>> i accept the light. >> klansmen, march. klansmen, halt. face the cross. for god. >> for god!try! >> for kentucky. >> for kentucky! >> the klan claims this is a symbol of god's love. but i'm not feeling the love right now. >> klansmen, approach the cross. do not turn your back to the cross. >> holy shit. >> klansmen, behold the fiery cross. still brilliant, though history has failed to quench its hollow flames. it shall glow as bright as the morning sun, for all decades to be held in the hearts of all klansmen. it shall light from sea to sea. the cross is an inspiration, a sign of the christian religion. it's a symbol of faith, hope, and love. we do not burn but light the cross to signify that christ is the light of the world and that in his light it destroys darkness. beneath this fiery cross we glory in its sacred glow. this is where my oath was made. as long as we give thanks to god every day, we shall never perish from this earth. we shall never die. they may try to destroy us, but the ku klux klan has been here for 150 years. i want to go for another 150 years. let's go.

last august, yep, when the neonazis and klansmen were marching to defend a robert e. lee and a young counter-protester was killed two virginia state troopers were killed as part of the operation and the virginia state governor had a difficult time deciding which said he was on. i spend most of my time reading about and thinking about the american president. we have had some terrible moments before and that was right up there. or down will. >> indeed. i wonder if you can talk about -- you talk about the different eras, the dark devils and the better angels sort of in competition. i was struck this week by two major commencement addresses, as you know this class of graduates go forth. one by mayor bloomberg of new york and today former secretary of state rex tillerson. both of them spoke about the fundamental need to recognize truth and facts over lies and distortion, the fundamental need for honesty in our public space, to protect the very democracy and the constitution of the united states. and i wonder if you can comment on how that is sort of whittling away at the s

. >>> one year after charlottesville, the stars of "black klansmen" talk about the hate in america. >> the resurgence of reorganized hatred, you know, we're seeing it from the birth of a nation, david duke, who made it sort of normal to speak these words and institute hate. alice is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. she's also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus letrozole. patients taking ibrance can develop low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infections that can lead to death. before taking ibrance, tell your doctor if you have fever, chills, or other signs of infection, liver or kidney problems, are pregnant, breastfeeding, or plan to become pregnant. common side effects include low red blood cell and low platelet counts, infections, tiredness, nausea,

davis says that 200 of the klansmen that he has befriended over the years have left the group. them with the simple gesture, relinquishing the klan robes to him. >> you think that you will give the robe up? >> no, i will be buried in it. >> reporter: are you sure? >> yes, it is set in stone. >> but then this happened, richard preston who had never been married had daryl davis at the klan wedding. this time it was davis giving something away, the bride. >> his friendship is something special. >> he wanted know be a part of the wedding. that is beautiful. that is is a seed planted. >> hmm. a seed planted. sara sidner and thank you for that reporting. so fascinating. we now know the name of the airport work ner in seattle who stole a commercial airplane and flew it around before crashing it. we will hear from his family next. with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay? even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira can help get, and keep uc under control when other medications haven't

his new film, "black klansmen" tells the story of a black cop who infiltrates the ku klux klan in thels of america today. >> what's up? >> can we talk, man? >> bring it, bring it, 100%. >> this movie is amazing and. i roelt elate to it. i grew up in louisiana in the '70s. the klan used to hand out literature on the weekend. we didn't have a school-sanctioned prom. there was a church across the street, they didn't want us mixing and all of that. one of my best friends lived a couple doors down from the grand wizard of the kkk. >> is that david duke? >> no, it wasn't david duke. this was in denim springs in louisiana. it's not much has changed. >> not that much. i think that this guy we have in the white house, he's giving the green light for all them hate groups to come out and just come autofr out from the darkness into the light. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, they're not being slick about it. not being coy. not trying to on the low it. it's blatant. tiki torches runs around. >> had you thought about doing this before this president? >> no. i had nothing to do with this, how t

