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♪ im yours im yours ♪ im yours >> i love you, baby girl. i love you. she says she didnt expect that one. she wasnt ready for that one. i told you, you did it, baby. i love you. coming up, melanie reddy is back in jail. and robert sutton gets the visit hes longed for. >> will you marry me? up your ga. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isnt easy, and we ought to know. were in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions impr...

All right? ill take you back upstairs. >> all right, man. >> i never been in trouble here. >> i know that. >> come here. i want to rap some people over here. >> lately, robert sutton has avoided making the kind of mistake that would land him in segregation. but a different kind of slip-up has temporarily put him on crutches. >> playing basketball, came down, heard it pop, cant walk on it. its getting a little better. >> you want me to match that? you want me to match that? >> all right ill match...

>> there are certain moments of robert suttons life hed be happy to forget. after several shots were fired on an east boston bridge, sutton was charged with attempted murder of a rival gang member. suttons girlfriend emily was also shot during the incident. sutton was arrested before emily had fully recovered and says the trauma of the night has stayed with him. >> i seen a lot in my life. but i really never had nightmares until i, you know, looked at her laying down on the floor with bullet hol...

I thought my kid would keep me clean. unfortunately she didnt. >> right now, if reddy is missing anything, its the temptations she can find on the streets of boston. >> we got windows in our cells that overlook downtown boston where i run at. people pay millions for that view. we get it for free. i dont even look out the window because it puts me right down there and right about everything thats going on, like im missing something. right now if i got out tonight, i know that im probably ending u...

♪ im yours >> i love you, baby girl. i love you. she says she didnt expect that one. she wasnt ready for that one. i told you, you did it, baby. i love you. coming up, melanie reddy is back in jail. and robert sutton gets the visit hes longed for. >> will you marry me?

Give you my findings and see how much time you got to spend here, if any. all right? ill take you back upstairs. >> all right, man. >> i never been in trouble here, sir. >> i know that. >> come here. i want to rap some people over here. >> lately, robert sutton has avoided making the kind of mistake that would land him in segregation. but a different kind of slip-up has temporarily put him on crutches. >> i was playing basketball, came down, heard it pop, waiting on an x-ray now. cant really wal...

>> thank you, michael, im so glad to be here this evening, with my distinguished colleagues on this very auspicious occasion. and let me start by just saying that the name robert smalls of course became legion in south carolina and in many other places around the country during the civil war and after the civil war. robert smalls was a war hero, he would become a political leader with national influence. his life was indeed the stuff of legend. the story is told down in buford, example...

and we have a, in government, theres a classification for different positions so the classification for historian is gs 170. im sure everybodys thrilled to know that. but we also have a number of employees in the parks service who are trained as historians in different positions. we try to have as many as we could of all the historians in the parks service, whether in the classification or not. and so we did the survey of about 1500 in the parks service. we got about 500 responses soch...

>> you did talk about that. >> harry truman gets part of the credit. >> right. >> john kennedy gets part of the credit. partly because of the acceptance of the berlin wall. berlin is where -- it might have been georgia, but it also might have been berlin where world war iii would have started. so no, it wasnt just reagan and gorbachev. they were the inheritors of peoples strengths. but it is admirable what they did with it. >> okay. im going to invite the audience now to wait for a mic...

Where i run at. people pay millions for that view. we get it for free. i dont even look out the window because it puts me right down there and right about everything thats going on, like im missing something. right now if i got out tonight, i know that im probably ending up downtown. recovery is not an option right now. im not going to get clean. im going to go get high. theres always that story, like, you see people get clean and sober. this is the other side. this is the not-so-clean and not-s...