john john lewis and others on this bridge, the night that we need to go to alabama and we're struggling lawyer so what can we do right now to help out this great movement for civil rights. so they they found the fair housing council. a little later they were given the file of my parents. some not related to john lewis that i know of, i'm not related to the whites and blacks on that bridge, christians, jews, others , but their actions sent ripples out to that almost immediately change the course of my family. those are the ties in this country. my father would say growing up to a single mom who couldn't take care of him but he broke that cycle of poverty that a show on the book because of a conspiracy of love. because all these people understood, they cancel all the problems and they can change all of the outcomes but they would never allow their inability to do everything to undermine their determination to do something in this moment, small act of kindness, decency and love. the biggest thing you can do every day is to do a small act of kindness. that community of kindness and love broke a cycle of poverty, lost my father into the middle class. we say all the time that i'm a hard worker, i made sacrifices to get where i am but i on debt to to all these people who did that. so that is how we

bringing to the forefront today than the person martin luther by king's side a colleague of john lewis, john lewis holds the seat that andrew young occupied in this body. andrew young continues to be an advocate for voting rights and is in the forefront of that continued and epic battle that goes on in this country. it will be an outstanding evening. but the point of it all the point of it all, is to understand that as members here in the united states congress, in the house of representatives, at we must come together and as president johnson said 51 years ago tomorrow evening, to overcome, to overcome not only racial prejudice but to overcome disease and poverty and ignorance which is the real plague on this nation that keeps us confined. how fitting that this event takes place tomorrow evening. that because of the benevolence of an outstanding person like david rubin steyn and who better -- david rubenstein, and who better to interview john lewis and sam johnson about their experience than david rubinstein. i thank my leagues from the bottom of my heart for allowing me the opportunity her

john lewis, the reverend reese and director jarvis to join me for the presentation. [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, foot soldier and united states representative of the fifth district of georgia, the honorable john sisters, i want to thank the leadership of the house of representatives and the senate for making this day, this ceremony, possible and i want to thank my colleagues, representative, senator booker and session for leading this congress to stop and pay tribute to the countless and nameless foot soldiers of the voting rights movement. it was there determined marching feet led to the passage of the voting rights act of 1965. they weren't rich. or famous. they had very little money. some of them never learned to read or write. but they changed the nation for the better so that you and i could gather here today. some of them stood in unmoving lines, day in and day out. some stood on courthouse steps, attempting to register and vote. some were beaten, tear gassed, trampled by horses and left bleeding in the streets. there were maids and butlers, sharecroppers and tenant farmers. they were cooks and clerks, school children and college students, some teachers, some lawyers. some flunked the s

the courtroom gasped and john lewis was in the front row and i kept thinking how is john lewis reacting to this? i interviewed him the next day and he told me he nearly cried. someone who has been arrested 40 times, nearly killed on many occasions, he nearly cried when he heard this. right after that, three days after that john lewis led a civil rights pilgrimage to alabama with members of congress and i was on that trip and we re-created the march in selma where john lewis was brutally beaten by alabama state troopers and i thought of all the things congressman lewis went through to get the voting rights act past, nearly died to get this law passed and here you had a justice of the supreme court talking about this law as a perpetuation of racial entitlement and i thought it was so important to tell the story of how someone like john lewis made it to congress and how someone like antonin scalia made it to the supreme court. that is a prelude to saying i believe the supreme court is the most important issue in the 2016 election. we say that every election but now it is true. now it is tr

john lewis. [applause] sen. reid: before johnet out to march on bloody sunday, he told me he had an apple and a .ook he thought he would be incarcerated and would have an apple and read the book. ple orer ate the ap read the book. time. prayed at the been on the frontlines of the civil rights movement, fighting for justice and equality. when i say he "thought" that is -- offigure is each speech. he was arrested and beaten in mississippi, organizing the mississippi freedom summer. his head was smashed with a wooden crate, among other things, on bloody sunday. he was knocked within a little bit of his life. mobbed these peaceful protesters. rested,being spit upon, -- arrested, he never stopped fighting for freedom. thank you, john. [applause] today, we honor every footsoldier who refused to give up. quo andd the status equality for all, so today, we salute the foot soldiers. women haven and transformed the nation. thank you all. [applause] gentlemen, the majority leader of the united states senate, the honorable mitch mcconnell. [a

and the courtroom last when he said that an john lewis was sitting in the front row nicad thinking how is johnewis reacting to this.we i interviewed the congressman the next day and he told me that he nearly cried.ried w and right after that john lewis red a pilgrimage to alabama with members of congress and i was on that trip. and we re-created the march in selma where he was brutally ala beaten by the alabama state troopers and i thought about all of the things that the congressman went through to get the voting rights act asked what he nearly died to get this law passed in here you have a justice of the supreme court talking about this law as a perpetuation and i thought that it was so important and that is a prelude to saying that i believe that the supreme court is the most important issue in the 26th election and we say that every single election, but now it is true. because i have lived with this for my entire life and i believe that that has been the biggest change in this country and i believe that it is no in it is coincidence. i believe that it is no coincidence that the suprememe c

