these tactics were labeled as terror or terrorism, by the critics of the klu klux klan, and it was a very destabilizing and frightening phenomenon for the north to discover that there were people in the south target thing leaders both black and white of the republican party. it was physically understood as an organized campaign to take down the reconstruction governments in the southern states, but the trouble was finding an effective response. >> host: was there a fear of another southern coup? >> guest: there was and there was belief -- they often called them the rebels as if the confederate army was kind of being reconstituted and in fact the klu klux klan consisted in large part of former confederate officers and form are confederate soldiers. many of the same -- locally organized confederate companies reconstituted as klan the dens in some of these southern small town. >> host: i don't want you to give your whole book a e. but mr. whitley came to a scandalous appeared. >> guest: like many spymaster in the history, hi rum wittley had a dark side and, yes, his penchant for plots a

i would say invoking the ku klux klan, people thumbing around nazi. you can say the same thing without being that incendiary and without invoking the clan. >> jesse: they incentivize some of this bomb throwing on cable tv. inflammatory language on this network but obviously it is rewarded. >> dana: someone i worked with at the end of the white house years, haven't talked to him since but seems to have no idea what he's talking about here. how upsetting it is for people who are either representing their constituents, what nancy pelosi has done is okay. to me, that is talking about mob justice. in a way, by holding it back and not giving the president and the republicans a chance to have a trial like it says in the constitution, that to me as unconstitutional. >> jesse: i can't believe they played the race card and impeachment. i speak and whenever there's a big thing going on in the media, it is like that kevin bacon game, 6 degrees of kevin bacon kevin bacon. but you play 1 degree of racism. i want to take it to clan right now. >> katie: not just one

accompanied by the ku klux klan. a young woman gets killed. the president gets asked, what do you think, mr. president? and he says something no president has ever said. said, there were very fine sides.on both a lot at stake here, a lot going on. in order to get about the usiness that we have to do to increase the quality and economic opportunity in the we have to get rid of this administration. restore o get to theestens -- the essence of who america is. the second reason i'm running is because we have to restore -- we have to rebuild the backbone of this country. has ackbone of the country always been, always been hardworking, working class and middle-class people. the middle class built this country. the street didn't build country. they are not bad, per se, but america.'t build people that built america are the people in the neighborhoods come from and people here in mason city and that's not a joke. think about it. raised.re all we are all raised the same way, basically. if you t emphasis, but work hard, you play by the anything. can do

was even a group in some places where they were the ku klux klan. in this very bland language of monopoly, they are playing right into the hands in support of these people. i want to turn to the women's movement. there's people who make me aware of this fact but the abolitionist movement was a biracial movement that was fighting for equality of black men or african americans and women. that was the platform of the abolitionist movement. after the civil war, set coalition splits and the division is basically the women's movement led by elizabeth and susan b anthony. split with this coalition on the grounds that the 14th and 15th amendment gave rights to black men but not white women. they formed a national women's association suffrage movement at 12 known and names probably well known. elizabeth and susan b anthony infamously joined white supremacist campaigns to strip black people of the vote and other civil rights in the name, women don't have rights in the constitution so white women don't so black women shouldn't either. [inaudible] [inaudible qu

that talks about how back in 1925 you had over 32,000, i believe the number he gives, people, the ku klux klan and their pointed hats marching down the streets in washington dc. because then it wasn't about african-americans, it was about catholics after world war i who were in fact decimated, were leaving coming to the united states of america, we were going to have the degrading of christianity because of those catholics coming from eastern europe and italy and other places. and he points out what it took then and every other time we had to confront this kind of -- this kind of demagoguery, is it took everybody standing up. all faiths. all parties. all leaders. people standing up and saying not here. this is the united states of america. it's not what you fought for. it's not what you fought for as a united states marine. i am not being melodramatic. it is not. it is about we the people, in order to form a more perfect union. or we hold these truths to be self-evident. it sounds corny. but that's why the people look to the united states of america. we are the most powerful nation in the

cory booker saying john lewis is one of the struggles people i know, he already beat jim crow the ku klux klan, cancer is next. positive vibes from across the aisle, ms. walker tweeting about my colleague john lewis knowing he will handle this prognosis with grace and courage. only 3% of those diagnosed with stage iv-pack cancer are live five years after being diagnosed. the 79-year-old said in a statement i have a fighting chance. lewis says he will be returning to washington in the coming days to resume work on capitol hill and begin his cancer to. new york, popper sally, fox news. >>> the time is 4:09. steve paulson's and the weather center for us. >> there were pretty impressive totals for a few, i'm starting to put together but looks like canfield is the leader of the pack. and into third. even conquered two thirds of an inch, american canyon evidence of rain, diving south, still rain with san jose to gilroy. the sacred mountains. also sacred proper. the system is exciting southward. is heading back into central and southern california for another round of rain and snow for them. the

