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

repeatedly dancing around the question of whether he disavowed david duke, the former leader of the ku klux klan. >> well, just so you understand, i don't know anything about david duke, okay? i don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacist. so i don't know. i mean i don't know. did he endorse me or what's going on because, you know, i know nothing about david duke. i know nothing about white supremacists. and so you're asking me a question that i'm supposed to be talking about people that i know nothing about. i have to look at the group. i mean i don't know what group

there was ku klux klan, there was nazi symbols. >> did he talk to you about these things when you were in there? >> no. absolutely not. he talked to me about coming to a show at the hard rock, but i would have to come by myself. he really -- he appreciated me as a general manager and that whatever i could do for him, i did. if he needed time off to go home early, i would let him go home early and i appreciated him as being on time and being, you know, articulate and due diligent and all of that. as far as the political views, no, we -- when he would start on that, i would just kind of nip it in the bud and say, you got a delivery up, you got to go. he knew that i was a very strong supporter, very strong lesbian, very proud of my sexuality, but more than once, he told me that if he had complete autonomy, i would burn in hell with all the blacks and jews and hispanics and everybody else. it was just the white supremacists that were going to rule the world. and unfortunately, he said, debra, as much as i like you, you're going to be the first one i burn. >> geez. did he openly talk proudl

process of this group that were basically the paramilitary wing of the democratic party which was the ku klux klan, extensively put this line -- essentially put this line between whites and blacks. in some ways it was more firm during slick -- than it was during slavery. they wanted to establish home rule. home rule means that we are in charge again. the we in this is white southerners. there is this huge move by democrats against the republican party to bring power back to the same people who just lost this war. very confusing and chaotic time and also a very violent time. one of the byproducts of this whole process is that the moonshiner comes a sort of full care -- folk hero of the -- they are basically outlaws standing up for white southerners and home rule. they are protecting their immunity from oppressive national government, it's not a coincidence that this story about moonshiners -- these are people who are just turning the corner into whiskey right? it's a story that they tell about themselves and other people start to tell about them. it's a story that gets very -- with former demo

how the fighting irish defeated the ku klux klan. it is a nice historical account of how the [null] came to the student campus in 1924 and how the body confronted it. on the cover of the book was a picture of a [null] cross burning, superimposed onto the notre dame campus. >> apologies. >> it is all right. you can use my slides if you want. >>> unfortunately for mister simpson, a coworker saw him reading a book to himself and reported him to the university for harassment without hearing he was deemed guilty of the charge and suspended. my organization, the foundation for individual rights in education, came to his aid and after several months of advocacy he was allowed on campus to continue his education. the reason i bring up this incident which happened as far back at -- is 2007, it is one of the hundreds of examples of cases in which college students and faculty members are punished for expressing and holding unpopular viewpoints. i want to you this use that to highlight the long-standing nature of this problem and to point out th

the ku klux klan, marching with the flag. this was at the southern poverty law center in montgomery in the early 1980's. the klan was born immediately after the civil war. it was formed of former confederate veterans in tennessee in 1866. but the confederate flag was not visible with the first incarnation of the flag in the 1860's or 1870's. nor could i find it in the second klan born after "birth of a nation" that thrived into the 1920's. the u.s. flag and the christian cross were the primary symbols. this was the earliest use of the flag i have been able to find, the earliest graphic use. this was not a klan march, this was a memorial day march in 1939. they were interlopers. ralph mcgill and other editors excoriated them for being involved in this march and tarnishing the flag with their presence. by 1946, when this was published in "life" magazine, the confederate flag and become part of the ritual of the third klan. you see it with the hangman's noose, christian cross, bible, american flag, and confederate flag. but on t

it was always ku klux klan, or naziism. >> reporter: there are certainly other clues that point to extremeitics. he was one of those people on twitter constantly posting dislike for the clintons, obamas, and other democrats. >> he may have been a part -- appears to be a partisan. but that would be determined by the facts as the case goes forward. >> reporter: sayoc posted videos like this one on social media that appear to show him at trump rallies. >> they're going to look at any type of event, any type of function that he went to. particularly if it was some type of political event or a campaign event. they're going to try to see, was he there with certain people? >> reporter: today the president condemned what he called political violence. >> we must never allow political violence to take root in america. cannot let it happen. and i'm committed to doing everything in my power as president to stop it. >> reporter: wednesday night in wisconsin, he urged for all sides to come together. >> we want all sides to come together in peace and harmony. we can do it. >> reporter: by the president's

