cliven bundy is in his own world. he is in this delusional world where he thinks that what he said is perfectly fine. just because he said i wonder if black people would have been better off under slavery he clearly does not understand that equating black people and slavery and today and that life would be better under slavery, is someone who is not in touch with reality, not in touch with where things are in this country now. i wish that republican politicians who are -- who are you know, guilty of using slave imagery to talk about opposition to the president's policies or opposition to democrats, that they adopt the position that -- just don't talk about slavery. do not talk about slavery being better, talk about slavery comparing slavery to today, because what you're talking about is an institution that robbed people of their liberty, robbed people of their dignity, robbed people of their humanity. and so if republicans want to be associated with people who think that that life was better, then they can just be hap

back with us is cliven bundy. back with us is cliven bundy. and back with us tonight to respond in a hannity exclusive is rancher cliven bundy. cliveen, i've gotten to know you as the controversy is unfolding. you and your family seem like really nice people. >> stephen: man, hannity ate up that store so hard, bundy should have charged him grazing fees. ( cheers and applause ). and thanks, thanks to sean's sympathetic coverage, arped patriots flocked to bundy's ranch to defend his rights. >> we were actually strategizing to put all the women up at the front. if they're going to start shooting, it will be women that will be televised all across the world getting shot by these rogue federal officers. >> reporterofficers. >> stephen: now, that's not as monstrous as it sounds. i'm sure they were going to protect the women with a line of children. ( applause ) now, no surprise, the feds did not have the sack to shoot through a lady line, so they packed it in. and in that moment of victory against an enroaching federal government, cliven bundy becam

cliven bundy is not. these people own their land. cliven bundy, he doesn't own his land. these people protest peacefully, cliven bundy threatens federal officials. this weekend keystone protesters will again show their patriotism. f keystone opponents are holding a big rally on the national mall to draw attention and get information out about the issue that they really believe in. i will be there in washington to cover it tomorrow and to cover they're march. and hopefully bundy will be off the news when we come back on monday. maybe the weekend will give us a reprieve and we'll be onto something else collectivelied i the media. right now they're doing a disservice to america by giving the guy a platform. i have nothing to interview him about because he has nothing to offer society at all. he's a wacko. and people like this follow him. i can't get this picture out of my head. i ask for the third night, what would motivate someone to take up a position like that? use your imagination tonight. let's just say you're in this crowd and someone comes up to you and say, i know yo

determined to fight we bring in kevin wall he hosts a live radio show in nevada he's been talking with cliven bundy. kevin, good to see you the fact of them saying look we have sympathy for him and understand his position but we have court orders here, repeated court orders he's lost in the court on every turn to our, the federal government's right to have this land and his responsibility to pay grazing fees what skktly is cliven's argument that he has a right to graze there and only pay nevada and not the federal government? >> cliven told me he would be happy to pay all of the permit money to clark county, to the state of nevada, his issue is that the federal government has no business controlling 86% of the land in nevada. that is his beef. he says i'll gladly pay clark county and the state but not about to pay the federal government. >> it's a protest movement. it sounds like what you're saying and what i've seen just as a lawyer reading documents is that legally, he doesn't have a leg to stand on. but he's trying to raise a larger point about the fact, as you point out, over 80% of nevad

he said cliven bundy has not paid his taxes. this is the same charge that was leveed against mitt romney during the presidential campaign. i talked to cliven bundy less than an hour ago and says he has no back taxes to pay, he's fully paid up when it comes to taxes. he said in response to the charge of domestic terrorism, he says the real domestic terrorists is the blm that came in with up a weapons, 200 plus strong. he says they are the domestic terrorists, not him. >> so the grazing fees that cliven bundy didn't pay, that's not the same thing as taxes. so harry reid is leveling a new acquisition against mr. bundy that he doesn't pay taxes? >> exactly, in the same sentence he says he doesn't pay grazing fees and he doesn't pay his taxes. it's not a matter if he mistook one for the other. he used both in the same sentence. he's accusing cliven bundy of not paying his taxes. cliven bundy says that's just not true. >> with all due respect, what does anyone care what harry reid's son says about this? he called for cliven bundy to e

