cause in disarray. >> i for one will die before i yield one inch. >> for years, the all-powerful ku klux klanrge. >> threats, beatings, 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. and white supremacists were divided. >> white revolution! >> among competing ideologies. pierce wrote "the turner diaries" hoping to unite the movement behind a story. >> pierce knew fiction would be more powerful than facts. >> 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 with turner flying a megaton bomb into the pentagon. >> pierce's race war fantasy struck a chord. >> they got so many requests

and into the middle of it, drove nine carloads of ku klux klan's men and american nazis who yelled outial slurs. people chanted "death to the klan" and a shot was fired from the front of the caravan. people began to run toward the back of the caravan in fear of the shots. poured out klansmen of those cars and started beating people, slashing people with knives. and then from the end of the caravan, which is where the people were running towards, the men with the long guns, the high-priority rifles -- the -powered rifles, took their guns out and deliberately without any seeming fear or worry about being caught for murder, began shooting people down. five people were murdered, anduding my husband mike, 10 people were injured. the police were nowhere to be found. the 10thgh actually karnak caravan of klansmen and nazis was an unmarked police car oft contained the controller she leader of the klan and nazi who himself was an apartment f r ththe greensboro police and had been an informant and was communicating with the fbi. carpoliceman i in the last did nothing except his partner took pict

then we had the ku klux klan and the civil rights movement and reagan and all the backlash to that.we have been in these cycles forever. >> is a two steps forward and one step back. i go back and forth. how much do you feel like electing barack obama brought us donald trump? >> i feel very strongly that we are living in the backlash to barack obama just as we did the backlash to reconstruction seeing the black governors and senators and congressmen. like people were not having that. that's where you had the epidemic of lynchings and now we are living through something similar to that again and you know, if america. >> it is america. but we keep working on it. >> the beauty of america is the ideals. our model out of many, one. so we have that. we have the words, just like we have diversity. we have the words, but it is living up to it where we have always struggled and you know, the optimism is that people continue to struggle. even some of us who don't think that in the end we will see that kind of the quality that was articulated by people like reverend martin luther king, like wil

it's like no, we had reconstruction, then we had the ku klux klan and the black codes.ave the civil rights movement and then reagan and all the backlash to that. we have been in these cycles forever. >> is it two steps forward one step back or one step forward two steps back, i go back and forth. on my bad days. how much do you feel like electing barack obama brought us donald trump? >> i feel very strongly that we are living in a backlash to barack obama just as we did the backlash to reconstruction. seeing those black governors and senators and congressmen, people work having it. that's where you had the epidemic of lynchings and black codes. now we are living through something similar to that again. it's america. it is america but we keep working on it. >> the beauty of america is the ideal. e pluribus unum, out of many one. we have that, we have the words. just like we have diversity, we have the words but it's living up to it where we always struggled. the optimism is that people continue to struggle. even some of us who don't think in the end we will see the kind

they thought it was congresses job and they did pass the ku klux klan act of 1861 and the civil rights act, but there needed to be enforcement and as this wave of terrorism, ku klux klan and similar groups sweep over the south that first president grant sent troops into south carolina and crushed the clan c. you can do that if you're willing to use harsh measures, but as time goes on that becomes less and less politically viable , so i'm not that interested in, you know, imaginary scenarios. by the way, georgia julian said with reconstruction let's reduce them to military rule for about 30 years and then we can really remake the society. well, they weren't ready for 30 years of military occupation in the south, but a scenario of what would've happened if more troops were sent, i don't know, but it is certainly the way the courts operated in way the fact that the democratic party comes back and becomes you know powerful nationally means that federal enforcement becomes harder and harder. once the democrats win control of the house of representatives in 1874, you have a period of like 25

this is not a ku klux klan overt racism that i'm writing about. some of that exists of course.that's not what i'm writing about. it's about the way we live in a society. a segregated churches and schools and then we are surprised we have segregated workplaces and a the higher up e chain you go, the more homogenous. there are so many patterns in american life that was needed to shift for diversity to truly flower. 21 sports writers at "the new york times" it's great. how can it be. >> these social spheres may be that won't change and i'm not asking anyone to be my friend. i have plenty of friends maybe you will think about me when there is a job. that is not what i am suggesting. just this is a natural way that people get jobs and we are kind of shut out of that. so short of that changing, and that may never change, you can still go outside your circle. there are professional organizations, there's all kinds of networks particularly in journalism that you should be able to tap into to find talent. >> absolutely. >> but somehow we just are not able to do it. it's kind of crazy to

