congressman john lewis. (cheers and applause) senator john lewis! >> (cheers and applause) >> jon: thank you for being here. >> i'm happy to be here. >> jon: we're -- >> delighted to be here. >> jon: couldn't be more honored, sir. i want to talk to you just to get a context of this. because i think we have a tennessee, even in the images, you see them they are black and white. they tend to feel like history, that they are not recent history for americans. when did you begin your journey into the civil rights movement. >> i grew up in rural alabama 50 miles from montgomery outside of a little place called troy. and i was only about 7 or 8 years old. we would go downtown to the theater. and all of us black children had to go upstairs to the balcony. and all of the little white children went downstairs to the first floor. bless my mother my am father, grandparents when i asked y they said that's the way it is. don't get in their way. don't get in trouble. i saw the sign at the water fountain, white and coloured. but in 1955 15 years old i heard of rosa

i present to you the civil rights icon john lewis. john lewis: thank uyou, my dear. thank uyou, my sterbgs -- sister, my colleague, for those kind words of introduction. my beloved brothers and sisters members of the american family on this day, we as a nation have a great deal to be thankful for. jimmy lee jackson, jimmy lee jackson, whose death inspired the selma march along with so many others did not make it to see this day. but you and i are here. we can bear witness to the distance we have come and progress we have made in 50 years and we must use this moment to recommit ourselves to do all we can to finish the work that still is left to be done. get out there and push and pull until we redeem the soul of america america. now i want to thank president barack obama and mrs. obama, president bush press george bush and mrs. bush for being here today. i want to thank all the members of the cabinet and the administration who are here my colleagues in the congress, all the elected officials including the great give robert bentley and including the phaeurmayor of selm

anna: welcome to the john lewis store. i am joined by sir charlie mayfield of john lewis. thank you for joining us here on bloomberg. run us through the numbers. >> we had a great sales year. sales are up in both brands. we have seen a great performance -- [indiscernible] profits are up by about 25 million. it is net-net. [indiscernible] anna: how is it performing? in the most recent figures, we saw that the market share was down for the first time since 2009. why is that? >> it is because it is comparing against very heavy promotions. actually, they have outperformed the market. [indiscernible] we have seen great growth. anna: we have a slight problem with microphones. we are going to go back to francine in the studio to see if we can fix the problem. back to you. francine: we will get the technical issue fixed and then we will get back to anna. john lewis is a british retailer and it is still relevant head of the u.k. budget story and only six weeks until the u.k. election. coming up, u.k. gets a $17 billion lifeline from the imf. is it enough? ♪ francine: welcome back

this is john lewis' life. this is his body that was on the line and this was him defying martin luther king jr. in a lot of ways. this was him asserting himself in his own terms as a civil rights leader. as a very, very young man and being incredibly brave. i think people forget the risk, the incredible physical risk that he was taking to come into the heart of the south and not just the police officers, but volunteers who were volunteering to brutalize people. this for john lewis is not just a moment to sort of look back at history. this is his own personal story. i think that every time he talks about it you hear that little choke in his voice. melissa, you can agree, this is personal to him. i think when you talk to him, too, you get the sense that it's not history. he sees us as a continuum and that the movement really continues for him. >> i think it's part of what is helpful to remember because we see these old black and white images. that was back then. but when you're standing there talking to congress

and john lewis is one of my heroes. now, i have to imagine that when a younger john lewis woke up that morning 50 years ago and made his way to brown chapel heroics were not on his mind. a day like this was not on his mind. young folks with bed rolls and backpacks were milling about. veterans of the movement trained newcomers in the tactics of nonviolen nonviolence, the right way to protect yourself when attacked. a doctor described what tear gas does to the body. while marchers scribbled down instructions for contacting their loved ones. the air was thick with doubt, anticipation and fear. and they comforted themselves with the final verse of the final hymn they sung. no matter what may be the test, god will take care of you. god will take care of you. and then his nap sack stocked with an apple, a toothbrush and a book on government, all you need for a night behind bars, john lewis led them out of the church on a mission to change america. president and mrs. bush, governor bentley, mayor evans, congre congre congressw

