george wallace. and charles green. and now, a man who puts the mocha in mocha chocolate latte, byron allen. >> yeah.g;%l whoo.session.3u3 dancing

george wallace is here to talk about his big show in oakland new year's eve. get ready to laugh. >>> the lady over there in the animal print, i love ladies in animal prints. i don't know why but i love it. some of you ladies now, when you wear these animal prints, now you can't be larger than the animal you're representing. >> he will help you laugh your way into the new year, comedian and actor george wallace, performing in oakland tomorrow night as part of the new year's eve black comedy explosion. he's joining us live in the studio. thank you for taking the time. >> thank you very much. let me make it clear, you don't have to be black to come to the show. you come on down. >> great. great. >> everybody comes out. it's a great show. it's about laughing. if you're laughing on new year's eve, you'll laugh the rest of your life. laughter is the greatest medicine in the world. >> your thoughts about bill cosby, the news that broke this morning? >> i heard that. it's kind of sad, a guy we all looked up to. i met him once, from what i remember -- >> i get it. >> y

also, george wallace wallace ken day, thank you for being here, peggy. [ applause ] >> i wants to thank each and every one of you who marched across the bridge on bloody sunday. you didn't have to do it, but you did it. thank you. i tell you, it's god to be in selma one more time, just one more time. people often ask me, why do you come back? what purpose does it serve?

nobody else wanted to go near george wallace in florida.my carter went in and beat him and saved the democratic party from george wallace from his nomination or at least serious candidacy and emerged himself. i don't know who the jimmy carter is in this republican field. kasich tried to do it but doesn't seem to be getting traction, that says i'm coming in to take on donald trump. the democrats want to run against him and maybe everybody again is wrong and they could be -- >> a couple of scary scenarios from my point of view, first, it's worth pointing out, gingrich were up in one year, giuliani was up in one year. so it's still early. the thing that could happen is ted cruz takes him on. cruz is rising. >> woodruff: but he hasn't taken trump on. >> he hasn't taken trump on. but if trump begins to falter maybe ted cruz will take him on. the other thing that happens the you will get a war between the non-trumps, and jeb bush has a ton of money, he goes after kasich and rubio and the non-trumps all destroy each other and cruz and trump are si

. >> there was a third-party candidate in this election, george wallace.ot affected by the vietnam issue. he was going to have a certain amount of support in the south come what may. >> there's not a dime's worth of difference in either one of the two parties. and if they don't give the people a choice, we're going to give them a choice by having a new party. >> it was just a plain, ordinary, anti-government streak in him. it was his act. you bastards in washington are not going to tell me what to do. >> and you anarchists had better have your day now, because i tell you again, you're through after november 5th in this country. ♪ ♪ isn't it beautiful when things just come together? build a beautiful website with squarespace. just serve classy snacks and bew a gracious host,iday party. no matter who shows up. do you like nuts? for the new mattress models! it's time to make room during sleep train's huge year end clearance sale... get beautyrest, posturepedic, even tempur-pedic mattress sets at low clearance prices! save even more on floor samples, demonstra

'60s and '70s. >> george wallace said if alabama wants segregation, it will have segregation. delegate of the people. their agent. and trump is seeing himself in the same way, where you might say some of these other candidates, bush, kasich, they see themselves more as a trustee of what's best for the party and the nation. there there's a real divide there. yes, i would say in the populous rhetoric, trump is a lot like a george wallace. >> the party of lincoln, huh. cnn r andi kaye takes a closer look. >> reporter: when donald trump announced for president, he made it memorable. remember this comment about mexican immigrants? >> they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. they're rapist, and some, i assume, are good people. >> the blowback was fear% sop in the latino community calling him a racist. major corporations breaking ties with him. political insiders saying he was a doomed candidate. but they were wrong. trump jumped seven points to second place in a fox news poll. the first news poll done completely after his presidential announcement. and it quickly became clear