no, we had reconstruction than the ku klux klan.we had the civil rights movement and then we had reagan and the backlash to that. we have been in the cycles forever. is it two steps forward and one step back, i go back and forth. how much do you feel like electing barack obama brought us donald trump? >> i feel very strongly that we are living in a backlash to barack obama just as we did in the backlash to reconstruction seeing those black governors and senators and congressmen. people were not having it. that's where you have the epidemic of clinchin lynching. we keep working on it. >> the beauty of america is the ideas. out of many there are one. we have the words just like we have diversity. we have the word, but it's living up to it where we have always struggled. the optimism is that people continue to struggle. even some of us who don't think in the end we will see that kind of quality that was articulated by people like martin luther king. like will we get there as a country? but i do know many of us will continue to fight be

. >> reporter: investigators say richard holzer, a skinhead and former member of the ku klux klan, wantedo attack pueblo colorado's temple emanuel early sunday morning. u.s. attorney jason dun says the f.b.i. was in on the plot. >> mr. holzer went on to suggest to undercover agents that they use explosive devices to destroy the synagogue and "get that place off the map." >> reporter: according to court papers, holzer met with undercover agents last friday in a hotel room. he was animated and displayed a nazi arm band and removed a knife, mask, and a copy of "mein kampf" from a backpack. the undercover agents gave him two fake pipe bombs and 14 sticks of dynamite. shortly after that he was arrested. >> mr. holzer repeatedly expressed his hatred of jewish li.g as female white supremacist made contact with him in september after he posted rants about jews and other minorities, displayed white supremacy symbols and wrote about getting ready to cap people. his arrest comes just over a year since a gunman killed 11 worshipers at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh. since then, the anti-def

in fact, was endorsed by david duke, the former president of the ku klux klan.in this feeling it right wing rhetoric, and being the rising of people, what i see here. it's unfortunate because that's how it has him from being able to appeal from the center out. but it simulates feelings so that there's been some copycats entices cynicism in the riots against people of color and so forth. >> do you see this is having adhd may be. do you see him like he has such a short attention span. attention deficit. >> that has been, alleged by some people following. there is kind of a disconcerting child from subject to subject. at times and at times he's been criticized as being almost incoherent but "the issue is" not reading. it is troubling and as i noted the liz of expertise pieces, that he has is quite extraordinary. his ability to snap to decisions almost impulsively is worrisome. so there are at times a absence of strategic thinking. that is part of what worries me. for example, should he feel impelled to follow his course, of rockets which. [inaudible conversation] i

trump's rally has a lot of people because the simple fact is it is like a ku klux klan rally.e blacks will vote for a democrat, we are the smartest group of voters that vote our interest. a 97% of black people vote democrat and we will vote for the democratic candidate. we do not like biden because of what he his done and sooner or they, just like clinton, -- he will have to pay for it. you have to pay for the crimes on generations of black people. host: if it is not biden, who do you want to see running? caller: trump is giving money to everybody -- it is a socialism program and these tax cuts, those tax cuts are not helping anyone. the average person does not know if the stock market is opera down -- is up or down every day. host: who do you want to see in 2020? caller: we will not vote for donald trump. host: betty is next in florida. taking myank you for call. the previous callers were talking about the blacks. you don't know what we are going to do, i am not voting for no one but vice president biden i amse you go way back -- 87 years old, we all are immigrants. i am up b

