that. if this congress is to tolerate members that condone riots that have hurt american people, attack police officers, occupied federal properly, burned businesses and cities yet wants to condemn me and crucify me in the public square for words that i said and i regret a few years ago then i think we are in a real big problem, very big problem. what shalldo we do as americans? shall we say divided like this? will be allowed the media that is just as guilty as qanon of presenting truth and lies to divide us, will we allow ourselves to be addicted to hate and hating one another? i hope not because that is not the future i want for my children and w it is not the future i want for any of your children. i yield back my time. thank you. >> looking at the white house

here where president biden will be speaking about the economy this morning and that is set to start at 1145 p.m. eastern. we take you live when the president starts here on c-span2. >> host: very good friday n morning to you. start calling in now. we start a new day on capitol hill and the house is coming in at 9:00 a.m. eastern, the senate just finished up its voting work last night or i should say earlier this morning about 90 minutes ago with a 15 hour vote aroma inn which the senate workd its way through dozens of resolution and amendments and finally in the end approve the 2021 budget resolution and that is the vehicle that the senate will use to move the presidents $1.9 trillion stimulus plan through congress. we are starting this morning on the topic of marjorie taylor greene and that is our focus for your calls this morning. "the washington post" today with the one paragraph wrap up of the

comments, her comments on conspiracy theories in the paste that led to yesterday's action. this is what "the washington post" rights. as recently as last year -- green had been an open adherence of the qanon ideology, a sprawling and violent web of false claims that later rolled in inspiring the capital attacks and in addition she made comments on social media suggesting that some of the mass shootings were staged by supporters of gun control and the 911 attacks were overstated by government forces and that a jewish cable sparked a deadly wildfire with a space theme. that is the third paragraph, lead story of "the washington post" today. before that vote that eventually removed marjorie taylor greene from those two committee assignments she took to the house floor to talk about what she called her past support for some of these issues. >> so, when we elected president trump and then i started seeing things in the news that did not make sense to me like russian

collusion which are conspiracy theories also and have been .roven so these things bother me deeply and i realized just watching cnn or fox news i may not find the truth. so what i did is started looking up things on the internet and asking questions like most people do m every day. use google. i stumbled across something and this was at the end of 2017 called qanon. these posts were mainly about n this russian collusion information and a lot of it was some of what i would see on the news at night and i got very interested in it so i posted about it on facebook and read about it and talked about it and ask questions about it and then more information came from it. you see, here is the problem. throughout 2018 because i was upset about things and did not trust the government really because the people here weren't doing the things that i thought they should be 2 doing for us ad the things i just told you i

cared about and i want you to know a lot of americans don't trust our government and that is said. the problem with that is though, i was allowed to believe things that weren't true and i would ask questions about them and talk about them and that is absolutely what i regret because if it weren't for the facebook posts and comments that i liked in 2018 i would not be standing here todayyi and you cannot poit a finger and accuse me of anything wrong because i lived a life i'm proud of and my family is proud of and myf, husband is proud of and my children are proud of and that is what my district elected me for. >> host: in the end it was a vote of 230-199, 11 republicans joining all democrats in the efforts to strip marjorie taylor greene from her committee assignments and from booting her from the education and labor committee and the budget committee. we are exciting to hear more from marjorie taylor greene today as she set to to hold a

news conference at 11:00 a.m. eastern and we will air that on c-span2, c-span .org and you can listen to it on the free c-span radio app. here is how it's playing back home in some of audrey taylor greene's local papers in her northwestern georgia district. this first from the rome news tribune, headline, green regrets words of the past without explicit apology in the mood from her committee assignments and then from the daily citizen newsit out of dalton, georgia, this is the headline this morning print them led house line drawing kicks greene off committees. one of those democrat leaders in the house majority leader benny hoyer during his comments he talked about marjorie taylor greene facebook post targeting democratic members known as the squad and this is what sydney lawyer had to say yesterday.

