ellis that was a peer of jesse helms in north carolina and in my opinion, tom ellis almost single-handedly elected three of the best senators in the 20th century. john east in 1980 and laurence faircloth and tom is still in active lawyer in north carolina. they were told ronald reagan and the team in 1976 -- by the way before he got to north carolina he lost four or five primaries. he lost the florida primary, the north primary and things were looking really, really dark. so, he wants to come into north carolina and tom ellis said we don't want you here. we will handle the campaign. we will take care of it. however if you insist on coming and we have to do four things come and he said tom ellis told him he is for things. you must attack forward,

finally there was jesse helms from north carolina who stayed out of the king holiday battle at least, floor of congress until the end when he stole the headlines by squaring off against ted kennedy and saying the only reason we know king was a communist was because ted kennedy's brothers ordered surveillance on him because that is what they believe that he ended up getting a tobacco deal and backing down which people suggested was his motive all along. .. >> bob dole and others pulled reagan to a pretty strong support and all along the republicans and others who oppose the king holiday mostly did so on the this is a very boring reasons that did not meet good copy. if it would be expensive very and economic crisis to give the whole nation's workforce another day off. they calculated that that would be quite costly. ill advised as well. and they said that not enough time had passed for the nation to get enough distance and i had conservatives like strom thurmond landed of voting for the king holiday. and it is established by those who testified with those for the holiday. the very exist

finally there was jesse helms from north carolina who stayed out of the king holiday battle at least, floor of congress until the end when he stole the headlines by squaring off against ted kennedy and saying the only reason we know king was a communist was because ted kennedy's brothers ordered surveillance on him because that is what they believe that he ended up getting a tobacco deal and backing down which people suggested was his motive all along. .. took control of the senate in 1980 but what happened is you have republicans brought over to the pro-king holiday site and ultimately ronald reagan who heads sort of nudged and winked that he agreed with the anti-communist line that ashbrook and others had taken without being explicit but don't get me wrong. the republicans were polled around mostly by moderates the party leadership by bob dole howard baker in tennessee pullep reagan and the republicans around to pretty strong support and all along the republicans and others mostly did so on the basis of really boring reasons it did not make good copy. t opy. if it would be expensive

he is a guy who said jesse helms is a modern hero. >> yeah, remember, he also had the -- jesse helms,he most racist ads in the history of of senatorial politics. noes people don't. thing's really what they're playing to. the fact that a lot of young voters, new voters. they were just kids. they don't remember this history. that's why we have to keep talking about it. a politician once told me, read with a third eye and listen with a third ear. when you hear about yankee aggression, that's civil war talk. i mean, that's what folks talk about during the civil war. maybe the best thing for these folks to do, just let them keep talking pbt but politico really showed folks what -- who pays for all of this -- these talk radios. glenn beck, sean hannity, these folks wouldn't exist without tea party financing. >> i see you shaking your head anxiously there, bill. >> joe is absolutely right. it was revealed by politico that glenn beck and sean hannity and laura ingraham and these guys are getting paid millions of dollars of advertising going to these talk shows to have these yahoos on their sh

he is a peer of jesse helms in north carolina. and in my opinion, tom ellis almost single-handedly elected three of the best senators jesse aims and john east and large fair cloth. tom is active, a lawyer in north carolina, and tom ellis and jesse helms literally told reagan and his team in 1976. reagan before getting to north carolina had lost four or five primaries. the florida, new hampshire, illinois primary and things were looking dark. and so he wants to come to north carolina and tom ellis and jesse says don't come in. we will take care of the campaign. however if you insist on coming in, you have to do four things and they told him you must attack ford, kissinger, the give away of the panama canal and dayton. he said i am okay with that. they leave north carolina that afternoon of the election flying to wisconsin and a friend on the plane, who shall be nameless, great conservative today, said they were writing reagan's wi withdrawl speech and he was going to consider withdrawing. but after getting to wisconsin they learned

this was the message from anita bryant's save our children coalition as well as from jesse helms and jerry falwell. and uganda [speaker not understood]. linking gay people to pedophilia to the group that refers to occupy pedophilia, this vigilant e group which operates in 31 russian cities tortured [speaker not understood] russian people in its first 18 months in existence. they filmed the entire affair and published the videos on russia's most popular social media site in order to out the victims to their schools, parents, coworkers and friends. according to human rights watch, the victims are often attacked in public or they're abducted after meeting someone for what they think is a date. one particularly horrible clip from a video shows a man being forced to sod onlyize himself at gunpoint with a bottle after he was lured and abducted by the group. in general, the police have done nothing ~ to stop these attacks. because of these incidents, lgbt people in russia are calling this the hunting season. in fact, we had russian lgbt activists visit nclr's offices earlier this year, incl

