video on demand. exceeds mine fuel costs. are a sense for you now with the palm of your. oh i'm so are going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture it's friday which means it's time for conversations with great and i'm joined by the brilliant comedian author and activist dick gregory sharing his thoughts on where life has taken him to rush our nation is also with more and more people living in deep poverty than ever before in recent memory why did republicans just filibuster legislation to put americans back to work i asked my panel of experts that question in tonight's big picture rob and what does g.o.p. t.v.

also known as fox news have to do with the mess to terrorism the answer later tonight still we take. you. for tonight's conversations with great minds i'm joined by none other than dick gregory there gregory is a comedian social activist writer and entrepreneur whose work has redefined how many americans including me perceive political comedy and african-american comedians he got his first big break when he was hired by hugh hefner reform stand up at the chicago playboy club in one nine hundred sixty one and he hasn't stopped since he began political activism by running against richard j. daley for the mayor's office in chicago and sixty seven followed that with a write in campaign for the oval office and sixty eight as the candidate of the freedom and peace party he's devoted himself to many causes throughout. career as

an activist including civil rights women's rights anti work him pains in the international anti-apartheid movement and environmental protection issues i ran a community for abused kids in new england in the late seventy's early eighty's he was on our advisory board fundraisers for our program and we travelled together to your banda during the the end of the war with india i mean to set up a family medical relief program there is devoted his life to using his considerable talents and gifts for helping others i know this from firsthand experience in now finds himself on comedy central's list of the one hundred greatest standups of all time and has his own star st louis walk of fame it's my pleasure to welcome dick gregory to our studios at this edition of conversations and great minds think you would listen to it is so good at sometimes good men and women none of that. i've got to do. i'm curious if what why there's so much i want to start out with this like contemporary stuff you know is this this keystone

x.l. pipeline to live by thought in term of herman cain or i don't even want you know how we know we're not even running for president well maybe maybe not he's brilliant. he was chairman of the kansas city the federal reserve and no negro have ever had that spot. that i mean when we look in that he's going down and. he took the american restaurant association he had it that you know we knew you were aware but he had it organization that big it when he left after eight years they was almost the same. didn't know right from the still think that herman. is so and so i hope he wins the nomination. in americans will have a choice one problem or another when he couldn't he couldn't play the cause obama

didn't already claim that so are the other side so america will have a choice just breed what is going on why. not at all. you see we went to one my two weeks ago and woke up and he was number one. and nobody is it hard to get there. you cannot be here among the kansas city federal reserve and say you know when i get to be president i want the secret service to call me cornbread because the people who that bob was that's not the ones he's looking for. and saw him in romney romney will never be president never you know the mormon playing you can tell because nobody talks about it if you look at we had the first polish. one point three million white folks left a catholic your best to church. i'm going to bore my thoughts i'm only.

a quarter of the. skew here so it's going to be. it's going to be real interesting here and there will be probably one of the most interesting new years in the history of planet earth mainly because of the occupied since nobody everybody's overlooking them including themselves well what are your thoughts i'm sorry well that's how it's shaken how it's how i was with them was my second time in new york with him here i was opening day and the keeper asked me said what do we need to learn from the civil rights movement nothing nothing. you see. white folks in america i don't care how rich or poor short. you created you born with three hundred years of which ok that's what the cops is not aware of. dealing with some like called source from mexico no no you see before king was

assassinated we will come in the washington post campaign member powerful. big come in here tom but take back. they in new york ask you why did you have to use a. word occupy was always the mighty nation occupying a poor listening to the words they not away are now the problem is this. they will. kept the watch out for what we saw happen in oakland there was a globe and people who infiltrate it was it was like this was in a different place after the game was over and that's right fifty folks been only once and this is what this is what we saw back in the sixty's that's what we start looking at here this is the who. here here here nancy call the tribune any hope of the sub for the f.b.i. minimal shot of this thing. use mob against the greatest mob against i'm one of the cleanest. beats on the planet who would ever believe that hoover would

get in touch with the chicago f.b.i. and say dick gregory said all kinds of bad things about the mob kill them and they'll kill him for t.v. youngsters out there is not a word he probably one of the most important documents i have a still i mean some i gave me. that is the military intelligence that moved into memphis here in sort of a sort of operation where. twenty eight there's before king was sixty eight and came out the twelfth now nobody on the life would believe that that's how big the killing was not keel this is this is from u.s. army intelligence u.s. army intelligence used to move in and create and cover civil disorder. just before king you knew he had to go there beheaded and when he went in there little ride book of those was government provided to us government provided to king had to go

back to prove that he can run a nonviolent march and that's when he took him up now these more young children out here you see in this you can't take it back you talk about the military so everything began to infiltrate the home he is his dysentery and. they were infiltrated. you're dress a little young white girls make them look like women and then get charm unless this that's what it's going to be have to do now is change the image in people's mind the reason they got a problem because folks who don't know they ninety nine percent they feel something you know if i mean there's a beautiful thing the president did a big i will forgive college debt ok let them maybe want the next group

