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Make sure your next deck is built with tracks tracks.com quarters morning to pull these off today and this is Sunday morning history was made overnight when Pres. Trump crossed into North Korea met with Pres. Kim Jong will have the latest just to have them looking forward to 4 July on Thursday will turn to our cover story in international drama playing out in the American heartland, Ted Koppel will introduce us to Ainsley's army gear and humility from Cleveland parts will have a moment. Just from it could be years before his application for asylum is finally resolved to zero from Walters from the start so literally five months and no what's making America great again soon. She's a living legend in the world of music. Her name is Tina Turner and she's talking this morning to Gayle King and her voice is one award and filled arena starting out, Tina Turner, much like it in the beginning I didn't, I thought it was kind of ugly because it was Ross. It sounds like later lesson in dance and life with Tina Turner the words George Washington slept here are an irresistible draw for Americans visiting key sites of the Revolutionary war.

Martha Teicher will be taking us to a museum Washington sleeping quarters are just the opening to a new look at our founding conflict. People know this version of the American Revolution, we will share with them in the fruits of victory buried in the same grave at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. There are more people in the picture we like to say you don't know the half of it is kind of our tagline here coming up this Sunday morning. The American Revolution, minus a refreshing taste of summer is next on the menu when it comes to beating the heat one American city has got the secret down cold hot town summer in Milwaukee, which is why it seems everyone here is eating this frozen treat. Just get the name right. What is the worst thing you know you call it ice cream you're not going to do real well frozen custard Milwaukee's summer treat Apple CEO Tim Cook shares his thoughts about Stonewall 50 years on David Martin takes in a one-man show about medal of honor recipients. Steve Hartman has a heartwarming tale of a real class act and more all coming up when our Sunday morning podcast continues.

It's a proud Independence Day tradition naturalization ceremonies for new US citizens across the land, including one at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. It even as others take the oath of citizenship this Thursday. A refugee from the Caribbean is continuing his fight for the right to stay, which is where as Senior contributor Ted Koppel tells us the members of Ainsley's army, men. This is the story of how easily boomers 42-year-old seeker from Haiti came to be living in Miller B. Hart and Gary Benjamin's upstairs bedroom in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Sorry your worship service, front of house exile you will bring someone to reserve role still stranger into your home so okay is your role that require a lengthy conversation between the two. I really knew that Israel without talking to each other for coming Gary Miller and a bunch of neighbors who began calling themselves Ainsley's army were outraged that an asylum seek or who had committed no crime was spending endless months in jail. He clearly needed help and they were ready to provide everything were getting a little ahead of ours back in Haiti were he was a teacher.

Ainsley spoke Creole and French were did you teach ethics and physics six and you know pedagogy of the theory and practice of education Ainsley Demers is an educated man. His troubles began by Canadian 2014 when one of his former teachers went into politics. Ainsley began peppering his own lectures with references to teachers corruption in retaliation.

He says in her court statement, the politicians sent slugs to beat him and threaten his life. My house Ainsley was afraid he says that if he stayed, his wife and two children would be in danger so he left Katie ending up in Brazil after 18 months.

He says he found Brazil to violent claims he encountered too much discrimination so you decide you're going to come to the United States. Baja California is where Ainsley sought asylum where he was processed by the border patrol and ultimately shipped to a jail outside Cleveland to await his day in court that turned into a very long state is going to save and this is my story understand jail is not the same as a prison. Jails are meant for short statements. This jail doesn't have any exercise facilities inside or outside and those windows. You can see through the so you never saw daylight.

You never saw the song the star on never. After his first six months in jail.

Ainsley got word that an immigration judge had ruled in his favor. He granted some good news will not so good twice. Ainsley was granted asylum by immigration courts and twice the government successfully appealed all the while Ainsley stayed in jail. According to Cecelia when she is the deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the long-term detention of asylum-seekers is pretty commonplace these days.

The vast majority of people who are now in immigration custody 50,000 human beings on any given day, have no criminal record.

They are fighting their deportation cases and the majority of them don't pose a flight risk or danger. And we are spending our taxpayer money to lock people up in these abominable conditions. The troop administration makes no bones about trying to discourage asylum-seekers and Ainsley Demers was certainly getting disk or heat 14 months when we decided we would apply to be sponsors for more than a year.

