We see that continuing to roll culminating in the march on washington in 1953. And then the gigantic, heavy, media drenched birmingham where king writes the eloquent letter from birmingham jail that you all read. But we are going to do today is take a step back. Whats happening between 1961 and 1964 . Created, we know they were involved in the freedom rides. But what are they doing as an institution . What is it that they are doing . Theyre are going to plan and execute one of the most toshes civil rights call it a demonstration would not do it justice. One of the most incredible civil rights events of the era and thats going to take place, they call it the mississippi summer project. Colloquially, it becomes known as freedom summer. We will see a large freedom summer in 1964 and they will do another freedom summer again in 1965. How do we get there . Why freedom summer . What leads sncc and field secretary bob moses to focus so much on mississippi . Why mississippi . Thats the focal p
Thank you so much for joining us. Welcome to americas election headquarters from washington. We begin this hour with an election alert, gut check time for republicans scrambling to distance themselves from the latest donald trump bombshell with some seeven calling him to step aside. A 2005 video showing trump talk about women and their anatomy has rocked every wrung on his ladder. Hillary clintons closed door wall street speeches are embarrassing some democrats including speech experts in which she praises open borders and calls wall street executives the best to help reform the u. S. Financial sector. A month away from election day, weve got Team Coverage on the fastmoving developments. Jennifer griffin is in st. Louis for tomorrows big debate but were going to begin with carl cameron. He is outside of trump tower in new york city. Hi, carl. Reporter hi, elizabeth. Well, that tape hit the news yesterday Late Afternoon and it has completely consumed the campaign trail, particularly in
Thank you so much for joining us. Welcome to americas election headquarters from washington. We begin this hour with an election alert, gut check time for republicans scrambling to distance themselves from the latest donald trump bombshell with some seeven calling him to step aside. A 2005 video showing trump talk about women and their anatomy has rocked every wrung on his ladder. Hillary clintons closed door wall street speeches are embarrassing some democrats including speech experts in which she praises open borders and calls wall street executives the best to help reform the u. S. Financial sector. A month away from election day, weve got Team Coverage on the fastmoving developments. Jennifer griffin is in st. Louis for tomorrows big debate but were going to begin with carl cameron. He is outside of trump tower in new york city. Hi, carl. Reporter hi, elizabeth. Well, that tape hit the news yesterday Late Afternoon and it has completely consumed the campaign trail, particularly in
John. Michelle, the breaking news is that bob corker, the senator from tennessee, republican who chairs the Foreign Relations committee, has told the Washington Post he has withdrawn from consideration as Donald Trumps running mate. It underscores the question hanging over trumps running mate process, which is who exactly can he entice to run with him. Can he get given how controversial his reputation is, can he get a young rising star in republican politics, or does he got to pick somebody like newt gingrich, the former house speaker, chris christie, the governor of new jersey, who doesnt have much of an electoral future given controversies that have weighed them down. Bob corker is somebody who has been rising within the senate and in republican politics. He says the job of being the Vice President ial candidate is more political than he wants. That hes more of a policy guy. Not comfortable being the attack dog in the campaign. So he has taken himself out. Weve still got some others,
Inspires. Sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. In an effort to restore party unity, last night, republican president ial nominee Donald Trump Endorsed House Speaker paul ryan in his primary race this coming tuesday. Trump had previously hesitated to back the speaker and several other highprofile republicans, but, after a rough week in the polls, he called for a return to the reaganera big tent republican party. I support and endorse our speaker of the house, paul ryan. We may disagree on a couple of things, but, we mostly agre