>> it had approval from the top of the fbi, which was j edgar hoover, who was the longtime director of the fbi or almost 50 years -- fbi for almost 50 years, and was extremely focused on identifying communist links, or communist individuals who were involved in social justice movements and political movements in the united states. >> any concern from president truman, president eisenhower, president johnson, that individual rights were being discriminated against or taken away? >> not part of the conversation 1960's.ter in the j edgar hoover himself saw ways he wanted to curtail the spying and surveillance activity over concerns like that. >> southern student organizing committee. what was that? mr. michel: the acronym was soc, a group that was white college students in the south in the 1960's. when most people think of what young people in the south at that time, they often think klan, or people opposed to civil rights. the people involved with soc were involved with supporting civil rights and supporting civil rights causes. they came together to form this organization. it existed on

j. edgar hoover. another was a guy we had discovered in recent months was a tutor of donald trump in his early days, a guy named roy cohn. bobby kennedy despised him and i think unfairly blamed all of mccarthy's excesses on him. mccarthy was the boss, and the excesses were his responsibility. but he hated roy cohn. he hated j. edgar hoover. he detested jimmy hoffa, the head of the biggest and most powerful union in america, who bobby thought was corrupt. those are people you could argue there's a good reaso detest. the fourth person is the one that to me is a great tragedy, and that was lbj. constitutionally, these guys were so different. one was a harvard educated guy who grew up rich in massachusetts. the other was a guy from east texas who grew up poor and resented anybody who was harvard educated and who talked like bobby kennedy talked. had they ever united in a coalition, they could have gotten more extraordinary things done. they both wanted to promote civil rights. they both want to do and pov

>> my understanding that j edgar hoover got permission from bobby andedy to put microphones his motel and tape martin luther king and blackmail him. is that correct? the first half of what you said is absolutely correct. --ger hoover kept going back j edgar hoover kept going back to bobby kennedy wanting to wiretap martin luther king. hoover felt there were leftists s, without any definitive evidence, that there in martin luther king's camp. he asked repeatedly for the authority to wiretap and in the end, bobby kennedy gave it to him, without defending the decision at all, for a strategic reason. the kennedys were about to propose a major civil rights bill, and the most embarrassing thing to the world for them would have been if a bunch of leftists had turned up in martin luther king's camp. hoover would have used the information to embarrass the kennedys and undermine their record on civil rights. the idea that the wiretaps did provide embarrassing information about king, the idea that kennedy wanted that circulated is exactly the opposite. when kennedy realized what was happening an

j. edgar hoover fidel castro labor union leaders like jimmy hoffa and southern racists . in january nine hundred sixty four lee harvey oswald's widow marina testified before the warren commission which was investigating jack kay's assassination. oswald was shot and killed by jack ruby a dallas nightclub owner who was said to have ties to organized crime. bobby kennedy believed that all's well had been the front man for a broader conspiracy. also in one thousand nine hundred sixty four an official government commission investigating the kennedy assassination released its report. robert kennedy did not testify before the commission nor did he publicly question its conclusion that oswald had acted alone. to done so would have meant confronting terrible truths about his role in his brother's administration and the rage he felt at john kennedy's murder. just. at the time robert kennedy was running for the u.s. senate in new york he took time off from the campaign to reflect on the years he had devoted to his brother's political career he was overcome by anger but where did thi

j. edgar hoover then sent a memo to kennedy in which the f.b.i. chief referred to. allegations about bobby's alleged friendship with marilyn monroe well they refused to respond to the reports. and. educate. them. in august nine hundred sixty four the democrats held their national convention in atlantic city new jersey there were rumors about a johnson kennedy take it but they came to nothing and johnson insisted that kennedy speak the last of the convention so he wouldn't steal the show. when kennedy arrived to give his speech the delegates greeted him with a twenty two minute ovation to many of them bobby kennedy represented the tragedy of unfulfilled promise in his speech he spoke about his brother's vision for america i. love the kennedy was back on the campaign trail running for office on his own but want by his policies what sort of candidate would he become at this point kennedy did not yet have the answers. and then kennedy spoke at columbia university in new york and a new candidate emerged compassionate radical and tough. to great problem i would think in t

