>> george wallace pledged segregation forever. this country was segregated. all through the south, in the constitutions of the southern states, there was not a single public official that advocated the end of segregation. now, that is gone. has that benefited african-american citizens to the point that we have one now in the white house, but it has benefited women, the disabled, senior citizens, and even, of course, the white south, when it was invested in segregation, it was the poorest region in the country. you had never heard of the sun belt, and it has benefited tremendously from the part of ending that. the doors of equal citizenship are really appreciated much more around the world than they are here in the united states. tavis: i am struggling try to recall the name of a major university, and i have forgotten what i am thinking of at the moment, but it made national news, because it discovered that this president, a beneficiary of all of the sacrifice and struggle, president obama has benefited from that, and he has talked less about race than any pre

bill plante brings us the story of peggy wallace, daughter of former alabama governor george wallaceal redemption. >> segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever. >> reporter: at his inauguration in 1963 alabama governor george wallace personified racist defiance of civil rights. six months later he blocked the doors of the university of alabama to prevent integration. his daughter peggy was 13 at the time. >> the problems and the challenges that came with being the daughter of the governor who stood in the schoolhouse door to block two african-americans from going to school was very, very difficult. >> but when you were younger, did you think his earlier positions were wrong? >> my mother kept us very, very sheltered, so there were a lot of things that we didn't really know about, and so we weren't able to really think about them or have an opinion. >> peggy wallace married and raised two sons in alabama, rarely speaking about her father until she watched america elect its first black president. >> all of a sudden i just found my voice and i said i need to do some

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lbj is dead, nixon is dead, george wallace is dead. 15,000 americans are dead who otherwise would not have been. how does this get made right? it cannot get made right because the people of this decision cannot be brought back from the dead. you also can't get revenge. you can't indict nixon's ghost. but you can refuse to let him get away with it again. we can make sure it is a way we tell his history and the history of modern politics. you have to include it in the history, both so nobody gets away with it in the long run, but also so we don't do it again. so we at least don't dismiss this kind of possibility as some conspiracy theory of nonsense. so we knee there is precedent for this particular kind of evil. on friday night's show, chris hayes was here. one of the things chris talked about was the appearance at cpac this year of the last candidate for president, mitt romney. but the thing that struck me the most about mitt romney's speech, which was his first major public appearance since losing the presidency, of the part at the end of his speech where he talked about the iraq war

george wallace i mean these kind of guys who were saying no we want to keep the lunch counters segregated in alabama and mississippi and georgia and it was republicans who were you know eisenhower frankly and the one hundred fifty four brown versus board of education but that flipped in the sixty's and seventy's so. how is that flipped not being acknowledged by anybody that now it's the you know the root when when now when you and democrats talk about states' rights they meant the right of states to discriminate against people of color now when republicans talk about states' rights the charge about the right of states to just criminate against people of color particular when it comes to voting well i mean in terms of that switch the people usually just don't seem to want to read their history but the idea with the republican party did as you see with the southern strategy they aim to get especially the blue collar southern vote which is their white yes the white the traditional blue collar white vote i mean as we see racist or you know notice of the race we're talking about people let's l

after presidential candidate george wallace was shot five times, paralyzed and nearly killed in an assassination attempt, the a.p. reports that nixon could be heard on the oval office tapes after the assassination attempt musicing about how handguns should be restricted in this country, although nixon never really did anything about it. it is national trauma that makes us act. that makes us act on this as public policy, but not every trauma be gun violence results in action. >> trauma most fresh in our mind is newtown, the massacre of school children in connecticut in december. the effort the make sure this is one of the tragedies we do respond to, that it does result in some concrete change, that effort is unrelenting, from the white house down. >> the tragedy that occurred at sandy hook elementary school has had a profound impact on the psyche of the american people. there have been other mass murders, tragic events at virginia tech, columbine, the sikh temple, but this one senseless act at sandy hook, senseless slaughter of 20 6 and 7-year-olds, children, babies, six brave school staff and it

an--and so you have people like george wallace, who in the '60s says, 'segregation yesterday, segregation today, segregation forever.' in the '90s he's hugging black people saying, 'we need to all come together.' i think he did both for the same reason. he needed people to love him and to care about him and to--and to give him power one way or another. i think that after a while, though, the mechanics of it is raising money, making sure that the most powerful people are happy and somehow fooling the large amount of people into thinking that you care about them when really you have to care about somebody else. c-span: have you ever really liked a politician, trusted a politician, worked for a politician? >> guest: no. no. c-span: never. >> guest: no. you know, i mean, when i was a kid, you know, i liked kennedy. everybody liked kennedy. because later on i thought, 'well, maybe i wouldn't like him so much.' c-span: what changed your mind? >> guest: well, h--his--his hawkishness. his--his immoral behavior. where he came from. you know, how he--how he got there. but i'm not in--so interested