i'm old enough to remember george wallace.harlie: you think, if comic he begins to lose the republican primary, he would run as an independent? ed: i don't think he wants to lose. he could have a big impact on the race and cost the republicans, but it would cost a lot of money to get onto the state ballots. i don't know if he would spend $300 million with no guarantee of doing better than 8% or 10% of the vote. that's half of what perot had. charlie: people are comparing him to george wallace? ed: it is some of the same premise. the blue-collar, left educated. they're worried about jobs and security. she understands the electorate better than washington, and to a certain extent, the problem with washington is everyone gets up and it is all about the game. in the country, people don't worry about this. they worry about their jobs and kids going to college and the irs and taxes. he has tapped into that. the more the establishment goes after him, the more he is like, "of course they are going after me, i am for you, not for them.

the republicans introduced civil-rights legislation as far back as 1851 george wallace was the democrats bill and hillary clinton belong to a country club that denies access. even joe biden said barack obama is the only clean african-american to run. >> he was ever held accountable for that remark. >> you talk about donald to be a unifier but on what stance? >> when i first met him it was a non political meeting. it was behind-the-scenes almost five years ago he said i am considering running for president i want you to pray for me that gives a wisdom to meet me in the red direction. i knew that meeting with a preconceived notion and i challenge him face-to-face and said i and though based racist person you will be at i could not do what they do to be racist. but he did not go out of his way to convince me he was not. >> this is not the donald trump you hear about it the media. we love to have you back. >> over these tight a apartments it has gotten out of control. but at this photo of 100 square feet but told hundred dollars a month the date that is why they have high-tech security to ke

and i'm ol enough to remember the george wallace in 1968. and in which he basically, people forget, he actually won. >> a couple of things i want to state. first, is his threat to-- do you think that if in fact he begins to lose in the republican primary, that say big if, that he would run as an independent? >> i don't think he wants to lose. i think he can make the threat. certainly if he did run cobasically have a big impact on the race and probably cost the republicans, but it cost a lot of money to get on the state ballots and what have you. i'm not sure he's willing to spend 300 million or 400 million of his own money with no guarantee of doing any better than 8 or 10% of the vote. right today if you took all the voters and the people, it would be about 8, so%. that is basically what wallace had, half of what per ot had. >> mentioning george wallace, people are comparing done all trump to george wallace. >> they're tapping too some of the same voters i think to a certain extent. they're older voters today. with some of the same premise

rage people have, this longing for a scapegoat, and what makes trump really distinct, just like george wallacehe has absolutely no filter. aorge bush might say islam is religion of peace. going back to ronald reagan refusing to support an initiative in california that would have banned gay teachers. they knew that if they pushed this kind of stuff that they would be playing with fire. trump has none of that, and that is what rex people willing to use this word fascism. because once you feed on the angry energies of people who , you kind ofssed unleash forces in the human brain that are more animalistic, and that is what is so frightening about trump, and that is why you see his popularity increase and increase and increase. midcentury intellectuals and new from studying the fascist of europe in the 1940's that once terra way that thin layer of civilization in an electric, anything is possible. human beings can be very ugly. it's obviously the case archnixon was kind of establishment terrien, and trump is anything but, balloon you think of the concept, a lot of what was going on was white ameri

another thing that reminded me of trump when i was thinking about george wallace was that at wallace'ssometimes he would denounce a particular reporter who was right there in the press gallery and all these heads would turn and people would worry for the guy's safety. >> we're going to try to -- i was, i have been thinking about that, too. it's one thing to denounce the press as a whole. we've seen a lot of politicians do that, but to pick out individual reporters and make them targets of a heated up crowd is something we've seen only a few other times. we'll try to find that old coverage we can. michael beschloss, you are a wealth of information and help. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. just about anywhere you use sugar, you can use splenda®... ...no calorie sweetener. splenda® lets you experience... ...the joy of sugar... ...without all the calories. think sugar, say splenda® >>> the hillary clinton campaign sent out a big fund-raising e-mail today. since today is a day that ends in y, that's not surprising. what was surpri

