. >> the filmmakers, griffith being the director, but also the author of the book, "the clansman," written by a man named tom dixon. wilson and dixon went way back they knew each other. dixon said let's get this movie screened in the white house. he pulled it off and that's what happened. in the east room of the white house, the first ever screening. >> who was in the crowd? >> his family, some of his cabinet members, other high-ranking washington figures. >> as i read in your book, a former chief justice? >> a former chief justice and it went so well that night that very quickly put together a second screening for the supreme court of the united states and congressional leaders. again, terrific sense of marketing and getting these powerbrokers behind the movie as being an awesome piece of filmmaking. you have to remember when you go back to 1915, the film industry, is in its infancy. no one had ever seen anything like what griffith had produced, take away the subject matter being the civil war and reconstruction. just the effects of it all had people, audiences weeping during emotional sc

i can call those people clansman because they are keeping my kids back from succeeding at a rigorous curriculum. >> would you consider yourselves members of the tea party. democrats? >> no, i'm a liberal. >> across the lake, in the more affluent parish, some parents and teachers are organising against the common core. they say politics aside, there are real reasons to oppose it. them. >> amy dutch was so worried she decided to home school her two young boys. >> i have an issue with standard periods being national standards. i have an issue with everyone doing the same thing. >> reporter: what really bothers parents like amy, common core nods thads, designed to dye -- methods, designed to dive deeper, confuse children. >> to this day i'm fixing his maths as a home core. we had a problem, jim had two quarters and a nickel, and want to buy a candy. we know where it's doing. it was five questions later asking the problem and at the end explain how you arrive at the answer. he said "i know because i listen", i can't argue with that, he's correct. >> reporter: to be clear, there's a proble

enormously successful novelist and playwright in the early 1900s writing, he was a racist and "the clansman," was a third in a trilogy of books that explore those things in the context of the civil war. >> hole took it all besides the black folks? >> they have the support of a number of liberals and supporters of civil rights in the white community. -- who took it on besides the black folks? what is tricky there, one of the strategies of the protesters in trotter in boston was to get the film censored which from our perspective in the 21st century it gave me emma discovered that a first amendment guide -- it gave me a lot of discomfort as a first amendment guide. why is a newspaperman using those means? they lost support among white deliverables because of the goal of censorship. >> is this the legislature? which is dominated by ex slaves? >> part two of the movie after the war, reconstruction is really the heart of the protests in the sense of this where the blacks are appalled at the portrayal of free slaves. it is a moment showing what happens when you give former slaves the right to vot

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do you believe a gentleman would walk into these clansmans' group and didn't know what the hell was going is that credible? >> well i think as ron said if there's something else that we find out that shows you did know, or there's another shoe that falls, they contributed to you, and here's a copy of the speech where you endorsed part of their platform i think we need to get one more something, another shoe. >> let's get off the moral train. none of us are equipped for it anyway. let's get on the political train. everywhere the republicans go they'll have to carry scalise with him. every time he speaks he's not going to speak at the next republican convention i bet you right now. he's known for this and this is all anybody knows about steve scalise, he went to a meeting that was organized and spoke to david duke who was speaking at that group that day. it wasn't like some guy way off in the distance. putin loves this ethnic crap. will they ever be able to -- i think he's jonah and the whale. i think as long as he's on that boat, that boat's in trouble. >> i think the congressman's right.