call a populist edge to the klan. the klan grew large, it was enlisting people who are mostly in the working class and lower middle class of white protestant society with. it wasn't getting richer people were the poorest people. it was getting people, as of the say, we, farmers artisans. people who felt like they gain, but not very much, in american society, and those gains were under attack by these new groups coming into the country. native white supremacy. judicial -- this is a restoration's organization. we and it was easily the largest social movement in america in the mid 19 twenties. it didn't have a long life in the limelight. there are scandals, the leader of the klan in indiana where the klan was controlled, was found raping and, in other, ways abusing women. we i hiram was thrown to jail as a leader of the klan in indiana. the whole klan was thrown into disrepute. people started to leave it, and more and more newspapers, even the states where the klan was strong, more politicians seem to denounce the klan,

this is the klan grew large. it was enlisting people mostly in the working class and lower middle class of white protestant society. it wasn't getting richer people, and it wasn't getting the poorest white people either. it was getting people who were, as it says, farmers, artisans, people who really felt that they had gained something but not very much in american society and those gains were under attack by these new groups coming into the country. native white protestant supremacy. traditional moral standards went by the boards and so forth. this was a restorationist organization. and it was easily the largest social movement in america in the mid-1920s. well, it didn't have a long life in the limelight. there were scandals, the leader of the klan in indiana where the klan basically controlled the government for several years was found raping and other ways abusing women. hiram stephenson. he was thrown into jail. as leader of the klan in indiana, the whole klan was thrown into disrepute by this and people sta

it did not power the klan. to the contrary, the klan's membership exploded. the time one of the greatest demonstrations the city has ever known. this all remains a cautionary tale about exposure and evil in the world of journalism. in 1913, louis brandeis wrote in harper's weekly under the headline "what police publicity can do that sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." but in journalism, this is more complicated. sometimes the infected court the infectious. sometimes publicity is advertising. consider how this continues to manifest today. whether through election denial, q-anon conspiracy or vaccine resistant. sometimes people are drawn to what we believe logic and fact would expel them from. sometimes when we expose evil, we create and amplify our a alow alore it. sometimes people are drawn into the very flame that provides the light. is olay better than your clean beauty? olay has 99% pure niacinamide. it's derm-tested. and now, it's cleanest formula with hydration that beats the $400 cream. tried. tested. never bested. shop at olay.com all th

then they talk about the klan and the neo-nazis.re's over 60 million people in this country that the government identifies and labels as white, caucasian. are we all members of the klan? are we all neo-nazis? how absurd. how disgusting. you have republican legislatures that are trying to get their election system back, since the covid virus, and since the system was changed. illegitimately by judges, by governors, by boards of elections, by secretaries of state, the federal constitution gives this power to the state legislatures, to no one else. they did it purposely because they wanted the representatives of the people of each state to make those decisions. so joe biden goes out on a blasphemous campaign, a poisonous, cancerous campaign and accuses those legislatures of conducting jim crow like activities to suppress the vote. now, joe biden knows something about jim crow activities since early in his senate career, he was a jim crowster. he supported segregation, opposed integration in our cities. he didn't want his kids to attend

because of the terror of the ku klux klan. so, young people again spoke up and lead the way as young people do to speak up for justice, equality and democracy. freedom summer, 1964. >> our parents moved down south to participate in that and also our older brother leonard. >> yeah, that is right. our father was a methodist minister. so, they said don't wait for heaven to put your values into action. let's just do it right now on earth. let's take action to speak up for love. all of those things you preach in all those religions. people were doing that, but in levant action. also, speaking up and using their first amendment rights. well, when they got, or three of them immediately disappeared. cheney, sworn or and goodman. andrew goodman, james cheney and michael -- everyone suspected that the ku klux klan had them. but they kept searching and searching for them. and on august 4th, the fbi found the bodies of them three. it was a very, very sad time that summer. and on at the very same day, something else very sad happened. it's

