i don't know, maybe we should go talk to the ku klux klan? that was their reaction and it got quiet. it may be good for raining. when i pitched the ku klux klan idea, i didn't think they would let me do it. i thought we negotiated down to the rodeo, you know what i mean? i am just riding the horse. i thought we didn't end up there. i never thought in a million years, talk to the kkk, but they did. ♪ >> my name is w.kamau bell. i make a living in the heart of america that i don't understand. now, i am challenging myself to dig deeper. i am in a mission to reach out of cultures and believes of this colorful and crazy country. this is "united shades of america." learning about america means sometimes reaching across the isle. this week i am reaching way across the isle to the k kku ku klku klu ku klux clan. my first is what the hell am i thinking is to meet with the arkansas leader of the kkk. according to the kkk rhetoric, there are a new clan in town. they're no longer antiblack, they're just prowhite. nothing says clan like hanging out with th

by the ku klux klan. women were raped. men were lynched. they were beaten, threatened, or there were offers of bribes to keep them from voting, because they had so much power. i think the expression of all that power not only scared the daylights out of the south as you might expect, but i don't think the north was ready for all that white power. withorthwest complicitous the rollback of reconstruction. by 1872.ee signs 1873 is the first great depression. of 1873.ed the panic until the great depression starting in 1929, it was called the great depression. do we really need to protect the slaves? can't they stand on their own? 250 years, expect them to stand on their own feet after a mere 12 years. presidential election of 1876 deadlocked in 1877. one of the agreements of the compromise was federal troops -- the few remaining federal troops protecting black rights to vote would be withdrawn and black people would be on their own. the supreme court was complicitous. and the death knell. scholars argue about

victimized by the ku klux klan.ecause they had been trying to vote. women were raped. men were lynched. they were beaten, threatened, or there were offers of bribes to keep them from voting, because they had so much power. i think the manifestation, the expression of all that power not only scared the daylights out of the former south as you might expect, but i don't think the north was ready for all that black power either. complicithe north was to us with the rollback of reconstruction. certainly, you can see signs by 1873 is the first great 1872. depression. it's called the panic of 1873. until the great depression starting in 1929, it was called the great depression. do we really need to protect the slaves? aren't today free? -- aren't they free? can't they stand on their own? how can you enslave people for 250 years, expect them to stand on their own feet after a mere 12 years. the compromise, the presidential election of 1876 deadlocked in 1877. the compromise -- one of the agreements of the compromise was fed

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they faced considerable discrimination in the 19th century, even the 1920's with the ku klux klan. smith being on the ticket was one marker that catholics were making it in national life. the fact that he lost was a marker that to run for president as a catholic was a disadvantage. he lost pretty significantly in the south. >> they have a dinner in his name every year. what was he like as a person? prof. mcgreevy: charming. immigrant, very new york accent. that was controversial in the 1928 campaign, which had the first discussions on radio over american politics. he became a little bit bitter as an old man. he was bitter that franklin roosevelt, rich, sophisticated became perceived as the candidate of the common man and became a leader in the democratic party. in the 1930's you see him shift a little bit ideologically. >> how so? prof. mcgreevy: he is kind of mad at roosevelt. he wants to see less government programs. it works against what he was doing as a pretty liberal democrat governor of new york state. there is a little bit of a sour end i would say to his career in the 30's

a member of the ku klux klan and had other dark parts of his past. where is he from?avid: he is from northern georgia, grew up on a farm and andme a lawyer in georgia briefly worked for the north georgia circuit as a judge and then got elected to congress from that congressional district up there. frank was really an interesting guy. counsel for the house un-american activities committee in 1962. earliereen a council during the famous investigation of communists in hollywood. from woodstock, virginia, out in the shenandoah valley. right after world war ii he served as the acting general counsel for the u.s. mission at the tokyo war crimes tribunal, trying to japanese who were responsible for the atrocities. aian: the idea of having council interview somebody from the committee, and this case he was counsel. he asked her father -- >> the committee members would participate as well, but most of the tough questions -- was done by the council. that was the way worked. amendment, you can invoke the fifth amendment to not testify get yourself. it's written into the constitu

