the kind of courting that lyndon johnson did. dan: i think the johnson example is unfair because he did well with a democratic majority, as the president did and when he had a mixed congress -- charlie: there was a sense of conservatives who didn't want to go where the president didn't want to go at that time. even though they were democrats. they were chairmen of committees. it was a massive selling job by the president. is that not in his nature? dan: no, he did -- i think -- when people look back at this time they'll say why couldn't you pass bills like president obama did? passing health care with zero votes to spare, something that countless presidents had taken on and failed, is a remarkable legislative achievement. it required him to sell, stroke, convince campaign -- charlie: threaten. dan: i don't know if i'd go with threaten but be very clear about the importance of voting for it. charlie: lyndon johnson threatened. abraham lincoln threatened. dan: there are a lot of things you can get away with when lincoln and johnson were president that you can't get away with now. turl

? >> well, lyndon johnson used this moment both for legislation and i think this is a lyndon johnson moment. you can find demonstration and legislation to address the crippling issues of voter denial and poverty, which poverty destroys dreams, educational options, it destroys people's life options. we must address these issues in a real way that i think have not yet been addressed. some think it's a celebration here but i think it's time for -- i'm sorry. >> i apologize. there's a little bit of a delay here. what do you think, i appreciate your passion in terms of getting things done, but what do you think needs to be done? it's one thing to talk about it. we know there are issues there on the table but what's your plan and what are those who support your plan, what are you planning to do to move these -- move everything forward? >> two things. two things. we need congressional remedy for the impact of the section four decision by the supreme court which leaves us unprotected from the tyranny of the majority. that's a very specific challenge. secondly is people who are hungry need food, hou

eisenhower and lyndon johnson who chose not to respond with force to aggressive soviet actions in those two countries. so, perhaps what i should do with the outset is to say that i'm grateful to vladimir putin and barack obama for giving my talk this evening special contemporary resonance. what i want to do and by the way, i want to make sure we have time for discussion, because it is key for me at least during these encounters to get a chance to interact with my audience. i want to make sure we do that. i will cast a glance at my watch. but i want to talk today about history and its uses by leaders, in particular american presidents. a lot of what i am going to say this evening can be applied to decision-makers in other countries as well, but the focus in particular will be on american president. along the way, i want to probe deeper questions about we can and cannot learn from a careful study of the past and what utility that knowledge has for the pressing issues of our day. now, as a student of u.s. foreign policy, i have long been fascinated by, confounded by this interaction betwee

republicans doing watergate saying well lyndon johnson wiretapped people too. it's completely irrelevant, and please let's not play that game. >> well let's not interrupt me and let me explain. what jeb bush -- >> i'm not asking about jeb bush. i'm asking why it was that hillary clinton in 2011 told all state department officials use government e-mails and she continued to refuse to do it? >> chris, i gave you that answer that she as secretary of state had a good reason -- >> what was the good reason? >> i gave you the reason, you're apparently not listening. >> you said -- i don't understand somehow it was going to be more convenient? >> maybe you don't understand because you're not letting me finish. as a secretary of state, she might feel the need -- >> why? >> traveling all over. >> why? >> with a handler -- >> why is state goin govern not adequate? >> she may feel the need as secretary of state -- you won't let me finish. i think jeb bush is a fine man and did nothing wrong. but you won't ask the same question of why does he not use state.gov. >> why don't we talk -- >> 3 million e-

you have layed this game before, it is like the republicans during watergate saying lyndon johnson wiretapped people, too. it is irrelevant and, please do not play that game. >> well let's not intent me and let me explain. >> i am not asking about jeb bush. why did hillary clinton in 2011 tell all extent officials to use government e-mails and she refused? >> i gave you the antithat she has a good reason. >> what was the good reason. >> you are not listening. i gave the you reason. >> somehow it was going to be more convenient? >> maybe you don't understand because you are not letting me finish. as secretary of state she could feel the need traveling all over with --. >> why is the state department e-mail not adequate? >> she may feel the need as secretary of state if i could finish, jeb bush is a fine man and does nothing wrong but you will not ask the same question of why did he not use the state website with three million e-mails, it is a double standard. >> it is like the republicans talking about lyndon johnson during watergate. >> it is not. >> if hillary clinton does nothing wrong expl