>> i heard about motherhood today. two of those women and between them they have six children. they are mothers. one of them does not have children and she has come to this body asking for more housing for people and for more healthcare for people. and for more income for people. how awful. they areot not the squad. they are people, they are our colleagues and yes, you may have disagreements but i don't know

anybody, including steven king who you precluded from going on committees for much less. this is an ar 15 in the hands of ms. greene. this was on facebook just a few months ago. that is a message of peace and the squad worst enemy, ar 15. in hand. i have never, ever seen that before. >> host: steny hoyer on the house floor and before that vote they would eventually removed marjorie taylor greene from two

of her committees and the house. getting your reaction this morning, headline for republicans here in washington dc, good morning. >> caller: good morning. it is pretty obvious to see 199 republicans basically protecting this woman who is clearly disturbed and how many americans cannot see and understand the last four years with a sociopathic president that we have refused to adhere to medical advice, hundreds of thousands of americans have died, violent and sick illness and we have a trillion dollar defense budget that is we are getting ready to overthrow venezuela and we just hit a tree with 1500 nuclear weapons for the soviets and for americans. >> host: daniel, are you a

republican who would agree -- >> caller: what kind of sickness inis going on out here in our country. >> host: are you a revolving and who would agree with the 11 who voted with r democrats on this issue? >> caller: yeah, after the violent riots that took place with tens of thousands of americans and womanlike marjorie taylor greene representing that mental, disturbed violent movement one is america going to wake up to what this whole thing is about. >> host: daniel here in washington dc. those 11 republicans who backed moving marjorie taylor greene from her committee assignment, mario in florida, brian fitzpatrick of pennsylvania, chris jacobs of new york, young kim of california and adam

kinsinger of illinois, maria salazar florida, christopher smith new jersey, brad upton of michigan joining all democrats in that vote yesterday. getting your reaction, eldon, alabama, independent, good morning. >> caller: yes, good morning. how are you all? >> host: doing alright. >> caller: i just wanted to make a comment. i voted for mr. biden because i think of his 2000-dollar raise on my social security. so, that's why i voted for him. n i hope he keeps that promise. >> host: what do you think about what happened yesterday and the controversy surrounding marjorie aptaylor greene? >> caller: i'm not sure about that. i don't have all the details from here but i can understandom that she does need to be removed and that's why i understand it.

>> host: alabama, rick up early in california print citrus heights, good morning, democrat. >> caller: good morning print this remains me of an incident i heard something about and i am afraid that what may happen to her -- i'm afraid of something and i heard something on the news just this past week about her bringing about ms. taylor greene a gun on the house floor in the capital and this reminds me of a guy named [inaudible] or whatever his name was into the san francisco county board of supervisors with harvey milk. >> host: rick, the story about security in the house floor new securityn measures implemented on the house floor and metal detectors

actually that memberson of congress have to go through before they can get on the house floor and vote. those have been installed since what happened on generous six and there has been members pushing back about that and it's keeping them from getting to be able to vote and holding up the process but that is some of the security stories about specifically the house floor and there's honestly been plenty of security stories about house that includes the likelihood it now seems of permanent fence that will go up around the capitol complex in the wake of those attacks and the capitol police chief has come out in favor of that idea and it's an idea that's been floated in the past but plenty of reviews that are ongoing in the wake of the security breakdown for the day. james and murray breeze borough, tennessee, defendant, good morning your next. >> caller: good morning print thank you for taking my call. >> host: go ahead, sir.

>> caller: this lady they need to put her in a spaceship and shooter into outer space like qanon uses. they will say that the native americans weren't here and that nothing was here but bare land and all of a sudden everything just happens. >> host: to think conspiracy theories are more prevalent or worse today then they have been in the past and if so, why? >> caller: why? first of all, you have a man came into office with a lie. he lied from the beginning and he lied the day he was coming down the escalator. that all mexicans were murderers and racists. that's why. people haved been fed into the slide. they just found somebody to say something they've been wanting to say all the time.

thank you. >> host: james in tennessee. here is more from marginally taylor greene from the house floor and she's wearing her free speech mask and her appearance mon the house floor talking abt some of these conspiracy theories that now say some of the conspiracy theories that she once espoused. >> you see, school shootings are absolutely real. every child that has lost, those families mourn it. i understand how terrible it is because when i was 16 years old in 11th grade my school was a gun free school zone in one of my schoolmates brought guns to school and took our entire school hostage and that happened right downn the hall from my classroom. i know the fear that david had that day and i know the fear that these kids have and this is why and i say this sincerely, with all my heart, because i love our kids, every sigel one of her children, all our children, i truly believe that children should never be left

