>> Hello and thanks for joining us on Chicago tonight.

I'm Brandis Friedman.

Mourners pay their respects today to the Reverend Jesse Jackson senior who began lying in repose this morning at Rainbow PUSH headquarters in just a few minutes, we'll hear from the civil rights icon leader's eldest about her father's legacy.

>> First, a look at how Chicagoans and people from around the country paid their respects to the Reverend.

The procession began this morning carrying Jackson from leak and sons Funeral Home in Grand crossing to rainbow push in Kenwood upon arrival, Jacksons family went inside for a private ceremony before the public was admitted when doors opened at 10:00AM mourners streamed into view Jackson greeted by members of his family and dignitaries, including Mayor Brandon Johnson, Reverend Al Sharpton and former Congressman Bobby Rush.

Religious leaders from across the city offered blessings, including Cardinal Blase, Cupich and Father Michael Pfleger.

Prayer and music filled the gathering space as did a series of videos highlighting Jackson's long life in the many arenas in which he had an impact and notable visitors shared their thoughts outside and with the Rainbow Push Coalition podcast.

>> We spent.

A lifetime.

You get.

I've seen him stand up against adversity.

I've seen him break history.

There would not have been.

And Democratic party.

The way it is today had it not been for him changing the rules.

opened the door to Barack Obama Bill Clinton.

His international diplomacy, what he's done for all of was I wanted to could He's he raised a generation of us to deal with activism and he never gave up.

>> All of the areas in which Reverend Jackson fought for and lived his life for those efforts are under attack.

And the city of Chicago in the world reflecting the Reverend Jackson's life.

My hope and my prayer is that people recognize what our assignment isn't this season that hope is only alive.

If we show up in resistance, resisting tyranny and fighting for working people across this cities across the country around the globe.

I believe that we all are to live collation here to love and him out of that.

>> And model that in a way that made all of us try to do better in India late.

And that's why we must continue that as we go forward.

>> I was always impressed by Reverend Jackson's ability to crystallize the issues of the day.

And 2 present them and share them with people in a really understandable in an impactful way.

He had unique ability to distill.

The challenges that we face is people he never got offended.

Even when people come up to him because they didn't on they'd say something, you know, not pleasant.

He was still be pleasant and that they top the patients.

He's taught me grace.

He had a lot of grace for people.

I mean, this is a man who taught me that I rather survive off the.

The oxygen of grace versus the carbon dioxide of thanks.

Gray says your actions, thanks is just words.

>> Long lines of people from around the country gathered for their turn to take part in the memorial.

Some new Jackson personally, many were or many others were merely inspired by his lifetime of work and its lasting legacy.

>> King reached out to the young people.

And just reached out to young people because I was one of them when he came to my high school him and he wrote this.

we get to get the young people so get get the young people understand you stand on the shoulders of someone else.

You do create this.

Someone else created.

>> Well, we is basically we are somebody he changed our lives even though we didn't know him like that.

about him was a very blessed.

>> to have will ever do.

was if we did and that's very important.

>> Jackson will lie in repose until 10:00PM tonight.

And then doors will open at 10:00AM tomorrow for further public viewing next week.

Jackson will be memorialized in South Carolina where he'll lie in state at the state house there as well as a commemoration in Washington, D.C., next Friday brings the people's celebration at House of Hope followed by a private home going ceremony next Saturday.

We sat down with Reverend Jackson's daughter CNT to right after this.

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And the support of these donors.

>> Icon Titan leader Reverend.

>> Jesse Jackson senior was called by many names in his day.

But tonight's guest had just one name in particular for him.

>> Dad joining us to discuss her father's legacy is CNT to Jackson.

Reverend Jesse Jackson's daughter and host of the San Tito Jackson Show you where his oldest daughter tell.

Tell me what you really call And people like it's been a nationally syndicated radio show for 22 years now.

Yes, named for the, you know, the great speech that we all know your father to get What did you call him?

Well, I called him Daddy.

Daddy.

>> Even as an adult, just because you're like us.

He was deputy executive.

I often think that even as adult black women, we still call her father Daddy, not just little earlier.

Our I remember.

I took my father out for Father's Day.

2008 never forget.

It was a day that.

>> President Obama spoke at Apostolic.

Of God and he's given the speech about fathers telling father's if they needed to be responsible.

It a painful moment from a black fathers who have really tried to be responsive to their children.