voted against every civil rights bill that came through congress and had been a member of the ku klux klannd other dark parts of his past, calling my father, who had been the commander of an all-black unit in world war ii un-american. brian lamb: where is he from? david: northern georgia. he grew up on a farm and then became a lawyer in canton, georgia. briefly working at the north georgia circuit as a judge and was a lawyer. then he got elected to congress from there. came fromhe woodstock, virginia, out in the shenandoah valley. and he was sort of a product of the machine out there. or he -- in world war ii, right after world war ii he served as the acting general counsel for the u.s. mission at the tokyo war crimes tribunal. the japanese, who were responsible for the atrocities. brian lamb: we are going to this idea of having a council interview somebody from the committee, and in this case he was counsel and he asked your father -- david: he did all the questioning. the committee members would participate as well, but most of the tough questions were done by the committee counsel, that

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that believes there is a loyal -- a moral equivalence between white supremacists, neo-nazis, the ku klux klanand those who have the courage to stand against them? no we don't, but trump does. are we a nation who believes we should tear children from the arms of their parents at the border. no, we don't, but trump does. are we a nation that embraces dictators and tyrants like kim jong-un? but trump does. every day we are reminded about what these elections are about. we have to remember who we are. every day we are reminded that there is nothing guaranteed about our democracy and we have to fight for it. we have to earn it. [applause] we stand here today only 140 miles from gettysburg. famous symbolst in our nations history of the cost of division. in the gettysburg address, lincoln didn't only honor the people who lost their lives had , he a message for the living. he said, it is for us to be dedicated to the great task , that ag before us government of, by, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. [applause] that was the challenge from lincoln to those present that day in gettysbu

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an enormous contradiction washe thathairman of that committee had been in the ku klux klan, a racist voted against every civil-rights bill known to the country. my father had been the commanden of an all-blac in world war ii, and he was calling my father un-american. jane: amazing. "a good american family" is the name of the book. david maraniss, thank you for joining me. david: thank you. years,or more than 130 the statue of liberty in new york harbomihas welcomed ants to america's shores. her torch became the symbol of hope and a new life for millions. now a new museum has opened in lady liberty's shadow telling her story and the challenges of living up to the promise of freedom ofhe t bbc's nada tawfik pai nada: towering over new yorkrb ha, lady liberty is an iconic symbol of freedom. with her torch of enlightenment and tablet of justice. >> this is similar to the one seen by thousands of immigrants. yeda: millions travel ever to liberty island to visit the national monument, and now they uen experience it like never before with the stf liberty museum. politicians and dignitaries

for the ku klux klan. klansmen stuff been allowed to cross. all the fire crawls stillbirth all the trouble to disagree fail to point it's hollow play their show birthright is born to follow their gates to be healed by the hearts and hands of all plants so if the light from sea to sea. in the fire crawls we glory beneath that sacred glow my oath was made under the scrolls that show ever live in song and story i swear it's like sealed ever fate god gives me a tall sun crowned me and it will not flinch beauty and who not. will appeal by white supremacy white. white power. white. the. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next that multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to stay in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i want to the new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the moral thing to think i was going to the. by the way ways and such like here. during the great depression

i find that problematic so they made a few changes first of all they reduced references to the ku klux klan and the national association for the advancement of colored people they reduced gay and lesbian content and they cut out climate change completely so the democrats tried to slip in a few changes of their own and that draft got the republicans fired up when i look at the things changed between drafts after hundreds of hours of debate it's mind numbing it's not just happening in michigan the standards set by texas and california the two biggest u.s. states are the most influential when it comes to the printing of the u.s. school textbooks and both states are getting pretty partisan when it comes to u.s. history and social studies in texas they have cut hillary clinton completely out of history and in california a mural depicting george washington the first us president was also a slave owner has been taken down so parents it seems are voting for which historical narrative they want their kids to learn in school when they picked the school board at this point in california the debate has

years of what would be described today as domestic terrorism lynchings that's domestic terror ku klux klan that's domestic terror segregation institutionalized white supremacy but even though 1st of all it took a 100 years from from the end of the whole war to the civil rights movement so 100 years before that the terror of this institutionalized white supremacy at the end of the civil war to even be fundamentally altered but the civil rights movement and civil rights act in $1064.00 that dismantled segregation and the voting rights act in 1965 gave black people equal opportunity to vote but even that's been chipped away at since 2013 and economic restitution in a collective meaningful way has simply not been made yet so germany has paid 89000000000 dollars to jewish organizations since the end of the holocaust now that doesn't mean the holocaust didn't happen but those reparations have gone so far toward establishing reconciliation between germany and the jews of germany and the rest of europe i also think a lot of americans probably don't. that ronald reagan in 1988 signed a bill called