they saw what john lewis had done. from the streets of tunis to the ukraine, young people can draw strength from this place. where powerless could change the greatest power and push their leaders to expand the boundaries of freedom. they saw that idea made real right here in selma, alabama. they saw that idea manifest itself here in america. because of campaigns like this the voting rights act was passed. political and economic and social barriers came down and the change these men and women wrought is visible here today in the presence of african-americans who run boardrooms, who sit on the bench, who serve in elected office from small towns to big cities, from the congressional black caucus all the way to the oval office. because of what they did. the doors of opportunity swung open not just for black folks but for every american.h those doors, latinos marched through those doors, asian americans gay americans, americans with disabilities they all came through those doors. their endeavors gave the entire south the ch

and john lewis. one notabley absent was diane nash. she explained why. >> the march, the photographers i was all set to much. they had me on the front line. and then george bush came out and got in the march, and i left. [cheers and applause] i determine that i was not marching anywhere with george bush. the selma movement stands for nonviolence and peace and democracy and fairness and voting rights, and george bush stands for just the opposite. he stands for violence and war and stolen elections. and, for goodness sake, his administration had people tortured. i think this occasion was not appropriate for him to be here. i think for him to appear to be leading people involved in the nonviolent movement in this country for a photograph to go across the world would make it look as though we have sold out. i think that is an insult to people whose lives were taken. reverend reed, jimmy lee jackson . it is an insult to me, and i think it is an insult to everybody who really does believe in nonviolence. that being said, i want to mention ju

john lewis. [applause] >> my fellow freedom fighters as a native of troy, alabama just 50 miles from here, i am happy to be able to stand here and share this great moment in history. with men like martin luther king and other great men in this great march and struggle for freedom. this is the greatest and perhaps most significant demonstration in the history of the civil rights movement. just a few weeks ago governor wallace said there would be no march. he used our troops to be dust down on march 7. -- beat us down on march 7. you headacyou said you had a constitutional right to march and you did march. the president of the united states made it clear to the american people and also made it crystal clear to the governor that the state of alabama is still a part of the union. we the negro people of alabama have been denied, and dehumanized by the vicious system of racial segregation and discrimination. thousands of you have gone to jail over and over again in marion and selma. today, you stand he

i had never met john lewis, but i knew his voice and there he was on the phone, the real john lewis. i had been in the oval office in meetings with the president, and many more famous washington power players, but this this was something else entirely. this was one of the great heroes of the civil rights movement. one of the country's greatest living heroes. and on that day, in that moment he needed a favor. he was trying to get something done for his district in georgia and he needed help with getting it through the senate. now, i was ready to do whatever he asked for before he said a word. the bridge he was beaten for trying to cross, the bridge that he eventually successfully crossed with martin luther king jr., was named and is still named the edmond pettis bridge. edmond pettis was born in 1821 into a wealthy slave owning family. he became a decorated confederate general in the civil war and then became the grand dragon of the alabama klu klux klan. university of alabama history professor john gigi says -- >> if edmond pettis had still been alive and in command of the alabama st

they saw what john lewis had done. from theerat streets of tunis to ukraine, this generation of young people can draw strength from this place. where the powerless could change the world's greatest power and y push their leaders to expand the boundaries of freedom. they saw that idea made real a. right here in selma, alabama. ame they saw that idea manifest itself here in america.was because of campaigns like this d the voting rights act was passed. d political and economic and social barriers came down. and the change these men and women wrought is visible here today in the presence of african-americans who run board rooms, who sit on the bench who serve in elected office from small towns to big cities, from the congressional black caucus all the way to the oval office.alof because of what they did, the doors of opportunity swung open. not just for black folks but for every american.latinos women marched through those doors. latinos marched through those with doors. dis asian-americans, gay americans, americans with d

