john lewis put it in terms just as stark. he said "the supreme court put a dagger in the heart of the voting rights act." the thing about this dagger in the heart, though, is that the patient with the dagger in the heart is still alive. and the doctor standing over the body thinking about what to do next turns out is a republican. the voting rights act did not have section 5 struck down. preclearance still exists theoretically. the voting rights act can be saved right away if congress decides to save it. the democrats want to save it. unanimously. the democrats, they control the senate, their judiciary chairman in the senate today said he'll get to work immediately on legislation to save it. the republicans control the house, so far their judiciary chairman has said nothing. this is the cornerstone of american civil rights law. this is legacy time. what are you guys going to do? congressman john lewis joins us next. new flamed out mascara from covergirl. the volume igniter brush shapes each lash up and out for bigger hotter f

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congressman john lewis. [applause] >> good morning. thank you, chris, my friend, my brother, for those kind words of introduction. i am delighted and very pleased to be here with these three distinguished authors, great writers. now you heard chris tell you that i am the son of sharecroppers. i grew up in rural alabama, 50 miles from montgomery. by grew up on the farm and it was my responsibility to care for the chickens and i fell in love with racing chickens like no one else could raise chickens. i want tell you the whole story because it's too long to tell but from time to time as a boy who could gather a chickens together in the chicken yard. we would have church. the chickens along with my brothers and sisters and cousins would make up the audience, the congregation and i was preaching and when i look back on it some of the chickens would shake their heads and some of the chickens would nod their heads but they never said a man. i'm convinced that some of those chickens that i preach to during the 40 -- 40s and 50's tended to list

that is where the energy is going. >> i am not going to confine john lewis to the past. i will not say he is a relic. the element of discrimination in voting is there. it did not stop in 1965. it is there in case after case and now they did this been passed by congress overwhelmingly. . >> immigration reform -- the senate takes the leap. >> up early, some have not gotten the message. the house will not take "whatever the senate passes. >> the senate went for it anyway. will the house, with a bill of their own? >> there is a pattern established -- the agriculture bill, the budget, i mean, the house is a sickly paralyzed and john boehner finds himself with a caucus that has told him you cannot take up this bill and we will go under their requirement that you have to have the majority of the caucus. >> the majority of the majority. >> there are a few senators that took political risk. i am not a great friend of lindsay graham, but he is up for reelection and he all but onited a primary challenge this controversial immigration bill. marco rubio rolled the dice as well. chuck

against john lewis. that's why when voting for president you should always think about the supreme court as well. coming up on the show tonight it has already been an history-making week, and we'll show you now how the senate got in on the fun. plus a long list of under card decisions did not get much play in the media, that doesn't mean it won't impact your life. we will tell you why. and this guy is looking less like mr. smith and more like mr. bean. it doesn't mean that the nsa are the boy scouts. lee fang will be here. honest. they know that i'm not bsing them for some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know i'm going to be the first one to call them out. cenk on air>> what's unacceptable is how washington continues to screw the middle class over. cenk off air>>> i don't want the middle class taking the brunt of the spending cuts and all the different programs that wind up hurting the middle class. cenk on air>>> you got to go to the local le

congressman john lewis. [applause] >> good morning. thank you, chris. my friend, my brother, for those kind words of introduction. i'm delighted and very pleased to be here with these three distinguished authors. great writers. now, you heard chris tell you that i'm the son of sharecroppers. i grew up in rural alabama, 50 miles from montgomery. outside of a little place called troy. growing up on the farm it was my responsibly to care for the chickens and i fell in love raising chickens like no one else could raise chickens. i won't be the whole story, it's too long to tell, but from time to time as a little boy we would gather all of our chickens together in the chicken yard like you are gathered here in this hall. and we would have church. the chickens, my brothers and sisters and cousins would make of the audience. and i would start speaking or preaching and when i look back on them some chickens would shake their heads, they never quite said amen. [laughter] but i'm convinced that some of those chickens that i preach to do during the '40s and 50s te