this is the ku klux klan. they were not interested in racial justice.re interested in whites only and the movement had to rise up to oppose that. if there hadn't been a movement to oppose that, that would still be the world we live in today. >> we're happy that young people stood up and opposed it and many adults as well. we were part of all that speaking up. the ku klux klan to punish the little children for speaking up for democracy and justice, they planted a bomb in their church right on sunday morning. the headquarters of the kids was the 16th street baptist church. they put a bomb in their church on september 15th, 1963. i was 10, john was 12. these four little girls, their bodies were found in the church, cynthia, addie mae, carol and denise. we were so sad about that. what's driving us to stand up and speak up is partly sadness, it's grief, it's feelings that the world isn't what it could be and we could do better. in des moines, edna griffin started a group called the congress of racial equality. so people around the country had services to mou

so the klan starts this campaign called 100% americanism.hey are the ones who will always be 100 percent americans. they will find those who are not. and in so doing, and adopting this new kind of campaign, they place a critical distance between themselves and the kinds of violence that have been getting a lot of bad publicity for the united states. that in some instances were not nearly enough, but some americans thinking, is this really who we want to be? because stories of people who kill others citizens en masse tend to come from autocratic places like russia and the ottoman empire. some way and domestically, part of what -- how we kept an eye on our population and kept being stable so we could stay neutral was to increase dramatically the amount of policing that we do of normal american citizens. it's just that, it is okay now because we are looking for spies. we are looking for ways that germans were -- will infiltrate american society, poison are wells, ruin our crops, dump bowl we've all unto our cotton. pay our neighbors on the sout

this was the ku klux klan, and they were not interested in racial justice.y were interested in whites only. and the movement had to rise up to oppose that. if there hadn't been a movement of people to oppose that, that's still the world we'd live in today. >> yeah, that's right. >> so we're very happy that -- >> we're happy that young people stood up and opposed it, and many adults as well. >> that's right. >> we were part of all that speak up. well, the ku klux klan, to punish the little children for speaking up for democracy and for justice, they had a plan, and they planted a bomb in their church, right on sunday morning. the headquarters of the kids was the 16th street baptist church. and so they put a bomb in their church on september 15th, 1963. i was 10 years old. john was 12. and these four little girls, their bodies were found in the church. cynthia, addie may, carol and denise. and we were so sad about that. it's like today what is driving a lot of young people to speak up and stand up. it's partly sadness. it's grief. it's feelings that the world

he also has optioned under the ku klux klan act to bring criminal proceedings against bounty hunters who are basically engaged in the kind of vigilante justice that led to the enactment of the ku klux klan act of 1971, so it is curious that this little restaurant in harvard square could become a landmark in the path to women's rights, human rights and the rule of law which is being turned upside down by the state of texas. >> i think a lot of people looking at this from the outside, from outside the legal system, is sort of lamenting this abrupt change from 50 years of established precedent in the court and what we thought were our constitutional rights. i think there is some appeal or some -- i don't know, some easiness to the idea that the justice department could swoop in here and sort of save this constitutional right, that the government, the administration, could move in to act. but one of the ways you're describing the vulnerability of this law would involve bringing lawsuits by people who effectively were targeted by this texas law, and that would be handled as a civil matter

could bring lawsuits under the civil equivalent of the ku klux klan act, which is 42 u.s. code sections 1983 and 1985. and those are the sections they can bring suits to basically get a multitude, of whatever bounty is are being claimed against them. what we need since this texas law operates by chilling abortion helpers and providers. frightening them out of business when they can do is say. you sue us for $10, 000, or 10 million, because there is no limit put on the statue. and we will see you for double that. i think a lot of the people, would waltz into court in exercise this impermissibly delegate veto power over abortion, are going to think twice or maybe several times interesting lee, the point about this ten case in all of these precedents about private power, is that even a justice who does not believe in roe v. wade. who doesn't think there is a basic right to abortion, would have to confront all of these precedents that say that even if what you're doing is not something that specially protected by the constitution like serving liquor with the meal that you're s

