gronkowski. that's all i can hear. thank you my friend. in 1933 bobby jones the legendary american golfer, a man named clifford roberts founded a golf course in georgia called augusta national. that is where they hold the masters. probably the most famous golf course in the country or at least one of them. by de design from the beginning augusta was for whites only. augusta wasn't just whites only in the inchent history like jim crowe crow days it did not admit the first black member until 1990. clifford roberts chairman of the masters who founded the club with bobby jones said as long as i'm alive all of the golfers will be white and all caddies will be black.

he died on the golf course. shot himself on the head. augusta maintained a 100% white membership more than a decade after his death. occasionally a nonwhite player would play on the course in a tournament but in terms of membership it was for white men only until 1990. they wouldn't let a woman become a member for 22 years after that. in 1980 ronald reagan was president and decided to spend a golfing weekend at the august stra all white club. and because of something else going on in his presidency during that time that augusta decision turned out to be an awkward one for them. see if you can spot andrea mitch until this clip. this is amazing. >> we delay the start of our regularly scheduled program to

bring you the following nbc news report. a presidential news conference. >> good evening. i'm tom brokaw. president reagan is about to hold his first nationally televised press conference since the end of july. >> mr. president, you said in the past a year and a half ago that you had real reservations of the expense of another national holiday. the quote, it might be there is no way we could afford all of those holidays we would have with people who are revered figures in history of many of the groups that make up our population. i'm wondering why have you changed your mind about the holiday for dr. king and why are you willing to sign that legislation? >> because i think this has become so symbolic of what was with a very real crisis in our history. a discrimination is pretty foreign with what is normal for us and the part he played in

that i think the symbolism he is worthy of this. >> will you tell us why you have decided to spend the weekend in augusta in a golf ub club that we understand has no black members. >> i don't know anything in the membership but i know nothing in the bylaws of the club that advocates discrimination of any kind. i saw in a recent tournament i saw blacks playing in that tournament on that course can. i have been invited as a guest to play a round of golf on the augusta golf course and as i say, i think i have covered all that i know about it. >> president reagan went ahead with that trip to augusta national. honestly, i got to tell you it ended up being a weird trip. he ended up overseaing the invasion of grenada from the cabn in the golf club in his pjs that produced one of the great

commander in chief wartime photographs. i should tell you this is the screen saver on my laptop and the same weekend with, while the president was at the golf club at one point some dude crashed his pickup through the front gates of augusta and took hostages at the pro shop. he was demanding to speak to president reagan. reagan was playing the 16th hole at the time. the president wasn't hurt. the hostages got away from the guy but the dude had a loaded gun on him. it was a weird weekend at augusta national that october weekend in 1983 on top of that president reagan had to call the widow of martin luther king jr. he had to call coretta scott king to apologize to her personally for things he had said about her late husband while he was expressing his opposition to establishing a federal holiday honoring martin luther king. john conyers first filed legislation to honor dr. king

with the holiday four days after king was killed. he introduced legislation to honor him with a federal holiday. by the time he was at augusta national, by 1983 and the reagan president cy it had been 15 years of struggle to get that martin luther king holiday recognized. the conservative movement was really against it. up to and including president reagan. just before his weekend at augusta, a letter surfaced from president reagan to a leader in the far right, john birch society. john birch society was very opposed to dr. king being honored with a holiday. he wrote the sentiment in favor of honoring dr. king was based on an image not reality. in the united states senate conservative republican -- excuse me, conservative senator jesse helms of north carolina mounted a filibuster against the king holiday that lasted 16 straight days. at this press conference before the golf weekend, this is how

president reagan responded when he was asked about jesse helms filibuster and his objections to the proposed king holiday. >> mr. president, senator helms has been saying that martin luther king had communist associations, was a communist sympathize er. do you agree? >> we'll know in about 35 years, won't we? >> we'll know in about 35 years about this alleged communist sympathizer that they want to make a holiday for. after the we'll know in 35 years and after his letter to the john birch society despairing dr. king president reagan had to call coretta scott-king to apologize for the comments he made. he had to make the call before teeing off at the whites-only golf course. he didn't want to cancel those plans. he went ahead with the augusta trip. the signed the legislation that created the martin luther king

