among those seeking the president's office george wallace. lt his political campaign around segregation, democrats were stunned when wallace took his racial backlash message outside the south and won 1/3 of the wisconsin primary vote. george wallace died in 1998. >> reporter: george wallace was once the symbol of southern segregation. a governor trying to keep segregation at universities. >> segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever. >> reporter: it was segregation forever was his campaign promise but he could not deliver. as a democrat he served two terms in office then ran his wife as surrogate and she won. wallace briefly ran for president in 1964 as a democrat. >> i'm running, i haven't decided who i will have as my vice president for candidate yet. but the no use needing anyone ask why i'm running i'm a candidate. >> reporter: by 1968 he had become an independent. >> no one has suggested that the wishes of the american people will be heard. so today i state to you that i am a candidate for president of the united state

wallace was -- george wallace the time former governor of california. he spent his entire life running for office. earlier political career had been known in alabama one ics as, according to press account, the number one do gooder in the legislature. voice in iberal alabama politics. until he ran for governor in defeated by an opponent who stressed racial main issue.as the famously in that election, i to to say an ugly word quote him accurately. e said i'm never going to be out-niggered again. candidate of racial segregation and was elected. hen famously stood in the schoolhouse door if you will of university of alabama in a symbolic integration. nd then in 1964 entered democratic primaries against president johnson in the north, e. lee taking the pennsylvania. wallace took the campaign to the 30% or 40%964 and won in three northern primaries. in 1968, he was term limited. so he couldn't run for another term as governor of alifornia -- governor of alabama. was a major liability. governor of alabama and most places you could raise money highway builders

george wallace. and charles green. now, a man who puts the mocha in mocha chocolate latte, byron allen. >> yeah.g;%l whoo.session.3u3 dancing >> what's up? >> all right. >> all right. we have some very funny people here this evening. say hello to mark marin. george 1 and tom green. oh. >> we're unleashed. >> you're unleashed. >> the comics are unleashed right now. >> unleashed. >> like we're wild animals. >> what's this, i hear you're afraid to leave your house. >> an gore phobic a little bit. bad year. i've been injured. when you get injured you don't leave the house. i broke a couple of ribs a few months ago, i was nearly killed. >> is that right? >> nearly killed by a wave of water. and then i broke my ankle and i haven't left the house in months. now i'm here. when you stay inside for a long period of time, you feel fear when you leave the house. right now looking at you, i'm afraid. it's not because of anything that you're doing or anything, i just look at you and think it's 1978, i'm 7 years old watching "real pe

and then the accident was first in my reporting career when arthur bremer shot george wallace before watergate. mark felt was an assistant -- assisted me on that work that i did, and then when watergate came, he was right in the cat bird's seat. >> i'm going to take a question from the theater. how differently do you think watergate would have played out with today's instant blog media and 24/7 news coverage? >> interesting. >> well, i don't think a newspaper can hold the story as long as the "post" did without -- without surrendering it to television and to other stories. we really held it from -- what was the -- i forgot the dates -- the date we ran it was august -- >> yeah. i mean we were -- we would run stories and you would ask questions and it would be days or weeks before we would run stories sometimes. you, of course, could not do that now. >> no. because we wanted -- it was plain in see that we were dealing with something that modestly was earth shaking, and the compulsion to be right is born into a journalist, and even more then. but we would -- if the -- if the -- there wa

. >> but nixon knew what he was appealing to, some of the george wallace to shift -- >> are these ads similar too what you condemn of the republicans? >> i condemn both of them. we have to have a high standard. where is the integrity, honesty, dece decency across the board. >> when are we going to do stage together? >> you let me know. >> you look at malcolm x -- >> frederick douglas, idab. wells, great allen baker -- >> no better speaker than martin luther king. >> oh, yes. >> good to see you, colonel. thank you, professor. coming up, canadian authorities say they were caught off guard by today's atact despite there being a terrorist attack monday in quebec. we'll have all the live breaking details including reports there's been an increase in terror chatter in recent days. but first tonight. >> so what is more offensive? >> a little girl saying [ bleep ] or the [ bleep ] unequal and sexist ways. society treats girls and women. >> that video not only disturbing, downright vile. here with reaction to that as well as the return of the most infamous intern monica lewinsky as we continue