j. edgar hoover read every single going production did you know that you know that j. edgar hoover read the scripts and he was that rigorous about it so he created a lot of mythology there but i don't serious know doug i mean i'm kind of a counter to the line of course you can have a bias but it doesn't mean you can break the law and that's the difference ok that's what i'm worried about go ahead. yeah i was a friend of f. from zimbalist jr and miss him it was interesting person who started the f.b.i. yeah i'd like to know who wears the pro trump tech i have. a little balance here where some pro trump people that serve on the moeller committee it seems to me that this is going to be portrayed as a partisan witch hunt because that's what it is and they they won't davis no attempt to bring any balance to or there are any facts to it and they're pursuing twelve year old deals that man afraid may. not the f.b.i. but i know about manna for deals that were twelve years old this is how desperate it's become in order to try to get some indictments i think it's pretty pathetic a

j edgar hoover kept dossiers on everybody. in fact, there for a while, when the kennedy assassination, they thought that maybe he was implicated. how could the fbi address that? that reputation is hurtful, and you don't teach that in history, you do not teach it in schools, to now history has repeated itself. to you, steve, a couple months ago you had a guy call in and he said you were biased against trump. you got really annoyed with the guy, and you kind of reminded me of andy cooper when he was talking about the fake news, you know? he said it's true, it's true, and it was true. but they never blamed anything else with the same thing trump did, they never charged obama with lying, but the thing that gets me about the span is when president obama was on and you guys were -- people would call in, if somebody even had a hint of calling the guy a name or saying anything like he was a racist or anything, you would cut him right off. brian lamb did, all right? and we would do the same with donald trump. caller: no you don't. him

j. edgar hoover kept dossiers on everybody. in fact, there for a while when the kennedy assassination, they even thought maybe he was implicated. so, you know, the head of the fbi will address, you know, tell me that the fbi has a great reputation. it's less than truthful. and the thing is you don't teach that in history, you don't teach it in school, so now history has repeated itself. now to you, steve. here a couple of months ago you had a guy call in, and he said that you were biased against trump. and you got really annoyed with the guy. and, you know, you kind of reminded me of old andy cooper when he was talking about fake news, youta know? heut said, well, it's true, it's true. and it was true. but, you know, they never blamed anybody else for the same thing trump did. they never, you know, charged obama with lying or anything. but the thing that gets me about c-span is when president obama was on and you guys were, you know, people would call in, if somebody even had a hint of calling guy a name or saying anything like

how it got back to jay pruner river -- j edgar hoover in december? that's obvious. the letters.ust stupid letters i aboutl of -- to phil some of the things people were talking about, not knowing that they were always monitoring his mail. youatter house southerly try to say something, they will try to make something of it. >> when the revelation came out of what they were really about, that was a shocker. and that was across the board, especially when you are sitting back and knowing what the government -- that the number -- that the government knows more about their relationship than you do. you tohow surprised were find out the fbi was reading the mail of the prisoner? skizz: not very. the interview with liz was the first time we heard about the letters. joe: i knew nothing about the story and just asked her questions on this came out. it probably took me six months to realize what we had just talked about, to fully appreciate what we had just talked about. these were not letters that she mailed to the prison. there was an informant named boyd douglas and was imprisoned -- he w

j. edgar hoover stuff. imagine the number two guy at the fbi having a meeting with the lead investigator, and the bottom line is, the whole idea of the meeting was to find an insurance policy to bracket, and protect the country against trump winning party that is what j. edgar hoover did. >> shannon: did you feel like you got answered today? >> here's what i found. i found that somebody is lying. mccabe says he doesn't recall that meeting. to strzok and pages that he was in that meeting. i won't give up on us. if the number two guy in the fbi had a meeting with pedro and strzok and his office to find out how to create an insurance policy against trump being elected, that is abuse of the highest level, the government that is watergate stuff, that is what the fbi used to do. i want to get to the bottom of it. >> shannon: to you, this is the beginning, not the end. >> this is the beginning of something that i never dreamed could exist in this country. i've had an open mind about this, i trust the fbi come abov

for the most part he got j edgar hoover to check ouwho the people were.ically enough, the liberal zion an iconic figure was the the fbison who sicced on his people. when he calmed down he said, if i was black, i might be full of rage, too. i might have some of the same ag i haveundee tand that. was,f the major messages see race not as a political issue but a moral problemem. use the bully pulled it to speak up and amplify the best interests, the best angels of american democracy and then talk about that. he did encourage his brother jack kennedy to give such a speech in june of that year. an amazing speech that talked about the moral accent and underscores of race, but especially morality in regards to race. bobby kennedy himself begin to change his own outlook, begin to talk to many more black communities -- sometimes getting brutally assaulted verbally, sometimes with direct passion an.d rage he sat there and understood it and begin to work with people and begin to change his mind to become much more empathetic and understanding of the condititios and t