holiday which the nation observed today. it's often forgotten now how reluctant he was at the time to do it. >> it's official now. the dream of his family friends and followers was realized today when president reagan not an enthusiastic supporter of the idea signed a bill declaring the third monday in january as a national holiday honoring martin luther king jr. chris wallace was in the rose garden for the ceremony. >> reporter: there was an air of celebration in the rose garden and an under lying tension. white house officials wrestled for days how to usher in a holiday the president opposed. they finally decided to embrace it. today mr. reagan did not repeat his recent statements that his image was based on understanding not reality. instead martin luther king -- >> traces of bigotry marrer

america. let us not all recall dr. king but rededicate ourselves to the commandments he lived and sought every day. >> many had been offended by the president's remarks and discussed the king holiday and mr. reagan's role in it. >> we all have high and low moments. this is one of his high moments. >> i'm just glad we got the inb bill signed. >> reporter: maybe that's what today was about. that blacks have the power to make politicians do things. as the president left the ceremony many in the crowd stayed and sang. chris wallace, nbc news at the white house. >> blacks now have the power to make the politicians do things. there are six members of congress who voted against establishing the king holiday who are still in congress

together. orrin hatch expressed regret. this year the elephant in the room is the new number three republican in the house of representatives. house republicans decided to keep steve in his top leadership job in the house after he confirmed reports that he spoke to david duke's white supremacist group in 2002. he not only spoke before the group he also voted in 1999 and again in 2004 that louisiana should not give state recognition to the martin luther king holiday. he was voting against the martin luther king holiday in 2004 by which point the country had been celebrating it for more than 20 years. he was still against it. in fact we don't know if he is still against it today. congressman scalise put out a statement talking about how our nation is strengthened by his

legacy. there's a lot of personal awkwardness about the nation's decision to honor dr. king and the surprising number of politicians still around that disagreed with the decision to honor dr. king. it is a political stance that didn't look great at the time and come to look much worse as time goes on. beyond those personal decisions and individual embarrassment, there are now hard questions of not just the people but the policy. the corner stone civil rights achievement, the voting rights act was gutted two summers ago by the supreme court. congress could fix it rewrite the voting rights act and restate it in a way that would satisfy the court. eric cantor went to march across the bridge in selma and they were going to fix it and reinstate the voting rights act. now they say they are not going to do that. the republican chair at the judiciary committee said they have studied the issue and

decided not to do anything about it, at least no time soon. that's the voting rights signed with lyndon johnson with martin luther king looking on. lbj gave dr. king the pen with which he signed the law. the voting rights act gutted by the roberts court has republicans say they will leave it for dead. on wednesday of this week the court will take up another corner stone civil rights act, the fair housing act, passed by congress in the immediate aftermath of king's assassination. it was signed in to law within a week of his death. basically a tribute to him. again corner stone civil rights legislation for fighting racially segregated housing in this country. the supreme court did mott have to take it up at this time. not like there was a conflict that forced their hand. the fact they went out of their way to take it up this week raised the expectation that the only reason they are taking up the piece this week is because they want to gut it.

we are at a weird moment between our history and our present on civil rights issues. the policies themselves are being taken apart at an unprecedented pace. at the same time there's a real down the memory hall effort to remember how hard won these those policies were won in the first place. how hard civil rights activists of a previous generation had to push to get those victories. how hard they had to push because the push back was so brutal widespread and long standing. today at the martin luther king memorial jeh johnson put some edge back in the history. >> reality is that in his time the man we honor today with a national holiday was divisive. to me he was a troublemaker. to force the social change we all now celebrate. he challenged the social order

of things and pushed people out of their comfort zones. when dr. king arrived in many of the same cities for which a major street is now named for him, the mayor and police commissioner viewed his visit with dread and couldn't wait for him to leave. >> on the eve of the state of the union, with another martin luther king era civil rights law poised to go on the chopping block before the highest court in the tland week on the commemoration of the holiday honoring martin luther king jr. which with what feels like it resonates this year more than ever is not just the fight that dr. king waged in his lifetime for the things he achieved but the fight waged against him, against civil rights. parts of that fight are very much alive today. joining us is homeland security secretary jeh johnson. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me here. welcome to washington. >> thank you. i spend as little time here as i