i think that he is incredible, and i think the most important figure of my lifetime was george wallace and then to the fact that the wide working close voter was really po'ed and he was winning the primaries like crazy. >> yeah, in 1968 there was an election to richard nixon. >> yeah, and he got 14 percent of the poplar votes. >> yeah, but he got nixon to adopt a southern strategy and that's been the strategy of the republican party every since. trump should be showing the way to the rest of the republicans. we get a chance to learn from him. >> i know that the clinton forces are hoping that she gets the nomination and that it's trump against the nomination. they're hoping the same with reagan and getting concern with bush senior with that and saying that we want don't to go up against george sr. we know what happened in nevere -- >> the numbers of the delegates and the votes that you need to win are increasingly getting more complicated. this is the fact because they're not in the favor. >> that's not what i asked. you think that you're getting ahead of yourself and hoping and praying

another thing that reminded me of trump when i was thinking about george wallace was that at wallace'ses sometimes he would denounce a particular reporter who was right there in the press gallery and all these heads would turn and people would worry for the guy's safety. >> we're going to try to -- i was, i have been thinking about that, too. it's one thing to denounce the press as a whole. we've seen a lot of politicians do that, but to pick out individual reporters and make them targets of a heated up crowd is something we've seen only a few other times. we'll try to find that old coverage we can. michael beschloss, you are a wealth of information and help. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. ♪ ♪ how else do you think he gets around so fast? take the reins this holiday and get the mercedes-benz you've always wanted during the winter event. hurry, offers end january 4th! get fast-acting, long-lasting relief from heartburn with it neutralizes stomach acid and is the only product that forms a protective barrier that helps keep sto

there is always a piece of george wallace in american political life. race is there.he's non-idealogical because when he says -- he's no hawk. he hates the republican policy towards getting into everyone's business. he says let putin fight in syria. he is very much against the hawks. he doesn't fit with the republican establishment which is hawkish. i don't find him easy to figure out. i would say nationalist. maybe we haven't had one of those in awhile. it can be scary. a nationalist can be scary. if you are not a nationalist and don't look like one, sometimes obama comes off as too cool for school. too international, he loves trade, loves dealing with cuba, loves dealing with the climate issues and all those issues internationally. that's very big picture. to the average guy out there, get back to the ground with me where i live. look out for me, buddy. focus on my job and my career, my kids' careers. they didn't go to college either. i think the president, being a bit up here, has left the ground below him wide open for trump. >> well -- >> tonight that's what we t

there was a point at which the white kids are cutting up about george wallace, the usual stuff, the southll rise again, to which the black kids would respond slavery time is over, get over it. and at one point i was working on a bulletin board in the back of the room with a young lady named maryhill, she just looked at me and shook her head and said this but i said those are not my people. i was a moment of which i decided i have, i can't do this. you know, i can't pretend that one half of the room is good, normal human beings, and the rest of the room shouldn't be here, that i shouldn't have to be with these black kids. because i was enjoying it. i enjoyed talking to these people who i had never known before. i came from, my family was a lower-class working-class family. we would know better than them. they certainly knew that. and nobody, one of the things i talk about in the book is in the south we spent altogether too much time deciding who's better than new. that's the dirty side of saturn's. we talk about southerners have a real connection but we also have a deeply rooted connection

>> sure, george wallace ran in 196 as you know as an independent candidate.t one point, he had 25% of the vote according to one of the pollsters. he did that by needless to say creating a lot of fear among many white voters about african-americans and you know others who were jeopardizing what he called law and order. there is very much that history there. another thing that reminded me of trump when i was thinking about george wallace was that atwal las's rallies sometimes he would denounce a particular reporter who was right there in the press gallery and all these heads would turn and people would worry for the guy's safety. >> we're going to try to -- i was, i have been thinking about that, too. it's one thing to denounce the press as a whole. we've seen a lot of politicians do that, but to pick out individual reporters and make them targets of a heated up crowd is something we've seen only a few other times. we'll try to find that old coverage we can. michael beschloss, you are a wealth of information and help. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank y