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. >> how did you get david duke on the phone, of all klansmen?ve always had a philosophy, why should i waste time talking to the lowest rung on the totem pole when i can go directly to the top? >> i consider you a true white american hero. >> is there any other kind? >> no, sir. >> if he wasn't who he was, the type of guy you would want to sit down, have a drink with, talk about whatever. >> i'm just happy to be talking to a true white american. >> amen. it seems like there's less and less of us out there these days. >> but it's when the subject of race came up dr. jekyll became mr. hyde. the monster in him was unleashed. and he was off and running. >> topher grace plays david duke. >> i knew if there was anyone i could do it for, and i don't mean anyone, i mean if there was one person i'd feel comfortable doing it with it would be spike. >> i just had to say look, no one's going to think that this is you speaking. this is david duke. >> there are moments in that movie where he looks like and he sounds like the david duke of 1978. it was uncanny

>> i've established contact, and created some familiarity with the klansmen over the phone.n that role. we need another officer, surprise, surprise, a white officer to play me when they meet face to face. >> that's my point exactly. >> chief, black ron stallworth over the phone, white ron stallworth face to face, a combined ron stallworth. >> can you do that? >> i believe we can with the right white man we can do anything. >> spike lee has been america's most daring cinematic voice on race for nearly 30 years. and his latest film "blackkklansman" is like history written with lightning. based on the true story of a black colorado cop who infiltrated the ku klux klan in the early 1970s. the film is being hailed as the movie of this moment. driven by lee, examining race in america as only he can. i caught up with him earlier to ask about the significance of this film premiering under this president, known in spike speak as agent orange. spike, thanks for, first of all, doing this. >> thank you, my brooklyn brother. >> yes, sir. we come up, same generation in brooklyn. >> yes, s

i think four people say wake up in black klansmen.ill continue to ring that bell because seems like we're asleep and unconscious and not living the moment, just fairytale land. >> mayor, does america need to wake up? are we in the midst of a historical nightmare? >> well, i think we have to be intentional about what i want for a lot of people, america works, right, and for those individuals even here in charlottesville, they have their privilege. white supremacy is working for them so they really don't want a challenge. over the last year, there's been a lot of calls to return to normal, and when you challenge people when you're talking about normal, they have very comfortable lives. there are people who are concerned about this weekend, whether or not they'll be able to walk their dogs and go to the grocery store and the spa as scheduled. so that's what we're dealing with. i don't necessarily, you know, know whether they're asleep or not or if the system that's been created is working for them. so that's the challenge. to get more pe

davis says 200 of the klansmen has he befriended over the years have left the group.e than 40 of them with a simple gesture, relinquishing their klan robes to him. >> do you think you will give your robe up? >> no. i'll be buried in it. >> reporter: but then this happened. richard preston, who had never been married, had daryl davis at his klan wedding. >> as you stand in the presence of god. >> reporter: this time, it was davis giving something away. the bride. >> me and his friendship is something special. >> she wanted me to be a part of this wedding. that's beautiful. that's a seed planted. >> reporter: as you might imagine, this store has evoked anger and hope. some people very upset with daryl davis feeling like he is sympathizing with this man who clearly holds racist ideals but daryl says, look, he has a proven track record. he has done this so many times and he has made a difference. he asks other who criticize him, what have you done? as far as what is going to happen here in d.c., here in lafayette park, we are expecting both sides that they will not come t

davis says 200 of the klansmen he's befriended over the years have left the group.e than 40 of them with a simple gesture, relink wishing their klan robes to him. >> you don't think you'll ever give your robe up? >> no i'll be buried in it. it's already set in stone. >> you sure? >> mhm. >> but then this happened. richard preston who had never been married had darrel davis at his klan wedding. this time it was davis giving something away.hi bn something really special to me. >> he wanted me to be a part of this wedding. that's beautiful, that's a seed planted. >> i asked both men where they thought race relations were headed in this country, and they both said they thought it would get worse before it gets better. >> case and point somebody has been leaving these kkk recruitment fliers at peoples homes. they have been found in at least two neighborhoods so far. police collected that one yesterday. they told us in a statement today they pride themselves on being one of the most diverse cities in america. we're clearly disappointed in the actions of the persons respon

and one night, four klansmen drove a car around the back of the church, stopped the car and got out and put a bag full of dynamite next to the church wall, and that next morning, it exploded and four young girls who were in the ladies' lounge were killed. the fifth one survived, but she was blinded in one eye and covered in burns. as you said, this was a watershed event for civil rights. it shook everyone. it shook the city. it shook the police department. it shook the black community. and it shook the world. and the result of this, i think it was a cumulative type of thing. the children's marches kind of caught the nation's attention, but in the end, no one was injured there, thankfully, but four girls were killed over this issue. it woke up the country, it woke up our congress, and i think as a direct result, the 1964 civil rights act was passed. the importance of that, if you look at history, up to this time, beginning at least in 1954 with brown versus the board of education, the courts were pushing integration, but it required going to federal court over every single issue of discr