i remember years ago george wallace used to want to tax the power company. he always liked to -- he wanted to tax the power company. i was looking at my electric bill the other day and they list the charges th and one of them a state tax. so they tax the power company and the power company passes it on to the person that buys electricity. give me a break. a tax on the economy is a tax on the economy. it's a weak argument that you can just have an unlimited amount of money by taxing the rich. and at some point it becomes un-- not correct, not fair, not right. if the money is being thrown away on solyndras, and battery companies that go bankrupt, but nobody worries about it, send more money. we're having abuses in the snap program, and i proposed an amendment that would eliminate an abusive part of the food stamp program a year ago. in 2001 we spent $20 billion a year on snap. last year we spent $80 billion. it's gone from $20 billion to $80 billion, four times. and so we identified a categorical eligibility gimmick that was allowing people to get food stamps

back in may 1972, the day after an assassin shot and paralyzed george wallace the white house tapes,es recorded richard nixon as telling his aides in the oval office "i don't know why any individual should have a right to a revolver in his house. why can't we go after handguns, period." then he continued "i know the rifle association will be against it. the gunmakers will be against it. but people should not have handguns." boom. period. >> pretty clear. >> bill: where richard nixon stood on that issue. isn't it funny how republicans can't even follow their own leaders when it comes to this issue on gun control. and on that other issue of sodas, the headline -- 16 ounce remember michael bloomberg came up with this latest in his health craze the nanny state. to ban the sale of soft drinks over -- sugary soft drinks, not the diet ones, over 16 ounces. it was supposed to go into effect today. and a judge yesterday ruled we've been talking about this morning that that ban he said was the way it was drawn up was arbitrary and capricious and he overruled it. the headline makers are having

george w. bush nicole wallace here is. ben ya minute wallace wells is the lone mail pannist today and politico, the intre tretrepid m haggerman. the white house is taking two aspirin and trying to refocus its blurry vision. "the wall street journal" reports that the president will pivot from the budget issues that have dominated his public appearances for weeks and instead use his microphone to focus on other issues. president obama and the democrats have indicated they will not inject the sequester into upcoming budget negotiations and risk blame for a government shutdown. it is perhaps a sign of recognition that republicans, especially those who may face primary challengers in 2014, have no appetite for anything big, especially anything big that includes revenue. speaker john boehner suggested several times over that rich knew w revenue was no longer on the table. >> january the 1st, the president gets $650 billion of higher taxes on the american people on january the 1st. he got his tax hikes. i'm going to say it one mo

wallace. former advisor to president george w. bush who supports same-sex marriage.y bauer president of the group who opposes this. you and more than 100 other prominent republicans have filed a brief in the supreme court case in which you argue the court should overturn proposition 8. that was a constitutional amendment approved by california voters which said that marriage only marriage between a man and woman is valid. you you want to overturn that. explain to us why your position is consistent with conservative values? >> well, look, first of all, the people who will stand for the united states supreme court are kettleson who was president bush's se solis tore general ad david boy who represented president gore in the recount. this is a conservative legal argument that they will be advancing. they will basically lay out the conservative case that there is not any place in the constitution that allows for a different set of rules for a different class of people. there is also a moral imperative here. if you believe if you value and treasure and reveer the institut

joining us from connecticut, nicole wallace, former advisor to president george w.sex marriage. and, here in washington, gary bauer, president of the group, american values, who opposes it. welcome to both of you. >> thank you, good to be with you, chris. >> thanks, chris. >> chris: nicole, you and more than 100 other promise intents republicans have filed a brief in the supreme court case, in which you argue the court should overturn proposition 8, a constitutional amendment, approved by california voters, which said that marriage -- only marriage between a man and a woman is valid. you want to overturn that. explain to us why your position is consistent with conservative values. >> well, first of all, the people who will stand before the united states supreme court, are ted olson, who was president bush's solicitor germaneral, onf the most respected legal minds on the right and david boies who represented al gore on t-- represented the president and al gore in the recount. and there is not a place in the constitution that allows for a different associate rules for

. >>> today on "morning joe," wallace, a former communications director for president george w. bush pointed out as you did, brian, the generational challenge faced by republicans on the issue of gay marriage. nicole supports gay marriage, herself. let's listen to her. >> there were a lot of alarming things that happened at cpac. the one happy thing, they went around trying to find young conservatives who were against gay marriage and they couldn't find any. i mean, even the youngest most ravid most devoted conservatives see this as an equal rights issue. >> ralph reid, founder and chairman of the faith and freedom coalition. ralph, thank you for coming on. >> you bet, chris, good to be with you again. >> i'm setting it up what looks to be the direction of the court. a narrow decision. perhaps just dealing with california. perhaps positively for the pro-choice or the pro-same-sex marriage community. how do people on the conservative side, how will you react to that? what will be your plan? >> well, if that were to happen, and, of course, this is not my first rodeo. i know it's n