unprotected bird i believe they should be just as protected as we were with 30000 national guardsmen or children are our future andre our most precious resource. i also want to tell you 911 absolutely happened. i remember that day and was crying all day long watching it on the news. it is a tragedy for anyone to say it didn't happen. for that, i deftly want to tell you i do not believe that it is fake. also i want to tell you that we've got to do better. you see, big media companies cay take teeny tiny pieces of words that i have said, that you have said, any of us and can portray eous into someone that we are n. that is wrong. cancel culture is a real thing and it is very real and when big tech companies like twitter, you can scroll through and see where someone may have retreated a porn, this is a problem and this

is a terrible, terrible thing but yet when i say that i absolutely believe, with all my heart, that god's creation is that he created them male and female and that should not be denied, when i am censored for saying those types of things that is wrong. >> host: marjorie taylor greene on the house floor. if you want to hear more from her she's holding a press conference at 11:00 a.m. this morning and we will air it on c-span2. diana livingston, new jersey, democrat, you are next. >> caller: hello, good morning. if we think that was an apology then we need to really, really -- reevaluate that. nowhere did i see her express remorse or regret for all the lies that she has said, even recently that trump one pitch she wore her mask on the congress floor where trump one. that led to what we saw on january six with all their

followers storming the capital. this is j just -- i applaud the democrats and the brave ten republicans that came forth as the first step in restoring the war on truth, facts, science, information and honest journalism but let's be honest. it will take years to restore the trust that they have broken down. or even before chomp with the right-wing media and theiray prp up -- echo system of up again do, conspiracy theories and just watch any foxbusiness at night with lou dobbs and ingram and carlson and they just propagate and all these networks, they are responsible to. it will take all of us to keep on pointing outnt and fighting r the truth to come. it's like dangerous for our lives with all the misinformation of the covid-19 that they are spreading. i see it firsthand in my family.

i just had a broken up relationship with a girlfriend i've had for 40 years because she denies that all the deaths are real. that is the covid just like the flu and it is like i know her for all my life. how could they have convinced my family and friends of all this lies. >> host: diana, was this the first time that friend that you referred to espoused something like that? that you disagreed so vehemently on, have you ever had an incident like that in the past with her? >> yes, in the past, i don't like hillary clinton but i don't believe all the conspiracy theories about her either. i'm a proud democrat and she would express all the hatred for hillary ever sense the bill clinton thing and i would ask her why and they could never tell mee why they hate her or if they do they come out with all these unproven allegations and you would think that by now with

all the power that he had with the ag bart ready to do anything he wanted that if they had anything on hillary they would have prosecuted her and have people in this country believing that at any minute that durum report, obama would be arrested and they would be led out in handcuffs. i engage with trump followers and it is like no matter -- they would come out with all these right-wing made up documents that they've proven that they've seen on right-wing tv. listen, they held mock trials for theit ukrainian with giulia. these people that watch this and this began with the clinton foundation book with dynasty sousa. they are convinced of all these conspiracies but when they don't reason why, if with all that people that hate her, they could have dug up and the evidence. >> host: diana, we've got your point out of new jersey. virginia back in california, democrat, good morning.

>> caller: good morning.ni i was a proud republican my whole life until unfortunately -- well fortunately when obama came i was proud of ourselves for that and very happy to have him for eight years but i certainly switch back when mr. trump was an my heart breaks because our country is divided. we are behaving shamefully and this crazy woman with her qanon theories, i don't know what to do. i worry that mr. biden might be assassinated and that is my biggest fear now. >> host: you said you don't know what to do and you've got to get better on twitter and the suggestion i wonder what you think about that. once again the surmise us that we need more qualifications for people to meet to run for office. do you think we should put some sort of new qualifications on people for them to become members of congress? >> caller: i thought we had

them. i thought you just need to defend the comets duchenne. [inaudible] we do already have those situations and placement we raise our children not to spit and scream in the streets and say the n word. but these people in congress are allowed to date these things and say these things and bring in a core -- ak-47. >> host: this is rick in iowa. republican, good morning. >> caller: good morning. i've always leaned republican my whole life since 1990 but for the last six years i've been independent but i just want to say both sides, do you hear me? both sides or i mean the democratic party, the democratic party grew up with the '90s, the republican party ain't the republic and party i grew up with good they are both liars

and both need to be voted out of office and we need people in there that are independent. the democrats will try to take over -- i mean, i thought that minority leader had to vote out a person from the house of representatives, not theta majority leader and the democrats are kicking out republicans but can they do that? >> host: rick, what happened here was the removal from her committee assignment although unprecedented in modern times that's been a full house vote that those or when that happened in the past, including most recently with steve king of your state of iowa was back in 2019, the republican leadership removed him from his committee assignments and that was an internal conference vote that took place or internal conference and that was rick out of iowa. mike is an independent out of norwalk, ohio. go ahead.