of blacks, jews, anti catholic prejudice. 3 million americans were members of the clans. 50,000 klansmen it was about economic transition, uncertainty, a fear of the other that somehow people that did not look like us or sound like us, meaning white anglo were going to take those jobs, take over the country. we have been in these moments of transition before and ultimately, usually with presidential leadership on the good side as opposed to the exacerbating side, we've come through. >> you talk about how fear is the facilitating factor. it's easy to lash out and you talk in your book about a case, the most heartbreaking case because it's about a good man that did a bad thing. franklin roosevelt and the japanese americans. >> early 1942. pearl harbor happened. the attorney general of california, a man named earl warren, some people speculate the brown decision was a tone and not foreign nationals like citizens. >> these are japanese americans. >> americans. roosevelt caved to that. you know, i think we have to judge people on the totality of their lives. roosevelt is a complicated figure

he was a friend of the guy who wrote a novel called "the klansmen." he was an acquaintance of the presidents. dixon and d. w. griffith, they were showmen. the best publicity you could get was to show this film in the white house. they convinced woodrow wilson to show the film, and there are conflicting stories about what wilson's reaction to the film was. there was a quotation which i believe is apocryphal, that it is like history written in lightning and the most terrible thing is that it is also true. i think griffith actually used that in subsequent releases. >> he made it up. >> he made it up. >> fake news. >> he was a friend and he got suckered into this. but these days, there is a very nasty rock 'n roll song about woodrow wilson which describes him as -- even i can't say it on stage. it says he led the resurrection of the kkk. it is out there in part because of that event. >> there is also a rock 'n roll song by warren zevon about veracruz -- veracruz, mexico. shifting from the african-american situation, what is wilson's relationship with mexi

davis says 200 of the klansmen he's befriended over the years have left the group.e than 40 of them with a simple gesture. relinquishing their klan robes to him. you don't think you'll ever give your robe up? >> no, i'll be buried in it. it's already set in stone. >> reporter: but then this happened. richard preston, who had never been married, had daryl davis at his klan wedding. >> as you stand in the presence of god -- >> reporter: this time, it was davis giving something away, the bride. >> his friendship has been something really special to me. >> that's beautiful. that's a seed planted. >> reporter: so what you're seeing here is lafayette park. we asked mr. preston, are you going to come to the next unite the right rally since you were there in charlottesville? he said absolutely not. he has no respect for the organizers after what happened in charlottesville. as for the two men, we asked them both whether they thought race relations were changing here in this country. both said they believe that things will get worse before they get better. brian? >> sara sid

if you follow the hyperventilated press coverage you probably expected to see thousands of hooded klansmenon horseback in d.c.d celebrate the killing. white supremacy is just that prevalent in america, they tell us. it's everywhere. except it's not. that's a lie. white supremacy is not ubiquitoussy in america, it's nt a crisis. it's not even a meaningful category. it's incredibly rare. you could easily live your entire life in this country without meeting a single persone who believes anything like that. most of us have lived life likeh that. i have. in fact with the generous, tolerant country, it always has been that way people who tell you otherwise are delusional or trying to control you with fear, likely both. in the end, yesterday, a couple of dozen people showed up out of a country of 320 million people. they milled around for a while, got yelled at, and left, so much for the clan rally. it is a crisis in america, and a growing crisis, as left-wing extremism and violence. our elites affect and encourage it. our media pretense it doesn't exist. here, was the scene in washington, antif

