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Necessarily supportive and maybe even hostile to the civil rights campaign in selma. >> we want federal legislation granting the right to vote unincumbent. >> thats fine. but most of the south is still not desegregated. lets not start another battle when we havent even won the first. this voting thing is just going to have to wait. >> the film also suggested that lbj to discredit martin luther king. johnson defenders have been quick to suggest that president johnson and dr. king were partners du...

At the time when we met with president johnson in the middle of december neither dr. king nor president johnson had thought of selma. >> the other element here that a lot of people around who were around the former president are objecting to is a scene that strongly suggests that lbj was complicit in what j. edgar hoovers fbi was doing in terms of surveillance of martin luther king and in sending a tape to coretta scott king of mlk having some kind of extramarital relation. the scene plays out w...

Civil rights legislation in 1965 he was standing up on the 28th of march with a joint session of congress. and he introduced legislation which changed the south. thats what we want to celebrate in the selma film. >> that was the lbj speech where he said we shall overcome. >> he said we shall overcome. >> were short on time i dont mean to cut you short, but we have the news overnight of the passing of ed brooke the first populary elected african-american u.s. senator in history, served two terms ...

And martin luther king describe the detailed ways in which lyndon johnson used his mastery of the political process to deliver this bill. we could not have had this bill without lyndon baines johnson, but lyndon baines johnson could not have passed it without martin luther king without the death of jimmie lee jackson, james james reebe, cheney and goodman, medgar evers. its unfair for anybody to talk about credit. too many people gave their lives. too many people risked too much. >> i think that...

The fbi to wire tap all of us. i had a wire running into my house that i just discovered about two years ago. and its probably been there since i moved into that house in 1966. we knew we were bugged but that was before lbj. and the present fbi director keeps that letter on his desk and he makes the people read it and says that that was one of the lowest positions in the history of the fbi. now, even as i say that one of the things that i like about selma and one of the things that the movie sho...

Denver, colorado, as well. impressive snow accumulations in recent days. on tuesday, more than 400 flights delayed or canceled out of denvers international airport. the worst impacted hub in the united states. denver. so a lot of wild weather to end 2014. >> you know what im doing for new years eve? >> im going to be here. >> me, too. >> so its just me and b.j. >> we eel celebrate. >> thanks. >> critics say its a clear effort by the kremlin to silent dissent. an opposition leader and his brother...

His jersey. this time, james was greeted as a hero. >> lbj is back, baby. >> i had dreams about going back home. its where i bled, sweat, cried laughed. still, not even was. right now. >> i love you. im back. >> reporter: the nfl spent much of this year fighting to regain its credibility after a series of scandals. after commissioner roger goodell only suspended ravens running back ray rice two games for knocking his wife unconscious. a backlash started to build, exploding after tmz released an ...

Health care, 10 million people covered, auto industry and a range of others. we talk about the climate agreement he reached with china. that was a commitment he made in the early days of the campaign. in iowa he talked about climate -- addressing climate change. so i think you can look at presidential terms and phases. this phase is really sort of the sowing of the seeds that were planted. >> walk us through that. how do you do that? they used to say in media, if it bleeds, it leads. with health...

Wants to do through executive actions to the greatest extent possible. >> not only executive actions but called president memoranda. most of us never heard of that. >> right. hes issued -- you know, the white house likes to say that the president has done just a number of executive actions as other presidents but theyre not including presidential memoranda, which the president has used in several instances. hes looking to use to the greatest extent possible his powers as president and some say h...

Put it that way. >> theres all kinds of breaking news on this and the president hold as news conference at 1:30. he will, no doubt, face questions on this. >> "legal view" with deborah feyerick starts right after this. ♪ ah, ♪ h it. ♪ push it. ♪ p...push it real good! ♪ ♪ ow! ♪ oooh baby baby...baby baby.