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the idea to find an insurance policy to protect the country against trump winning, that is what j edgar hoover did. shannon: did you feel you got answers today? >> somebody is lying. mccabe says he doesn't recall being in the meeting. i'm not going to vote on this. of the number 2 guy in the fbi had a meeting with paige and kim jong un 7 in his office to find out how to create an insurance policy against trump being elected that is abuse advice level of the government, that is watergate stuff, what the fbi used to do years ago and i'm going to get to the bottom of it. >> this is the beginning of the end. >> the beginning of something i never dreamed could exist in this country. i had an open mind about this, trust the fbi. what i learned today is the fbi, the permit of justice did in the clinton email investigation is dangerous to democracy, she got away with it and they were out to get trump and it could be somebody new next time so we need to fix this. >> cross all parties and political ideologies, people should want unfettered and unbiased investigations. good to see you. thanks coming in.

j. edgar hoover approach to the fbi.said he knew the probe would lobly be extended because of the firing, but he thought i'm was so bad for the american people, he had to do it. kennedy: he was, and he has proven that through his book tour. as i said time and time again hillary clinton would have done the same thing. james comey was bound to be fired. he was not long for the fbi world. we have to get past that. what is interesting here though is rosenstein. rosenstein is overseeing the mueller investigation. he is determining the parameters because jeff sessions completely recused himself of everything except for popping up like whack-a-mole then he disappears. are thre there conflicts with rosenstein mollie hemingway i jokingly call rosenstein the attorney general. is mccabe trying to get rosenstein to recuse himself? i don't know. but it's a very complicated story. "the washington post" reported that james comey was interviewed as part of a criminal probe related to andrew mccabe leak and lying about those leaks. as pe

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j. edgar hoover.rgh chooses to collaborate with the t-men, including marty's great-uncle, mike malone, over hoover's g-men. >> i have 80-some-odd pages of daily memorandums so detailed, you can actually deconstruct the crime. >> marty shares the lindbergh documents from his strange inheritance with zorn. was it a "wow"? >> absolutely. and i positively guarantee that this will forever change how this story will be viewed. >> the biggest revelations come from accounts of behind-the-scene interactions with lindbergh himself, who's known for his extreme privacy. the documents depict a distraught man clinging to hope. >> for example, lindbergh brought a machine gun onto a boat. there was a man who was coaxing him, saying that he was in touch with the kidnappers. that's completely unknown to history. >> he was desperate. >> he was. i'm convinced this man would have done anything to save his child. >> the case file even includes details about lindbergh's diet, the clothes he wore, and how, out of agony, he s

j. edgar hoover.'s great-uncle, mike malone, over hoover's g-men. >> i have 80-some-odd pages of daily memorandums so detailed, you can actually deconstruct the crime. >> marty shares the lindbergh documents from his strange inheritance with zorn. was it a "wow"? >> absolutely. and i positively guarantee that this will forever change how this story will be viewed. >> the biggest revelations come from accounts of behind-the-scene interactions with lindbergh himself, who's known for his extreme privacy. the documents depict a distraught man clinging to hope. >> for example, lindbergh brought a machine gun onto a boat. there was a man who was coaxing him, saying that he was in touch with the kidnappers. that's completely unknown to history. >> he was desperate. >> he was. i'm convinced this man would have done anything to save his child. >> the case file even includes details about lindbergh's diet, the clothes he wore, and how, out of agony, he stopped shining his shoes. >> these are the kind of details

j. edgar hoover. >> it was just like finding treasure after treasure. >> debbie takes everything home andunder a bed for safekeeping. in 2016, a few years after their father dies, they decide it's time to sell their strange inheritance. >> we just thought, "maybe we llould do sog with this >> they learn that in 2015, as you may have seen on a previous episode of this show, rr auction, based in new hampshire, sold two guns attributed to the barrow gang for nearly $500,000. i pay a visit to the auction-house office here in boston. >> when i heard it was the famous sheriff smoot schmid, i got on the first plane to dallas. >> what's the timeliness of selling bonnie and clyde bilia? y were vy famous in 1934 because they left behind these incredible photographs of themselves. then, in 1967, the movie with faye dunaway and warren beatty kept the legend of bonnie and clyde alive. >> we check out grandpa smoot's old scrapbook. i'm afraid to turn the page. it's pretty fragile. >> turn it. but this page here -- when i saw this, jamie, i was so excited. these are the original arrest warrants for murd