one of the most interesting cases when the ku klux klan decided they would intimidate me, this is great, that is one of the senate factors. i can't actually tell about i tell me toe klan leave town. the judge says that's hearsay evidence and cannot admit that, i said what? the clu was the attorney. is it in this courtroom to have years ago with the aclu, a klansman'so the right to march. i went and got the parade permit, and then i could testify . it's little things like that it takes a long time to learn. throughout the summer of 2012 for the south carolina voter id case, i wrote a report. the department of justice cited my report. south carolina came here to d.c. with a three-judge panel including now supreme court justice judge kavanaugh. fact it was, in interesting, as part of different senate factors, there had been a big debate on a license plate that said "coon hunting." you can make what you want of that, but the african-american community objected and the governor at the time, mark sanford, who like to hike the appalachian trail actually vetoed it because he saw the implication

john who had voted against every civil rights bill that came through congress, and of the ku n a member klux klanhe had some other dark parts of his past. father, who had been the commander of an all black unit in world war ii unamerican. brian lamb: where is he from? david maraniss: he's from northern georgia. then p on a farm, and became a lawyer in canton, eorgia, and was, briefly, worked the north georgia circuit a lawyer, and was then got elected to congress from that congressional district up there. brian lamb: you highlight a fellow named tavener? david maraniss: frank was really an interesting guy. committee counsel for the house unamerican activities 1952.tee in he had been on the counsel when r during the period the more famous investigation of hollywood was conducted. e came from woodstock, virginia, out in the shenandoah valley. product of the bird machine out there, and, after world war ii, he served as the acting general ounsel for the u.s. mission at the tokyo war crimes tribunal. sort of trying the japanese who were responsible for the atrocities. brian lamb: what's interesting, w

the school failed to determine if he was in the photo of a man in blackface next to someone in a ku klux klan. democrat initially acknowledged he was in the picture when it surfaced in february and then he reversed course the next day, saying he was convinced he was not in the photo. 4's most patriotic positions is the boston pops fireworks spectacular on the banks of the charles river. for the third year in a row, bloomberg will host the event is a major sponsor and media partner. superstar queen latifah is the headliner this year. it will also feature arlo guthrie, and the 50th anniversary of woodstock. be sure to mark your calendars. alix steel, matt miller, janet wu will cohost. bloomberg tv, bloomberg radio, bloomberg.com, and boston globe.com. global news 24 hours a day on air and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. romaine: a bit of breaking news here. a brazilian cosmetics company best known for owning the body shop in the u.s. has agreed to by avon products. they say they have secured about 1.6 billio

activities committee and was called un-american by a southern congressman who has been a member of the ku klux klan and involved in a lynching. >> and you uncovered that in your research for this book? >> there was a wonderful friend and journalist who wrote a book about the case, and in that, there's one paragraph about a man who drove the car that carried the lynched body. it was the future chairman of the house un-american activities committee and i did a lot more research on that. >> you went to the archives and found the statement your father had written about how he felt as a patriot trying to deliver that statement. he was not permitted to. so you had never seen it before. >> that was the most powerful moment of my research. 63 years after he appeared before the committee, he wanted to deliver a three-page statement on what he felt it meant to be an american. the chairman said you can't deliver it unless you're contrite and name names which he refused to do. and i found it. it's a powerful statement on the meaning of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. >> do you feel today given what

it shows a m in black face next to a man in ku klux klan clothing.ozed for the photo and denied being in it leading many to call for his signation. the school investigated. julie kerry will be there and we'll have coverage on news 4 starting at 4:00. >>> also today, metro officials will hold a news conference about the shutdown that's about to begin. starting saturday, six stations serving the blue and yellow lines southr of an national will close for the entire summer. we'll bring you all of the updates in the nbc washington app. you can find out about the metro center. >>> chuck bell has your forecast. ay a far cry from yeste which was a record high minimum temperature for the day. 73 changing climate means the cool mornings of may are getting less and less frequent. right now sun out. gorgeous way to get your wednesday going. in the 40s across the shenandoah valley. 50 degrees in district heights. 49 in gaithersburg and germantown. 46 up in falling waters, west virginia. your forecast for today. bright sunshine. pretty much all day long. there wil

