thurmond maynard is in the fight of his life. diagnosed with als at just 35 years old. >> now i have to lean against something for balance issues. my balance has gotten worse. >> reporter: a husband, a father, als has already robbed him of his career, his passion for dirt biking and eventually, it will steal his ability to walk, talk, even breathe. but thurmond still has hope, because he was chosen for a potentially ground breaking clinical trial, using stem cells designed to beat back the disease. and today, he's about to attempt what he was convinced he'd never do again. >> what are you about to do here? >> try to ride a motorcycle. >> reporter: for the first time in? >> about two and a half years. >> reporter: how's it feel? >> feels good so far. >> reporter: thurmond's convinced he's got a reversal of the devastating symptoms. >> this is the hardest part i had, i couldn't pull the clutch in. >> reporter: it's an astonishing victory. that gives tantalizing hope where once there was none. because this is the brutal reality of a

refer to those people, like you just mentioned, jim eastland, and strom thurmond.e called them his mentors. he gave the eulogy and strom thurmond's funeral and he sat there and he said that he was an amazing man and he loved him so much. if this is joe biden, who literally was best friends with these dixiecrat's who essentially raise his political career. now all of a sudden he sang trump's rhetoric is too much. come, the person that received a civil rights award next to rosa parks and muhammad ali for doing so much for black children in inner cities? i don't understand this. it's just typical democrats hoping that america does not remember the past. >> laura: monique, is this day today when the president did what all these democrats they wanted him to do, be presidential, comfort the victims, you need to do this, and then he does it and it's just like wall-to-wall in the moment i woke up to just seconds ago before i start of the show, it was nonstop crashing of this president today. why? >> well, the president doesn't mind it being any particular day when he has s

in jerusalem some of them being a jew thurmond that's why i come here to make more friends to bring them back to my country we have a sense of pride and that is what christmas is all about family fun and spreading joy and happiness. well from copenhagen we travel to the capital of fronts this is the most famous symbol of paris the eiffel tower every year to tracks around $7000000.00 visitors and for many it's a dream to one day be this close to the real thing but then again there are lots of people who wake up to a view of it every day and it's those provisions that are of special interest to the photographer just for what. it's really paris you feel when you have the eiffel tower front of you and to see it every night every morning it was important for me when we chose this up but 90 plus i had to see it that is that we. just watched as a photographer from london he wanted to know how the iconic landmark is viewed by the city's residents and visitors people lucky enough to live with a view of it including yet no one who lives in the 16th or on the small with her husband just to watch re

we should look into some of the comments on strom thurmond.-- this is completely necessary, because democrats don't need ideas. they don't need an agenda. they don't need anything on the docket. they just need stunts and they will take the house, the senate, and the presidency with that mentality. >> lisa: he went through six background checks, including a supplemental. they turned over more documents than the last five supreme court nominees combined. i think he has been litigated in the public eye as well as congress, probably more than any other nominee. so i think that's done. >> melissa: how does this politically benefit them? >> jason: there is a fundamental problem in the opportunity cost, this is where the house judiciary is spending their time. all the issues that face our nation, this is where they are spending their time? and there is no precursor to justify diving into records. it is truly, as doug collins, the congressman from georgia, said, "it's truly a fishing sedition." there might be something wrong, we don't know what it is.

, steven would be a tribute to, he agreed and i called kennedy and i said, well, how about strom thurmond? he's going to be the incoming chairman of the senate judiciary committee. all he has to do is wait two and a half months and reagan can appoint a conservative republican. he said, strom's in the bag. strom supported steven. even though he and kennedy were ideological opposites. this was an era where people still, even when they had very partisan divisions, worked together for the common good. >> and another kind of political question, president carter in 1980, as you mentioned, he admitted a lot of refugees. the number was 207,116. which is more refugees than any president in history has ever admitted in a single year, before or since. how did that work? how was the united states able to absorb such a large number? >> we used again, before the legislation, the so-called parole authority which was being stretched for sure to its maximum. but we included in that number that you mentioned, and it is a great tribute to the president and one of the underappreciated parts of the presidency

father used to say you could judge every person in the south by what side they were on in 1948, strom thurmonddge -- i think meacham will say this as well, history will look back and some people will be relegated as you said, joe, to the ash heap of history, like east land and stennis who were powerful but they were on the wrong side and republicans in particular, you can't right now say oh, yes, but his fed policy may be good or he's helping us on the economy. that's just one issue right now. >> in march of 1965 in the wake of bloody sunday, the attack on john lewis and jose ya williams and others, lbj summoned wallace up to the oval office, he's a little guy in many ways on a couch with deep cushions, johnson typically sat in an elevated rocking chair. he looked him in the eye and he said, george wallace, when you're dead and gone, do you want your tombstone to say, george wallace, he built or george wallace, he hated? that's the question before everyone in the arena and out of the arena today. this is a stress test for citizenship and for those who sought our votes and are now in public res