Mr. Jon meacham, this book came out in august, congressman lewis passed in july, how long have you been working on this . Is a tricky question to answer, on one level it was 28 years, another level it was about six months. I met congressman lewis in 1992 during a Senate Runoff down in georgia, i was a reporter for the chattanooga times. Began kind of a running episodic about running conversation that we had over the ensuing three decades. I really decided to do it when i was standing with my family and Speaker Pelosi and congressman lewis and about a thousand other people on the pettus bridge in march and i realized watching the congressman that this was almost certainly his last trip there. I very much wanted to pay tribute to him but also wanted to hang a lantern on what had driven him to that bridge as a young man. As an example, and exemplum of how religious faith can be essential to political activists. Did he know you are working on this entity sit down with you . We talked a lot
hey, good morning, it s tuesday, may 7th. welcome to morning joe on a beautiful, beautiful day. what a beautiful may day. . gorgeous. with us onset, we ve got mike barnicle, political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. and fortune magazine s assistant editor. we ve got so much to talk about. i was really surprised at the last segment on way too early talking about chris christie undergoing an operation. chris text us to let us know this story was true or not. also, a lot of other things going on. today, we ll be seeing what the biggest companies in america are. we are. fortune 500, see who s going up, going down. also, benghazi, this story will not go away. yeah. we have new testimony that has come out talking about the military actually trying to get over to benghazi while the riots were going on. last-minute changes. being told to stand down. don t go over there. and i ll tell you, the people that wan