>> i've established contact and created some familiarity with the klansmen over the phone.y me when they meet face-to-face. >> that's my point exactly. >> black ron stallworth over the phone. white ron stallworth face-to-face. it becomes a combined ron stallworth. >> can you do that? >> i believe we can. with the right white man, we can do anything. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: "blackkklansman" opens friday. please welcome john david washington. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: i have to say i'm a little disappointed you don't have that beautiful afro. >> oh, yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: that's the most perfectly shaped afro i think i've ever seen. >> shout-out to lawanda, they did a good job. everybody did a good job. >> jimmy: john, john david? >> i'm saying this right now, it's john david. mom hates it when people call me john. one name, only admmiddle name. johned, david, no middle name, washington. >> jimmy: you don't need a middle name. >> exactly. >> jimmy: is there space between them or all mashed up? >> it depends on the feeling. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you go with

guess people don't like associating with white supremacists, white nationalists, klansmen and skinheads. and groups learned another lesson -- street fighting will get you media attentio followers, and resources. so they march around somimes armed, and part of the goal is to draw out left-wing proteste and some violent left-wing protesters and others. and that's when, again, it disintegrates into violence on city streets. it's really part of their goal. e brangham: p.j. mentioned, mary, some of thher rallies that are going on. tve other cities and other areas in the counten the 'vssons and some of the specific injunctions that yput in place in charlottesville, are those lessons being learned elsewhere? >> they are. we hope for there to be more of that. so the lawsuit was bas actually on a constitutional provision in virginia that says in all cases the military shoule be undertrict subordination of the civil power. that means no private military. we also brought it under a number of state criminal statut that bar paramilitary activity, which is defined in the statute as essentially organi

a moment and realize that someone gave her life trying to protest against the neo-nazis and the klansmen who gathered there a year ago. i think that when the history of this era is written the president's reaction to charlottesville, the events of august 11th and august 12th, will loom pretty large because that was the first moment -- maybe not the first bay significant moment where the president seemed to have a very hard time figuring out whether he stood with people like heather heyer, who argued that we had to be part of our -- and side with our better angels, or did he stand with david duke and others. and david duke said that weekend in charlottesville a year ago that this is why we elected donald trump, was to protect statues like the robert e. lee statue, to protest in the way they protested, and when the president of the united states abdicates his moral leadership so decisively and so decidedly, then that set a tone for the ensuing year, and we're still living with those aftershocks. >> clarence, you get to write history in real time on a daily basis. is it possible that when w

these whooints, these racist, these klansmen, they have emboldened under this vile and racist administrationrbal gymnastics and equivalence steve bannon lays down but here in 2018 white nationalists, racist have been emboldened by this president and i heard steve bannon, what i think the news of the interview is is basically acknowledge that if donald trump, in fact, knew the purpose of the meeting was to get information from the russians about hillary clinton which he most certainly knew because bannon was telling the truth when he said there is no way donald trump jr. had the meeting and didn't report to daddy. >> he did say that and building on that point he conceded under questioning that that would be very concerning. that is exact thing mural's probing, that michael cohen will reportedly testify to and that neera and i pointed out, steve bannon believed donald trump was in on seeking the foreign help. >> so when we find out that is what happened, that in his estimation the president committed treason, that's the news of this interview tonight. >> neera? >> i agree. i think the reality

in 1925 there were 50,000 klansmen coming down, h.l. lincoln covered it.bers of the clan in the 20s. institutions of the republic worked in order to fight that. what has happened before doesn't mean we'll relax. what it does mean we look at these moments where the perennial american problem around this, which has been going on 400 years from when we were british north america to got to love sunday you can mention -- through the constitution all the way to the civil war and forward. it is the perennial issue in the life of the nation. and so while we shoot think that tomorrow can be absolutely going to disappear, tomorrow can be better there is a lesson within the last 50 years that with the civil rights legislation in the 1960s, things got better. so, surrender to the fear and oppose to embracing the hope, to your points a real set back in terms of presidential leadersh leadership. >> brennan: deray, you made it clear trying to make better tomorrows, as a protester but you began doing this as an activist well before there was a trim president trump. why do

the weight of the evidence is that the vast majority of klansmen, the lynching, the staged rankings were people brought hamburger steel while they watch people hanging from trees. that stuff, that bad stuff was done with the approval and sometimes organization of the party that we now know as the democratic party. [applause] let me say in closing that it is always an honor to speak to you. i speak to a lot of different groups, gop groups, activist groups, corporations. but nothing is more exciting than speaking to young people who, when asked a question they really want to hear the answer. and this is something that in all of my career, although i'm not as young as i used to be, i love to speak on campus. because i feel i think i have a message for young people. and to watch young people in the audience with their jaws drop and ultimately the beauty of living today as you can check things out. when people say, when i say -- pull out your phone you can verify what i just said in five minutes. google, boom! there it is. read it for yourself. ask yourself when you read it doesn't sound righ