grant was anything but a racist in fact after he became president he even sent troops to fight the ku klux klan years after the civil war was over and b.c. had to run a retraction and show the full sound by a general. who was incredible he drank a little bit too much. and his name was green general grant. anti drum faction smelled blood and went into overdrive they ran all kinds of headlines about trump praising the confederate general even said he was a big fan of general lee they even quoted distant descendants of lee denouncing the president and yet again our president is longing and showing us his true colors he is showing us that he supports an idol of white supremacy and hatred robert the least for the continued in. our bodies. but the pro trump crowd was watching a completely different movie the news in right field was that trump was innocent victimized by scheming liberals so folks in the anti trump camp got confirmation that the donald is a racist meanwhile those in the pro trump bubble got confirmation that the liberal press is out to slander him and that's just one example of ho

[hip-hop music] ♪ - the ku klux klan is not the powerhouse organization they once were, but they havecandy. klan members have been reported meeting children as they make their way to the bus in the morning. apparently, they're handing out bags of fliers and snickers candy bars. - oh, man! now parents have to be extra worried if their kid comes home with candy. parents are gonna be like, "timmy, where did you get that candy?" he'll be like, "from a pedophile." "oh, thank god. i thought it was-- i thought it was the kkk. oh, my god." oh, and, you know, i think the kkk underestimates how smart kids are these days. like, if anything, the kids are gonna end up tricking the kkk. they'll be like, "thanks for the candy, mister. "now i hate mexicans and blacks. can i get more? can i get more?" and as soon as he turns away, he's like, "what a moron. doesn't he know that the most effective racism "is about dominating power structures, "not running around in a bed sheet? what a dumbass!" [hip-hop music] ♪ so. what's up? me, all night, dreaming about angela's smoking hot body. you're being gross.

1930's, carrying swastikas, accompanied by white supremacists, supported by the david dukes in the ku kluxlan, and having other people oppose them, and the president saying there is good people in both groups. my god. no president has ever said anything like that since the civil war. and ladies and gentlemen, referring to refugees as animals, propping up immigrants as the source of all the problems is a chicanery used by every oligarch around the world. you have a problem? blame it on the other, it's that immigrant, that black guy, that black woman, that minority, that's the reason for your problem. that's what is happening. it's a conscious effort to divide the country. it is deliberate. and it worked in part, but we can't let it work again. as i said, i traveled the world a lot because of my role in foreign policy. they look at me and wonder what the hell is going on in america, ripping infants from their mothers arms at the border, what are we doing? what have we become? ladies and gentlemen, the world is watching. the president stands up for the whole world to see, standing us to vladi

the nineteenth century the first organized terrorist groups in the united states of america was the ku kluxklan which was a white christian terrorist groups so i don't know if he was demonizing as much as stating that x. julio what did you think of don lemon statements. i think don lemon is a liar and to counteract what anthony said that there first. is a left wing group and let me just give you some stats here this is according to the department of homeland security document on executive order one three seven eight zero four hundred in two of the terrorists they were actually involved in two in crimes in this country from nine eleven two thousand and one to january of twenty eight hundred four hundred in two were born outside of the united states only one hundred forty seven terrorist plots were carried out by people who were actually natural born united states citizen sins and part of that he was because of the diversity lottery where we had a lot of people coming in from middle eastern countries would beg to stand in particular a lot of these people came here were naturalized in the carr

in one of the most famous scenes in the film, the ku klux klan are portrayed as heroes, so this terrorist wing of the democratic party and birth of a nation are portrayed as white knights who protects away cellular womanhood from the black beast rapist, the ex-slaves. the birth of a nation is the most famous of the silent films , to depict the civil war, there were dozens, hundreds of others produced during the silent era most of them were lost in now. but, we know enough that it's clear that most of these films got a lost cause and the moonlight and magnolia myths of the old south are dominant. but the loss causes not only being promulgated on film but also in fiction to also in magazines and newspapers, also on broadway plays. so, let's turn our attention then to the other book that i think is absolutely central in the field of civil war memory. this is remembering the civil war by kiri janie. it came out in 2013. that she draws a crucial distinction between reunion, which we have talked about and reconciliation. reunion and reconciliation. so, what does it mean, let's make sure we know