sure enough, the series did not have the effect that one might have thought, to the contrary, klan'sexploded. >> laura: let's pause here for a second, if you guess that his kkk talk was leading to a grand smearing of conservatives, you're right on target. >> consider how this continues to manifest today whether through election denial, cue in on conspiracies, or vaccine resistance. sometimes when we expose evil, we create or amplify an allure of it. >> laura: in other words, trump supporter's and other americans charles below disagrees with him things like the vaccine are morally the equivalent of the kkk. they are not deplorable and i not only should be shunned and looked down upon but the media needs to take proactive steps to suppress their views, the platform them altogether. what was more shocking is this loathsome dribble aired not on msnbc, but cbs sunday morning. what happened to them? in the end, the modern media doesn't see it as their goal to inform but rather to decide for you, take covid -- they don't want to nuance, they don't want to admit the delta variant is waning,

le it's much like the ku klux klan. bounty hunters were allow god into states and steal slaves and bring them back to the south and after the civil war, our congress passed the ku klux klan act that gives you the right to violate the rights of others. that's exactly what is happening here. it's not complex. and the supreme court has ruled twice that that is acting under color of state law if the state law gives private rights of action that help you violate other citizens' rights. so it's really an outrageous decision and it's alive. it's kind of novel that they're using it for abortion, but even in 1973, the supreme court rules that a state can't delegate veto power over abortions to individuals, so it's not that novel, and it just shows how right winged the court has become. >> aside from fixing the court as you put it, nancy, how do you challenge this texas law? >> since they stopped a hearing that's supposed to take place today, thank god we have garland in the department of justice. have to criminally prosecute und

i could be in the klan hood. so you were in the clan hood? saying i was in the clan hood. i could be in the black face. >> i never said i was in black face. but i can also say i never said i was in the klan hood. >> gutfeld: brilliant. up next, cn nshg's piece on a sexy velociraptor is also a piece of crap-tor. >> gutfeld: when you think of sex, do you think t-rex. instead of drone strikes in the era of immigration, cnn highlights dinosaur copulation proving the network is on the verge of extinction, cnn sent this alert yesterday, quote, prehistoric foreplay. dinosaurs must have had to have sex to reproduce but how they did it remains a mystery. as if that weren't stupid enough, the network was late to the dinosaur sex game by five years, enough time for three jurassic park movies. talk about reproduction. they ran a report how jurassic park in january of 2016. maybe that's why they didn't get around to covering the implosion of russiagate. males did a dance to try to woo their female counterparts apparently that kind of foreplay is what mode

racism is the klan. racism is the cross burning. but racism is not the name -- a regularly identifiable black name that doesn't get the job. >> red lining, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. all of those things, that's not that racism. and racism in this narrative is not the concern that black men are marching with guns, just the way white men march with guns. that if you're not afraid of white men, marching with guns, why are you afraid of black men marching with guns? so -- but that's not seen as racism. that's just seen as being concerned. it's what happens, that anti-blackness that i'm talking about that is coursing through this history is affecting the ways that we live and die in america. >> we talk about american exceptionalism a lot, and it's a controversial topic, but in way that america is quite exceptional is in our problem with gun violence around the world. we have a question from one of our viewers, wendy, who says are there any societies the u.s. could use as a model for reform, or is the second amendment with its unacknowledged ra

they had a huge contingent of the ku klux klan here. probably only second to the southern states. they would have marches that would include 10,000 people in white robes. they burned crosses on the front lawn of the city hall and the front lawn of the courthouse. they really helped get a bad mayor elected. there were some serious baggage that came up with those folks. it took many years until well after world war ii to even start to address some of those issuings. some of those issues we're still living with today. >> labor unions are a voice. a source of protection. it came relatively late. there were enough immigrants here in detroit and people coming in constantly it was pretty easy to replace poor workers or workers who fought the corporation for pay and days off and things like that. most workers work six days a week and sometimes would even go in for the seventh day for the extra money. it was during the depression when the times were toughest in detroit that really the automobile manufacturing workers started pushing back. ford being the last one to go was really quite a co