cliven bundy is a kran. er who is very, very angry he no longer seens same federal subsidies he's gotten for over 20 years. he's so angry, he refuses to pay his taxes, and surround himself with gun-toting militia member. cliven bundy, a taker in the most acute sense of the word, degrading people on welfare. so what happens now? is he still a patriot? earlier today, rand paul said, bundy's remarks on race are offensive and i disagree with him. senator dean heller called them appalling and racist. fox host greta van susteren condemns what cliven bundy said about african-americans. it is not exactly something that is unfamiliar. as the new republic pointed out, by sheer coincidence, conservative murders turn out to be huge racists. new york's chait elaborated, it not a coincidence bundys a gigantic racist like rand paul's ghost writer turned out to be a neocob fed rate white supremacist. so, is it something in the water or does this run deeper? "slate" offered this assessment, only difference between bundy and

bundy ♪ take it cliven!ore thing i know about the negro. >> okay, that's enough of the song. >> no one could have summed it up better than stephen colbert did. conservatives are fleeing him in droves. one of those that took on bundy's cause fell in love with this guy in the first place. this is how jon stewart talked about it on "the daily show." >> states rites sovereign citizen cliven bundy is apparently also a professor of negro studies. >> and i've oven wondered, are they better off as slaves? better picking cotton, having a family life, doing things or better off under government subsidy. >> well, it's an interesting question. i guess history will be the judge. oh, what's that? history already decided and the answer is no, they're not better off. i want to offer a piece of advice for the television outlet promoting this gentleman. it would be nice to see this anymore. >> maybe i'm a little bit like the founding fathers. >> yes. a bit like the founding fathers. the bit about the founding fathers that we'

few people outside of his immediate family knew who cliven bundy was. now all of america is getting to learn about his views. and boy are those views something el. >> what a beautiful day. and, you know, i'm all excited. all of these cameras, the media must have something to tell me. >> by now, you probably know a thing or two about nevada rancher cliven bundy. if you watch fox news, you know him as a patriot. >> what's going on? tell me the problem? >> welsh i guess it's a range war. that's all i can say. >> one man army of hope, fighting off the big government. >> my statement to the american people, i'll do whatever it takes to gain our liberties and freedom back. >> he also wears a cowboy hat. but from the beginning there were some issues with bundy's side of the story. issues like he owed the government over $1 million in fees and fines. his cattle have been trespassing on federal land for two decades. his parents bought the land in question in 1948, not 1877. and cliven bundy himself doesn't believe in the federal government. >> i don't recognize

bundy he's actually reciting the cliven bundy version of events? sorry, sean. sorry, republicans. you bought the ticket, now you have to take the bundy ride. and by you, i mean everyone who helped to lionize bundy, who spoke out in support of his or his ideals or used his story to make political hay. i mean you, former republican governors and presidential candidates, like mike huckabee and rick perry. you, republican senators, ted cruz and rand paul and dean heller. you, republican gubernatorial candidate and republican state attorney general greg abbott. yes, you, all of you. >>> joining me, josh barrow, msnbc contributor and domestic correspondent with the new york times and john stanton, washington bureau chief for "buzz feed." sorry, guys. you don't get -- no. you don't get to run away. like -- >> i don't get to run away? >> you do. you get to run away, josh barrow, because you're not the person going around saying -- really, this was such an obvious train wreck from the beginning. there was a piece today that was in -- someone had gone to the

cliven bundy said the government has no business owning that land in the first place. this is inside story. >> hello, i'm ray ray. clive next bundy's family has lived in th nevada. he has been grazing his cattle on federal land. when the federal government came to seize his cattle, his friends came to his aid heavily armed. it has fueled questions in other states and other contexts. does the federal government have any justification for owning and managing the land in nevada or is the federal government guarantor of federal land. we'll start with background. nevada cattle rancher cliven bundy said it's his right to graze his cattle on any land he chooses. and his story has gained national attention. officials at the u.s. bureau of land management in nevada say bundy has been running hundreds of cat until a federally protected wildlife area and for years has refused to pay the fees required to do so. the blm is seeking more than $1 million in back fees and fines from bundy, and when he refused to pay the government began rounding up his cattle to confiscate them. a band