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it was my honor to serve in congress with congressman john lewis, one of the most incredible people you could ever meet and john was very modest. he didn't really talk about at least in congress about his history, people knew it. but this book talks not only about john and all of the other members of the civil rights movement, the importance of their work, but also what has been happening to the voter, the act since 1965, the war, if you will t attack on the voting rights act to try to scale it back, diminish it and so forth. so that's why i take a particular important issue for us us to be considering knowing that we have states across the country where restrictive laws on voting rights are being enacted. arizona, obviously, is no exception. i want to welcome you all and thank you for being here. i want to pose the first question to each of our panelists. >> amary's book. >> i'm sorry, did i not mention it? bad moderator. independent politics. professor here, how americans sustained for parties leads to political inaction and i think what we know about arizona and the country is the fastest growing group of re

and john lewis back to you. john many people think of him as the last note, an asterisk at the bottom of an article. i was talking to him the other day. i'm in the room. he said people are beginning to hear me. are they? >> i think they actually are. he benefits by being the antitrump. john, you couldn't be further from donald trump than john kasich. if you are looking -- rubio -- rubio is eloquent but tried to sort of mimic trump and get down on that level. >> he is the only one who hasn't. >> kasich is the only one who hasn't. test governor of a state, which sets him apart at this point. and look i think john kasich in a place like ohio i would not bet against him winning that. and you know, i think when it comes to a convention you could turn to a john kasich as a possible running mate. >> when you see somebody like john kasich and democrats can actually see themselves supporting him you know that he actually is not just the adult in the room but that's also a reason why he probably doesn't have a chance in the ov

john lewis. a man who literally risked his life -- >> yeah. >> -- for this principle. john said, he says in his own book, i have talked to him about it. he was asked to speak at the march on washington, this representative of young people. he had to submit something like five drafts of his speech to a. phillip randolph's agent, bayard rustin. and each time he was told, john, that's too radical. at one point he said in his speech, he remembered him telling this, the people demand. they said no, no. that's going to make people nervous, so make your pick. so the contrast between the two is what i was hoping to get. >> well, there's no question that one of the instant takeaways of this book is that you are as critical of your own side, in some respects, as you are of the other side. >> procedurally. >> procedurally. >> and the other point i want to make is this. one of the things i get really bothered by are my colleagues who beat their chest about how brave they are by standing up to their opponents. i tell the right wing this. i tell the right wing that. well, the fact is tha

john napoleon. i have seen john napoleon many other times and i don't know his relationship to lewis. if there was a relationship. at their want that many people named the polling in the directories in new york city, so i suspected they were related. it could have been lewis's sun. i don't know. ok. to say something about the james town because it was built in 1853. i found an article in a richmond newspaper, which gave the name -- the last name of the man who escorted. off the jamestown. name of the man who escorted. off the jamestown. the captain saw her go ashore at her destination. the steamer came on to new york and shortly after, a negro named johnson, who was employed as a cook, was seen escorting her up the street which was driven off before the captain could interfere. a pursuit was made and the parties traced to her house on sullivan street. ok. this does not give his first name. but i did find a man named henry johnson that lived on sullivan street at another address. so, it could have been him. so that is a little underground railroad twist for greenwich village. i don't know if any of you have heard that story before, but it is a wonderful story. and it is yours. ok. um. i am going to talk about the unlikely alliance between sydney howard gay and napoleon. i say it is unlikely because her background for totally different. this is a cover of our book. we have the subtitle, secret lives of the underground railroad in new york city. but sydney howard gay and louis sydney howard-- gay wrote the accounts of people who came through his office in 1855 and 1856. there are accounts of over 200 people. the last time a record was published of this significance was 140 years ago. and nobody had ever written about sydney howard gay or louis napoleon. what louisow napoleon looked like because there are different accounts of him. man ande a fair skinned the silhouette of a dark skinned man because he was described both ways. this is either copper. hooper. he was sydney howard gay's underground railroad mentor. assisted louis napoleon on a case. it was a very important case, even the louis napoleon was not an educated man, he cannot read or write, he had to sign his on legal a x documents. but he knew the people to go to for help. in 1846 and when a man 18 years stowed away on a boat to new york city, louis napoleon found out and he went to isaac and said, i need help with this man. isaac hopper said i want to to .o to see elias smith he was working at the anti-slavery office with sydney howard gay. so napoleon tells him about george kirk. his name was george. he did not take the name kirk until after the case. he asked him later, why is it that you took the name? he said, it was my father's name. elias said we are going to see hopper. so they both went back to see hopper and he said you need to judge jed edmonds -- edmonds. you could start a legal procedure and then the person would be declared a free person. that is what happened with george kirk. he was free.lared but, the captain of the boat did not like that. so he went to the mayor of new york city, whose name was nickel, and he said he will have him rearrested. so there was a case in lower manhattan to try to the arrest george kirk. smith and an architect name william johnson, pretended like they were part of a mob, and they steered george into the anti-savory building, which was on nassau street. gay was really in charge of this whole operation. by the time it was over, he was totally exhausted. he was really in charge of the operation. how in the world with a going to get him out of the building? they came up with the idea of putting him in a box. onthere was a sugar refinery duane street owned by dennis harris. dennis harris sent over a box. they had george climate of the box. they nailed it shut and put a tag on it to reverend manley in essex, new york. thrilling because that is in the champagne valley with the museum is. apparently, they were attempting to send him to essex, new york. signed, "these handle with care -- "please handle with care." and foundd the box georgian side. so george was put back into the tunes. that was the detention center located with the civic center is today in the five points area. it was an ominous building. anyway, edmonds declared he was free again and he was in the tunes and the abolitionists were concerned about how they were going to have out. so, they went together and they had him go out a side door because it was a mob waiting at the main entrance. they got him out beside entrance and put them in a carriage and it took them off to boston, where he learned to be a shoemaker. this is oliver johnson. i have him in here because he was a congregationalist minister. oliver johnson was a close associate of day and a congregationalist. -- sinceaid something someone to harrisburg, vermont. i am suggesting that it is possible that oliver johnson suggested sending george kirk up to the champagne valley. this is an image of the tunes. --toombs. i am going to talk about napoleon because he became and-known to isaac hopper his daughter, abigail gibbons and her husband. james were both involved in underground railroad work. in our book, you have some records that were after -- that were the record of fugitives. napoleon was given some money, -- and thebons gibbons were involved in that. i want to share the story about a woman and a man or married in the gibbons' home in 1845. her name was sarah and she was a fugitive from slavery. abigail wrote a wonderful letter, which we have in our book, about how excited she was to be a free woman. and how wonderful the wedding was. well, 10 years later, james jacob,s word that sarah's husband, had betrayed and the slave catchers were after her. so napoleon was engaged to have sarah and the children taken to syracuse, new york. lucy, on the left, -- ok, this is lucy. she is on the left. her brother william, william died at a very young age. abigail and their other two daughters and james givens. the reason i am showing you these images is because lucy wrote a romantic novel called racial's stanwood." a story of the 19th century. .he used her married name it was published in 1893. is a disguised biography of the underground androad work of her parents louis napoleon. this is where the confusion comes in about what he looked like because in the book, she says, she said he was a light .ilano -- mulatto then, in another passage, she said he was dark skin. -- but he had a underground railroad friend name john. john and napoleon used to work together. this is probably the most accurate description because he said he was cold, -- cold blood african. in rachel stanwood, it suggested that his name was napoleon lewis and he had reversed the words. i don't know if that is a fabrication of lucy's, or if that was really the case. there is no way for me to know that. ok, i am want to talk about sydney howard gay. sydney howard gay one-time said that my ancestry is the best part of me. and he and his descendents are of their new england ancestry. on his father's side, he was descended from a clinic colony. on his mother's side, he was a descendent of john otis. napoleon and day grew up in very different worlds. you see, napoleon was born to a woman who was enslaved. he was born in 1800. new yorkbefore that, passed a law saying that children born to enslaved women would have to become indentured servants if it was a female child, until she was 25 years old. for a male child, it was until he was 28. t

