MALVEAUX: Took a little longer than usual, but Washington's cherry blossoms finally blooming, gorgeous there. Really spectacular. Temperatures finally hit above 60 degrees in D.C. over the weekend. Got to love that. Former boxing champ, Mike Tyson, in another fight, this time, not the kind of fight you might be thinking. He is taking on the political establishment, trying to get a fellow boxer pardoned. Jack Johnson was the first African-American heavyweight champ and in 1913 he was convicted and a charge of transporting a white woman across state lines for immoral purposes. Johnson eventually married the woman. Take a listen to part of Tyson's interview and what he told Don Lemon.</s>MIKE TYSON, BOXER: They had a meeting briefly with Senator Reid and he's all for it, man. I'm just so happy that somebody with the clientele and the prestige that Senator McClane and Senator Reid. 114 years ago this happened, and I think posthumously, it is a wonderful thing.</s>DON LEMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Obviously, you have to be able to relate to this man.</s>TYSON: Yes. Not even a little bit. Jack Johnson was by himself. I had the NAACP. I had so many black organizations, I had white organizations, I have white powerful lawyers taking care of me. I'm a multi, multimillionaire when I'm going through my problems. Jack Johnson is by himself. He has a few preachers. And Jack Johnson was against black power movement and all that stuff. He was about getting it for ourselves. He was never accustomed to black people sticking together.</s>MALVEAUX: Senator Harry Reid himself, a former boxer, said Tyson's cause was an example of one great boxer standing up for another. Up next -- this is very touching -- a 7-year-old goes the distance. Why he's got fans on their feet.
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