j edgar hoover got upset and involved that not only draft boards were being hit, but also fbi officesover got very agitated and wanted to name someone as the leaders of this movement and as dangerous criminals. it was said by one prosecutor that they were as dangerous as organized crime. he did want to paint the berrigans. berrigans kept appearing in public and getting away, thumbing his nose at hoover. hoover and the fbi attempted to paint the berrigans as the leaders of this catholic left movement. they accused him specifically phil berrigan and other conspirators of trying to blow up condos in washington, d.c., and kidnapped henry kissinger. none of these things were 100% true. these are things people had been talking about doing, but there was an informant that got a hold of this information and had been feeding it to the fbi. it culminated in ae knowas the harris for conspiracy. conspriacy.g brian: this is back in 2007, not from your documentary. we just want to show him apologizing for his involvement. [video clip] >> michael, i can't respond because i did wrong to you. and i'm

j. edgar hoover and james comey are in their own category, he obviously did something wrong.hat doesn't mean what he would say is, doing something wrong translates into doing something nefarious. >> bill: i agree though, but i do agree that i think hillary clinton was wronged by james comey. you have 560 pages excoriating the fbi director and how he did business that says it's wrong. >> jason admitted it was wrong. >> bill: it was also wrong to the republicans for not pursuing this. >> do you think he cost him the election? >> no. i think america for figured out that hillary clinton was a liar. >> but he should not have interjected. >> he deviated from every protocol and norman. that's what the inspector general found. >> i think philippe had been waiting a long time for that. >> we known july 5th and we knew on october 26th. but the bit about leaks and peter strzok, if peter strzok had texted someone, we got something up our sleeve, in october, or we have a bomb to drop, congressman chief it's jz would be like his hair on fire. but no one is talking about those. >> he called

j edgar hoover kept dossiers on everybody.n fact, there for a while, when the kennedy assassination, they thought that maybe he was implicated. how could the fbi address that? that reputation is hurtful, and you don't teach that in history, you do not teach it in schools, to now history has repeated itself. to you, steve, a couple months ago you had a guy call in and he said you were biased against trump. you got really annoyed with the guy, and you kind of reminded me of andy cooper when he was talking about the fake news, you know? he said it's true, it's true, and it was true. but they never blamed anything else with the same thing trump did, they never charged obama with lying, but the thing that gets me about the span is when president obama was on and you guys were -- people would call in, if somebody even had a hint of calling the guy a name or saying anything like he was a racist or anything, you would cut him right off. brian lamb did, all right? and we would do the same with donald trump. caller: no you don't. him as

j. edgar hoover and his life that would have been embarrass to go hoover. how lyndon johnson became a multi-millionaire. the opposition of a sitting democratic president and the fbi director still would have been enormously difficult obstacles to overcome. >> lastly, what are the lesson that's robert kennedy can perhaps teach the democrats going forward right now? this was a guy that made a famous trip and who was just mobbed wherever he went in the cities. >> 50 years is a long time to try to tease out the politics. one thing is clear, even back in '68, the coalition of democrats, blacks, hispanics, white working class was fracturing, it had been going on for years, not just in the south but in the big cities and in the last weeks of the campaign, robert kennedy was looking very hard for how do you keep the coalition together? he was tilting toward a liberal populus message about rich folks not paying their fair share of taxes. there's no way to know if he could have held that coalition together. what we saw in 2016, the complete collapse of that coalition

j. edgar hoover. americans should be terrified of it. they were rigging an election. >> sean: and that's the whole point here. that's why it's the biggest abuse of power, option scandal ever. the similarities in terms of the mueller investigation and the hillary rigged investigation are eerie in this way, gregg jarrett. in as much as you have all of these same people that have been exposed here, and then you look at jeannie ray and andrew weissmann and all the democratic donors. it is the same corruption that will only be exposed down the line, although we've known for a long time, in robert miller's witch hunt. it's no different. >> it sort of makes you wonder the only people who actually work at the fbi, peter strzok, lisa page, andy mccabe and james comey him and after all, they commandeered this case away from that field office. why did they do that? they wanted to control it. it was also being controlled by the obama white house. that's abundantly clear. and yes, mueller exampled a team of partisans, some of whom were also in on the

of course, howard got back to j edgar hoover in december. that's obvious. letters. >> just stupid letters i wrote to phil about some of the things people were talking about, not realizing they were always monitoring his mail. but also, no matter how subtlely you try to say something, they will try to make something of it. >> when the revelation came out of what they were really about, that was a shocker. and that was across the board, especially when you are sitting back and knowing what the government knows more about their relationship than you do. brian: how surprised were you to find out the fbi was reading the mail of the prisoner? skizz: not very. the interview with liz was the first time we heard about the letters. joe: i knew nothing about the story and just asked her questions and this came out. it probably took me six months to realize what we had just talked about, to fully appreciate what we had just talked about. these were not letters that she mailed to the prison. there was an informant named boyd douglas who was in prison on work release. he