you know but here is the problem what about grandmother your grandmother you're going clobber the suffer like never been to school in my tax money i have to pay so you will have bucks where you can get out now in the way you handled that you said ok here's what we will do with all of the gear of this debt but also. really have to eat three meals a day their children and grandchildren celebrate christmas and easter then it should have been something for them. a training program be a locksmith a training program to you know and then you balance it out we never bells that are in the problem with america is that i take all my brain children. to a paper meal. you have in france a paper yes. no something like that. people work here don't smell it here that's what's wrong with america isn't that what we don't smell and think ok we've been

speaking for so long the d.n.a. caters to it and that's what's going on because free press. are released pictures ron brown. commerce in the plane with the bullet back you see it oh oh who gave it to me the folks that. would get the autopsy all right so they couldn't say i went to the press new york time was but nobody read it official stories it. just official story about this stupid story and so consequently the fish was throwing j.f.k. you know. what no one after the warren commission asked the simple question well how could he be afraid he's in the military and go to russia. turn his back on america come back with a russian wife and. john tower brought him through the through j.f.k. if he was in. his book the downfall of this nation the downfall of this nation is

not corrupt politicians they corrupt it was corrupted rome i mean we're into same spot the germans was seen right for hitler took it and the reason we haven't produced a hitler we can't find out about. this certainly not around. oh so it's just that you can and he's getting older. and it could be but they don't know they wouldn't say america is less than a fifth of the world's population. ninety four percent of all the world's hoard drugs is consumed in america that's not counting alcohol nicotine and carefree and so when you stop and think about what we hide we keep hiding because we keep talking about america the beautiful the powerful the my it is the anytime you mix up democracy and capitalism and you go problem here and so in this world the young

folks these young thoughtless not listening to him b.c. b.s. and all that crap they listen to them shills when they didn't they get maynooth just talking about what happened to date here and so on to get enough to know that i have felt the autopsy all right bring me the pictures. in and saw all of the stuff that's been here you know all the. top folks in the media they know it but they keep it so mark grandmother. believe. these guys there is a killer. system and soon i'm down here to give americans the new they're going to wake up for a rude awakening the cops they don't know yeah i mean being a cop is a bad job they don't know what intelligent white boy you want to be a cop i have too many opportunities i had the president of the oakland police

officers association a radio show two days ago and he's like you know the maris telling us one thing and then she starts another thing we don't know what the hell's going on and you know basically we were just following orders you know if you just following orders. the world that we're not but that's the problem in order to minister to my children to school but i would tell him go back and study what happens when white children of the seattle washington about ten years ago. had mayor step down if it was your losses john here in every but two things i would tell people to look at you know what happened to sunday's back in albany new york when they took over. was a bad word but then once i do think what you don't care they're not taken over the present but they took all. the governors it was

a public court in albany hear this governor called mordy grooming him to be president after he lost that he called the state police the mayor of called the city police city police and state police where they say we're now arrested if you see that's why we did that we are not arresting them could they not break in and then went further to say governors and mayors. police to police that's right then you sweep in the same park at the jail that is the church of england. they were shut down this week for the first time since hitler was born in london ok to a bishop or resigned so you can deal with just the normal folk that they've been dealing with and these young folks on board the london we'll begin with three she would british throne i'm born then talk to us that you are kind of you get anything you want anything you want because the olympics are coming here make you. don't want

along with these young folks take over all they have to do. is threaten thanksgiving the call for a christmas for crime. in america so but they can family here you know. just because look why nothing says right now one day here the whole day here we'll be right back with more conversations with great minds gregory just. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through get through who can you trust no one who is you know if you will with the global machinery to see where are we heading state controlled capitalism is called sad when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more.

talk about a conversation is a great minds and i'm speaking with the legendary comedian actor activist and author there gregory. the. lawrence brewer is a guy who's name i think most americans don't even know it was the media wasn't

paying attention to and yet you were down there in texas on the day that everybody else was looking at something else tells about will last through and two of the white men with you know he'll james byrd there's no word sasa nation in paying him that nothing imagines that the reason they've done this before all the world but they never heard of it came with. and be conscious now when you put it in people's face they arrested those three whites before the five hundred in the world. but that didn't get there and that's why bush president. head never came out when he was running because the justice was so swift. to open the sentence to death one because he was the witness he got a long time in jail so. this one came up for execution three years ago.

and see some folks to the death penalty movement in houston calling me i love it would you go with me yes then we found his son. just to clarify this is a white guy who rudely murdered yes i mean you know dragged in the back of a truck were brutally murdered a black eye in jasper texas guess you're there to protest that the white guy he's one of the right for there right folks who don't like. the guy. and so we have martin luther king the third and we bring in his son and we rehearse . the night your father was. in just a body to where were you guys in camp with you and i just joined the marines i was in boot camp where you get the word commander came and told me so what happened there he gave me. two weeks i went to the funeral what happened then i went

back. i went back. very. sort of a guy who'd just been murdered ok so the murderer is going to be executed in texas everybody is looking at instead it was. yet for detroit is thank you who was being executed and instead you're going to have gone to the rally for troy davis before. i didn't think it was that i just absolutely didn't. he was going to do that he said i look at this as a black male. prostitute. a prostitute a. sweet memory or mother dies he's not here. is candy here you see i really like this it would bring me another one this is same