this paranoid, unseemly, unsportsmanlike, guilt by association, squaring off ted kennedy versus jesse helms and you saw the people, even conservative runs, just would not be associated with that unseemly mr. cack the-ite line and came over to support the holiday. that's really why we have and it it's a preproduction of the same tactic which i think isn't merely about hearts and minds. it's about dividing public opinion of your enemies and isolating the ugliess-the-bull connors connors and the sheriff clarks in the case of the 1960s, and putting people like jesse helms and larry mcdonald and john ashbrook into the spotlight as though they represent what that side really thinks, that made it untenable for moderates and people who just wanted to maintain their reputations for respectability, to stay on that side, and that's why we have a king holiday. >> i think i want to share this person with todd, which is clarence mitchell. we a have baltimore roots and part of the mitchell family and everything from the the afro american and civil rights movement tried into that history, including here in

he's referred to senator jesse helms as a "modern hero" and recently equated food stamps to slavery. >> the government is now keeping themselves in power by giving these goodies away. the culture should go away at the federal level. 80% of the farm bill was food stamps. it enslaves people. it's crazy, but it's true. give people fish instead of giving them fish. when you're in behest of somebody, you're in slavery to them. >> forget all the gop talk about rebranding, this new field of candidates promotes ugly, divisive talk on issue after issue. they are extreme on economic rights, on women's rights, on civil rights. if this is the future of the party, then we should all be concerned for where it's headed. joining me now, jeff mcintosh and jonathan capehart. thanks both of you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> jonathan, let's go back to chris mcdaniels ridiculing the welfare citizens of new orleans for staying in the citizen during katrina. is this the kind of person republicans really want to represent them in the senate? >> it certainly sounds like it, because from what i'

taking place at 9:00 at night had one purpose and one purpose alone and that was because senator jesse helmsof north carolina was putting out a direct mail piece and daring people to be the one in a 99-1 vote to get some nonsense resolution. when fund-raising began to get into the roll call's and the amendments offered in committee, this is before the internet, before president obama is a candidate raised billions on the internet. when fund-raising started to get into the actual tabulation of votes on individual roll calls it started to sour. when did he get worse? it got worse in about 2008, 2009, 2010 when a very effective strategy on the part of one party to block everything to try to shut the government down became fabulously successful at the polls in 2010 and now when you have senators who reach across the aisle running for re-election back home the there in peril to liberals in california in the open primary ended hurll obviously to the conservatives at the risk of getting tea party, let's call it what it is. ask senator lugar. ask senator corchran and some of the others if they face

jesse helms had the other seat.onounced your name, i owe you a nice chocolate ice cream. send your trivia suggestions to daily rundown. (music) defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum. calcium citrate plus d. highly soluble, easily absorbed. >>> if it's friday, you know what that means, it's time for our insanely too early 2016 political roundup. wrapping up a west coast blitz in las vegas, hillary clinton was reminded what it's like to be a political target literally. she was giving a paid speech at an institute of scrap recycling, meeting at the mandalay casino in las vegas when an audience member threw a shoe at her. >> it's already about recycling when -- what was that a bat? was that a bat? that somebody throwing something at me? is that part of circumstanque l soleil? my goodness, i didn't know solid waste management was so controversial. thank goodness she didn't play softball like i did. >> former first lady and u.s. senator and secretary of state shaking it off right there. acco

there's no richard byrd or jesse helms. none of them are topnotch candidates.the reason tillis is having a hard time sealing the deal, he should be getting 40%. he's the majority leader, he led the legislature, which was moving the state's policies from a modern state to a conservative state. he should be very popular. he's not rusted by a lot of movement conservatives. there's been a number of ethical issues that have been raised. he's just had a difficult time. >> he's got the challenge of every establishment republican but he has to prove you can trust me. that's the challenge for him. >> governor wilder, from virginia, you have watched virginia change politically so much over the last generation. north carolina is sort of -- i look at north carolina and see a state that's going through maybe 10 or 15 years later than virginia did a similar transformation. where north carolina is becoming a more competitive state. when you look at kay hagan and what she's up against in north carolina, let's say republicans get the candidate they want. it's a a dead even race

finally there was jesse helms from north carolina who stayed out of the king holiday battle at least, floor of congress until the end when he stole the headlines by squaring off against ted kennedy and saying the only reason we know king was a communist was because ted kennedy's brothers ordered surveillance on him because that is what they believe that he ended up getting a tobacco deal and backing down which people suggested was his motive all along. .. >> bob dole and others pulled reagan to a pretty strong support and all along the republicans and others who oppose the king holiday mostly did so on the this is a very boring reasons that did not meet good copy. if it would be expensive very and economic crisis to give the whole nation's workforce another day off. they calculated that that would be quite costly. ill advised as well. and they said that not enough time had passed for the nation to get enough distance and i had conservatives like strom thurmond landed of voting for the king holiday. and it is established by those who testified with those for the holiday. the very exist