design klux. klan and. that's because of this it. makes me think that. we are in the beginning of a mass extinction you can talk about the money in the materials of economic growth oh yeah if you believe there's no one is too small to have things nice and change the world so just do everything you can and. also coming up on this eve of the u.k. general election many pollsters are banking on a conservative victory but the bookies say the smart money may be with someone else for a week or say pretty well all the money's being for consent to majority and then suddenly in the last 24 straight 48 hours then the mention has switched say jericho being the next prime minister is a 70 shot i think it's got a great shots myself. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome but we begin the day with time magazine's 2001000 person. of the year she is a school girl from sweden who has done in one year what her parents' generation should have done decades ago mobilize the entire world's young people by making it clear that their futur

, when a black defendant is sentenced to death and 4 of the 12 jurors who sentenced him say the ku kluxlan do good things in that community, when that defense lawy says that, "i believe my client is genetically predisposed to commit violent crimes, and that's why i'm comfortable th his death sentence... when the trial judge and the prosecutor refer to that black defendant as "colored y" throughout the trial, that's racial bias. and that person is on death row today. and your office is prosecuting him, trying to move him toward execution. you shouldn't stand up here and present like there's no racial bias in georgia. that's the georgia of 1994. >> do you think that, since 1994, as a country, we've come a little closer to understanding the argument you've been making all along, that there is racial discrimination that plays into sentencing? >> i dthink there's a growing recognition that theeight t our history is not something that we can continignore. we've seen the supreme court, and we've seen other institutions responding dramatic evidence of bias and discrimination.t but, for me, t a

. >> his district had traditional whites and they had a town in his district where the ku klux klan lived and that was in the district as well. so you have this mix of people and political outlooks but through that, he also believed in civil rights. he believed there was a time in response to the board of education where they, i think it was maybe southern democrat congressman and 19 senators signed this southern manifesto which didn't say they wanted to continue segregation but that was the purpose. he refused to sign it. including his friend that also refused. more than 100. >> about 80 tooth that signed it. >> thus the original confederate states. >> did he ever think about running for a statewide office? it feels like he didn't give that a thought. he said he never intended to and it just didn't occur to him so those from california, he would talk to them but he didn't care about the press. getting anything special from him that would validate his national stature. he cared about his district and he cared about the power in washington. >> he had an endorsement in 1966 and he was like

the ku klux klan was wreaking havoc. they were making the 14th and 15th amendment questionable so that is exactly the context however, i think this is why the book explains why it works. it's probably one of the most interesting it's revelations that no one has explored before. there was these convoluted arguments to the effect of farmers and how they defined farmers as only essentially white farmers. they were being oppressed and set in set upon by the federal power. i will give you an example. after the civil war. congress passed something called the contacts. it was a punitive tax to make the people who had waged the civil war pay for it. to a small degree so cotton planters have to play -- pay into the context. in the 1870s the grange is campaigning for reparation essentially to the right planter class so that the federal government will pay them back for that cotton tax. they didn't want to be equal to the blacks they wanted to be superior to them. you could put it that way. you could put it that way. in essence the

they are an affront to a mother of five murdered by the klu klux klan while she was in alabama.nd an affronts to the memory of dr. martin luther king, jr. who championed the voting rights act of 1965. trish: they are suggesting he's taking await ability of african-americans to vote. creative but highly irresponsible. impeach in the name of civil rights. this is the democrats latest and greatest excuse. if they understood the voting rights act they would get that they are taking away americans' right to choose our president. they want to strip 63 million americans of their vote just 11 months out from the presidential election. and i think it's worth noting that congress with its 75% disapproval rating is making the decision to do this despite the fact that the president has a nearly 45% approval rating. and they think they know better. of course. they always know better, right? they know how to spend your money better than you do. they know how to regulate your health and your relationship with your doctor better than you do. because they just always know better. right? but come

