This is American History tv on cspan3. [applause] let me thank god this day for there is no other place i would rather be at this hour than in the house of the lord. Amen. Before i say what i want to say, which will be quick, i must proud i am to once again have i am proud to have my wife and our daughter here with us. [applause] the only grandchild of martin and coretta king. I was asked to do a tribute, and it has been 50 years, but i am not feeling like a tribute because i find it challenging to celebrate yes, we celebrate so many who some gave their lives and others walked over the bridge yesterday 50 years ago and were beaten badly, but when we think about what Martin Luther king, jr. Would want us to do, i imagine he would tell us that our work was not done. Do, i imagine he would tell us that our work was not done. It has certainly been 50 years and there are so many here today that would not have been here. Cabinet secretary that were certainly not here 50 years ago, and i am p
You greetings as well as welcome for all of you being here in the city of soelma once again as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement. I would like to say that on behalf of the citizens of selma which is about 20,700 citizens i bring you greetings and welcome on behalf of them as well as the city council members. I would like to say also that our city of selma is an old city, incorporated in 2018. 2018. Oh, since the 1820s. I apologize. [laughter] i got a little ahead. 1820. Certainly as we go through this history, pegasus, what, about 195 years old roughly . Incorporated because there was already something there, but it became a incorporated, and i made is the third oldest city in alabama, monbile one, montgomery second and selma third. Anytime i come to this church, i become full. I have hit it for a long time. My mother went to this church all of her life. She passed way some years ago, many years ago but always on mothers day when she was alive any and even
This is American History tv on cspan3. [applause] let me thank god this day for there is no other place i would rather be at this hour than in the house of the lord. Amen. Before i say what i want to say, which will be quick, i must proud i am to once again have i am proud to have my wife and our daughter here with us. [applause] the only grandchild of martin and coretta king. I was asked to do a tribute, and it has been 50 years, but i am not feeling like a tribute because i find it challenging to celebrate yes, we celebrate so many who some gave their lives and others walked over the bridge yesterday 50 years ago and were beaten badly, but when we think about what Martin Luther king, jr. Would want us to do, i imagine he would tell us that our work was not done. Do, i imagine he would tell us that our work was not done. It has certainly been 50 years and there are so many here today that would not have been here. Cabinet secretary that were certainly not here 50 years ago, and i am p
This i is an hour. Congratulations on the new book its generating a lot of interest. Whats interesting to me as a person that covered fox for many years in new york and also because i was on a Fox News Program i want to ask you first of all what attracted you to writing a book about roger ailes . Test code that is a great question. Ive covered the media for a decade now and ive been fascinated by the media and politics that covered the New York Times, washington post, msnbc and i wanted to do a bit about the history because the network revolutionized cable news. With the most dominant cable news that would double that of msnbc. Very early into the reporting of the book i realized the weight of the stories the life and career of roger ailes because it is a complete expression of thet worldview. The network is shaped in his image and without the talent i dont think fox would be the success that it is commiserate with developed into a portrait of fox news is the culmination of everything
Optimistic that there will continue to be new ways of people as indignant and is angry as seymour hersh. Whether anyone can persist for as many years and have as many scoops in stories says seymour hersh, that i am doubtful of, certainly not that there will be tremendous investigative journalists. It is also a new world. The internet has given us all sorts of new possibilities. What is we is snowden releases his material. He would have leaked that material to a journalist. The nature of traditional journalism has been turned upsidedown. [inaudible question] maybe i am misremembering. Them the least talented he predicts that the u. S. Would be invading iran and make a really strong stand on that which did not pan out obviously. Zero number of times that the bush of lustration had very specific and was making very specific plans for an invasion. That never happened and people got it wrong. What i say in the book and a number of people told me is that when his articles kept coming out and