the photo shows ain man black face next to a man in ku klux klan and appeared in e medical school yearbook in 1984. it brought calls for his resignation. northam first apologized, then denied being in it. the school authorized an independent investigation to find out what happened. the results of that ti investiga are being revealed tomorrow morning at the school in norfolk. wirthern virginia bureau chief julie carey be there and we'll have coverage here on news 4. >>> he played on some ofhe most vulnerable in our community. now he will spend the rest of his life in prison for assaulting two senior citizens. it also marks the first of its kind in maryland in terms of identifying the attacker. news 4 pat collins reports. >> reporter: sentenced to life for rapping two senior citizens in their germantown home. both of the women now deceased, but the granddaughter of one the victims talked today.sh asked not to be identified. >> it helped us know that our ermmunity is sa and no one else will have tgo through this experience at the hands of this man. >> alexander targeted senior women. one vict

it shows a man in black face next to a man in ku klux klan koegting. it was in the university of virginia medical school 1980 year back. it brought calls foram north resignation. first he apologized for the photo, then he came back and denied being in. the school authorized an independent investigation to find out what happened and the results of that investigation are being revealed tomorrow iorning. julie carey is gong to be there and we will have coverage right here on news 4 at 4:00.an >>> a m injured during the white supremacist rally from charlottesville is n suing several white nationalist groups connected with those evebis. g burke was injured by the car that plowed through a crowdli kil heather heyer two years ago. he is suing the driver, james fields, along with several other white nationalist leaders.he burke says came to charlottesville to incite violence. >>> washington catholic have a new leader. wi wilton dis gregory. predecessor resigned late last year following a summer scandal. gregory addressinghe church crisis in his first homily as

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a nation that believes there's a moral equivalence between white supremacists, neo-nazis, and ku klux klan, and those with the courage to stand against them? we don't, but trump does. >> the clarion call coming after president trump's recent proposal thursday, a, quote, merit-based system, centering on the kind of civics test that legal immigrants take to become full citizens, but the president wants it at the top before admission, fitting in with his racist adjacent fetish for the right kind of immigrant. and doing away with the family-based system that got his current wife's parents into the country. the business community is already pushing back, citing the plan's potential to keep skilled additive immigrants out of the country and the democrats in congress are countering that it does nothing for the so-called dreamers, many of whom have known no other home than the united states, nor does it shore up the uncertainty felt by the nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants already here. and then there's the internal republican fight over the president's immigration strategy. as we learned

nation that believes there's a moral equivalence between right supremacists, neo-nazis and the ku klux kland against them. trump said there's a moral equivalent. do we believe that ripping children from their arms parent the border? we don't but trump does. do we believe in talking to tyrants like putin and kim jong-un? we don't. but trump does. >> paula hancocks join us from seoul, south korea. what might this signal where north korea stands with president trump? >> reporter: north korea is thin-skinned when it comes to criticism. u.s. officials, have been slammed by state-run media. kcna. they've been called particular words. john bolton, the national security adviser, has been called human scum in the past by the north koreans. this occasion is not a surprise. the fact that joe biden did call kim jong-un, both a dictator and a tyrant, was always going to anger the north koreans. they call him a fool of low i.q., reckless and senseless. one thing you can note, is some of the insults that kcna is calling biden, is similar to what the u.s. president donald trump has been using. full of low

the chairman -- congressman from north georgia who after world war i had briefly joipped the ku klux klannd in another incident that i only came across during the research, although there's a wonderful book about the lynching of leo frank but my friend steve oney. leo frank was a atlanta industrialist and ran a pencil factory and was accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in his pencil factory. accounts a l record frame-up and waups innocent but convicted and then the governor of georgia after a lot of pressure, a lot of coverage of it in "the new york times" and elsewhere -- this was 1913. he commuted the death sentence and the people of marietta, georgia, took it upon themselves to break him out of prison and then lynch him. the leader of that effort was a local judge named nute morris. and his chief disciple who drove the car that carried leo francs' lynched body after the lynching was john stephens wood, the future chairman of the house un-american activities community. brian: your parents lived for how long? david: my father lived to age 86 and lived to 2004 and my mother lived to a