republican while the party shuns him -- the weight of the evidence is that the vast -- they of the klansmen brought hamburgers to watch as people were hanging from trees. that bad stuff was done with the approval and sometimes with the organization of the party that we know now as the democratic party. >> thank you so much. [applause] : let me say in closing that it is always an honor to speak to you guys. i speak to a lot of different groups, gop groups, activist groups, corporations, but nothing is more exciting than speaking to young people who when they asked a question really want to hear the answer. this is something from all my career, i am not as young as i used to be, i like to speak on the campus because i think i have a message to young people. and to watch young people in the audience and their jaws drop, and ultimately the beauty of living today is you can check things out. when people say -- when i say virtually no dixiecrats became republicans, and people go, what? our earphones and you can verify what i said in five minutes. the nazi platform. google, boom, there it is. ask

davis says 200 of the klansmen he's befriended over the years have left the group.ore than 40 of them with a simple gesture. relinquishing their klan robes to him. you don't think you'll ever give up your robe? >> no, i'll be buried in it. >> reporter: then this happened. richard preston who had never been married, had daryl davis at his klan wedding. >> as you stand in the presence of god. >> reporter: this time, it was david giving something away. the bride. >> his friendship has been something really special to me. >> he wanted me to be a part of this wedding. that's beautiful. that's a seed planted. >> reporter: considering their relationship and the fact that the white nationalists unite the right rally is scheduled to be here in d.c., i asked both men where they thought race relations in this country were headed. they both said they thought it would get worse before it gets better. erin. >> all right, sara, thank you very much. another incredible report there from sara. >>> now, let's go to the national affairs correspondent at the nation. and paris denard, me

on more five or six years, and it is the story of the decades-long effort to bring to justice the klansmen who bombed the 16th street baptist church in birmingham in 1963. doug jones was a young law student in 1972, i believe, when the first trial was brought. it was a long time when there was, no one was charged and no one was tried. finally, somebody was tried. doug jones was in the courtroom watching the trial. and when the, when the accused was let off, failed to convict, he pledged to devote his life to bringing those, you know, miscreants to justice. and the book is the story of the efforts made not just by himself, but by other prosecutors and investigators to do that. and it's a wonderful book. the only problem we had was that it was too long, and it had to be cut down. but it's a, it's a book that deserves to be, have a place on the shelf with other classic, iconic books of the civil rights movement. >> host: adam bellow, is it still important to have a sentinel, an encounter, a broadside, a regnery, all these conservative publishers? >> guest: of course. you know, i'm not critici

neo-nazis and klansmen or the people standing up for the america you just described. and that is one of the many reasons we have a crisis in the moral leadership of the country. >> and donny deutsch, the hypocrisy, of course, as always, when it comes to donald trump is just staggering. here this guy has been fighting against, chain migration. >> oh, my god. >> the most evil thing of all time. with chain migration you bring in ms-13 they're going to come up, shoot up your neighborhoods, go to the malls shoot up your white malls and go to your white high schools and shoot up your white -- you know, of course, as we've said before, ms-13 accounts for far less than 1% of the illegal immigrants that come to this country, but chain migration must end! >> my lord. >> now! >> my lord. >> writes donald trump. except for the fact, donny, his in-laws have been trying to get into the country on chain migration. and yesterday melania trump's parents became u.s. citizens through -- >> how does he miss that? >> through the same chain migration route that donald trump has been demoni

and one night, four klansmen drove a car around the back of the church, stopped the car and got out and put a bag full of dynamite next to the church wall, and that next morning, it exploded and four young girls who were in the ladies' lounge were killed. the fifth one survived, but she was blinded in one eye and covered in burns. as you said, this was a watershed event for civil rights. it shook everyone. it shook the city. it shook the police department. it shook the black community. and it shook the world. and the result of this, i think it was a cumulative type of thing. the children's marches kind of caught the nation's attention, but in the end, no one was injured there, thankfully, but four girls were killed over this issue. it woke up the country, it woke up our congress, and i think as a direct result, the 1964 civil rights act was passed. the importance of that, if you look at history, up to this time, beginning at least in 1954 with brown versus the board of education, the courts were pushing integration, but it required going to federal court over every single issue of discr