there's still work to be done. >> from congressman john lewis we go to albert sykes. he is a director of policy and advocacy, in a group that promotes advocacy and social change. he's in jackson mississippi tonight, albert welcome. what role should young blacks play in the civil rights movement? >> good evening and thank you for having me. listening to congressman lewis , their role is continuing to be at the forefront of national movement in this country. particularly, for young people of color to be the ones at the forefront of making strides towards breaking down some of the racial barriers that exist in our country. because we typically find that the folks who face the problem or the folks who live with the problem are also the folks that have the solution and the courage to actually do something about the problem. and with young folks there's much deeper courage that's unbridled and lives so deep in their boins bones and their spirit they rise up and carry the banner in a necessary way. >> albert when you look at the last 50 years how do you think the movement ha

john lewis is one of my heros. now, i have to imagine that when a younger john lewis woke up that morning 50 years ago and made his way to brown chapel heroics were not on his mind. a day like this was not on his mind. young folks with bed rolls and backpacks were milling about. veterans of the movement trained newcomer in the tactics of nonviolence. the right way to protect yourself when attacked. a doctor described what tear gas does to the body. while marchers scribbled down instructions for contacting their loved ones. the air was thick with doubt, anticipation and fear. and they comforted themselves with the final verse of the final hymn they sung. no matter what made be the test god will take care of you. lean weary one upon his breast god will take care of you. and then knapsack stocked with an apple a toothbrush and a book on government all you need for a night behind bars. john lewis led them out of the church on a mission to change america. president and mrs. bush governor bentley, mayor evans, congresswo

[applause] john lewis: thank you. i want to thank the group for bringing us together one more time and the core leaders of our delegation senator tim scott senator sherry brown, and the representatives. thank you so much. it sis good to mrs. boynton of course our first contact when we came to sell ma in 1962. she was registering people to vote long before we arrived. i'm also glad it see the daughter of governor george wallace here peggy wallace kennedy. thank you for being here, peggy. i want to thank each and every one of you who marched across the bridge on bloody sunday. you didn't have to do it but you did it. thank you! i will tell you it is good to be in selma one more time just one more time. people often ask me why do you come back? what purpose does it serve? we come to sell ma to be renew renewed. we come to be inspired. we come to be reminded that we must do the worbgk that we are called to do. on march 7, 1965 a few innocent children of god, some carrying small things, a plain purse or a backpack were ins

host: john lewis of georgia. also in attendance, former first lady laura bush and former president george w. bush. we will have live coverage of the ceremony at the baptist church in selma, alabama. among the speakers, andrew young , former mayor of atlanta, and martin luther king iii. mark from henderson. should john boehner remain as speaker? caller: i think john boehner and mitch mcconnell should both go. you have been asking the question about who should replace john boehner as speaker of the house. why don't we take a look at mr. louis goldman? that gentleman stood up and said a lot of great things. as far as mitch mcconnell, i think ted cruz would be a real good candidate for it. as far as speaker of the house. i got tired of hearing john boehner talk about how he is one third, two thirds of the representatives. now he is two thirds, the president one third. the reason why, going behind doors with nancy pelosi. after netanyahu spoke, they go behind closed doors. they waited when everybody was not looking. t

there's one terrifying photo of a trooper bringing down a club on john lewis's head. he was nearly killed that day so for this he's a folk hero not just in the movement and selma but across the country for so many people and not just a man like john lewis who everyone knows and loves and applauds for his efforts. there were so many people whose names we simply don't know. or you don't know outside of this community. and there are moments where there's a gentleman named reverend f.d. reese who actually wrote the original letter inviting dr. martin luther king to selma to join in their fight for voting rights. i saw him coming and the crowd kind of parted to let him through. now many people outside of selma do not know who f.d. reese is but to see this crowd respond with the level of respect that they did adds to the level of amazement to stand back. >> take us to sell marx alabama, as we're watching this live pictures of people crossing the edmund pettus bridge. smell, alabama 50 years ago, selma, alabama, today. what's different? >> when you look at the city leadershi