playing golf. we're talking about the kind of courting which lyndon johnson did which is often referenced. >> i think the johnson example is an unfair one only in the sense that johnson did very very well with a large democratic majority as the president did. when he had a mixed congress. >> rose: it was a sense of a lot of very very conservatives who did not want to go where the president wanted to go at that time. >> he was able to-- . >> rose: because they were democrats and chairmans of committees. it was a massive selling job by the president. but is that just simply not in his nature? >> no i mean he did-- i think it's-- i think when people look back at this time people will say why couldn't you pass bills like president obama did. passing health care with zero votes to spare something that countless presidents had taken on and failed is a remarkable legislative achievement. it required him to sell stroke convince campaign. >> rose: threaten. >> i don't know if he was going to threaten am but to be very clear about the importance of voting for it. lz. >> rose: lincoln joh

leader during and after the crisis. kennedy's vice president, lyndon johnson, pay close attention. fearful of appearing soft on national security, johnson repeatedly invoked the munich analogy to defend his administration's commitment to bolstering south vietnam. when he announced, johnson, when johnson announced the escalation of the u.s. amendment in vietnam in 1965, he referred confidently to history. this is johnson, 1965. we learned from hitler at munich that success only feeds the appetite for aggression. the battle would be renewed in one country, then another, bringing with it even larger and crueler conflicts as we have learned from the lessons of history. that is lyndon johnson. parenthetically, let me ask and answer parenthetically, did this historical explanation drive johnson's decision to escalate the war? i don't think so. i will come back to that in a moment. in terms of justifying it, in terms of explaining it to the american people, in the middle of 1965, it mattered a great deal. as the war in vietnam dragged on, johnson's's reading of the past would be question

challenge to president lyndon johnson. >> i stood up and said i don't understand it how president johnson can send troops to vietnam, but cannot send troops to selma, alabama, to protect people who only desire to register to vote. >> reporter: after bloody sunday president johnson spoke before congress. >> it is wrong, deadly wrong, to deny any of your fellow americans the right to vote in this country. it's not just negros but really it's all of us. who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice, and we shall overcome. >> he was the first american presidents to use the theme song of the civil rights movement. i looked at dr. king tears came down his face. i started crying a little. i didn't like for anybody to see me cry, but i cried. president johnson sent out the national guard, part of the united states military to protect us all the way from selma to montgomery. >> reporter: on august 6th president johnson signed the land mark voting rights act ensure all citizens could vote regardless of their color. the supreme court struck down a key provision of that law

reached the white house. on march 15th in a televised address to congress, president lyndon johnson spoke out against the violence and asked congress to pass the voting rights act. >> it's not just negative grow negroes, really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. and we shall overcome. >> a week later on march 21st, more than 3,000 people embarked on a 54-mile trek to montgomery. this time under the protection of federal troops walking some 12 miles a day sleeping in nearby fields at night. by the time they reached montgomery the crowd was massive. 25,000 people joining in the struggle for change. and change did come in august when congress passed the voting rights act and president johnson signed it into law. [applause] >> that is our tony harris live on the ground in selma alabama even as we speak along with our correspondent robert ray. we'll be joining them later in the program. we're looking live at the edmund pettus bridge, and the symbolism cannot be lost on anyone that the podium is set up for the president of the united states, an afric

the united states lyndon b. johnson delivered one of the most powerful speeches made by any president on the question of voting rights. he said the time of justice has come. i believe sincerely that no force can hold it back. it is in the eyes of man and god that it should come. he said in time history and fate meet in a single trial and place to shape a turning point for man to search freedom. he went on to say so it was conquered, so it was that it matters, so it was in selma, alabama each of us must go back to our homes after the celebration and build on a legacy of the march in 1965. the selma movement is saying today that we all can do something. so i said to you, don't give up on something that has great meaning to you. don't get lost in a sea of dispair. stand up for what you believe. because in the final analysis we are one people, one family the human family. we all live in the same house. the american house. we are black. we are white. we had hispanic. asian-american. native american. we are one people. thank you. [ applause ] rn to my home state of alabama, to pre