Ainsley's only visitor had been his pro bono lawyer until one day out of the blue, Melody Hart and Gary Benjamin showed up. Dennis, you have a visit. It's not me. I don't have nobody in Cleveland, Melody, a financial consultant and her husband Gary and attorney learned about Ainsley's referent. They went to visit, but even that was an arms length proposition sit there and pick up the phone and you look at him and monitor he sees you and my text is the problem noise level hard to hear you don't speak French. She doesn't speak English at that point. It's tough. I don't understand. But you understand that you have a sponsor. Yes, I understand that you saw.

After a minute and Gary my knife change. It was the difference between a life of isolation and having a support network Loic ideas to put money in his commissary account.

He wanted to be able to go to the commissary because he couldn't get soap or toothpaste or toothbrush and hand those out ahead by them to give him a connection to the outside world. Melody and Gary started sending Ainsley those photographs of their house to show him where you'd be living when he came out his room in his yard.but then after that we would take pictures of seasons because he hadn't seen so we took pictures. The leaves turning at some point within snow. Loneliness, though, remained a constant problem.

He wanted more companionship so he started talking to people about sending them letters and sending them cards and when we couldn't go on some Sundays.

Other people would fill in, which is how Ainsley's army got its start its forces rallied outside the ice office in Cleveland urging his release from jail. They began holding regular meetings at this point, Gary and Melody still having been officially approved as sponsors.

Ainsley is released from jail was rejected on the grounds that he was a flight risk and like communities support so we did our second application try to make it bulletproof planner Bishop endorsing us three doctors, a local judge priest, the rabbi, it was a pretty good showing of support in the community and it was rejected again. Flight risk and not enough contacts in the community. That's when the ACLU filed the petition stating that Ainsley's detention was unlawful. The government was keeping them locked up indefinitely and denying his release without providing any evidence into court and we chartered a bus and got Easley's army on by 30 yeah we filled the courtroom had deployed more chairs which clearly had the intended impact on the judge. She said well here that he is no community ties and and assist some cross that off, but that's not a valid reason and last November before the judge had a chance to rule the government finally agreed to release Ainsley from jail on the condition that he wear an ankle bracelet and live with his sponsors, Melody and Gary while his asylum case is being appealed. Ainsley's arm is still active resume.

Last winter I held a fundraiser raising $10,000 money for you Ansley for your legal fees and for your family. I don't think you he is studying English diligently in class and also with volunteer tutors from his army. He now gets himself to one part-time job doing maintenance of the church. He also works part-time as an electrician restoring houses is for the troops in Ainsley's army there involved in more of the crusade than a military operation a reason why I got involved is because I felt that the way that Ansley was treated was so un-American I wanted to stand up for principles that I think are important for this country in a while.

Why am I living at this age. If I don't try to make things better. I don't see any purpose in my life if I if I don't speak out for all people face deep thanks in our values and how we treat other human beings. Which brings us back to Gary and Melody and that upstairs bedroom now occupied by Ainsley Demers: all it could be two years before his asylum case is finally resolved.

You guys are up for the two years from the start so literally five months in Ainsley video chats with his wife and kids every day and his he is thinking about how and when he can bring them to where else please let I daughter my wife on time is very core. I have life fall people to Cleveland gave me and now a page from our Sunday morning almanac June 30, 1864, 155 years ago today. The day Pres. Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Valley grant act. The act gave the state of California ownership of the Valley quote upon the express conditions that the premises shall be held for public use resort and recreation, but Yosemite's protected status failed to fully protect its wonders in the view of conservationist John Muir. He complained of intrusive tourists and fumed over commercial sheep grazing on Yosemite's Meadows locusts. He called them, thanks in large part to his lobbying. Yosemite became a national Park in 1890 and in 1903, Muir famously led Pres. Theodore Roosevelt on a tour 70 national Park is 1200 mi.², many millions of other visitors have followed in their footsteps.

