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Apollo. so for "creed" it was about, you know, taking a piece of this myth, this sports myth, this american myth, and looking at it from our point of view. in that film black folks were always there. we were always there in apollo and apollo has reverence in our community. youll hear people rap about apollo and talk about him, saying if he dies he dies. thinking about that character. it was a window in. with "panther," you know, its a similar kind of pressure. people like to have ownership of it...

Young, two men with king when he was killed. and youre in memphis this morning there. i want to talk about the interview but set the scene in memphis. who is gathered there and who has been coming by? >> erika, its a blend of people from the memphis area and really across the country. and the mood here is a blend as well of reverence because this is a sacred place, where dr. king was shot and killed 50 years ago. what you see behind me is the facade of the motel now connected to the national civ...

You heard the pushback on the other side. you are expunging an important chapter in america history. youre whitewashing it, sanitizing it. those are peoples grandfathers or great grandfathers who fought in the civil war. so why are you expunging their history? >> well, a couple of things. first of all, after the killings at mother emmanuel in charleston, it was clear that the confederacy was still alive and well and promoting harm that couldnt be anymore. you cant change history by taking a stat...

Mcconnell. mitch mcconnell is not going to hold confirmation hearings for a potential new attorney general appointee. because of their reverence in respect for a former united states senator, jeff sessions. >> yes. i dont know its necessarily a reverends for sessions. certainly respect for sessions in the senate. a bit of an outlier among the colleagues often fighting for policies they didnt agree in. remember, he was one of the really lonely figures who wound up consulting a bipartisan immigrat...

The commander-in-chief tweet, condolences for those in a helicopter crash writing, our thoughts and prayers out to the families and loved ones of the brave troops. it leads to our buried lead, our category for stories that we feel are not getting enough attention. whether wounded soldiers or veterans, it is so galling when we learn about those who exploit the reverence so many of us feel such as the four individuals who appeared before a judge yesterday for using the wound warrior name for their...

He and russia did not meddle in the election. >> reporter: the notion that donald trump might have a soft spot for vladimir putin began years ago. >> hes done a very brilliant job in terms of what he represents and who hes representing. hes running his country and at least hes a leader. i mean he might be bad, he might be good but hes a strong leader. >> let me ask you about president trump. any time he says anything about you it is supremely deferential. never a harsh word for you. although, if...

One of the big unanswered questions tlut this investigation has always been why president trump continues to sew such niceness towards vladimir putin whos not a nice guy. megyn kelly put that question to putin as part of a prime time special on nbc tonight, by the way, called confronting putin. lets watch. >> lets me and you about president trump. anytime he says anything about you it is supremely deferential, never a harsh word for you. but if you look at the way he speaks to members of his own...

I would never call him short and fat. oh, well, i try so hard to be his friend and maybe some day that will happen. youve written about the fact that he seems to have some reverence for this north korean leader. whats your reaction to that? >> the way i wrote about it in the column, hes like a kid who has a crush on a girl and to get her attention, he insults her, but, in fact, he is sort of in love with her. i think thats the thing with kim. whatever issues he has with kim jong-un, i think they...

And yet i spoke to republican congressman moments ago who told me hes not optimistic there will be any new significant legislation passed. do you agree with that? >> i think on the federal level, without presidential leadership coming directly from president trump, coming loudly and coming often, that probably is most likely. and where were more like through see any result on -- whether it is background checks being increased or increasing the age restrictions, it is probably going to come from ...

Taxpayers. kelly seems to be orchestrating a built of a coverup to save his own reputation internally and thats rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. steph, one thing i would note in the story we did yesterday, the white house staff usually talked about kelly with reverence. but we tried, we made a good faith effort to get somebody in the white house to defend him, and nobody would come forward publicly to do so. >> thats a whole other level. well, the president still at this point seems to be s...