that is where the energy is going. >> i am not going to confine john lewis to the past. i will not say he is a relic. the element of discrimination in voting is there. it did not stop in 1965. it is there in case after case and now they did this been passed by congress overwhelmingly. . >> immigration reform -- the senate takes the leap. >> up early, some have not gotten the message. the house will not take "whatever the senate passes. >> the senate went for it anyway. will the house, with a bill of their own? >> there is a pattern established -- the agriculture bill, the budget, i mean, the house is a sickly paralyzed and john boehner finds himself with a caucus that has told him you cannot take up this bill and we will go under their requirement that you have to have the majority of the caucus. >> the majority of the majority. >> there are a few senthatators tool. i am not a great friend of lindsay graham, but he is up for reelection and he all but onited a primary challenge this controversial immigration bill. marco rubio rolled the dice as well. chuck schumer, not th

john lewis who still has a pen that lbj used to sign the historic civil rights legislation into law in 1965. >>> snowden standoff. russia today rejects the u.s. demand to turn over the nsa leaker, as vladimir putin confirms snowden is still at that moscow airport. >>> side-stepping congress on climate change. the president is set to make a major policy speech within the next hour. announcing steps he plans to take by executive action to combat global warming. but will it be enough to satisfactory activist critics of his record? >>> and, lost and found. rusty, the red panda, made his get-away from the national zoo here in washington. and as the search stretched out to nearby neighborhoods yesterday, theories popped up on twit ber this pter about this p run. "the panda reportedly booked a flight to havana with assistance from julian assange." after hours of eluding his keepers, rusty was finally cornered. vladimir putin has not commented but the run-away panda is back at the zoo at his keepers investigate how did he escape in the first place? >> we'll look at every aspect of the exhibit

and a dagger in the heart, that's how congressman john lewis describes today's u.s. supreme court ruling. he'll join us this hour. >> and another emotional day in the zimmerman murder trial with graphic testimony and for the first time jurors see images of the victim's body. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> the mystery of the nsa leaker's whereabouts answered today by russian president vladimir putin. he says edward snowden remains at moscow's international airport. >> translator: snowden is still in transit area as a transit passenger. our special services never worked with snowden and are not working with him today. >> but putin is not complying with requests from the obama administration to turn edward snowden over to u.s. authorities. that once again raises the question is president obama tough enough to do anything about that? what can we expect to hear from the president? we'll hear from john king and fareed zakaria in a moment. it seems the president is getting criticized by a lot of different quarters, jim. >> that's right. we should point

john lewis, thank you. i promised to put you all in hardball, sylvia l. out of your books. [applause] >> when it comes to tipping the gipper i will still and all the way through christmas. thank you very much. [applause] >> coverage of book expo america:the annual trade show held at the jacob javits convention center new york city continues. up next interview with each mail on his book radiance of tomorrow followed by a panel on self publishing. >> on your screen is the author of a long way gone, a memoir, of a soldier. the second book is coming out. why didn't you choose to make it a novel. >> first of all i wanted to divide from the memoir of nonfiction. the issue i am writing about in the new book, radiance of tomorrow is about a lot of people, my experience is going back home. and play around with images -- >> what from freedom does writing a novel give you rather than nonfiction? >> with a novel particularly creative language. and occurrences and dramatize the little bit more. and things that are not necessary for the same time. in a way that is what i wanted to do, th

keith, i'll start off with you here as we wait to hear from congressman john lewis. it's such an interesting day, at least for liberals. yesterday was seen as devastating. a stake in the heart of the voting rights act. then you have a counter today with this decision on same-sex marriage. >> i think it is a contrast, particularly for people who are progressive. what we saw yesterday was odd. justice scalia basically joined the majority in a decision overturning a 98-0 decision in favor of the voting rights act. today, however, justice scalia comes back and says in his opinion that he's opposed to the idea of the courts getting involved in these congressional decisions, overreaching, you might say. there's a big contrast between the way the court decided the voting rights act case and the way the court decided today's case on doma. >> nia, i have a map of the united states where same-sex marriage is legal. none of these states had same-sex marriage when doma was signed by clinton. we talk about times have changed. that is the same going back to yesterday's decision re