john tonight, john lewis tonight, talking about the clinton relationship with african-americans. it is so powerful, so if hillary clinton does welcome the next president, her constituency begins with african-americans, because of what they've done for her. they have absolutely given her this nomination, because of the force of their loyalty, in come oug ing out and voting individually. it's a stirring achievement that's of loyalty to a person a family, we saw tonight. and i think it's going to continue in states like kentucky and it's going to keep going, starting in the deep south, the old cotton south and working its way around the country. it's powerful stuff. and i think it is, to me, the big story of the night, the african-american community showing its clout. >> chris, one more question, chris, and it has to do with eugene's use of the g-word tonight. gravitas, where it pertains to chris christie. and that would be early evidence that that event at maro lago tonight with chris christie in the background, donald trump in the front, and what that would mean chris christie conveyed to donald trump and a change in trump's tone. do you agree with it? >> well, speaking of the oscars, i would give him the oscar for best performance in a supporting role. i have no idea what he was thinking, but it was probably the same thing that trump was thinking when he had had to stand behind sarah palin a couple weeks ago. not exactly satisfaction, just guessing. >> all right, chris, thank you. thanks to the folks assembled in the great state of texas behind chris matthews. we have another call. the projected winner in what was tonight a long-fought race between senator sanders of a neighboring state and hillary clinton. our projection is that hillary clinton has won the democratic primary in the bay state of massachusetts. >> i should say here that there's a couple of things about this that are important. first of all, is that the sanders' campaign had said, and senator sanders personally had said that he was going to win massachusetts. so this is going to be a disappointment nor tfor the san campaign. so regardless of whether or not they had ever said they were going to win, massachusetts is the kind of state that you would expect senator sanders to do well in. obviously, he won in a rout tonight in his home state of vermont. he won by a very large margin in the neighboring state of new hampshire. massachusetts is also a neighboring state, and one that he spent a lot of money in, and tried very hard to win. i should also mention that at about 6:15 tonight, i heard from the clinton campaign that they did not expect to win in massachusetts. and that may be spin from the clinton campaign. they may be trying to lower expectations so that a victory seems all the more sweet. it didn't seem to me like spin, but it doesn't mean that it wasn't. i think this massachusetts victory by hillary clinton tonight, there were mixed polls heading into this tonight. i think if you are a supporter of the sanders' campaign, or indeed, the sanders' campaign itself, that one's got to sting a little bit. we can find out, though, directly, because joining us now is a very high-profile endorser of senator sanders. senator sanders does not have a ton of congressional endorsements, but this week he got one from the vice chair of the dnc. the vice chair resigned in order to make this endorsement for senator sanders. thanks very much for being with us. good to see you tonight. >> good to join you both. >> this massachusetts results is obviously a disappointment for senator sanders' campaign and his supporters. as somebody who has just become a formal endorser, has just signed on with the sanders' campaign, do you feel like the campaign is where it needs to be? >> i think that senator sanders' approach to this is really looking at the delegates, understanding the proportional way they're distributed, and really looking at the vast majority of the states across the country, where the american people have still yet to cast their votes. and this is where i felt it was important to come in, to resign from the dnc, set aside that neutral ground, and endorse senator sanders and to help make very clear to the american people about the stark contrast between our two democratic candidates for the presidency. in particular as it relates to secretary clinton having a record and positions that will take us into a future that will include more interventionist wars of regime change, and skon trasting that with senator sanders, his record and his positions of fighting against those who threaten the united states, but stopping these interventionists wars and regime changes that have cost our country so much and inhibited our ability to actually invest in rebuilding our nation here at home and in these programs that are important to communities all across the country. >> i have to ask one strategic question, in terms of the way the democratic primary is being fought. obviously, the timing of your endorsement is a real boost to senator sanders, especially because it came at great political sacrifice of your own, having to give up that leadership position in the dnc, but the thing that's going on right now, in the democratic primary, is that senator sanders, despite all the money that he's got, and the big crowds that he turns out, and the big appeal of his message, he's done so much better than people expected, and at the very start of this campaign, he didn't contest every state tonight, effectively, on super tuesday. there were 11 states at stake tonight. he only really competed for about five of them. he ran a few ads in texas, but that was it. is senator sanders actually trying to win, if there are whole swaths of the country in which he's not even really running. >> i'm going to leave kind of the political punditry and analysis to you folks and to others. i know, from my conversations with senator sanders, that he believes very deeply in the mission that he has embarked on, he will carry out this cain to every single state across the country, yes, to win the nomination, because he understands, as i do, how much is at stake for our country. and how much is at stake for our next generation and our future. obviously, it's a very tough race, but, it's important for this message to get out there, that's focused on these critical issues, and as you know, we spoke last night about the impact of these issues of war and peace, and how very little the american people, many in the media and others are even talking about the cost. this is something that's deeply personal to me pip lost friends in that iraq war in 2005 during my deployment there. i saw in my job at a medical unit, every day that high human cost. and now here in my work in congress, that economic toll that continues. so, this is a central question to any other issue that presidential candidates talk about, because if we continue down these -- this path of interventionist regime change wars as we're seeing in syria, if this syrian war continues, we will not have those resources to fund these important social programs and to really provide that investment into our future here at home. >> and congresswoman, i know that as an iraq war veteran, you don't scare easily, but you obviously have gained doubt, what happens if by splitting with the debbie wasserman schultz, hillary clinton dnc, and let's say senator sanders is not successful, how unpleasant like can become for a democrat in the house under a president clinton. >> yeah, brian, i'll be very honest with you. a lot of people warn me against doing what i did. but this is a very serious issue and what i did speaks to the high stakes that exist. war is a very real thing. it's real to me. it's real to our service members and their families, those who have borne this heavy sacrifice of war for so long and over many different generations. so for those who simply dismiss this idea that, you know, well, they're not really going to pay attention to secretary clinton's foreign policy record as it relates to these interventionist regime change wars that have cost us so much win respectfully ask them to think again and really look at this heavy toll that these wars have taken and that this isn't a question of the past and what happened in iraq, this is a question of today and tomorrow and what kind of commander in chief as we as americans and myself and other service members can be confident will not continue to take us down this failed path of more costly regime change wars that do nothing to strengthen our national security, and simply serve to strengthen our enemy. groups like isis and al qaeda and others. that's -- it's very serious. >> congresswoman tulsi gabbard, rank in the army reserve is major, if memory serves? >> you got it, brian. >> congresswoman, thank you very much. >> have a great night. >> and we will be back with more coverage right after this break. >>> at 11:20 eastern time, we are back with a call. the minnesota gop caucus goes to marco rubio. we saw him speak earlier tonight with his family in miami. rubio campaign coming off a less-than-stellar super tuesday was all about pushing forward to florida. that was his ticket to the bank, joe namath pledge that he was going to win his home state of florida. donald trump certainly has other plans for his adopted part-time home state of florida, but rubio, nonetheless, the gop caucus in minnesota. we are back with our guests, our friends at this table. can i summarize your position this way at the end of a long night? >> okay. >> is it the end? is that -- >> well, no. >> okay. >> you contend, a, that chris christie has already had a centering effect, a mollifying effect on donald trump. >> based on tonight's performance. >> and -- >> do you know if he was trying to do that? >> i mean, i think that he saw an opportunity to be involved in the campaign. it's not -- it's katy tur's report, it's not a big campaign, there's not a big campaign staff, and i think that anyone who has done this before, and i think trump admired christie's political acumen has an opportunity to influence the candidate. >> and eugene, is it your contention that we are witnessing a republican party, not unlike a crystal goblet on its way down to the ground that's about to shatter into a thousand pieces? >> unless it's already hit the floor. i mean, yes. that's -- i think the party has cracked. i don't think this is a coherent political party anymore, that knows who it is, what it stands for, what it's trying to accomplish. there are very differing visions of all of that within the republican party, at a time when, ironically, the party in many ways is very successful. it controls both houses of congress, it controls most state houses, most state legislatures, so it's huge. >> very good point. >> it's huge. it's a very big tent. but beneath this big tent are warring factions that -- and this whole thing -- i mean, trump is not solely responsible for what's happening. he came at a time when you had these various points of view and sort of incipient groupings under the big tent and he certainly has been the catalyst in his own -- >> and he -- >> way. >> and he has to own his language. to your piece this week, using language a lot of us did not raise our children to -- >> no! >> -- use. and prohibited it. >> no. and in a sense, that just kind of gave everyone permission to act out and to say things that just are not said in our polite political discourse. and i'm talking not just about rubio's mimicry, essentially, of trump's transgressive language, but by being -- by not playing by the rules, he kind of gave everybody else permission not to play by the rules, as well. it's -- i am not sure how this all gets put back together. i really am not sure. they used to say, democrats fall in love, republicans fall in line. today's republicans, they -- >> they've fallen apart. >> i agree with the glass is shattered. i would say two things. you know, a lot of this started building during the bush years, when compassionate conservatism included a growing federal government. there were rumblings, we heard it a lot on talk radio, that the prescription drug benefit was too expensive, that the federal role in the no child left behind act was too much of a -- so this undercurrent has been present since 2001, 2002. it's been building. i would say the failed campaign of johnccain and mitt romney sort of cemented this idea that national republicans are losers. and donald trump came right in, tapped right into that, and made them feel like they could win again. and i would be cautious about assigning too much commitment to the policies he's talking about. yes, large numbers of his supporters do support a wall. and some of them do support the very unconstitutional idea of a ban on muslims. but the vast majority of them are enamored with the idea of winning and with the strength that he projects. >> it's a strong arm campaign more than it is about any individual policy. >> another break. our coverage will continue. steve kornacki at the board with new numbers right after this. >>> at 11:28 eastern time, we have another call from the great state of minnesota. the projected winner of their caucus on the democratic side tonight, bernie sanders over hillary clinton, 59-41 with about a third of the vote in. nevertheless, it's our projection that he will add to tha