i a man who worked civil years to the l. chapo klan agreed to meet us. he is still a drug trafficker, chapo helped him get into business as you know with him. and he said i was, i was going to know that by him, but i little bit when i went to the mon, the weight of a 1000000 over a 1000000 and then it went. we went up as on the north refundable or a mile plan, not the only 3 years i live in north and pull them out. the men will own a puppy field with which heroine is made. oh, on me will i get along with his men every morning? he harvests opium gum, a brown v goose material obtained by making an incision in the capsule. o a keeler. the substance is worth $600.00 euros in sooner, lower and much more. once it reaches american soil. it was the question which triplet, they're going to give it to you. and rather than they was, and that was him. and that of a 1000 you his field until about $6000.00 euros net per year. double the average salary in mexico. but a 3rd less than in l chapo time material. welcome up where the little yellow and okay yes, please canno

in the early 2000 a man who worked several years to the l. chapo klan agreed to meet us. he is still a drug trafficker. and chapo helped him get into business mode. cornell and i was going to know that by him, but i did a little bit of when i went to the mon, the whatever it was, it was, it was even though we went up as on the north of that a mile, it will not be on the where i live in north and pull them out. the manuel own a puppy field with which heroine has made oh, on me will get along with his men every morning. he harvests opium gum. brown v goose material obtained by making an incision in the capsule. o a keeler, the substances worth 600 euros in sooner. lower and much more once it reaches american soil. it will finance clifton one to replay. they're going to get like $930.00 and rather than they was isn't that was him and that of a 1000 you his field until about $6000.00 euros net per year. double the average salary in mexico. but a 3rd less than in l chapo time. material. welcome us, where to let them look at the table? yes, the book, but it cannot do that again

before that in june, civil rights activist had been assassinated in mississippi by a member of the kland police dogs and fire hoses on civil rights demonstrators that same summer. on top of that, the city had seen so many racially motivated bombings by then, it had earned the nickname bombingham. but the 16th street baptist church was the first of those attacks to claim lives. although it gained national attention, it took years for murder charges to be filed against the suspected perpetrators, all of whom were devout members of the ku klux klan. one was prosecuted in 1977. almost 40 years passed before two more surviving suspects were arrested and sentenced to life in prison in 2002. it was proof of the old maxim that justice delayed is justice denied. it was certainly denied to the only living victim, sarah collins rudolph, who still lives with the trauma of that day. it was decades before she could tell her story, finally publishing the book the fifth little girl, sole survivor of the 16th street baptist street church bombing. she joins me now. ms. collins rudolph, thank you so much

it's much like the ku klux klan act.catching slaves in free states, after the dred scott decision. bounty hunters were allowed to go into free states, and steal slaves back, and bring them back to the south, and after the civil war, our congress passed the ku klux klan act. which gives you the right to sue individuals, who act under of state law, who valerie lights of others. that's exactly what's happening here. it's not complex. in the supreme court has ruled twice, that that is acting undercover of state, law if this state law gives private rights, of action, that help you violate other citizens rates. it's really an outrageous decision, and it's a lie that it's complex or novel, it's kind of novel that they're using it for abortion, but even in 1973, the supreme court ruled that a state cannot delay k veto power over abortions, to individuals. so it's not that novel, and it just shows how far right-wing the court has become. >> aside from fixing the supreme court as you put it nancy, how do you challenge this texas l

