. >> tucker: we have a shocking story for you tonight out of south carolina, a jim crow law still enforced.ke a rural high school is having its funding cap he had andla has too many black students. oh wait, just kidding, that would be totally immoral and of course against the law. nobody would stand for that butl the truth is just as bad. it's happening in los angeles. a school district is cutting funding to a school for having too many white kids. thanks to a court order from the 1970s, a bonus funding for any school that is at least 70% nonwhite -- a middle school in north hollywood recently added some white kids, topping the threshold. now it's losing a bunch of money. several students will lose teachers, the school losing its librarian and full-time nurse. that's not racist of course, it's only hurting white kids. and no one said anything about it. weird. that's it for us tonight. tune in every night at 9:00 to the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. whatever you do, stay tuned for "hannity." he is up next. have a great night. see you tomorrow. >>

jim crow was on the ascendant. america was being reunified with white reconciliation uppermost in mind, not the extension of civil rights to people of color for whom reconstruction impart was enacted in the first place. under grant, withdrawn under haze, and who did they get to give the dedicatory address at the unveiling of this painting in the capital? frederick douglass? oh, no. harold: he gave the dedication address and said, even though this is a wonderful picture, let's remember what the war was about, a fight between brothers over federal authority. i hope abraham lincoln spun around in his grave at that moment and my last plug for senator durbin today is that this painting hangs outside his office on the stairway that you might take to get to the senate gallery to look at the ames painting. there is something about this contiguity of his office -- it must be the illinois connection. i think keyholes stephen douglas' seat in the senate. here is our final artist. a you can imagine, she caused sensation in was

were guaranteed against all government intrusion in the 18th wood then, after the civil war and jim crow, that they would be protected, the fundamental rights would be protected against state infringement, as well. that is an area in judge gorsuch's record that we find troubling. it is not seen he has fully devoted himself in that change in the constitution as he has to the constitution of 1789. host: if you have questions about judge gorsuch's legal philosophy. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002 for independents. you can make your comments on twitter, as well. i do not think -- i would love to hear a specific case where he said the 14th amendment does not apply here. is very clear on all sorts of constitutional amendments are the fourth amendment, the right against search and seizure, is something he is protective of. it is not something that falls into a traditional conservative category. criminalttractive of defendant's rights, for example. that is not because he wants to have a conservative view. it is something that is a constitutionalist view. i

because exposing the speaker's identity had serious implication, whether the american revolution, jim crow south or today. therefore, we must be caution giving the federal government including the executive branch power to limit or penalize core political speech. judge gorsuch, you may not be able to see that. do you recognize this book? >> i can't see it. >> we got this from the library. it has a number of payne's writings including common sense and other political writings. in this pamphlet he urged american colonies to sever ties with the british monarchies. what some of the other sides have attempted to do is tie you to a court case which you had nothing to do with. they painted a picture for this case as support for big money appetiz and politics the corporations win and voter loses. the realities were much different. the federal government argued it could stop a movie because it contained political speech. then it argued it could ban a book because it contained such speech. then it argued it could ban a pamphlet because it contained such speech. that's the citizens united case. i fin

comments were blasted by some who said she just didn't acknowledge that hbcus were founded during the jim crowerstand that criticism? >> sure i understand that criticism. i think she could have worded that statement and spoke more directly to exactly why hbcus were created and why they still have value today, but i think her statement was factually correct but didn't go far enough to explain to a large section of the people who may come into the understanding of what hbcus are. that's why she made an additional statement to clarify it and make sure it was crystal clear exactly why these important institutions were created and why they are still valuable today. >> john, what was your response to that? >> well, paris, you say her statement was factually correct. she doesn't even agree with that. she basically said that they were not born out of school choice. they were not an example of school choice when they were born. they were born out of necessity and in the face of racism. this to me is not really a big deal. she made a misstatement. she kind of laid over onto the birth of hbcus the school

our voting rights are still now being jeopardized with new laws, from jim crow to james crow jr.understand that we will discuss his view as attorney general. he must understand our view as those that have had to fight for a right we should have gotten upon our birth and then had to fight to protect it because people gave their lives to get it to us and to give it to us. that does it for me. thanks for watching. and to keep the conversation going, like us at facebook.com/politicsnation, and follow us on twitte twitter @politicsnation. i'll see you back here next sunday. passion... but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... which adds fuel to my bottom line. what's in your wallet? youthat's why you drink ensure. sidelined. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. e

and that was to prevent the state government they have to pass drip -- jim crow laws isn't that kind of the same thing that you are describing in washington where the state is telling them how to do business and who they can do business with. that is a form of that. they are telling that. what struck me about the situation in michigan is they are telling a privately owned business owner what kind of reading material he can have. what is a church pamphlet had to do with whether or not the beef is good. i think in the obama ministration years we saw a gross overreach by the federal government into what is happening in local towns and communities. and another part of this it is important for folks to know their rights. to know their rights under the constitution. and sadly any folks don't especially in my generation we just don't know how far of the overreach they have. yes ma'am. going back to the case for a moment. do you happen to know that there'd had to pay the fine who does it go to. does it go to government does a go to ago to this gay couple who benefits from this decision if it