it was my honor to serve in congress with congressman john lewis, one of the most incredible people you could ever meet and john was very modest. he didn't really talk about at least in congress about his history, people knew it. but this book talks not only about john and all of the other members of the civil rights movement, the importance of their work, but also what has been happening to the voter, the act since 1965, the war, if you will t attack on the voting rights act to try to scale it back, diminish it and so forth. so that's why i take a particular important issue for us us to be considering knowing that we have states across the country where restrictive laws on voting rights are being enacted. arizona, obviously, is no exception. i want to welcome you all and thank you for being here. i want to pose the first question to each of our panelists. >> amary's book. >> i'm sorry, did i not mention it? bad moderator. independent politics. professor here, how americans sustained for parties leads to political inaction and i think what we know about arizona and the country is the fastest growing group of re

john lewis to speak with her. i think one of the most powerful parts of this speech is the moment where she directly addresses congressmen john lewis and she says, you know, she talks about this moment in march 2009, where they walk across the bridge together, and they hold hands. and she realizes this is such a wonderful gift that she has been given, to be able to have this moment with john lewis, where they have moved beyond the pains of the past and they are looking towards the alabama the future. speech,inal leg of her as georgebut today, wallace's daughter and as a person of my own, i want to do for you what my father should have done, and recognize you for your humidity and for your dignity as a child of god, as a person of good will and character, and as a fellow alabamians and say welcome home. announcer: in early 1861, after the southern states seceded from montgomery hosted a constitutional convention for the confederate states of america. the state was a provisional confederate capital before it was moved to richmond in may of that year. our charter communications cable partners work with c-span's cities to her sta

john lewis. when you think about members like john conyers. john conyers, a black man, who will go down in history as the ongest-serving man in this congress. just think about it. a man who shares an office for almost two decades with rosa parks. the modern civil rights leader, who decided that she was going to sit down that day because she realized one person could make a difference. so, mr. speaker, we have gone through our whole history of the voting rights act. we have gone through the sections of the constitution. we have gone through what the supreme court has done. and yet, we can't get the re authorization of our voting rights act. o, mr. speaker, i say this we are holding field hearings so we can collect the information to come back here and tell you that the vehicle for american people rks that vehicle is the ball will the box. mr. speaker, as i stand here today, we have resolved, members of the congressional black caucus don't come just to complain and put issues out there, we are scholars. we like hearing that we are the conscience