there is still work to be done. >> congressman john lewis. alabama's governor george wallace blocked her from enrolling, but that did not stop her. vivian malone jeans became one ofjones became one of two african-americans to enroll in school. randall pinkston spoke with her sister sharon malone. >> people would call the house and i would answer the phone and i was all of four years old. people would call with death threats, calling names. >> what did your sister tell you about her reasons for wanting to go to the university of alabama? >> well, you you are six generations alabama. my parents my sister felt as if if anyone deserved a good public education in the state of alabama, it would be our family. she started this process in 1960 and it took two and a half years through the legal challenges before she finally got the go ahead to go. >> did your sister ever share with you being frightens anxious, scared out of her wits about going to that foreign place for black people? >> you know, this is something that continues to amaze me because of

i present to you the civil rights icon john lewis. john lewis: thank uyou, my dear. thank uyou, my sterbgs -- sister, my colleague, for those kind words of introduction. my beloved brothers and sisters members of the american family on this day, we as a nation have a great deal to be thankful for. jimmy lee jackson, jimmy lee jackson, whose death inspired the selma march along with so many others did not make it to see this day. but you and i are here. we can bear witness to the distance we have come and progress we have made in 50 years and we must use this moment to recommit ourselves to do all we can to finish the work that still is left to be done. get out there and push and pull until we redeem the soul of america america. now i want to thank president barack obama and mrs. obama, president bush press george bush and mrs. bush for being here today. i want to thank all the members of the cabinet and the administration who are here my colleagues in the congress, all the elected officials including the great give robert bentley and including the phaeurmayor of selm

he invited past opponents to his home and office, including john lewis, one of the victims of police violence on the edmund pettus bridge. lewis moved to alabama and was elected to congress. >> i said, governor, why did you give the order for people to beat us? he said, we had to stop you on the bridge because there were people waiting to kill you. i said, governor, do you kill people to keep other people from killing? he didn't have an answer. i'm not really convinceed that governor wallace ever really believed all of the stuff that he was saying. i think he used the issue of race to get ahead. >> wallace also met with the two students he had once blocked from entering the universe of alabama james hood and vivian malone. >> did your sister ever share with you being frightened? >> you know what, this is something that continues to emaze me. because of all the emotions she had, fear was not one. i think she never gave in to that fear. she and my parents were people of great faith. and they felt that they were doing the right thing, and that, you know, all would be taken care of. >> a

lewis, congressman john lewis, is here. my conversations with another civil rights foot soldier, reverend andrew young. you're going to hear the extraordinary sentiment from the daughter of the man who was mayor at the time of bloody sunday the mayor joe smitherman. i had a sit down conversation with his daughter diane, mayor smitherman held office here for 36 years and is -- and she will defend his history so they're at an extraordinary emotional journey you will hear from so many throughout the afternoon. a lot of breaking news. my colleague suzanne malveaux in washington. take it from here. >> all right. great to see you. going to be an incredible afternoon. we also have other news here the daughter of slands russian opposition boris nemtsov says officials haven't shared any details about the arrests in his death. we're talking about ana nemtsov. everything about the two men taken into custody today comes from media reports, more than a week after attackers gunned nemtsov down just yards from the kremlin. cnn's matthew c

tony when we think about the heros of those marches, of course john lewis, and martin luther king, but there were way more heros involved that a lot of people frankly just don't know. >> well i -- i will tell you, we're talking to some of those people this weekend to be sure. but when we're talking about 1965, important to remember here michael, by the time we get to march 7, 1965, snik the student and non-violent coordinating committee had been on the ground here for more than a year trying to register african americans to vote. 80% of the population in dallas county was african american but less than 3% were registered to note. so snik was frustrated so they turned to the southern christian leadership conference, and dr. martin luther king, jr. for help. in early february 1965, the reverend martin luther king, jr. and his conference took to the streets. a move that landed him in jail for parading without a permit. >> thanks went fairly well as well as you can expect in jail. i think as a result of being there, a result of the created witness of hundreds and even thousands of negroes