>> caller: good morning fred i concur with a guy from iowa and he made a lot of sense. there is a lot of disproportionate belief and it is hard to get the truth out of the news. it seems that there is just a bunch of bobble heads and puppets. how are we supposed to find out what is true and what isn't true anymore when the media is biased itself? ... t years having conversations with steve, who was suspended, and i was military police. once you show your bias in any investigation, you are no longer effective and you should be removed. host: who or what news websites, what news organizations, where do you go for your news? who do you trust? caller: i tried to i tried to listen to cnn. he's destroying us, , killing u. i listen to fox, newsmax a lot of organizations online and i

can shift through the information and forgot what is true and what is not true. we have aoc polling jussie smollett. omar, both sides are guilty and yet it seems to be biased on one side that everybody's going after republicans and try to get rid of all the trump people. they have got the pot full stirred. we're going to have a revolution -- >> host: newspapers from around the country. this topic marjorie taylor greene focus of many of the national papers editorial pages. this from the "washington post" this morning. a headline of one of their lead editor the gop is to blame. house republicans should have sidelined his dangerous crackpot long ago. this from the "new york times" editorial board. gop takes the easy way out focusing on how kevin mccarthy the minority leader has

navigated boat the marjorie taylor greene issue and the concern buys something news conference about liz cheney voting to impeach donald trump. this display from the editorial page of the "wall street journal." the headline is liz cheney and marjorie taylor greene, house republicans fail to apply the democratic desire for ae gop civil war. one more for you from the "washington times." stand firm gop is what the editorial board of the times said. your political future dependsrin it. if you want to read any of those had to the editorial pages. this is silver spring, maryland, democrat you are next. >> caller: i think we need to step back for minute and understand 190 republicans still believe that donald trumpth won the election which means they believe a lie. is lie. what we have is a gasoline

nation. these are people, friends, neighbors, who believe something that is not real, and the problem is, how do you bring these people back to reality? how do you convince them that what they think is just not true? in my mind, i think what is happening is that they are honest people, people who would never deceive somebody, who know that lying is wrong, so they cannot believe that somebody would intentionally lie to them and keep spewing things that are simple enough true. if you've ever tried to convince someone, one of these people who support trump so vehemently but they cannot see they killed a policeman, beat him to death in the capital, for what? a lie. please, somebody has to -- everybody needs to just calm down and talk quietly and calmly to your friends and loved ones.

and somehow convince them. one more thing. can people please just read? if you would turn off the radio, if you hate msnbc, turn it off. if you read a newspaper, you will be able to tell if what they see is true. host: more from the house for yesterday, this is jim mcgovern, the chairman on the house rules committee speaking after marjorie taylor greene made her eight to 10 minute remarks on the house floor. this is jim mcgovern reacting. [video clip] >> first of all, madame speaker, to equate the media to qanon is beyond detail. secondly, the chairwoman said she now believes that 9/11 really happened, but let me read a quote at the conservative american priority conference --

"it is odd that there is never evidence shown for a plane in the pentagon, but otherwise, i won't, i'm not going to dive into the 9/11 conspiracy." that was 2018 and the gentlewoman just told us she had an epiphany and decided not to follow these conspiracy theories anymore. but then in 2019, she claims that speaker pelosi is guilty of treason and then says "it is a crime punishable by death, is what treason is. nancy pelosi is guilty of treason." that is 2019. she liked a comment that advocated a bullet to the head of speaker pelosi. in 2019, in an interview, she called a student survivor of the parkland massacre "very drained, he's like a dog -- trained, he's like a dog or cow and then she said -- a dog and then she said

he is an idiot and only talked when prompted. greene followed a survivor, call owed does calling him a coward and when she ignored him she said, he can't offend his stance. that's 2019. we could be here all week going over comments and posts in 2019 and 2020. host: jim mcgovern reacting to marjorie taylor greene's remarks on the house floor. this is mark from columbus, ohio reacting to marjorie taylor greene's reaction -- remarks. she said "i was allowed to believe things that were not true." really? who allowed her to believe such lies. she did not apologize. when welty -- when will she take