john oliver launching a blistering attack on donald trump. back with me now, jeff dewit, matt lewis -- i'm putting you guys together -- ryan lizza and donna brazile. okay. so jeff, john oliver also included trump's comments to cnn over the weekend about david duke. here it is. >> honestly, i don't know david duke. i don't think i've ever met him. i'm pretty sure, i didn't meet him and i just don't know anything about him. >> really? that's your best answer there? because you definitely know who he is. because you called him a bigot and a racist in the past. but that's not even the [ bleep ] point. the point is, with an answer like that you are either racist or you are pretending to be and at some point there is no difference there. and sure, he disavowed david duke later in the day but the scary thing is, we have no way of knowing which of his inconsistent views he will hold in office. >> so, that's the thing, jeff, whether you're doing it for a strategy to get as many voters as possible, i don't -- i shouldn't say that. having met him, it's hard to believe that he is a racist. but still, he gets on television and he has an answer like that and what other conclusion can you draw? >> racism is disgusting. it's awful to think that racism still exists in any form in this country. we have such a diverse culture and this country is built upon many different races coming together to build what we know as america. >> the question is whether he's pandering for votes by having this nebulous answer -- let me finish -- by having this nebulous answer about the kkk. go on. >> look, he has disavowed it for decades. i'll tell you right now, i would never support a racist candidate. i know donald trump very well and he is not a racist, by any means, not at all. he has disavowed racist comments for decades, for his whole life. he's not a racist guy. and so you have one technical misstep where the ear piece didn't work right, it's been a long campaign day, he said one little thing, even just days before it he was disavowing racism, he has minorities coming on all the time on the stage with him and presenting him and endorsing him. he is absolutely not a racist. and i'm telling you, i would never support anybody who is racist. it's terrible and it's awful and i can tell that you donald trump is not a racist. what we have is the day before super tuesday and everyone is jumping on board that doesn't like him, trying to make something out of nothing to take him down on election day. >> who wants to weigh in here? >> i would just say, if he says one little thing. if he says one little thing, then we would be forgiven. if it was a faux pas, maybe he couldn't hear, but this comes -- a lot of things like new mexico is trying to ban all muslims from coming to the country. this is a pattern of behavior that makes it a little harder to be really hard to excuse donald trump from this one occasion. >> listen, south carolina governor nikki haley, she's endorsed marco rubio, by the way, but here's what she said. >> and the kkk came to south carolina from out of state to protest on our statehouse grounds. [ crowd booing.] >> we saw and looked at true hate in the eyes of charleston last year. i will not stop until we fight a man who chooses not to disavow the kkk, that is not a part of our party, that's not who we want as president. we will not allow that in our country. >> okay. so trump is saying now and also his surrogates, as you hear jeff saying, he has disavowed the kkk. no matter how the establishment tries to damage trump, it doesn't happen. how long can that last? that's for you, ryan. >> well, look, i think everyone agrees that he's the most likely person to be the republican nominee. and, you know, the train has left the station. and, you know, the scenarios by which ted cruz or marco rubio defeat him are increasingly more, you know, delusional. and at a certain point i don't see how you put the toothpaste back in the tube here. you have candidates like nikki haley and other elected officials on camera now saying that they will do anything to stop him and associating him with the kkk. just step back and think of that for a second. >> is that going to work? >> no. >> i'm saying in a general election. >> ryan, this is an important point. this is not about winning an election. this is actually deeper. this transcends that. >> i agree with you. >> if you're a conservative and it's incumbent upon you to be concerned to a certain degree about brand management and this speaks to actually -- it violates our moral code, it is the death to conservatism. if you care deeply about issues, whatever it might be, like having free market, protecting the unborn, to allow that to be tarnished by the taint of racism cannot be permitted. >> but this is a crisis for the republican party because this person is on the way to being the nominee and as far as i can tell, there's really no plan to stop that. there's no break glass in the case of an emergency at the convention and substitute someone else. this is a crisis. this is a party that is falling apart here. >> donna, you know about branding candidates, right? go ahead. >> look, having embraced a party that once had many racial stains, i mean, look, the democratic party, we are not perfect. you can call them names of everyone but we have renounced them. we have moved on. but the party now embraces opportunity for all. we're an inclusive party. this is something that the republican party has to come deal with, the hate mongering, the fearmongering. the obstructionists. this is a party that really has to come and look at america and deal with this and not just repudiate donald trump for not saying quick enough, fast enough that he disliked or disavowed david duke but as a party that has to come to terms with some of the things that has happened across the board. the islamaphobia, the xenophobia. those issues are deep within the republican party and they need to be rooted out. >> and can i just add one thing, don, about the conversation whether he's a racist or not and i don't know if donald trump is personally a racist. >> he is not racist. >> i don't know what is in his heart but he's become the candidate of racists in this election and that has been very, very obvious since he announced. if you go to any of the fringe websites where racists gather object the internet, he's their candidate. you have the former -- >> you cannot help who supports you. >> right. but that's what we're talking about tonight, jeff. you can't tell -- right. you can't control who supports you. that's why you condemn them when you are asked. >> and he has condemned them. for decades. he has condemned it for decades. >> not on sunday. >> he did. >> stand by, everyone. here's the thing. and i said this earlier. ryan, i think you're exactly right. i don't think donald trump is a racist but he has become the candidate for racists and that in itself is bad. when people say you can't control who supports you, absolutely right. but what you can control is your response to those people who support you at every single turn. so if donald trump doesn't believe in anything that the kkk says or racist people or people who are on the fringe, he has every opportunity, jeff, to say, i do not support that. i disavow that. i don't believe in it and if you believe that, don't vote for me. i'm not your candidate. go ahead. >> and he has said that at every turn. he is absolutely not a racist. >> i have never heard him say, don't vote for me. i'm not your candidate for that. i've never heard him say that. >> he has disavowed the entire thing. it's unfortunate. but when you have the top three contenders for the nomination and two have hispanic background, unfortunately, those terrible, awful, disgusting groups are going to support the one that does not have hispanic background. you can't help that. he has disavowed it. he has said he doesn't want the support. everything that he can too -- do, he has done. it's the day before the election and honestly, it's very dishonest, where they are trying to trump this up into something that it is not. >> does it bother you what ryan said? because i believe there is some truth to that. because