Lester holt takes a look back at lewis life. When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something. Reporter john lewis devoted his life for the fight for justice and equality. Something deep down within me moving me that i could no longer be satisfied. Reporter the son of rural alabama share croppers, lewis was inspired as a teenager by activism of rosa parks and dr. Martin luther king jr. He joined the Civil Rights Movement in the early days. Sitins and movement rides. Segregation was the order of the day. I wanted to do something about it. We wanted to redeem the soul of america and move toward a more perfect union. Reporter he was the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and organized the march on washington. I have a dream. Reporter lewis spoke that day, too. He was 23. We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now. Reporter and he was among the leaders who met that day with
Plans to remove it. Im and early start continues right now. Two of the worlds most barbaric terror groups say they want to join forces. Isis and boko haram indicating some kind of joint operations. What does this mean for the west and the United States . Details ahead. Nuclear talks with iran down to the wire. Now president obama says he is willing to walk away. He is warning tehran it has to agree to a reasonable deal. And bizarre developments. Suspicious perhaps, following the assassination of the opponent to vladimir putin. Five appear in court and the sixth blows himself up. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. New this morning, americas highest ranked general is on the way to iraq. Martin dempsey is set to hold talks with iraq officials. This as the new war on terror. Hundreds of troops from chad and niger are launching attacks. Offensive begins one day after boko haram pledges allegiance to isis in the message recorded by the groups leader. I want to bring
Decorum in the house chamber. Breaking news now. Utter chaos in congress for 16 hours. Democrats take over the house floor staging an historic all night sitin demanding a vote on gun control which ended moments ago. Welcome to early start. Im alison kosik. Thank you for joining us. Im ryan nobles. It is thursday, june 23rd. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Breaking news. A standoff overnight in the house of representatives. Democrats seizing the floor demanding a vote on gun control legislation before the house goes on its july 4th break. The tension exploding after 10 0 p. M. After a chant of no bill no break. No bill. No break. No bill. No break. Emotions in the house veering from anger to frustration as protesting lawmakers and constituents took to singing in front of the capitol. God bless america my Home Sweet Home the 16hour sitin led by Congress Member john lewis of georgia. An hour ago, Republican Leaders adjourned. Then minutes later, john lewis and steny hoyer talked about Gun Legisla
A rocky day before the senate. Which republican senator could hold the key to his confirmation . Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Nice to see you. A lot of news. It is thursday, january 12th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Im christine romans. Donald trump and the director of National Intelligence have a talk following the major public blowup of russian hacking intel. It started with a cnn report that the Intelligence Community gave mr. Trump a twopage summary of a dossier that claims russia has compromising information on him. Buzzfeed followed up with that. Details cnn chose not to report because they could not be confirmed. It did not stop mr. Trump from attacking the network at the News Conference wednesday. He seemed to blur cnn reporting which skipped the unconfirmed details with buzzfeeds story which included the information not confirmed. Then mr. Trump slammed the entire Intelligence Community. I think it was disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any