john lewis. [applause] >> my fellow freedom fighters as a native of troy, alabama just 50 miles from here, i am happy to be able to stand here and share this great moment in history. with men like martin luther king and other great men in this great march and struggle for freedom. this is the greatest and perhaps most significant demonstration in the history of the civil rights movement. just a few weeks ago governor wallace said there would be no march. he used our troops to be dust down on march 7. -- beat us down on march 7. you headacyou said you had a constitutional right to march and you did march. the president of the united states made it clear to the american people and also made it crystal clear to the governor that the state of alabama is still a part of the union. we the negro people of alabama have been denied, and dehumanized by the vicious system of racial segregation and discrimination. thousands of you have gone to jail over and over again in marion and selma. today, you stand he

vivian john lewis and james bevel. i'm proud to be president of that institution. >> hold for me one second because i want to listen to the president doing a bit of an invocation, a biblical reference point, something he also did in selma when he spoke in 2007. take a listen. >> when it feels the road's too hard, when the torch we've been passed feels too heavy, we will remember these early travels and draw strength from their example and hold firmly to the words of the prophet isaiah those who hope in the lord will renew their strength. they will soar on the wings like eagles. they will run and not grow weary. they will walk and not be faint. >> when you -- you can hear the crowd responding to that because we know that verse. and i thought he tapped into what it was and what it is that faith does in a social movement. >> i think you've got to also see that this man went to church every sunday all right, for some 20 years. church wasn't just a political front for him, all right, it was in fact the stuff of life. and th

speaker, the opportunity to walk in the footsteps of john lewis with john lewis is an unforget rble experience that is true -- unforgettable experience that is truly transformative. the bipartisan participation by republicans and democrats alike was truly something to behold. especially given the hyperpartisanship of washington. it was something to see us gathered together in selma, alabama, to honor the sacrifices of the foot soldiers who dared to fight for voter equality 50 years ago. i tried not to have any expectation from this bipartisan showing. but i must admit my hope was that all of us would be motivated by the experience of traveling with john lewis in his footsteps with him to honestly look at modern-day threats to voting rights today. now that the spotlight is no longer on selma, we must move beyond the bridge and see that there is still a have been legitimatized in state legislatures across this country. photo i.d. laws and efforts to get rid of early voting, weekend voting are modern efforts that have had profound effects on restricting access to voting. any effort that restricts

there is a lot of opportunity for progress, john lewis spoke about what that looks like going forward, he specifically said education is the key. education is the key. he said it several times yesterday. i wanted to say it twice because my opportunity agenda focuses on the foundation of the american dream and starts with education. you can have a fantastic life here in america in the south, in the north and west and east if you focus your attention on outcomes driven by expectations. >> schieffer: let me ask you this congressman, do you think the justice department ought to dismantle the police department in ferguson as some are suggesting? >> you know, i looked at some of the information, i will tell you that the challenges faced by ferguson police departments goes very, very deep. we have to pay close attention to what happens next. i'm not sure what is going to happen next. i don't think i don't think the justice department knows what is going to happen next. a thorough investigation is important and necessary. >> schieffer: let me just close, senator by saying i called you congres

john lewis was the man in the white trench coat. but it's not a movie for lewis. it's a memory that still burns half a century later. >> i'm trying to protect my head. i really thought i was going to die there. >> when did you realize that bloody sunday was a tu point? >> the american people saw what happened. they couldn't take it. that was a sense of righteous indignation in america. >> reporter: on march 15 president lyndon johnson addressed a joint session of congress and introduced the voting rights act. >> and we shall overcome. >> reporter: lewis was watching on tv along with martin luther king. >> i looked at dr. king. tears came down his face and he said we will make it from selma to montgomery and the voting rights act would be passed. >> reporter: john lewis grew up in rural alabama, went to segregated schools and saw the signs for whites and colors. then he brings up something that happened to the kids in his family when he was 16. >> trying to get library cards, attempting to check out somic boo ssomic -- some books and were told it was for whites onl