Indeed, the most involved father in America is a black father, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Those say they came out of 2014 2015.

And we were talking about it along with other people at the table and I tried to pay the bill.

And My father said no.

The fact that you want to be with me on Father's means everything.

But, you know, there are several that a lot of people with stables going to be the bill that was fine.

I could pay it.

And I tried one more time.

He said no, no, don't take my daddy.

for me.

That was a good in grown But he said I'm your father.

I'm your daddy.

Don't take that for me.

I take your view.

I don't need you to take care of me.

And when you pass on and I hope to go before you.

I will be at the right hand of God.

God is your father.

I'm your daddy.

So, yeah.

So I mean be a daddy.

But in a professional context, he was reverent.

And it was something that my mother encouraged.

Now, he did not really like me to Colin, Reverend, because he was dead.

interestingly, you know, she said you don't need to look like you have the inside track and you need to understand the institution Reverend Jackson, which is something that we began to she and understand a lot of people think this today for sharing all father with them.

You sacrifice your mother said no, we did not sacrifice the part of our of our father who belong to us was there.

But we were also very present with him left.

Nothing on the tape would come when it came being a father.

Yeah.

So to that, you know, you mentioned, you know, sort of sharing your father.

He is lying in repose at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters today.

And tomorrow.

>> Thousands of people coming to pay their respects today.

Thousands more tomorrow.

Likely you, in fact, are heading back down there this evening to continue to greet those mourners.

What is it like to see so many people joining you and your family in paying their respects?

Always so moving.

And it's really uplifting.

You know, whatever I have a moment.

sometimes you do have those moments when you >> get a little choked The fact is she seeing and feeling the love seeing this overwhelming response from people who have this personal connection with him and they have so many stories.

I even met him or did not meet him.

But touched me in such a profound way.

2, wonderful, wonderful thing to say really it's a boy.

8, quite frankly, you don't really get a chance to.

I'm not going to say to grieve because I think when you've been loved hard, you've been loved well to do grieve hard and you believe in a fulsome way.

But our father also tells us said, if you cannot make it beyond me, I will not have done my job.

So I need you to carry on.

and that is what we intend to do.

So it just it really has been a an uplifting day.

We tend to think of our parents as being around Trevor, right for you want them to want them to be.

But we all know that is that is not the nature of this life >> I've known of your father as long as I've known my right.

always been there >> and a personality that big, you know, our parents are huge in our lives.

We tend to think they'll never They you're not in my case.

In my case, my father came from a generation of men who didn't make it past.

39.

>> past I bumped into my feet is populated with clips about him since since his passing is pretty amazing that Stone interview that he did it with CNN.

And when you turn 50.

And he was asked by the interviewer see have some exchanges.

She said, wait a minute, are you denying that you're 50 like, you know, you're getting old you really love lanes about 35.

He said no, no, no, no, no people in my line of work don't make it 50.

So this is a blessing.

And when I turned 25 we were talking I'm getting old another said you're getting old.

You're going to married.

going to do.

And he said, you know, I want you to do that.

He said, you know, if you don't like birthdays, try missing one.

We've been blessed to have more years because people in our space to live that long, you know, Martin and and Malcolm, 39, when they were PED and owners.

37 so we have a good, good, good, long time.

But you never want your parents go right course.

But he was really struggling.

His form of Parkinson's.

was it was very difficult for him.

But he kept holding on kept holding on.

and finally, the Lord took him and and God bless him.

That question because this is someone who left nothing on the table, even if they full full life and he made his contribution.

>> In 2006 when Coretta Scott King died, Reverend Jackson came to the studio and talked about her legacy.

He also spoke about he and Dr King thought about their own safety and mortality.

Here's a bit of that.

>> When I was running for president of the biggest Zach, the head.

But my wife may become what on without a father.

I did not let that paralyzed me, but I knew what put the stakes were.

Because of the number threats that Cain so we haven't heard her talk about that.

This is King.

She talked about that, but in the way Kingsport was defense establish a separate So the not get preoccupied with within that that walk around with a hole in the budget by the gods, you know, he said, you know, you don't want to count about 1000 deaths.

So we almost we rationalize that we would not live, but so long.

But in that living live for that, don't live afraid.

>> As a child was sort of baked into your into your household, really fearful of of your father, everything hurt you not being heard being killed.

>> The Chicago police were stationed out in front of our home.

All of my life.