the second term, he might have done that, but he also said, lyndon johnson did if you can't do this what's the presidency for? >> exactly, what's it for. and obviously the march in selma had a lot to do with pushing that agenda further for johnson. >> rose: back to frank underwood, mafia chieftains they know who they are and what they're about -- making money, keeping the family together. >> i'll make you an offer you couldn't refuse (spoken in voice of the godfather) (laughter) >> rose: what would bill clinton say about that? >> i love that "house of cards," though it's so good -- >> rose: and johnny carson would say about the "house of cards"? >> well, i'd binge but i'm too busy writing monologues. can't binge. we'll be right back. he was so good at that. >> rose: but this year, it opens urinating on his father's grave saying that, when you become president, you have to be a little human. >> yeah, because for the press, they think he's there honoring his father but in private he's got other feelings. yeah, i think it's an interesting comment that there are certain things, you know

what's going on in this country. this cannot continue. as lyndon johnson said at one point, you mean to tell me soldiers are coming back from vietnam and do not have the right to vote? this is wrong and has to be changed. and so i think that bloody sunday catalyzed the movement to do something about our voting rights, and later that year, we got the voting rights act of 1965, and i think selma gave lyndon johnson and the congress the power, the moral power to seek that legislation and to get it passed. >> what's your take on, you know, one of the most passionate parts of the president's speech yesterday where he did take on those critics who said we're not making progress on race. the president outlined the great progress we've made but also laying out what more needs to be done. >> well, you know, we're always searching for that more perfect union that our founding fathers talked to us about. we've made enormous progress. if we hadn't made progress, he wouldn't have been standing there. eric holder wouldn't have been with him and i wouldn't be here now. things opened up. law wa

pointless. >> so you think? >> a lyndon johnson moment a moment to focus on legislation, renewing the voters right act and war on poverty deals with poverty. >> you think the president should have come out swinging a little bit harder? >> well, the voting rights act of 65 has been gutted by the shelby decision. these legislators here today, many will not resupporting it. they should challenged. we should see action this coming week in washington. >> how about from the state of alabama and the govern governor he? >> $100 million in education money for education to be spent on prisons. he rejects medicaid and millions of americans in alabama are kofshth. he supports shelby and that's why people responded to him the way they did because he does not represent the spirit of this crowd's ambitions. >> last question: ferguson. big issue right now with the state department justice department. >> ferguson is more typical than unusual. many small towns in this country are using, labeling blacks as atm machines locking people up arresting them and making money off of attacks, arrests and taxatio

registered to vote. thank you very much. host: president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act a few months after bloody sunday. the signing of the voting rights act taking place on august 6 1965. taking a few more phone calls while we wait for the speaking program to begin life in selma. ryan on the line from fredericksburg, virginia. caller: i want to make a comment about -- i think it is great what's going on. it makes me proud to be an american. thank you. host: mark in pasadena, california. caller: hello there. thank you for taking my call. i want to make a comment -- i lived through this era. i was only 15 years old at the time but i remember it well. we have come quite a ways but there is still so much more to do, especially now that we have a republican-controlled congress intent on keeping down voting amongst the minority population in the young people and students. they will not accept a student but they will accept membership within the national rifle association. that is clearly the demographic they are targeting, but to keep down student voting. because they vote m

speech that lyndon johnson made shortly after bloody sunday. he addressed congress on voting rights. what was lbj thinking on voting rights prior to event in selma? guest: he wanted voting rights no question. for him, it was a question of timing. that is what brought it there. martin is a king met with him and it was not the right time. the young people in the voting rights campaign made sure it was time. they reminded johnson that they were setting the timetable, not the president. host: where were you on bloody sunday? and when you heard about bloody sunday, what was your reaction? guest: i was in los angeles going to ucla at the time. i remember the reaction myself, and many of the people i knew, was anger. we wanted to do something. we wanted to come and protest. instead, we decided to protest at the federal building in los angeles. we basically shut the federal building down for a short time in order to make it clear that the federal government had to react on behalf of the voting rights marches in selma. host: mark luther, where was he 50 years ago today? -- martin luther king