there was also what she believes to be a reference to the ku klux klan and other hatefull images scrawled across the parking lot.dr. mohsena ahmad "....i was really, really surprised and shocked and stunned and petrified all at the same time..."dr.ahmad, who gave this cell phone and surveillance video to police, believes she is being targeted because she is a muslim. she met with detectives on tuesday afternoon and pointed out where the latest graffiti was found and also two previous incidents where someone started a fire and broke a window at her office.dr. mohsena ahmad "....i am appalled by this because san jose is a very diverse community and i feel this is not only a threat to me but a threat to the entire community..."police are treating the case as a hate crime. the council on american islamicrelations says such hate crimes were up 8 percent last year in california, adding that the numbers may be higher still because many victims are afraid to come forward. but not dr. ahmaddr. mohsena ahmed '...if you are a minority, be a little more vigilant but dont be afraid. this is my country

his, i guess maybe you'd call it a hobby, is befriending members of the ku klux klan. he goes to rallies and befriends members and tries to relate with them as a person. so far he's convinced dozens of them to leave the klan. in fact, they give him his robe. he has a whole collection of kkk robes from people who are quitting. the reason i bring this person up and the reason we brought him to fire is because the key to trying to deal with this bad speech, and i think there's -- because campuses are a more diverse place, and they are a place that there's much more ferment right now than maybe there was in past years, although certainly not from the 1960s. it's because we've given up, it seems, on persuading instead of coercing. there seems to be this sort of intellectual virus that's gotten in, that if nobody ever hears something bad, if they don't hear that somebody doesn't like people, they don't hear anti-semitism, it wouldn't occur to them normally. what i would suggest is, you know, i don't know whether or not that's true or not, but i do know that persuading somebo

you said most people think of the ku klux klan when they hear white supremacy. but the term just means that whiteness is a supreme value which in the news media it is. as a feminist writer anushay hossain noted to me that megyn kelly feels like she can have a conversation about race -- before anything offensive was said, there was already a problem. >> exactly. the fact that she had a -- it never occurred to her or apparently any of her producers that they were doing -- actually sitting down to talk about racial issues and that's what that entire conversation was, and it was just four white people talking about it without any consideration for the fact that they actually don't even know what it feels like. they don't know what it feels like to have somebody dress up like your culture, or like your race, whether it's mocking or not, frankly. and so i think that it's -- it's -- so important for white people who have positions in the media to be using them, those positions to not be doing that but doing the opposite, actually trying to make sure that all different

ku klux klan, a black person being hung, torchings, bombings.hey say he had an extensive arrest record. including drug possession, grand theft and one in miami in 2002 which he threatened to eblow oputility company worse than september 11th. he was sentenced to a year's probation. now he faces five federal charges, up to 48 years in prison. >> it's cowardly and reprehensible and inathmuto our democracy. >> he'll make his first court appearance monday. ultimately we're learning this case will be brought by the southern district of new york. the same court that have handled many international terror cases. cnn, washington. >>> the bomb suspect has a criminal history which includes a 2020 arrest by miami police where he threatened to blow up a utility comp an. >> spoke to anderson cooper about that arrest. >> i still recall when i got the phone call he was arrested for threatening florida light and power company. he was working with a laundry matt. hooactual he actually owned it. he got on the phone, begged them to put it on, they wouldn't. started

as thei many formed outlawed groups like the ku klux klan and the white nights. the klansmen represented all white societies. african-american and white republican allies began to create night writing gangs. that struck allies at african-american churches. of course only groups they outnumbered. they avoided clashes with federal troops. supreme court justice samuel miller wrote his southern brother-in-law in 18 tuesday seven, challenging him on that kind of lie. show me a single white man that's been punished for murdering a new grown man. the modern equivalent of this terrorism would be afghan or syria in the early 21st century, except killing in the post-civil war south was almost entirely one-sided, white murders of black victims and their white republican allies. we would think of terrorism in the united states as 9/11, but it was at least until 1865. and some evidence since. new federal laws adopted after the 14th and 15th amendment were intended as enforcement and protection. it also contained a new innovation, a section aimed at private terrorism, making i

and what she believes to be a reference to the ku klux klan.octor ahmad believes she is being targeted because she is a muslim. and it's happened before. there have been two previous incidents. one where someone started a fire and another when someone broke a window at her office. (vicki) police are treating this as a hate crime. the council on american islamic relations says such hate crimes were up 8 percent last year...adding that the numbers may be high still...because many victims are afraid to come forward. (ken) san francisco officials say it 'is' safe to drink the water -- despite social media posts warning of pesticide contamination. (vicki) city officials are conducting tests anyway and were at the

