and that attack did not kill george wallace, but it did leave him paralyzed. when nixon heard about the attempt on george wallace's life, he immediately got himself a great idea. he would very quickly insist that because someone had tried to kill george wallace, ted kennedy must also get secret service protection. hmm? george wallace, racist segregationist southern candidate, ted kennedy, pro civil rights boston liberal lion. why are these things connected? why is somebody trying to kill george wallace mean that ted kennedy needs a secret service detail? these things are not connected. most importantly, ted kennedy was not a presidential candidate at all at the time. the secret service had recently had its remit expanded so they were covering not only presidents and vice presidents, but major presidential candidates. ted kennedy not a presidential candidate. so why on earth would the secret service start protecting him? well, nixon insisted that they must. because he figured, presumably in the aftermath of the wallace shooting, maybe people were scared and ups

the very funny george wallace is here.ingers teaming up for this ep. it's an ep of duets called "table for two." music from lucky daye with yebba. this week- we've got a great lineup, new shows with chris rock, heidi klum, mike epps, wanda sykes, and music from madness, morray, and mod sun with avril lavigne. so please join us for that. our first guest is an a very talented actor with a new obiwan ke showbi coming to disney plus, but first he plays a famous fashion icon in a new limited series on netflix, "halston" premieres friday. please welcome ewan mcgregor. hey, ewan, how you? >> good. how you? >> jimmy: i'm doing well. thank you. thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> jimmy: i see you have a lot of "star wars" stuff behind you there in that room you're in, huh? >> yeah. i'm on set. i'm sort of in the studio where we're shooting the "star wars" series. >> jimmy: oh, great. pick up the computer and carry it around and show us everything. what would happen if you did that? would you -- no, you can't be fired. ther

the george wallace, racist segregationist candidate. ted kennedy, pro civil rights boston liberal lion. why are these things connected? why is someone trying to kill george wallace? these things are not connected. most importantly ted kennedy was not a presidential candidate at all at the time. the secret service had recently had its unit expanded so they were governing not only presidents and vice presidents but also major presidential candidates. ted kennedy? not a presidential candidate so why with the secret service start protecting him? when nixon existed that they must. because he figured, presumably, and the aftermath of the wallace shooting maybe people were scared and upset and they might go along with something like that. but more importantly to nixon, the real reason he wanted to do it is that he wanted the secret service to be with ted kennedy 24 hours a day, 27 days a week because you wanted them to spy on ted kennedy for him and report back to him because he wanted to find dirt on ted kennedy to use against him in the poli

is running mate when george wallace ran on the third-party ticket in 1968 year so curtis lemay beforeice presidential candidate replaces hansell indo-pacific. tell us what happens. >> haywood hansell takes his idealistic vision to the pacific theater. after guam is captured in 1944, americus finally close enough to japan l that they can launch bombing raids on japan. the ask haywood hansell to command that operation. he takes a whole fleet of b-29s to guam and the build the biggest airport in the world actually, and they start launching these rates on japan. hansell id is not going to kill japanese civilians. i'm not going to burn down the whole country. i'm going to take out the planes they use to manufacture airplanes. i'm going to reduce their ability to wage war from the air to rubble, and o that will rendr them defenseless against any kind of american assault. it is a strategy that was straight out of bomber mafia 101. this is what they were dreaming up back in alabama in the 1930s. you didn't have to attack everyone. just look at the most military strategic targets and take them

tonight -- ewan mcgregor, george wallace, and music from lucky daye featuring yebba, and now, jimmy kimmelmmy, i'm the host. thank you for watching, and thank you for joining us on the day after the "post about your mom instagram" day. i hope you didn't screw that up. there's a lot of pressure on mother's day, i usually just pretend i was kidnapped. and i return later that night. did you meet the challenge, guillermo? >> guillermo: yes, jimmy. >> jimmy: what did you do? >> guillermo: i ordered breakfast for my wife. >> jimmy: where did you order it from? >> guillermo: joe's cafe. >> jimmy: what did you get her? >> guillermo:

disorder and lawlessness became a national political issue, particularly in 68 in the campaigns of george wallacey in the campaign of richard nixon. >> it is time for an honest look at the problem of order in the united states. >> and that issue hung around for decades. in 1986, tre were three justices of the california supreme court removed by the vters for not being tough enough on crime. and i know you'll remember in 1988, michael dukakis' presidential campaign was hobbled by the issue that there had been a furlough program where convicted criminals were let out for a while and one of them went on a crime spree, which resulted in a major effort by the bush campaign in its commercials. >> his revolving-door prison policy gave weekend furloughs to first-degree murderers. >> and that also explains why bill clinton, when he ran for president in 1992, made a point of appearing in front of police officers and presenting both as candidate and as president a very tough crime package supported in no small measure by then-senator joe biden. >> sreenivasan: what happened with joe biden and crime? i mean,