>> well, i agree with you, cliven bundy. it does need to be discussed.apology unleashed by anti-government rancher cliven bundy this week comes amid a very heated ongoing debate in this country right now about how central race is in the obama era of american politics. now, for a lot of liberals what's playing out right now in the cliven bundy saga is the realization of their worst suspicion. liberals' worst suspicion is that there happens to be oh, a pretty tight connection between the kind of views cliven bundy holds on race and the anti-government rhetoric that's become the nucleus of the tea party, the rhetoric that made bundy a hero to a certain part of the conservative base in the first place. the president himself spoke to this connection and its historical roots in an interview earlier this year with the new yorker's david recommend nic wp "you can be someone who for legitimate reasons worries about the power of the federal government, that more power should reside in the hands of stay governments but that's also wrapped up in states rights in the

is the question, if cliven bundy is a trespasser -- let me redo that, sean. >> yeah. >> if cliven bundys trespassing on clark county public land in the state of nevada or cliven bundy trespassing on clark county public land in nevada. who is the trespasser here? who is the trespasser with the guns? >> well, i mean, certainly they precipitated and frankly inside of a crisis that could have resulted in people's deaths in my view. they say you owe them $1 million and i for the life of me, your family has been raising catting and grazing there so my question is this, so for these are lands that the government is not using at the present moment, your cows graze there, how did they possibly get to a million dollars that you would have to pay for your cows eating grass they don't care about on land they aren't using? >> well, the only thing i can say is sounded like a government deal to me. >> yeah, yeah. that sounds like a government deal. good point. >> if i oh grazing fees, money to government, i would be happy to pay it to the proper government but i'll be darned if i pay grazing fees to t

>> any doubt sean hannity is a huge cliven bundy supporter? hannity has used his show as a platform to let this law breaker talk down the federal government numerous times. >> get your arm out of nevada, get your army out of my ranch, keep it out. and if they come, we'll deal with them tonight. >> every county sheriff across the united states, disarm the federal bureaucrats, take the federal united states bureaucrats' guns away. i do break federal laws evidently if they're really laws. these feds, i don't recognize their jurisdiction or authority, so, no, i wouldn't go with them. >> none of the comments were challenged on fox news. especially not by hannity. cliven bundy has now appeared on hannity's show seven times. his air time on fox news has now topped 53 minutes. sean hannity admitted he's got tonight know bundy very well. >> cliven i've got tonight know you as this controversy's unfold, you and your family seem like really nice people. >> really nice people. sean's gotten to know him really well. turns out that sean hannity isn't the be

it appears cliven bundy's fight with the government is not done. his son is doubling down climbing that cliven bundy is not a victim and should be prosecut prosecuted. in a few minutes the bundy family will be here to respond but first, reaction to this and much, much more, donald trump, how are you? >> hi. >> i am on this season's apprentice. >> that's right. i understand you're helping a good friend of yours. >> gerardo -- >> he's doing well. you would be proud of him. >> if you say he's fired, it's not because of money because he's working it hard. >> he is working it hard. >> you know, over the years, we've been friends, i have followed cases you've been involved in, land disputes, government bureaucracies, you got to deal with bald eagles. you got to deal with, in this case a desert tortoise. >> right. >> i don't like heavy-handed government. 200 agents, snipers surrounding a ranch. seems a little over the top to me. >> it's over the top, very strong. i like him but you also have to say and i watched you last night with the little debate you h

