france famously used the guillotine, famous for the chant "off with their heads."or a long time the method of choice in america was hanging. >> in the united states, the first recorded execution was in 1608 in jamestown, virginia. over the years, hangings became great social event, great source of entertainment. people brought picnics. teachers would bring the students, parents would bring the kids. there was a choir, a band. >> they were public because they were considered a ritual whose goal was to deter the populous. >> but our history of executions also included a dark side. botched executions that quickly turned horrifying for the masses. >> it turns out it's very difficult to properly hang someone. if the drop is too long, the head would fall off. they called jerk to jesus or launch to eternity. there was a man named eddie ives. he weighed 80 pounds. the weight drops and it goes cazoom and whirled around the horizontal beam and they had to hang him twice. there was a lot of concern about botched hangings. that's why the electric chair was brought in. >> by th

. >> when i look at you, i think of guillotine. >> or horse's head. >> for the republican party rightnow to be going to this garbage, really just shows you a level of dysfunction, you know, they would screw up, i don't want to say, my father would say it, they have hillary clinton on the run. she's out there proposing an absurd wall street plan today which means nothing because she's afraid of bernie sanders. they have a kind of a crumby economy on their side, they can point to the president of the united states. they have infighting and shooting on the other side and what they're doing, they're killing themselves. neil: they can grab defeat from the jaws of-- >> a 50-50 chance the g.o.p. would win the white house. neil: i want to bring in congresswoman me imi who would have backed the congressman. 0 do you turn to? other names will jump in, what do you do? >> this was a shock to you will a-- all of us in the conference. i've been here for nine months and a lot of activity going on. it will be interesting to see what happens over the next couple of months. neil: couple of months? coup