and that is the second ku klux klan. you remember the first ku klux klan was right after the civil war? well, this was the second one, and in some ways it was the same and in some ways it was very different from the first one. it actually was a rather small -- it didn't amount to much until it was taken over by two professional fundraisers, edward clark and elizabeth tyler. and by the way, they made their money, they saw an opportunity here by selling sheets, sheets in children's sizes, in adult sizes, and the second kkk actually had 5 million card-carrying members. 5 million. this was not a fringe organization. and it was very powerful in the midwest. indiana was the leading klan state with 350,000 members. their targets like the first klan, african-americans. but mostly catholics and jews, but they also went after bootleggers. remember this was during prohibition. and also there was a kind of auxiliary that was very powerful, and that was the wkkk, the women's ku klux klan. there were no women in the first ku klux klan.

of, the lady called earlier and said the clue clucks clan exists but the black panthers -- ku klux klan which was a response to the black panthers -- the black panthers which was a response to the ku klux klan. the ku klux klan has been hanging people for years. whiteesident and all the fox news host say they are mentally ill. if it was black people killing a , two blacke people policeman shot an unarmed white guy and reloaded, it does not happen. host: we will go to mary in virginia on the democrats line. caller: i support [indiscernible] host: why so? caller: umm. is willing toide it soundsat issue -- like [indiscernible] let's go for it. host: what do you think about the red flag law will change the current situation when it comes mass shootings -- comes to mass shootings? caller: i think a lot of things have been overlooked or not and maybe if you get some emphasis on trying and how .o look for these things host: from burke, a gun owner in , on the republican line. caller: when i was listening to it'speech he made a point the people that are mentally ill who are hate filled and pull

the ku klux klan became the arm of the democratic party. and there were even massacres that occurred, not just stopping voting rights but massacres that occurred with deaths because of the behavior of the ku klux klan and you might think the vote is sacred, isn't it?this is before we had thesecret ballot . that happens more in the 1890s and a lot of blacks were threatened by employers sometimes. you had to come in with, they could see your ballot. if you vote republican, you're fired but there was all sorts of pressure. even with all thatpressure, we had 23 congressmen, all republicans . the question is and yes, you've seen how franklin roosevelt is a politically shrewd person and he looks at this and he not only notices, not only is every black republican but the first woman to be elected to congress, republican. the first hispanic in theu.s. senate, republican . when roosevelt sees hoover, hoovers vicepresident was an indian . senator from kansas, ran then as hoovers vice president so you have a native american as a vice president, and you

take a look at the klan, the ku ku klux klan. after the war, we saw a rise in the plan. it was beaten down only to rise again in the 1920's. in august of 1925, 30,000 fully clad klansman in their robes and pointed hats marched down pennsylvania avenue in the streets of washington. imagine. imagine that today. and then the klan was once again beaten back, as it was after the civil war. how? the courts, the press, and yes, the president stood against them. and that is the point. our institutions often imperfectly stood against hate at moments when we were most tested. american presidents have stepped up in the past. george h.w. bush renouncing his membership in the nra. president clinton after oklahoma city. george w. bush going to a mosque after 9/11. president obama after charleston. presidents who led, who opposed, chose to fight for what the best of american character is about. there's deafening silence now. sadly, we don't have that today. our president has aligned himself with the darkest forces in this nation. and it makes winning this battle for the soul of our nat

the ku klux klan was invented december 18 65. there were eight massacres a major between 1866 and 1876 the starting in memphis. starting in hamburg but this was not an untroubled period. the ku klux klan hearings and it's come to a truth and reconciliation, the grants sent troops to suppress the ku klux klan and all these people had been victimized by the? because it been trying to vote. women were raped, black men were lynched, they were beaten, threatened and bribed or they were offered a i keep them from voting because they had so much power. i think that the manifestation and 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 either. but the north was complicit as of the rollback of reconstruction. certainly you can see signs of 1872, 1873 is called the panic now, the panic of 1873 until the great depression starting in 1929 it was called the great depression and they look around saying do we really need to protect these