we would not be having this conversation. it's not that the kkk has endorsed him but he has become the candidate who, you know, racist people support, people like the kkk support. and who, you know, fight for support. you can see it on social media. you can probably go to my twitter feed right now, any one of our feeds -- >> but it would be treasonist if they voted against their heritage. >> that doesn't bother you, jeff? that doesn't bother him. >> he is a magnet for the kind of hateful rhetoric that comes from these fringe groups and white supremacist groups. that's what the problem is. he's a magnet for them. >> donna, donna, hang on. i'm going to go a little longer because i want to continue this conversation. when we were talking about -- okay. we're going to come back to this conversation. take a break and we'll come back to this. i'll see you on the other side. >>> back now with my panel, okay, let's get jeff back in. jeff, that doesn't bother you, as we were saying, he has become the party where white supremacist, racists, people like the kkk support? that doesn't bother you? >> it bothers me immensely. and quite frankly, i don't understand it. we actually during the break pulled up the kkk and one of their core tenants is they are against all immigrants, all immigrants. don't forget, donald trump is i think the only one of the race who is married to an immigrant. and just so you know, myself, i am married to an immigrant to this country. so, again, honestly, i'm sick to my stomach sitting here talking about this topic. it's the last thing that i want to go -- to be associated with. the last thing to look like i'm defending racism because it disgusts me to no end. it's absolutely disgusting in every form. and so i'm sick that we're talking about it. i will tell you, i know donald trump on a personal level and he is not a racist. >> okay, jeff. let's listen. donna, you can help me out with this. i'm wondering why the double standard from all of the folks, he disavowed it. why do you keep going on this about racism? why is donald trump and his supporters, what's different about donald trump than was different about barack obama in 2008 and 2012 when had he to give a race speech, when he had to denounce the reverend wright and denounce farrakhan and al sharpton into the white house so many times? he had to give an entire speech. if you're running for leader of the free world and don't want to be bothered by such questions, then why are you doing it, then? what is different about donald trump versus any other person who has to answer these questions? >> look, when you start off with this claiming that the mexicans coming across the border were racists and blah, blah, blah and then you go down that slippery islamaphobia and xenophobia and banning the mosques. >> why would he expect not to have to answer these questions? >> the donald trump that i used to read about -- of course, i'm a student of history. see, i remember that political race in louisiana very well. this was the one, vote for the lizard not the wizard. i mean, remember? the governor said i'm the crook, and it's important to vote for me, not the wizard. look, donald trump condemned president george bush. you had had leaders and leaders who denounced that type of racist, bigoted campaign. donald trump in 2000 continued along that vein. the donald trump of 2015, 2016 has totally flipped on these issues and to say -- >> he has not flipped. >> he doesn't know enough about these organizations. excuse me? the blood that is still on the sidewalks and the trees from people who have been bombed and beaten and burned? and you don't know that history? you have to google that? you have to google the ku klux klan? i am sorry. i never stay up this late to talk about the klan. i want the klan to be part of the past. not the future. >> trump also attacked -- you don't have to go back that far to find inconsistencies. he attacked mitt romney for self-deportation, a policy that now -- >> i have to go. final thoughts. >> happy birthday to you, baby. >> thank you. that will be the final thought. i was going to ask ryan his. go ahead. >> i mean, i think the obvious answer for why he's doing this, he thinks there is a racist vote out there that this -- >> that is not correct. he has not condoned racism. he's condemned it. he played coy with whether he accepts the support of david duke. >> he had a bad ear piece. >> jeff, please. don't come on tv and embarrass yourself by repeating that. we just watched the clip. he didn't have a bad ear piece. come on, man. >> thanks, guys. it was a good conversation. jeff dewitt, matt lewis, donna, thank you. i'll see you guys soon. >>> up next, do trump's opponents finally have the ammunition to stop him? >>> we're talking about donald trump's stumble on disavowing the kkk. joining me is the rnc national committeeman and supporter of marco rubio and lanny davis, a long-time friend of hillary rodham clinton but doesn't speak for the campaign. gentlemen, thank you for joining me. henry, two former rnc chair member saying no way would they support donald trump. mel brooks say he cannot support him because he's a serial adulterer. mitt romney calling his kkk marks disgusting. we know politics, dirty business. is this takedown under way? >> i sure hope it is. for him to say somehow he didn't hear what was being said about the ku klux klan, i know what he was doing. he was trying to appeal to southerners because he thinks somehow because we're from the south, surely we must like the ku klux klan and it is despicable and disgusting and equally bad, of course, is what he did to students at his trump university which the new york attorney general has called a bait and switch program. >> so explain this to me -- so we're certainly coming for him. >> henry, explain this to me. if you hold his feet to the fire about these comments, you're doing it because you don't like donald trump. explain this pretzel logic to me regarding this particular issue. >> well, i don't know if i can explain that. what i can explain is, as a southerner, it is repulsive that a politician would try to appeal to a group of voters assuming that somehow or another he can't act like he doesn't like the ku klux klan because he can't upset the southerners, don't want to upset anybody. >> is it insulting to you as a southerner? >> it is insulting to me as a southerner and christian and as an american. >> how far should republicans go to take donald trump down if he is the choice of the plurality of the voters so far? is anything off the table, do you think? >> well, look, you want to be tough but you want to be honorable. you want to be factual and truthful. there are plenty of things to talk about with donald trump. i just mentioned trump university. and what happened there, you got a lot of people who were trying to do something with their lives to learn about real estate and to make a living. and he just rips them off. how do you think he's made the money he's made? he has ripped people off. certainly at trump university, that's what happened. and i think if you look at for me, i'm pro life, the fact that he gave money to planned parenthood that funded abortion, that is not something that certainly appeals to me but one day he's pro choice and the next day he's pro life. he's all over the map. you know, we just have to define him as he is and make certain that people understand him. you can't trust him any more than the people trust hillary clinton. >> so lanny, the democrats have been snickering about donald trump and how they would love him to be the nominee. are they still sure about that? >> you know, don, i've done this snicker on your show and i have to admit that i now regret it. we democrats certainly want to win in 2016 but when i hear somebody like mr. barbour who must be a conservative and a employ republican to be on the national committee, speaking about -- and the truth about what is a very dangerous possibility. he is the likely republican nominee. and the rest of the world will be seeing the major historic party of abraham lincoln led by somebody who uses such caricature, such hateful rhetoric and i do think it's no longer funny