, they were the ku klux klan, regularly electing clan members to the united states senate, housee nations governorship without putting a clan member on yet the supreme court of the united states. these are people with a long and wretched political history of depending on in and every steam imaginable, then and now, that judges their fellow americans by skin color, and they have the nerve to call the tea party raisessist? it is more than past time to call them out. tell the party -- [applause] and tell the party of slavery, segregation, lynching, the ku klux klan, racial quo toes to quit judging their fellow americans by skin color and get back to the business of getting this country on the road to fiscal healthy and economic growth. [applause] you have received considerable criticism from establishment republicans. they, too, want to scorn ronald reagan. no one, by the way, knows this better than our friend mark levin. i can't say enough about mark's ability to bring the constitution and founding principles of this nation back once again front and center. he's a national treasure

of course, a sad and repulsive chapter of black history is the ku klux klan.t year, i told you how klansmen were arrested for offering to sell jewish groups a workable death ray. well, recently, thanks to my longstanding google news alert for "klan death ray," i learned there was an update. >> an upstate man has just pled guilty to helping build a deadly x-ray machine that uses radiation to kill people. >> authorities say they were tipped off to the portable x-ray device after crawford approached local jewish groups because he wanted their help in killing muslims. >> stephen: yes, justice was done. they're a vile, despicable hate group, but i can't help feeling a little inspired by the way these klansmen overcame their hatred of jews to serve a greater cause-- their hatred of muslims. i've always thought of the klan as a bunch of rednecks from our shameful racist past. well, it turns out i was wrong. because they're a bunch of rednecks from our shameful racist future. i was so moved by this story of hope that i did the obvious thing-- i turned it into a cartoo

, they were the ku klux klan.members in the united states senate, the house of representatives and the governorships were not putting a clan member on the court in the united states. these are people with a long and wretched political history of depending on every scheme imaginable then and now the judges their fellow americans by skin color and they have the nerve to call the tea party racist? is more than past time to call them out. [applause] and told the party of the segregation lynching the ku klux klan the racial quotas to quit judging their fellow americans by skin color and get back to the business of getting this country on the road to fiscal health and economic growth. [applause] you have also received criticism from establishment republicans. they once scorned ronald reagan and no one knows this better than our friends. i can't say enough to bring the constitution and founding principles to the nation and the oath o that sense of gratitude. [applause] marc anbark and ronald reagan's biographer certainly

with call klux klan all around us in and that kind of thing but but this is the sixty's and things are tough and. but but i love the black people and all of the black music in the loved southern so black music. such as a wreath at a james wilson pickett mustang sound he's all those all those little hit records that you're familiar with i'm sure and a lot of people in the city get angry you oh they they knew they knew very little about us because we kept the doors closed we kind of kept hush hush the know how the press come around and interview people and thanks like that so we didn't we didn't have any real hostility but we had a lot of questions you know those guys as long has hippies over there they must be selling dope or something because you know that's that's that's how you make a living and most of it was you know it not music business how did you get the music out of muscle shoals i mean you were producing it you didn't have your own label did you know not at first later on i had a label with the capitol records through carl a woman and so you know that story know him pretty we

were -- when john and i did "o brother where art thou" we had a whole drills team dressed as klu klux klanthe table to get snacks. and they have a burning cross there. all these guys dressed up as the klan. >> we're in formation dancing around this huge group of klansman. and these small planes would be going overhead and i would go, i wonder what they're thinking. >> how did they eat? >> very differently. you have to lift it and put it back -- >> and they're in white, too. they have napkins, big napkins. >> jimmy: we're going to take a break. "the monuments men" is the name of the movie. it comes out tomorrow. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ [ speaking russian ] ♪ ♪ i have no idea what you're saying, but count me in! peanut m&m's for everyone! [ laughter ] wait...what? to what fortune called, "the console of the future." go to star trek: into darkness. go to titanfall. [ male announcer ] and to what the new york daily news hailed as "the most ambitious gaming machine yet." the all-in-one xbox one. i've quit for 75 days. 15 days, but not in a row. for the first time, you can use nicorette... even

. >> next you have ku klux klan.siness. >> one of the things that upsets you charles and the group that is -- >> it's okay. that's your property. this is sanction. this is supported by the state of georgia. that is a no no. that is saying that they're willing to support slavery. take us back inch by inch. we cannot be tolerant on this particular issue. >> ray, millions of drivers on the road. 439 have bought the -- >> those numbers are not correct. i don't know who gave those numbers to the reporter that wrote that story. every year -- in the last several years between 3,000 and 4,000 people request a specialty license plate from the sons of confederate veterans. that was before we had the flag featured. 3-4,000 each year have requested it. i don't know how the figures came about. >> you at least understand it means something different to other people? >>> and it will be a daily reminder on the highways of george george? >> you understand you're telling african-americans members of our organization they're not allowe

>> then i'm a member of the ku klux klan. i mean it's the height of absurdity. >> it's been 61 days, and still they haven't been released, and there's no sign that they will be released. other than a call from president obama, what else can be done. >> a call from putin. who else does he have to listen to. who else does abdul fatah al-sisi have to pay attention to. i can't think of anyone. when i was in iraq, the iraqis didn't have relations with many parties, because the whole world was fighting saddam's occupation. saddam had relations with the vatican, king hussain, the plo and the russians, c.b.s. and my family got pleas from the vatican and king hussain and plo. king hussain - sorry, saddam hussein didn't give a dam. why should he care what the vatican or king thinks about him. but he did care about the russians, when gosho chov said, "let the guys go", we were gone. >> her story. a campus sexual assault survivor on what happened to her, and if the schools are doing enough to keep women safe. plus, big brother. a spy age

about the civil rights movement, had no connection to any white supremacist organization, the ku klux klan or what not. i tried to call him a number of times, he lives in the same house in a subdivision he lived at the time and he's never revealed his motive as to why he shot james meredith and i it was an interesting political story. this was one of the interesting stories when meredith was shot, a lot of people within the movement figured it was a conspiracy. the police were in on it because he's able to walk out of the woods to shoot him three times, walk back into the woods and they arrested him later. that probably wasn't the case because it wasn't in their interest for someone to shoot james meredith. i don't think that conspiracy is true but the other part is white southerners think there's a conspiracy as well. they figured somebody paid this guy, this outsider to shoot james meredith love to kill them, to wound him, that's why they used the shop rather than the single bullet that would be a story that would turn into a national march. that doesn't make sense because again this is

a man involved in the ku klux klan could be atlanta's serial killer. >> atlanta was about to explode,ation potentially that the klan could have been doing this. >> bob ingram with the gbi, georgia's bureau of investigation, got the case. >> it was an entire family of brothers that were involved in the klan that were the focus of this particular intelligence information. >> an informant said one brother had threatened lubie geter, the child found dead only weeks before. the klan associate lived here on a dead-end street in the railroad town of mountainview on the outskirts of atlanta. >> we're tapping telephones. we heard a lot of rhetoric. we heard a lot of racial slurs. >> on one wiretap, the detectives heard this said. go find you another little kid? the gbi followed the four brothers for almost two months. >> these family members were under surveillance at that time, physical surveillance where we had an eyeball on them. >> in those two months, six more black youths would disappear and die. detectives saw nothing to link the klan to them. >> if somebody was in there with a van or t

. >> so what is the role of the enforcement act of 1870, the ku klux klan act? and in the civil rights movement of the 1960s there is a legal strategy said to whastrategies e the activists responsible for getting these past and do they provide resources that are being utilized? or the public civil partnerships to advance the cause? >> it was passed in 1870 in the response to the militant organized clan and it's very good and it allows to crack down to declare martial law and he declares it in eight counties in south carolina and the attorney general who actually is a southerner whose story likes this idea of democrats getting in the way of democracy and voting rights. they cracked down to the problem is they can crack down on essentially kind of large-scale organized groups who are foods and robes and again, no you don't play that game because they can't put you in prison and all they have to do is find one guy in the local plan unit with 10,000 years in prison he names all of his friend jim cousins come up before guys that ride to someone's house in the dead of

never said anything and had no known connection to any white supremacist organization whether the ku klux klan or what, his motives were a mystery. i tried to call him a number of times and se instead of intervi. he lives in the same house in a subdivision outside of memphis. and he's never revealed his motives as to why he's shot james meredith. it's an interesting political story this to me was one of the most interesting stories that shot off the march. when meredith was shot, a lot of people in other movement figured it was a conspiracy and the police were in on it because he was able to walk out of the woods and shoot meredith three times and they arrested him later. it seemed more paralyzed. that probably wasn't the case. it wasn't in their interest for someone to shoot james meredith. they would be doing a bad job so i don't think that is very secure but the other interesting part is that the southerners think that there's a conspiracy as well. they figured that somebody in the civil rights movement paid this guy, he's not even from mississippi. he's an outsider to shoot james meredith.

. >> so what's the roll of the enforcement act of 1870, the ku klux klan

reports, many of which were shared with local leased departments whose officers belong to the ku klux klanme of looks at how those reports contributed to the 1964 deaths of freedom summer activist james chaney, andrew goodman, and michael schwerner. that was 50 years ago. for more we go to jackson, mississippi where we are joined by jerry mitchell, an investigative journalist. he won the release of more than 2400 pages of commission records in 1989 and use those to reopen many cold cases from the civil rights era. his work helped lead to the 1994 conviction of the killer of mississippi naacp leader medgar evers, and paved the way for 23 more convictions. here in new york we are joined by dawn porter. she is the award-winning producer and director of "spies of mississippi." jerry mitchell, what are you most surprised by in the documents you got? >> well, lots of things. the fact they had spied on so had activist, the fact they spied on member evers and later tried to help basically a quick the killer in that case. as well as reports of my own newspaper from back in the 1950's and 60's. that

he challenged activity of the ku klux klan and otherwise to premises organizations in this is it be.ecause of his consistency at work in the state, many people said he should run for mayor. the malcolm x grassroots movement agreed with that and encouraged chokwe to run. decided to organize a different type of black politics there. we felt the traditional black politics were not really working for us at this time. so chokwe, before he ran for mayor, in his ward when he ran for city councilman in 2009, the people's assembly was organized. when you heard the clip of him saying the people will decide, that slogan was put into practice by organizing assembly that would develop his platform. his platform actually came from the community and not out of his head or out of our organization. chokwe -- they form this people's assembly to help him get elected, formed this platform, but also state organized while he was serving provide himncil to with direction on how he should proceed on policy. it was a different form of politics at was being pursued, as you mentioned earlier, encouraging parti

spanks what is the role of enforcement act of 1870, the ku klux klan act? like in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, there's like a legal strategy. to what extent are activists responsible for getting the black activists responsible for getting these laws passed? do these laws provide resources that are being utilized? are they like public civil partnerships to advance the cause of? >> the claim act passed response to the militant organize clan but it's a very good law. it allows for grant to crack down declared martial law. he declares it in eight counties in south carolina. the attorney general who is a southerner who dislikes is elected of democrats getting and where democracy and voting rights. they really crack down but the problem is they can crack down on essentially kind of large-scale organized groups who are wearing hoods and robes but then again, you don't play that game because they can put you in prison at all that you do is find one guy in the local clan unit, and it's all of his buddies and his cousins, but the four guys a ride to someon

the only time that guns were ever used in our family is because of my age doing the ku klux klan area and the guns were kept then for black people just to defend themselves. now we have in neighborhoods where kids get an 18-year-old, has no business with a gun. an 18-year-old has no business with a permit to carry a gun on a campus of any kind. a lot of the schools now said here in texas, argyle, just passed where there will be teachers who are carrying guns. ok. you have a gun. you're not at the front of the building. the criminal can still get in the building and kill whoever. i don't think president obama is trying to -- and he's president obama. we have to learn to give people respect. president bush and all the others, they were presidents. and we need to have respect for people in the world and in this country. my nephew died in iraq host: i'm going to jump in to get her thoughts on your comments. guest: i'm not sure what your question is, anna. could you clarify that? host: i think anna hung up. caller: she just wanted to talk. that's fine. host: fred is one of our viewers in m

said anything and had no known connection to any white supremacist organization where the the ku klux klan or what. his motives are mystery. he is still alive and i have obviously tried to call him a number of times and set up interviews. he lives in the same house in the subdivision outside of memphis that he lived in at the time and has never revealed his motive as to why he shot james meredith. just an interesting political story, this to me was one of the most interesting stories from the march. when meredith was shot a lot of people within the movement figured the police were in on it. he was able to shoot merida three times. despite all the law enforcement it seemed like people were paralyzed. that probably wasn't the case because it wasn't in their interest to shoot james meredith. they would be doing a bad job if that were the case. so i don't think that's sure but the more interesting part is that white southerners think that there's a conspiracy as well against them. they fear that somebody in the civil rights movement paid this guy from memphis. he's not even from mississippi. t

someone like that to significant that every white person in tennessee is a potential member of the ku klux klan that obama -- and it takes away from every individual, you know, the idea of judging individuals in in country as individuals. stuart: and potentially divisive. charles: potentially divisive. and sold into the black community there are certain good white people and certain bad white peoples and you say the good ones are in new york or california and the bad ones in the midwest. and the president was propelled to the white house because of the iowa caucus. he would have never made it to the white house. tht the same play book as they circle the sink and the drain. stuart: i'm with you on thhs one, charles, i am. and let's go back to stocks, and charles is talking about an anti-cable play called uchthe network. charles: we talked about the outer net earlier. the world is-- needs to wire up for the internet. and with fiber optic cables, they're going to use satellites on the roofs in the air and cables, towers, things like this. these guys make the nuts and bolts of these things. go to t

the only time that guns were ever used in our family is because of my age doing the ku klux klan area the guns were kept then for black people just to defend themselves. now we have in neighborhoods where kids get an 18-year-old, has no business with a gun. an 18-year-old has no business with a permit to carry a gun on a campus of any kind. a lot of the schools now said here in texas, argyle, just passed where there will be teachers who are carrying guns. ok. you have a gun. you're not at the front of the building. the criminal can still get in the building and kill whoever. i don't think president obama is trying to -- and he's president obama. we have to learn to give people respect. president bush and all the others, they were presidents. and we need to have respect for people in the world and in this country. my nephew died in iraq host: i'm going to jump in to get her thoughts on your comments. guest: i'm not sure what your question is, anna. could you clarify that? host: i think anna hung up. caller: she just wanted to talk. that's fine. host: fred is one of our viewers in massa

. >> so what's the roll of the enforcement act of 1870, the ku klux klan act? are these, i mean, like in the civil rights movement of the 1960s this is, like, a legal strategy. to what extent are activists responsible for getting these laws passed? do these laws provide resources that are being ute rised? is -- are there, like, public/civil partnerships to advance the cause? >> i think -- yeah, the klan act in 1870 responds to the ease of the militant, organized klan. and it allows for grant to really crack down and he's allowed to declare martial law. and his attorney general who actually is a southerner who's like longstreet, dislikes this whole idea of white democrats getting in the way of democracy and voting rights, they really crack down. but problem is they could crack down on, essentially, kind of large scale organized groups who are wearing hoods and robes. and, again, you know, smart vigilantes know you don't play that, because all they have to do is find one guy in the local klan unit. he names all of his bulledties and his -- buddies and his cousins