to selma with john lewis and that that will affect him that that will influence him if you was deeply moved by that and i respect that you people of many different political stripes could be i hope that he would give john lewis the call and say john let's work this out this week he needs to john nichols thanks so much for being with us there's a good question. coming up one day antonin scalia loves judicial review the next day he hates it is the other something is he just a hypocrite more on this and its long liberal rumbled right up the bridge. i would rather as questions for people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. it's wednesday you ready to rumble joining me for tonight's long liberal rumble our other sermon conservative strategist blueskin solutions and horace cooper conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research that's right and to thank thank you both for joining me today so before we get into talking about the whole supreme cou

. >> that was congressman and civil rights leader, john lewis. speaking against the anti-defense of marriage act in 1996. joining me is joy reed and a constitutional law professor at new york university school of law. and also still with me, barney frank. today's an awesome day, a great day, a beautiful day it's a moving, overwhelming day, it is tainted to me by yesterday. i was -- i have to say, i was so angry at that decision. i was surprised at how angry it made me, and i feel whiplash and confusion and my heart is an emotional pretzel after the last two days. how do we make sense of these two days back to back. >> i want to add on the third day, affirmative action day, i don't think it got good attention. if we're trying to make sense of it, we're looking at first and second generations of discrimination. gays are as john lewis is articulating, where african-americans were in 1967. it's relatively easy for the court to see. what's much harder to deal with is when the discrimination is even slightly jiggered in a way, so that instead of talkin

gaffney and john lewis, welcome to democracy now!. response to what happened? after you were married, there was a ban placed on marriages in california, until yesterday. a sweet moment. those of us married in 2008 before the passage of proposition 8, we are all celebrating our five-year anniversaries right now. what an anniversary gift we have just received of the u.s. supreme court to know that we are not just the class of 2008, a footnote in the history of marriage equality in this country, but we are the beginning of an era that that continues of the freedom to marry in california thanks to this decision. it is a happy day not just for the rights of all fair-minded americans, but also for our friends who have been waiting for as long as five years to be able to legally say i do. you showed us the joy from the steps of the supreme court, and i can tell you from san francisco city hall, the joy was that much greater as our friends began to plan their wedding day. >> john, take us through the first court decision on doma. the court did basically allows states t

lewis getting hit in the head and you think that's not where i want to go. are there other times in your life where you have thought about your decision to board that bus and used it to influence yourself? >> yeah, i mean i thought it was the right decision. maybe we didn't know -- we didn't know all of the details because nobody knew where we would end up but i have made those kind of decisions in probably less life-threatening ways all along since then, whether it was i decided to teach school in alabama. i went to new hampshire for the mccarthy for president campaign. i came to san diego in 1970 when people said hey, that's a pretty conservative town. you don't want to go there. and i got into a fight for school board and ended up running for office and people said don't do that. sorry had to face these things all along in my career. >> michael: did you feel like you were making history at that moment? >> i don't think he understood the historical situation that we were in. we were just doing our part but when the supreme court overturned our convictions

she is survived by their son john miles lewis, and john is a great leader to this day on the floor of the united states house, a great leader for the state of georgia and one with whom i am pleased to serve with as united states senator. history has many heroes and there are pictures and carvings are all over this comal capitol but none that survivessed their rights for others. john lewis is such a person. i'm honored to recognize him with this resolution today. and i thank the president of the senate for the time to make the speech. i yield back my time or yield to the distinguished senator from vermont. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: mr. president, i thank my dear colleague from georgia. mr. president, i have a longer statement i'll place in the record, but i obviously support the nominees that are before us, both of them, i don't know if we'll have roll call votes on both but i strongly support both if we'll have roll call votes on both but i strongly support both of them. question of nominations, i attended president obama's nomination of of the d.c. c

