day we met him at the louisville metro department of corrections jail in kentucky. >> we met donald colemanesponded to a fight call in the jail. we got there, and the staff was separating the various people involved. i approached both coleman and the man with whom he had been supposedly fighting. that man declined to be on camera. coleman was fine with it. >> we're just assessing him for injuries. you know, looking for anything that's fresh. >> they were basically telling the story that they had been horse-playing. >> were they fighting or what? >> horseplaying. >> said they were horseplaying. >> it's not unusual for inmates to say they never fought. there are always repercussions for fighting in jail. >> horseplay? >> yeah. >> so everybody comes up with the same story. i fell off my bunk. i slipped in the shower. i was horseplaying with somebody. >> coleman was serving six months for violating his probation on convictions for burglary and credit card fraud. he was due to be released in ten days. >> initial story was they were not fighting. they were horseplaying. that didn't seem likely be

day we met him at the louisville metro department of corrections jail in kentucky. >> we met donald coleman when we responded to a fight call in the jail. we got there and the staff was separating the various people involved. i approached both coleman and the man with whom he had been supposedly fighting. that man declined to be on camera. coleman was fine with it. >> we're just assessing him for injuries. you know. looking for anything that's fresh. >> they were basically telling the story that they had been horseplaying. >> were they fighting or what? >> horseplaying. >> said they were horseplaying. >> it's not unusual for inmates to say they never fought. there are always repercussions for fighting in jail. >> horseplay? >> yeah. >> so everybody comes up with the same story. i fell off my bunk. i slipped in the shower. i was horseplaying with somebody. >> coleman was serving six months for violating his probation for convictions on burglary and credit card fraud. he was due to be released in ten days. >> initial story was they were not fighting. they were horseplaying. that didn't seem l

in a town called coleman which is in northern alabama and it is a largely white town, it was founded by descendants of german immigrants. and almost everyone there votedded for donald trump. i was talking to the mayor of coleman and talking to him about this. i said listen, how much of this is about race. he said it really doesn't have anything to do with race. there is this town nearby here called colonnee which is entirely african-american, and all the folks there voted for donald trump too. so i thought hang on. >> when you heard that. >> i got straight in my car and headed down the road to kol knee. >> good reporter. >> and colony was fascinating because it was a little town founded after reconstruction at a time when some freed slaves were able to get 40 acres and a mule. not that many people got that deal but some did. and so the settlement had been there since the late 19th century. and it is and an entirely african-american sort of small town alabama place. irwent around there talking to people about how they view politics. and they also agreed that race was much less of a problem in america. you know, some of them had memories of schools being desegregated

coleman in north alabama. it is a largely white town, founded by the descendents of german immigrants. most everyone there voted for donald. i was talking to the mayor about this. i said, how much of this is about race? he said it does not have anything to do with race. there is this town nearby called colony which is entirely african american and all the folks there voted for donald trump, too. i got straight in my car and headed down the road to colony. colony was fascinating because it was a little town founded after reconstruction at a time when some freed slaves were able to get 40 acres and a mule. not many people got that deal, but some did. the settlement had been there since the late 19th century. it is an entirely african american small-town. i went around there talking to people about how they viewed politics. they also agreed race was much less of a problem in america. some of them had memories of school being desegregated and so forth, some of the older folks i talked to. almost everyone in colony voted for hillary clinton. there's something interesting going on. america has become less racist on most objecti

coleman took it to court and we went through the process. >> rose: whatever there might be wrong with our politics before donald trump, with donald trump, with democrats in control of the congress, with republicans in control of the congress, what is necessary to fix it? ed. >> well, way hoping hillary would win so that we could have a supreme court that would overturn citizens united. i think this dark money is extremely pernicious. so unfortunately that didn't happen. but this big money in politics is-- is very cor rossive. >> rose: you write about the fact that when you went to the senate because were you known as a comedian, you had to hide those skills. >> i had to show the people of minnesota that i was serious about the job. >> rose: this was in the a joke for you. >> yeah, well, so much of the campaign had centered on my comedy career and again, playing the dehumanizer that when i got to the senate, drew littmann, my chief of staff said you know, you're going to have a challenge here. you want to prove that you are going to be someone who is taking this job seriously. you have a lot of-- you have some celebrity. you have the republic