anthony: some time ago something crawled, or slithered, or grew like a fungus. something that started small, got bigger, lurched like a swamp thing out of the mud and moist earth and humid nights of the delta. then, it took over the world. so next time some smart ass foreigner, horrified by our latest ham-fisted foreign policy blunder wonders out loud, what good is america? well, you can always pipe up that the blues, rock n roll, r&b, and soul all came out of this place one state mississippi. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la geno: right now we re in the middle of downtown jackson. farish street. anthony: it is a street with a lot of history. what did it used to be like back in the day? geno: the street was packed with folks. folks all over, they
this is a southern version of a mafia story. enough evil had been done by the family. it s gone too far this time. i have an alex murdaugh on the line. hampton is a small raul community, very few stop lights, country folk. generations and generations of families, the same families. not a whole lot going on, you know. not a whole lot of jobs. a lot of poverty. people like me, we work for our money. we wasn t born with a silver spoon in our mouth. nobody ever had any reason to leave that part of south carolina, and nobody had any reason to come to that part of south carolina. small towns generate big fish in small pools. hampton is pretty much historically dominated by one family, the murdaughs. murdaugh, that name means power. they are a great american family who has a successful law firm and had deep roots in their community. money. position. power. the murdaughs have had control of hampton county for close to a century. they have held the position of t
Jamie raskin umm, you know tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me. My illness won today. Look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. Umm, so, he didnt have anything in there about take some time off. laughs and, uh. Crowd usa usa usa usa jamie raskin why is america such an extraordinary country . We are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. Were unified by one constitution and one rule of law, and then the values under our constitution. It is an aspiration. Its a challenge to us. The constitution shouldnt be some kind of fetish document. It should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in service of the common good. That is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. That is the constitution that weve been fighting for since then. And weve got to keep fighting for it. Crowd trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump Cr
news out of the vatican. the former pope emeritus benedict has died at the age of 95. with sorrow, we inform you that the pope emeritus benedict xvi passed away, today, this morning, at 9:34 in the mater echess yamon tia mona stare. he was the first pope to resign, rather than stay in office for life. he was a controversial at times member of church. let s go to barbie nadeau in st. peter s square right now. barbie, i m curious, there were a lot of people already in the square and then the news breaks. so what s the reaction? what are people talking about there? reporter: yeah, you know, it s a mixed reaction, because a lot some people didn t know. some people here in rome enjoying a day. the square is empty behind us right now, they re doing a security check because pope francis is going to be coming out here in the next hour or so to visit the nativity scene there. we ve got a lot of pilgrims pushed off the square. they re coming back. but the mood is very solemn.
the great capitol on the hill has been the home of congress since the year 1800. here the congress of the united states assembles to make the nation s laws. congress approved the 19th amendment which provided for the voting rights of women. speaker gillette of the house signed the bill december 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. serving their country and the cause of freedom to help other nations strengthen their independence and cure the social chaos in which communism has always thrived. it is wrong, deadly wrong to deny any of your fellow americans the right to vote in this country. [ applause ] in the eyes of many in the world, this every four years ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle. members of congress, the president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] the issue of health care. i am not the first president to take up this cause, but i am determined to be the last. [ cheers and applause ] together we will