but cliven bundy has no clue, none.he said should be condemned by every divad person in the world. bundy should pay his rightful taxes and he should thank god that he and his family were never subjected to what millions of black families have been subjected to. now, on to another subject in this controversy. the dishonest media leading the league is a map named brian stelter, former "new york times" media writer left wing zealot. over the year he has often slanted his reporting in outrageous ways trying to make conservatives and fox news in particular look bad. unfortunately he now works for cnn and weighed in on the bundy situation. >> yank of any parallel to this case. yank of msnbc taking equivalent story on the left and spending weeks covering it it the way fox news has. and sean hannity chief among them talking about the host on fox news. >> hard to belief. so, mr. stelter, did you miss the months, the months of coverage about new jersey governor chris christie on msnbc? did you miss that? are you that dense, that

hannity and his proportional coverage with fox news along with alex jones's "info wars" built up cliven bundy into a media hero. and bundy became such a hero a whole bunch of politicians rushed to his defense as well. mike huckabee, senator rand paul, senator ted cruz, governor rick perry, texas attorney general and gubernatorial candidate greg abbott. and bundy's home state senator dean heller, who called bundy's supporters patriots. so today, after bundy's slavery apologetics were made public, the news cycle has been dominated by the great cliven bundy walkback of 2014. first up, senator dean heller. senator's spokeswoman saying "senator heller completely disagrees with mr. bundy's appalling and racist statements and condemns them in the most strenuous way." senator rand paul through his spokesman said, "his remarks on race are offensive and i wholeheartedly disagree with them." senator ted cruz, you're up next. through his press secretary, cruz said, "those comments are completely unacceptable." and there's texas attorney general greg abbott, who jumped on the bundy rhetoric bandwago

when asked about the cliven bundy thing, he doesn't like cliven bundy.but the extraordinary thing was how he depicted the people who went out last week to support him. members of the militia, members of the public there to stand with the bundy family. he says those people are terrorists. >> these people who hold themselves out to be patriots are not. they're nothing more than domestic terrorists, and i think that we are a country, that people should follow theç law and what went on is not very good. i repeat what went on up there is domestic terrorism. cliven bundy does not recognize the united states. he says the united states is a foreign government. he doesn't pay his taxes. he doesn't pay his fees, unlike the rest of nevada ranchers. then he doesn't follow the law. he continues to thumb his nose at authority. >> the idea that -- of course there's outrage as a result of those comments. the idea you would compare people who have lived on this land since the late 1800's, have farmed this land, ranched on this land since that time period, you would comp

you can almost argue they are arresting the cattle if they have a problem with cliven bundy, why don'they take it up with him. there has been some court issues. my big question is why are they precipitating a showdown? there is a lot of anger. people have been tased. people are now being attacked. have you, quote, a free speech zone being set up. i thought that was all of america. and you have a lot of people getting very very angry. and i'm very concerned that the government has gone way overboard here and i think they need to pull back fast and find a peaceful resolution to this. >> sean, i know -- i'm curious, what was it that sort of -- if it's been going on since the early 1990, what brought it to this? what suddenly the helicopters and snipers and the militia and the crowds? what just recently happened? >> you are asking the million-dollar question, greta. what precipitated this? now, from everything i have learned, this is state property. this isn't federal property. from everything i understand they are not looking to use this for imminent domain. they are not building a school

is cliven bundy a patriot or is is he a free loader. text or go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we'll bring you results later in the show. for more, let me bring in gary from the tribe in in nebraska. farm owner megan hammon. ft i know if the pipeline is approved it's going to be going over your land, but the media has given cliven bundy way more attention than what you folks are doing in washington. . he doesn't even own his land, and you do. your reaction to all of this? >> oh my. we pay our property taxes. and it is very interesting that conservatives will stand up for someone who tries to use the second amendment, but they won't come to our rescue when a foreign corporation is shoving a pipeline down our throat. >> is that what is happening? is there a foreign corporation doing that to you and your family? >> yeah, definitely. it's been going on for five and a half years. on the first route, didn't have any options. we took the word that they had every permit they needed and we signed. we are again on the second route, and yeah, that's what they're doing. they're trying to f