thing with the mentality of a lot of white folks would need will get the right one but you can't just bring this one so that's what i would bring us one so now i really did what all the world has never been execution indicate to the planet that had that worldwide for us because of the electronics that i from. and people could listen in to see the pope and everybody was there so i went to the rally there are flew in to huntsville texas and i. had a group would get the midnight and we fasted and meditating six o'clock that evening and then they executed and my wife it called me troy davis got a state. and intimidation call is a no no it didn't happen he's still in there tonight really so i'm not one of the

first see i was the couple times i still had a good mouth ok i'm not one of these three companies bad because sometimes people too poor to get a good lawyer sometimes the wrong person not i just cannot believe the state. so you have a brutal crime if i commit that then for the rest of my life that's punishment excuse or even the state should not be in revenge if me and my wife. and some of the all day god brought. the right they had the moral authority to tell my children they can't do it so i was there for that never before everything i've been through have i had a reaction. a militant but first showing up as the execution of a white guy who had of here's what i was proud of i'm going in to testify against british petroleum in congress. but why congressman watts yeah.

he says oh my god. what do you do for that white racist who needed to die changed my life he said i used to be for capital punishment but what can you give then i have to take back the kid i'm from oregon and our freud davis is living because you know he didn't do it but the argument and said now i'm going to capital punishment there's no way you can play a game with you know create peace here hitler here was going to execute you i would be against you not going to send you've been upset you know somebody killed our family and i protested in my life i'd be protesting against me that's the most you know. but the last person standing will be the one for a state to have moral authority it can be had in the murder you cannot and you know

she pointed out you were also arrested september third you mentioned b.p. just a second ago blocking the entrance to protest against b.p. in fact i think you went to court yesterday i was in court you think you know what's this is this is you were you were concerned about the with their handling this twenty billion dollars victims compensation fund is that you know all the poor people. poor white women black towards mexican normally their hair dark the statement they find the solvent they use is made in you could it cannot be used there and you let me use it and so how did the tear in different compounds they have in there they fire nine of them in people's blood and yet and still they said no can fire no long period it is not true it didn't happen and so when you look who did they pick out first the casinos why because they have somebody best back in the gov ok ok them all with everything so.

black balled the brilliant. pull group together. and they said no you want to under-served me and i said well look what's the situation look. there's a smart black woman lawyer you have a woman lawyer you will understand that understand so. she joined on board and then we have a good strategy team we can put down forget about women with the good of our children and all that and so now all it wants the be your comps about nine hundred million dollars. you know what you will if you own a construction company and you build in this six hundred million dollars if you finish late you get penalized if you really get a reward out they can find other people to reward with all he can pick up he's the

same one that handled the. victim or situations where he had a look for nine eleven victims he also had agent orange really. so he looked like. for the year and so we go to british petroleum headquarters. we buy stuff we start with and then we come back here and we don't want to keep going to the whole think it give me the runaround but that's what you have to take when you you can't have no. other people if you're bringing. a new guy rob this morning you feel that the community got my hero. so that's what we do a tour around the country and we we don't know who we. want to take all the movement not to bring them into the let them know now they keep

asking me what do we need to do to get more black well. look at what you're talking about don't pertain to me ok. when you start talking about police brutality on a nationwide level my grandmother. in a wheelchair oh. boy that's what happened happened that fear that white folks don't know that when you child go out your son go out. my mommy's or tell me to behave. because you can tell the cops. you know i mean are you telling me that a military toward it. can come to watch to see new york never been there in fifteen minutes in front of the drug pushers but the card if. this is a game with this is what's going and these youngsters just coming out here with the elders that know something's wrong they don't feel that they know that's what they listen to give. a listen to your. kids it's all right but you couldn't do this in

russia. i mean you couldn't have. seen the things are just me about russia in russia as you can see here i feel my you could probably and forces of the countries of the world no no no you know and that's what and that's what this is talking about when they feel that they think will be energy and so i've just been happy i'm just happy i'm out here. yeah everything's up for health ok yeah i was going to ask we have two minutes left i will have a lesson. and frank. tillman . who was murdered. and. the vice president was there and then i look over here and i see michael douglas. and. so this the way he looks from the pit of death. and i didn't have enough. i

want what are you doing right because you have jobs. three hundred billion dollars in his personal account he could make seventy years a trifle in drug addict alcoholic on this. street and him with all of this money could not what do you do when wrong you know you get praised all over the world what if he will know a little about the human body the universal god that. he could have been here and was in his mind you know what can i look at this and see which help right i'll hold that were created love and this this is your work with mother nature you know it was a spectacular. white were making thirty two so smart people in this in the show

because it's a look at one thousand you just get to seventy nine. months in my mother's belly a little less still much and in the three months and my father was big and. it's a. career it's such an honor to have not place your brother thanks so much peace to him until that name and thank you so much. to watch this conversation again as well as other conversations of great minds go to our website conversations of great minds. get out the boxing gloves when we come back my panel and i will take on this week's major headlines in the big picture rumble on. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through. who can you trust no one who is you. with.