the victim in that brutal rape case at vanderbilt university. as the defendant, cory batey, sat expressionless in the courtroom. >> i've seen with my own eyes what i was when mr. batey was done with me. a piece of trash. >> reporter: today was the sentencing for batey. he is one of the four former college football players convicted of raping a 21-year-old fellow student. and capturing it all on camera. today, batey addressed the now 24-year-old victim. >> i hope one day you will find it in your heart to forgive me of any damages i may have caused. >> reporter: in the end, the judge handing down an expected minimum sentence of 15 years in prison. his former teammate brandon vanderburg will be sentenced in september. his other teammates are awaiting word on plea deals. linsey davis, abc news, new york. >> thank you. >>> when we come back, the manhunt under way for a death row inmate escaping. late details coming in. >>> and the tornado warnings at this hour. dangerous storms moving across part of the country. and the triple-digit heat coming for m

andersen cooper and his mother, gloria vanderbilt, discuss their lives. next, an examination of the future of genetic manipulation in "the gene" in who i white trash" a look at the history of class in america and the political significance of poor whites from reconstruction to the new deal. and the creation of nike, and in "grunt" a look at holiday scientists are addressing the issues of panic, exhaustion, and heat in military combat. it's a look at the current nonfiction best sellers according to "the new york times." many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them on the web site, booktv.org. >> you're watching bosh tv on c-span2. we're on location at claremont mcken in college in claremont, california, where we're talking with professor who are authors. john shields has written this book called "passing on the right: conservative professors in the progressive university." professor shields, page one you and your co-author write: progressives rule higher education and conservatives are so scarce in fact that they'r

and just a formality their number one pick out of vanderbilt 6'10" center that would be damian jones. 13 points 6 rebounds in college but he also is injured, had surgery done on a torn pectoral muscle and will not participate, not only in the summer league but probably training camp and could miss as much as a couple of months. so he's going to be behind the eight ball from the get go. >>> in the meantime one of golf's big ease starts tomorrow. british open. very strong not to include tiger woods. however best american hope for major victory that man right there dustin johnson pretty much fresh off his u.s. open conquest. the first major victory ever for the 32-year-old. and he feels like since then, his confidence built up and he's on a bit of a role -- roll ready for the british open. >> i don't expect anymore from myself. i always expect to come out and perform to -- and to contend, but it's definitely a little bit different coming out and not trying to win that first major. so i mean, that's the biggest difference is i'm not trying to get my first victory at a major. >>> all right

he is a visiting professor of law at vanderbilt university. professor crayton, thank you.s is a very sweeping ruling by the court today. the court basically argued that the state of north carolina intentionally discriminated against voters. i mean, that's a pretty rare finding, isn't it? >> that's true. in the modern era, most of these cases get litigated under a concern about the effects of the law whether they were disproportionately affecting ont so far to say that the purposes for which this law was adopted were those that prohibited -- were prohibited by law, that they were racially discriminatory and targeting african-americans in a way the law doesn't permit. >> brangham: what was it specifically that the court found so troubling? >> well, there were a number of circumstances under which this law was adopted that raised some serious sus -- suspicions. first, the adoption of the law on the heels of shelby county versus holder, supreme court ruling, which had a number of protection discriminations for african-americans, and north carolina quickly rushed through the st

he like down-home folk and he wanted to be the richest rockefeller or vanderbilt. he's brought a few of us can stand prosperity, another man's i mean. [laughter] he was a magnet for conmen. what a talker he is he wrote at the inventor james w page. he could persuade a fish to fish to come out take a walk with. settling was losing his shirt. [laughter] he had a lethal combination for an investor. moonshot enthusiasm and no patience for details. he once asked an accountant to sent them a profit loss statement that even his daughter could understand. jean was was two years old at the time. so 20 that the following invention would change the world. you don't recognize it? this is the page typesetter, wade also four tons, 18,000 movable parts and it was supposed to revolutionize printing. if it worked. twain had the immense misfortune of seeing it work once. at first he called james page of the shakespeare of the mechanical invention. by the end after it kept breaking down twain began fantasizing about capturing a certain part of pages anatomy in the steel trap and watc