Yosemite's natural wonders include towering El Capitan rising nearly 3600 feet over the valley floor, roughly the height of 2 1/2 Empire State buildings even taller half Dome just over 4700 feet. It's almost 1 mile tall and don't forget Yosemite Falls, a series of three cascades totaling just over 2400 feet and all not that Yosemite's must-see attractions can always be seen last summer's Ferguson fire building Yosemite Valley woodsmoke forcing the park to close for almost 2 weeks. No similar fire this year so far, but the park did make a fire season declaration earlier this month to do hotter and drier weather conditions. George Washington slept here there and seemingly everywhere as he led the Continental army to victory in the Revolutionary war, but to get the full flavor of the revolution. It's best to check out the museum, Martha Tyson or will be leading us through Philadelphia Liberty Bell is the Declaration of Independence US const drafted and signed home to his favorite founding and America's most famous play and make it so. What better place for the Museum of the American Revolution, 2017 centerpiece this today Washington tent is here.

George Washington stands in shrine now in its own reminding us of times nations future hung in the balance as his soldiers did you see as a stand-in for Washington himself attempt was the symbol never left her side. I've been with you through the entire Warren everyone of those men knew they had seen those candles burning late in the night, and these are all objects in this gallery that were present during that fighting Scott Stevenson's Pres. and CEO of the museum.

Imagine it's the morning of April 19, 1775 and on that hilltop are those companies of Minutemen and the British margin, Concord, Massachusetts, where it all began.

The two sides fought it out. That first day of the war. Been firing early in the day at Lexington Green but for the reason to British soldiers fell there at the bridge. This was considered the shot heard round the world on display like a holy REMIC's of that original bridge. This being literally heard shots fired.

On the morning of April 19, but the museum sees its mission as doing more reinforcing for visitors 725,000 so far.

I mythologized version of the American creationist. What I want them to come away with is realizing that this is not just a quaint story that set a long time ago that only involves people that look like me standing with wings on looking at a piece of paper on the table. There was violence that was involved there was uncertainty there were people of all backgrounds who were involved in creating this nation always get along. During the winter of 1775, George Washington really did break up a snowball fight between militiamen was trying to unite into an army and a snowball fight essentially turned into a riot where to buy a thousand people were engaged in fighting each other right out here in Harvard Yard. Yes, of all places, Harvard Yard. They were here.

Vincent Brown is a professor of African-American history at Harvard. He advised the museum and there were African-Americans involved their African-Americans involved. There were Native Americans involved and lots of local people, African-Americans have largely been left out of the revolution narrative but not here. At that great moment in the museum where they're asking you to imagine a conversation between two black people want a British soldier and one enslaved person who is trying to figure out what they want to do in that environment. The proposition freedom in exchange for running away and joining the British Army 15,000 black people who fought for the British and American evolution. At about 5000 black people fought for the patriots slavery expanded exponentially after the war on full display.

An uncomfortable contradiction.

Well, one of the most powerful things I think in the museum is is that set of manacles for a child that must've been used on enslaved child, how could we have manacles for a child in the museum about the American Revolution was supposed to be about freedom, a consisting about difficult decisions about winners and losers, African-Americans and Native Americans were losers of the American Revolution. The Oneida people lost big time.

Part of the union of six Iroquois nations. They had no choice but to take sides that conflict came on the required lands are lands, Ray held Ritter heads the United Nations in New York will Oneida people decided to ally with the colonists. Other tribes chose to go with the British. Yes the 09 out with the unsung hero of Valley Forge are people knew and heard about how George Washington's army was starving so we brought hundreds of bushels of corn in midwinter. They were promised their allegiance would preserve their lands and way of life. It didn't walk through the years. The number of fraudulent treaties took place and we lost our land so that the nation started at 6 million acres what it is then up 32 acres and that's it.

72 acres 82 acres. When you started out with 6 million. That's shocking hats. It is the Oneida now supported Mike revenue donated 10 million of the museum is $150 million. So their story would be told, so that alongside muskets and child friendly and it wants, warts and all version of the American Revolution shines through. Sure enough, as a nation as a culture to not sweep under the carpet. All of the terrible injustices that were done in is not an unpatriotic act to shine light on those and acknowledged, and to connect the dots between long-ago battles and ourselves. I see the future of the American Revolution and mirrors. So this is a moment when everyone to see themselves reflected in the story that they've just been through and it's a reminder that we are swimming in the stream of history.

Ultimately, our future is from time to time in the weeks to come will be training you to a taste of summer starting right now with a treat. I very much enjoyed digging into Tom Linscott.