for to us celebrate the nomination of trump. i am sorry that i did that. i now realize that this man is shameful to even consider being the nominee of the great republican party that we have differences of philosophies. between democrats and republicans, so i think this is very, very serious. i've been hearing from a lot of very loyal republicans, republicans who don't want to vote for hillary clinton but see donald trump as contrary to the entire heritage of not only the republican party but of this country. >> henry, why are republicans -- >> yes. >> -- conservatives, so opposed to donald trump beyond the kkk, you know, and so many people, so many voters are supporting him. why are conservatives so opposed? >> well, look, we want somebody that we can trust and for me, that person is marco rubio. marco rubio is the epitome of the american dream and he's a conservative that we can count on whereas with donald trump, we don't know where he'd be on the issues. senator rubio is a man who can win for us and if you ask lanny, i don't think mrs. clinton would really want to run against marco rubio. he does well against her in the polls. he's got a broad appeal. he's the type of leader who i think is of the future as opposed to the past. >> but the person you're supporting, marco rubio is fighting hard. he's fighting tooth and nail but he's so far behind donald trump. now, let's just say -- i know you're hoping that marco rubio wins the nomination. if by chance donald trump does become the nominee, are you going to support him? >> you know, i have consistently said that i'm going to support the nominee and i will tell you, i'm going to fight for marco rubio and if donald trump is the nominee, it would be a real struggle to vote for him, to be honest. but i'm fighting for marco rubio. look, the key here is, you've got to get to 1,237 delegates and donald trump is going to have a good day tomorrow on super tuesday. by the way, tomorrow is super tuesday, and your birthday, i understand. i hope you have a good day. i think donald trump is going to win delegates but i also think marco rubio is going to win delegates and i really think that marco rubio now is the candidate who can go toe to toe with donald trump. senator cruz had set up tomorrow as a big day but he's kind of been fading and he's fighting to win texas, which he probably will. >> final thoughts, henry. i've got to go. >> his campaign has struggled a bit. >> lanny, i apologize. i volunteer have to run. thank you both. >> thanks, don. >>> while hillary clinton and bernie sanders do battle, there's one subject that they are completely unified on and that's donald trump. that's next. >>> the antics in the republican race have drawn reaction from many people including the democratic candidates. so let's discuss now. bob beckel is an author and political strategist, political commentator. political an j-- analyst angela rye. let's listen to hillary clinton and her reaction today for the gop. here it is. >> if i were grading some of those republicans, you remember the little box that used to be on your kids' report cards, play well with others? i'd have to put a big no, democracy requires that we play well with others. that's what it's all about. at some point we can't just say whatever pops into your head if you want to be the president of the united states of america. people around the world actually listen to what people running for president say. >> so does all of this, you know, the name calling and mudslinging, does it help the democrats? >> sure it does. here's the biggest advantage for hillary clinton. and, you know, i'm not saying there's a lot of people about donald trump. the guy pulls rabbits out of the hat and if he gets to be the nominee, he could win. i doubt it. but hillary clinton's biggest problem going into a fall campaign -- and that's what she's doing spring training for right now, is her trust issue. and donald trump singlehandedly gives her back trust because by the time we're done with him, in terms of trust, the things he said and then flip-flops on, he's going be the candidate with the trust problems. it's not hillary clinton. >> angela, you said the democrats are uniquely positioned to compete against donald trump. listen, no one is counting him out here for anything. we're just saying, you know, we're just talking about his comments on the kkk. but why do you say that? >> i think for several reasons, don. one of the things that i even mentioned earlier is, of course, the gop produced this autopsy report in 2012 once they got slaughtered in the presidential and now we're in a day and age, four years later, four years after that fact, we're now fighting on whether or not we're repudiating and disavowing whether kkk should be a thing. it's beyond me at this point because, of course it should be a thing. of course it shouldn't have anyplace in our political discourse. democrats are uniquely positioned because they are battling on who has the better plans for affordability, making college free, on whether or not they should have reparations in their platform. there's no contest. and whether there should or should not be a wall is not a discussion for democrats. that's why. it's truly the big tent party. >> a lot of people in the country want to hear what -- they are not that interested in that and -- sadly. i know democrats are, right? >> there's a reality tv show happening on the other side. who watch that? -- who would not watch that? it's for the ratings, right? >> america's first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the kkk. what does this say? >> it says it's a great opportunity to take the conversation away from bernie's loss. his slaughter in south carolina and hillary clinton no longer has to talk about the crime bill. people are saying, wait a minute, what is hillary clinton's connection to black people? hillary can say implicitly, i might put negros in jail but i'm not burning crosses. it shields her and bernie from their own political theories. hillary has had a big week because of south carolina. she is moving on and no longer thinking about bernie sanders and the national election. and she's preparing the nation for a hillary/trump standoff. it makes the way a lot easier for hillary. don't underestimate donald trump here. he's pulled rabbits out of hats and i wouldn't be surprised if he still gets bigger numbers out of this, not smaller. >> listen, i've been telling you, the people who come on my show who underestimate donald trump, you should not do that. if you're going to run for president, don't underestimate them. bob, what does he do about this so-called kkk snafu after super tuesday? >> he had an opportunity to do something about it and didn't do it. when you make a snafu like this, unless you can cut it off right away, come out and say, i was wrong, i'm sorry, i didn't understand the question but nonetheless, it shouldn't have been said, disavow duke and all of that, the fact of the matter is, this carries it on for him. my guess is donald trump is going to do what he always does, come up with another controversy on another candidate and tomorrow will be a good day for him and that will give him a chance to put it in the rear-view mirror but this digs a little deeper. this is only one. there are a whole lot of other things about donald trump that have yet to come out, taxes, a bunch of things that will put him in the defensive for a period of time to come. >> i've got to go. >> thank you, i'll see you soon. >> it's his 65th birthday. >> 65? i thought it was 60. >> 7 -- 65, black don't crack. >> i'm really mad. >> you should be. >> it's all good. thank you. stay tuned with cnn for super tuesday coverage as voters cast their ballots. good night, everyone. . . . >>> it is tuesday, super tuesday. finally here. millions across the country will cast ballots. donald trump and hillary clinton lead in the polls. will the voters deliver big surprises? i'm christine romans. welcome to "early start." >> i'm john berman. starting in hours, voters head to the polls. it is super tuesday. the stakes are high. as you can see here, the tensions boiling over. this was an altercation with the secret