can. i was struck by those remarks of yours. why did you highlight that aspect of dr. king's legacy? why did you feel like -- i felt you were putting the edge back in history that has become prettive soft edged? >> i thought it was necessary. like dr. king i'm a graduate of morhouse college. i went to school with his son martin iii. there were faculty that taught dr. king. benjamin mays his mentor was on campus in the '70s. i'm old enough to remember the '60s and when he was assassinate assassinated in 1968. his image now, his memory is one that we all associate with "i have a dream." we associate with the national holiday, but it's important to

remember the pain and suffering that he personally went through to push for social change. social change is never easy in a society because you are knocking people out of their comfort zones and that's what he did. i think it is important to remember how hard that was to achieve in the 1960s. i also in that same speech talked about what he had devoted himself in the last two years of his life which were largely anti--poverty efforts as well as opposing the vietnam war and opposing violence generally. >> today a lot of commemorations of dr. king were about the history, about his legacy, the civil rights era and honoring the veterans of the civil rights era but a new generation of protesters this year that dove tailed more accurately sprung from the recent protests about police violence specifically about police conflict between the african-american community, unarmed african-american men

killed by police in the perception in this country that is what happens with impunity. a lot of people marching under the banner reclaim mlk saying that is something we don't feel comfortable with but needs to be. when you look at those protests and see the movement today, do you feel optimism or despair that those fights are still alive? >> i want want to believe we are able to harness that energy in to something positive in to what i have said to people and communities who are angry, upset, take that energy and channel it in to something positive. could be political change. if you are unhappy with criminal justice system in a community than you go to the ballot box. you can bring about change which then leads to judicial change or change in a district attorney or the mayor or a city council. channel that energy and anger in to something positive in to

positive engagement in the political process. that's what i think we ought to be doing and that's what i have certainly encouraged when we see all of this energy being generated in this direction. >> do you think there is -- >> i think dr. king believed that as well. >> do you think there is -- what we remember him for mostly is his non-violent philosophy of direct action about being out there physically in the streets, willing to do civil disobedience. do you think we still respond to that as a country? do you feel there is a real for civil disobedience mass protest protests? >> one reason dr. king and this is portrayed in the movie "selma" would not lead his followers on the second march is he knew he would be marching in violation of a court order. he was waiting for judge johnson to make his ruling. he did not want to be in violation of a federal court

order. after judge johnson ruled the march aers had a right to go to among, they went on that famous 60-mile march. he very much believed in civil disobedience and challenging in the system at the right moment. he was also not afraid to accept the consequences and neither were his followers obviously. >> looking ahead to the state of the union tomorrow. one of the big unknowns in federal policy right now is whether or not your department gets funded. the republicans in congress are essentially holding up funding for your department because they are upset with the president over immigration. dufz that have a material consequence for your department yet or are you worried it will in the future? >> yes and yes. right now the department of homeland security is operating on a continuing resolution which means that we are allowed to spend money until february 27th at the same rate we spent money last year. that means as long as we are on a cr we cannot engage in new

starts new spending new initiatives. new grands to state and local law enforcement to fund homeland security missions. we can't put in to place the independent panel that recommended changes to the secret service has suggested we do. our counter terrorism efforts are limited. and my concern is that we not play political volleyball with our budget. we need a nppropriation that is stood up on february 27th so we can go forward with a full year's funding. so we can fund these vital things to homeland security. i'm talking to every member of congress who will listen to me about the importance of putting an appropriations bill free and clear of anything that attempts to defund the executive actions. let's fwet that in place so we can fully fund the things that are vital to homeland security. >> do you think you are going to

get it? >> yes. i believe we will get it. i believe there's enough bipartisan support for seeing a full free and clear appropriations bill for the department of homeland security. let me tell you why defunding the executive actions doesn't really make sense. the language in that bill right now defunds all of the executive actions that we issued in november. a lot of those border security. one executive action is to gave immigration enforcement people a pay raise which they have been asking for years. this bill would defund that. we enhance and prioritize more border security. this bill will defund it. it makes no sense that in a regard. we are frozen. we can't do new things to fund homeland security as long as we are in this state right now. >> thank you so much for being here. >> good to see you. more ahead on what turned