personal responsibility? it is a sorry excuse. time for just one or two more phone calls here. doug out of oregon, independent. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to give a shout out to the caller from maryland. she made some good points. i have been thinking about the proceedings yesterday and representative -- the minority leader -- i believe he set the stage for all this to happen. he should have and could have removed her from those posts and done his responsibility, but he knew that if he did not come he would set the stage for the democrats to hold this vote. and on that, taking marching orders from the former president trump in the mar-a-lago meeting

he had a week or so ago. i think it bodes poorly for the republican party, creating this division in congress. i love your show. host: alyssa out of vienna, virginia, republican. good morning. caller: can you hear me? host: yes, ma'am. caller: i am 31 years old. i have lived in this area, worn in orlando, florida. i am -- born in orlando, florida. i am a republican. i hear a lot of accusations on both sides. each side is guilty of them. i mean, it is what we choose just like, it doesn't discredit the negative that happened, but all i'm hearing is the negative

these days, that she, pelosi, treason, 20, bullet to her head, and then she called someone an idiot who only talked when scripted. but i remember the guy from wednesday, he said he remembers when eisenhower told one lie to him and it was a travesty. i think it was the trump -- even congress, the last session of congress, i know i'm wrong when i say 40,000 he counted but i know it was 60,000. words matter. words do matter. that she called a terrorist survivor a coward and then doubled down last week.

but i do like the positivity from some of the callers. it really brightens mywashingto. host: here is where we are on capitol hill. the house coming in at 9:00 a.m. eastern, in about 59 minutes. we will take you there for live gavel-to-gavel coverage. the senate was in all night last night. they adjourned at about 5:30 a.m. this morning after a 15 hour so-called voter rama which day considered dozens of americans to the budget resolution, eventually passing that resolution. that is the vehicle democrats will used to move the president biden covid relief package, that $1.9 trillion package through capitol hill. that happening very early this morning. the senate now not inspected to come in until 3:00 p.m. eastern on monday. what we are asking you in this half-hour, for your top news

story of the week. here is one of the stories you might consider, the first foreign policy address by president biden. he traveled to the state department yesterday. among the issues he touted were a plan to raise the number of refugees allowed into the united states to 120 5000. that is from 20,000 annually under the trump -- to 125,000. that is from 120,000 -- that is from 20,000 annually under the trump administration. here's president biden yesterday from the state department. [video clip] pres. biden: today i'm announcing additional steps to course correct our policy and values with diplomatic leadership. defense secretary austen will be leading a global review of our forces so that our military footprint is appropriately aligned with our foreign-policy

and national security priorities. it will be coordinated across all elements of our national security, with secretary austen and secretary blinken working in close cooperation. while this review is taking place, we will be stopping any planned troop results from germany. we are also stepping up our diplomacy to end the war in yemen, a war which has created humanitarian and strategic catastrophe. i have asked my middle east team to ensure our support for the united nations led initiative to poke the cease-fire, open humanitarian challenge, and restore -- to probe the cease-fire, open human terry challenge come and restore peace talks. [end video clip] host: also knew yesterday from former president trump. president trump saying he will not testify at his upcoming impeachment trial next week. president trump's attorneys

responding to the request to him to testify by blasting it as a public relations stunt, arguing that needing testimony from the former president showed the democrats "cannot prove their allegations against the 45th president of the united states. a spokeswoman for former president trump saying he had no intention of going under oath as part of the impeachment trial. the president will not testify in an unconstitutional proceeding, is what she said in the statement to usa today. we are asking you what your top story of the past week -- another busy week on capitol hill. what do you think the top story has been? steve from north carolina, a republican. good morning. caller: my top story is your obsession with marjorie taylor greene. why are you so upset with her? what did she do to you? i'm asking you. what did she do to you? host: you are asking me specifically, steve? caller: yeah, four days in a row

you have trashed this woman like she is -- i have no idea what your problem with her is. you brought it up two days ago to a guy yourself come out of the blue. host: an unprecedented move by the house to strip a member of their committee post. it was certainly a newsy event and it was the focus of house proceedings yesterday, it was the focus of a republican conference meeting two days ago. it has been in the news this week. caller: it has been in the news, sir, because of you, because of the media, who keeps talking about this. she has apologized multiple times, and no matter what you might think, older people did vote for her. so i wish you were just leave her the hell alone, please. thank you. host: steve in north carolina. this is michael out of danville, illinois. good morning, independent. caller: good morning.