cliven and his son will join us. bundy supporters confronted the heavily armed federal officials with guns and tasers. now according to the bundy family members, an elderly woman was thrown to the ground, another protesters, the son of mr. bundy was tazed three times and joining me with the latest, fox' own william. >> sean, he's getting militia showing up from around the country to confront agents with the federal burro of land management that claims that bundy in 1994 lost his right to graze cattle when the feds declared it a habemus paps be a the endangered tortoise and bundy defied court orders to remove head of cattle and failing to pay up to a million dollars in grazing fees. bundy's son sees it differently. >> yesterday we seen them throw an elderly woman to the ground, and taze another protester three times. the tortoise thing is a scapegoat from day one. the tortoise is not endanger. how will this end? >> reporter: yeah. >> hopefully peacefully. it will end with we the people prevailing. >> federal agents ar

that's all we want, harry. >> cliven, by the way, we're putting up pictures. apparently you put on your facebook page or your daughter did, now a lot of these dead cattle of yours and apparently, there were graves dug by blm people. is that true? >> there were graves dug and we have dug into at least one of them and we have found dead cattle in there, yes. >> all right. let me get to the heart of something here because we keep hearing that you owe and everybody says you owe the government money. you owe the government taxes, and you owe the government over a million dollars. i'm trying to get, is that fees, fines, penalties, combined? in other words, how much does the federal government say you owe for the actual grazing? because i got some cost estimates today. i want to run through some of these numbers. how much was the original cost they say you owe them? >> well, i don't know. they never send me a bill. i say i owe them nothing, zero. >> okay. you say you never got a bill but you get letter from them and you told me last week you don't open their letters?

now you find out cliven bundy says this and you got the smear.se people most support -- >> and this becomes the story. this becomes the story. >> i'm really mad about it. >> yeah, and you're absolutely right up front. first, let me say, sean, i've known you a long time and we're good friends. this is one of the best packages i've seen you and the staff put together. this is an amazing track record showing government over reach. conservatives need to stop getting in the over reach. it was cliven bundy timight hav been the central point but that wasn't the real issue. the big issue is government gone wild. it's deplorable. i'll go back to what you said. it's raisest what he said and he goes back and supports it, proves he's an idiot and i'll call it what it is. that now becomes the narrative instead of the story of government gone wild. government that is now taken land when it can and there is a bigger issue in the west, which i talked to people there about where the blm that has been around long before cliven bundy and this issue since '93, may n

you mentioned cliven bundy's comments on race. as much as he was dise vowed by people who had not 24 hours earlier hailed him as a patriot, that remains the question of the anti-government, anti-federalist agenda. and adam on msnbc had a really thoughtful piece and revealed an important fact that after slavery, during reconstruction, there were a lot of white farmers and white politicians who argue that former slaves shouldn't be given land because it would amount to mistaken kindness. and it would prevent slaves from learning to have its free working men. some of that language has been sanitized and sort of toned down. we're no longer referring to slaves. but the hammock of government dependency is the same argument being used in the conservative movement today. >> right, inner city culture. paul ryan's ideas about that. these are old ideas, alex. and particularly, when cliven bundy says i don't recognize that the united states government exists, he said that. you know, that's time for people like sean hannity and senator dean he

in a news conference late today, cliven bundy doubled down, watch. >> i was wondering, cliven bundy is a wondering about these people. now i'm talking about the black community. i'm wondering are they better off with their young women aborting their children? are they better off with their young men in prison? and are they better off with the older people on the sidewalks in front of her government-issued homes with a few children on them, are they better off? are they happier than they was when they were in the south with their homes and chickens and gardens and children around them and their men having something to do? are they better off? i'm a wondering. that's a question i put before the world. are they better? are they better then? i'm not saying i thought they should be slaves. i never said they were better off. i'm a wondering if they are better off. >> "the kelly file" dug into this a few times reporting how mr. bundy has no legal leg to stand off. the feds showed up on his property and this ugly confrontation was documented on wednesday, april 9th. mr. bundy's son was tasered

on hannity he has as his guest cliven bundy.tching us before bill o'reilly, go set up a dvr series recording each night. that way you will never miss the show. it's so easy and you won't miss a minute. did. vr series record it good night from washington. ed in >>> tonight on "red eye." >> coming up is the miami marathon not as fun as it used to be thanks to global warming? we hit the streets of south beach to find out. and what was the vice president's reaction when a first grader asked him if he liked skittles better than m&m's? >> no one ever asked me that question before. it made me sad. what a profound question. >> and finally is the easter bunny secretly america's greatest athlete? the world's first and last debate on the subject next. none of these stories on "red eye" tonight. >> i'm tom shillue filling in for greg gutfeld who is getting ready for his book