hell, before even the ku klux klan used to wear white sheets on their head. in charlottesville they were in plain sight. it's almost people like donald trump and steve king have given a kind of pride to that kind of white nationalism and hatred and xenophobia, and it makes me sick as a latina myself, as an immigrant and the mother of two young latina children. i am actually afraid for them when we go out to rural places in the country, don, and you know my children. you've interviewed them. you know that i speak spanish to them in public. it is the first time in my life ever since this president became president that i now think twice because i think to myself am i making my children less safe because i am speaking to them in spanish in a public place in the united states of america? >> maria, thank you. omar, thank you very much. we appreciate you both joining us. >>> we have an update tonight on a story we first you brought you earlier this week. remember those cadets in midshipments seen on camera making a hand gesture some people see as a white nationalis

just this week a pair of students in wyoming woke klu klux klan robes to school apparently for the occasionit day. the violation is more egregious when you consider the location of the school, the town of riverton which was built on land taken from the wynn river, indian reservation in 19 06, and where several native americans have been shot and killed by police in recent years. those students decided to put on one of the most vile symbols of white supremacy. they were disciplined. that was not the case for a group of students who unfurled a confederate flag in their missouri school cafeteria this month after students handed out lgbt pride flags in an attempt to make students feel more accepted. others retaliated with perhaps the best known symbol of the confedera confederacy. following the display of this flag and the use of anti-gay slurs, some students felt unsafe and called their parents to take them home. and still the administration refused to discipline anyone. instead, calling for the incident to be viewed as a learning experience. but how can we trust administrators or teachers to

history and reconstruction white terrorism took a different form more overt but as for the in destin ku kluxklan that we know of that goes around at night with the terror operations the secret service u.s. army and justice department it was their job to break off by 1876. >> we call this in terrorism 2019 but they didn't use that word. >> surprisingly maybe they did. these tactics were labeled as terror or terrorism certainly by the critics and it was a very destabilizing and frightening phenomenon for the north to discover that there were men going around the south with the black and white leaders of the party it was fully understood after the organized campaign to take down the reconstruction government of the southern states that they were looking for the effective response. and there was a belief they often called them the rebels that they were being reconstituted and in fact the kkk consisted in large part a former confederate officers and soldiers many of the same those companies reconstituted in some of these southern small towns. >> we don't want to give your whole book away but touc

. >> from massacre to the ku klux klan.rb. white robes, hoods, across around their neck. the whole nine. it sparked outrage, obviously. the pictures went viral. the school disciplined the students but haven't said how. the school is 83.5% white. while the superintendent and principal says we are dedicated to inclusivity and diversity, this will not stand or be tolerated. the idea two high school students thought it would be a good idea and defense was, oh, they didn't know any better. you're in high school. pretty sure you learned about that part of our history beginning in elementary school. >> i don't know how you get that thinking. the superintendent of the school released a statement that i want to read. he says i believe these actions were inappropriate and dealt with immediately. we are not going to tolerate anything that begins to look like it has racial overtones and the basis for the disciplinary action. very disheartened any of our students would do that. we live in a diverse community and the district would never

because when black men gain the right to vote, what do we have in the backlash, or black lash, the klu klux klan, the john birch society and all the others oppressive individuals as well as the supreme court that is oppressing the rights of african americans with civil rights decisions leading to a case that instills apar tides, separate but equal. in the 1900s and then the last case, and that is in 2013 which is the shelby county versus holder case which gutted the voting rights act of 1965. once again, what you'll see is two steps forward, one and three-quarters steps back. that's the civil rights story over 400 years. >> and this legal story is really important, because the founding i think why 1916 is so important to us as i said before, because these are the laws that are put in place at the same time that america as a nation is declaring its independence, calls itself metaphorically slaves to king george iii, and so we have this paradox where whites are going three steps forward and blacks are going three steps back by law. and that brings me to you roger fairfax, because in virginia

i got to know the ku klux klan way too well. i don't mean to judge but they're [ bleep ].ed race because he was unafraid to be black in a white world. i wanted to challenge and provoke in the same way that there was a way to do it even though i wasn't black and i wasn't white. >> one of the main components of being a comic is feeling like an outsider. whether you actually are or you're not, the more of an outsider you are in this game, the more perspective you gain. >> straight to the kitchen and pour me a cup of coffee and make it like i like my men. hot, black and strong. >> race in popular culture come together in really interesting ways in the '70s. there's this decade of what i like to call firsts. you start to see black situation comedies like "sanford & sons," "good times" and "the jeffersons". >> do you know what you're doing, george? >> of course i do. >> that's what you said on our honeymoon. >> is he a brother? >> no but what difference does it make? >> it makes a whole lot of difference to me. >> pop, haven't you seen that bumper sticker that says, good neighbo