first of all, he's using george wallace's old language about a dime's worth of difference.nd second, it's a tribute to bill clinton in mitch mcconnell thinks he has to smudge bill clinton with the barack obama, you know, reputation at this point. i think the key thing about bill clinton is this. he knows better than any democrat how to explain what government can do for you, not to you, but for you and explain why government is on your side and why that is a reasonable thing that independent voters should also support. that's now bill clinton got elected. that's what clinton is amiss. and that's what he's trying to do around the country. >> steve kornacki and howard fineman, no two better guys to talk the horse race politics with. thank you for your time and thoughts. >> thank you. >> remember of course to catch "up" with steve kornacki 8:00 a.m.s here on msnbc. >>> and in maine, will kaci hickox have the last word? that's next. are feeling the love, too. by offering things like on-the-spot data upgrades -- an idea that reduced overcharge complaints by 98%. no matter how fa

george wallace of alabama. it's very well in several primaries. he did quite well.the white backlash has begun and johnson understands this sort of backlash as a phenomenon in 1964. in 1964 he is looking towards what should be a pretty easy election for him because he has so perfectly come to him that anybody after the kennedy assassination and he has made his whole campaign about that. it's a remarkable piece. at the same time as he's escalating the vietnam war he is running a campaign of peace and prosperity. and -- spin and goldwater called him out on that. >> he did. what johnson is trying to do companies looking towards an easy reelection but he thinks about the backlash but it's not as appealing for johnson who really needs a source of fear to come in human form as some of those lurking potential threats he sees among people he knows chiefly the kennedys. so the lead up to the convention in 1964 he is quite focused and he spends a lot of time thinking about that. if he spent at same time thinking about the question of what's happening in this country, who are

this is alabama governor george wallace.llace was perhaps one of the most fiery segregationist figures of the era. and wallace also went to gettysburg. but wallace, of course, was already famous for one particular line, the one we associate with him. when told that the university of alabama had to desegregate, he gave a speech, and i will quote it. in the name of the greatest people that have every trod this earth, can you hear the echoes of the american race there? i draw the line in the dust, and toss the gauntlet at the feet of tierney and say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. of course, by the time that wallace went to gettysburg in june of 1863, or actually, slightly after, the federal government had already forced the university of alabama to desegregate. wallace had to sort of stand aside as the national guard admitted two students into the school. but wallace went to gettysburg. hef attended a redead tags of the alabama monument, which had been placed in 1933. he gave a speech which i won't

george wallace running for president of the united states on a racist platform at that time. it's a different kind of turmoil. one of the things that's happened is that we have a world in which there's not a nation state relationship that we used to have. you got these kind of jihadist moments that are under way in the middle east. you have at the moment people not actively involved in politics as they were in 1968. the passion that bobby kennedy and gene mccarthy people and coalition as you know that richard nixon put together for the republican party to win just barely the election that fall but it was a real seismic shift in american politics, joe, in '68. >> no doubt about it. >> tom brokaw, thank you so much. sounds like it was an incredible event last night. thanks for being on this this morning. still ahead he describes himself as an? do-british-american comedian. aasif mandvi tells us one word that convinced his father to move his family to america. kansas congressman plays odds maker for us handicapper this year's election including the surprising close race -- >> a

chris wallace, brit hume, charles krauthamer, george will, karl rove, dana perino. not too shabby that lineup. we'll start at 6:00 p.m. eastern. we'll see you on sunday evening with an election special here at 8:00 p.m. on fox news. >>> get you back to this story for an update. the maine nurse is staying steadfast in her defiance of the ebola risk quarantine. she went on a bike ride with her boyfriend yesterday which caused all the press to chase after her to find out what she is. main governor, paul lepage will use full extent much his authority to keep people safe. laura engle is live. what is the going on since the big bike ride we saw yesterday? >> reporter: kaci hickox is sticking to her buns and saying she is perfectly healthy and not a danger to the public as she continues to monitor herself for any signs and symptoms of ebola. you're right everybody is talking about that bike ride and it took place yesterday. her mile-long bike ride with her boyfriend in fort kent, maine, is defiant act nicely and repeatedly to remain quarantined in her home until the recomm

george w. bush and co-host of the view nicole wallace. so glad to have you, guys. thomas is not happy about this game. >> he's been crying. >> he'll get over it. it's over for him and the orioles. >> that's so mean. >> i love the orioles. >> put the storm windows on. >> oh, my lord. >> that's what is it. >> you feel bad for orioles fans. how could you not love the kansas city royals. >> baltimore that story is incredible. most games won in the american league and to go out in four straight, wow. >> that stadium in kansas city has been pretty quiet for the last 30 years. to see it that way last night, awesome. >> we'll also go to florida. take a look at just a little dip of what happened at the debate. just take a look. >> as you can see, the two candidates who were invited to take part in this debate right now are not stepping up on the stage. [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, we have an extremely peculiar situation right now. >> so what do you think? maybe it was ebola or isis or some sort of conflict, i think. turns out and we'll have this coming up when we get