Carolina at the Greyhound Bus station. In 1961, i was at the freedom ride. We left washington ecma four, 1961, 13 of us. To test a division of the United States Supreme Court. Been in segregation on public transportation. My seatmate on the Greyhound Bus from washington d. C. , you must understand and 1961, black people in white people couldnt be seated together. Assist the charges against him. Well, for the two of us we arrived at a little Greyhound Bus station in south carolina. A group of white men met us in the doorway and started beating us and left us lobbying in a pool of blood and the officials came up and wanted to know whether we wanted to press charges. We said no we believe and of love and peace and nonviolence. I didnt know at that time may 9th, 1961 that this man was wilson, years later in february february 09 after president barack obama had been inaugurated he came to my office on capitol hill to seek out the peace grown. Mr. Lewis, will you forgive me . I want to apolo
Today the punishment phase of the trial began, prosecutors representing people of the United States urged a jury to choose death as the punishment for the boston bomber. Four people were killed and 260 wounded almost exactly two years ago. Don dahler says prosecutors started today with a surprise. Reporter prosecutors came out swinging, telling jurors tsarnaev, seen making an obscene gesture at a camera in a Court Holding cell just three months after the bombings, was unconcerned, unrepentant and unchanged. He had one more message left to send. During her Opening Statements framed by photos of those killed during the attacks and in the aftermath, assistant attorney Nadine Pelligrini said he planned and plotted to kill, he deliberately selected a glorious sporting event and twisted the marathon into something cruel and ugly for his own purposes. The jury sat rapt as more victims took the stand. Celeste corcoran described being thrown into the air by the blast that destroyed both her leg
When organizers first planned the rally in baltimore today, it was billed as a protest. That was before Six Police Officers were arrested yesterday in connection with the death of freddie gray and charged with a number of crimes, including murder and manslaughter. The speed of the arrests after a week of rioting in baltimore seemed to stunt city, and certainly changed the tone of the rally today to something that felt more like a celebration. We have two reports from baltimore tonight, beginning with mark albert. No justice no peace reporter the march began with hundreds and grew to a demonstration of several thousand. Parents even brought their Young Children as police and National Guard calmly watched. Eugene puryear told us he is guardedly optimistic after the surprise arrest of six officers. We still have to go through the trial. We have to get convictions so it wont be a full victory until they bang that gaffe expel say guilty. Reporter after grays arrest, police and prosecutors s
Contracting every bit of bad news in europe. That lines up with u. S. Companieses that does business there. Mixed Economic News here at home m weekly unemployment claims came in higher than expected but the Housing Market, yeah, that remains a bright spot. Existing home sales we found out today, they rose and home prices have been going up. That was good news. Stocks were lower but they have bounced back up. Thats a nice way to end the hour and the day with the markets and good news. A couple bits of good news. Thank you so much, alison kosik. Thats going to do it for me. The situation room with wolf blitzer starts right now. Fred, thanks very much. Happening now, a brazen shooting leads to a deadly Chain Reaction crash all within major sites of major casinos in las vegas. The major investigator in the pistorius case has been thrown off the case. And a senator admits that he fathered a child with another onetime senators daughter. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. All that
A few seconds ago that i said that there was a quid pro quo, you never use that language. But you described a quid pro quo and said that that happens all the time. Reporters will use their language all the time, my language never said quid pro q quo. Julie kevin couric is life at the white house with more. We await the playback of the recording from the Cabinet Meeting, and as soon as they get that, i promise to pass it along. But you heard Mick Mulvaney, and you can tell them to walk back and backpedal a clarification by any definition, still trying to explain what he meant from the briefing on thursday where he was asked by abcs Jonathan Carl about a possible quid pro quo. Well, okay. And the cooperation into the investment of the joe biden interference, the white house that we release the transcript. We made it clear that that is not what happened. In fact, Mick Mulvaney said slowing down aid to address things like corruption and what other countries are doing to chip in, frankly is