if he uses the "black lives matter" language he will embody the best of lyndon johnson when johnson said we shall overcome. it was not only the legislative action in that moment it was also signaling his sense of solidarity with these activists. so if the president signals today towards that "black lives matter" movement if he gestures towards it, it will be the very best of what lbj was when he was a friend to those movements. >> and back to connecting the dots here as we remember the events of 50 years ago while reporting on similar issues today, ferguson voting rights income inequality you spoke about how your father would say the struggle continues. how fitting is that today? >> not only would he often say it he used to sign my birthday cards when i was 5 and 6 years old, the struggle continues, daddy. i had no idea what it meant as a child. but i certainly understand it now. it really is this idea that to win a battle is not won once and for all and then you simply can rest. it's a reminder that you are picking up a struggle that has already preceded you, that you are continuin

1965 voting rights rally in montgomery alabama. after that president lyndon johnson's address to congress on voting rights. then the selma 50th anniversary brown chapel ame church commemorative service. all of this coming up tonight on c-span3.luy >>> next, an update from this morning's "washington journal" on the future of the iranian nuclear program from a reporter covering the talks in switzerland switzerland.ucefore >> with a day to go before that reakth deadline, how close are we to a breakthrough and whatneju$) needs to be negotiated here in the final hours?troubl >> sure. i think there were actually troubling signs overnight for ioned, those who want a deal. as you just mentioned, "the new york times" is reporting that ting t iran is backing away from an agreement that had been made a few weeks ago where it would ship its nuclear fooel fuel to russia rather than keeping it itself and trying to dilute it. that was something that was a nice symbolic step, if nothingv#? else, for the u.s. and other is people and our plus one allies to say, look this fuel is goingan outside of

crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. and we shall overcome. >> those words from lyndon johnson we shall overcome echoing the demonstrators on the streets. it was a watershed moment for the voting rights battle. it was not the end. president johnson received applause for that line but it was nowhere near unanimous. it would be more than two months before the southern filibuster was finally broken in the senate five months before the voting rights act of 1965 was signed into law. but what happened in selma moved president johnson to words and actions. 50 years later a different president leading a nation still battling with discrimination. he'll go to selma and speak today. we have already spoke this morning about what president obama's justice department had to say about the pattern of discrimination in ferguson missouri. what might president obama say about that in selma? i'm joined now from selma by an associate professor of political science and we have the author of the fierce urgency of now. let me start with you, to place what happened in some context. looking back 50 years a

the white house. on march 15th president lyndon johnson spoke out against the violence, and asked congress to pass the voting rights act. >> it's not just negroes, but really it is all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. and we shall overcome. [ applause ] >> reporter: a week later on march 21st more than 3,000 people embarked on a 54-mile trek to montgomery. this time under the protection of federal troops walking some 12 miles a day, sleeping in nearby fields at night. by the time they reached montgomery, the crowd was massive. 25,000 people joining in the struggle for change. and change did come. [ applause ] >> reporter: in august when congress passed the voting rights act, and president johnson signed it into law. [ applause ] >> reporter: so one of the great joys of this assignment is to be able to collect stories -- it's what i love to do anyway so to get an opportunity to select stories here in selma, alabama, you can imagine what a treat that is. let me introduce you to two wonderful women. ethel steward, anded a addline jones. good to s

to vote. thank you very much. host: president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act a few months after bloody sunday. the signing of the voting rights act taking place on august 6 1965. taking a few more phone calls while we wait for the speaking program to begin life in selma. ryan on the line from fredericksburg, virginia. caller: i want to make a comment about -- i think it is great what's going on. it makes me proud to be an american. thank you. host: mark in pasadena, california. caller: hello there. thank you for taking my call. i want to make a comment -- i lived through this era. i was only 15 years old at the time but i remember it well. we have come quite a ways but there is still so much more to do, especially now that we have a republican-controlled congress intent on keeping down voting amongst the minority population in the young people and students. they will not accept a student but they will accept membership within the national rifle association. that is clearly the demographic they are targeting, but to keep down student voting. because they vote more de