gooks like "ghettoside" "the warmth of other sons" "the new jim crow" by michelle alexander.here's a full list and they're on facebook.com/allinwithchris. i drew on them in the book i'm writing and on our facebook page you can find dour -- tour dates for that book. so if you want to see me, check out the tour dates and get in there. that's "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> go, chris, go, go, go! i'm excited about your book tour and your book and you did an awesome show. >> thank you all around. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us for the next hour. politico reports tonight that u.s. investigators, including the fbi are looking into a russian citizen in conjunction with one of the incidents on the trump campaign last year which defied explanation at the time. dramatic news tonight from politico.com. this incident that happened last year, last summer of the trump campaign, it was one of the first direct signs that we had that something strange was up in the trump campaign when it came to the issue of russia. it's an incident that came t

conveniently or ignorantly forgetting slavery and jim crow. he said it couldn't get any worse. it's getting worse. a justice department that's already retreated on voting rights and that's empowered private prisons to take dispartyly people proportional to african-americans. a h.u.d. department where the secretary said slavery was akin to immigration and where $6 billion is to be cut from the budget. an education department that doesn't believe in public education that's given african-americans a chance for the american dream. and a health care bill that takes away health care from the poorest and makes it where many people will not have health care and medicaid will be decimated and perhaps eliminated. these are the worst of times and president trump, mr. speaker, is showing african-americans things can get worse and they are and they are on a daily basis. i yelled back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. lamalfa: thank you, mr.

they decide they will accept jim crow. they will organize segregated unions. they will welcome black workers but they really wanted to focus on getting white workers in also. they thought by using this more constrained and tentative approach that they wouldn't be subject to quite as much backlash in the region and they ended up being wrong about that. i got all the backlash -- they got all the backlash anyway. they were accused of being supporters of social equality between the races, which was often interlaced with threats of interracial sex. in a few cases operation dixie steered away from that and into broader organizing efforts like this one which was the tobacco workers from winston-salem. and were able to ranch out organize in other parts of north carolina and the south. there are some exceptions. on the whole, operation dixie failed. in part because even though they limited their vision and chose not to challenge racism, they weren't successful at attracting white workers or black workers. maybe because of those things. attempt to create a base for prog

jim crow was on the ascendant. america was being reunified with white reconciliation uppermost in mind, not the extension of civil rights to people of color for whom reconstruction impart was enacted in the first place. projected under grant, withdrawn under hays, and who did they get to give the dedicatory address at the unveiling of this painting in the capital? frederick douglass? oh, no. a union figure, maybe general grant? no. alexander hamilton stephens, the vice president of the confederacy. he gave the dedicatory address and said, even though this is a wonderful picture, let's remember what this war was really about. a fight between brothers over federal authority. spun around in his growth a little bit at that moment. durbin today.ator he said that this hangs right outside his office in the gallery. there is something about this contiguity that is interesting. it must be the illinois connection. i think that senator durbin thes lincoln's seat in senate, which makes it even ought her. caused an imagine, she

supporting that kind of language, which has such a dark history in europe and here, it's the language of jim crowely is the logic of ethnic cleansing, it has the political logic of nazi germany and the holocaust. so that kind of rhetoric is ultimately an idea of what makes us a people is shared blood lines, as opposed to what makes us people shared politics and shared commitment to institutions. unfortunately he used toe a fringe element of congress. now, because of trump, he's at the very heart of what trumpian politics are today. so what was once a fringe figure we could blow off is now somebody who really has the ear of the administration in some critical ways. the administration themselves echo much of what he believes. so this is a much darker statement and it has resonance now that it didn't have six months ago. >> and he seems to think he has in his head a definition of who somebody else's babies are, and hot our babies are. and i would wonder in his head, where do the trump babies fit? since all but one of donald trump's children, the mother was an immigrant. from a place that i'm not sur

elizabeth allen taylor recalls the rise and fall of america's black delete from emancipation to the jim crow era. harvard university caroline blight offers a critical examination of standard ground laws and you'll hear about the impact of charles darwin on the origin species published in 1860. that all happens this weekend on booktv, 48 hours of of nonfiction authors and books. it's television for serious readers. we will kick off our programming this weekend jill jonnes who talks about the use of the trees in city planning. >> good morning and welcome to the new york botanical gardens. this is our special friday morning science conservation and humanity seminars. i also welcome you this morning very heartily from my cohost, brian and charles. my name is vanessa sellers. i'm the coordinator of the humanities institute, a special research division in the library set up to stimulate critical thinking at the intersection of science and the humanities. and what better subject than urban forests to bring science and humanities together? to discuss science and society, to study the deeper relation

instead they decided they will accept jim crow, an organized segregated union, they will welcome black workers into their ranks but i wanted to focus on getting white workers in, which of course is necessary in the south. they talked about using this more constrained and tentative approach that they would not be subject to quite as much of a backlash in the region. they ended up being wrong about that, they got all the backlash anyway. they respected, they were red baited cup -- race agent, red a did, they were accused of beings supporters of social aquatic -- quality between the races which was also threatened with interracial sex, that the union would somehow produce that. in a few cases operation dixie spirit away from that and into broader organizing efforts like the fda, which was tobacco workers from winston, salem, that we read about. they branched out and organized in other parts of north carolina and the south. .here are some success stories on the whole, operation dixie failed, in part because even though they limited their vision and chose not to challenge racism, they were