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today is an official holiday in all 50 states honoring dr. martin luther king jr. in three states, they're not just celebrating the martin luther king jr. holiday today. this is the official state calendar in arkansas. this is the one from mississippi, and this is the one from alabama. today is martin luther king jr. day and robert e. lee day. seriously the same day. a confederate general. martin luther king. we are a complicated country.

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♪ ah. push it. ♪ i'm pushing. i'm pushing it real good! >> in november 2013, congress was hit with a narcotics scandal. he was busted for cocaine possession. shortly after he resigned from congress. which is how they got a congressman named curt clausen. he was assigned to the house foreign affairs committee. during one subcommittee hearing on u.s. relations with india, two top american officials from the u.s. commerce and u.s. state departments came to testify before that committee. these were with american government officials testifying before that committee. now watch. >> i am familiar with your country. i love your country and i'm hopeful with the new change and regime the future and land of

promise and land of opportunity of india can finally become so. i understand the complication of so many languages and culture and so many histories all rolled in one. just as your capital is welcome here to produce good-paying jobs in the u.s. i'd like our capital to be welcome there and there to be freedom of capital. so that both sides are on the same territory and i ask cooperation and commitment and priority from your government in so doing. can i have that? >> i think your question is to the indian government and we certainly share your sentiments and will advocate that. >> of course. >> of course. i am familiar -- they are american. i am familiar with your country. that was last summer. congressman clawson apologized but now it is a new year and congressman clawson is making a

new name for himself. one of the hallmarks political era, republicans offer a republican tea party response in addition though normal republican-republican response to the state of the union. that's how it has been a few years now. this year it seemed like republicans might be giving up on that strategy. first they announced they pick the new senator from iowa joanie earnest to give the response to the state of the union tomorrow night she is perhaps the only person to the right of ted cruz and mike lee. that was their pick for the official response. then once they picked joni ernst for the response there was no immediate announcement there would be a tea party republican response. has the republican party finally decided to merge in to itself? to merge its official response

and the tea party response in to one big joni ernst response? have the republican leadership finally found someone who is right wing enough to stand both for the party party and also the tea party? are we back to there being one republican party in this country? no. no not at all. they have since announced that once again there will be two republican responses to the state of the union. it will be joni ernst giving the official one but i am familiar with your country guy, curt clawson giving the tea party response as well. just if we thought things were normalizing and less fun, wrong. full speed ahead with the craziness. yea! tomorrow night's going to be fun.

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the character on the left of your screen here is coretta scott-king as played in the movie "selma." on the right in the green coat is lorraine portraying another real life woman named amelia boynton. >> i know we are descendents of a mighty people that gave civilization to the world. people who survived the hulls of slave ships across the vast oceans. people who innovate and create and love despite pressures and tortures unimaginable.

they are in our bloodstream, pumping our hearts every second. they have prepared for you are already prepared. >> in 1965 amelia.ton was seriously injured when police rushed the marchers on the bridge out of selma, alabama. she was physically right there on the front lines in selma and also in montgomery where they dragged her away. that front line role is why she's got a key role in the new film about selma. the past is not just the past. look at this news in the "selma times-journal" from this afternoon. look at this 103-year-old amelia boynton is still with us. she is invited to the president's speech as the guest of alabama congresswoman and she will be there tomorrow night. state of the union is always a