presence of ku klux klan members there and really made indiana estate that was not the most attractivelack people to live in. the events leading up p to august 7, 1930, the night of the lynching 7 took place, the day before james cameron who is known as jimmy by his friends or apples, was outside hanging out and his friends pulled up in a car. his friends abe and tommy and they say do want to go for right? sure, so here's this 16 year old jumps in a car with his 18 and 19-year-old friends friends and as their driving they go out by the river outside of town and they tell them on the way there were going to rob somebody and get the money to get another car. he wasr like, wait a minute, i didn't come along for this. i.t. state in the car. when they got down to the river there was a car park there and they told him we want to go -- we want you to go to the car and drive the car. go overcome open the door and say stick them up to the people in the car. he was very nervous about it. he didn't want to do it. he made a bad decision. he let the peer pressure get the best of him. he opened the

she hid from the ku klux klan the night before the march.d for republicans not to understand we should expand access to more people and then fight over the ideas later and whoever gets the most votes wins, that's the system that we should all want. that's really a troubling reality to be living. >> ana marie cox, this is lay-up. this is not complicated. this is not asking people to stretch the imagination, to vote for the reauthorization of the voting rights act of '65. >> i don't think so. i'm an expert because i looked at his wikipedia page. and you know what's interesting about him is he's a former fbi agent, so clearly he's a member of the deep state. or he is a institutionalist who values the structures of democracy. it also turns out he was head of their elections crimes commission and was once stationed in ukraine and iraq. so i think he knows something about the fragility of democracy. and speaking of the fragiltale of democracy i know the same numbers zerlina talked about. their willingness to show their hand they do not even want t

come out of the fields carrying torches in charlottesville, virginia in 2017, accompanied by the ku klux klan, chanting anti-semitic bile, the same exact bile chanted in germany in the 30's, carrying nazi flags and torches. i really need it. think about it when you get home. close your eyes and remember what you saw on television. the hatred. the hatred in one of the great cities of america. and a young woman was killed in the melee. and the president was asked to speak to it and he said "there are very fine people on both sides." no president, no president in american history has ever said anything like that. guy has quoted george wallace when he meant george washington. oxygen toas given white supremacy. divided the nation like everybody, every single scam artists out there has done when trying to gain power, dividing us. dividing people. have worked so hard and spent so much time talking about the middle class is there is a moral center of who we are. when you conclude that this is a rigged game, they can't benefit by playing by the rules, that is when they begin to take it vantage. -

come out of the fields carrying torches in charlottesville, virginia, 2017, accompanied by the ku klux klan chanting anti-semitic bile, the same exact bile chanted in germany in the 30's. carrying nazi flags and torches. i really mean it, think about it when you get home. close your eyes and remember what that dd what you saw on television, the hatred they were spewing in one of the great cities in america. and a young woman was killed in the melee. the president was asked to speak to it and he said, quote, there are very fine people on both sides. no president, no president in american history has ever said anything like that. this guy is more george wallace than he is george washington. this guy has foment the hate. he has given oxygen, given oxygen to white supremacy and divided the nation like everybody, every single scam artist out there has done when they're trying to gain power. to divide us, to divide the people. the reason i worked so hard and spent so much time talking about the middle class, it is the moral center of who we are. when they conclude that this is a rigged game,

they're an affront to a mother of five who was murdered by the ku klux klan, and they're an affront to the memory of the martin luther king jr. who championed the voting rights act in 1965. and they'ra an a from the to every service member who has fought for our system of government for free and fair elections. president trump's attempt to subvert an election was an attack on america. the president got caught when the whistle-blower expressed -- exposed the president's scheme. then the president sought to cover up the scheme. he stonewalled congress as we pursued our investigation and he instructed staff and cabinet officials to do the same. previous presidents facing impeachment cooperated with congress, and president trump has thumbed his nose at constitutional power and he refused to appear to defend himself. congress is a co-equal branch of government and was foremost to the founders' minds. they placed congress first in article 1 of the constitution. president trump's obstruction of congress is an affront to peter rodino who chaired this committee in the summer of '74 when congres

