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Of the jurors was already leaving. he said it was due to a medical issue. it is not the single african-american juror. instead, it's a white female and she will be replaced by another white female who is alternate number one. but it means even before we get to the most difficult part of this trial, they have already lost one alternate and have three left, and can't afford to lose many more. christine and laura. >> martin, thank you for that. let's bring in jennifer rodgers, our legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. jennifer, good morning. with everything martin just laid out there, this...

Rights act a year before. >> coming back from martin's nobel prize trip so we went in and made a case for voting rights. and president johnson said he agreed with everything martin said but he just didn't have the power. and he must have said at least ten times in the conversation, i agree with you, dr. king, and just don't have the power. i agree with the president. we came out and i said this, and said no, and i said what are you going to do? he said we're going to get the president some power. >> we're going to get the president some power. their idea to get the president some power was to ...

♪ all by yourself. ♪ go with us and find millions of flexible options. all in our app. expedia. it matters who you travel with. >> 56 years ago today the most significant piece of legislation protecting voting rights in america and american history was enacted. president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act of 1965 into law effectively removing jim crow era rules that blocked the vast majority of african americans from voting. they rode through lost passage was the culmination of more than a century of battles for african american voting rights. andrew young was martin jr.'s chief s...

Racist and when some united states senators supported segregation? did such landmark legislation get past through congress and signed into law by the president? and 2019, i was privileged to hear andrew young explain how it happened. and i was lucky enough to hit record in time. andrew yang told the story of a meeting between martin is a king and president johnson. robert king was pushing johnson to pass a voting rights act. johnson said he couldn't ask congress for another big vote on civil rights after he'd champion the civil rights act the year before. >> coming back from martin's nobel pri...

Pictures, andrew and martin, let's talk about, again, the queen and her amazing and not just longevity, of course, which we celebrate today, but the kind of leader she has been. andrew? >> well, that's right. i mean, everything martin said earlier was absolutely right. especially with regard to duty. this is a woman who at her 21th birthday promised the then-british empire but also the commonwealth, that the rest of her life would be dedicated to them, would be a life of duty to them. and that's a big thing to say at the age of 21, and now 65 years later, we know that she meant every word she ...