from alabama who was a member of the ku klux klan. and who had his campaign for senate, not his campaign manager but chief advisor was a leader of the ku klux klan in alabama. so that was roosevelt's first appointment. the question, can someone without record when the black vote. roosevelt wanted to give it a try. what roosevelt did, he looked at the one republican congressman, oscar the priest who all the enough was from chicago and i so the first 23 black members of congress were republicans, they all had come and gone and there was one in office with roosevelt became president and that was a priest from chicago. he says let's get 70 to run against the priest. so they cannot find anybody really so they went to another republican in chicago and got him to change his registration and said they would back him. so arthur mitchell was going to run against the priest. then we have the funding of mitchell. it often went through black churches in the area to priest district and he became an advocate for african american rights in the cafeter

i said the 13th was ratified, in 1865, the ku klux klan was invented in december 1865. there were eight massacres major between 1866 and 1876. starting in memphis. in hamburg south carolina in 1876. this was not an in trouble.. the ku klux klan hearings and all these volumes, are online up. you can read them. that is the closest we have come in this country to a truth and reconciliation commission. grant sent troops to suppress the ku klux klan. and they all these people had been victimized, by them, because they've been trying to vote. women were , black men were lynched, they were beaten. they were threatened. they were even bribed. or there were offers of bribes to keep them from voting. because they had so much power. i think that the manifestation, the expression of that power not only scared the daylights out of the south, i don't think the north was ready for all of that black power. the north was complicit us with the rollback reconstruction. certainly you can see signs by 1872, 1873 is the first great depression called the panic,, the panic of 1873. until the gr

. >> i for one under god will die before i will yield one inch. >> for years, the all powerful ku klux klan charge. >> threats. beatings. rapings. and of course, murder.rapings. and of course, murder. ♪ we shall overcome >> then came the civil rights movement. a crushing blow to the klan. >> free at last. free at last. thank god almighty, we are free at last. >> in its wake, klan membership declined. white supremacists were divided. more powerful than fact. s. >> it was the tale of earl turner, a soldier in a white rebellion. >> we are in a war to the death with the jew. >> against the evil jewish controlled american government. turner bombs fbi headquarters and other targets. joining an elite terrorist group called the order. the group kills millions of blacks, jews and their allies on the road to victory. >> spoiler alert, the book ends welfare reform turn -- ends with turn e turner flying a mega bomb into the pentago >> pierce's race war fantasy struck a cord. >> so many requests, they started to stock it. >> selling half a million copies. >> it's to this point the most influential piece

his cause unfire. >> i will die for god before i yield one inch. >> for years the all-powerful ku klux klanad led the charge. >> threats. beatings. rapings. and of course murder. >>. ♪ we shall overcome ♪ ♪ >> then the civil rights movement. a crushing blow to the klan. >>-free at last. free at last. thank good are god all mighty we are free at laft. >> in its wake. klan membership declined. and white supremacists were divided. among competing ideologies. pierce wrote the turner diaries hoping to unite the movement hipped a story. >> he knew that nick shup would be more powerful than facts. >> it was the sale offer earl turner. >> we are in a war to the death against the jew. >> against the evil jewish controlled american government. turner bombs fbi headquarters and other targets. joining an elite terrorist group called the order. the group kills millions of blacks, jews and allies on the road to victory. >> spoiler alert, the book ends with turner flying a megaton bomb into the pentagon. >> pierces race war fantasy struck a chord. >> they got so many requests for the self-published paper

it's because the klan, the ku klux klan in that part of alabama wanted to show their strength. they wanted to show what they were capable of and one of the attackers, one of the klan members who took part in that murder, he would explain later in court that he and his coconspirators were specifically hoping that this murder would not just generically terrify african-americans in mobile, alabama, they were hoping it would specifically intimidate african-americans into not participating on juries. they wanted black americans in alabama to be too afraid to show up at the courthouse and sit for jury duty. they wanted all-white juries in alabama. they thought that killing 19-year-old michael donald would be a good way to terrorize the black community in alabama into achieving that or at least getting them part of the way there. one of the klansmen who confessed to that murder, who confessed to why they did it, who actually expressed remorse in court. he told michael donald's mother eye-to-eye in that courtroom, "god knows if i could trade places with him, i would." he tearfully expre