. >> he doesn't like cliven bundy. >> blasted cliven bundy's supporters as domestic terrorists. >> domesticrorists. >> these people who hold themselves out to be patriots, are not. >> you know members of the militia. >> they're nothing more than domestic terrorists. >> what do you have to say to the senator? >> well i guess he's right i don't know what else we'd be. we're definitely citizens riled up. >> you know members of the militia. >> i repeat went on up there is domestic terrorism. >> thinks cliven bundy is breaking the law. >> that man right there is trying to kill the american spirit. >> we're a country people should follow the law. >> we don't work for you. you work for us. >> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching, dirty hary, tell it like it is, make my day. senate majority leader harry reid, this is what it's all about, going right back at them. he's calling out the law-breaking nevada rancher, cliven bundy. fox news is still defending bundy, and they are now attacking harry reid. harry reid's the problem now. harry reid has every right to criticize this rogue law

and then cliven bundy implode. and now, i think everybody in the country is looking and waiting to say what is jon stewart going to say tonight. he's going to get the last word in, it's going to be memorable. i feel a little sorry for him, but what do you think? >> if i didn't know better, i would think that viacom owned fox news and comedy central. historically, sean hannity and jon stewart have a symbiotic relationship. it shouldn't be surprising that sean hannity is not being consistent, he's being hypocrite call. that's the hallmark of fox news. but really, i think the story should be about the story not the people talking about the story. both sean hannity and jon stewart are entertainers in the broadest sense of the word. i know jon. and jon is very funny, very insightful and factual, which i would not associate with handy. but it's working in both of their favors. i mean, sean hannity does not have to be truthful or accurate to appeal to his base, his viewers. and despite the fact that jon stewart is clearly

in a moment, cliven and his son will join us.ederal officials with guns and tasers. now according to the bundy family members, an elderly woman was thrown to the ground, another protester, the son of bundy was tased three times and joining me

what has made cliven bundy a political pariah?ing i know about the negros. they abort their young children, they put their young men in jail because they never learned how to pick cotton. >> this is the rancher who just a few weeks ago was branded a conservative hero. now he is garnering all the attention for his racist rants. >> were they better off as slaves or are they better off under government subsidy? >> cliven bundy went head to head with federal authorities over his cattle grazing on public land. >> the federal government is here with an army stealing my cattle. >> the anti-government crusade skyrocketed him. >> i would think the federal government would be thankful because you're cutting the lawn for free. >> it is really government overreach, government gone amuck. >> now supporters are running the other way. rand pal bundy appearing to back pedal on cnn. >> i didn't really mean to compare with slavery. i meant to compare with live on the farm or life in the south where they had some chickens and gardens and something t

cliven bundy. for two decades cliven bundy has been grazing his cattle on government-owned land without paying. he now owes the government over a million dollars in grazing fees. grazing fees which are already so heavily subsidized they're basically welfare to begin with. still, bundy just doesn't want to pay for the land he's using. like almost every other rancher does. instead, when the bureau of land management came to take his cattle that he's been illegally grazing for two decades on federal land, he gathered militia members, states' rights activists to come to his defense, and complained. >> it seems like the united states government is operating with unlimited power over we the people. >> complained that his family was there first and that the federal government had wronged him. the whining paid off. after a tense standoff with federal authorities, the bureau of land management backed off. bundy got his cattle back. cliven bundy is the perfect face of the grievance industry. where many of th