until we recognize it is the very element that leads to the kind of bias and discrimination, when george wallace said seg grey gags forever, he was saying the same thing donald trump is saying right now. we've got to recognize that. >> there's obviously a history of this. we're also hearing calls for donald trump's fellow republican presidential candidates to stand up and be counted, and say no to this kind of rhetoric. to that end, lindsay graham said this on cnn earlier. i want you to listen and then we'll talk about the other candidates. >> he's a seen ohphobic religious bigot. you know how you make america great again? tell donald trump to go to hell. >> that's pretty strong. is that strong enough? and should the other candidates also stand up and be counted? i could read a whole list of some hovering around that bar of big olted comments made by many of the other gop candidates as well. >> well, it is very strong. i think what we have to do is see what other people do. i think you don't accommodate this kind of perspective. you don't host "saturday night live." you don't get engaged by peop

george wallace. and charles green.ts 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 people," you know? a

dog days before coming and we have seen demagoguery in the political arena going back as far as george wallace and there's nothing they or that we wish to play because we have these kinds of cases to the civil rights community is always taking the position that it's better to light a candle to let me just say that also as a muslim parent and very proud of the u.s. cmo to make sure that our young muslims are safe from such vicious organizations as isis. we stand shoulder to shoulder with them, and as a parent i am particularly proud of the political initiatives for constructive proactive engagement and pushing back against bigotry and islam a phobia moving forward to predicting as well as letting america know what we always know that terrorist suspects but rather they are america's brightest prospects. >> what we call on the muslim public council. >> i am the director for the public affairs council. rabiah ahmed. first i would like to thank the u.s. cmo for convening this important and timely conversation around this issue. i think it's important to note that each of the respective organization

we've seen demagoguery in the political arena going back to as far as george wallace etcetera. this is nothing new, yet, we want to step up to the plate. because we had these types of cases. the civil rights communities taken a position that it's better to light a candle than to -- let me say that also as a muslim parent, i'm very proud of this initiative of the uscmo. to make sure that our young muslims are safe of such vicious organizations as isis or sometimes referred to as dak. we are in full shoulder to shoulder with them. as parent, i'm proud of the political initiative that's channeling our young people and to construct it, proactive engagement and pushing back against bigotry and xenophobia and moving forward to predicting as well as letting america know what we always know. that our muslim youth are not terrorist suspects but rather they are america's brightest prospects. >> thank you. my name is robby. i'm the media communication director. rabiah. i like to thank uscmo for convening this very important and timely conversation around this issue. i think it's important

we have seen it demagoguery in the political arena going back to as far as george wallace. this is nothing new. we step to the plate because we have had these kinds of cases. the civil rights community says it's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. let's make this a muslim -- as a muslim parent, i am very proud of this movement to make sure that our young muslims are safe from such vicious organizations as isis. we stand shoulder to shoulder with them. as a parent, i am proud of the political initiative that is channeling our young children into constructive proactive engagement, pushing back against bigotry and islamophobia and moving forward to predicting as well as letting american know what we always know, that our youth are not terrorist suspects, but rather they are america's brightest prospects. >> let me call on the muslim public affairs council. >> thank you. i am the communications director for the public affairs counsel. i would like to thank this important conversation around this issue. i think it's important to know that each of our organizatio

in she was registering people to .ote long before we arrived i'm also glad it see the governor george wallacere peggy kennedy. thank you for being here, peggy. i want to thank each and every one of you who marched across bridge on bloody sunday. you didn't have to do it but you it. thank you! i will tell you it is good to be just oneone more time, more time. people often ask me why do you back? what purpose does it serve? ren e to sell ma to be renewed. we come to be inspired. we ome to be reminded that k that we are rbg called to do. 1965, a few innocent of god, some carrying things, a plain purse or a ackpack were inspired to walk 50 dangerous miles from selma to montgomery to demonstrate the for voting rights in the state of alabama. day, on that day, 600 history, ched into down the o by two sidewalk sidewalk. trade and ring with commerce. not entering with traffic. it was a kind of military discipline. peaceful, so quiet, word. saying a some of us were left bloody right here on this bridge. us were hospitalized that day. bitter or r became hostile. we kept believing that the truth would h