in podunkgangs here ,irginia and central virginia crips, bloods, the arian race, the ku klux klan and if these guys get a gun, it will be a massacre. host: what do you take from those calls? guest: a couple different things. about comparing this to gangs, i think one of the things i would emphasize is that we see a lot of similarities, both across isis and gang engagement of young right ind the far terms of a desire to belong and being a part of something bigger and better for the -- bigger and better than themselves and that the changes going to help them enact a sense of purpose. also resist and express their anger and resentment at things that are not going right in their lives. i think you are right that when you layer that on to gun laws, you have a recipe for potential disaster, especially when you are talking about young people who may be more impulsive. host: we talked about organization of white supremacy groups. is?you explain what 8chan guest: it is a number of wet -- web platforms that are not monitored essentially or allow unmonitored and any kind of comments to be posted

and the third -- the third enforcement act was called the ku klux klan act. it's the first anti-terrorism legislation in the country. it allows the president to suspend habeas corpus throughout the south. it was so dramatic because they were at their wit's ends about what to do about white supremacist terroristic violence and to the grant administration, the grant administration under the aegus under the newly created department of justice one year earlier, they did something they hadn't done before. they start going to the south and start prosecuting federal crimes against the klan. the white terrorists of the south were burning and looting and intimidating and they start prosecuting them in federal court and the reason they do that is because local courts won't arrest them, won't prosecute them and local white juries will not convict them and two things happened. one is they won that battle. they stamped out the klan for a few decades, and the second is they lost the war because the enforcement of anti-terrorism laws against white supremacists in the south

we have been here before with the ku klux klan after the civil war.n here when 3000 klansmen in 1925 walked down the streets of pennsylvania avenue wearing full, d.c. garb and when there were over 30 members of the house who were declared klan members. in fact, there were six or seven senators who were open klan members. but ladies and gentlemen, we fought back because we had people that decided that is not who we are. this has been a constant battle with us. the reason i am telling you this is it is not that we can't over come it. we can overcome it, and we must. when you saw those people walking out in charlottesville, their contorted faces, anger, chanting anti-semitic bile, the nazi flags, accompanied by white supremacists as well as ku klux klan. the fact was that what happened then was david duke talked about the president of the united states in terms of this is what we want to him to do. he said he would return us to where he wanted us to be. we found the president who said at the time when asked when that young woman was killed and he said wh

if we focus on electoral success, it is pretty easy to dismiss the influence of the ku klux klan on the politics of the 1920's. that is what historians have tended to do. they are very good at drawing a lot of attention to themselves. they are generally very, very candidateting a klan to be elected to office. they have successes, sporadically, generally in local strongholds. indiana, of course, one of the most notorious strongholds, as i mentioned. some relative success in electing local officials and state officials but very rare at the federal level. what my current research focuses on is the fact that electoral success is not really the key to understanding the klan's influence on federal politics. the key to understanding the involvement in federal politics is understanding the ways in functioned as a political lobbying movement. isthink about what the klan doing on a yacht on the potomac filled with senators and chorus girls. real situation. the klan isthat tremendously impactful in isping legislation that directly relevant to klan interest. it is there that they will help prohibit

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glad were having a conversation that takes us back to the nation's founding and activities of the ku klux klan. >> why don't you get us started . >> thank you for the introduction and thank you katie for organizing this amazing conference. but my research addresses a perennial theme >> cultural historian strong on the inside of colleagues of special sciences describe violence as a language, it's a way of communicating when other forms of communication breakdown . one petition and protest failed to achieve the desired change, this course can devolve into violence. these historians pay pains to demonstrate the specific acts of violence have historically contingent meetings , and other words the vocabulary of violence changes over time. by, the correlation between political revolution and political violence often appears to be trans historical. violence is the common denominator of revolutions. but, what about the american revolution. unlike the french, haitian, mexican, russian, chinese, countless other political revolutions, america's revolution seems state and restrained, although hardly nonvi

period, are there any things we can learn about how possibly how to address this >> well, the ku klux klan act is still the major legal instrument being used in some of the things -- like, for instance, i think the kessler versus harris suit coming out of charlottesville is using the klu klux klan act as its main. i'm not a lawyer, so people can jump in with specifics. that's where we get a lot of legal precedent upon things like you can't be in a conspiracy to deprive someone of rights and things like that. so that is still the legal foundation we're using in a lot of criminal prosecution. >> i'm afraid my question may be much like the last two, but i'm going to give it to you anyway. >> sure. >> you started with truth and reconciliation process that you were very interested in that. that's what drew you to this. there are obviously some things that we might take in law or otherwise to i will say affirmatively stop this kind of activity that you were talking about, but i guess frankly i'm more interested in a certain way in the constructive aspects of developing a dialogue over the kind o