j. edgar hoover building, assailing the decisions made by former attorney general loretta lynch, former fbi director james comey, fbi agents whosed biased anti-trump texts the inspector general finds deeply troubling. repeatedly independentor general michael horowitz says he found explanations from the aforementioned to be "unpersuasive" and yet the top line here in this 568 page report, the ig found no evidence that political bias impacted the decisions leading up to the decision to not prosecute hillary clinton. which is not to say the inspector general didn't find a lot to criticize, concluding that former fbi director james comey deviated from the bureau's norms in giving that july, 2016, press conference about the clinton case and deviated from the norms in the october, 2016, letter to congress reopening the matter. also revealed in this report were more text messages exchanged between former fbi lawyer lisa page and fbi official peter strzok where page questions "trump's not ever going to become president, right? right?" and strong replies "no, no, he's not. we'll stop it." the in

civil rights movement and some things that bobby kennedy dead as attorney general trying to force j edgar hooveret a few more like people in the b building, talking about voting as a linchpin to arguing for justice but at the same time, they put on to the federal bench curl cox who called black people the "n" word from the bench. promised -- may the will time called to marley the kings jailers, he placed the call to the governor because king was in jail in georgia and said, let him out. it is something that is harsh and unnecessary. he was let out in a few days before he was let out -- he was let out a few days before the ofction for the president united states of america. that boosted kennedy's numbers among black people who could vote. he promised the governor, i will not use federal legislation to enforce immigration and desegregation in your state. he is playing both ends against the middle. when bobby kennedy shows up, these very smart black peoeople are aware of that. jimmy baldwin fired off an electrifying telegram -- i know young people don't even know what that is. ortap there more's co

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j. edgar hoover was nabbing them and in the department. mccarthy smeared jr. marshall and herod the post for -- so -- a lot in common in terms of a utter complete disregard for truth. and smearing -- but -- what they stand nor is different and donald trump is a person and they are very different people. but the lying and or smearing and indecent city i think are very similar. you alluded to this a moment ago but mccarthy goes down -- and in 1954 when your bookends although you don't go into this in the book. i assume reader knows what happens in the book. there are hints of a -- hingts as to what mccarthy is about to experience. right you get a good sense of what it is going to be but by as you say the senate -- for conduct, quote, contrary to traditionings. unquote, after which is influenced and he was condemned to the ash history -- what do you think history will say about donald trump? >> i don't know. because, obviously, joe mccarthy known for smearing people in the name of communism in the name of fighting communism and donald trump president trump is doi

j. edgar hoover's spirit is alive and well in some corners of the fbi. remember the -- >> wait a second. you like christopher wray. >> yeah. i like him a lot. i voted for him. >> you don't think he can clean things up? >> i think if the fbi director is telling the country everything is fine here, he should have confidence in the fbi, he's going to have a tough sell. >> i got to talk to you ibm graci about immigration. makes big changes to legal immigration. do you support this in concept? >> yeah, i voted for every form of immigration known to mankind. >> senator, the president this morning blames democrats for the fact they haven't been able to reach a deal. blames democrats for the fact that families are being separated at the border for -- i'll play what he said, listen. >> the democrats by the way are very weak on immigration. if you notice when i came over, they were all saying about separating the families. and that's a democrat bill. that's democrats wanting to do that and they could solve it very easily by getting together. they think it is a goo

j edgar hoover, i have read the correspondence, people writing letters, i hear king is a communist, sort of like today, i hear, you heard, who did you hear it from? i hear king is a communist, can you tell us? hoover would write back and say thank you for your letter, really appreciate your comments, no answer, not saying, that is ridiculous. they were carrying on as if he was. what if you were a communist, you don't have any human rights? it is not illegal to belong to a political party. it was kind of insanity of that era, what king was was a nonviolent revolutionary. you have a picture of him with gandhi and he learned very early, in graduate school, caretta king learned it before martin did, when she was in high school, and so that challenges your worldview. as james lawson, the great leader at work with king says, you have to understand, somebody who is a believer in nonviolence, a follower of jesus, follower of gandhi has a different worldview and once you have that worldview everything that is violence is what you are trying to change, that means war, poverty, racism, those are al