also, george wallace wallace ken day, thank you for being here, peggy. [ applause ] >> i wants to thank each and every one of you who marched across the bridge on bloody sunday. you didn't have to do it, but you did it. thank you. i tell you, it's god to be in selma one more time, just one more time. people often ask me, why do you come back? what purpose does it serve? we come to selma to be renewed. we come to be inspired. we come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice calls us to do. on march 7, 1965, a few innocent children of god. a plain purse or a backpack will aspire to walk 50 dangerous miles from selma. to demonstrate the need for voting rights in the state of alabama. on that day, 600 people march in history. walking two-by-two down the sidewalk. not interfering with the trade and commerce. not interfere iing no one is sag a word. we were beaten, some of us was knocked bloody right here on this bridge. 17 of us were hospitalized that day. but we never became bitter or hostile. we can't believe that the truth we stood for would have the founders there. this city

george wallace. within weeks, birmingham is known as bombing ham. the words of politicians legitimize hates. >> but this was going on before donald trump and has been building, he's cashing in on it. what was it that took us from post 9/11, from iraq to afghanistan and syria, and the middle east caught up in this. how did we get here, why do so many americans feel this way. taking republican americans out. 30% of americans... >> is there any part you understand. >> if i wasn't muslim. if all i saw was i.s.i.s. and al qaeda. i would think - i don't know muslims. i would think it's islam. i get that. that is why it's important for muslim americans to go out and meet people >>> we have had that discussion. muslims stand up. and are saying it. they are not heard. >> i literally begged producers to have other muslims on to tell people what we are about. we are too small to treat people. look at the reality. the model is railing. what sells. the understand that there's people out there. there are people in i.s.i.l. that infiltrated mosques, and your commu

should demand from our presidential candidates a standard that in no way echos the voice of a george wallace or george mccarthy. >>> 9/11 first responders are calling on congress to pass the zadroga act which provides medical coverage for first responders and those that became ill after the 9/11 attacks. congress allowed the program to expire. they said the act should be added to a bill that must pass by the end of the week before holidays. holiday season. how can we celebrate if we are not taking care of the health care of our first responders. >> i remember clearly when the head of the epa was telling people the air is safe to breathe, when the first responders working here for three months and the air was not safe to breathe. >> another rally is planned for today. >>> secretary of state john kerry heads to paris to talk about climate change this morning. he is rejoining negotiators trying to score a break through on a climate change agreement. these are the same talks that kerry and president obama attended last week. kerry flew back to paris overnight. the agreement leaves too many key i

. >> fine to criticize his words, but this language analysis says he's like george wallace, joe mccarthy. what do you make of that? >> again it goes back to the earlier point, this is not someone who sits down for interviews, so they are relying on what they've heard in the rallies, what they have seen and heard from his own speeches. he doesn't sit down for printed newspaper. >> that's not true. >> he goes on television and dials in -- >> trump regularly -- >> he regular his talks to robert cost la at "the washington post" or "new york times." i don't think inaccessibility -- >> he did not comment for this story. when you asks the questions, he doesn't have answers so therefore they're parsing his words and going through to try to determine who he is as a person based on what they see as far as in the forums and in the larger public and the drive-by run-through television interviews. >> instead of chewing over the sinister details of policies, they go through the sinister implications of the words. how are we going to do it, hour? we're just going to do it this circular logic, half-comp

