refuge in our office, converting filing cabinets into barricades. reporter: but she declined to comment on revelations that she was evacuated from the democratic national committee headquarters later that afternoon, seven minutes after a pipe bomb was discovered nearby. while the fbi continues to search for the suspect, captured on video planting two pipe bombs the night before the attack, writhers continue to face their day in court and outspoken federal judges. anthony williams who has pleaded not guilty said in a facebook message that storming the capitol was the proudest day of his life. he had asked the court for permission to travel to jamaica, but chief judge beryl howell rejected the request, writing, this court will not commemorate the one-year anniversary of an attack on the capitol by granting the defendant s request for non-essential foreign travel when he is awaiting judgment for his actions on that day. and the january 6th committee expects to ask former vice president
reporter: but he would also challenge the hollywood establishment forcing a change in his iconic role as detective virgil tibbs in the 1967 academy award winning in the heat of the night because of a scene that would require him to acquiesce to a racist character. i am going to put you on the bus myself. you aren t taking me anywhere. you dig? you are holding the wrong man. reporter: that same year, he would star in the wa watershed film guess who is coming to dinner alongside spencer tracie and katherine hepburn. mom, this is john. reporter: the film not only depicted a successful interracial relationship, it also foreshadowed future progress in america. have you given any thought to the problems your children are going to have? yes. and they ll have some. and we ll have the children. oerds otherwise, i don t know what you would call it but you couldn t call it a marriage. is that the way joey feels? she feels every single one of
inaction, for example, attempt to impede or obstruct the counting of electoral votes, which is an official proceeding of congress, is the committee is looking at that. reporter: some republicans have spoken out against trump. alaska senator lisa murkowski calling the rioters a mob incited by our former president. but others are folding under pressure, after senator ted cruz said this on wednesday. and it is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the capitol. reporter: he later apologized on fox, after host tucker carlson called it a lie. the way i phrased things yesterday, it was sloppy and it was frankly dumb. reporter: a year later, we are still learning new information about what happened that day. then vice president-elect and senator kamala harris had been at the capitol that morning. i had left, but they thoughts immediately turned not only to my colleagues, but to my staff who had been forced to seek
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dignity of every human being. reporter: the son of a bahamian tomato farmer, he lived a life of firsts. the first black man to win an oscar for best actor and one of the first black people to become a true hollywood star among the greatest of all time. we have lots and lots and lots of of african-american actors. now, when we didn t have any, i appeared not because i brought so much because but because the time was right. reporter: but his career almost ended before it ever began. as a teenager, portier auditioned for the american negro theater but he was quickly thrown out because he couldn t read. he was tone deaf, and he had a thick bahamian accent. he says you are no actor. we got next to the door. he opened it, pushed me out, and slam. a determined portier would spend months perfecting his