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Friend and colleague with us, and we are sorry for your loss. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you. >> john, back to you. >> dana bash, thank you and thanks to congressman clay as well. he noted the family connection. his dad was a congressman before him and good friend with john lewis. youre watching the scene here, joint base andrews, family, friends, is speaker nancy pelosi down there organizing on the tarmac. you see the left of the truck fading off the screen as the shot moves in closer...

Stand up and demand to be full citizens. he would always move the conversation towards them. thats really what we talked about. the other thing that really struck me in the conversations, so i interviewed him in 2014 for the anniversary of freedom summer. of course, he was one of the architects of freedom summer. one of the things that really struck me was how supportive he was of the black lives matter movement and the protests that were also occurring around black people still fighting to get ...

>> since were being honest, i did the same thing, nikole. whipped out the camera phone and asked a staffer to get a picture, as well. because heres the thing, nikole, and i think, you know, folks now are familiar with the story of john lewis on the edmund pettis bridge in 1965, when he was 20 years old. there are few americans, living or dead, who devoted just about their entire life to public service in some way, shape, form, or fashion. as we watch the honor guard approach the plane here. here...

Of american democracy and its practice." along with martin luther king jr., mcclark, diane nash, c.t. vivian, rosa parks, ella baker, and a host of others, a great cloud of witnesses who have gathered around the throne of our american democracy, the sacred pursuit of justice was realized by black people who were brought here as enslaved figures. nikole hannah-jones in the 1619 project talks about that particular year, now made itself an iconic number in the roll call of years that have fatefully...

His cause and it is now honoring him. and the work, as maya was saying, has to be to continue, not simply -- we cannot let him become a monument. he was a man. he was a saint, in my view. in classical religious terms. he was willing to give his life, to suffer and to die for an ideal of generosity and kindness, opposed to selfishness and cruelty. but saints cant be just stained glass figures. saints are sinners who are just a lot better than the rest of us. i think that he would want to be seen ...

More than john did as a leader of the civil rights movement. thats going to be his legacy. >> weve been showing some of the pictures of you and the late congressman over the years. earlier, i had the opportunity to spend some time talking to martin luther king iii, who talked about how he came to know john lewis as uncle john. because when he was a boy, john lewis was in and out of his house so often, plotting and planning with his late mentor, dr. martin luther king jr. both men will be eulogiz...

When martin luther king died, more people disapproved of him than approved of him. whats happened now is one of my men i respect has said, it is the santa clausification of dr. king. we forgot about his demands for radicalism. his demands for justice. his condemnation of the war machines that we were building, and how it related to the vietnam war. weve made him comfortable, cuddly, easy to accept, and cheer for. but no, when we lose john lewis radicali radicalism, that it fundamentally comes fr...

>> harris: congressman john melissa is about to head on one last turn into washington, d.c. you saw him move along the tarmac and this begins a several hour journey that will start

——. had they not been postponed because the pandemic, right now they will be in the mix of olympic games madness. many celebrated film—makers have documented the games. this time around, the distinction has fallen to a japanese film—maker. from tokyo. they send us this report. today, tokyo station, it should be full of commuters and tourists eager to look at the olympic games. in the midst of the pandemic, they are on hold until next year. but not for everyone. i am on my way to meet the...

The best is virtue s of our nation. i dont think there was anybody living in my time, when i got to the congress, that better exemplified our common values than john lewis. for me, it is humbling. when he told me what it meant to him, that so much of his work, a symbol of the fruition of his work, was to watch the fourth properly elected black congressman to be sworn into the senate. it let me with this understanding, every moment i get to hold this job on walk on to the senate floor was paid fo...