and he is using an age-old trick of right wing populism, much like george wallace, much like joe mccarthy, pitch much pitch fork ben tillman in the 1880s and '90s whipped up political hysteria for his own benefit. this is the kind of thing is he doing. >> congressman keith ellison, thank you very much. >>> in my interview with steve king he referenced an imam who allegedly encouraged migrants to breed with europeans as some kind of infiltration. new claims the u.s. government carried out 9/11 and the boston marathon bombing. still ahead, donald trump's unshakeable base and who just said that opposing trump aligns you with hamas. >>> plus, massive protests in chicago amidst growing calls for mayor rahm emanuel to resign. the latest on that ahead. >>> later the shocking comments made by justice scalia in the affirmative action case. that and more ahead. >>> we're learning more about the two terror attacks that happened in america in the past two weeks. fbi director james comey revealed a major development in the san bernardino investigation at a senate committee this morning. >> san bernard

george wallace, a southern democrat bolted the party and ran as an independent on a segregationist platformssassinated. that alone was a bigger and more important historical event than anything that has happened in this campaign. the day after martin luther king was assassinated on edge, what bobby kennedy said that day to a country still reeling from the assassination of his brother, and now again from the assassination of a moral leader, the likes of which this country had never seen before, what he said that day is tonight's "last word." >> when you teach a man to hate and to fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his believes or the policies that he pursue, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your home or your family, then owe also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies, we must admit the vanity of our false distinctions, false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in search for the advancement of all. we must admit to ourselves that our children's futu

just like when george wallace was barring the door in segregation today, tomorrow and forever.just like when joe mccarthy was doing what he did, you know, good americans said, you know what? i may pay a personal price in terms of disapproval of some people, but i'm going to say it's wrong because it's wrong. and so this is the moment that we're in, and i don't accept senator cruz saying, well, i'm not going to pile on, i don't really agree. no, this is the moment where real integrity is on the line. and people have to step up and say persecuting a religious minority and scapegoating them is absolutely unacceptable. that's the moment we're in. >> and in the final few moments we have, how do people in your family, how do the children in a muslim-american family feel about all of this? >> they're fearful, they're worried. i mean, they -- muslim kids, american kids aspire to be president of the united states. they want to be soldiers, they want to be cops, they want to be firefighters, they love this country and want to serve it. so when somebody who is aspiring to be president and

. >> this analysis said he is like george wallace or mccarthy, that? it goes back to the early point this is not someone who sits down for interviews and they are relying on what they have heard in the rallies, what they have seen and heard from his own speeches because he does not sit down. >> he regularly talks to the "washington post" and robert kosta, and i don't think inaccessible is a problem the he would not content for this problem. >> he did not. but he does not go -- you ask the questions he does not have the answers is they are going through and trying to determine what they see as far as in the forum and larger public and in the drive by run through television interviews. >> we have immigration and tax plans and they go through the sinister implication of his words and he is like, how are we going to do it? we will just do it. that is how. this circular logic, half completed sentences. it leaves a lot of room for interrogation. >> and he used the word "horrible," 14 times and "weak," 13 teams. it is residential when terrorists kill innocent

he's related to the candidacy of the late george wallace. barry goldwater, if you will. he's in that line. but we've not been as a people, as a country, as a society, we've not been in this territory before, someone saying we should limit immigration into the country based on religion. this is something unique and new. >> the radicalness of his proposal has been greeted by i think with some astonishment and some, oh, there he goes again, because i think he has as part of the m.o. of his campaign constantly pushed the envelope in terms of what's too outrageous for a main street political candidate to get away with. has he thereby made all forms of radicalism possible in the campaign? >> the short answer to that is yes. by the way, i think it should be noted that each time he goes up and crosses what some people consider to be a line it has to do with his poll numbers. before he issued this declaration on immigration his poll numbers were softening up in iowa. he was still leading but softened up. he comes up with another what many call outrageous proposal. we see clearly

