview. >> and in that interview, did he ever ask you to overrule roo v. wade. >> no, senator. >> what would you have done if he asked? >> senator, i would have walked out the door. it's not what judges do. at that end of pennsylvania avenue and they shouldn't do it from this end either, respectfully. >> this is what the democratic leader in the house said about you. "neil gorsuch is a very hostile appointment and a very bad decision, well outside the main stream of american legal thought. if you breathe air, drink water, eat food, take medici

>> stephen: exactly, and uma thurman did the exact same thing, yeah. you're a true movie star.mean, thank you. ( cheers and applause ) i have to thank you, publicly. >> stephen: what did i do? >> we hosted an event just over a year ago in central park-- >> stephen: oh, i have a picture of it! i was going to talk about it. this is-- >> yes, this is r.c.s. >> stephen: exactly, this is global citizen. >> light as a feather, by the way, light as a feather. >> stephen: right, we co-hosted, and you had a long trench coat on your shoulders. >> i came out for our second segment from way stage left, only to discover my eyesight has got that bad that i couldn't read anything. and under my breath, i said "i can't read it!" and you said, "what?", and i said, "could you read it all?" and so i stood there the entire time while you covered for me. thank you! >> stephen: you're welcome. >> and i now have contact lenses, so thank you for that. >> stephen: i got your back, you >> yeah. ( laughter ) >> stephen: well, the thing about this, the thing that i find very humbling is that

if we're all living like strom the thurman.e're having smaller families and less workers, that is why you need rational immigration. i will not support president trump's budget because it increases defense spending, which i'm for, but it guts the other parts of it that we need as a nation. now, let me tell you. we're on track to be spending half of what we normally spend on defense. i'm hell bent on changing that but i'm not going to raise defense spending and gut the state department because you can't win the war just by killing terrorists. so to my republican friends out there, hard power is important, i want the strongest military on the planet. i want to deter war, and if we get in one, i want to win it, but you're not going to win the war against radical islam just by killing terrorists. let me tell you soft power is just as strong as hard power. here is what i'm going to do. i'm going to take the president's budget and challenge the democratic to find what helps me on sequestration. sequestration is code word for doing du

are two wins away from the swing to bobbing inyn bean -- danny garcia, phillies own facing keith thurmanweight the split decision garcia lost. union the season out in vancouver. that's sports, i'm jeff skeverski. >> the national promotional tour was launched in north philadelph the first puerto rican comic book super hero. he stumbles on magic crystals that gives had your power. he said his wife is the person behind the comic. >>> she's underarrest or is she. we'll explain the surprise awaiting this woman when police go to put on handcuffs. i see where this is going. it looks very painful. we'll explain this new phenomenon that is said to help muscle recovery. those stories plus, chris sowers has the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast and word of a warmup when "action news" continues. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it is 10:00 a.m., sunday, march 5 in the news, this morning, a home partially collapsed on a philadelphia sidewalk. now, crews are looking into whether it is sturdy. a young child is critically injured in a house fire, officials search for a cause. >>> a woman is rushed to the hospital over

that's like a 1349-day filibuster, 1349 strom thurman filibuster act. he is an adversary to voter rights, makes the justice department adversarial to voting rights rather than an advocate for voting rights. he is not standing up. we have a letter we sent to him over 4,000 faith leaders and activists, said stand up, call for the full restoration of the voting rights act. that is what the justice department is supposed to be about. we had 22 states that have passed -- many since the shelby position in north carolina, strict photo incht d. was unconstitutional, trying to roll back same day registration, early vote was unconstitutional. lastly in those states that passed voter suppression, 54% of african-americans live in those states and almost 250 electoral votes. this is dangerous to our democracy when we are going backwards across the bridge rather than forward. >> professor peterson, you look at this and in the trump tape, what do black voters have to lose, what's the answer to that? >> amongst many things, clearly voting rights is one thing that afric

the san francisco fire department believes that the quick thinking and levelheaded actions of thurman, aron, and jennifer resulted in a successful outcome for mr. shanahan. instead of this incident being a search and recovery operation, the san francisco fire department was able to quickly rescue mr. shanahan from the waters. these three young individuals knowingly or not, save esther shanahan's life that day. now, with the permission of the commissioners i would like to invite mr. shanahan up to the podium would like to say a few words before we present the certificates. >> absolutely. thank you. >> mr. shanahan. welcome. >> thank you very much and first of all, just it so wonderful that the city fire department and police department recognize this kind of behavior and response.. aron, furman and jennifer you saved my life and [inaudible] the great fire department we have and the please of him and copy off that piling but if you had not reacted in the time you did this quickly as you did, what wasn't discussed was the fact that the hyperthermia was really setting in with me and i did

. >> lets go to my friend jake thurman who is on capitol hill right now. jake, it sounds like nunes' explanations are changing by the day. now he's saying he had to go to the white house to get this information because the white house was the only place he could actually view the informion. >> it's kind of dizzng i'm having a tough time. i'm bouncing around the room a little bit with all his explanations. nunes is squirming a little bit. he's not been able to keep his answers straight. the facts are there are secure facilities in the capitol, and he controls one. he's the chairman of the intelligence committee. so to say that there is no other method or place or, you know, way for him to view classified information is simply not true. the republican leadership in the house, though, is sticking with him at this moment and saying, listen, he's totally able to conduct this investigation. paul ryan and devin nunes have a longstanding relationship. they served on the ways and means committee for many years before they were in these high-profile positions, so ry