son of the south is replaced by a barrel chested ohio when who some of us might remember to be george wallace is running mate when he ran on the ticket in 1968. so curtis lemay before vice presidential candidate replaces handful in the pacific and tells us what happens. >> he takes his idealistic vision to the pacific theater after guam is captured america is finally close enough to japan and they ask him to command and operation he takes a whole fleet of the 292 guam to build the biggest in the world and they start launching raids on japan. to say i will not kill japanese civilians are burned down the country the plans they used to manufacture i will reduce their ability to wage war from the air to rubble and that will render them defenseless against any kind of american. assault. as strategy straight out of bomber mafia one oh one. with the most military strategic targets. so there is one mission after another from guam to japan. and then said it doesn't do what it supposed to do he really does believe if he's given enough time he can resolve all the problems he is facing. that washington i

i recall the george wallace era and stuff like that, but i do not recall it being one sided. just, so -- no bipartisanship at all. i would like to know what you think. the little bit that you do know. host: thanks. guest: i am looking forward to visiting family in indiana this summer. two things come to mind. we have had partisanship for the entirety of our country. we have had disagreements, this is nothing new. we tend to forget some terrible times we have had sun what is happening right now but to me one thing that is different, one thing that strikes me right now that could have also happened in the past, not only do we not disagree with each other -- we can't agree with each other, each side does not view the other side as equals. the other side is some human -- subhuman. when you view the other side as so terribly, you see things -- i think the tone of the conversation and the arguments are different. you make choices that are different because you do not value the other side. not only do you value -- do you not value their opinions, you don't value them as a person and

paranoid style in american politics, and there's always been a populist element and joe mccarthy and george wallace and huey long and ross perot and pat buchanan. we could spend the rest of the week with my boring you with the historical prologues to this moment. the difference is all of those moments were differences of degree from a consensus and a rational governing strategy as opposed to kind. and right now this is a difference of kind. having mitch mcconnell, who has given his life to republican power, but it was republican, and it was republican in the sense of eisenhower and nixon and ford and reagan and the bushes. he's now using all of his formidable skills, whatever you think about what he does with them, there's never been a more powerful senate majority leader including lyndon johnson than mitch mcconnell. he sing of single-handedly shifted american jurisprudence for the next half century, and what he's doing tonight is he is standing in the way of truth, of finding out how we had the most perilous hour for our democracy since ft. sumter. >> let me ask you this since you mention that. i

the shooting of george wallace. now the rope line is going to function differently.netometers of a crowd. it's a shame something happens and then comes the change. >> so true. i mean, we say that like american government at large is often so reactive. the secret service has been too. you know, what is funny is before he died, i interviewed president reagan's detail leader bob deprosfero who was kind of famous. he said we wanted to use magnetometers before that shooting at the hilton before reagan was almost killed that day because of a bullet, despite mccarthy's efforts, despite his detail leader pushing the president into the back seat of the limo as soon as he could. a bullet did ricochet against the limo's door and went into his lung. but deprospe said we hope to have those but always had resistance from the white house. that is the tension in this world in which the president wanted to get re-elected and look like he is an every man with the people and not being protected from them. the secret service is saying, look, we have to keep you alive and we have to thin

george wallace said that it proved martin luther king was the prayed that he would allow this to happen. all the politics and media said that these demonstrations proved the civil rights movement had lost its moorings, yet those photographs broke through peoples emotional resistance to the civil rights movement. it's demonstrations broke out in over 700 cities. forced president kennedy to introduce the civil rights bill. as never before except passover, the fate of small children turn the power of relations of a great nation from segregation to the civil rights act of 1964. it was all on the witness of the school children. my point was where did this come from? the time i got to college, the movement kept intensifying through selma. i dropped my premed courses and went to political scientists. but then i finished a chapel hill, i went down to work with julian bond. we put together a challenge delegation while i was still in school, to challenge mattocks our governor at the convention in 1968. by miracle we got seated, and julian became a lifelong friend. we have the same birthday which

he said george wallace has revised his stump speech into minor classics that never mention race and say that his only goal is to restore the role of local government from pointy-headed bureaucrats and tax-and-spend liberals. and we turned away from the message of dr. king for largely 50 years into gridlock. it's happened before. my thesis is that race is and always has been freedom's gate in america. that it can swing open when we make it swing open and it can swing closed when we let it swing closed. but it's always at the center, but we tend to bounce off of race to get onto other topics and lose the wonder of it and the nuclear potential in the associations that come across racial barriers. now, we're in another period of stirring, from women of color and dreamers and women not of color and black lives matter people and high school students upset by the culture of guns to try to influence us the way the kids did in birmingham in 1963 with dogs and fire hoses. to me, it's kind of like the 1950s when there was a lot of percolation going on and dr. king was the first and only civil righ

