the department of justice will open force the law if necessary and jay edgar hoover is president. another pen is reserved for the kennedys and the attorney general is entrusted with a half dozen. now in this summer of 1964 the civil rights bill is the law of the land. in the words of the president, it restricts no one's freedom, so long as he respects the rights of others. >> governor doug wilder is joining us from richmond, virginia, as we reflect back on the most important piece of the legislation in the 20th century. we want to welcome students from the washington sent the center and george mason university participating in the c-span washington classroom. governor wilder is now anned a adjunct professor. governor, thank you very much for being with us. >> steve, my extreme pleasure, always to be with you. >> let's take a step back at that law, what led to the 1964 civil rights act and its impact both on the country and on american politics. your thoughts? >> well, first of all, the timing is significant. 1954 was brown versus board of education, and yet the implementation was

jay edgar hoover tried everything he could to bring down martin luther king.you know, those kinds of films can give you misinformation about what actually happened in american life in the american past. >> one other aspect of a running out of time so it's not just using celebrity or studios for messages, it's also dollar contribution. have you studied and are you interested if money goes to the left into the right in terms of actual dollar

the fbi is not -- you know, jay edgar hoover is not fbi anymore. so for everybody who works, everybody's out on the street, everybody's tracking sexual predators, everybody's doing their job, the prison guards, all of the wonderful support staff that's the paralegals, the secretarial staff, the admin staff, et cetera, we just want to say thank you. i think our country's safer and because -- and because of your work. we have to look out for our civil service because we need an independent judiciary. we need a justice department that functions with absolute integrity. but we who fund the appropriations need to know that if you're going to have a cracker jack civil service, we have to also support that cracker jack civil service. so thank you and god bless you and god bless america. the subcommittee stands in recess until march 15th, next thursday at 10:00. we will take the testimony of the director of the fbi in both the open and ultimately classified hearing. the committee is in recess. >> thank you, madam chair. >> our specific mission is to work t

. >> the criminal underworld -- >> reporter: since jay edgar hoover, the fbi's first director, launchedt to generate publicity, who's on it has changed over the years. at first, bank robbers, kidnappers and mobsters, then drug lords and '60s-era radicals. serial murderer ted bundy was a top-tenner, along with james earl ray, wanted for killing martin luther king, identified first by an alias. osama bin laden was on the list before he was killed, and accused boston mobster whitey bulger was on it before his capture last year. >> the magic of the top ten list is that it projects these images out to the world. people will going to be able to see this individual, pick up the phone and call law enforcement so that we can apprehend them. >> reporter: something the fbi now hopes will catch eric toth. for "today," pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> still to come on "today," nursing student holly bobo disappeared from her tennessee home a year ago. see what her family is doing to find new information in this case. but first, these messages. ♪ [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] if you have yet

roosevelt played to that and put them in the internment camps even though jay edgar hoover said they are not dangerous. let's not do this and he did any way as the attorney general didn't like get but roosevelt enjoyed the political success of removing them not only of the removed and the temple against him, they are removed and those people in california and elsewhere are going to be voting. he's been to pick up seats in california. the western coordinator is saying why are they still here? face been here for years. they join the army and they are highly decorated people to rely are we letting this group -- you might invite an individual who shows signs of having made overtures that should cause him to be investigated but you're talking about the whole group of people, the six-year-old, all of these people holden to these camps. was atrocious scene of the people in charge of the can say no, this isn't right. and roosevelt keeps it going, keep it going and finally the secretary at meds and says i've been around roosevelt along time. i have a chilling after the reelection things might

he had been told that by jay edgar hoover. are not a. >> the due process clause of the fifth amendment is supposed to bound the power of the government against the rights of its citizens. due process did not protect the japanese-americans during the internment. substantive due process requires that the government live up to high standards that tries to take away fundamental rights like life, liberty or poverty. procedural due process means that the government can't take away your rights without an adequate notice before a neutral judge. the government took people to court who resisted the internment. those trials did not provide procedural due process because the government didn't present. one example is the citizen named brett who is about my uncle's age when he was arrested for refusing to the internet orders. he argued it is illegal to in prison him in the camps. >> in 1942, he boldly opposed to forced internment of japanese-americans during world war ii. after being convicted for failing to report for relocation , he took h

roosevelt played to that and put them in the internment camps even though jay edgar hoover said they are not dangerous. let's not do this and he did any way as the attorney general didn't like get but roosevelt enjoyed the political success of removing them not only of the removed and the temple against him, they are removed and those people in california and elsewhere are going to be voting. he's been to pick up seats in california. the western coordinator is saying why are they still here? face been here for years. they join the army and they are highly decorated people to rely are we letting this group -- you might invite an individual who shows signs of having made overtures that should cause him to be investigated but you're talking about the whole group of people, the six-year-old, all of these people holden to these camps. was atrocious scene of the people in charge of the can say no, this isn't right. and roosevelt keeps it going, keep it going and finally the secretary at meds and says i've been around roosevelt along time. i have a chilling after the reelection things might

roosevelt played to that and put them in the internment camps even though jay edgar hoover said they are not dangerous. let's not do this and he did any way as the attorney general didn't like get but roosevelt enjoyed the political success of removing them not only of the removed and the temple against him, they are removed and those people in california and elsewhere are going to be voting. he's been to pick up seats in california. the western coordinator is saying why are they still here? face been here for years. they join the army and they are highly decorated people to rely are we letting this group -- you might invite an individual who shows signs of having made overtures that should cause him to be investigated but you're talking about the whole group of people, the six-year-old, all of these people holden to these camps. was atrocious scene of the people in charge of the can say no, this isn't right. and roosevelt keeps it going, keep it going and finally the secretary at meds and says i've been around roosevelt along time. i have a chilling after the reelection things might

jay edgar hoover tried everything he could to bring down martin luther king. so you know, those kinds of films can give you misinformation about what actually happened in american life in the american past. >> one other aspect of a running out of time so it's not just using celebrity or studios for messages, it's also dollar contribution. have you studied and are you interested if money goes to the left into the right in terms of actual dollar contributions? >> the various polls that have been done a survey showed there is much more -- it was the right that started collecting money. hollywood has a longer history of conservatism and liberalism. it's one of the things i argue in the book but it was louis b. mayer at establishing the first relationship between studio and party and he turned mgm as well as many studios in l.a. into a money source for hollywood. it wasn't until the 30s that the democrats really came into hollywood. and now we have a situation where within the industry at the left is getting money mainly on actors. the right is getting money mainly