the lady vols went on a 20-0 run and vanderbilt called a time-out. a spectator in the stands whom i had not seen because there were 20,000 people there, sent his card down to me on the back he had written, jimmy, great halftime coaching. come again. it was not me. it was coach summitt, in fact when she was staring each one of her players in the face at halftime in an intensely angry, very loud voice i was glad i was not one of those players. she was the winningest coach in basketball history with 1,098 victories. her teams won 16 southeastern conference championships and eight national championships. . she coached in 18 final fours. but to me her most impressive statistic was a 100% graduation rate by her players and she did not allow her players to take easy courses because she wanted them to be prepared for life after basketball. almost all of her players have been successful after leaving the university of tennessee. on top of this, she never had a question raised about her recruiting or any ncaa violation. she showed through the years that you di

i earned early tenure and now teach at vanderbilt. i think my education, knowledge the to a lot of issues. i was a democrat for most of my life. i am a person that has had an abortion. i got an abortion in my early 20's. it had just become legal it at the time i was married. i discussed it with my husband and we decided, i was good to get my way and i did get my way. i got the abortion. i don't believe i would have done that had it not been legal. i was so young and immature that i assumed if something was legal it was ok. but as soon as i got the abortion, i merely had guilt -- immediately had guilt. purpose tognant on have a child that miscarried and never had a live birth after that miscarriage. theinformation about consequences of abortion are having difficulty during a subsequent child to term is one of the side effects people need to know about. conservativeistian -- now a christian conservative. me toent bush appointed position as an independent and i started hanging out with ourblicans and eventually converted to the republica

a vanderbilt university football player behind bars for 15 years for raping a woman in a dorm room. judge sentenced him for the 2013 sex assault. prosecutors were upset he did not receive the maximum 25 year sentence. the victim in the case, whose identity is hidden poured her heart out in court. >> there is it feels to watch yourself being dehumanized. >> he apologized to the court and the community. he let his guard down and hopes everyone, including the family will be able to forgive him. >>> a high profile lawsuit filed in the death of a maryland college football player is being settled. he died in 2011 after collapsing in practice with a head injury. two years later, the family filed suit against the ncaa. coaches, as well as a helmet maker. the case was scheduled to go to trial in june. records show that maryland's attorney general recommended a 50,000 dlarls settlement to close the suit. no word on if or when the ncaa would contribute. the family lawyers confirm they are working to settle this case. >>> a couple things you are going to need for sure, sunscreen and the we are

>> joining me now vanderbilt university and civil rights atea matter movement. >> i hope so, it is a destructive view in america. it is a markist organization all about black liberations. it is not really address the real problems affecting to african-americans. it is problematic and misleading black people and it needs to go. >> that's ridiculous. black lives matter has none more top move the needle on reform of the system all over this country. i live in los angeles, the los angeles police department, we are the largest police department in the country now is equipped with body cameras, that shows police departments all over this nation primarily because young people primarily took to the streets, black lives matter to raise the issue of in equities in the criminal justice system. just because one lone individual, criminal who's not affiliated with the black lives matter group does nwhat happene in dallas shoots those cops, you cannot equate of what he did. it is a movement that's raising the issue of the justices and the disproportionality of racial bias in their system. i think t

he played three seasons at vanderbilt. he's currently recovering from a torn chest muscle. >> christen mccaffery was also up for an espy tonight. larry beil caught up with him on the red carpet. >> christian, obviously you have some experience with the heisman and that kind of an awards show. what about the espys? >> first time at the espys. first time at a red carpet event, actually, and it's unbelievable. just kind of looking around and seeing the people that are here, it's been a lot of fun. i've been here, like, five minutes. i'm excited for the night. >> you have rick flair a few feet away. >> yeah. it's someone i have to meet. in fact, after this i'm going to shake his hand. >> obviously you had an unbelievable season. you are up for an award for best performance record setting performance for over 2,000 yards. you have stiff competition at espys? >> it's tough. i drew a tough roster here with steph curry and the coach, and so it's been one of those things where i'm just going to enjoy the night and hope for the best

continues with the rainbow comes and goes in which cnn host anderson cooper and his mother, gloria vanderbilt, discuss their lives. next, siddhartha mukherjee examines the future of genetic manipulation in "the gene." in "white trash," historian nancy isenberg looks at the history of class in america and the political significance of poor whites from reconstruction to the new deal. phil knight recalls his creation of nike in "shoe dog," and in "grunt," the issues of panic, exhaustion and heat in military combat. many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them on our web site, booktv.org. >> c-span, created by america's cable television companies and brought to you as a public service by your cable or satellite provider. >> host: former fcc commissioner kathleen abernathy is our guest this week on "the communicators." currently, she is executive vice president of frontier communications. ms. abernathy, what is frontier? >> guest: frontier is a pure play wire line-based broadband company delivering voice, video content and broadband services to 29 states a