The owner of Gillis's frozen custard welcomes everyone to his establishment. Just don't confuse his product with that other frozen dessert.

What is worse thing I know you call it ice cream you're not going. Tom's not being a stickler frozen custard is not ice cream. The biggest difference custard uses more eggs, yolks included making for a sinfully creamy experience especially popular in Milwaukee.

No one is quite sure why the city boasts the highest concentration of frozen custard shops in the world. Gillis is the oldest serving since 1938 custard first stand. If you will.

Are you raising her on custard former Commissioner of baseball Bud Seelig is a regular here. The favorite son is careful not to play favorites. I love frozen custard, not ice like a loving the Red Sox and Yankees. I know how's this for a double play legendary baseball announcer funnyman and former player Bob Bucher is also a fan. I mean I got custard free custard. Every time I got a hip so that was about once a month. Bucher has a theory on how his hometown became custard central don't get custard on the coast like you get in the Midwest. You can't because the cows in California are too hot cows in the Midwest. In the winter, shake and shiver. That's what gives the custard the air. Your first group like that about 30 seconds and I was still believing well actually frozen custard as we know it was invented in Coney Island, New York in 1919, migrated west with the Chicago world's fair in 1933 and put down roots.

How long have you been eating present custard be 60 in September and I'm pretty sure I have my first crosstown Leon's frozen custard is another favorite was the deal with the walking present custard second-generation owner Ron Schneider really likes talking about custard walkie in Wisconsin. Early to mid 1930s. I was very interested in what Ron had to say but I was even more interested in my butter pecan cone appeals everyone so I feel good about serving this product. I just eaten so much custard today. Sure come here first comp. I'll be fine. I'll be okay. We can get your moringa to soon we overdosed.

We may never be able to explain why walking make such great custard case he's got good stuff. Yes, God is plenty of words are spoken on Independence Day about the men and women in uniform who fought for our country. David Martin has been to see a one-man play called beyond glory which tells several combat heroes stories in their own words.

It begins at Pearl Harbor with chief petty officer John Finn to fight off Japanese which he would receive the medal of honor. The actor Stephen laying best known for his role in the Hollywood trees eight medal of honor recipients in the one-man play beyond glory, using their own words as recorded in this oral history, these are stories that people might not otherwise know unless I tell like that of James Stockdale was unknown to many Americans until he made this awkward attempt to introduce himself in a nationally televised debate.

Who am I wire my hair you say Jim Stockdale to people of our generation. They think of the man who ran for VP on the ticket with Ross Perot in 1992 what they think is a debate in which Adm. Stockdale looked like a deer lost in the headlights.

Stockdale laying brings to the stage was a Navy pilot shot down over North Vietnam. I spent the next seven years as a prisoner of war 15 times undergoing torture, in which his body was wrenched into excruciating positions in full on those ropes from several direct sales on display back on the verge of cracking you're actually Stockdale. There was no battlefield adrenaline deceived through only a stoic determination to never give in. His sister questioned rig and sucking it up and holding on and saying day after day after day knowing inside the stories of uncommon valor change with each man, but in one way, they're all the same you're being asked not ordered but just asked by the fact that you there to do stuff that no soldier really should have to do. That's why it's the medal of honor because we didn't do it. Nobody would hold it against you.

Playing is performed beyond glory hundreds of times to troops around the world and in community theaters across the country. I never could have anticipated that this play would give me what it's given me the best part of the show is what happens after in the lobby and no chasing that I get back from veterans, theatergoers, civilians, and from families of service men and women. The most energizing things they saw the play. Most audiences had no idea how long it is taken for this country to recognize the courage of some of its citizens. One of our most precious rights right to vote will be without meaning long before he was a member of the Senate Watergate committee Daniel in a way fought in World War II as part of the 442nd Regiment made up entirely of Japanese Americans unit that became known as the expendables, the casualty rate of 4/42 was the highest casualty rate of any unit in the entire United States Armed Forces in a way lost his right arm to a grenade yet fought on against the Germans. My heart and mind to my right is gone gone this time we got no because of his Japanese heritage and the racism that was such a part of World War II anyway and 21 other Asian Americans did not receive the medal of honor the year 2000, rarely has a nation been so well served by people. It had so. The same could be said for African-American soldiers who fought in World War II would be half a century before seven men from the all-black Buffalo division were finally on by then only one Vernon Baker was still alive and amazingly not bitter know this, that things would get better America. The United States was growing up, take a look at Vernon Baker's face. You can see it's not about Vernon Baker's receiving that metal self and Buffalo division and for every African-American who fought talk about a class act.