or has cliven bundy made that impossible? >> well, there were so issues that they originally wanted to talk about. all of them, they think, wedge issues, rural america versus the elites in urban america, the real bedrock of this country, the cowboys versus everybody else. i think the only legitimate issue here, it is a legitimate issue. for instance, in nevada, the federal government owns 81% of the land. what would happen if the state took possession of that land? i don't think it's as clear as a lot of the states rights folks think. for instance, does anyone think that cliven bundy would've paid his fees if the state owned that land instead of the federal government? it's still public land. he still would've had to pay grazing fees on the state land. that is a legitimate policy issue. but for anyone to think that any of what went on with sean hannity and dean heller and the rest of them had anything to do with policy. dean heller called these folks up there patriots. i wonder how he feels today, joy. >> yeah, indeed, and no

of people are going to be saying, who is cliven bundy? >>> i'm in for lawrence o'donnell. we begin with a revealing development in an important story. for weeks, pundits and politicians called this man, a hero and patriot, for taking stances like this. >> this harmed the federal bur kral burbureaucrats. take the bureaucrats' guns away. that's my message today. >> rancher cliven bundy waged a decade long battle with the federal government over misuse of federal lands. when he welcomed, armed protesters to his ranch. he became a folk hero on fox news. among some republicans. that embrace was disturbing, as many critics pointed out. that embrace is ending. but not necessarily for all of the right reasons. tonight, most republicans want everyone to forget all about cliven bundy because he spoke directly about ignorance, racial resentment and outright racism that animates his world view. comments on the front page of "the new york times" today and ricochetted around the web. >> i want to tell you one more thing i know, when i do, go to las veg

the conservative media and the republican elected officials who spoke out calling cliven bundy a hero when in fact his comments are anything but, and we want the armed militia to know that we want you to leave. that's what the residents told me today. the neighbors of cliven bundy told me that they want their community back, that they want it to be back to normal, and that this doesn't reflect our community. and these people are not here to solve local land use problems. they have come with an agenda. and that agenda doesn't belong in mesquite, in bunkerville, in moapa, or any place in nevada. >> when you are talking to your constituents and when you're traveling to the different in your geographically very, very large district. when you talk to other people in the line of work, same line of work as mr. bundy, when you talk to other people who are using big tracts of land, whether they're ranchers or farmers or any other kind of large land use employed in that way, are you hearing sympathy on the issues for him, whether or not there is sympathy for him personally? >> in fact, some of

sun sets in the live picture, as we mentioned more than a thousand protesters have joined rancher cliven bundy in the showdown with the burro of land management who has won repeatedly in court, the feds have. we are learning some of them, some of the folks joining cliven bundy has driven as far as new hampshire. one group went to nevada to protesters and an issue of free speech as the folks stand up for cliven and when some of the folks saw some of the video from earlier in the week, watch. >> move! >> this is the state of nevada, get out of here! get out of here you >> the feds say bundy is breaking the law as his cattle trespassed on federal lands that he has not paid fees on. he is refusing to comply and now there is a question about the tactics being used by the federal government to enforce the court orders. o we're watching our live cameras and will update you, as appropriate. >>> you said you were ap vulnerable, you felt vulnerableb am i right? >> that's correct, my lady. >> but, you approached the danger. that doesn't make sense. you can't be vulnerable and approach the danger. >

cnn's dana bash now brings us the legend of cliven bundy. >> reporter: for 20 years, nevada rancher cliven bundy has been battling the federal authorities over land. it came to a head two weeks ago. the armed militia members came to bundy's defense, joining in an old-style west showdown. bundy's crusade made him a hero, thanks especially to fox news and the host, sean hannity. >> i would think the federal government would be thankful. >> reporter: when senate leader harry reid called terrorist? >> i want to tell you one more thing i know about the negro, they abort their young children, put their young men in jail because they never learned how to pick cotton. i often wonder, are they better off picking cotton or better off under government subsidy? >> reporter: he tried to clarify but not back down. >> i'm not saying i thought they should be slaves. or i didn't even say they were better off one way or another. i wonder if they're better off. >> reporter: before those comments he drew praise. >> there is something incredibly wrong when a government believes that blades of grass a cow is ea