fought republicans harder. i would like him--there are pictures of lyndon johnson where he's holding the collars of congressmen, and he's telling them what he wants? well that's not exactly barack obama's personality. >> what are the main causes, in your opinion, of income inyou quality? >> one is globalization. increasingly you have workers in other countries that demand far lower wages and second is technology itself. in terms of displacing more and more workers from good jobs. then you also have a failure of government of politician to boost to maintain good jobs. i can say this because i was secretary of labor and i failed failed. we've seen change. >> what should we need to do. >> provide better education for particularly the bottom half. kids who are stuck in lousy schools and bust up the big banks on wall street. >> i can hear republicans listening to what you have to say, saying, this is--he's going ruin the american dream. he's going to prevent people from living their dream and making as much money as they want. he's going to let the government take their money. he's going

going to beat lyndon johnson because kennedy has just been assassinated. they ran a guy they really believed in, goldwater. is this where republicans are going to say, we are going to run a guy we really believe in. go for the gold or silver? >> i think the republicans have a good shot at winning the presidency. >> so they won't go for this guy? >> i still think there's a tea party fever at the base of the party that will be rejectionist towards jeb bush. i'm not going to say they are going to go for jeb bush but someone who continues the anti-obama gop approach and will not bring them success if the swing states like kellyanne spoke about. >> i want to bring up a little thing that has concerned me about ted cruz. i met him once. he seemed all right to talk to. let me ask you this. is he going after the president with this thing about -- if you really want -- what is this quote, understanding harvard law school, very important to understanding our president, he said in an article. barack obama, he's very much a creature of harvard law, to understand what that means, you have to unde

begun. it was there he issued a challenge to president lyndon johnson. >> i stood up and said i don't understand it how president johnson can send troops to vietnam, but cannot send troops to selma, alabama, to protect people who desire to register to vote. >> reporter: president johnson spoke before congress it. >> it is wrong, deadly wrong, to deny any of your fellow americans, the right to vote in this country. it's not just negros but really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. and we shall overcome. >> he was the first american president to use the theme song of the civil rights movement. i looked at dr. king tears came down his face. i didn't like for anybody to see me cry, but i cried. president johnson federalized the alabama national guard, called out part of the united states military to protect us all the way from selma to montgomery. >> reporter: on august 6th president johnson signed the landmark voting rights act, ensure that all citizens could vote regardless of their color. the supreme court struck down a key provision of that

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1965 by lyndon johnson. 50 years ago. where are we today? >> that is the irony. we have come to commemorate and lift up and celebrate the activism in the passage of the 1965 civil rights act, but today the voting rights act is under peril because of the supreme court decision in the shelby case two years ago. amy: explain the shelby case. >> the voting rights act of 1965, which has been called the most important piece of civil rights legislation of that period, carried a provision that required jurisdictions that had a history of discrimination to submit any voting changes that they wanted to make, and we have lived under that for 40 years. congress have reauthorize the act three times. it was 396-30 three in the house, 98-0 in the senate, it in 2006. voting registration -- voting discrimination was still occurring in those states. the supreme court, led by chief justice, decided something quite different. they refused to accept the records that congress had amassed, and they insisted that this rumination is a thing of the past him a that history is history and we cannot connect

file a ballot to determine their own destiny. >> president lyndon b. johnson signed the voting rights act a few months later which gave african-americans the right to vote. >>> donald norcross will be in selma today to help mark the march. norcross tells us he believes it's important to commemorate the civil rights moment. >> in many ways we've come so far, being there with the president to celebrate the 50th anniversary of how much we've changed but quite frankly how far we still need to go. >> norcross says he hopes the unity translates to the u.s. congress. >>> angry protesters take to the streets in one wisconsin community after police gun down a man. what authorities say that suspect was doing that forced the officer to fire his weapon. >>> while the delta airlines jet that skidded off a runway during thursday's snowstorm sits in a hangar investigators are hoping the crew can shed some light on what went wrong on that runway. >>> now, your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> a good saturday morning, i'm meteorologist michelle grossman. we are waking up to very very cold tempera

