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here's my coanchor byron pitts with this turning point story. >> reporter: in southern kentucky, heaven meets the hillside. horseback riding, boating, but these are appetizers to the real entrÉe, a radical experiment going on in these mounts almost 20 years. >> very focused on diversity. >> reporter: place with audacious idea that racial reconciliation can happen at summer camp. process is simple, bring kids and families together from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, in hopes of fostering life-changing relationships. tommy rhodes is the founder. >> being barefoot is a posture, all you can see is somebody's feet, don't know if they're a prince or pauper. grew up in family, all black and white. didn't fit in. didn't know how god was going to utilize the story. applied to today. >> reporter: unabashedly christian, trying to be what heaven will look like. >> mission is christ-centered and up front about that, but also inviting others into it. feel like whole idea of people of different backgrounds is what jesus modeled for us. >> reporter: joined nine other families at barefoot, s

with byron pitts. >> good evening. thank you for joining us. more than 7.3 million americans have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. now president trump is one of them and in the hospital. the ramifications when the president is the patient. a short walk and a thumb's up as president trump, stricken with covid-19 left the white house for walter reed medical center, marine one flying to the bethesda maryland military hospital where he's expected to remain for a few days. >> it was an incredible sight. the president walked out of the white house on his own, gave a wave and got onto marine one. but think about it. he's essentially being medevaced. he got out on his own, got into a car, went into the medical facility. >> after landing, the president tweeting this video. >> i'm going to walter reed hospital. i think i'm doing very well, but we're going to make sure that things work out. the first lady is doing very well. so thank you very much, i appreciate it. i will never forget it. thank you. >> president trump clearly wants to send the m

here now, byron pitts. >> good evening. thank you for joining us. in a divided america, bigotry and the ku klux klan are not relics of a forgotten time. tonight we head to a community in arkansas where the confederate flag still flies. as two black lives matter activists try to break bread with people who see them as less than human. here's abc's steve osunsamosuns. >> black lives matter! black lives matter! >> reporter: it's a hot summer day in one of the whitest communities in america, and activists waving flags that read "black lives matter" have come to this small town, and for the most part they're not welcome. >> white power, white people! >> white power! >> black lives matter! >> reporter: this is boone county, arkansas, where the klan has its headquarters and where the racists have already installed their snipers on the rooftops in downtown harrison. and just around the corner from the sign that tells you where to tune in to white pride radio for the family, the sign says. >> i do this in good faith. >> reporter: aaron clark is worried it mi

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with byron pitts. >> good evening. thank you for joi

byron pitts, did you learn anything tonight? >> george, in a word, no.dates spent the most time talking about these three issues. foreign policy, covid and race. and i think america got to see how the two campaigns, see the role differently. at one point, pence said, i trust our justice system. well, george, that's the whole purpose, the whole reason why we're having that racial reckoning in america today. because most americans and statistically, that's not true. so, i don't think we learned anything new. i think it reinforced the narrative about how these two campaigns see america. >> and terry moran, as we said at the top of this broadcast, two candidates, two different americas, speaking in two very different ways. >> very much so, but speaking as others have said, you know, from the moment that donald trump came down that escalator, he has dominated american politics. it has been the trump show. his gigantic personality, with his colossal need to dominate every hour of the news cycle and here tonight, as cecilia said to the two oldest presidential c