and appeal to them they went around john lewis, talking and taking pictures with john lewis, talking about what an inspiration he is. they have to understand that they can do today -- >> i think we have to put the pressure on from our various folks. let me go to something else that really stuck out like a sore tlum thumb to me all weekend in selma, joan. that is loretta lynch. i brought this up yesterday. i preached at the brown chapel. she was there. and they haven't confirmed her. attorney general holder spoke this weekend about the progress we've seen with an african-american woman about to serve as our attorney general. but i want to play something else he said. watch this. >> this is a cause for great optimism and it's a sign of tremendous progress. but progress is not the ultimate goal. equality is still the prize. still even now, it is clear that we have more work to do that our beloved community has not yet withinbeen formed and our society is not yet at a just peace. >> 121 days joan. >> yeah. >> nowhere have we seen this long amount of time this length of time, in modern am

our power player of the week, georgia congressman john lewis remembers his march from selma. >> there was a sense of righteous indignation in america. >> all right now on "fox sunday news." hello again from fox news in sunday. we begin with some breaking news. in the hillary clinton private e-mail controversy. president obama has commented on it for the first time in an interview with cbs news. >> mr. president, when did you first learn that hillary clinton used an e-mail system outside the u.s. government for official business while she was secretary of state? >> the same time everybody else earned it through news reports. >> were you disappointed? >> the policy by administration is to encourage transparency. and that's why my e-mails through blackberry that i carry around, all those records, are available, and archived, and i'm glad that hillary is instructed that those e-mails that had to do with official business need to be disclosed. >> we'll talk with a former clinton lawyer in a moment. but first, mike huckabee, who's dealt with the clintons since before his days as governor of

and with john lewis they marched to buy two and quiet -- and hosea williams, they marched two by two and carried the commitment to nonviolence in resistance to injustice in their hearts minds, and spirits. they were beaten. they were turned back, but only for a time. soon, they were marching onto freedom land, the land where the burden of race so let -- so heavy to carry my delay down. they marched all the way to montgomery. they marched toward a land of new political possibilities. from a deep swell of faith, they confronted adversaries to compassion. they with their lives in acts of courage. they awakened the conscience of a nation. we the faith in politics institute seeks to cultivate conscience and courage stability and compassion -- civility and compassion in public life. for 17 years, we have returned with congressman john lewis to the sacred story of the civil rights movement for guidance and inspiration. and we are grateful and honored to be here in selma today. and i'm especially pleased to be on this platform with the daughter of wholesale williams, who carries on -- of hos

and he was right. >> john lewis grew up in rural alabama. went to segregated schools and saw the signs for whites and colored. then he brings up something that happened to the kids in his family when he was 16. >> trying to get library cards attempting to check out some books. we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only, and not for colored. >> so was voting. by 1965 that was the focus of the civil rights movement. lewis says selma selected itself. >> the county was more than 80% african-american. there was not a single registered african-american voter in the county. >> lewis has been a member of congress now for 28 years. but he goes back to selma every year. >> selma helped free and liberate not just american south but helped liberate our country. >> on the issue of race, how far have we come since selma? >> as a nation we've come a great distance. white, colored signs are gone. the only place that we would see those signs today would be in a book, in a museum, or on a video. >> how far do we still have to go? >> we

the second part is john lewis. john lewis is an example of black people's democratic in equity. he's been there for 30 years. someone else needs to come in and take that job. host: william from washington dc. by the way, if you get through turn the volume down, it will eliminate the echo. show you some photos from bloody sunday, also some film. by the way, we will have live coverage today i was ceremony taking place in selma, alabama getting underway at 11:45 a.m. the program will re-air at 8:00 eastern time. of course, all of our coverage available anytime at c-span.org. brian from salt lake city, utah. independent line. caller: good morning. i sort of want to go back to 2004. there was this great man who came out and spoke at the democratic convention. i thought, this is a great guy i should vote for him. then, i started learning where he came from. frank marshall davis. his grandfather wanted -- this guy was on the communist list. he went to school in indonesia studying the koran, then he goes to that damn reverend in chicago. he went to that church for 17 years. he just reac