creating the league of nations, but he was also an ardent white supremacist, justifying the ku klux klanthe intellectual inferiority of people of color, saying black people were denied the vote, not because their skin was dark, but because, quote, their minds are dark. that doesn't resonate well at one of the most racially diverse schools in the bay areaa e's name on thsc you things like this. >> that might've been the way then but it is absolutely not now. i'm in agreement with the name even thought that was a good idea. her back his name is already been removed at a school in richmond, placed by michelle obama might even princeton university has renamed several buildings on campus. during the pandemic shutdown, teachers and san leandro conducted a student project to study the renaming process. >> we felt that that name just did not fit who we wanted to be as a community. >> reporter: after an extensive community engagement effort, the school board agreed, and voted 2 weeks ago to change the name. now the focus turns to finding a new one. >> we are trying to get everyone involved, becau

we got the klan rules and they started wrapping their own areas, what they value put into marine parks, planning for zoning and all that type of areas that you want to protect. but even if you're indigenous or less and scientists, you still get the same objective to protect their country for future. in the back in iraq appellate guy moraine pack should be established by 2024. with scientists saying that at least 30 percent of the world's oceans need protection in the next decade, creating a refuge in areas like this. because a long way to achieving that goal. and working with indigenous people is proving essential to safeguarding by diversity. can you tell me what the marine environment means to you and some people in the body that we believe we can be separated to see and whatever is in this he may, there is what glee oh yeah, we have to look after country and we have to keep it, i said was when i was young, i have to do it or i think i've always paid a lot of paper. afraid by the way, ah, ah, i am part of the autonomy toltec indigenous community which is located in the highlands of c

always this real of politics and prejudice in his life and in the book it showed again of the ku klux klan in the 1920s, the great plains is the name for it and iowa was one of the states included. he was surrounded by that. they believe that communism is the only that will end world oppression. i assume they didn't believe anymore that capitalism was the key. it's like i said in my talk that i thought was brilliant that it presented a tug-of-war between the american dream and the worker's paradise but why he worked on the red army intelligence and whether or not he knew what they were doing. if i could interview george, and we can't have him on the show but it would have been one of the questions i would have asked him of course, did he still believe in those ideals when he went into his red army military training to be a spy returning to his nation of birth and betrayal what was the psychological reasoning and how did he make sense of it. the man that had been described to him were not as such he loved baseball. how did he mix this all together in his head, do you have any thoughts? >> n

interaction with african-americans which none of the northern justices had at all and the fact the ku klux klan was inserting itself so strong also gave him a moral impetus later on. a. >> i understand he was a fundamentalist christian of the time. what do you know about stopping the decision? >> this is a difficult question to answer and i probably shied away from it a little too much because the theologies are a very difficult thing to grasp obviously. i will say he was a devout presbyterian and there were two doctrines one was a famous theologian of his time and believed in this idea that god has a divine plan for anything and i think that how can you be aware of the injustices of slavery and allow it to continue. the presbyterians was that god had a plan. they would preach the sort of relationship to acknowledge the humanity of people in the subservient position and in a different part of the church they also had this idea that it's part of this plan that may have prevented action. by contrast, there is another doctrine with a sort of spiritual agency where people can and later in his life

often worry that people here the term white supremacy and the first thing they think about the ku klux klan cross and burning in people's yards, they don't thinkey about it inside of structural and it's easy to say i'm not those people, i'm not obviously racist in that sense and it's not even really about you as a person, it's very much about societal structures we have in place to keep certain people in power and sometimes i worry we kind of use different language and it creates a barrier where you can't get past that labeling edits civil rights era language we are using in the 21st century that may not apply exactly to what we are trying to do. >> this is the think that becomes clear is that there is no language that the structure will tolerate, it's just the way that the nonviolent movement in the civil rights movement was intolerable to that power structure. it's the way calling kaepernick kneeling was intolerable as a means of protest. it's the way that saying slavery is found station and has to be examined in the way that it has affected our nation, the way it's affected our law, our