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congress president obama's approval numbers are way up yes, as of today the president's approval rating is 50% according to a new "washington post" abc news poll the highest since the april of 2013. just since december approval ratings have gone up 19 points among young people, 22 points among hispanics, already doing well with democrats but since december his approval rating with democrats is up an additional ten points. he's up 11 points among conservatives since december. must be nice. surely part of it is the economy is doing better. a free form ambient happy feeling and mysterious green chutes of a specific kind that we are not used to seeing in this reiteration of washington or this administration and maybe i'm just happy because the patriots won but it seems there

is a suspiciously large pile of things looming on the occasion tomorrow that might get done. first the president 's nominee for attorney general, loretta lynch. she's enjoying bipartisan praise from senators who will soon be voting on her nomination. seriously. second the president's nomination for defense secretary ash carter. he's enjoying wide bipartisan praise as well. republican senator tom coburn left congress and the inexplicable personal hold he wasn't on the suicide prevention bill it seems that legislation is about to pass with quite possibly unanimous support from both parties and both houses of congress. last week when eric holder announced plans to stop local police from seizing cash and assets without a warrant or due process this asset forfeiture program that is a multibillion dollar boondoggle, when the attorney general announced his

policy change on that last week with, he was praised for his actions by republicans in the house and senate. eric holder praised by republicans. yes, that eric holder. the president's going to talk about his policy of changing our relations with cuba tomorrow night. one of the people who's been sprey praising that change is the republican senator from arizona named jeff flake. i kid you not. even some republicans right now who say they are willing to raise the gas tax to pay for infrastructure repairs on roads, bridges and highways. seriously. no, you are not drunk. no i don't know what's going on. on the eve of the state of the union, things are looking rosier in terms of political prospects. rosier than they have in a long time for this administration. is this some magic thing that happens to presidents after the midterms? should we have expected this? is this normal? am i drunk? joining us is michael -- nice to

see you. >> you sound positive. it is really nice. >> sorry. >> sounds terrific. >> is this -- in presidential historian terms, is this normal? do other second-term presidents find themselves at this kind of position with all of this possibility at this point in their terms. >> even more specifically when they begin year seven as barack obama is about to do they find a couple of things. one is they are there are things that an opposition congress and a president agree on. for instance ronald reagan in 1987 was trying to make peace with the soviet union, found in many cases the democrats in the opposition agreed with him more than the republicans did. another thing going on is that barack obama is no longer as intense a political threat as he may have been when he still had a midterm election ahead, or even further back re-election ahead. the other thing is opposition congresses and you saw this you know in many cases where you

had an opposition congress in the seventh year they realize if they want their nominee to be elected the next time they have to demonstrate if they get control, not only of congress but also the white house that they are not going to run out of control. therefore, they are going to get swing voters and possibly win the presidency the next time around. if they are too confrontational of the president in the white house of the other party it is unlikely it will happen. >> the last one applied to but i didn't expect it in this one. but we are seeing unqualified praise for lynch and carter. it seems the foot is off the gas in terms of that reflexive partisan fighting. let me ask you this as well. in terms of the president's executive actions -- obviously presidents in their second terms don't end to have the congress on their side. since world war ii it is almost

all controlled by the opposite party so presidents act alone. i think people generally like what he's been do ing. has he been making the kind of executive actions that over presidents have made or is this another type. >> bill clinton is a model of this. he went to the people on his staff and legal advisers and said what can i do to use the powers of the presidency in a way i won't have to rely on the members of the house and senate. so absolutely. some of the things we have heard that president obama will suggest tomorrow night, beginning with a tax increase for the wealthiest americans. that's in line with other presidents who realize they are not likely to get this through congress but they are trying to send a message to future historians an the nominee the next time that this is something i think you should support and the interesting dynamic here is if this is something that hillary clinton would welcome him saying. >> you think he may be sending a message to the 2016 democratic

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midnight july 2nd 2011 in laurel montana, residents were evacuated if their homes in the middle of the night after a pipeline near the yellowstone river suddenly and violating burst. there was thankfully no explosion. when the sun came up they found an environmental catastrophe in what had been a beautiful spot. exxon mobil pipeline that ran under the yellowstone river ruptured and dumped tens of thousands of oil in the river. it damaged farmland and fouled the otherwise pristine river. it took months to clean up. exxon mobil had to pay for the cleanup effort that followed and that's the kind of money they lose in the couch cushions but still $135 million. after the spill was over a study