george wallace uses it read jack hayes uses it. they'll use it and we have terms like that today that we use that sound good whether it makes sense or not. that term was one of those things but at the same time barrett generally interesting explorations of the concept of freedom and what it really means and what it means to be a human being and those are interesting conversations. >> this is i think why delving into the civil war biases coming through here is a fascinating way to kick off your pain influence during this period. how do you see that as having really occurred to shore up in some ways the intellectual concept of freedom? >> i think existentialism is -- and in short the answer to how is that possible is the most important thing about that period is after 1945 coming out of a period where there was a lot of isolationist sentiment and became active in international affairs. many other countries had art and music and ideas abroad and we brought them here. there's a huge amount of social exchange and even though there's lim

in some cases, george wallace, for example, they're able to build on what they start out with in a smallnd become national figures. i'm willing to bet that neither one of these two actually last as national figures for too long. >> well, from your lips to god's ears. let me ask you one last question before i let you go. your take on the new white house. give us your report card on the biden/harris administration so far? >> first of all, i'll try to do that. let's remember, it's still very early. we won't have that excuse very long, but it's still very early. i think president biden gets very high marks for the way he's handled the coronavirus, making that a priority. he's done a very good job of that. he's done a very good job of introducing his new infrastructure bill, but i will say that i get the feeling that his administration has slowed down, i wouldn't say bogged down, but slowed down some, been slowed down by mitch mcconnell and the republicans. and everything -- i won't say everything, but much depends on whether he's able to get any infrastructure bill worthy of the name through

are innately provisional because our experience shows us, you go across the pettus bridge but george wallace wins in five states in the 1968 presidential election. you beat off mccarthy, he beat off wallace and you get what happened to the country from 2016 to 2020. there are recurrent, dark forces in american life. they have to be met by recurrent forces of light. in our midst, there was an exemplar of someone who was willing to die for that idea. if we are talking about st. paul or something, it would be theoretical. that's what you are supposed to do in a setting like this. he was your friend. he was your mentor. i loved him. he was with us eight months ago, within the last year. here was this person who carried in him the resilience and the tragedy and the triumph of america itself. that's the story that has to be told again and again. i'm convinced that one of the reasons for the graphic novel, one of the reasons for the picture, he always knew how to frame what was going on. he had engaged and encountered american history that way. through the radio, through the try message, the montgo

again yet, but the the law and order backlash is rising and we hear people like richard nixon and george wallace pushing on the johnson administration to take a stronger stand on this thing called law and order so fighting crime, which is one way of that. this issue was discussed is the theme of the luncheon and eartha kitt is invited by the white house to attend because she has been an activist for civil rights, but also in watson los angeles and in anacostia and washington dc to try to do what we would think of as like basic youth empowerment how to empower local kids to feel that. they actually have an opportunity and possibility and so she's putting her her wealth behind dance classes and training programs and she's testified before congress about it. so that's why she's invited to come. the what she does that is. treated with such controversy is a couple of things one. she says what we heard her say just now which is people are in the streets. she brings she brings a critique of vietnam into a discussion that's supposed to be about what's happening at home and in the white house, you know,

is ever been this nasty in your younger years because i don't recall what i i do recall with george wallace and stuff like that. but i don't recall being one sided just so, no bipartisanship at all. so would like to know what you think. the little bit that you do know. >> i'm looking forward to getting out with the family later in the summer. two things come to mind. one, we've had partisanship for maybe the entirety of our country. we've had disagreements. this is nothing new and we can do forget some of those terrible times that we have had in scenes on our history and partisanship in the past we focus on what is happening right now. timmy one thing that is different or one thing that strikes me right now is that could happen also in the past is that not only do we not disagree, we can't agree with each other but each side does not even view the other side as equals. the other side isde subhuman. and when you view the other side so terribly, not as equals, you say things and i think the conversation, the arguments are different you make choices that are different. you just don't value of