now, if we focus on electoral success, it's pretty easy to dismiss the influence of the ku klux klan on the politics of the 1920s, which is what historians have generally tended to do. they are very, very good at drawing a lot of attention to themselves, they are generally very, very bad at actually getting a klan candidate or a candidate tagged as affiliated with the klan to be elected to office. they have successes sporadically generally in local strong holds, indiana, of course, one of the most notorious strong holds of klan power, as i mentioned, and, therefore, some relative success in electing local officials and state officials, but very rare at the federal level. what my current research focuses on is the fact that that electoral success isn't really the key to understanding the klan's influence on federal politics. the key to understanding the klan's involvement with federal politics in the '20s is understanding the ways in which the klan functioned as a political lobbying movement. not to think about what the klan is doing at the ballot box, but to think about what the klan

at richard spencer david duke's twitter accounts right david duke being the grand wizard of the ku klux klan why are their twitter accounts online still that is a very good and profound question of which there is not a clear answer from twitter and their policy team that's something i would love to know the answer to why do those accounts stay up in other accounts are taken down. i think it's important to also highlight as well. again why is it mean to self identify as a white nationalists and to say something on a more mainstream platform for example i do believe buzz feed reported this that they facebook was going to take down white nationals or white supremacy groups facebook groups but some of those groups still stand i believe that was from an article from a couple of things to go to a year ago but these are deeper questions to actually and i do think perhaps we should come back and focus maybe on something like a channel full time we're running out of a time had no policy was definitely a but as of this issue with you in the near future things to brian. brian broderick and thank you 2

we've been through this before in the '20s with the ku klux klan people walking down pennsylvania avenue in their hats and robes because they didn't want catholics coming into the country. we went through it after the civil war in terms of the ku klux klan and white supremacy. this is about separating people into good and bad in his mind. it's about making access to power. it's a trait used by charlottesville all over the world, divide people. divide them. put them against one another. >> if that's the case, it's a very dangerous game he's playing. >> no, no, no question it's a dangerous game. there is no question that his rhetoric contributed to at a minimum at a minimum of dumbing down the way in which we as a society talk about one another. the way we have always been -- look, we've always brought the country together. we've never -- you know, we the people, we hold these true self-evident. he flies in the face of basic things we never abandoned before. he looks like he flat abandoned the theory that we are one people. >> in terms of the actual things he talked about today, in terms o

we went through this before in the '20s with the ku klux klan and 50,000 people walking down pennsylvaniae in their hats and robes because they didn't want catholics coming into the country and we went there it after the civil war in terms of the ku klux klan and white supremacy. this is about separating people and the good and bad in his mind. it is about making -- it is about an access to power. it is a trait used by charltons all over the world, divide people and pit them against one another. >> if that is the case, it is a very dangerous game that he's playing? >> oh, no, there is no question it is a dangerous game. there is no question that his rhetoric has contributed to at a minimum -- at a minimum of dumbing down the way in which we as a society talk about one another. the way we -- we've always -- look, we've always brought the country together. we've never -- we the people. we hold these truths self evident. he flies in the face of all of the basic things that we've never really met the standard, we've never abandoned it before. he looks like he's just flat abandoned the theory

take a look at the klan, ku klux klan. after the civil war we saw a rise in the klan.t was beaten down only to rise up again in the '20s. in fact, in august of 1925, 30,000 fully clad klansman watched down pennsylvania avenue, the streets of washington. imagine, imagine that today. and then the klan was once again beaten back as it was after the civil war. how? the courts, the press, and, yes, presidents stood against them. and that is the point. our institutions often imperfectly stood against hate at moments when we were most tested. american presidents have stepped up in the past. george h.w. bush renouncing his membership in the nra. president clinton after oklahoma city, george w. bush going to a mosque after 9/11, president obama after charleston. presidents who led, who opposed chose to fight for what the best of american character is about. there's deafening silence now. sadly, we don't have that today. our president has aligned himself with the darkest forces in this nation. and it makes winning this battle for the soul of our nation that much tougher, harder.