john lewis stopped and said he wanted to speak. he started explaining what had happened at that point where jose williams and he were beat. miss boykins said, let me speak. from her wheelchair, she talked about how she had been registering voters, and she talked about how she was beat that day. she said, i was registering them because i felt if we could vote, we could deal with poverty and deal with the killing of our people and deal with what was going on wrong and unfair. it sounds real simple, but what struck me was that we are, in many ways, caught up in what we are getting out of the journey than what the journey was for. go right back to joshua was story. -- joshua's story. when the children of israel were coming out of egypt and god opened up the red sea, and they marched across into the wilderness, they forgot the reason for the journey and started worshiping the wrong god. the reality is, in this celebration, some of us have been lost in the wilderness. some of us thought that john lewis and hosea williams got beat for you

he marched that day alongside congressman john lewis from georgia, but also alongside then senator hillary clinton. she was also vying for the democratic presidential nomination. that march, that day in selma was actually their first side-by-side appearance in that campaign. and now this past weekend, president obama returned to selma for the first time since that 2007 march. he was there for the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday, and this time he stood on the edmund pettus bridge as the first african-american president. >> the americans who crossed this bridge, they were not physically imposing. but they gave courage to millions. they held no elected office but they led a nation. they marched as americans who had endured hundreds of years of brutal violence, countless daily indignities, but they didn't seek special treatment, just the equal treatment promised to them almost a century before. what they did here will reverberate through the ages, not because the change they want was preordained, not because their victory was complete, but because they proved that nonviolent change is possib

john lewis. [applause] >> my fellow freedom fighters as a native of troy, alabama just 50 miles from here, i am happy to be able to stand here and share this great moment in history. with men like martin luther king and other great men in this great march and struggle for freedom. this is the greatest and perhaps most significant demonstration in the history of the civil rights movement. just a few weeks ago governor wallace said there would be no march. he used our troops to be dust down on march 7. -- beat us down on march 7. you headacyou said you had a constitutional right to march and you did march. the president of the united states made it clear to the american people and also made it crystal clear to the governor that the state of alabama is still a part of the union. we the negro people of alabama have been denied, and dehumanized by the vicious system of racial segregation and discrimination. thousands of you have gone to jail over and over again in marion and selma. today, you stand he

so to see him here and standing there where john lewis had his head cracked and so many people were met with force simply for trying to rain the right to vote for all americans was a sight. >> trymaine lee, thank you very much for your impressive reporting, i know we'll see you out there again tomorrow. you are watching pictures from just a short while ago of president obama and dignitaries crossing the edmund pettus bridge in selma. alabama. you're watching msnbc. sometimes breathing air can be difficult. if you have copd, ask your doctor about once-daily anoro ellipta. it helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours. anoro ellipta is the first fda-approved product containing two long-acting bronchodilators in one inhaler. anoro is not for asthma. anoro contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. it is not known if this risk is increased in copd. anoro won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden copd symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition, or high blood pressure. tell your doctor

beside him to the left is john lewis, and to his left that is the lovely dr. sharon malone a close friend of the family. it was a collard greens and cruelties and ham sandwich until days end upon end, it was not what people might think. >> it was, again, the masses and it was their movement and it was their circumstance that they were driving, and as the president pointed out, courageously to make better. >> camaraderie. he had a few religious. the president had a few religious touches from hymns to isaiah. >>> american instinct that led these young men and women to pick up the torch and cross this bridge, that's the same instinct that chose patriots to choose revolution over tierny the same that may drew immigrants across occasions and the rio grand and women to reach for the ballots, workers to organize against an injust status yeah. the same instinct that led us to plant a flag at iwo jima and on the surface of the moon. >> that was president barack obama a short while ago speaking at the foot of the edmund pettus bridge. you see the motor kade assembled th