alabama finally reached the white house. president lyndon johnson spoke out against the violence and asked congress to pass the voting rights act. >> it's not just negroes but really, it's all of us. . who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. and we shall overcome. >> a week later on march 21st more than 3,000 people embarked on a trek to montgomery this time under protection of federal troops. walking 12 miles a day sleeping in nearby fields at night. by the time they reached montgomery the crowd was massive. 25,000 people joining in the struggle for change. and change did come. in august when congress passed the voting rights act and president johnson signed it into law. and john, i think what we've heard so far and i'm sure what we'll hear a lot of tomorrow is this common thread that while a lot has been accomplished that there's still a lot of work that needs to be done and there are many people here who we've had an opportunity to speak to already, who have a sense that voting rights in this country are beginning to be suppressed all over again and someth

for it. lyndon johnson comes to mind. >> yeah. >> certainly he had that reputation in congress. i think that once he became president, one of the things that was impressive about his presidency, despite all of the, i think, proper criticism he took over the vietnam war, was that he saw the presidency as a place where you could actually get something done, where it was the time to step forward. even if you were doing something that was against maybe a stance you had had for many, many years as a congressman, and that certainly was true in the case of civil rights. that he decided that passing those three civil rights bills was more important than almost anything else he did in his presidency. and i would say that that was a pretty effective thing to do, and i think probably the way he went about doing it was twisting some arms. >> yeah. that sounds like lincoln in the spielberg movie getting the 13th amendment to outlaw slavery. here's what your show's creator, bowillman said recently about the new season. "a lot of people love the show for all the chess moves and like seeing frank

rallying cry made it to the white house. president lyndon johnson announcing to congress he would introduce the voting rights act. in his now famous speech he embraced the calls of civil rights and the language of the movement telling the nation "we shall overcome." >> their cause must be our cause, too. because it's not just negroes, but really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. and we shall overcome. >> it was a historic turning point. martin luther king recognized it immediately. he was moved to tears as he watched the speech from a home in selma. and five months later dr. king was at president johnson's side as he signed the voting rights act into law. 50 years later we've come so far, but our work is not yet done. last year alone, 21 states rolled back the very same voting rights we fought for in 1965. there's all kinds of moves and all kinds of strategies that would in many ways impede people being able to vote without a long process that would discourage and in some ways debunk them. but just like our fathers and mothers fought 5

, he took me over to the rotunda i actually saw lyndon johnson sign the voting rights act. that was of course four or five months after bloody sunday. it has been an extraordinarily important piece of legislation, it prevents discrimination in voting on the base of race all over america. and we all revere the changes that have been brought in our country as a result of this important legislation. >> schieffer: let me just ask you one final question here, that is, now that you are the majority leader in the senate, do you feel you are obligated to work with the president and with the white house to get things done? >> of course. and i think there's some areas that i'm pretty optimistic about. i think we'll be able to make progress on trade, make progress on cyber-security. when the american people are not saying they don't want anything done they are saying we want you guys on each side to look for things that you can agree on to make progress in the country. that's always my first choice. >> schieffer: quick question treasury secretary sent letter to congress saying that debt limit wil

. remember lyndon johnson, thanks for doing that piece, 1965 this was part of the war on poverty. this was part of the civil rights movement because not all kids were getting a fair shake back in their school district. we got away from that. >> but also there is another thing that i think has occurred over time and that is what feels like some bipartisan support so hold on because i want to back up to my table one second. i want to play secretary of education arne duncan talking about reform but then sounding not so different than no child left behind. let's take a listen. >> let's dispense with no child left behind and give schools more flexibility. all states need to take annual statewide assessments. so if, amy onltd the one hand we should do away with no child left behind but then the secretary of education saying everybody has got to take a test this year isn't that the thing driving education to the test? >> of course and it shows how washington all too often the difference between the democrats and the republicans does not reflect the real difference in the united states.