but george wallace wins 13.5% and five states in the 1968 presidential election. right. you beat off mccarthy. you beat off wallace? and you get what happened to the country from 2016 to 2020? there are recurrent. dark forces in american life that have to be met by recurrent forces of light. and in our midst there was an exemplar. of someone who was willing to die. for that idea and this isn't if we were talking about saint paul or something, you know, it would it would be sort of theoretical and that's what you're supposed to do in a setting like this. he was your friend. he was your mentor. i loved him from afar. and he was with us. eight months ago whatever. it'll be the last year. so here was this person who carried in him? the resilience and the tragedy and the triumph of america itself and that's the story that has to be told again and again, and i'm convinced. that one of the reasons for the graphic novel one of the reasons for a picture for always as use as linda was saying he always knew how to frame what was going on. is that he had? engaged in encountered amer

that's what donald trump used to saying and george wallace used to say about the racist voters, that they were the silent majority, but it since out the silent majority have people who just want to go back to their lives and have competent leadership in washington, right? on cable shows, on our twitter feeds our hair is a fire, and we're mad -- for good reason you know, maybe bad reasons on other networks -- but voters are looking to get back to their lives. wanting economy to get back to normal. i think joe biden appeals to them, and now even among some voters who voted for donald trump, or voters who didn't turn out to vote, can see his poll numbers ticking up. i do want to offer a note of caution. i think the -- over-sampling the democrats. i think there's a lot of maga voters who don't stop to pollsters. even if the number is 55, not 63, i think it shows a broad middle of the country silent majority that joe biden is thinking to. i fit as long as he's effective, he can maintain the numbers. >> claire, i didn't meet to leave you uu out. it does seem he's deploying that he picked u

i recall the george wallace era and stuff like that, but i do not recall it being one sided.ust, so -- no bipartisanship at all. i would like to know what you think. the little bit that you do know. host: thanks. guest: i am looking forward to visiting family in indiana this summer. two things come to mind. we have had partisanship for the entirety of our country. we have had disagreements, this is nothing new. we tend to forget some terrible times we have had sun what is happening right now but to me one thing that is different, one thing that strikes me right now that could have also happened in the past, not only do we not disagree with each other -- we can't agree with each other, each side does not view the other side as equals. the other side is some human -- subhuman. when you view the other side as so terribly, you see things -- i think the tone of the conversation and the arguments are different. you make choices that are different because you do not value the other side. not only do you value -- do you not value their opinions, you don't value them as a person and t

at the same time i was serving in vietnam, george wallace was standing in the door of the universitya and would not let those black students go to the university of alabama and i said to myself where should i be with this m-16 rifle, vietnam or the university of alabama? if america had treated the rights of the people this country like they should've treated them, they wouldn't have the products being made and manufactured overseas if they had treated the workers in the field, they wouldn't of had the mexicans come across the border. host: we will go to liz in new jersey. caller: good morning. i'm calling just to say i think for the first time probably in close to 40 years because of the disappearance of both good paying american jobs and unions that were part of that, we are seeing now with the government stepping in and awful pandemics to help people through that time when they could not work, we shouldn't of had them out there working. the employers now have some real competition for workers. they are not just flocking and at the lowest possible wages. the unemployment, my suggest

wallace jr.'s death igniting the city. one of more than 300 black lives claimed by at least last year across the country. >> for every george family left behind, fighting for change. eric garner's family battling to ban police chokeholds. breonna taylor's mom rallying against no-knock warrants. for walter wallace's family, it's about tasers and changing how police respond to mental health. shortly after the shooting, the family enlists the help of attorney shaka johnson, a former philadelphia police officer himself. >> when you hear "mental health challenge," you wonder why deadly force, when dealing with someone who is having a crisis. >> this narrative, that oh, he has a criminal record, he was armed and dangerous. >> right. >> what do you make of that description? >> when it is someone killed at the hands of police, we engage in victim blaming almost immediately. we don't go into that level of inquiry as it relates to the officers. >> reporter: the wallace family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the two officers, sean mazzerato and thomas munz. the officers' attorney said in a statement both sides are discussin

. >> reporter: now minnesota governor tim wallace has signed a proclamation declaring a moment of silence at 1:00 p.m. for 9 minutes and 29 seconds for george floyd. >>> new fallout after the leader of belarus known as europe's last dictator forced a passenger plane to land so he could arrest a reporter who was critical of the government. the european union has already agreed to impose sanctions on belarus. the white house called the hijacking a, quote, shocking act. the journalist who was arrested has been seen on video offering what was likely a forced confession for organizing protests in the country. his ryanair flight from greece to lithuania was brought down sunday after officials in belarus reported a false bomb threat. >> this is unprecedented to have a commercial airliner brought down to have a journalist arrested using this incredible ruse even in an authoritarian country so the eu has agreed on new sanctions against belarus including a ban on the use of eu airspace and airports, and i don't think too many people will be flying over belarus itself. >> our martha raddatz there. witnesses say the reporter was trying to get rid of hi