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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110511:01:45:00

ricky is hilarious and i thought it was perfect. they deserve to be made fun of. people are making millions doing what they love to do and you can't take a joke about yourself? >> you hosted the vm a's and the worst hosting ever and you were amusi amusing. you know it will be the worst day of your life before you do it. >> of course. as soon as you agree to do it, get ready. i told my staff, get ready for the next day. it's not going to be pretty. nobody ever does a good job at that. i know that and i don't care. i know ricky and i read interviews about him talking about it and it's really rattled him. i don't think he got that kind of feedback. i am used to that. it's not like i love it. it doesn't ruin my day. >> what makes your day? what is the perfect show?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110511:07:44:00

really, really nonsense. i like to just really be -- it's not as cerebral as much. i don't enjoy that as much. i would rather watch somebody speak seriously. i love bill maher. what makes me laugh is just stupid stuff. >> when you watched the golden globes causing outrage with his dark hollywood humor, do you laugh with him or at the situation? what was your reaction? >> both. i didn't see it. i was out of town and didn't see it until a few days after. ricky is hilarious and i thought it was perfect. they deserve to be made fun of. people are making millions doing what they love to do and you can't take a joke about yourself? >> you hosted the vm a's and the worst hosting ever and you were

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110429:18:38:00

in tennessee, a path of destruction stretched for 200 miles. 34 people were killed. the national correspondent is in a city east of chattanooga, and susan candiotti, can you tell us about the damage? >> yes, i want to show you the ravages of the twister. here is one way to illustrate it. look at the wooden planks a series of them. it is like they followed the path of the wind of that storm. look at how they are all pointed up the hill in this direction, and pretty scary. here is what happened as a result of that particular twister, because there were nine of them in the area. this one, i'm going to have camera swing around. ricky, look up that hill. just beyond those broken down limbs, there is a jeep cherokee that is parked there. that is where a mobile home trailer was parked. the storm picked it up and blew it the length of a football field all of the way down here

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110427:18:09:00

there's always going to be people in the audience who love this story so much. you know why? because of exactly what you think. exactly what you think. they don't want barack obama to be our president. they're trying to fine some loopho loophole. by the way, the same people when branch ricky hired jackie robinson in the '40s that said blacks can't play baseball as good as whites so he had the same attitude back then, the same people. >> i wish you could stay for the entire hour because i know there's more to say about this. i'm going to watch you on "hardball" to see what you have to say. >> it will be interesting tonight. >> always interesting. we'll be watching. goldie, thank you very much. as you know, when you get chris matthews, it's hard to get time in there. thank you for be playing along with us. donald trump's morning news conference in new hampshire. mark, donald trump still on the ground. he's got a couple of fund-raising events. i want to show this exchange between shawna thomas, an nbc produce who are attempted to show trump a copy of the long form birth certificate the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110417:08:37:00

first base. >> reporter: we have learned a detail about this historic decision that until now was not known by jackie robinson's widow, branch ricky's grandson, or even ken burns. you have never heard this story. >> i haven't. this is totally new to me. >> reporter: it turns out just before signing the contract, ricky secretly slipped into the brooklyn church. he huddled with the pastor woz daughter-in-law is speaking with us for the first time. >> he started pacing and he wore a groove in the carpet. he went around and around the room for 45 minutes. >> branch ricky iii says his grandfather was deeply religious. he fretted about taking on the institution of baseball. >> jackie became something that was not exceptable. i think my grandfather's reputation could have very quickly gone down the drain. >> reporter: that weighed on the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110417:02:37:00

42 trotted out to first base. >> reporter: we've learned in detail about this historic decision that until now was not known by jackie robinson's widow, ricky's grandson or even ken burns. >> this is stoelgtsly new to me. >> reporter: turns out before signs the contract ricky slipped into this church hud manied with the pastor dr. wendell phifield whose daughter is speaking about it with us for the first time. >> he started pacing and wore a groove in the carpet, went around and around for 45 minutes. >> reporter: now a minor league baseball executive in texas says his grandfather was deeply religious and determined to end discrimination but fretted about taking on the institution of baseball. >> jackie became something that was not acceptable. i think my grandfather's reputation could have quickly gone down the drain. >> reporter: that weighed on the brooklyn dodgers' executive as

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110417:02:38:00

he paced this room for nearly an hour. finally shrieking i got it and slumping down in a chair. >> wiped tears from his eyes and said, wendell, this was a decision so complex, so far reaching from so many pitfalls, and still filled with so much good, if it was right. i had to work it out in this room and with you, and i had to ask god about it. >> reporter: to protect ricky's privacy, the pastor told only his wife who wrote a five-page essay we recently found in an archive. the pastor's wife said she wrote the essay which appeared in the church bulletin with little notice an ricky's death in 1965 so that robinson would know how much ricky struggled with it. but robinson died young in 1972. and his widow rachel told us the story never made it to her family until now. and she praised rixy's courage. >> he needed all the strength he

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110417:05:37:00

documentary on baseball. >> one of the finest moments in all of american history, not just sports history, but american history, when on april 15th, 1947 a black man wearing the number 42 trotted out to first base. >> reporter: we have learned a detail about this historic decision that until now was not known by jackie robinson's widow, branch ricky's grandson, or even ken burns. you have never heard this story. >> i haven't. this is totally new to me. >> reporter: it turns out just before signing the contract, ricky secretly slipped into the brooklyn church. he huddled with the pastor woz daughter-in-law is speaking with us for the first time. >> he started pacing and he wore a groove in the carpet. he went around and around the room for 45 minutes. >> branch ricky iii says his grandfather was deeply religious. he fretted about taking on the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110415:21:50:00

church. he came from ohio. >> right. >> he lectured him on religion. got tired. he started to tell the women are there. i'm going to put a black into baseball the minute this war ends. they sat there. they were the only people in the world that knew that he was going to do it. he then went back to brooklyn, got the scout came from may, go out to chicago and get ricky -- get robinson and bring him in her here. didn't know one black from the other. he had to ask the black, which one is it? >> there he is watching it there. >> so forth. >> we're watching jackie robinson take the bases. >> whites afraid to compete with blacks? what was the nonsense that blacks couldn't play as good as whites. >> he came out -- i'm telling the wrong story. he came because he brought him

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110415:21:51:00

into brooklyn, sat him down, and he said, do you know why you're here. and robinson said, yes, the play for some black team you must have. and ricky say, no, i brought you to play for the brooklyn dodgers. put him in to shock and he spent four hours calling him names, throwing punches at him, trying to get him used to the other people who were going to despise him. that's where it came from. it didn't come from any place else. it was ricky by himself started the whole thing. >> he picked a great player. but he also picked a guy, jimmy, who could take the crap he was going to take. >> he just spent four hours giving the worst treatment he had heard in his life. threw punches at him. that was ricky. >> there's the exchange you're right about -- between robinson and ricky, the guy who hired

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