just trying to get over the previous caller. wow. i would say the top story is representative greene, and i also agree with representative westerman when he said the truth will set you free. but for an informed public to make good decisions, the truth has to be presented to them. representative greene dealt with everything but the truth. the republicans have said that she apologized. what was shown on c-span as to what she said, i never heard the words "i'm sorry," or "i apologize to the american public." i heard her make reference to "i

do believe in this," or "i do believe in that," for example, the attack on 711 being real. but i am just mystified how you can say that the truth will set you free and then turn around and give support to somebody who is a representative of the people and doesn't deal with the truth. host: michael in illinois. it was yesterday where that vote was held, final vote total 230-199. 11 republicans crossing the aisle and joining democrats in-house and voting to strip marjorie taylor greene of her committee assignments. we expect to hear more from marjorie taylor greene later this morning at 11:00 a.m. eastern. she is holding a news conference, and we will air it on c-span2, c-span.org, and the

radio app. here is part of the speech marjorie taylor greene gave on the house floor yesterday, bringing up some of these conspiracy theories, saying her past comments about those conspiracy theories is something that she regrets. there is more from marjorie taylor greene. [video clip] rep. greene: burning bear -- but wants to can -- once to condemn me in the public square for words that i said and i regret a few years ago, i think we are in a real big problem, a very big problem. what shall we do as americans? shall we stay divided like this? will we allow the media that is just as guilty as qanon of presenting truth and lies to divide us? will we allow ourselves to be addicted to hate and hating one

another? i hope not because that is not the future i want for my children. it is not the future i want for any of your children. host: marjorie taylor greene on the house floor yesterday with that mask that has "free-speech speech" written on it. that is what she wore to the statement that she made on the house floor. adam is in cattle's bird, kentucky. independent. caller: it is cap let's berg -- catlettsburg. host: i won't make that mistake again. caller: i will try to wrap this into the news of the week. working natural resources business, it is hard not to stay focused on the biden administration executive orders on climate change and that kind of stuff.

so talking about westerman, i agree with his sentiment on conservation versus preservation. i think we get them confused sometimes. if i could make one statement that is important about kind of the direction of the green movement, i guess i would call it, the renewables. the people of the united states have to understand where these products come from. we have to understand that the solar panels that are developed that will be hung in people's backyards or on the interstates, 99% of those products are turned over, the manufacturer, in china. there is a problem, in my opinion, with this notion of kind of not in my backyard people. i think the united states people become that. we want the renewable products, but we don't want to manufacture these products. so for the president to kind of go on this route of we are going

to manufacture solar panels wherever in the united states, the problem is that the raw materials to make those solar panels -- those have to be mined, and whether it is the copper or the iron that goes into them, the united states it just isn't ready for that. we have a country that doesn't enjoy the mining business, and that is the business that i am in. i think in order for us to make that move toward renewables, we've got to get comfortable with mining. so just, i would like to that to congressman westerman. host: is catlettsburg in northeast kentucky? how has the mining business in been in that corner of the state? caller: the coal mining industry is taking it in.

i am a coal geologist by trade. it is definitely -- it has definitely taken a hit since natural gas prices have gone down, since fracking has been around. also with things likely clean power plant under obama and the clean water act. a lot of people don't understand what the clean water act will do . it sounds good on its face, but it will impact a lot of things. getting a lot of permits through will be impossible. it has impacted a lot. host: we appreciate the call from cap whispered, kentucky this morning. good morning. caller: i wish i could quote your last speaker because i want to remind him this lady, ms. greene, congressman greene, she is just the bride of frankenstein. she sees just the bride of

frankenstein. i remember strom thurmond -- host: what do you mean by that? caller: she is projecting her area. thurmond did. lester maddox did. they are all gone. eventually she will fade, too. so i would let her do her rhetoric and do her speech, and ignore her. i could say this about thurmond. i got to know him pretty well, and some of the things he said he did not really mean, but he had to play to his base. a lot of you know thurmond. host: how did you get to know strom thurmond, ray? caller: i am from south carolina. i went to a black school. host: where did you meet him? caller: he came up on the campus and we talked. he told me one >> we taking it to the state dining room at the whitese