Yet a police detail assigned to him and we had a black Security service who also trails him.

I never knew a day that I thought he would live to see the end of never mind we could by senior prom they had into for a magazine supplement.

The 10 most likely target of an assassination of global assassination plot and they have the pope and the president.

My father was soon on the list.

The president had been shot 2 months before the pope was shot.

3 days after read that.

And so I couldn't tell anyone I didn't want to talk to my father about that.

I certainly didn't want to tell my mother and dad.

For all.

You do.

>> To to home fears which he did not express to us.

But I they were there.

And so we never we never took anything for granted.

I think the upside of that is that every Christmas, if Easter every Thanksgiving, every time every encounter that we have retreated, those encounters is sacred because you never miss my brother.

Put it.

My brother, former Congressman Jesse Jackson junior, put it this way.

You don't feel.

Quite the same way that others do about having bad word or having rebellion against your parents.

If you think that every time you see them will be the last time that you do.

>> So last Wednesday, you and your siblings, you all called for a continuation of your father's work and his mission.

I want to play a clip of him on Chicago tonight.

Back in 1985, where he shares his thoughts about leadership, which he might still say are important today.

>> I happen to think and I hope John does not jump too Me on this point.

The one about problems now perhaps so we have into thinking leaders.

And not enough feeling leaders.

And by that, I mean, that thing cause.

The board of compassion.

Over a hog.

And yet people who feel also think that must be a great, a sense of humor feeling.

And government judgments.

We cannot as leaders just follow up opinion polls.

We must mold opinion.

>> Told us a little bit about, you know, your father as a leader and his mission and what carrying on that torch that work looks like.

I think the number one, here's your torch to be passed to.

I think that you have to do the work.

>> What he did was one of the things that learned from him was that never enemies had opponent.

And so you would be surprised at.

we was able to interact.

You could speak with President Trump and he did.

He could speak to people on the far right.

He can speak to people on the far left.

And they all liked him very much because he was in Texas guy.

You knew exactly what he stood for.

He was not going to back away from that when he was also going to do was while he was in disagreement with you, he would not be disagreeable.

He always left the door open for us to have a point of negotiation, a point of agreement so that we could really move into other areas where we might have other points of Certainly point where we can come together on something.

And so as he just said in that clip, you can't just think you've got to feel people don't remember what you said.

They really remember how you made them feel like indeed it's one thing to lead to head an organization.

It's another thing to lead people.

You can't leave.

People don't feel good about you.

And one of the things that we are seeing that we've seen today is that people trusted him.

Because the and when he went into he was going to stand up for the least of these in particular.

And one of the things that I've heard from people all across the ideological spectrum that he wasn't Temperance Man who could not be bought off.

That he was a man who.

Mentally said what he meant.

He stood on it and then he left alone.

like many public figures, right?

Especially those who have had such long careers, very, very work.

People have had 6 decades, right?

Very few.

Absolutely.

But some half and there they are.

They are small club.

>> But they're going to face challenges in criticism in that time.

How did he handle adversity headed?

You see him handle that.

He kept him going get to going.

>> You know, he would say forgive them for they know not what they do.

Forgive them for.

They know not what they say.

They they not what they think.

It's not that he felt that himself PD modeled himself on G on Jesus as Christians at least as we should.

He understood the criticisms, but he was never addled by criticism.

He just said, OK, you have an opinion, but I have a vision.

if stick to that vision.

And I'm going to break the tape, I'm going to follow through going Keep on running.

And so he would never.

And you haven't really.

So my father get down.

>> What about his own stakes?

Because we are all human.

We all make them.

And I saw in the 1984, speech.

He apologized for them.

One of the things that I do appreciate about him is that he was.

Man enough enough humane enough to apologize.

If he hurt you and he would say to him, I fit into if I hurt you.

If my Joy Bell lost his residence.

Please forgive me for that is not finished with me yet.

And that really the humility that it took.

He's never he was never.

And I say he is because because you always be with me and I think always be with us.

somebody resonate through the ages.

Keep hope alive will resonate through the ages.

My my mind is a pro.

Like and learn anything in the world will resonate through the ages.

And it's interesting that that which is given to people to humanity has been positive.

It's been uplifting and I think list we can all learn good things that you do last forever as the good that bring out in people who stick with is how you make people feel if you uplift people to live forever with them.