he was one of the original founding members of the ku klux klan. why does he do this for elias polk? it is the kinship ties. doing the research, i realized everyone in the south is related. somehow, everyone is related. john calvin brown is married to elizabeth childers brown, the needs of sarah polk. they knew each other. elias left the state senate to -- senate working for them in the late when he is appointed to 1870's the same position in the u.s. congress, he is doing the same job for the house of representatives. he gets to say i was appointed to congress. as a janitor, but all of these democrats in washington get to pull them out and say, we are not so bad in the south. we are not as racist as you thought we were. we have a black guy. in reality, he will be brought out by the democrats to push the narrative they want. he's going to give it to them because they're the ones who are paying. he would lose his position at the capitol building in 1881 when the republican party retook the house of representatives. he returns home to tennessee and m

birch bayh, a white man from a state that was once the epicenter of the ku klux klan, fought discrimination in the halls of congress with every fiber of his being. [applause] ideally the greatness of america is found in its resilience and redemptive soul. and birch bayh was a redeemer. he voted for the landmark civil rights act of 1964. he supported the protection african-american suggest when needed and he voted for the voting rights act of 1965 which help secure access to the ballot box. [applause] he was the last living senator to cast a vote of the civil rights act, and one of his passing represents one less tied to this achievement, it also reminds us how far we've come and how much we all must continue to keep up the fight for equality. for indiana's african-american community, birch bayh was a loyal and dedicated friend. he was not only a strong voice for our right, but it also at a time when this was unheard of he helped elevate african-american hoosiers to positions of power on his personal and committee staffs. and throughout the federal government insuring we wouldn't remain on t

we a nation that believes there is a moral equivalence between white supremacist, neonazis and ku klux klanose with the courage to stand against them. no when we don't. but trump does. trump said there is a moral equivalence. are we a nation who believes ripping children from the arms of their parents at the border? no, we don't but trump does. are we a nation that embraces dictators and tyrants like putin and kim jong un? we don't but trump does. look. every day we are reminded about this -- this election about we have to be remembered about who we are what we are standing for what we believe. and every day we are reminded there is nothing guaranteed about our democracy. >> biden is hoping to turn his birth state of pennsylvania blue. it's such a priority he has picked philadelphia as home base for his campaign. who is most likely to clinch the democratic nomination? according to cnn politics senior writer and analyst harrienten all you have to do is look into the past. harry, history suggests who as the democratic nominee. >> i mean the most cli nominee at this point is joe biden because

being called unamerican by chairman of the committee who had in earlier life been a member of the ku klux klan juxtaposition, what does it mean to be american is relevant today as it was in the 1950s. i don't write about today in the book but the it's there throughout. >> brennan: what specifically, these dates you hear the term socialism thrown about it doesn't have the same resonance clearly as during this heated moment in time. but it still has a stigma attached to it. >> well, it has a stigma attached to it by people who want to have a stigma attached to it. you can talk to people 35 and under, it's a completely different definition and feeling about socialism. i would say, the stronger is not about socialism but use of fear. as manipulative tool in the political process which is what joseph mccarthy the senator used during the 1950s in which the president has demonized others, tremendousing the truth in fact, only for political purposes. >> brennan: did you feel like you were writing a commentary on today? you're drawing these parallels. this is a different time. this throat filled immedi

sharpe is quoted calling cory a [ bleep ] white boy and telling audiences he takes money from the ku klux klan actually jewish. >> went to stanford and he's jewish. >> how powerful was that? you end up losing most black awards in that race. the margin of difference? >> we actually won a lot of black neighborhoods. we lost that election by a handful of points. a really close fight. i'm really proud of probably one of the greatest experiences of my life and hate to say how it ended, but when newarkers saw me go right back to work in community organizing, staying there, by the time a year out from the election polling 25 points ahead of any opposition, because newark is a community that wants to know you're for real. rile the central ward, supported knee significant ways knew who i was, i was running a city-wide election from a ward. came up short and won the biggest land skype in newark history and ultimately beat the machine, right now in polling, i always point out to people these really are marathons. it's a cliche. we're at like mile marker three. having said that, if you look at polling, vi