senator thurman or kennedy, whoever wishes to proceed. suspect that after the opening statements, that will quite frankly take the better part of the morning. then we will reconvene approximately an hour after we finished. i hope is we reconvene at 2:00. at that time i will make a brief opening statement. at that time, hopefully you can introduced your lovely family. without any further waste of time, i welcome you, mr. president. it truly is an honor to have you here. on both sides of the aisle, you have had nothing but friends. quite frankly, most of us envy you. not only have you been president, that you seem to be flourishing in the status of the former president, as well. mr. president, please come your opening statement. mr. chairman, distinguished members of the senate committee of the judiciary. mr. chairman, i thank you for your very kind and generous introduction. is a very high honor and rare privilege for me to return to capitol hill to appear before this distinguished committee of the united states senate. although i have nev

that is 1348 days longer than strong thurman filibustered the 1957 civil rights act.2 states that represent nearly 250 electoral votes, over 50% of bloblack voto have put in place the voter suppression law. there was a voter suppression hack of our political system. >> and do you expect attorney general sessions to show up in his home state? the justice department has reversed his position on the texas voter i.d. case. they seem to be taking the opposite position as previous justices on voter rights. >> i don't know if he'll show up, but we have thousands to sign this letter, we will show up at his office, there are plans to really make this a serious move among moral leaders and clergy. there were clergy and young people that led across that bridge. by him pulling out of texas, it's an eerie sign to think that the justice department will now be the adversary to voting rights rather than anned a vow today the. it's like going back across the bridge and we're challenging him. this is one of the most serious moral issues about democracy. you talk about again hacking fro

the san francisco fire department believes that the quick thinking and levelheaded actions of thurman, aron, and jennifer resulted in a successful outcome for mr. shanahan. instead of this incident being a search and recovery operation, the san francisco fire department was able to quickly rescue mr. shanahan from the waters. these three young individuals knowingly or not, save esther shanahan's life that day. now, with the permission of the commissioners i would like to invite mr. shanahan up to the podium would like to say a few words before we present the certificates. >> absolutely. thank you. >> mr. shanahan. welcome. >> thank you very much and first of all, just it so wonderful that the city fire department and police department recognize this kind of behavior and response.. aron, furman and jennifer you saved my life and [inaudible] the great fire department we have and the please of him and copy off that piling but if you had not reacted in the time you did this quickly as you did, what wasn't discussed was the fact that the hyperthermia was really setting in with me and i did

i believed that if judge -- if thurman can vote for ginsburg and 90 senators for scalia that there wase it was expect that had you would vote for somebody that you would not have chosen. you would use the qualifications of that person. so we find ourselves here today confirming a nomination of one of the most qualified people i think president trump could have chosen from the coervative world. you are not an unfit person. i don't think there's any reason that you're his favorite. had you ever met president trump personally? >> not until my interview. >> in that interview, did he ever ask you to overrule row -- roev. wade? >> i would have walked out of the door. >> neil gorsuch is a very hostile appointment and a very bad decision well outside the mainstream of american legal thought. if you breathe air, drink water, take medicine or in any other way interact with the course this is a very bad decision. i want to ask you to respond to completely political garbage and statements like that were direct today sotomayor and kagen. i remember sotomayor called a racist because she gave a speec

to ward off ronald reagan he makes a deal called the southern strategy with strom thurman.eman -- bob haldeman, his chief of staff, is dispatched to talk to the southern delegations at republican convention and promised if nixon is elected, we will cut out the pro-negro crap. he did a lot of good things for civil rights as president. the southern schools were desegregated, but the white house and civil rights, which have been joined together, the moral authority of the white house joined together in the civil rights movement was lost. >> isn't that fascinating? in 1957 you had lbj attacking richard nixon for being too progressive on race. >> on civil rights, yes. >> and jfk, too, ducking the really tough votes at the same time that nixon was presiding over the senate and making rulings that would have hurt him. >> david ignatius, he made his boss, dwight eisenhower, a little uncomfortable. >> indeed. let me just ask if by some miracle richard nixon were to come back to earth today, what would he tell donald trump about dealing with scandal and investigation? >> well, i'm --

and commissioner thurman would you like to make opening remarks before the chief goes into the presentation. >> thank you president breed. to the members of the board of supervisors thank you for this opportunity to address you. quite simply your san francisco police commission doesn't believe that reform is a threat to policing or to the people of san francisco. this police commission is committed to collaboration and growing a better understanding with the community we serve. we are actively implementing new policies. we are actively creating new department general orders to meet the mandate set by both the people as well as this body as well as the mayor of the city and county of san francisco. this as you may know the commission meets within the community once a month. we had to suspend those meetings for a while to deal with a lot of the reform issues but we've now reengaged with meetings in the community hearing directly from the people in the community as of this month. our community input sessions, town halls and on critical issues bike body worn camera and use of force and other po

and commissioner thurman would you like to make opening remarks before the chief goes into the presentation. >> thank you president breed. to the members of the board of supervisors thank you for this opportunity to address you. quite simply your san francisco police commission doesn't believe that reform is a threat to policing or to the people of san francisco. this police commission is committed to collaboration and growing a better understanding with the community we serve. we are actively implementing new policies. we are actively creating new department general orders to meet the mandate set by both the people as well as this body as well as the mayor of the city and county of san francisco. this as you may know the commission meets within the community once a month. we had to suspend those meetings for a while to deal with a lot of the reform issues but we've now reengaged with meetings in the community hearing directly from the people in the community as of this month. our community input sessions, town halls and on critical issues bike body worn camera and use of force and other po