george wallace changes his mind. strom thurmond changes his mind. not jesse. he is consistent.he is a naturally consistent in identifies ashe political principles. johnsonat regard, when signed the civil rights act, he is reported to have declared that we have just now delivered the south into the hands of the republican party, and that seems that was jesse's home base, white male, southern, north carolina voters. in the racism that he merged the support of helms. -- i were him or his documentaries, his editorials. ,nd his actions in congress demagoguery may be a personal judgment rather than objectivity on the editorial and other evidence. of a racist and demagogue and then to be elevated almost to sainthood by a baptist college, and by the religious right, etc., seems a major contradiction. any observations about your conclusion that he was racist or not, having not one black staff member notwithstanding? william: we had to actually. it is interesting, i think there was one of the things that offended helms, any suggestion he was racist. >> what would it look like if you were

i haven't seen this, frankly, since george wallace campaign where attacks on the media at rallies, you really were one of the signature effects. >> it's important to realize what context this was in. he was praising vladimir putin who is someone who ihas, you know, imprisoned and killed journalists. and this is where we need to make the distinction between the ridiculous and the dangerous. this is a man now flirting with authoritarianism, praising the leadership style of vladimir putin. so his divisive rhetoric, extreme policies and now he's praising a leadership style that really flirts with authoritarianism. this is a serious, serious matter. >> but, of course, it is working and matt bai, you wrote memorably this week why. that we are somewhat to blame. in fact, you wrote "it's clear now that trump's enduring popularity is in no small part a reflection of an acid disdain for us. this is a simmering reaction to smugness and shallowness in the media, a parade of glib punditry unmoored to any sense of history or personal experience. it's about our love of gaffes and scandals real or ima

were clear elements for people who have studied a demagoguery seemed familiar to people like george wallace for instance. he talks about isis chopping people's head off in literally almost every single speech and several interviews and repeatedly says something really bad is going on out there. we don't know what is going on. he uses them versus them repeatedly. he talked about we didn't have the guns, they had the guns and does it repeatedly. in terms of this claim that he just -- this call he just made about muslim banning travel into the u.s. or immigrants, this is fitting with where he has been going since the paris attacks. there was a moment his rhetoric got darker right after ben carson took the lead in a poll over him in iowa, excuse me, and he made it very, very strong criticism of dr. ben carson, mocked him on stage in iowa and questioned whether people were dumb for quoting him and the next day was the paris attack and since then he's been making increasingly hasher statements. >> jeffrey, i think he actually said something else about his new proposal tonight. so let's just quick

you can go back to 1968, and george wallace running for president, and, you know, he won a lot of thethe southern states and at one point he had 50% of white males to have you, don lemon, not to have right, and not to have the right to vote. so there is plenty of bigotry and xenophobia and anti-se anti-sentiments, but it is a strain and a dark strain of america, and that is what donald trump is tapping into it. >> and it is not only conservative, but franklin de a delano franklin's plan was support supported by some of the great american liberals in the world, and so with when you are frighten and a country that just bombed you and they are going to be sending in fifth columns affects liberals and con s conservatives and people of every background and that is why we have to be so concerned about a presidential candidate who plays into the great fear. >> and douglas, even though donald trump is running with a republican, it is what is insurgent campaign, and he said that a new poll says that 68% of my supporters would vote for me if i departed the gop and ran as an independent. is he r

we have seen it demagoguery in the political arena going back to as far as george wallace. this is nothing new. because wethe plate have had these kinds of cases. the civil rights community says it's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. muslim -- as a a muslim parent, i am very proud of this movement to make sure that our young muslims are safe from such vicious organizations as isis. shouldershoulder to with them. as a parent, i am proud of the political initiative that is channeling our young children into constructive proactive engagement, pushing back against bigotry and islamophobia and moving forward to predicting as well as letting american know what we always know, that our youth are not terrorist suspects, but rather they are america's brightest prospects. on the muslim public affairs council. >> thank you. directorcommunications for the public affairs cancel. -- counsel. i would like to thank this aroundnt conversation this issue. i think it's important to know that each of our organizations have then working on these efforts, building interfaith r