week the new york world published the 21 part explosive expose only inner workings of the ku klux klangiving the clan this much exposure was a terrible idea but sure enough series did not have the effect one might have thought. to the contrary the clan membership exploded. laura: if you get his kkk talk leading to a smearing of conservatives you are right on target. >> consider how this manifests today with a election denial, you on on conspiracies of vaccine resistance, sometimes when we expose evil we create or amplify it. >> trump supporters and other americans that he disagrees with are the equivalent of the kkk. they are not deplorables and not only should patient and looked down upon but the media needs to take proactive steps to suppress their views, the platform them all together. what was more shocking is this aired not on msnbc but cbs sunday morning. what happened to them? submissi your eyes and establish control over you. what they are doing is evil, trump was right, they largely become enemies of the people and it is time for americans to tune them out. joining me as molly

people hear the term white supremacy for example and the first thing they think about is the ku klux klan like, flags burning or crosses burning and they don't think about it in terms of societal structures . it's very easy to say i'm not those people. i'm not obviously racist in that sense. and it's not written even really about you as a person. it's very much about the societal structures we have in place to keep certain people in power. sometimes i wonderthat we use different language . it creates a barrier where you can't get past that labeling and its civil rights era language were using in the 21st century that may not apply to what we're trying to do. >> the thing that becomes clear is there is no language that the structure will tolerate. it's just the way that the nonviolent movement in the civil rights movement is absolutely intolerable to that power structure. it's the way that colin catholic kneeling was intolerable as a means of protest. it is the way that saying that slavery is foundational and has to be examined in the way that it has affected our nation. the way it has aff

people hear the term white supremacy for example and the first thing they think about is the ku klux klan like, flags burning or crosses burning and they don't think about it in terms of societal structures . it's very easy to say i'm not those people. i'm not obviously racist in that sense. and it's not written even really about you as a person. it's very much about the societal structures we have in place to keep certain people in power. sometimes i wonderthat we use different language . it creates a barrier where you can't get past that labeling and its civil rights era language were using in the 21st century that may not apply to what we're trying to do. >> the thing that becomes clear is there is no language that the structure will tolerate. it's just the way that the nonviolent movement in the civil rights movement is absolutely intolerable to that power structure. it's the way that colin catholic kneeling was intolerable as a means of protest. it is the way that saying that slavery is foundational and has to be examined in the way that it has affected our nation. the way it has aff

history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery and the ku klux klanth shameful policies. but it is also filled with freedom fighters. to teach our children anything else is to rob them of their heritage and the truth. and they deserve better. >>> when i saw the picture of thousands of haitians under a bridge with no covering and no support, i knew we must stand and do something to dramatize our support for them, giving human dignity, human rights, and a fair hearing of asylum here. and i went to texas, like i went to texas when they were putting mexican children in cages under last administration, or like i have gone to sudan or rwanda down through the years. and when i saw those border patrol people on horses weaponizing those horses, i said, no, we have to go now. and we got ministers from across the country from reverend freddy hayes, reverend jamal bryant, attorney jennifer jones austin, civil rights leaders like jonathan jackson. and all of us went down. and we prayed with them. and we talked to them through the interpreter, as i said, ambassador

cynthia wesley, were killed in the blast. 14 others were injured in the domestic terror attack by klan rights by black americans. the bombings sparked riots where two more black teenagers died. it helped galvanize the civil rights movement. it took more than a decade for one of the bombers to be brought to justice in 1977. 20 years later former senator doug jones brought charges against two more of the cland klansmen. the last bomber died in prison in the summer of last year. the past isn't really past. there are millions of americans who can remember when black and white citizens were legally segregated, when black americans faced every conceivable obstacle to voting. now nearly 60 years later voter suppression is resurgent in gop states across this country, resting on a foundation of racist lies about voting in blue cities. we saw where those lies can lead, when hundreds of rioters attacked the capitol to steal an election that was lost fair and square. on this anniversary let's remember how hard people fought for rights that still need defending, even today. >>> president biden sayi

