. >> there's a long time after george henry white leaves congress where there are no african-american to serve in either the house or senate. that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south and the way that changes over time during those decades is that there's a critical thing going on in the south, where african-americans begin to leave the south and move northward as part of a multi-decade movement that would later be called the great migration. that begins, depending on which historian you talk to, 1890's and runs through world war ii. it picks at momentum around world war i as there is a need in the north to fill industrial jobs that have been occupied by men who have gone off to fight in the war. you see tens of thousands african-american -- tens of thousands of african americans moving out of the rural south, additive agricultural jobs, to industrial jobs in chicago, st. york, andtsburgh, new the african american population in the city's increases and the african-americans in those cities are gradually recruited by the political parties. depri

matt: almost three decades after george henry white leaves congress when there are no african-american to serve in the house or senate. that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south. the way that that changes over time during those decades and that there is a critical thing going on in the south where african americans begin to leave the south and move northward as part of a multi-decade movement that would later be called the great migration. that begins on which to store and you talk to and 1890's and runs through world war ii. it picks up momentum around world war i as there is a need in the north to fill industrial jobs and jobs that have been occupied by men who are going off to war. you see tens of thousands of african-american's moving northward for the first time out of the rural south to industrial jobs in chicago, st. louis, cleveland, pittsburgh, new york. over time, the african-american populations in the city's increase. the african americans in the cities are gradually recruited by the political parties, and oscar depriest is a perfect

henry kessinger made this famous statement at the white house about the war in vietnam. >> we believe that peace is at hand. >> the moment was big. kissinger turns out was wrong election day, president george h.w. bush's hopes were hurt when defense secretary casper weinberger, former defense secretary at the time was implicated in the iran contra scandal. then the weekend before the election in 2000 it was revealed that george w. bush had been arrested decades earlier for drunk driving. news that helped al gore pull even in the polls. that was actually our first november surprise technically. there's no way ofn whether fbi director james comey's announcement will take its place among these more celebrated october surprises. we do know that justice department officials strongly discouraged comey from going public. democrats have moved from reacting with caution to responding with anger. they say if comey doesn't know whether the e-mails are significant or whether they were sent to or from hillary clinton, then why go public right before the election? at the very least, this has reinvigorated the trump campaign the house and senate. >> some of you may have heard about a letter that the fbi