john lewis is the face of voting rights in america. i ask us to work together to figure out a formula to protect the right to vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana seek recognition? >> address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. thank you, mr. speaker. there is a committee in congress that's investigating these reports and how it would either potentially break the law or clearly violate ethics laws. in addition to that, now we're seeing reports that the obama administration is pressuring the nfl and the nba to go and promote their health care law. mr. scalise: it is unethical for the obama administration to pressure organizations that they regulate to try to promote their policies. and so if secretary sebelius or any other federal administrator is using their power and their regulatory structure to go and pressure organizations, to promote their policies, they need to stop it right now, m

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you hear john lewis talk about how he lived through them. it's not like this is ancient history. >> bill: i love your take on this decision yesterday. i gotta tell you. it underscores again how important it is, how important it is when we vote for for president because the president most important decisions any president makes is who's going to sit on the supreme court for life. you know. isn't it ironic that the supreme court decision saying, in effect again, segregation and racism is all over in this country today. discrimination doesn't exist anymore. we can just trash the voting rights act and it happens in the same week that paula deen is fired for making racist remarks and setting up some racist wedding ceremony. happens on the same day that the opening arguments are heard in the george zimmerman case on trial for murder, murdering a 17-year-old unarmed black teenager in florida and claims he ought to get away with it because he says he was firing in self-defense. who says discrimination doesn't exist in this country anymore? these jus

., selma, congressman john lewis got his skull fractured trying to demonstrate. >> stephen: hey, baby i was at the march on washington. you don't have to tell me. i was at the "i have a dream speech." don't play that back people went on marches card. i was at the marches. were you? >> i was not. stephen: you were not at the marches. >> i was not born in 1965. stephen: i could be madder than you. oh, i wasn't born that. that's a convenient excuse. thank you so much for joining us me. dark days, bright nights. we'll be right captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org charlie: would you describe this piece as more savory or succulent? it's definitely way too overcooked to be succulent. but it's still pretty delicious. - it's still savory, right? - mm-hmm. now, what if we soaked it in beer? do you think that would help it, like, regain its succulence? - like a beer rub? - mm-hmm. that's actually really smart. mac, grab us some beers. bite my bird. what are you eating? oh, dude, dee and i cooked up a great steak. frank's got, like, this w

., selma, congressman john lewis got his skull fractured trying to demonstrate. >> stephen: hey, baby i was at the march on washington. you don't have to tell me. i was at the "i have a dream speech." don't play that back people went on marches card. i was at the marches. were you? >> i was not. stephen: you were not at the marches. >> i was not born in 1965. stephen: i could be madder than you. oh, i wasn't born that. that's a convenient excuse. thank you so much for joining us me. dark days, bright nights. we'll be right xppppxppxpxppxppxpxxxxxx captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org and no mayo. yeah. my name's amy. she's cute. yeah. wow. freedom tower is, like, really coming along, huh? god, i can't believe it's been 12 years since 9/11. oh, my god, i know. it's bananas. time really flies. i can't remember, do they take a long time here? no, they're usually pretty quick. okay. i was actually supposed to be meeting my girlfriend at the world trade center that day. i mean, i'm on, like, walker street and i hear this crazy noise

., selma, congressman john lewis got his skull fractured trying to demonstrate. >> stephen: hey, baby i was at the march on washington. you don't have to tell me. i was at the "i have a dream speech." don't play that back people went on marches card. i was at the marches. were you? >> i was not. stephen: you were not at the marches. >> i was not born in 1965. stephen: i could be madder than you. oh, i wasn't born that. that's a convenient excuse. thank you so much for joining us me. dark days, bright nights. we'll be right