klan,anied by the ku klux chanting anti-semitic bile, the same bile that was chanted in germany in the 1930's. torches --flags and carrying nazi flags and torches. close your eyes when you go home and remember what you saw on television, the hatred they were spewing, in one of the great cities in america. at a young woman was killed in the melee. and the present was asked to speak to it. and he said quote, there were very fine people on both sides. no president, no president in american history as ever said anything like that. this guy is more george wallace that he is george washington. this guy has fomented hate. to whiteven oxygen supremacy. and divided the nation. like every single scam artists out there has done when they are trying to gain power, to divide us, to divide people. the reason i have worked so hard and spent much time talking about the middle class, it is the moral center of who we are. when they conclude that this is a rigged game, they cannot benefit by playing by the rules, that is when charlatans are able to take it vantage. -- advantage. folks, the words that pre

traditional whites and they had a-- it was a town in his district and where the grand dragon for the ku klux klan lived was in his district as well and if so you had this real mix of people in the political outlooks and not only did he have to steer, but through that he also really believed in the civil rights. he believed-- there was a time when after-- in response to the brown versus board of education, where i think it was 84 southern democrats, congressman and 18 senators find the southern manifesto, which it didn't do say they continue segregation, but that was the purpose of it and he refused it to sign. there were a few others, i think, maybe a dozen including his friend to jim wright that also refused. >> out of more than a hundred i imagine. >> 82 signed it and about a dozen that did not and then 19 senators. >> 82 out of 430? >> well, southerners, defined as the 11 original confederate states. >> did he ever have-- did he ever think about running for a statewide office or national office? in the book it feels like he really didn't give that a thought. >> he said he was never tempte

the same tactics use over and over, whether it's the ku klux klan saying we are friendly local nights, we're here to help you. two, when you go online to the medical warfare where they leave college campuses come like it's okay to be white. we watched the things migrate and morph over time, become more sophisticated, become almost more institutionalized in an interesting way. one of first article someone pointed out to us -- i should mention a group blog, we did not run for profit. it was everybody volunteer love of labor. it was basically some had asked as to look into something. we had one person who is very tech savvy, 2007 or eight. before search engine optimization can the business it was. can you guys do something on my supremacy? they were going through and messing with different things to try to reroute people who are looking for information on dr. king into his wife supremacist sites that were created to look like their sympathetic but then to tell you the truth about what was happening, the truth begin is to recruit. we saw that later. how white supremacist started working o

perfectly legal and speech that he deems th it starts communist, goes into civil room and, the ku klux klan is a tricky bag i'm not going to talk about. the informant for the fbi testified but did not want to put his face on tv, but was on the jar. all around bad choices. we had church committee reform, there was definitely over era and we got chewed out about terrorism so there's mythical era of the fbi but one of the biggest scandals was surveillance of the committees of el salvador, a group that oppose what reagan was doing in central america. the central intelligence committee didn't have a hearing but an entire investigation and released a report to the fbi. the geo had to look at this center was a huge incident and in the 90s the fbi visited the homes of arab-americans asking them their views of palestine so there was a reformed fbi. and the main recommendations was to impose as i mentioned earlier a statutory charter on the fbi, because of that, later attorney general's could make guidelines to protect our civil liberties. george bush's lame-duck attorney general went into offic

one black men and the right to vote, we have the backlash or what we call black lash, and the ku klux klan, all of these others >> and this legal story is really important, because the which then guided the voted rates of 1965. so once again, but you will see is just founding, i think y why 1619 is so important to us before, these are the laws that are put in place at the same time that america as a nation is declaring its independence, calls itself metaphorically slaves to king george iii and don't so we have this paradox where whites are going three steps utica forward and blacks are going three steps backward by law. and that brings me to you, roger fairfax because in don't virginia, when we think about these laws for racial putin >> and this legal story is really important, because the founding, i think y why 1619 is so important to us before, these are the laws that are put in place at the same time that america as a nation is declaring its independence, calls itself metaphorically slaves to king george iii and so we have this paradox where whites are going three steps forward an

sometimes in the ku klux klan, but usually in less formal policies or mobs frequently resort to violence and bloodshed to cross these efforts, as elsewhere in the south, arkansas democrats also implement it various disenfranchising measures during the early 1890's that disqualify the vast majority of black laborers for decades to come. representedassacre decades of black activism and white oppression in the state, although it marked the end of neither. in the county where elaine is began right after emancipation. the union league came into arkansas at the same time and began mobilizing black amendments for voter registration, the republican party. there was an infamous incident that was a prelude to what happened in elaine on a smaller scale. a former slave named brian began organizing fellow former slaves in the county, reportedly assisted and encouraged by federal officers already occupying phillips county. small,lly, he formed a unnamed, real labor union among his former slaves negotiating mostly with former masters. when they, organization could not get a deal, they start leaving the