george w. bush, former senior adviser for the 2008 mccain presidential campaign, nicole wallace and former seniorpaign strategist for that same 2008 campaign. now an msnbc political analyst steve schmidt and combat veteran of the united states army captain wes moore. it's a decidedly game changy feel at this table. >> haleprin's not even here. >> he'll be in game change 2020, i predict. the big news of the day, of course, is that mike barnicle's wearing a tie. it's a tie with watermelons on it. >> thank you. >> what's the occasion? >> the occasion is a phone call from my wife last night who told me to stop dressing like someone waiting for a bus to an assisted living facility. wear a tie, tuck in your shirt and act your age. >> she wins the day again. >> yes, she did. >> by the way, i wanted to say that this morning. >> i did not -- yesterday. in one of the news reports -- >> kathleen parker wrote a wonderful op-ed yesterday. >> yeah. >> that i confessed to not having read ahead of time and it was in the script. it snuck up on me on the prompter and i said something that doesn't represent -- >> w

george f. kennan, but is is the president of the united states, franklin d. roosevelt who, for whatever reason, and we may never know the reason, don't wallace from the ticket in 1944. and sent him on an inspection trip to siberia. [laughter] what he confused gulags with collective farms. now, if you want to play the counterfactual game, and someone should write i think a philip roth's counterfactual novel, change just one thing. truman -- or roosevelt does not dump wallace from the ticket in 44, and then wallace becomes president of the united states at the time that all of this stuff is breaking loose. what would've happened at that point? why don't more people talk about this? >> we have time for one more question. i'm going to use my prerogative and see if i can gauge lead maybe with this question. in the famous letter to my children, the forward to the book, "witness," chambers writes on, quote, on page 16. communism is what happened when in the name of mind, meant -- men freedom social god, a little bit, although below that, there has never been a society or a nation without god, but history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that became indiffere

george w. bush and former senior adviser for the mccain 2008 presidential campaign, nicolle wallace back on ourw. really great to have you. >> thank you. >> how are the bushes doing? >> i think they're doing great. >> do they send you any cards? >> listen, i don't want to end up another punch line in a maureen dowd column in the first 60 seconds. i have to say, i watched the rodman interview, and george did confront rodman with realities that i'm sure rodman had no idea, like he's a killer and a murderer. >> look at that guy. is it really george stephanopoulos' job to confront that guy with realities? >> how crazy that he's the only american that's actually sat down with one of america's, you know, great enemies. >> let alone -- let's listen to this. >> i don't want to hear it. >> i just want to hear a little bit of it. t.j., roll it. >> guess what? this is all politics, right? he loves basketball. at the same time, i said obama loves basketball. he wants obama to do one thing, call him. >> he wants a call from president obama? >> that's right. he told me that. he said, if you can, dennis, i do

wallace posed the question, is there too much bush baggage? is there too much sat situation? you have had two bush presidencies? look, it is clearly a problem because georgethe issue, who is jeb bush? what does he stand for? >> it is not a problem for hillary clinton? >> highest popularity rating of any politician. >> but she only polls at 50 percent. >> but bill clinton is so popular, clinton name is popular name. >> she has 68 approval in one stat and she will raise $2 billion. $2 billion. $2 billion. $2 billion. >> the high water mark was $1 billion and you are doubling down. on jeb bush and the bush fatigue, there is bush fatigue. but if he were a very dynamic candidate, we her he was in florida he was that was as a national candidate he could over come it. >> okay, we wish you well, gentleman, and more political insiders each monday morning and back here on sunday and you can follow them on twitter. health a study on cancer suggesting that vegetarians may live longer than bacon loving meat eaters but the meat industry says not so fast, there are a lot of problems with the report. who is right? we will ask the doctor next. >> there is a new study that

wallace avenue but it's unclear whether the remaining suspect is still inside. >>> a special election set for june 4 to fill the seat of santa clara county supervisor george shirakawaerday and are expected to give it final approval next tuesday. shirakawa resigned last week amid charges of perjury and misusing public funds. >>> stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment. >>> good morning. expect delays out of half moon bay. they just cleared an accident. they were doing some runway traffic control on eastbound 92 approaching highway 35 but it's still backed up in the eastbound lanes. elsewhere, let's go towards milpitas, silicon valley ride look at that in the red this morning. it's because of several fender- benders. a couple of spinouts we saw on westbound 237 between milpitas and sunnyvale. and out towards 880 in oakland, where it's actually light. light for this time of the morning as you pass the oakland coliseum. that's traffic. for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> a strong system moved by but still we are seeing scattered showers around the bay area. right now, got some clouds that are broken overlooking san jose. that's what we are going to see on

somebody that got a bad rap from george kennan but it is the presence of the united states franklin roosevelt who for whatever reason, and we may never know the reason, dumped wallace from the ticket in 1944 and sent him on a trip to siberia where he confused gulags with collective farms. [laughter] now if you want to play the counterfactual game, and someone should write a counterfactual novel does just one thing. he doesn't dump will list from the ticket in 44. and then wallace becomes president of the united states at the time that all of this stuff is breaking loose. what would have happened at that point? why don't more people talk about this? we have time for one more question and i am going to use my pur doggett if and see if i can engage in this question. in the famous letter to my children, the forward to the book witnessed chambers writes the following, quote, from page 16 communism is what happens when in the name of my and free themselves from god a little bit below that there has never been a society or a nation without god but history is cluttered with the wreckage of the nation's that became indifferent to god and died. then he sums up the crisis of