he wanted a pure arian nation. he begins to recruit arian warriors. he finds about seven people within the arian nation organization and he drafts those people and he reaches out to the sword of the lord and he pulls some of them in, and he goes to the klu klux klan and gets some of them. people like gary lee yarboro, david lane and others. and now he has dedicated, core members, which was ultimately the group known as the order. these were the people that bob matthews was going to depend on to carry the war against the jews in charge of the united states government. in september of 1983, the order had taken their first efforts to f finance themselves as arian warriors. initially, they tried counterfeiting. they did a terrible job and managed to get one of their primary leaders, bruce carol pierce, caught in their first cert to pass this counterfeit money. so after that failed, bob ma theus felt as the leader of this group, he had to do something to show the others they weren't a failure and they were going to continue forward. so he robbed a bank in

a bunch of the arian nations security guards were out patrolling while drunk one night. they ended up beating up and shooting at a nay tiff american mom and her son who had the misfortune to pass by while the drunk nazi guards were out patrolling the perimeter of that arian nations land. the lawsuit was bought on bhoof of the woman and her son and in that legal strategy they basically came up with a way too bankrupt the nazis into losing that land in northern idaho. they were forced to vacate and the town's fire department got practice and satisfaction on burning down all of the senate zi's buildings one by one after they had been evicted via bankruptci bankruptcies. the united states of america has a stubborn problem with neo-naziism and overt violent white supremacy. it always seems amazing when it surfaces but we've always had it. and over i'm they go through ridiculous and self important names and iterations and patterns of symbolic behavior, right. but over time it's all the same basic idea and at its core it's always violent. it's the order. it's the clan. it's the

arian nations up in northern idaho, they got $40,000. that one heist, that ukiah armored car heist, it wasn't just a huge multimillion dollar robbery. it was also supposed to fund the start of the next civil war in the united states of america. the guys who robbed that armored car on highway 101 back in 1984, they were part of a neo-nazi gang that called itself the order. and the order is best remembered now for having assassinated this man, a jewish talk radio host in denver, in 1984, a man named allen berg. but most of the crimes committed by the order weren't just murder and assassination which we remember them for now. most of their crimes were about money. when they robbed armored cars and they robbed video stores and they robbed banks, all of these robberies that they committed all up and down the west coast, they were all designed to collect cash to arm and fund a violent movement that was going to wage a race war in america, a ra race war that would ultimately create a white's only homeland in the united states. and these guys in

of interest to the bureau of alcohol and tobacco and firearms because he had link tuesday the arian nations tried to pressure him to inform on his friends in the movement and he refused. >> he's summoned to court for a weapons charge. >> now a force of 200 police, federal agents and the national guard have surrounded the house. >> this is nothing more than a show of force to scare everybody who lives up here in idaho. we all have guns. >> northern idaho has become a home for people like weaver. >> he's not a terrorist. he's not endangering everybody. everybody that knows him personally has talked about him as a good family christian man. >> what should have been a relatively routine arrest went badly wrong. there was a shootout in which weaver's 14-year-old son and a dog and a marshal all ended up dead. shot his wife dead while she was carrying her baby in her arms. >> the rules of engagement for ruby ridge were rewritten. >> decisions were made within the fbi which allowed the snipers to shoot at anyone who was armed. it was completely unjustifiable. >> put a bullet in my head. hey, i'll m

to make it sound legality arian and he did it again when he ran for re-election in 58 and did the same thing when he went national. that they made an end run around the party structure and the party bosses and other way that he differed from the old man to old man -- thought that 20 party bosses could differ the nomination. all have you to do is cozy up to tammany hall and these people and that is all you have to do. and they ignored him and created the first grassroots campaign it was then em you'llited by gold wautdner 64 and gene mccarthy in 68 and we both covered mcgovernor in 72. jimmy carters what successful in 76. it goes all the way to unfortunately donald trump. >> it was necessary for kennedy, particularly so, right, tom, to go this route? because of the -- >> it is so hard -- >> -- liabilities. >> it is -- because he won, it is so hard to remember that he wasn't favored to. that to call him an underdog was probably an exaggeration in 1959. the number of people who saw this coming is -- that is a very, very short list. and the reason was that it broke the rules. it is outside of the party. and just beca