actually 1920s and 30s, indiana had more ku klux klan members than any other state.ery heavy presence of clue clocks clan members. it wasn't state for black people live in. so basically leaving up to august 7, 1930, the night that that lynching took place, the day before, james cameron is known as jamie by most of his friends or apple. it was outside hanging out and two of his friends pulled up in a car, and his friends abe and tommy, they asked if they wanted to go for right and he said sure. here is the 16 -year-old kid jumping in a car with the 18 and 19 -year-old friends. unless they are driving, they go out by the river outside of town. they tell them i'm the way there, were going to rob somebody gives her name to get another car. and he was like wait a minute, i didn't come so long for this. but he stayed in the car and join they cut down to the river, there was a car parked there. i told him we want to go over to the car and rubbed the people in the car. and we give you this done, open the door, and states to come up to the people who are in the car. so he was

there was a farming and then a backlash of terrorism and tklu klux klan. ida becomes famous because she sees these brothers who own a store in tennessee and the store is doing well in the black community. the white store owner gets upset and starts to trump up these charges, go after these black store owners, say there's some rape involved, there's not, and the next thing you know, when we defend ourselves there's a slaughter. when these men who own the grocery store are put in jail, there's an attack, drawn out and lynched. this is an ongoing -- yes, we are fighting for economic developments. the last point i'll make is this. the boycott was a tool we used. we would economic boycott that we used to say, if you're not going to serve us, if you're not going to treat us fairly, if you're not going to hire us, we're not going to buy your merchandise. unfortunately, this case went to -- these cases went to the u.s. supreme court. and the u.s. supreme court ruled against the ncaacp's use of an economic boy cut on. when we talk about the browder case, it ended t

there was a farming and then a backlash of terrorism and klu klux klan. it went into the jim crow era. same thing. you know, ida b. wilz barnett, the reason she becomes famous is because she sees these brothers who own a store in tennessee, and then the store is doing well in the black community. the white store owner who was treating us horribly gets upset and decides to trump up these charges, go after these black store owners, say there's some rape involved, when there's not. and when we defend ourselves, there's a slaughter and when these men who own this grocery store are put in jail, they're drawn out and lynched. so, this is an ongoing -- yes, we are fighting for economic developments. and the last point i'll make is this -- the boycott was a tool we used, economic boycott we used to say if you're not going to serve us, if you're not going to treat us fairly, if you're not going to hire us, then we're not going to buy your merchandise. and, unfortunately, this case went to -- these cases went to the u.s. supreme court. and the u.s. supreme court ru

they are an affront to the memory of the mother of five who was murdered by the ku klux klan while in alabama to participate to the montgomery march and an affront to the memory ofa the martin luther king championed theit voting rights act of 1965 and an affront to every service member who at first -- ever thought for the free and fair elections. to subvert was an attack on america. the president got caught when thee whistleblower exposed the president's scheme and sought to -over up the scheme. as we pursued the investigation, the instructed the staff, cabinet and other federal officials to do the same. previous presidents facing impeachment even president nixon cooperated with congress but president trump from his nose at the constitutiona constitutionad refuse to appear to defend himself. congress is a coequal branch of government and was foremost in the floor debate cofounders mind. a it was first in article one of the constitution. the obstruction of congress is an affront to the chair of the committee and 74 when congress investigated nixon's betrayal of his oath of office and i

they are an affront to the memory of a mother of five who was murdered by the ku klux klan was she was in alabama threats to pay it in the summit to montgomery march, and they are an affront to the memory of the reverend looking junior who championed the voting rights act of that in 65, and they are an affront to every service members are fought to defend our nation and our system of self government which is based upon free and fair elections. president trump's attempts to subvert our election was an attack on america. president got caught with the whistleblower expressed -- exposed to the president scheme. then the president got to cover up the skin. he stonewalled congress as we pursued our investigation. he instructed his, staff cabinet, another federal officials to do the same. previous presidents facing impeachment, even president nixon, cooperated with congress. but president trump has thumbed his nose at constitutional power, and he refused to appear to defend himself. congress is a coequal branch of government, and was foremost in the founders mines. they placed congress first

and i'm still klux. klan and. that's because of my business and i'm a little bit late. to. the beginning.