we went through it after the civil war in terms of the ku klux klan and white supremacy. this is about separating people and the good and bad in his mind. it's about making -- it's about an access to power. it's a trait used by shar letons all over the world. >> if that's the case, it's a dangerous game he's playing. >> there's no question it's a dangerous game. there's no question his rhetoric has contributed to, at a minimum, of dumbing down the way in which we as a society talk about one another, the way -- look, we have always brought the country together. we've never, you know, we the people, we hold these truths self-evident, he flies in the face of things, we have never met the standard. he looks like he just flat abandoned the theory that we are one people. >> in terms of the actual things he talked about today, in terms of action, early in the morning, he had tweeted about the idea of linking background checks or stronger background checks with immigration reform, he -- he never mentioned it after tweeting about it, i guess. >> there's an example, why don't we ha

sides, i said then that it gave license in safe harbor to white supremacists and neo-nazis, to the ku klux klan. these words not only stunned america, but they stunned the world. and in doing so he has signed a moral equivalence between those spewing hatred and those with the courage to stand against it. i said at the time that we are in the battle for the soul of the nation. i said it again when i announced my candidacy. and i say it here today. we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. that's why, primarily, i'm running for president. [applause] charlottesville was no isolated incident. when trump announced he was running for president, he called mexicans rapists. days before the midterm he fomented fears of a caravan headed to the united states and created hysteria when he said -- look, look at what's marching up , this is an invasion, and invasion. an invasion. he asserted that immigrants would carve you up with a knife. more recently he called a major american center city a disgusting wrath infected rodent .ass no human being, he said, would to live -- as though the vibrant and diver

we went through it after the civil war and in terms of the ku klux klan and white supremacy.ople and the good and bad in his mind. it is about making -- an access to power. it is a trait used by charltons all over the world to divide people and pit them against one another. >> if that is the case, it is a very dangerous game than -- that he's playing. >> oh, no, there is no question it is a dangerous game. there is no question that his rhetoric has contributed to at a minimum -- at a minimum of dumbing down the way in which we as a society talk about one another, the way -- we've always been -- look, we've always brought the country together. we've never -- we the people. we hold these truths self evident. he flies in the face of all of the basic things we've never med the standard and never abandoned before. he looks like he just flat abandoned the theory that we are one people. >> and you could watch the rest of anderson's interview with the former vice president tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. what some lawmakers are blaming for the mass shooting is causing divis

white there has always been a white supremacist element to the united states and the ku klux klan andast three years? i think what is different is a lot of these attackers are very young and we did not see that as much in the ku klux klan and that is a much more hierarchical organisation for this is much more diffuse where there is no actual leadership but a seething resentment towards immigrants that is floating around on the intranet and being consumed and disseminated by young white males.” and being consumed and disseminated by young white males. i don't know if you heard what the president had to say today. if you did, what did you make of his remarks? he talked about mental illness is a problem, social media and the glorification of violence and so on but he also talked about his anger with white supremacists and hate and bigotry. yeah, there are a lot of causes about why people commit these attacks. i think it's important to focus on what works and we should increase the mental health treatment and funding for it in the united states but i think if we are serious and if the pre

at richard spencer david duke's twitter accounts right david duke being the grand wizard of the ku klux klan why are their twitter accounts online still that is a very good and profound question of which there is not a clear answer from twitter and their policy team that's something i would love to know the answer to why do those accounts take up another accounts are taken down. i think it's important to also highlight as well. again why is it mean to self identify as a white nationalist and to say something on a more mainstream platform for example i do believe buzz feed reported this that they facebook is going to take down white nationals or white supremacy groups facebook groups but some of those groups still stand i believe that was from an article from a couple of things to go 2 year ago but these are deeper questions to actually and i do think perhaps we should come back and focus maybe on something like a channel full time we're running out of a time had no policy was definitely but as of this issue with you in the near future thanks to brian who's caroline's and brian broaddrick and

