very spot the civil rights movement saw one of its darkest hours and now a symbol of both triumph and the long road ahead. joining me now from selma, msnbc melissa harris-perry and joy reid and charles ogle tree, a friend and adviser to the president and the first lady. thank you all for joining us today. >> pleasure. >> thank you. >> melissa, what are you expecting to hear from the president? >> again, you know, we don't know precisely what the president will have to say today. i think, joy and i have been talking about what we hope we hear from the president today. we hope we hear a connection back to history. an idea on which the ways his own presidency is a bridge between the moment that selma. when the president was here just after announcing he was going to run for president. when he was still a young senator and presidential hopeful in 2007, he laid out this notion of the joshua generation in