act being used and the ku klux klan act being used.ral statutes that prohibit individuals interfering things that are in the interest of government. we could see the department of justice try to use. we know that they sought an injunction last month against texas for having state troopers stop trucks they thought were carrying illegal immigrants across the boarder. there could be a similar argument made that this law as restrictive of it is, a very important federal law. roe v. wade is the law of the land. it hasn't been overturned. >> so, as you are describing it here, it is being set up as a federal government versus state government kind of thing. based on the makeup of the supreme court, if it gets there, 6-3 conservative majority, on what side would they be expected to come down on? >> that's the problem. texas law as well as mississippi ban will be before the court. that 15-week abortion ban is also to be heard by the court. because of the conservative majority court we now have, it's not very like little the department of justic

there's various laws on the books, this is where we are at, that we're meant to stop the klan to stop crow measures that perhaps could be taken against private citizens who are klanning themselves up to stop women from accessing their constitutional right. it's a difficult legal case, all right? i'm not trying to blow smoke here. like it's difficult to make these arguments, but you could argue that people acting under the color of law as private citizens are to deprive people of their rights is a violation of u.s. code section 42, 1983. so there are things we can do. none of it is clean. none of it is easy. all of it should be done now. all of the above what we should be doing now and giving women as much access to their constitutionally protected freedoms as possible until democrats pack the court. >> yeah, and honestly, the texas taliban is completely out of step with the rest of the country because the majority of americans support legal and safe abortions. but honestly, who cares what everybody thinks except for the woman carrying the child. so thank you so much, amy hatch miller

i had special agents in the klan. we knew what they were doing, we knew what their meetings were about. we have to get back to that, when they're violating our laws. we need to redo some of the that excellent work. >> kaitlyn, this may have been a dud if you measure it by the former one. president trump said thursday, our hearts and minds are with the people being persecuted so unfairly and justice will prevail. does the failure of this rally, does the crowd size say anything about his waning influence? >> yes. first of all, thank you for having me on this crucial topic. the fact anyone turned out today after trump laid out that this was a trap, that this was not set up for his supporters, the fact that the government is watching you, that's what was shocking, to even see a few folks show up. when we spoke to them today, a lot of them said, regardless of what happens today, if there was a large showing or not, they wanted to show their support of trump and all the conspiracy things surrounding the election. so the tur

is it merely the browning of the country, to send people into the arms of what used to be clan -- klan divinely ordained to be a white christian country, and that is so deeply in the dna of many white christians, as the country is changing and shifting, we're seeing this psychic break. i think in many ways, if you look at the school board meetings with people just ranting about vaccines or critical race theory, i mean, this is so far from our, you know, marching with the christian flag alongside the confederate flag on our capitol. this is so far from the prince of peace, turn the other cheek, you know, jesus of the new testament that we really are seeing a kind of break, and that break, i think, is linked to the fact that we use a good sociology word here, the plausibility structures have collapsed, that world that used to be the dominant forces in america, those institutions have kind of collapsed and the theology now is, i think, in a desperate kind of free fall, and so this is what we're seeing is people that literally is a kind of psychic break, and a kind of desperate flailing ar

at walton beach high school near niceville, students discussed plans to establish a gook klux klan. this is in many ways resonant with what we're hearing today, a variety of reasons why people are concerned about admitting refugees. the funny thing about refugees, the funny things about southeast asian refugees, is given all this hostility, it actually happened. southeast asian refugees were actually admitted and resettled. as an historian put it, given the intensity of the public opposition, it's a miracle that southeast refugees were resettled in the united states at all. and they were resettled in substantial numbers. between 1975 and 2000, over a million southeast asian refugees came to the united states. in what was the most extensive, expensive, and institutionally complex resettlement effort in american history. it was also haphazard, chaotic, controversial, and planners expected it would take a year, but it ended up taking decades. southeast asian refugee migration developed in several phases. there was first the indo-china migration refugee and assistance act in 1975. this

