were putting on to the bench people like judge cox who used the n word when discussing black people in court and calling to governor vanderberg to get martin luther king jr. out of jail. a key call that was seen as a profound gesture of symbolic identification with african-american people. but also, telling him, i will not use federal authority to intervene on behalf of integration. while at the same time telling black leaders they were going to support civil rights. so it was very tough and difficult. and the meeting that senator, that then-attorney general kennedy had with jimmy baldwin. lorraine hansberry and lena horne and harry belafonte, was meant to be a showcase with the administration and auger well with them and get their kind of gratitude for what had been done. they lit him up in that meeting. he got angry, but then he calmed down. he did sic the fbi on them. he got the dossiers of several members in the room and the fbi
while his father was at work and allegedly sexting with half a dozen women. harris pleaded not guilty to murder and child cruelty charges but a judge says there is probably cau probable cause to move forward. he denied bail and ordered harris to stand trial. victor blackwell takes us inside the courtroom. reporter: what was justin ross harris allegedly doing while his 22-month-old son cooper suffered in the back of this scorching suv? he was having up to six different conversations with different women. the most common term would be sexting. reporter: stunning claims of raunchy text messages, suspicious internet searches and a plan to kill his son. evidence is showing us right now he s got this whole second life that he s living with alternate personalities and alternate personas. reporter: harris sat sullen as the cobb county police
visitors got out. we ll know more when we are able to reach the island today. we re in the process right now of putting together a communications package and coordinate to get a utility restoration crew over on the first day. we expect that to happen right around noon to get their resources over to that island. joe wright, we know you are still assessing the damming. we hope you ll check back. thank you so much for your time. thank you. our hurricane coverage will continue. also still to come the father accused in that hot car death of his toddler son will stand trial. you ll hear the shocking details that led the judge in this case to deny him bail. so, your site gave me this credit report card thing. can i get my actual credit report. like, the one the bank sees? [ male voice ] sheesh, i feel like i m being interrogated over here.
knowing what to think. so, so much focus has been on who this man is, and it seems like that s what the prosecutor is really targeting in their attack of harris. how do you defend against the sexting, the strange internet insurance and the life insurance policies. victor is right, that may be a separate crime but it is not killing your child. the prosecutor said i want to convince this judge, judge cox, i want him to stay in jail. i want to start turning public opinion against him. i m going to quash these online positions and make sure whatever character witnesses he may bring to the next court hearing they ll think twice before they stand up to this guy. his wife was defending him prior to this hearing. i m interested to see if she s going to be charged. we heard some evidence come out during the hearing she may have known about this. even if she wasn t the one that
from this detective goes against what they know of this man, they talked about a split personality or double life. your thoughts? that s what s important to remember. it s easy to listen to the damaging evidence and say close the book, he s guilty. it s over this. this was not a trial. this was a probable cause hearing. the state gets to run the show. they put up their best evidence. it went much longer than the hearings normally go. i think they overdid is for probable cause. the point was to get the judge to deny bond and it worked. does the defense have a defense? can they come up with reasonable explanations as to why he did these searches as to why he said what he said. that s what i m looking for. now the defense will now have an opportunity to investigate the case and try to come up with a defense, if they can. a strong point he asks what do the searches have to do with the intent although, i don t think anybody went there expecting all of what we learned about this sexting