. >> i am talking about david duke and the ku klux klan here. >> i don't know david duke. >> from globalistille. >> very fine people on both sides. >> some extremists have been emboldened by this president, and hate crimes rose more than 12% in america's largest cities last year, while violent crimes overall decreased. likewise the adl found a 250% increase in white supremacist activity on college campuses, and with this republican in the white house, these groups are not receding, they are on the rise, and that's an issue we all need to confront, taking to heart the words of pittsburgh. >> we know those that try to divide us because of the way we pray or where our families are from around the world will lose. >> that's your reality. >> it's so important to see the numbers. it's happening. it has been happening all around us. it needs to be talked about. it needs to be focused on and we frankly should have been doing it long before 11 people were murdered in pittsburgh. >> we will have the head of the adl coming on to talk about what is behind the numbers. >> we will talk about someboto m p

and what she believes to be a reference to the ku klux klan. doctor ahmad believes she is being targeted because she is a muslim. and it's happened before. there have been two previous incidents. one where someone started a fire and another when someo broke a window at her office. (vicki) the council on american islamic relations says such hate crimes were up 8 percent last year...adding that the numbers may be high still...because many victims are afraid to come forward. (grant) it's been estimanted that nationwide 100- thousand children are at risk for human trafficking. it's a problem also found across california and the bay area. in the east bay tonight, a public town hall meeting is being held to find

of the boston herald says she is resurrecting one drop rule from the promised jim crow days of the ku kluxn, woodrow wilson and the rest of the separate but equal democrats. what do you make of this? many said she's going to run in 2020 and this get it off the table. >> i don't agree with the author of the herald, the point is this is poorly timed and she should drop the dna results and keep it moving but here is the thing. the larger conversation is how to maintain the house, how we win the house and the united states senate and what all the polls indicate is we are going to do that because we have a better message than republicans do. >> what message? >> we can talk about the message all day. there is a very clear message. >> let me bring morgan in for a final word. >> listen. it will all come down to a few weeks of pulling on election day but when it comes to senator warren it is amazing how donald trump gets in people's heads. we saw this in the primary. amazing how he gets into candidates heads, to have such a political error by senator warren because the president spoke to them over

there were things like literacy tests, pulling texas, grandfather clauses, ku klux klan writers, intimidation at the polls. bob moses was fueled airily several times for getting people to vote in mississippi. we are living in a slightly more subtle age of disenfranchisement, aren't we? >> guest: yes, we are. but there's something about that old school way of doing it that actually is replicated in the way that we are doing it now. so, when in 1890 with the mississippi plan which was the first massive disenfranchisement kind of post civil pool ou with mississippi davis looked up and said there's this thing called the 15th amendment so that means we can't say we don't want black people to vote because there's that clause in the amendment about not discriminating on account of race. so, how do we get black people to not vote without saying in the wall we don't want black people to vote? so what they did is they took the kind of societal imposed conditions, characteristics of black people and then wrote that into the wall. so you have a jim crow education system, you don't find black schools, the

there was ku klux klan, there was nazi symbols. >> did he talk to you about those things? >> no, absolutely not. he talked to me about coming to a show at the hard rock, but i would have to come by myself. he really -- he appreciated me as a general manager. and that whatever i could do for him, i did. if he needed time off to go home early, i would let him go home early. and i appreciated him as being on time and being, you know, articulate and due diligent and all of that. as far as the political views, no. when he would start on that, i would just kind of nip it in the bud and say you got a delivery, you got to go. he knew that i was a very strong supporter, very strong lesbian, very proud of my sexuality. but more than once he told me that if he had complete autonomy, i would burn in hell with all the blacks and jews and hispanics and everybody else. it was just the white supremacists that were going to rule the world. and unfortunately, he says as much as i like you, you'll be the first one i burn. >> let's get more on this with a former profiler for the fbi joining u

marshal, he thought he was a goner for sure, he thought the police was going to turn them over to the ku klux klan and got cold feet because he was following him. then they go back to town and they charge justice marshal with driving under the influence. and they go to a local magistrate and the local magistrate says "why are you bringing this man here?" and the police says "well, this man is driving under the influence." and the magistrate can tell if he was driving under the influence. he says breathe into my face. and justice marshal, he doesn't flinch. this man hasn't touched a drop of whisky. release him. justice marshal gets in the car, drives off, gets where he is going, calls the naacp and says you know what? i had not touched any whisky before, but now i am about to get drunk. again, it is a horrible story. it's also a true story. there is a very nice book about this particular -- this particular event. but he always would punctuate it with his own brand of humor. >> i will contribute a couple. i mean, the stories, would you say harsh, hard? but not in the language necessarily or any