floated the idea of using a federal law that was basically drawn up to defend against the ku klux klanready we are seeing the government respond to some extent. >> part of that response, i guess, is what we saw from attorney general merrick garland who said he'll protect clinics in texas by enforcing a federal law which prohibits making threats against patients seeking reproductive health services. what more do we know about that effort? >> reporter: right, it was interesting because he announced that yesterday when there was a holiday. most people weren't working, but he wanted to show how he's trying to be aggressive. basically this is a 1994 law, and it's aimed at people who might intimidate others outside reproductive clinics. so, again, it's not an opportunity to block the law, but maybe intimidate or cause people who might try to harass people who might be assisting with the procedure from thinking twice. that's the goal here. but all sides are supporters of abortion rights. they see no clear silver bullet to block this right away, but they are trying in all these different areas

not only did he premiere the birth of a nation, all about black men being rapists, the ku klux klan redeeming the south. it's pretty horrendous to watch. kind of painful if you have the time you can have a look at it. it caricature is the radicals, that is steven's especially, woodrow wilson was progressive mostly in economic up policy, maybe to certain extent and international relations. he's really retro aggressive when it comes to race. he institutes segregation in washington d.c.. you fires all black federal government officers. he doesn't want any black people in the federal government. he establishes the league of nations, of course. helps establish it. even though that is voted down by the u.s. congress. but he has an idea of national determination for everyone. that one people said, does it apply to africa and asia? he says, no, i mean for only europeans. when it comes to race he's extremely retro aggressive. but the dunning school was in the white house, hollywood, everywhere. that was the pitch of reconstruction that was dominant. and there's one dissenting voice and that is the fam

i think this law which, frankly, what was written to go after the ku klux klan because right now, the right to choose is a constitutional right according to roe v. wade. that is the law of the land. right, now anyone who -- could be brought up under this law that tried reference in the op-ed that you mentioned in the opening. so there are things the doj can do. i think they need to bring up the qualification of roe v. wade on boats. we need to be aggressive but we also need to be realistic. this is about us winning elections. what they are doing in texas is going to help us win elections. >> i hope you are. right, alexa so many of the stories from the weekend i want to go through all three of you. but i want to get your reaction first. is this a wake up call? is this a bridge too far? tell me your thoughts and digesting this news. >> i think that clare is right, this is an issue that democrats wants to feel energized by and lead our base within the elections. historically, you all know very well, reproductive rights and anti abortion stance has been something republicans have really r

i think this law, which frankly was written to go after the ku klux klan, because right now, the right to choose is a constitutional right, according to roe v. wade. that is the law of the land. right now, anybody who is interfering with that right could be brought up under this law that tribe referenced in the op-ed you talked about in the opening. there are things doj can do. they need to bring up a codification of roe for a vote, to put people on the spot that are pro-choice and are republicans in democratic areas. so we naed to be aggressive, but we also need torealistic. this is about us winning elections. what they're doing in texas is going to help us win elections. >> i hope you're right. alexi, there are so many stories from the weekend i want to go through with all three of you. i first want to get your reaction. is this a wake-up call? is this a bridge too far? tell me your thoughts in sort of digesting the news late last week. >> yeah, i think that claire is right. this is definitely an issue democrats want to feel energized by and motivate their base with in elections. his

i hope they find ways to enforce the ku klux klan act like professor tribe has discussed or find wayssecute the law from the 1990s that was to protect against physical attacks outside abortion clinics. but this is a patchwork solution at best. the reason these state legislatures are passing these laws is because they have a supreme court that's friendly to them. democrats needs a solution to address the makeup of the supreme court. i think that's why more legislators are endorsing the judiciary act. there were four new members of the house that endorsed it this week. >> brian, let me ask you a blunt question. again, not through any fault of their own but because of the unmooring of the republicans to anything even resembling republican mainstream views on abortion, this is way outside what has been marketable to mainstream republican voters. it's vigilanteism. it's placing bounties on uber and lyft drivers who may unknowingly drive a woman to a reproductive health care services facility. what is the conversation -- what is the wisdom of -- i mean why isn't the filibuster annihilated?