. >> reporter: biden, the democratic party front-runner, noted that white nationalists and ku klux klanders had celebrated mr. trump's 2016 election. >> our president has more in common with george wallace than he does with george washington. trump is trying to weaken our institutions-- the press, the courts, the congress-- precisely because they are the only checks on his power. that's what this is all about, the abuse of power. >> reporter: as biden spoke, the aesident tweeted from air force one calling biden's speech "so boring." told later about the tweet, biden replied: >> he should get a life. >> o'donnell: ed o'keefe joins us. so what caused biden to speak out like this today? or reporter: well, norah, cbs news has learned biden was outraged and furious by the agootings and the president's response and began writing the aneech over the weekend. po also spoke with the trump campaign, which pointed out the president's response included denouncing white supremacy. ene other note-- trump aides r ned the pittsburgh synagogue shooter had posted anti-trump messages on the internet. nora

at richard spencer david duke's twitter accounts right david duke being a grand wizard of the ku klux klan why are their twitter accounts online still that is a very good and profound question of which there is not a clear answer from twitter and their policy team that's something i would love to know the answer to why did those accounts stay up another accounts are taken down. i think it's important to also highlight as well. again why is it mean to self identify as a white nationalist and to say something on a more mainstream platform for example i do believe buzz feed reported this that they facebook was going to take down white nationals or white supremacy groups facebook groups but some of those groups still stand i believe that was from an article from a couple of things to go to a year ago but these are deeper questions to actually and i do think perhaps we should come back and focus maybe on something like a channel full time we're running out of a time had no policy was definitely a but as of this issue with you in the near future thanks to brian who's caroline's and brian broderi

the progressives and the ku klux klan which were married the hip wanted redistribution of wealth and the federal government said wait a minute, 89% of our revenue comes from the production of sales distribution and purchasing of alcohol, what will we do? they said income tax. but let's take all the money from the middle class. my point is it needs to be with sales tax. if you are a poor person paying sales tax at the register, at the end of the year they make a system where if you make a certain amount, you get it back in rebate. will person who is rich pay a lot more taxes in sales taxes because they are buying more. they're making transactions on wall street. the people that are rich don't pay income tax, why are we talking about it? they have a capital gains tax. host: thank you very much. guest: the caller brings up something that we are seeing a lot in european countries. moving away from corporate income taxes and individual income tax into a value added tax. this is a tax on every step of production. you have the widget and to add another widget, that's a tax. and he goes to t

how can you say white and black and then they -- you are going to say ku klux klan?hey are all over the world. we worry about other countries carrying guns, but we cannot do anything about our own. police are shooting people with no guns on them. host: to show you a story in light of the viewer's call, this is how does europe compared to the u.s. with gun ownership? gun ownership in the u.s. is three times more than europe's highest country. around 46% of the 857 million guns in civilian hands around the world along to people in the united states. the gun ownership among civilians at 84.6% dwarves state militaries and law enforcement's 2.2% stockpiles and that number has grown by more than 200 million cents 2006. more than -- euronews.com if you want to check that your self. nra putting out a statement. it reads, our dentist -- deepest sympathies to the victims of the tragedies and the entire communities of el paso and texas. we salute the courage of first responders and others. the nra is committed to the safe and lawful use of firearms. we will not participate in p

i told myself, i would be proud to go to jail with doctor king, nor would i be afraid of the ku klux klan. i pictured myself holding marcus is hand confronting a man in a white hood. younger students from different colleges would come and mentor the children. i didn't get to go to school until the library last term of high school. many things will happen in between here, some very sad, some exciting and one of the exciting things is i hooked up with a disability rights movement just starting a. some of you are nodding, through the board of education denied a license to teach because she used a wheelchair. it was amazing to discover how similar our experiences were once we started comparing notes. until then we considered them to be the problem. we believed we were supposed to cope as best we can. we realized the disability itself wasn't that big of a deal for us. we all learned to accept our physical limitations. what made life difficult wasn't the disability but the lack of services and support, the lack of accessibility and the stereotypical ways in which we were treated, dot pity the.