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they beat people, used slingshots they kept him in the lot until the rest of the friends could arrive and jumped him, beat him with their fists, screamed at him and called him names. one teenager was driving a big ford truck, f-250. he ran craig anderson over with his truck. the kid driving the truck called his friends in second vehicle and he laughed and told them he just ran the "n" word over and then drove off and anderson died of his injuries in a local hospital. he was attacked by those high school kids specifically and apparently only because of his race. the attack included running him over with a truck and now he was dead at age 47.

that was in june 2011 in a modern day state capital. less than two years before that murder, president obama signed an expanded federal hate crimes law in to effect. matthew shepherd was killed in wyoming in 1998 he was beaten, tortured and left to tie because he was gay. james byrd was killed in texas that year. dragged for a mile and a half down a road by white supremacist. a decade after the deaths it was news partly because the law added sexual minorities to hate crimes but one other important change about prosecuting these crimes. previously for the federal government to get involved to prosecute a case like in the victim would have had to do something or trying to do something that had specific federal protection like voting or going to school. the new law closed the loophole

allowing federal prosecutors to step in when say a man was attacked in a hotel parking lot for no reason other than the fact he was black. because of that new law, because of the closing of that loophole that killing in that hotel parking lot in jackson in 2011 that became a federal case. the killing of craig anderson became the first time the it u u.s. justice department used the new i law in a murder case and listen to what happened. first of all the driver of the truck that ran craig anderson down the guy who said i ran that "n" word over. first he pleaded guilty in state court. 19 years old, he received two life sentences in state court. the next day he pleaded guilty in federal court, as well. the next day in federal court, two more suspects in the case also pled guilty. since then even though the local community has sometimes been imbasht the pace of the investigation, look at what has happened since then. prosecutors have continued to

reel in suspects in that murder of craig anderson. in the string of racist assaults against other black people that led up to craig anderson's murder. as the case developed, prosecutors believe ten separate people had some level of involvement in these attacks. three plead guilty and then two more. so of the ten five down five to go. the following month, january 2013 they got guilty plea number six. that leaves four more still to go and those four indictments were handed up this summer and that led to two more guilty pleas last month. and eight out of ten and now in federal court in jackson, mississippi the final two suspects have just pleaded guilty. standing before the first african-american federal judge appointed in that a state. that described what happened that night. these are the last two suspects.

local paper reports that one of them wept openly as he recalled the earlier assaults and the scene at the hotel parking lot when anderson died. when the judge asked what he did while his friends beat craig anderson, the young man whispered his reply, i watched. from the beginning, james craig anderson's family had asked for the precipitation of everyone involved ten out of ten using the new shepherd hate crimes act. federal prosecutors got them all, ten out of ten. at the first sentencing the victim's sister thanked local and federal authorities. she called for justice and said she prays for peace. >> because of my brother our lives are richer with love respect and the love of god. we the anderson family are

praying for racial conciliation not only in mississippi, but all over this land and country. we are praying for the defendants and family that they find peace. >> some of the old civil rights cases took decades so solve and prosecute. a lot of them have never been prosecuted at all, even to this day. but in this one case with this new law they finished what they started. ten of ten. today this afternoon on martin luther king day we got the announcement finally of federal sentencing dates next month for all of them. they are looking at maximum sentences ranging from five years for one defendant to life in prison. if the point of holidays is to mark change overtime. to have a commemorative event

that marks it over time we can see our nation has at least shifted in how we deal with these crimes. we are not past the days of racial violence even on a grand and terrible scale, >> good evening, rachel. thank you for that important and moving report. thank you. >> thanks. well, the president's polling numbers are up on the eve of his sixth state of the union address. >> you never get completely used to it. there is a certain pageantry to it. >> a pretty good time for the president politically and economically. >> surging approval ratings, a surging stock market, a plummetting unemployment rate. >> this is the fourth quarter of barack obama's presidency. >> president obama will unveil his new tax plan. >> we have to play the game. >> middle class tax relief and