you said most people think of the ku klux klan when they hear white supremacy. term just means that whiteness is a supreme value which in the news media it is. as a feminist writer anushay hossain noted to me that megyn kelly feels like she can have a conversation about race -- before anything offensive was said, there was already a problem. >> exactly. the fact that she had a -- it never occurred to her or apparently any of her producers that they were doing -- actually sitting down to talk about racial issues and that's what that entire conversation was, and it was just four white people talking about it without any consideration for the fact that they actually don't even know what it feels like. they don't know what it feels like to have somebody dress up like your culture, or like your race, whether it's mocking or not, so important for white people who have positions in the media to be using them, those positions to not be doing that but doing the opposite, actually trying to make sure that all different kinds of people are included in the conversation and

the ku klux klan, marching with the flag to the southern poverty law center. clan's more recent after the civil war. veterans infederate 1866. was theederate flag first incarnation the flag the 1860's and 70's. i find it and the second klan after the film birth of the nation was founded on stone mountain in 1915 and thrived in the south and midwest in the 1920's. the christian cross with the primary symbols. this was the earliest use of the flag record find. klan march.a as a confederate memorial day march. they -- were involved in this with their presence. by 1946, publish and life magazine, the confederate flag .an become part of the ritual you can sit with a hangman's news, the christians across, and flag.erican flag or it -- the clan marlis took over the confederate flag. more importantly clan was this moment. at the birmingham city auditorium and alabama in 1948. when the -- was born. to break with the democratic party which had an renomination harry truman had strong civil rights platforms. will happen in 1940 eight was the marriage of the confederate fl

i was like maybe i should go talk to the ku klux klan. that was their reaction.et for a long time. but i could tell it was that kind of quiet where they were like that might be good for ratings, but might die, but that might be really good for ratings. when i pitched the cku klux kla idea i didn't think they'd let me do it

they were things like literacy test, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, ku klux klan, intimidation at the polls, bob moses was nearly killed several times just trying to register the people to vote in mississippi. we are living in a slightly more subtle aged disenfranchisement, are we? >> guest: yes we are. but there's something about the old-school way of doing it but actually is replicated in the way we are doing it now. so when in 1890 with the mississippi plan, which is the first massive disfranchisement post-civil war, what mississippi did, mississippi looked up and said there's this thing called the 15th amendment. that means we can say we don't want black people to vote because there's that cause in the 15th amendment about not discriminating on account of race. so how do we get black people to not vote without saying in the lot we don't black people to vote. so what they did was they took the kinder societally impose conditions, characteristics of black people and then wrote that into the law. you don't find black schools, about 252% according to an naacp in mid-1940s. and so then

repeatedly dancing around the question of whether he disavowed david duke, the former leader of the ku klux klan. >> well, just so you understand, i don't know anything about david duke, okay? i don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacist. so i don't know. i mean i don't know. did he endorse me or what's going on because, you know, i know nothing about david duke. i know nothing about white supremacists. and so you're asking me a question that i'm supposed to be talking about people that i know nothing about. i have to look at the group. i mean i don't know what group you're talking about. you wouldn't want me to condemn a group that i know nothing about. i have to look. if you would send me a list of the groups, i will do research on them and certainly i would disavow if i thought there was something wrong. honestly i don't know david duke. i don't believe i've ever met him. i'm pretty sure i didn't meet him, and i just don't know anything about him. >> he spent years pushing the racist birther lie that president barack obama was not b

in 1980 -- when i was in high school in the '80s, the ku klux klan would pass out literature in front of my school on groom road in baker, louisiana. that is a fact. one of my best friends lived down the street from the grand dragon or grand wizard, one of them, of that chapter in baker slash central louisiana. this was not -- >> it's not that long ago. >> my mom was telling me again last night that she would take my grandmother to the polling place. they would make her count jelly beans in the jar before she could vote or try to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar. all of this, and the reason i'm saying it is because we're going to talk tonight about voter suppression, the efforts that are under way. >> right. >> and it's just mind-boggling to me that some people can sit home and say, i'm not going to get out and vote, or they don't even think about it. they have no idea that an election is coming up. >> and, look, and people will say, look, we're in a much better place than we were there. yeah, but things are fragile. and when the proud boys show up, it makes people scared. >>