. >> that was congressman and civil rights leader, john lewis. speaking against the anti-defense of marriage act in 1996. joining me is joy reed and a constitutional law professor at new york university school of l law. and also still with me, barney frank. today's an awesome day, a great day, a beautiful day it's a moving, overwhelming day, it is tainted to me by yesterday. i was -- i have to say, i was so angry at that decision. i was surprised at how angry it made me, and i feel whiplash and confusion and my heart is an emotional pretzel after the last two days. how do we make sense of these two days back to back. >> i want to add on the third day, affirmative action day, i don't think it got good attention. if we're trying to make sense of it, we're looking at first and second generations of discrimination. gays are as john lewis is articulating, where african-americans were in 1967. it's relatively easy for the court to see. what's much harder to deal with is when the discrimination is even slightly jiggered in a way, so that instead of talk

and the reaction of congressmen and civil rights leader john lewis said it all just a short time ago. >> what the court did today is stand the voting rights act of 1965 at its very heart. >> more from mr. louis ahead in response to the court's 5-4 decision. striking down the map that determines which states must secure federal permission before they change their voting laws. in effect, the decision invalidates federal enforcement over all or parts of 15 states with a rich history of voter discrimination. indeed, chief justice john roberts believes the voting rights act has been so successful that will such diskrimmation is largely a thing of the past. citing the election of minority candidates and high voter turnout among african-americans, justice roberts writes in his decision "there is no doubt that these improvements are in large part because of the voting rights act. the act has proved immensely successful at redressing racial discrimination and integrating the voting process." with that said, roberts declared the 40-year-old coverage map obsolete and said congress should come up

cantore said my experience with john lewis in selma earlier this year was a profound experience that demonstrated the fortitude that it took to advance civil rights and to ensure equal protection for all. i'm hopeful congress will put politics aside as we did on that trip and find a responsible path forward that ensures the sacred obligation of voting in this country remains protected. but not all republicans are as cognizant of history. senator chuck grassly told "the new york times," what it tells me is after 45 years the voting rights act worked. it just proves that it worked. in other words, mission accomplished. and yesterday when senate minority leader mitch mcconnell was asked what he thought about the ruling, he simply drew a blank. >> well, i haven't read it yet. obviously it's an important bill that passed back in the '60s at a time when we had a very different america than we have today. i think i'm just going to have to read it first but i would say i do think america is very different today from what it was in the 1960s. anybody else want to comment on that? >> anybody?

when that decision came down yesterday you know who i was thinking of, john lewis who was beaten almost to death in 1961 on the freedom ride who was almost beaten to death on the bridge between selma and montgomery when they were fighting for voting rights. i thought of all those now forgotten martyrs, young black men and women who died fighting for voting rights. i thought of a man beaten two or three times. i thought of all of those guys who stood up so that everyone in this country irrespective of race, religion, creed, income, we're all eke quul in that voting booth i thought of them. it was a betrayal of their martyrdom that this court said it's going to be okay for you to go back and try to put discriminatory laws against voting in different places. they tried last year. you know that. you tawgd about it on the show. the voter i.d., the other efforts to disqualify voters at the polls. they're now encouraged to do that. the supreme court has said go and do likewise >> stephen: again if it doesn't work out, if there is still discriminatory racial discriminatory action at the polls t

., selma, congressman john lewis got his skull fractured trying to demonstrate. >> stephen: hey, baby i was at the march on washington. you don't have to tell me. i was at the "i have a dream speech." don't play that back people went on marches card. i was at the marches. were you? >> i was not. stephen: you were not at the marches. >> i was not born in 1965. stephen: i could be madder than you. oh, i wasn't born that. that's a convenient excuse. thank you so much for joining us me. dark days, bright nights. we'll be right captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> welcome to the daily show. welcome to the daily show. i am john oliver, jon stewart still not here. he is currently walking across the grand canyon. my guest tonight from the roost, the great quest love is with us. (cheers and applause) let's get straight into it tonight. huge news this morning out of the supreme cou

