the reason i argue for that is within the career of daniel patrick monahan himself. of the sad things about white supremacy is it's not died in the wool racists who often end up doing damage. if you read some of the memos and i have them in the piece from daniel patrick monahan, he engages in the same criminalization of black people. >> trevor: in the short time i've read up or been around american politics and history, the one thing i've always been taught is it's the conservative against the black man, it is the liberal who is for the black man and in this piece you challenge that in a big way. you go monahan was one of the biggest liberals and yet himself and others who were on the liberal side -- >> it was the most important piece of legislation in terms of the architecture of mass incarceration is the '94 crime bill passed by bill clinton, supported by numerous democrats. i think two people in the senate abstained and voted down the # '4 crime -- '94 crime bill. >> trevor: bill clinton said he regretted the decision and it put so many black people in prison. >>