john oliver launching a blistering attack on donald trump. back with me now, jeff dewit, matt lewis -- i'm putting you guys together -- ryan lizza and donna brazile. okay. so jeff, johnoliver also included trump's comments to cnn over the weekend about david duke. here it is. >> honestly, i don't know david duke. i don't think i've ever met him. i just don't know anything about him. >> really? that's your best answer there? because you definitely know who he is. because you called him a bigot and a racist in the past. but that's not even the [ bleep ] point. the point is, with an answer like that you are either racist or you are pretending to be and at some point there is no difference there. and sure, he disavowed david duke later in the day but the scary thing is, we have no way of knowing which of his inconsistent views he will hold in office. >> so, that's the thing, jeff, whether you're doing it for a strategy to get as many voters as possible, i don't -- i shouldn't say that. having met him, it's hard to believe that he is a racist. but still, he gets on television and he has an answer like that and what other conclusion can you draw? >> racism is disgusting. i

john lewis to speak with her. i think one of the most powerful parts of the speech is the moment where she directly addresses congressman john lewis. she talks about this moment in march 2009 where they walk across the bridge together, and they hold hands. and she realizes this is such a wonderful gift she has been given to be able to have this moment with john lewis where they have moved beyond the pain of the past and are looking towards the alabama of the future. in the final line of her speech, , "today is stored wallace's daughter and a person of my own, i want to do what my father should have done and recognize you for your humanity and dignity as a child of god, as a person of good will and character, and as a fellow alabamian. and say, welcome home." we are back live at ford's theater in washington, d.c., as the abraham lincoln symposium continues. >> 1864, our greatest victory. i'm here today for a very important function. i have the honor of introducing edna green medford. dr. medford is the author of lincoln and emancipation. she isto begin by saying receiving an award this afternoon and will be unable to particip