ralph north am is in a 1984 yearbook photo in a man in blackface, standing next to someone in a ku klux klan hood but investigators say they found no evidence the photo was placed there by mistake or was a prank. >>> and tuft's university researchers compared diet data with cancer cases in 2015. diet-related factors may have accounted for more than 80,000 new cancer cases with colorectal cancer having the highest proportion low grain intake was the biggest culprit. >>> you are up to date that's the news update this hour kelly, back to you. >> sue, thank you very much. >>> here's what's still coming up today on "the exchange" -- >>> ahead, wall street piling on tesla. >>> baby boomers are not downsizing >>>th t >>> and thbie ebs wants you to smell just like him. the flexible class schedules allowed me to go to work full time, run my catering business and be a mom and parent. when i reached this accomplishment, it was like, it's here, it's happening, it's now. we at southern new hampshire university are the ones who succeed. we are the ones who break through. let's catch you up on a few storie

investigation into virginia governor ralph northam yearbook photo a man in blackface and another in a ku klux klanthe inquiry determined while the photo, the featured photo was not placed accidentally no one could identify the pictures or who placed it there or picture at all. what the investigation did manage to discover was the school had been aware of the picture as early as 2013, while northam was running for lieutenant governor, but chose not disclose it to avoid influencing the political process. now northam maintains he's not in the photo but apologizes for any pain and confusion his attempt to explain it may have caused. the governor says he's not going to resign. he's been saying that since the scandal broke in february. instead he wants to focus on issues of race and inequality while he finishes the two years left of his term. >> how did the team feel this was an inconclusive investigation and what happens next? >> leading up to this, i spoke to people next to the governor, saying the investigation would exonerate him. this doesn't answer many questions. but he stays on the job as do the

after doing episodes of the ku klux klan, and bear in alaska, you get to go to hawaii this time.xperience paradise. you know, be like bourdain. mother [ bleep ]. my next stop is the big island of hawaii, to check out a historic fish bond at the national park. by the 1970s the land had fallen into disrepair and was targeted by developers. that's when native hawaiian activists stepped in. their protests not only helped restore it, but turned it into a national park. another example of hawaiians showing the world that good can triumph over evil. today that spirit lives on with ruth alua. she's a guardian of the park's historic fish bond and she works with the federal government to continue its restoration. >> so this fish pond is hundreds of years old. it's always been used to produce fish. so we can just literally jump down and hand pick the fish you would want from the fish bond. >> so this is a way for people to sustainably fish, and it doesn't require a lot of unnatural energy or resources? >> yes, yeah. that's exactly it. >> here's how this fish pond works. ruth's ancestors bui

arthel: hundreds of thousands of dollars spent to police a ku klux klan rally in ohio.this weekend, thatnded up only attracting nine supporters. as many as 600 counter protesters showed up to the event in dayton. the city spent $650,000 for security. streets are blocked off with large trucks and police officers from neighboring towns brought in to help card control. no arrests were made. no one was injured. >> i walked into the room and i told senator schumer, speaker pelosi, i want to do infrastructure. but you know what? you can't do it under the circumstances so get these phony investigations over with. mike: that is president trump giving house democrats in ultimatum. refusing to work with legislation unless they drop all investigations into his administration. house speaker nancy pelosi saying her caucus will continue to work on infrastructure bill despite the stalemate. meanwhile both house and senate continue to pass bills that seemingly go nowhere. of the 420 bills in the house or senate has passed so far this year, only 18 have been signed into law. let's bring retired army colo

a nation that believes there's a moral equivalence between right supremacists, neo nazis, the ku klux klan and those with courage to stand against them, no, we don't. but trump does. trump said there's a moral equivalence. are we a nation that believes ripping children of the arms of the parents at the border, no. we don't, but trump does. are we a nation that embraces dictators and tyrants like putin and kim jong un? we don't but trump does. look, every day we are reminded in this election about we have to be remembered who we are, what we stand for, what we believe and every day we are reminded there's nothing guarantied about our democracy. we have to fight for it. we have to defend it. we have to earn it, we have to earn it. [cheers and applause] >> we stand here today, only 140 miles from gettysburg, perhaps the most important symbol of nation's history and in gettysburg address lincoln not only honored but had message for the living, it is for us to be dedicated, government of, by and for the people shall not perish from the earth. [cheers and applause] >> folks, that set the challen