Fact he was talking to him every day about your slip the 14th amendment is supposed to mean. That may not have worked out so well rather than convincing. But i think the Supreme Court often does not go with what we might consider the correct interpretation of a particular provision. They have their own way of doing things and that is part of the reason. The other thing to say is that support for the kind of things that they know most interested in, fundamental rights fundamentally in the years following the civil war. Once you got out about ten years after the end of the war, there was much less public sentiment for doing these things because it was hard and people wanted to move onto othe on to other subjn some way that had an impact on the way the Supreme Court viewed these questions and it wasnt until the 1960s that you saw the second reconstruction red by Martin Luther king, kind of the vindication of him other things he was trying to do. Some judges who say they believe in the ori
Hines coming up right now. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis i am these to welcome Barbara Walters to this program. Her trailblazing career in journalism and television has included so many highprofile assignments including the today show and some show called the view. Memoir. Audition a let me start by asking, any regrets yet that you did this . I said from the beginning that a lot of young people, to me especially young women and say you have had such a career and so forth. I would like to be you and i said then you have to have the whole package and that package has ups and downs and the package, a lot of people thought of me as being very austere and sort of one dimension and they see from this good, bad, or indifferent that there are other dimensions. There are things that are very personal in the book about my family and relationships and also a lot of it i hope that is historic and that is informative. I did the book and told the tr
From new york, the tonight show starring Johnny Carson. And now heres the fabulous Harry Belafonte. Here he comes. I found out about that week from Harry Belafonte. I went over to his home and all of a sudden effortlessly he started talking about this week of television and the tonight show. Im thinking wait a minute Harry Belafonte hosted a week of the tonight show. How did i not know this . That was probably the most revolutionary move that Mainstream Television could have done at the time. I write about tv. I write about politics. I should have known about it. Why is this history lost to us . Harry belafonte takes an existing White Institution in american culture, and he turns it into something that represents his world, that it should be multicultural, that it should be politically engaged. What Harry Belafonte did, he combined politics and entertainment like a forerunner to the daily show and the Stephen Colbert show. Is that a fancy way of saying i told you so . I mean, this is e
So every now and then, there are sports plays that are unlike anything you have ever seen before. This had a lot of people talking on the newsroom. Check out this play made by a North Carolina state baseball player. It looks like the batter has an easy double, but outfielder Brett Williams dives full speed. Wait for it. And actually flips in the air as he makes that spectacular catch. Clearly a oneofakind kind of a catch. Wolf, do you think you can pull that off . No. That is a great, great catch. Thats a top play. It looks not real. Thats a top play. Thats a top play on sportscenter. Guess how many steps i did today . This is wolfs new thing. 13,000. Ive got 13,000. Ive got 14,000 steps today. Thats it for us. Thanks very much for joining us. You can follow us on twitter. Erin burnett outfront, she starts, guess when . Right now. Outfront next, just hours from the deadline, it appears the dreaded forced spending cuts are going into effect. Are we over the cliff or just a little roll i
Affairs department the letter says lets put our nations veterans who have sacrificed so much for our freedoms first. Yes, this should not be bipartisan, it should be something helping our veterans. Our veterans shouldnt take a threat to Congress Members vacation. It ought to be something they do. This comes after the senate addressed the bill about the va last month. If passed with bipartisan support, a whopping 933. This week, House Republicans effectively spiked the bill. Over two weeks ago, president obama requested emergency funding to deal with the humanitarian crisis at the border. Nobrainer, right . Today when House Republicans finally met about it, heres what happened. One of the big issues is, very few people trust the president. You have a president , hes not following the 2008 law. If hes not obeying the 2008 law, what good does it do to change that law . It makes it all the way to the president s desk and he signs it, it will be another law that the president will ignore, n