. >> veteran john lewis, now a georgia congressman watched as the law was signed. >> without the voting rights act of 1965, there would be no barack obama as president of the united states of america. we've come too far, made too much progress to go back. >> this decision represents a serious setback for voting rights and has the potential to negatively affect millions of americans across the country. >> in a 5-4 ruling, the court's conservatives said the areas covered by the voting rights act have changed but the law has not kept up. the act requires states with a history of voter discrimination to get permission from the federal government before changing how they conduct elections. the court left that part intact. but it struck down the map, the coverage formula of where that will requirement applies. that's all of nine mostly southern states and parts of six others. chief justice john roberts said the map is based on decades old data and eradicated practices. in five of the covered southern states, he said, african-americans have a higher voter turnout percentage than whites. oppone

lewis watched as the law was signed. >> without the voting rights acof 1965, there would be no barack obama as president of the united states of america. we've come too far, made too much progress to go back. >> this decision represents a serious setback for voting rights and has the potential to negatively affect millions of americans across the country. >> in a 5-4 ruling the court's conservatives said the areas covered by the act had changed but the law has not kept up. the act requires state with a history of discrimination to get permission from the federal government before changing how they conduct elections. the court left that part intact but struck down the coverage formula of where that will requirement allies. that's all of nine mostly southern states and parts of six others. chief justice john roberts said the map is based on decades old data and eradicated practices in five of the covered southern states, he said, african-americans have a higher voter turnout percentage than whites. opponents of the law who helped shelby i county, alabama challenge it, hailed the ruling

. >> we're marching today to dramatize to the nation -- >> reporter: civil rights veteran john lewis, now a georgia congressman, watched as the law was signed. >> without the voting rights act of 1965, there would be no barack obama as president of the united states of america. we've come too far, made too much progress to go back. >> this decision represents a serious setback for voting rights, and has the potential to negatively affect millions of americans across the country. >> reporter: in a 5-4 ruling, the court's conservatives said the areas covered by the voting rights act have changed but the law has not kept up. the act requires states with a history of voter discrimination to get permission from the federal government before changing how they conduct elections. the court left that part intact. but it struck down the map, the coverage formula of where that requirement applies. that's all of nine mostly southern states and parts of six others. chief justice john roberts said the map is based on decades old data and eradicated practices. in five of the covered southern states,

if you had a bill called the john lewis voting rights act and every democrat lined up for, it you have republicans like sensenbrenner maybe lining up for it, what does it look like for a republican party to be saying no at that point? >> someone like john lewis with a moral stature who almost decide to pass the voting rights act in alabama f you have him on the floor every single day making the case for voting rights act, that being covered on the national news, it will be hard for republicans to turn their back on someone like that. and i think there are people within the democratic caucus within the house who have the moral stature to get this done, to make it the legacy. to say 50 years we've made a lot of progress but we had 200 years of slavery, 100 years of jim crow. if we want to get to the post racial future we still need protections to go there. >> we have the issue of the supreme court which is what started all this this week. i want to talk about what sort of the game the supreme court is playing here, long term on this and other civil rights issues after this. for their fam

lewis a call and say john let's work this out this week he needs to john nichols thanks so much for being with us there's a good picture. coming up one day antonin scalia loves judicial review the next day he hates it is the other something is he just a hypocrite more on this and it's a long liberal rumble right after the break. i would rather i asked questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about my country you sir are a fool you know what kind of mind a terrorist cells in your neighborhood all want to keep us safe to feature a sufi on live from the christi

host: cheryl, did they believe in what john lewis was doing at the time, your parents? caller: oh, they really did. they were both democrats. they just knew that i was very naive, and they dent think i could handle the kind of violence that was going to be happening down there. they wouldn't let us out of the house. host: all right. georgia, democratic caller. hi, dave. go ahead. caller: oh, yeah, this is real serious. i'm from the south, and i expanded up close and personal, i'm from georgia, the same state that this woman called from. this is the general attitude of people down here. they love the confederate. they know they love it, and they still feel this way about blacks. you know, also, blacks need to start looking at these so-called local white people. if they going to speak up, we have no one in the senate. if i was in the senate, i would filibuster, i would block everything that come until they renew this voting rights act. you have people going overseas to protect rights from these so-called freedom fighters. but in the united states, people like john mccain