Steve Hartman has been to a school with the kids have gone all out to make one special classmate feel right at home, six-year-old Maury Blanchard has a severe hearing impairment, which is also very much a typical kit, which is why when it came time for kindergarten.

Her parents, Shannon and Matt were torn sender to a school for the deaf export of the public school here in taking me close and convenient. Unfortunately, at the public school there weren't any other kids like Maury and support was minimal.

I think of the bad things I cannot think make fun of Harold wire fitting in choice you can guess what, they decided work.

Can you believe it or not, this is Dayton consolidated elementary public school were talking like Maury has become all the rage lined multiple filing rights alike go our way now. I signed my right side. Obviously they're not fluent yet but about 1/3 of the kids here know enough to navigate a kindergarten conversation like Maury didn't notice the wind was moving the girl in the pink told her to walk, followed by the universal sign for way to go Marie like the administration is mandating this.

There is no sign language curriculum. This is bottom-up kindness students motivated by nothing more than their own deep desire to connect with this one little girl what they know they learned mostly from posters, books, watching Maury's aid in teaching each other. I want to want her to feel comfortable plowing, I know, until eventually Lori's parents say their daughter may need more support services, but they believe all she needs now is what she has here loving community to know that people just accept her trashcan.

She is 16.

Because of school. There are signs that already Sunday morning here again is no song private dancer from 1984 helped make a legend of Tina Turner whose life story is told in the London musical Tina just coming to Broadway this October. Turns out, singing is just one of her talents at scale King of CBS this morning learned firsthand, or should I say what did you do when you 79-year-old Tina Turner offers a dance lesson three join the class. Second, that boy five decade stars record tale of the suffering and triumph of her life famously chronicled in the Oscar-nominated film. What's love got to do with it. I hereby grant is endeared her to millions. This is Turner's citizen now so we met her there to talk about her latest memoir book. She admits she had to be convinced to write okay because is still a lot to be said, yeah. So then we started working on and blowing because you always talking and what you did Tina stop it.

There's nothing boring about you. Nothing to me is nothing boring about Tina Turner and and I love the title of the book my love story because it really is a love story in the book, the plot thickens when in 1986. Turner meets a young German record executive Erwin Bock. She was 46 he was 30 is a great story in the book you already dinner and it's very cheeky move on your part, had shared Tina what did you say something to when you get to California.

I want you to make love to me because I did. Who says that to somebody you say file that's what I want to. They fell in love and finally tied the knot six years ago was the first time that I got married as far as I was concerned when you say that's the first time you felt you had been married. Why when I asked me to marry him, I knew it was for a reason.

I had to say yes.

I knew our site and so then when we drove to Mary. That wasn't my idea of my wedding that first wedding and that first husband Ike Turner are still things that Tina Turner is trying to reconcile and you spend time in the book actually thinking about Ike. Why do you think you found yourself thinking about him. Someone who caused you so much pain I get emotional.

Satan conversations get emotional because in the beginning, Ike was very good to me. Tina was born Anna Mae Bullock Annette Busch Tennessee a tomboy. She says from a broken home when she first laid eyes on Ike Turner, a popular singer in a St. Louis nightclub reaction was mixed. I thought it was everything I never sing about skinny but had a presence and then I got a state site allowing assignment that she had her chance, but when a song she reported with Ike I have a label executive that was the end of anime just came home from the record company. He is a wreck. Tina you Tina said your name is Tina Turner, Tina Tina Turner. It was really hot to say in the beginning when he took over the money. Name the whole country and I Tina Turner review became one of the most successful acts of the late 60s. Tina says she faced competition from other male singers.