after bloody sunday the president of the united states lin bane -- lyndon baines johnson delivered one of the most important speeches ever made on voting ratesights. he said the time for justice has come. i believe sincerely that no force can hold it back. he went on to say it is right in the eyes of man and god that it should come. he said at times history an fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's search for freedom. he said so it was at lexington and concord, so it was at appomattox. so it was in selma, alabama. each of us must go back to our homes after this celebration and build on a legacy of the march of 1965. the selma movement exists today so we can all do something. so i say to you don't give up on saying that has great meaning. don't get lost in a sea of despair. stand up for what you believe. because in the final analysis we are one people, one family, the human family. we all live in the same house, the american house. the world house. we are black, we are white, we are hispanic asian american, native american. but we are one people.

that bridge, eight days later, president lyndon johnson addressed a joint session of congress and called on congress to enact voting rights legislation, to enact what those marchers had been looking for. johnson ended that speech that day with the words "we shall overcome." and months after that, the legislation that he called for, that those demonstrators called for, it was passed by congress, and it was signed into law by the president. that was 1965. then just about two years ago on june 25th, 2013, the united states supreme court struck down the heart of the voting rights act, struck down the heart of that law passed in response to selma in 1965. in a 5-4 decision, the court invalidated a key provision of the law. a provision thereat allows some states, mostly states in the south, to change their election laws without any advanced approval from the federal government. when that ruling came down in 2013, there were calls for congress to act, calls for congress to make changes to the voting rights act so it would still have teeth even after that supreme court ruling which are ca

a bipartisan effort for the voting rights bill to be passed in 1965 that lyndon johnson signed. as the sthor said and articulated so clearly the time today we still need this nonviolent effort and movement. i think we're seeing young people around the country becoming very engaged in a positive way to bring about social change. and ultimately to get involved in the voting process which is the first step. >> martin luther king iii, senator, we thank you having been here. >>> coming up hillary clinton facing fallout from e-mail issues. now the white house and state department are getting hammered with questions why she used her private e-mail and home server. we'll tackle all of it next. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. >>> welcome back. this morning questions continue t

months and countless lobbying protests later, president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act. tomorrow the president and his daughters head to the edmund pettus bridge to lead another march. he was there for a campaign visit in 2007. >> it is because they match that i got the kind of education that i got. that i got a law degree and a seat in the illinois senate and ultimately in the senate and it is because they marched that i stand before you here today. >> right now the president is wrapping up a town hill in a historic black college in south carolina that still remains in success of my brother's keeper. and a senior editor from the new york times clay hinden and a friend of the show. and this is the president embracing even further the mantle being a black president and embracing that i can use this pulpit to do something for black citizens. >> that is right. it comes as an interesting time for the whole country. how would we think about selma today if ferguson hadn't happened last year. and it is interesting to see how the president and how does he see himself at the end

1965 is considered a turning point in the civil rights movement. months afterwards president lyndon b. johnson signed the voting rights act, which outlawed discrimination against african-americans in voting. >>> all right. talking some weather now. crews in boston are getting ready for the city's st. patrick's day parade. this year though they've got their work cut out for them that's because they're scrambling to remove the massive amount of snow from the recent storms. yesterday, volunteers cleared tons of it from the streets and the parade route. heavy machinery was brought in for the job, ahead of next weekend's annual event, which in the past has drawn more than 1 million people to south boston. there was talk of moving the parade to another date but that's not going to happen. that was californiascrapped. the volunteer clearing operation will continue all week. i'm sure they've had snow in past years ahead of the st. patrick's day parade but nothing like this. >> oh, my gosh record-breaking snow, and i cannot imagine the manpower that takes, the money, manpower, and time to get

. johnson. he's your republican candidate. he is completely against the civil rights movement. lyndon b. johnson. was in favor of from what i've read. what happened is he barry goldwater, was the loser's office. there was a senate, a republican senate that pushed the vote to the president's desk. it was the democrats who were against civil rights legislation. do you know that since 1964, the black america hasn't given the republican party more than 15% of the vote? here's what that means. black folks in america are telling one party we don't care without the you. they're telling the other party you got our vote. thfr, you have labelled yourself disenfranchised because one party knows they've got you under their thumb. the other party knows they'll never get you. and nobody comes to address your interest. >> how honest? pulling back the curtain on the black vote here. when he said no republican candidate right here has gotten more than 15% of the vote by black america. that is incredible. when you go down history and he started it there. the republicans, 13th, 14th. and 15th amendment. t