so john lewis and others, james foreman, in spite of the fact that the movie "selma" seemed to think that james foreman really didn't want to do the march, he wanted to do the march. he just didn't want to be overlooked for all the efforts they had put into selma. things were taking place for a long time before bloody sunday. they were working, laying the foundation to try to get the right to vote. after that march, the voting rights act was passed, and signed into law, i believe it was august 6th. so come august 6th of this year, will be the 50th anniversary, and i've been working with john lewis, trying to do what we can with congressman sensenbrenner and congressman john conyers. we are trying to fix what the supreme court seems to have dismantled with that 1965 voting rights act. i'm hopeful that when we leave that bridge on sunday and go back to washington in a week that all the 98 congress people who are there will all sign on to mr. sensenbrenner's amendments, so that we can restore what the roberts court has done to that 1965 voting rights act. >> what do you make of these re

john lewis is a living american hero. when you hear him describe exactly every second of what happened that day, it is something -- it was mesmerizing. >>> we want to talk about hillary clinton, also. >> politics also seeps in. we got to get in here it's washington. >> she had a speech last night. the former secretary of state did not mention the e-mail controversy. aside from the tweet we haven't really heard from her. at this point are the democrats starting to show any signs that they're sweating over this? we know donors already are. some saying she's waited too long to address this. >> you'll hear from senator dianne feinstein, somebody very supportive of the clintons over the years, very supportive of hillary clinton. you'll get a sense of a tiny bit of frustration, like why is she having to defend secretary clinton? why isn't secretary clinton defending secretary clinton? president obama speaking out about it was very careful not to defend what she did, simply saying i'm glad she's going to disclose. there is hand

you mentioned congressman john lewis, an icon of the civil rights movement. he's very supportive of this bill. so i believe if it gets a fair consideration, it will sail through just like in 2006 when i voted for that reauthorization, as well. i was proud to support it. again, this voting rights act is the most significant piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in american history. >> but let me ask you this way in terms of where resistance might be coming from. i don't imagine we would hear it it publicly. in politics it's true on basically any issue in politics. politicians often think about their own political self-interests. are there republicans you think who look at this and say president obama got something like 97%, 98% of the black vote, democrats routinely get 90%-plus of the black vote. in the last 50 years, since 1965 there hasn't been a single republican presidential candidate who's gotten more than 20% support among black voters. is there a self-interest politically here for republicans where they look at this and say there is simply noth

tonight's guest we're honored georgia congressman and a representive john lewis is going to be on the program. >> (cheers and applause) >> jon: very excited about that. this weekend congressman lewis celebrated a momentous and historic anniversary three years gluten-free. nice. good job. (applause) >> jon: also this weekend marked the another thing. >> in alabama some 80,000 people march in sunday to mark a turning point in the u.s. civil rights struggle. the 50th anniversary of selma's bloody sunday. on that day hundreds of demonstrators attempted to march 50 miles from selma to the

do you feel more connected to it, more part of it, spend, time with guys like john lewis and reenacting those types of things? yes. you know, i knew about the history, but being able to be an actor in it and now with so much education on it and get to meet john lewis and ambassador andrew young and diane nash, and some names that were unknown but we got to meet the people. it was like wow, we are connected to the movie. i felt like "selma" the film is an extension of what they created during that time period. that film is educating younger people of what happened people that didn't know. and it's also raising the conversation of where we are right now. and, obviously, all these situation happening in america is raising the conversation. >> jon: you mean that racism is over. >> year it's over. yeah. >> jon: yeah. >> is that what it is? ( laughter ) that's what we call it. >> jon: what it is, we just happened to catch the last-- the last one of it on an iphone. that's all. just-- >> that's the last-- that's the end of it. credits go right there. >> jon: the young boys went o the bus went

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