. >>> a former vanderbilt university football player has been sentence toed 15 years in prison for rapingunconscious female student. cory batey was sentenced today after the woman sentenced her life had brn -- been shattered by the assault. batey was convicted of aggravated rape in april which can carry a sentence of up to 25 years. prosecutors had asked for the maximum punishment to send a message about campus rape for other football players who were also charged in that case. >>> it is a regular tourist attraction and it's a regular spot for locals and offers spectacular views and now it's offing change. >> but it's also offering a dish of bad behavior. stanley roberts explains. >>reporter: here stanley roberts who found some people behaving badly. as tour buses pour into twin peaks changes are being made at high speed. there will are -- there will be new rules to follow and old rules to break. allow me to explain. >> it's being called the twin peaks pilot prom nod. it's a two year test will change almost everything you know, about twin peaks. as the signs go up so will the size for mos

he averaged nor than 13 points and 6 rebounds at vanderbilt.rrently recovering from a torn chest muscle. >>> tom brady will ne's case wa down in federal court to be heard. his only remaining option now is to take his appeal to the supreme court. and the odds of that happening are about as good as me playing center for the warriors next season. >> it doesn't seem like supreme court material. >> i don't think so. a little low on the priority list. >>> join us tonight at 9:00 on cable channel 13. coming up, north bay sheriff trying to steal a pot plant hidden in the trees. that's at 9:00. >>> coming up on now new at 11:00, new air b&b backlash. tonight, the startup is facing scrutiny all the way from the nation's capital. so join us for that and more. >> here's the lineup tonight. the espys is the big show at 8:00, followed by "abc7 news" at 11:00. >> and tonight's guest on jimmy is chad johnson and jeff bridges. >> that is our report. look for breaking news on twitter. thank you for your time. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daets. thank you for j

he averaged nor than 13 points and 6 rebounds at vanderbilt. recovering from a torn chest muscle. >>> tom brady will ne's case wa down in federal court to be heard. his only remaining option now is to take his appeal to the supreme court. and the odds of that happening are about as good as me playing center for the warriors next season. >> it doesn't seem like supreme court material. >> i don't think so. a little low on the priority list. >>> join us tonight at 9:00 on cable channel 13. coming up, north bay sheriff trying to steal a pot plant hidden in the trees. that's at 9:00. >>> coming up on now new at 11:00, new air b&b backlash. tonight, the startup is facing scrutiny all the way from the nation's capital. so join us for that and more. >> here's the lineup tonight. the espys is the big show at 8:00, followed by "abc7 news" at 11:00. >> and tonight's guest on jimmy is chad johnson and jeff bridges. >> that is our report. look for breaking news on twitter. thank you for your time. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daets. thank you for joining

a comprehensive response. >> okay, thank you so much from vanderbilt.sn't go beyond this little stretch of area in miami. thank you very much. >>> straight ahead here -- you know him as jazzy jeff from "the fresh prince of belaire." might have even every single episode. times have changed, and now politics has him front and center in philadelphia. my conversation with deejay jazzy jeff there in philly at the cnn grill -- next. americans are buying more and more of everything online. and so many businesses rely on the united states postal service to get it there. because when you ship with us, your business becomes our business. that's why we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes \ priority: you ♪ in west philadelphia born and raised on the playground is where i spent most of my days ♪ >> yes. you are watching the right channel. this is cnn. we're letting "the fresh prince of belaire" set the scene for us because last week we were all in philadelphia where last night hillary clinton formally accepted her nomination for president. i got to chance to cat

joining me now, vanderbilt university law professor, carl swain, and civil rights attorney, areva martinpolice officer swain, black lives matter, the movement, has become a political flashpoint. i saw a drudge headline which said, "black lives kill". is this the end of the black lives matter movement? >> i would hope so. because i believe it has been a very destructive force in america. and i urge all of your viewers to go to that website and look at what they are really about. it's a marxist organization, all about black liberation. it's not really addressing the real problems affecting african-americans. and so it's problematic. it's misleading black people. it needs to go. >> areva, your response. >> that is absolutely ridiculous. black lives matter has done more to move the needle on reforms in the criminal justice system than elected officials and community leaders all over this country. i live in los angeles. the los angeles police department, one of the largest police departments in the country, now is equipped with body cameras. that's true of other police departments all over th

that's where they met one of the world's richest men, cornelius vanderbilt.e the sisters some start- up money to start the first female-owned brokerage house. she used her fortunes to promote women's suffer yag and equal rights. >> she sended up spending election dayne jail because of a story the paper ran, a sex scanda. she is moved to england and remained there until she died in 1927. >> wow. >> a little history lesson. >> who knew. >> that's right. >>> the democratic national convention is definitely the big topic on social media. one thing people are discussing, the star power at the convention. tonight is definitely no exception. >> nope. >> an example, katy perry will be performing tonight. >> video of katy perry's sound check earlier today. we will see just her and two since, there on the stage tonight. not a big elaborate backdrop. perry will perform right before chelsea clinton introduces her mother. from the sound check, it sounds like perry will perform her new single for the olympics, rise, and her hit single, roar. >> republicans had scott baio.