to be honored along with people she admires deeply like congressman john lewis is amazing to gabby. i know that. i have to say the determination and the valor my wife displays every single day has redefined the word "courage" for me. we have spent a lot of time at the kennedy space center. the only place on the globe from which humans have departed our planet on a trip to the moon and from where i commanded both space shuttles, discovery and endeavor. even though it is not our first time at the kennedy library in boston, we are glad to be back. we are so sorry for the violence and terror that all of you have endured. we know what that is like. i saw combat in iraq and kuwait. gabby lived through a mass shooting. we know how violence changes lives. we know that those touched by violence and matters less what you call it. crime, terrorism, war -- because violence defies categories -- it draws a line in the sand and time before and after. before, gabby could ride her motorcycle around the foothills of the mountains and speak easily and often to her neighbors and after. before, when par

lewis elizabeth close friend of my father's was badly beaten. at that time and who is now a congressman from georgia and remained very close to my almost a surrogate father in my name i can brothers and sisters after my father died he made a wonderful speech this week in which he said well yeah the supreme court is that things have changed but there's a change before in this and after the civil war in the period of reconstruction all blacks could vote and they didn't have the vote that bill was taken away from and so you know there been times in our history when people have been given the vote and the vote was then later taken away and as you seen in that is you know it's a fifty of anniversary right now two weeks ago of medgar evers' death on and which was precipitated by the riots and by the violence that. i've followed the integration of the university of mississippi where my uncle had to send twenty thousand troops as laura troops then were in vietnam during his entire time and off as more troops and president johnson sent to the dominican r

you know john lewis elizabeth every close friend of my father's was badly beaten. at that time and who is now a congressman from georgia and remained very close to my almost a surrogate father to my ten brothers and sisters after my father died he made a wonderful speech this week in which he said well yeah the supreme court is that things have changed but these have changed before in this and after the civil war or in the period of reconstruction all blacks could vote and they didn't have the vote that bill was taken away from and so you know there been times in our history when people have been given the vote and a vote was then later taken away and as use. seen and there is you know it's a fiftieth anniversary right and two weeks ago of medgar evers' death on and which was precipitated by the riots and by the violence that had followed the integration of the university of mississippi where my uncle had to send twenty thousand troops as lord troops then were in vietnam during his entire time and off as more troops and president johnson sent to the dominican repub

representative john conyers and representative john lewis. >> when i first came to congress, i went immediately to the speaker of the house, john mccormick and asked to go on the judiciary committee. and the reason as he and i both knew was the civil rights act that was so important. but today, citizens united has been eclipsed by the decision in he united states versus shelby and holder. the ase takes us back to civil rights act of 1866, which didn't give african-americans the right to vote. and then we went into 1869 when the 15th amendment did give african-americans the right to vote. and then with the 24th amendment, poll taxes were outlawed in 1964. nd then in 1965, president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act into law permanently barring barriers to political participation by racial and ethnic minorities, prohibiting any election practices that denied the right to vote and requiring jurisdictions with a history of discrimination in voting to get federal approval before the changes in election laws can take effect. and what the supreme court has done with the ruling that was ssued

(cheers and applause) >> john: wow, that is very well said, lewis. (laughter) >> who the (bleep) are you? (cheers and applause) >> john: that's a fair point. i apologize. carry on. (laughter) >> come on, tech world! if you're going to take us into the future, don't give us new ways to be on the go! best part of new technology is that it lets us sit on our pass! that's why i was so excited about the new xbox-- until i saw this. >> so the xbox that hasn't come out yet but is coming has this motion sensor that detects not only your every move and what you say, it detects facial expressions. germany's federal data protection commissioner called the kinect "a twisted nightmare >> when the germans -- (laughter and applause) are calling your product a twisted nightmare you might want to consider taking another pass at it. (laughter) but fine. the xbox is tracking my every move. as long as that's the only thing it does! >> you're seeing yourself represented here in three dimensions. we can look for patches of your skin and look at microfluctuations in the bl