I was the only one that dance member since it's hard for us to compete with that because I always get strange voice that most girls like your voice to in the beginning it was kind of ugly because it was lost. He says Ike Turner consistently abused her thing that struck me is that he was so cruel, he was cool because he depended on me. He didn't like that he had have to depend on me and I didn't want to start a fight was always a black eye, broken nose, busted lip reading. It was 15 I got to the point where you find that you decided to fight back. Something you would never done before. And when I say fight back. I mean physically thought that I felt it had enough just enough enough now it's time to go out the door. I had nothing. I had absolutely nothing $0.36.

That was all. So here you are, you have to start over. You had this career of Ike and Tina. Now you are Tina Turner you thinking that you're going to be a success, as Tina Turner at the age of close to 40 think about singing? I was thinking about where I was going to lay my head. So then I was just enjoying the freedom of not being in that environment.

Tina played hotels and casinos caught the attention of a young Australian producer Roger Davies when she heard a demo of a song he proposed know the day of recording, I think this sounds like so you I applied my voice compared to the girls. Tina did Tina Turner had her first number one single line to fill out music worldwide itself and I went home. People miss you Tina. That's okay Joe I the years since her retirement have tested Tina Turner in new ways.

Her son Craig took his life.

Last July I think Craig was lonely is what I think really got him more than anything I have pictures all around him smiling and I think I'm sensing that he's in a good place. I read she has endured a stroke intestinal cancer and kidney failure when she needed a new kidney.

Her husband Erwin offered one of his young and I'm already old and I don't mind. In Buddhism, Utah. You live in you die something that's accepted and so then after Evan said that's okay got that you are willing to give up a kidney is there anything you want now in life.

As you sit here, Tina Turner, that you don't have no I have everything I said the legs and Eric in the house that I have so serene, no problem. I had a very hard life that I can put blame on any thing anyone I got through it and live through it with no blame. Here's to you, and I'm happy.

Here's to you, you earned it.

Pride parades across the country today will celebrate the advances made in LGBT Q rights in the half-century since gay patrons of the stone wall in New York's Greenwich Village resisted a raid by police.

Still, there's work to be done according to our Sunday morning guest commentator Tim Cook, the Chief Executive Officer of Apple. This weekend we mark the 50th anniversary of the riots at Stonewall.

It's an important reminder that only dedicated people standing up when it is difficult can carry us forward and that without courage it is chillingly easy to fall back into the shadows when the patrons of the stone wall then showed up at June 9 people of all races gay and transgender, young and old. They had no idea what history had in store for them. It would seem foolish to dream when the police raid began.

It was not the knock of opportunity or the call of destiny.

It was just another instance of the world, telling them that they ought to feel worthless for being different, but the group gathered there felt something strengthening a conviction that they deserve something better than oblivion. And if it wasn't going to be given the never going to have to build themselves.

I was eight years old and a thousand miles away when Stonewall happened, there were no news alerts no way for photos to go viral. No mechanism for kid on the Gulf Coast to hear these unlikely heroes tell their story.

What I would not know for a long time was what I owed to a group of people I never knew in a place I've never been yet. I will never stop being grateful for what they had the courage to build. Today it's on all of us to carry the work forward in 2019. Discrimination still looms in employment and housing in public places like restaurants and stores the transgender community in particular is singled out for persecution and acts of violence and LGBT Q young people still face an epidemic of harassment and bullying that is merely cruel. It robs them of life's opportunities. Often this comes at the hands of the people they should be able to trust their teachers, their faith leaders, even their parents seeking only love and acceptance. These young people are kicked out of their homes and houses of worship. That's no small reason why roughly 40% of homeless you are LGBT Q we all have a responsibility to set a positive example that includes companies like ours. We make sure our employees enjoy equal benefits and healthcare protection and that we create an inclusive environment where everyone can bring their unique experiences to work with the spread of marriage equality in all 50 states and a seismic shift in public opinion in favor of equality for all the march that began at Stonewall continues with the wind at our back this anniversary and pride month in general are time for celebration and community but we miss an important opportunity.

If we don't dedicate this moment to the progress yet to be made. I am so proud to be a part of this courageous community and 50 years after that historic night.

It's the privilege of a lifetime to help carry on its unfinished work. I know Rocca thank you for listening and please join us again next Sunday morning with Gary this week. Stephen Long live Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm money list for me to send races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia. George is right up there with New Hampshire's products to New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the take-out with Maj. Garrett on podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts