klan. >> and the ku klux klan. it -- i would imagine it's especially hot in these robes. >> oh, it's horrible. >> it's a sacrifice. the whole premise behind the mask is to show that we're equal. the mask makes us all equal in each other's eyes. >> so what do african-americans think about the klan? >> obviously, black people and the klan have had issues, to put it lightly. you know, me coming out here to talk to you guys is not something my mother dreamed of. >> no. >> so you know, obviously that's a thing. and i respect the fact you're letting me come out here and i also respect the fact you're letting me leave. >> i can tell you nordic order knights is a direct action group. if you come at us we're going to come back at you. we are not politically correct whatsoever. if you try to hurt one of our members, we will hurt you. >> mm-hmm. i understand. >> don't let me sugar-coat anything. >> no, i understand. >> we're pro-white, 100%. we only work on our race. >> mm-hmm. >> the other mud races, leave us alone. that's a

to do that back in the 1970's, i mean, it was no picnic. >> grand wizard of the ku klux klan -- thatavid duke? k tom: a kn member the film isin former grand wizard david duke. >> america first. america first. tom: duke is heard using words that president trump also uttered. throughout lee's film, there a b connections made with events in the 1970's and the present day, most notably when it transitions from a fictional ku klux klan rally in the past to the very re protest in charlottesville a ye when white supremacist groups clash violently wi counterdemonstrators. it was a day that resulted in the death of heather heyer, struck down when car drove into a crowd. spike: there are many things we did in the film that we to remind people that this is not just a period piece. when i saw that, an american homegrown act of terrorism, i knew that would be the coda for this film. >> power to the people. >> power to all the people. >> all power to all the people. tom: the film makes the case that the overt racism espoused by the ku klux klan in the 1976 os is still flourishing today, and that p

the issue with the ku klux klan and white supremacist is very, very contemporary.is based on some a—wheel stuff, you can hardly believe this stuff happened. it takes the story and fictionalises it what does is in much the same way as it out, it balances those two elements and the balancing act to have to says billy dunn. i think this is spike lee's best film since four little girls because it is very ha rd to four little girls because it is very hard to get that balance right. there were moments on the screen in which people were belly laughing and moments in which people were hiding their faces because you are dealing is really, profoundly disturbing stuff. —— get out. and it is an angry film, stuff. —— get out. and it is an angryfilm, a stuff. —— get out. and it is an angry film, a film which although it is set in the i970s, it feels urgently contemporary. i love the look of it, i love the fact that it feels like a film made in i970s. there are kind of visual cues for it, and the performances are really great. john david washington is brilliant in carrying this d

the times of gap former ku klux klan that wizard praised jeremy corbyn victory. made to go back to 2015, so explain the civilians to me now. the significance of the story is that whenjeremy significance of the story is that when jeremy corbyn significance of the story is that whenjeremy corbyn was a lot of violence and delete the former leader of the ku klux klan, extremely racist anti—semitic group in the us, said that this was evidence that people were coming to understand the threat, as the sole, posed by zionism. now, iam no fan ofjeremy corbyn and i have criticised him for many things. but to suggest thatjeremy corbyn is somehow if —— at fall because of a leader of the ku klux klan decided to celebrate his victory is stretching things way beyond what is equitable. this is basically a smear. do you agree? what we have seenis smear. do you agree? what we have seen isa smear. do you agree? what we have seen is a very good investigative stuff that has been done that has for the problem to jeremy corbyn's door buzzer but i do agree with lance there, you could cri

>> this is david duke. >> grand wizard of the ku klux klan that david duke?> director spike lee knew it was not a story locked in the past. understand that history repeats itself and i feel we're at a time that stuff doesn't just jump out of nowhere. >> the real ron starworth is retired but in 1978 he was an undercover detective, the first african american cop on the colorado springs police. >> you see an ad to join the kkk? >> it said ku klux klan for information and a p.o. box. what the heck? i wrote a note to the p.o. box. >> saying what? >> i said my mouth to god's ears i really hate those black rats and anyone else that really doesn't have pure white arian blood running through their veins. >> the language of hate. >> they loved it, right? >> they loved it. >> before long ron starworth was a card-carrying member of the kkk. he built a relationship with a klansman over the phone and a white officer handled the personal meetings. >> was a part of you that was almost laughing on the inside you were playing those guys? >> throughout the whole investigation.

and as depicted in the movie, buddies up to unsuspecting david duke, then grand wizard of the ku klux >> today we are privileged to be among white men and white women. >> action. >> reporter: in his unapologetic and about as subtle as a shotgun style, lee links america's ugly past with race to her uncomfortable present. >> the whole goal going in was connect this film that takes place in the '70s with what's happening today. and agent orange, david duke, and the neo-nazis gave me a coda. >> you're referring to? >> the president of the united states. >> president trump? >> i call him agent orange. >> i want to thank you so much for never putting your country second. >> that's right. >> america first. >> reporter: some of the language in the film seems to be lifted from today's political rhetoric. >> from this day forward, it's going to be only america first. america first. >> reporter: this film directly takes on president trump and his initial refusal to renounce hate groups. >> i think there's blame on both sides. and i have no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it ei

white house and we were here to talk to them and a lot of these folks who came out to do to counter the ku klux klan to counter the white nationalist a lot of them had different ideas some of them buy into this idea that russia is responsible for divisions in the usa but others do not i think the source of the division is there's always some hatred deep inside in some percentage of people i think. the source of it is just some of it is natural i think unfortunately going to give it a platform to let it expand it kind i think it can get easily out of hand so you buy in the idea that it's russia's falls that the people having the rally over there is somehow the fault of russia russian bought tacker facebook yet not even a little and why do you think that's so big in the mainstream media why are they pushing that so hard. that's a good question i don't know i think it kind of it's comforting to hear that this is russia's fault and not something that's been the wrong with america since the foundation of this country it's nice to say it's russia's fault go and it's trumps fault and that once tr

and until they actually ban the ku klux klan and other organizations that are offshoots of the ku kluxcan be members of these organizations. now, how far are they allowed to go in their rhetoric? if they threaten human life, that's a different story. >> and tom, we're not seeing a lot of numbers, though, that are deciding to do what you just described, gloria, stand up and participate as a protester with a white nationalist. >> with charlottesville last year, the man who has been indicted and charged with murder and federal hate crimes, he was on social media, you know, expressing these pro nazi, you know, pro white sort of views. and no one knew who he was. his family was aware, his teachers were aware, his friends were aware. and the numbers weren't necessarily outrageous last year in charlottesville. so it just took that time on social media for this young man, james alex fields, to develop this sort of belief system, and show up and cause harm. and, you know -- i think that's important. i had a chance in early july to go down to charlottesville and talk to the new police chief ther

>> it was ku klux klan with a po box. i wrote a note. >> and said what? hate mouth to god ear's i those black rats. >> music to their ears? >> the langue of hate. >> they loved it? >> they loved it. >> reporter: testifies a card carrying member of the the kkk. a white officer handled the in pers meetings. >> that's us. >> reporter: he evenoot know david duke. they spoke several times throughout 1978. just as i started to ask about those conversations. >> what dead you tell them about the latest development. >> the latest development i got a phone callesrday from david duke. >> what did he want to talk about about? >> he wanted to talk about he's kw how he will be portrayed. he said i always respected spike lee whichhe surprised heck out of me. >> reporter: audiences may be surprised how lee ends the film. gimething most directors would be reluctant to ve away. the painful race fueled images of charlottesville gives it a frightening relevance. >> david duke, the alt right, the kkk and neo nazis wrote the endings for tfilm. >> lester holtti repor there. whi

. —— ku klux klan. this is the head of the ku klux klan who made this comment in 2015.f the labour party by a landslide, the former head of the ku klux klan, which is the white racist supremacist american organisation, read into that that he saw this as evidence people were waking up to what he perceived to be the threat of zionism and effectively the jews. the implication in the wake of all the other stories around anti—semitism in the labour party is somehow this reflects on jeremy corbyn. i'm no fan ofjeremy corbyn, and i've criticised him many times on many things, and would criticise his stance on the anti—semitism debate and his failure to show leadership over it, but the fact somebody else draws implications from his election in that way is no reflection on him whatsoever and this is effectively a smear story. when you were saying this is a way for the times to keep the long—running anti—semitism story surrounding the labour party that's not away taking over? all the papers are trying to do that and there's not necessarily anything wrong with that because the cri

that is the imperial wizard of a ku klux klan chapter and for years he has been trying to rebrand theul do good erers and not hateful raci. >> do you hate black people? >> no, i have friends who are black. >> but you are the imperial wizard of the ku klux klan gr p group, and they have a history of terrorizing black folks so how can you say that? >> well, there were some klans who have terrorized black people, and i have never terrorize ad black person. >> and why not join the ki wau -- kiwanas club or something like that. >> well, the march at that time was allowing the immigrants to come here and change their name with no documentation, and if your name was schwarzkopf, you could call yourself schwartz and nobody mentioned. >> but he failed to say it is about keepin the blacks and jews from rising socially or politically, but he says that his klan is different. >> it is not about a black man or the white man or the yellow man, but it is about the red, white and blue. >> reporter: preston is still aweight sentencing in charlottesville. while he waits something remarkable is happening

that of an imperial wizard of a ku klux klan chapter.or years, he's been trying to rebrand the kkk as peaceful do-gooders, not hate-filled racists. do you hate black people? >> no, i have friends that are black. >> reporter: but you're an imperial wizard of a ku klux klan group. the klan has a history of terrorizing black folks. how can you say that? >> some klans did have a history of terrorizing black folks, but not all klans did. i've never terrorized a black person in my life. >> reporter: why not join the kiwanis club? why not call it something different? >> because i want to see the klan become what it once was. >> reporter: rereferences, this the second rising of the klan, when thousands marched through washington in 1925. >> at that time, that march was about the fact that our country was allowing immigrants to come here, change their names with no documentation. nobody cared. >> reporter: he fails to mention it was also about keeping blacks, jews, and immigrants from rising socially or politically, but he says his klan is differ

bit and director spike lee is back with a tense but often funny thing about the ku klux klan. band play. calling a very warm welcome to you i'm on the. the united nations is calling for a prompt and independent investigation into an attack in yemen in which a police twenty nine children were killed the airstrike by the saudi led military alliance hit a school bus apparently taken pupils to summer camp a saudi spokesman says it was part of legitimate military action in its battle against who see rebels in yemen but the attackers come in for strong international criticism. this is yemen doctors desperately fighting for the lives of children the school bus hit by an aerial strike. eyewitnesses say that they were on their way to a school summer camp. where. the devastation of the blasts showing just how powerful the strike was awful a lot about what's the stroke the attack happened in the middle of the market and was aimed at the bus full of children. and our shops were open and people were going about their daily lives on many of those who died were just local kids and shop owner

ku klux klan'sman that took place in the rally in charlottesville last year and fired a gun at a black protester while shouting a racial slur. >> cnn sara sidner spoke with him about that and about his unlikely friendship woman african american musician. we do want to warn viewers this report contains language that many may find offensive. >> i shot a gun. the man had a flame thrower. >> richard preston admitting what he did during the deadly white nationalist unite the right rally last year in charl lotsville, virginia. that's preston yelling the "n" word, aiming and firing in the direction of a black counterprotester wielding a blowtorch. preston spoke to cnn for the first time since he plead nod contest in the case against him. >> reporter: are you sorry for shooting a gun towards a black man. >> no, i was protecting the people on the steps. >> reporter: but you did say the "n" word before you fired the gun. >> if you're standing in a group of a thousand black folks. >> there wasn't a group of a thousand black folks. >> i can't tell you how many there were, a large group of black pe

why the ku klux klan? >> plus, first lady melania trump's parents came american citizens through what's called chain migration even as president trump has slammed it again and again and again. the attorney for the first lady and her parents is going to speak "outfront" tonight. (vo) when bandits stole the lockbox from the wells fargo stagecoach, agent beekman was one step ahead of them. because he hid his customers' gold in a different box. and the bandits, well, they got rocks. we protected your money then and we're dedicated to helping protect it today. like alerting you to certain card activity we find suspicious. if it's not your purchase, we'll help you resolve it. it's a new day at wells fargo. but it's a lot like our first day. it's a pea-protein, gluten-free pâté.gman? (whistles) it's a burrito filled with plants pretending to be meat. here we see the artist making an attempt to bare his soul. it's just a gray dot. there are multiples on the table: one is cash, three are fha, one is va. so what can

grand wizard of the ku klux klan? what can ido wizard of the ku klux klan? what can i do for you? trying to persuade racist colleagues as well, that they need to bring down the plan. and the language that john washington needs to use when he impersonates the ku klux klan, it is quite harsh. how did you deal with having to say those words? be that character? he is undercover. in fa ct, character? he is undercover. in fact, there is a scene where he is holding the phone and everybody is laughing, so there is humour in the film. and as people, especially white audience members, are looking around, like, is it ok to laugh? but they can laugh. ijust want around, like, is it ok to laugh? but they can laugh. i just want them around, like, is it ok to laugh? but they can laugh. ijust want them to laugh at the end of the movie. they can laugh. ijust want them to laugh at the end of the movielj find it interesting that he says david duke could never be elected to president. that line made me laugh. we put a whole lot of things like that in the film. my co—writer that automatically had peopl

ku klux klan flyers are showing up in the bay area. specifically in solano county.nd recruitment flyers in their driveways. kron4's gayle ong talked with neighbors. ths is one of the areas the flyers were found.to make things more unusual - they were packaged inside a plastic ziploc bag full of raw rice. the ku klux klan recruitment flyers were left on driveways here in suisun citya very bizarre discovery in a racially mixed neighborhoodsot sotresidents say they saw a truck pass through friday night and found the bags saturdaysotthe flyers showed up in a plastic bag filled with riceurging people to call a number in north carolina.. among those who received the message - kyle atalig's (atalic) family it also made it's way through the mayor's neighborhood - sotsuisun city police say there is no evidence of any specific crime related to the flyersand calls them disappointing and unnecessary sotpolice believe whoever left the flyers was passing through the detective on this case here insists there is no local klan activity in this town.here in suisun city, gayle ong kro

ku klux klan flyers are showing up in the bay area. specifically in solano county.people in one neighborhood found recruitment flyers in their driveways. kron4's gayle ong was in suisun city and talked with neighbors. ths is one of the areas the flyers were found.to make things found. ( james ) an alaska airlines plane that left san francisco had to make an emergency landing in los angeles. the flight was headed to new orleans with 136 people on board. the flight crew detected a strong odor in the cabin and diverted to los angeles. the plane landed safely and no one was hurt. it is still unclear where that smell came from. passengers were booked on other flights. ( james ) happening today... tehre will be a ribbon cutting for the new 2 billion dollar transbay transit center in downtown san francisco. kron 4's ella sogomonian takes a look at what you need to know for this morning's commute. hard to believe this is a transit center ... with a 5 and a half acre park on the top floor with views of the city ... but -- it is!nside this one million square foot center -- th

why the ku klux klan?> i want to see the klan be what it once was. >> reporter: the second rising of the klan when thousands marched through washington in 1925. >> at that time that march was about the fact our country was allowing immigrants to come here, change their names with no documentation, and if your name was schwartzkoffer you come here and call yourself schwartz and nobody cares he says his klan is different. >> not about what color you are. it's about a red, white and blue. >> reporter: preston is still awaiting sentencing in charlottesville. while he waits, something remarkable has happened because of this man. r&b musician daryl davis has spent decades engaging with klan members and challenging their beliefs and he and preston have talked for years by phone and suddenly davis was standing up for preston in judge. what did you say to the judge? >> i testified on his part and paid part of his bail money. >> reporter: you paid part of his bail money? >> i did. >> reporter: is he taking for you a

. >> reporter: he said he went to protect the statue of, but also wears the hat of that a member of kur. do you hate black people in. >> i have friends that are black. >> reporter: but you're an imperial wizard of a ku klux klan group and the klan has a history of terrorizing black folks. how can you say that? >> some klans did have a history, but not all klans did, and i've never terrorized a black person in my life. >> reporter: he referenced this, the second rising of the klan when thousands marched to washington in 1925. >> at that time that march was about the fact our country is allowing immigrants to come here, change their names with no documentation. if your name was schwartz coffee, you'd call yourself schwartz, and nobody cared. >> reporter: and he said it was about keeping blacks and immigrants from socially rising but he says now it's different. >> it's about red, white or blue. >> reporter: he's still awaiting sentencing in charlottesville. while he waits something remarkable is happening because of this man. r & b musician has engaged in decades, and suddenly davis was s

but you're an imperial wizard of the ku klux klan group. the klan has a history of terrorizing black folks, how can you say that? some klans had a history of terrorizing black folks but not all did. >> why not call it something different, why the ku klux klan? >> i want to see the klan become what it once was. at that time that march was about the fact that our country was allowing immigrants to come here, change their names and no documentation. >> he fails to mention it was also about keeping blacks, jews, and immigrants from rising socially or politically. but he says his klan is different. >> it's not about a black man, brown man, red man, or yellow man. it's about blood. >> while he waits something remarkable is happening because of this man. r&b musician darrel davis has spent decades engaging with klan members and challenging their beliefs. they have talked for years via phone and suddenly davis was standing up for preston in court. >> what did you say to the judge? >> i testified on his behalf. i also paid for his bail to get him ou

bitches and says they should be fired like within hours of them protesting what was going on season ku klux klan members are marching under swastikas in an american city and somebody gets killed it takes him days to respond to that i think that speaks volumes for how he feels about these situations i don't want to put words in his mall but i'm just going by what he says and. he doesn't really say much but like his actions the way he didn't say anything or shame the white supremacists that day does do you feel like he's he has an inner affiliation with those people like he feels the same way they do. or maybe he counts on their support who knows. i honestly i feel the president trump has some severe psychological issues that have not been dealt with his actions are are those of somebody who has a very drastic insecurity complex he seems to just be looking for whatever phrase he can get it he doesn't care where that phrase comes from so i i think he's well aware of the white supremacy fans of his and i do believe that he doesn't want to. lose their support and that could be a reason why

bitches and says they should be fired like within hours of them protesting what was going on season ku klux klan members are marching under swastikas in an american city and somebody gets killed it takes him days to respond to that i think that speaks volumes for how he feels about these situations i don't want to put words in his mall but i'm just going by what he says and well he doesn't really say much but like his actions the way he didn't say anything or shame the white supremacists that day does do you feel like he. he has an inner affiliation with those people like he feels the same way they do. or maybe he counts on their support who knows. i honestly i feel the president trump has some severe psychological issues that have not been dealt with his actions are are those of somebody who has a very drastic insecurity complex he seems to just be looking for whatever phrase he can get it he doesn't care where that phrase comes from so i i think he's well aware that it's a promise fans of his and i do believe that he doesn't want to. lose their support and that could be a reason why

with events in the 1970s and the present—day, most notably when the film transition from a fictional kury real protest in charlottesville a year ago, when white supremacist groups clashed violently with counterdemonstrators. it was a day that resulted in the death of heather heyer, struck down when a car drove into a crowd. the film is quite provocative in a way, do you feel it could really entrench people in terms of their opinions rather than bringing about enlightenment? i've done my part and we'll see how the world sees it. this film is about today, and we live in a very, very serious time in this world. many people who've seen the film felt this was just about the united states of america, this is about the global rising of the right, notjust the united states of america. spike lee's film marks a triumph for him as a director. it's seen as his best movie in years, and his first picture in a while to have become part of the cultural conversation. stallworth brothers. we're on a roll, baby! with critically acclaimed films like blackkklansman and megahits like black panther, it's been

grand wizard of the ku klux klan. that david duke? >> god. last time i checked. you asked, i hate blacks. i hate jews. mexicans and irish. italians and chinese. but my mouth to god's ears, i really hate those black rats. and anyone else really that doesn't have pure white aryan blood running through their veins. >> i'm happy to be talking to the true white america. >> god bless white america. >> that was a scene from director spike lee's new film, "blackkklansman" out today purposely released one year after charlottesville's race riry ri riot. a true story of a black colorado springs police officer who successfully infiltrated the kkk. that officer would go on to strike up a relationship -- so joining me the man that portrays duke in the film, a pleasure. and congratulations on this film. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> you have been acting for quite a while. a lot of roles. the grand wizard of the kkk. did it take you a minute to say yes? and once you did say yes, tell me why. >> well, i asked to do it so it wasn't like someone asked me. i kind of hunted

. >> ...any doctrinaire, militant minority, whether communist, ku klux klan, or birchers. >> chae: androphone and they'd subside, and then he'd get up and he'd art to open his mouth, and they'd start again. and he couldn't talk. it went on for over 15 minutes. >> ...wholly alien to the sound and honest republican t liberalit has kept this party abreast of -- [ audience booing ] human need. >> buchanan: the forces that could nominate goldwater from the south and west were tearing thepu ican party away from the republican eastern establhment forever, and they could sense that. >> let me get to the mic. >> you give it to 'em. it's your job! >> now, look! the governor hasn't had a chance to talk. he's been up here 10 minutes, and he hasn't a chance to talk but about four minutes. i >> buchanan: ahink they believed that when goldwater en that fever will pass, and we will t our party back. and they never got it back. >> man: back in july in san francisco, the republicans held a convention. remember him? he was there. governor rockefeller. before the convention,ry he said, boldwater's positio

bitches and says they should be fired like within hours of them protesting what was going on season ku klux klan members are marching under sloss that goes in an american city and somebody gets killed it takes him days to respond to that i think that speaks volumes for how he feels about these situations i don't want to put words in his mall but i'm just going by what he says and well he doesn't really say much but like his actions the way he didn't say anything or shame the white supremacists that day does do you feel like he's p. has an inner affiliation with those people like he feels the same way they do. or maybe he counts on their support who knows. i honestly i feel the president trump has some severe psychological issues that have not been dealt with his actions are those of somebody who has a very drastic insecurity complex he seems to just be looking for whatever phrase he can get it he doesn't care where that phrase comes from so i i think he's well aware of the white supremacy fans of his and i do believe that he doesn't want to. lose their support and that could be a reaso

we will have more on the flyers trying to recruit people to join the ku klux klan in the search for theerson or persons responsible. 's with the new salesforce transit center is up and running. it is $82.25 billion project years in the making. alyssa harrington tells us commuters are giving the new addition two thumbs up. >> reporter: riders i talked to are excited. they love how the new transit center looks. it is quite big. it stretches four city blocks so some people feel a little overwhelmed. this is where the transit workers come in handy. there stationed all over the new transit center and are handing out maps and schedules and are directing people where they need to go. here is what some riders i talked to had to say. >> i love it. it is almost the feeling of the airport, the san francisco airports or oakland airport. that type of a feeling. it is great and clean but i'm hoping it will stay clean. it is a little overwhelming. >> reporter: it is comfortable. it is great. a new chance compared to the old building. it is great. i hope it will stay clean. >> reporter: this is the mom

an arab diplomat who supports a ku is called up and morel says thumbs up, i'm glad it happened. mixed signals. if anybody was looking for the american government to put the brakes on the ku, and mohamed morsi was looking, that didn't happen. >> you were in d.c. before this happened. you have been watching what's been unfolding in washington today and certainly what happened in charlottesville last year when you were at the "times" in the early 2000s, covering these right wing groups. with that perspective, what do you make of what we're seeing today in washington, d.c., a year out from what happened in charlottesville last year? >> well, you know, my experience in egypt has really informed a lot of my understanding of what's happening at home in the united states now. you really see that for a lot of people, identity is the crucial question in politics. and i imagi i think it's a lot of what's turning politics in the u.s. today. and president trump clearly appealed to a very strong and particularly ethnic notion of what it means to be an american. and so it's not surprising we s

says thousands of people have come out other not unified around much but when it comes to opposing the ku klux klan opposing the white nationalists that is one thing that has brought all these people together caleb mopping r.t. washington d.c. . russia's prime minister has warned that if the u.s. goes ahead with sanctions against russia's major banks it will be viewed as an act of economic war that was after a first wave of measures was announced over moscow's alleged role in the poisoning of russian double agent sergei screwball and his daughter back in march. the new sanctions ban russian. owned firms from buying certain american electronic devices on security grounds a much tougher second wave which has yet to be passed into law could prevent leading russian banks from obtaining credit on international markets artes in each of seti takes up the story. when it comes to global disagreement sanctions that the u.s. weapon of choice as russia's number two at the u.n. put it let us welcome the united sanctions of america well russia has been on the receiving end of plenty of them they stem f

don't tell me that the ku klux klan are ignorant. somebody holding the door realized that bus could explode and the ku klux klan would get burned and then they said let's get out of here. >> let me interrupt you, to give you a sense of that history as bernard comes back. i want you to think about it. that this was 1960. freedom rides. in addison, alabama, when they tried to kill all the people on that bus. and bernard lafayette and the students in nashville decided they were going to pick up the torch. they knew they could die. they could be hurt. but they did it and they took the freedom rides over and moved them ahead. and i think that's something that, you know, sometimes people who have been through that are a tad too modest to talk about put their lives on the line which is what you did and lot of people did. i think it's important to put that in context. [ applause ] and i just -- and peter, because you were -- peter and i talked a bunch over the past months. you were in law school when this was going on. so i never asked you t

white house and we were here to talk to them and a lot of these folks who came out to do to counter the ku klux klan to counter the white nationalist a lot of them had different ideas some of them buy into this idea that russia is responsible for divisions in the usa but others do not you buy in the idea that it's russia's fault of the people having the rally over there somehow the fall of russia russian bought tacker facebook yet not even a little and why do you think that's so big in the mainstream media why are they pushing that so hard. that suggestion i don't know i think it a kind of it's comforting to hear that this is russia's fault and not something has been clean wrong with america since the foundation of this country it's nice to say it's russia's fault go and it's trumps fault and that once trump is gone and once you know the elections are more secure and all races never fade away because the russian bots or the russian hackers are no longer influencing people to be racist but that's not true it's just a nice story you can tell yourself say this racism and this is the white sup

ku klux klan. then i say, is it true? he said, yes.body, thinks it's the skit. but i knew that doing this film, it takes place in the '70s, i would be able to deal -- i'd be able to make it contemporary. i just knew that. >> yeah. so, the -- jordan peele is the oscar-winning director for "get o out". >> "get out." >> he called you. you're talking about ron stallworth, the cop who infiltrated. he's talking to the guy on the phone. >> tofe ar grace. >> but it's david duke. watch this. ♪ >> hello? >> this is ron stallworth calling. >> who am i speaking with? is. >> this is david duke. grand wizard of the ku klux klan. that david duke? >> god, last time i checked. what can i do you for? >> well, since you asked, i hate blacks. i hate jews. mexicans and irish. italians and chinese. but my mouth to god's ears, i really hate those black rats and anyone else really that doesn't have pure white aryan blood running through their veins. >> talking to a true white america. >> god bless white america. >> let's talk about it. i don't want to give aw

bitches and says they should be fired like within hours of them protesting what was going on season ku klux klan members are marching under swastikas in an american city and somebody gets killed it takes them days to respond to that i think that speaks volumes for how he feels about these situations i don't want to put words in his mall but i'm just going by what he says and well he doesn't really say much but like his actions the way he didn't say anything or shame the white supremacists that day does do you feel like he's p. has an inner affiliation with those people like he feels the same way they do. or maybe she counts on their support who knows. i i honestly i feel the president trump has some severe psychological issues that have not been dealt with his actions are are those of somebody who has a very drastic insecurity complex he seems to just be looking for whatever phrase he can get it he doesn't care where that phrase comes from so i i think he's well aware that it's a promise there are fans of his and i do believe that he doesn't want to. lose their support and that could b

he squashed the ku klux klan. he did a lot of things like that. did it work all the time, no, it didn't, because many northerners and southerners thought blacks should be kept in an inferior status. but grant tried all he could to try to make sure that the results of the civil war were what he believed and what later on in the later 20th century, people believed is the main reason why the war was fought. >> frank, let me address the question of grant's image as president. we have this notion that grant was a great general, john addressed that to some extent, and then he became a not so good president. i think we have this myth that grant was popularly -- was elected in 1868 with a huge popular majority which is actually true. he took office in march of 1869 and then things began to fall apart, that he made a lot of mistakes and reformists rose up and were critical of him and their criticisms supposedly were justified by the supposed mistakes that he has made -- he had made. actually, the reality is quite a bit different from that. grant took offic

the white house called birth of a nation and its sister interest by the fact that it's hero is the ku klux klan. the kkk rides to the rescue at the end of the movie. it's a racist movie shown by a racist president and suddenly we have a very interesting phenomenon to deal with intellectually. progressive racism. that's kind of a surprise because progressive racism. and yet it would not be an exaggeration to say that progressives, the democrats, invented racism and here's what i mean. historically the democratic party was the party of the state slave plantation. they were unified not around racism but around slavery and the northern democrats and southern democrats were in it together. abraham lincoln identified what he called the four bad guys of slavery, the four horsemen of the apocalypse you might say. one was roger 20 from maryland, lincoln southerner but the second was franklin., the former president from new hampshire, a northerner. then james buchanan, a northerner and stephen douglas, lincoln's supreme antagonist fromillinois, a northerner . the northern democrats were writing

it is distinguished by a fact that the movie's hero is of the ku klux klan. it's a racist movie shown by racist president. we have an interesting phenomenon to deal with, progressive racism. we don't get taught that. yet it would not be an exaggeration to say progressives and democrats invented racism. historically the democratic party was the party of the slave plantation. they were unified around slavery. and seven democrats were in this together. when lincoln identified what he called the four bad guys of slavery, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, he was from maryland. lincoln counts him as a seven or. then james buchanan, in northern or. then stephen douglas. the northern democrats were driving the proslavery debate in the democratic camps. is -- the secession debate was north-south but the slavery debate was between the proslavery democratic party and the anti-slavery democratic party. that's a fact. it's so crushing that sometimes when i speak on campus, this is a familiar thing that happens. inevitably some professor of romance languages will stand

in washington, im drew petrimoulx (jrstone)ku klux klan flyers are showing up in the bay area. specifically in solano county.those in one neighborhood found recruitment flyers on their driveways. kron4's gayle ong was in suisun (sis-soon) city and talked with neighbors. ths is one of the areas the flyers were found.to make things more unusual - they were packaged inside a plastic ziploc bag full of raw rice. the ku klux klan recruitment flyers were left on driveways here in suisun citya very bizarre discovery in a racially mixed neighborhoodsot sotresidents say they saw a truck pass through friday night and found the bags saturdaysotthe flyers showed up in a plastic bag filled with riceurging people to call a number in north carolina.. among those who received the message - kyle atalig's (atalic) family it also made it's way through the mayor's neighborhood - sotsuisun city police say there is no evidence of any specific crime related to the flyersand calls them disappointing and unnecessary sotpolice believe whoever left the flyers was passing through the detective on this cas

ku klux klan for information and a p.o. box and i figured what the heck?ate and identifiedm signed my real name and had a brain cramp that day. >> god works. >> yes. >> signed my real name, put it in the mail and forgot about it and about a week or two later i get a phone call. >> did you have a plan? >> no plan. >> you know how god works? >> the plan didn't begin until this phone call ended when the local organizers wanted to meet me in a week, and i basically described the white officer in my book, his name is chuck, in the movie his name is flip. >> yeah. >> i described him as me because he's about my height and my weight. i even described the type of clothes he would have on when they met because i knew how he generally came to work. i hung up and that's when i started thinking, okay, this is how i'm going to do this. >> and this could possibly work. >> it's an incredible story. did you really trick david duke into taking a picture with you? >> that happened. >> that happened. >> that's incredible. >> is it exactly as depicted in the move? >> i think s

the ku klux klan recruitment flyers were left on driveways here in suisun citya very bizarre discovery in a racially mixed neighborhoodsot sotresidents say they saw a truck pass through friday night sotthe flyers showed up in a plastic bag filled with riceurging people to call a number in north carolina..among those who received the message - kyle atalig's (atalic) family it also made it's way through the mayor's neighborhood - sot suisun city police say there is no evidence of any specific crime related to the flyersand calls them disappointing and unnecessary sot police believe whoever left the flyers was passing through the detective on this case here insists there is no local klan activity in this town. live in suisun city, gayle ong kron4 news. kron4 news.city, gayle ong live in suisun town.live in suisun city, gayle ong kron4 news. (j.r.) for the second time this week alaska airlines is making headlines. today a plane that left san francisco had to make an emerncy landing in los angeles. the alaska airlines flight was headed to new orleans with 136 people on board. the flight cre