>> His impact was seen not just in this country, of course, around the Here he is in the studio again back in 2007 talking about what he saw as the importance of diplomacy over the power of war.

>> You every time I was blessed to bring summer come home, foreign jail have brought home from Syria minute.

The SOT comes home from Cuba.

Castro, Americans home from Iraq with Saddam Hussein meeting with him.

We'll look home stabbing me with most of it know how you break the cycle.

All the coal.

she willing to infect engage in the grist of diplomacy?

And so I think that walls have not worked all hot, rather can cool was not working.

So someone must have the thought it just as of Nixon went to China just as Reagan challenged the Berlin Wall.

We did there come a bold.

This seems to me.

Informal.

We are strong enough.

They have strong diplomacy backed up by military, not military backed up by hot rhetoric that ends up in a lot of people kill unnecessarily.

>> We're to see want to look at that because you give me a lot of wonderful clips.

What's so interesting to kind of funny.

He would come off of one of those shows.

And if I called him on his mobile phone.

He would discuss to share with me.

He want know how I was doing.

Indeed when he hired his secretary, she let's always remember this.

my wife or my children called the matter what I'm doing, always always always put them through.

And even had a special line in his office from the House.

We just call it.

So it's a, you know, want to see these.

He's puts I think about access that I had to my father friend, someone who worked for him.

My father turned when we went hall filled with thousands of people and I've forgotten something he was walking.

Many, many feet away.

And I shouted it gave him something oh, my goodness.

And Marcus said to my friend said your father shot and said my baby's calling me I buy this time was deep into my his baby still his baby.

But he hurt me calling.

>> And he stopped and he turned around and started walking back.

He was trying to catch a plane.

He was late.

But you have to see remember the father, the put his family first versus.

>> The icon tightened leader that the rest of city, everyone first.

But yeah, I mean, I never ever felt when people tell me that he sacrificed.

Basically he sacrificed as for them.

No, I no.

He was with him.

Many places.

>> Did he spend?

always wanted to spend more time with us.

A dad.

We will always review you make sure that we would go places you.

we always felt that we always knew that we had access to you.

And so so want to see these clips.

I'm thinking about that that in a seer everybody See my daddy.

>> Your daddy was also involved in global issues.

If why did he want to do that?

Because with local citizens, we came here on a global policy where Africans who flocked to the United States of America into the colonies.

And even the one popularized the terminology freezing us as African-Americans want to connect this to the diaspora.

Indeed.

More Africans were taken to South and Central America.

We are in Mexico were all over the world, but we are certainly all through the Americas.

And so to connect us to our homeland.

Just as tell you, Americans, everybody, German, America's everybody connected to their homeland except African-Americans, which really is nonsensical that I do understand black Americans because identify with that.

Also, those of us who are descended of Africans who were enslaved here, I understand and appreciate that.

But I also connect to your brothers and sisters and my sisters and brothers in Venezuela and Chuba and we go Brandis.

We can go anywhere in the Americas and they want to ask for passport because we I think we speak their since we're talking about family.

Want to get quickly to this last clip because when Mayor Richard J Bailey died in 1976, Reverend Jackson joined John Callaway.

>> W t Tw to provide reflections and in doing so.

He talked about something he greatly admired about the mayor.

Yes.

>> Now lows some of it.

First side of the was impressed.

Move doing for the family disintegration.

From moment a stable family life and that's classical as it for him to have been talking with Michael.

For and more on how hard he struggled to transmit his heritage and his legacy to his children.

Simpson moved to be a fantastic model of human model for people emulate.

>> And they were at those services today.

Yes, 70 lead, a even though my father and and the mayor had their battles that didn't go beyond that generation.

And even then my father said he was one of his great teachers.

>> What was what word dinner table?

Conversation City Tony dad, jokes.

He was hilarious.

Univision.

We all know he had.

You have all the personality it.

my mother is really the extra heard.

was an injury, but he was someone who's very insightful.

>> if you notice comedians a very, very unsightly, see things that most people don't see and that's who he who he Jackson.

It's been an honor to have you here in studio to share memories of your father.

Thank you so much for joining us.

May he rest in peace?

May his memory be a blessing?

I know you're going back down to his tonight to to greet mourners.

So thank you for filling us thank you.

Make up less you.

Thank you.

>> And we're back to wrap things up right after this.

>> Reflecting the people and perspectives that make up our communities.

This story is part of Chicago tonight.

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