vanderbilt university in the medical professions told her all they could do for her was a lobotomy or a do not resuscitate. the family was required to move to colorado and develop a strand called charlotte's web. this young lady today is down to five she's yours a month -- seizures a month. she is four years old and she is working. the marijuana craze that nixon 1970's was anhe effort to suppress hippies and blacks. [applause] is time for law enforcement of the the perpetuation suppression of the minority communities and people without means. >> our jails are full. of people who have opiate you will see that when this legislation occurs, at the state and local level, dropping the prohibitions against this natural product that you will see a reduction. we have historically proven the reduction in no be your it needs to be regulated and the criminal penalties need to come off this. i encourage support for this amendment. [applause] we are a medical marijuana state in new mexico. medical marijuana patient and you live in hud use yourou cannot prescribed medication in your own home. you c

andersen cooper and his mother, gloria vanderbilt, discuss their lives.

. >> she wasn't a harriman or an astor or a vanderbilt.bohemians of greenwich village. she had a very quickie sensibility. she certainly had great confidence in herself, which was part of her charm. >> she did an immense amount of charity work. >> reporter: documentarian donald collup said florence organized elaborate musical programs for her women's societies, including one she founded herself, the verdi club. >> there was one event yearly, it was called the bluebird supper dance, and it was just a charity to provide flowers for ill members. >> i wanted to be president when i was eight years old. >> reporter: florence had gone to music school in philadelphia. was she in the beginning a good singer? >> i determined she was probably less than mediocre. >> reporter: even in the beginning? >> even in the by good evening. [singing off key] >> reporter: from her first husband, florence is believed to have contracted syphilis, mistakenly treated in those days with injections of mercury. >> it affected her hearing, and more than likely she had ti

. >> reporter:finally in 2015, a vanderbilt surgeon - experimentally took stem cells from doug's hipspun them in a centrifuge -- and injected them into his eyes. >>today, i'm 20/40 in this eye, and 20/30 in that one. >>we need to take advantage of this because it will help the lives of millions of americans and we need to do it now. >> reporter:lamar alexander leads the senate health committee - trying to pass the "cures act" - a set of bills funding medical innovations, like the one doug found. >> reporter:the initiative wouldn't stop with clinical trials, sen. alexander says he wants to go even bigger, even broader with the "cures" legislation. >>a zika vaccine. an artificial pancreas. they'd rebuild hearts so they won't have to be transplanted. provide non-addictive pain medicine. >> reporter:the house version cost $8 billion - but the senate number is still being negotiated. to makes the final sales pitch, doug and alexander have now teamed up, urging action in d.c. >>we all know that this type of treatment is really working. >> reporter:and that driver's license doug surrendered

he liked downhome folks and he also wanted to be rich as a rockefeller or vanderbilt. he wrote, few of us can stand prosperity. another man's, i mean. and he was a magnet for con men. what a talker he wrote of james w. page. he could persuade a fishing to come out and take a walk with him. so twain was losing his shirt. he had a lethal combination for an investor. moonshot enthusiasm and no patience for details help once ask the an can'tant to send him a profit loss statement that even his daughter could understand. jean what two years old at the time. so, twain thought the following invention would change the world. you don't recognize it? this is the page typesetter. weighed almost four tons, 18,000 moveable parties and was supposed supposed to revolutionize printing if it worked. twain had the immense misfortune of seeing it work once. at first twain called james page the, quote, shakespeare of mechanical invention, after it kept braking done twain began fantasizing about capturing a certain part of page's anatomy in a steel trap and watching him slowly bleed to dea