rights act because when johnson was lobbying that bill with members of congress he would use her jim crow experiences. back then the family would drive from texas to washington d.c. and wright would ride along with the family and in many instances she was not allowed to go to the bathroom or eat with the family. >> host: she could not go into the restaurants they were stopping at along the way. >> guest: at some point, she refused to go on the trip and lived in washington year-round. the president went off to say it is a shame my cook has to go through this. after he signed this bill he presents her with one of the pens and says you deserve this as much as anyone. one of the things we know about lbj's personality and he would often show up late for dinner and demand to have food right away and she would say sit in the kitchen while i make something and he would do it. another thing is he would often show up late with guests and want dinner made. he would show up at 10:00 with six guests so she would start making the food and send out drinks and nobody ever complained. >> host: not surpris

eistory, it involved a lon instance of federal intervention that did not come close to abolishing jim crow. kennedy signed an order creating the peace corps, but it took an act of congress to make the peace corps a permanent federal agency. signed anennedy executive order that gave father's deferment from the military draft. in 1970, richard nixon rescinded kennedy's order. president gerald ford famously signed an executive order barring cia political assassinations, but you could thisr -- you could argue has not stopped a subsequent presidents from seeking to target foreign leaders such as gaddafi and saddam hussein during military actions. his second day of office, president barack obama issued two executive orders whose fate underscores the contingent nature of executive orders pertaining to national security. one obama orders successfully revoked a 2007 bush order pertaining to the geneva conventions. obama then with the stroke of a pen had made a substantive national security decision. a second order signs the very same day, though, called for guantanamo bay detention facility to be c

who've read a history book that hbcus were actually created because there was no other choice under jim crow devos started to backtrack telling hbcus that "your history was born not out of mere choice but out of necessity in the face of racism and the aftermath of civil war." and tweeted out "providing an alternative option to students denied the right to attend a quality school is the legacy of hbcu. but your history was born not out of mere choice but out of necessity and the aftermath of the civil war." not clear that the people who run hbcus need to be told their own history though i think the secretary of education could probably use a bit of a brushup on the topic. for lower back pain sufferers, the search for relief often leads here. today there's drug-free aleve direct therapy. a high intensity tens device that uses technology once only in doctors' offices. for deep penetrating relief at the source. aleve direct therapy. >>> breaking news in the trump/russia front tonight. white house staff have been instructed by white house that could b connected to als russian interference in the

everything can just be fine, but you got to understand 250 years of slavery, another 100 years of jim crow after that, we've only had about 50, 06 yea60 years of anything . for the hud secretary not to get that means that he doesn't know how urgent it is to confront racism and discrimination in housing, which is a very scary thing for the hud secretary to not understand. >> congressman ellison, thanks for being with us today. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> and turning now to the scandal that's rocking the u.s. military, the marines an investigation under way into potentially hundreds of marines who allegedly shared nude photos of more than a dozen female servicemembers on a private facebook page called marines united. one of the marines whose pictures were posted told "the washington post" "being sexually harassed online ruined the marine corps for me." defense secretary jim mattis says he's troubled by the alleged behavior. marine leadership said there is no place for this demeaning or degrading behavior in our corps, this includes our actions online. joined me is rachel van landi

well, congressman keith ellison tweeted it's not choice, it's segregation and jim crow. >> and kellyanne explanation for criticism online. crouching on the oval office. she said she was actually just asked to take a photo from a certain angle and she was just doing exactly that. >> he was getting out of the way. our other major story is the deadly weather that's rolled through the middle of the country overnight. multiple tornados leaving behind widespread destruction. at least one person was killed in an uprooted tree 85 miles west of chicago. baseball sized hail reported in that area, a nursing home and factory were among the buildings damaged there. >>> another tornado spun across an open field. there were no reports of damage or injuries there. >> authorities say a suspected tornado picked up at least 15 cars and threw them into the air. one struck an occupied car killing the driver. other vehicles were also blown right off the road. that is random and horrific. that car flying out of nowhere and that whole storm system -- >> paul, good morning. >> good morning. it looks like this st

you inexplicably sent a letter defending the jim crow era ohio challenger allowed just four days before the 2004 presidential election and had no role in that love. by the end of their time at the civil rights division, prosecutions for crimes related to gender hide declined by 40%. altogether, these actions are just a pattern of allowing political pressure to influence decision-making on issues that should rise above partisanship. to me this raises questions about your commitment to defend the civil rights at all fundamental role of secretary of labor. mr. acosta, i'm interested in hearing more about your vision for the department and specifically where you stand on a number of key issues that will be heavily engaged in over the years. president trump has spoken out against the updated overtime rule, which have helped millions of workers get paid they earned. our federal minimum wage has fallen far, far behind workers needs. workers make less than their male counterparts and economic drain on our country pronounced for women of color and i've also heard reports of president trump cruel