j edgar hoover was the head of the fbi. j edgar hoover was not a, how does one say? he was so not feeling the civil rights movement, civil rights leaders, civil rights goals, civil rights, civil, no. that is j edgar. as far as he was concerned, they were communists, just communist. so when john doerr has the fbi report, it is ehh. he gets down to mississippi and he sees moses. bruised. that is not what the fbi report said. what john doerr was expecting was a bruise here. he wasn't expecting what he saw. he stepped back. he thought, this has got -- i got to begin to rethink the fbi's commitment to civil rights protection here, because what this report is saying is not what the evidence is. so what moses told him i will be all right. i just wanted you to know the depth of the violence. the depth of the violence is going to get worse because there is a man who has been helping me named herbert lee. and herbert has been driving around, driving me from place to place, from house to house. anybody live in the country? own it. ok. houses aren't like they are in the city rig

edgar hoover, kennedy did not like hoover. >> period. >> period. wanted him gone. there was a meeting that hoover had with kennedy, jack kennedy, one on one, just those two. after that meeting the -- you are hereby fired notice was rescinded. in power. >> it would be during freedom summer. yes. so when we get to freedom summer, the press is going to really come in because the killings are going to be horrific. yeah. joshua? >> i was wondering, during the freedom summer, how did local mississippians respond and overcome terrorism and their fears of this to work with folks like them? >> so you had -- when you say -- you mean how did african-americans in mississippi -- >> especially when you see herbert lee. >> a man out of mississippi, okay, good. he says when you get sick and tired of being sick and tired, there comes that moment where you're just not going to take it. not everybody stood up. but you had enough folks in mississippi, you had someone down in clarksville, mississippi, using her independent business, she was using that as the spot where people were orga

edgar hoover that they had, the fbi had, one of their men inside the car. oover misrepresented rowe's role. he said that rowe did not have a gun and that he had just been along for the ride and was not involved. ohnson was very excited that the murderers were identified, and he announced their arrest over nationwide television, broke into the regularly scheduled broadcasting and president johnson and j. edgar hoover and attorney general nicholas katzenbach were there and johnson announced the arrest of the klansmen. at that point, he included gary thomas rowe as one of the suspects, but rowe was not arrested. he was not in jail. he was, in fact, working with the fbi in building a case against his fellow klansmen. rowe quickly made a deal with the justice department. in fact, he demanded it. clearly, his testimony in court would be absolutely critical. he was the only eyewitness to the tragedy. so rowe made a number of demands. he wanted his ex-wife and children relocated to another state to protect them. he wanted a new identity. he wanted a lifetime career

edgar hoover and the f.b.i. were some of the biggest consumers of black art and black literature partly because they saw any sort of black radicalism as as as a serious threat perhaps the most significant threat that american democracy faced and so right the jazz artist faced even cabaret laws in places like new york where they were often used as culture. to punish artists or keep them out of the city we actually see that today there is even now there is widespread often police driven venue resistance when it comes to rap artists it's very difficult in many cities across the country to even book a show because of police pressure and then insurance companies who charge premiums that are just affordable so it seems of the 2 major institutions that have gone after rap artists are the police and the dish area correct government process absolutely and we have contemporary examples i mean if you think of and w.a. and when they released their iconic song the police and i love to say that the bleep with. the police when

. -- j edgar hoover was. we have to be fair. think the higher up one went in the bureau, you found the especiallys problems in hoover himself. >> you called hoover racist. did your research reveal, can you talk about what your research may have revealed in terms of the relationship between lbj and hoover? were they using each other for different purposes? wonderfulhat's a question. resource.w a rich he had machinery and telephones all over the place. you really hear himself expressing himself very frankly. was lbjthat not only taping hoover, he was taping lbj. they had an interesting relationship. they had known each other for a long time. johnson first went to washington in 1949. hoover himself was a young director of the fbi. for a time, i think they lived across the street from one another. that hooverognized was a man you could not cross. i suppose on one hand you would love to have gotten rid of -- hoover was the longest-serving director of the fbi in history, probably one of the longest buting federal bureaucrats, you coul

edgar hoover and speaking of j. edgar many critics are pointing out that apparently the f.b.i. is new app while helping train like an agent also needs to access your location photos media files and storage gibbs who doesn't want the pads roaming around in your private information i guess they want more of a chase when big brother comes to you to catch you for your thought crimes all right everybody as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand to the brand new portable t.v. apple billboard smartphones through google play on the apple app store by searching portable t.v. or stream us to your t.v. by downloading the portable t.v. app on apple t.v. and online that once again portable t.v. this wonderful wonderful app will be available on more devices coming in the very near future coming up immigration attorney allen our junior brings us the latest of how i used attention camps have been affected by the coded 19 pandemic stay tuned to watching the. no i mean maybe that they're seeing on their combat after all many of us that grown men not near our

he knew the realjed edgar hoover. washington, dc that we needed to break to get people to support marriage equality anti—missile one of the first to do so. anti—missile one of the first to do so. it was telling to me because it did not serve in politically but he still went ahead and came out for equal marriage in the united states ata time equal marriage in the united states at a time when it was a risky calculation that had to be made. that won me respect. i will say i was frightened earlier... i am still looking at the field that is left and making my assessments and i will say this, i have knownjoe. i have known elizabeth warren. i have met most of the candidates who are running andi most of the candidates who are running and i think we are spoiled in the democratic party right now with some sincere and wonderful options. i do not think this was a good night for bernie sanders. it is clear it was a very good night and a comeback forjoe biden. do you think he can defeat donald trump? that is one of the things that

edgar hoover, rfk justice department. we had this before. situation where you're not domestically spying on american citizens without a good cause. absolutely. liz: you've been expert on this. reading up and studying. >> thank you. liz: fisa warrant taps are sweeping meant for terrorists. government can collect and listen to read your e smail, smail mail, text messages phone calls, bank records. >> right. liz: what may not be understood, doug, the government through fisa wiretaps can spy on invade privacy of anyone talking to the targeted individual. but not just carter page and anyone contacting him? >> that is huge point. one hop, two hop rule. if you do a tap on mr. x and mr. y calls him you can tap who mr. why is speaking to. it becomes very problematic. look at rico statute or fisa statute. rico for organized crime. fisa is for international terrorism. it shouldn't be abused brought into the political arena. you made the point every time. liz: should disclose all americans accessed or collected under the page wiretap and spying. >> righ

your two weeks away from becoming president and the fbi director comes in and there is no way j edgar hoover is not far behind. to say we have a secret dossier about prostitutes in moscow three years earlier how would you feel? >> how should comey have handled it? [laughter] >> trump has legitimate beef in the book and i say that. and in 1993 but his white house counsel and the first but they're all kinds of things the fbi got about clinton's extra curricular activities but instead of a briefing clinton but it was the white house counsel and nussbaum looked at that and said put it in the burn bag. and said okay let's see what happens and how these things. i'm not sure the burn bag, i wish he called me. [laughter] the idea of the fbi director getting in the face somebody like trump who has a big ego one - - he told his lawyer and then to say he cannot find out about this but then it was two days later she did as to the world. >> you draw a conclusion that the administration is in a very dangerous spot. is at the for this you have gone and why did you go so far? >> duffy was my assistant. are