. >> steve lipson, vanderbilt. -- were their therts, in contrast to what cartoon was implying, where their efforts by u.s. officials to encourage either passage of the expansion or prosecution? related to that is a timing question. there are obviously lots of anti-communist movements in the u.s. in the late 1940's. whether any social solution prosecution for communism in mexico in the late 1940's, or why did not not become a concern until the korean war in 1950? >> good questions. research i have found little to suggest that the united states took an active interest in the way in which this law was or was not used or was formulated. despite what the cartoon suggested of this being directed from washington somehow. it is a good question as to why it does not seem to be after 1951 that the government picks up this tool again in the postwar context. said, they seize upon the korean war as an international justification to take this law backup at this time. there is no word they could not have used it. it was a permanent measure. it was there. it does not seem to have been used until aft

i had a young lady in nashville having over 500 seizures a month, vanderbilt university and the medical professions told her that all they could do for her was a lobotomy or a do not resuscitate. the family was required to move to colorado . and they developed a strand called charlotte's web. this young lady today is down to five teachers a month. she's four years old. and she's working. the marijuana craze that nixon portrayed in the 1970s and john ehrlichman confirmed in 1994 was an effort to suppress hippies andblacks . [applause] it is time for law enforcement to stop the perpetuation of the suppression of the minority communities and people without means. [applause] our jails are stacked full of people who had opioid addiction and we will see and you will see that when this legislation occurs, that the state and local level, dropping the prohibitions against this natural product that you will see a reduction and we have historically proven the reduction in opioid use dropping some 25 percent. it needs to be regulated and the criminal penalties need to come off of this and i encoura

[indiscernible] >> political science and law professor at vanderbilt. upset with her father to me issue press releases say we don't have anything to do with this woman. mind.eaks her and when she speaks her mind, they correct the record. right,re on my immediate . a person. 11 books. 0. >i did not approve this introduction. better than writing one that no one notices. ok, let's get right to the women's reproduction right away. dr. adams is an amazing person. she has done everything in the world. she's experienced, like me. salaly.she doesn't read books. she is one of the top most 100 most influential pundits on television. that is cool. i'm not in there. herthen the advocate named 35th most influential lgbt person in the media. what you have to do to get 34? >> 35th most influential. ifrefore he were going by -- we were going by gayest, i would be higher. [laughter] >> the topic, conservatism hostile towards women. important in the context of the current presidential election. we have a woman running. [applause] haven't actual film -- have an actual wom

we have reached out to the professor of medicine from vanderbilt university. dr.most, wonder what your level of concern is with this news? >> well, it's obviously something we have expected. we knew there would be many introductions of zika into the united states and thought from time to time there would be some spread because our own mosquitos became infected and spread it to other folks. that happened and we anticipated it. the public health has been on it going out there and testing and controlling and i think they have it under control is this time. >> when you say under control, how expeditiously can this spread outside of florida? >> well, that would depend, christi, on other people coming into the united states into any state, really, where there are the mosquitos that can transmit this infection. they can bite the individual and transmit it to others. >> but you are not concerned about the mosquitos they believe in florida are the perpetrators so to speak of this particular infection? >> well, yes, the mosquitos in florida are not going to fly even through

vanderbilt university in the medical professions told her all they could do for her was a lobotomy or do not resuscitate. the family was required to move to colorado and develop a strand called charlotte's web. this young lady today is down to five she's yours a month -- seizures a month. she is four years old and she is working. the marijuana craze that nixon 1970's was anhe effort to suppress hippies and blacks. [applause] is time for law enforcement of the the perpetuation suppression of the minority communities and people without means. >> our jails are full. of people who have opiate you will see that when this legislation occurs, at the state and local level, dropping the prohibitions against this natural product that you will see a reduction. we have historically proven the reduction in no be your it needs to be regulated and the criminal penalties need to come off this. i encourage support for this amendment. [applause] we are a medical marijuana state in new mexico. medical marijuana patient and you live in hud use yourou cannot prescribed medication in your own home. you can

he liked down-home folk and he also wanted to be rich as a rockefeller or vanderbilt. he wrote few of us can stand prosperity, another man's, i mean. he was a bang that for conmen. what a talker he is. he wrote of the inventor james w page. he could persuade a fish to come out and take a walk with him. twain was losing his shirt. he had a lethal combination for an investor. moonshot enthusiasm and no patience for details. he once asked an accountant to send him a profit loss statement that even his daughter could understand. jean was two years old at the time. twain thought the following invention would change the world you don't recognize it? this is the page typesetter. it weighed almost four times, 18000 movable parts and it was supposed to revolutionize printing, if it worked. he had had the misfortune of seeing it work once. at first he called james page this shakespeare of mechanical invention. at the end when it kept breaking down, he began fantasizing about capturing a certain part of mr. pages anatomy in the machine and watching him slowly bleed to death. his