no stir president, after charlottesville there were not two sides when the other side was the ku klux klan and a white supremacist. out there ineen the small town, i have been really surprised. not just democrats but people have come up, regular people have come up to me and started talking about gun safety. i think it is very important that we have these conversations in places like iowa. across the who sat president after parkland. these proposals i think it any of them hurt my uncle in the deer stand? they do not. these are proposals that make sense. nine times he promised that he would get universal background checks done. the next day he met with the nra and he folded. president, i will not fold. when i make promises i keep them. won in the reddest of congressional districts. and i think it's important to have a candidate from the midwest right now. someone who doesn't just have a bunch of policies written on a piece of paper but someone who is looking out for rural america. i think that kids that grow up in rural america should be able to live in rural america. i think we need to bri

when the other side is the ku klux klan and the white supremacist, there is only one side, and that ishe american side. i have had so many iowans approach me about gun safety and doing something about background checks assault weapons bans, and magazines. i told them about the story when i sat across the president after parkland and advocated for gun safety. nine times he said he wanted universal background checks, than the next day he goes and meet with the n.r.a. and he folds. as your president, i will not fold. [applause] agenda for this country should unite moral and urban, and that is why i have been talking about the farm bill, but also childcare. we don't the issues. also about housing, education, has patrols making sure -- hospitals making sure we have, enough mental health beds when there are only 64 in iowa. that is unacceptable. . i will end the practice of privatizing medicaid. it is wrong in the state of iowa . it all starts here, this change, because you, iowa, you give us the granger movement, that took on the big monopolies. burlock, us norman bor who believed in scienc

when the other side is the ku klux klan. and white supremacists. there's only one side.nd that is the american spirit had so many iowans who approached me about gun safety, and doing something about background checks, and assault weapons ban and magazines. it has been unbelievable. and i told them all the story of when i sat across from the president after parkland, advocated for gun safety. nine times he said he wanted universal background checks. the next day, he goes and meets with the nra, and he folds. as your president, i will not fold. [cheering] an economic agenda for this country should unite rural and urban. that is why i have been out there talking about yes, the farm bill. but also childcare. we know the issues. also housing and education. and hospitals and making sure that we have enough mental health beds when they're only 64 in the state of iowa. that is not acceptable. and i will end this practice of privatizing medicaid. this is wrong in the state of iowa. it all starts here with this change. because you iowa gave us the because you go i will come at you

there are not when the other side is the ku klux klan and there are white supremacist.here is only one side and that is the american side. i have had so many islands approach me about gun safety and assault weapon bands and magazines that it has been unbelievable. i told them the story of when i sat across the president after parkland and advocated for gun safety. he said he wanted universal background checks and the next day, he goes and meets with the nra and folds. as your president, i will not fold. [applause] shouldconomic agenda unite rural and urban for this country. i have been talking about the farm bill but also childcare. we know the issues. and also about housing and education and hospitals and making sure we have enough mental health beds when there are only 64 in the state of iowa. that is not acceptable and i will end this practice of privatizing medicaid. this is wrong in the state of iowa. [cheers and applause] it all starts here, this change. you gave us the granger movement that took on the big monopolies. .ou gave us norman norman who believed in sci

anger, chanting anti-semitic bile, the nazi flags, accompanied by white supremacists as well as ku klux klanas what happened then was david duke talked about the president of the united states in terms of this is what we wanted him to do here he said he would return us to where he wanted us to be. we found the president who said at the time when asked when that young woman was killed and he said what no other president has said. he said there are very fine people on both sides. he did. this is a reality. ladies and gentlemen, donald trump offers no moral leadership. he has no interest in unifying the country. there's no evidence the presidency has awakened his conscience in any way. instead, he has publicly and unapologetically embraced the policies of hate, racism and division. ladies and gentlemen, it is up to all of us who have to do what our president can't, stand together, stand against hate and let's call it what it is. this is white nationalism. this is white supremacy. it is not only our values that are under assault, everything that makes america is under assault. look at the attack

kamala harris compared "ice" to the ku klux klan and marianne williamson said the ice raids are like nazis rounding up jews in the 1930s. >> yes. aoc said they set up concentration camps. so they must be nazis. we know what we are spaceed to do about nazis. -- supposed. but we are told by the left not to connect violence to political ret vick. -- rhetoric. when trump said invasion, they connected to the deaths in el paso. this was a targeted ambush. it was not a mass shooting. it comes on the wake of a lot of people are running for president who want to abolish i.c.e. or reform it. i.c.e. agents are persona non-gratta in most states. there is a de-personalization of these people who keep us secure. why are these attacks happening now? the answer is i.c.e. is starting to deport people with criminal records. we are not issuing green cards to people who will go on public assistance. mexico is helping out. some of the central american governments are feeling the heat and are worried about exporting human capital. we are about 25% down in crossings and up on apprehensions. that should be

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