>> john: thank you, lewis. lewis black, ladies and xppppxppxpxppxppxpxxxxxx (cheers and applause) >> jon: welcome back! my guest tonight a legendary singer whose new album "one true vine" will come out on june 25. now performing "can you get to that" please welcome the magnificent mavis staples. (cheers and applause) ♪ ♪ i looked in the mirror ♪ oh, but now i wonder why should i be surprised ♪ i like the things about me i like the things about me ♪ i like the things about me i like the things about me that i once despised ♪ ♪ basically come back can can you get to that ♪ can you get, i want to know can you get to that ♪ can you get ♪ i ban that know if you can get to that ♪ note can you get i want to know if you can get to the that ♪ can you get ♪ i want to know if you can get to that ♪ when you base your life on credit and your loving days are done ♪ checks you signed with a love and kiss eel will come back signed "insufficient funds" ♪ can you get ♪ i wanna know if you can ge

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president, we whipped right through this, but john lewis in my lifetime is one of the finest patriotic, courageous people i've ever known. i have so much admiration for this man, i've told him this personally, i want the record to be spread with this. he is a person who has a very, very -- as a very, very young man wanted to change the world in his own way and in his own way, he's helped change the world. i so admire him. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. s. res. 175. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 175, observing juneteenth independence day, june 19, 1865, as a day on which slavery finally came to an end in the united states. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be frootd, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: okay. i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to s. res. 176.

. >> for social issue of our day -- john lewis and gafney have been together for eight years. they decided to take their relationship to the next level. now they hope the highest court will allow that light to many others. >> we will actually be the lucky 13. lucky 13th state in the union to allow marriage. >> they're going to have a screen where you can watch live as the supreme court announces their decision. >> we've been praying and we've been preparing. >> bishop landry will hold a gathering at 2:00 p.m. where several faith based leaders will make a decision. >> the idea that something else besides marriage would be acceptable really to anyone is something that we know is not true. >> our relationship and our commitment means the same thing to us, that's why we want it to mean the same thing to everybody else. >> reporter: they will hold the rally for or against the decision. >> we hope to be smiling. >> no one is going to sleep tonight because we cannot wait to find out. >> reporter: now there'll be celebrations throughout the bay area tomorrow but the centralized event

it's not a over -- >> well, representative john lewis 0, who marched on selma and was involved in all of this back in the day, said on another network, hundreds of thousands of people will march and demonstrate on this matter. this is bigger than anyone understands. i development know if he is right. >> this is what the u.s. -- why did they base it on this. justice roberts said it's been an excellent vehicle for all of these years and it's worked. it's been incredit my successful and christian credibly successful and he quoted the state of alabama, when it was enacted, 69% of the voting public was white and 19% was black. today it's 74-74. >> that's percentage of that race that is registered to vote. >> correct. thank you. the two towns, one you just mentioned, they were at the hart of this and now have black mayors attempt justices are saying is that this works, we just need to update it. it needs a facelift. it's time to re-examine the data. they threw the ball in congress' lap and what everybody is afraid about is congress is so dysfunctional now, it can't catch the ball. because t

. >> for social issue of our day -- john lewis and gafney have been together for eight years. they decided to take their relationship to the next level. now they hope the highest court will allow that light to many others. >> we will actually be the lucky 13. lucky 13th state in the union to allow marriage. >> they're going to have a screen where you can watch live as the supreme court announces their decision. >> we've been praying and we've been preparing. >> bishop landry will hold a gathering at 2:00 p.m. where several faith based leaders will make a decision. >> the idea that something else besides marriage would be acceptable really to anyone is something that we know is not true. >> our relationship and our commitment means the same thing to us, that's why we want it to mean the same thing to everybody else. >> reporter: they will hold the rally for or against the decision. >> we hope to be smiling. >> no one is going to sleep tonight because we cannot wait to find out. >> reporter: now there'll be celebrations throughout the bay area tomorrow but the centralized event