. >> reporter: investigators say richard holzer, a skinhead and former member of the ku klux klan, wanted to attack pueblo colorado's temple emanuel early sunday morning. u.s. attorney jason dun says the f.b.i. was in on the plot. >> mr. holzer suggested they use devices tory to the synagogue and "get that place off the map." >> reporter: according to court papers, holzer met with undercover agents last friday in a hotel room. he was animated and displayed a nazi arm band and removed a knife, mask, and a copy of "mein kampf" from a backpack. the undercover agents gave him two fake pipe bombs and 14 sticks of dynamite. shortly after that he was arrested. >> mr. holzer repeatedly expressed his hatred of jewish people and his support of a racial holy war. >> reporter: holzer first came to the attention of the f.b.i. online. an f.b.i. employee posing as a female white supremacist made contact with him in september after he posted rants about jews and other minorities, displayed white supremacy symbols and wrote about getting ready apop his arrest comes just over a killed 11 worshipers at the

know about th citizens council, this was in the words of the october paris club version of the ku klux klan. sam values they just did and where the hoods. they wore business suits and went about pursuing their resistance through economic pressure and they could ruin peoples lives if they were too friendly to the black liberation. so she cozies up with people like him but behind the scenes. buckley himself states his views on civil rights very clearly in 1957 and one of the most infamous thesis called by the south must prevail. the approximate come and it should have been called by the white south must prevail. the cause for this piece of writing from buckley is the civil rights act of 1957. a piece of legislation we don't talk much about anymore because it is a piece of legislation that was followed out of just ht about any meeting of senators like strom thurmond. so it was a bill that was going to help protect the civil rights of african-americans in the south. thurmond had a clause included in so many people like him that included in the bill would say any accusation of the violation of t

the 27-year-old from pueblo, colorado, self-described as a former member of the ku klux klan was in federalrt where he faced a domestic terrorism charge that he, quote, intentionally attempted to obstruct the free exercise of religious belief through force and attempted use of explosives and fire. the us attorney said he was planning to poison congregants of the temple emanuel in pueblo which is a 2 hour dr. from denver and detonate pipe bombs at the house abortion. the 11 page complaint outlines the timeline in which 3 undercover federal agents connected him posing as like-minded individuals. in a direct message he told one agent in october, quote, i'm getting ready for roho one meaning a racial holy war. the us attorney says it all came to a end this past friday when he met with the undercover agents in a hotel. >> received inert explosive devices fabricated by the fbi including two pipe bombs and 14 sticks of dynamite. according to the affidavit he allegedly planned to dictate the explosives several hours later in the early morning hours of saturday. >> it is a comfort to know that law e

the 27-year-old from pueblo, colorado, self-described as a former member of the ku klux klan and current skinhead was in federal court today where he faces domestic terrorism charge that he "intentionally attempted to obstruct persons in the enjoyment of their free exercise of religious beliefs through force and the attempted use of explosives and fire." the u.s. attorney in denver jason dunn says holzer was planning to poison congress of the temple emanuel in pueblo which is about an hour drive from denver and detonate pipe bombs at the house of worship. the complaint outlines a timely where three federal agents connect with holzer posing as like-minded individuals. holzer told one agent in october, i'm getting ready for a racial holy war. the u.s. attorneys say it all came to an end when holzer met with the undercover agent in a hotel. >> we received inert exposes devices including two pipe bombs in 14 sticks of dynamite's. according to the affidavit, mr. holzer planned to detonate the explosives several hours later in the early morning hours of saturday. >> he was arrested shortly aft

the ku klux klan passive 1881. striking down.re needed to be enforcement the sweeping over the south. at first, president grant did send troops and crushed the clan you can do that if you're willing to use harsh measures. as time goes on, that becomes less and less politically viable it seems. i am not that interested in imaginary scenarios. george julian said. let's reduce them to military rule for like 30 years. then we can really remake the society. they were not ready for 30 years in the south. a scenario of what would've happened if if more troops were sent, i don't know. it is certainly the way the court operated and the fact that the democratic party comes back and becomes powerful nationally means that federal enforcement becomes harder and harder. once the democrats win control of the house of representatives in 1874, you have a period of 25 years, almost, where no party controls both the presidency and the two houses of congress at the same time. except for a very brief period of time. it is like today. divided governme

out of those fields carrying torches and chanting anti-semitic, faces contorted and head of the ku klux klaning, this is why we elected him and him asked when a young woman got killed what do you think? >> so you got our back? you have black folks' back? what you're saying? >> they've had my back my whole career and i hope i have the back of everybody. prezump shis prezump shis for me to say this -- >> you know what happened in detroit, i was one of the moderators in detroit. you stuttered onstage. an "atlantic" article about that. you overcame that as a child. but have you overcome it? >> yes, i've overcome it. >> is that part of the issue? >> i don't think so at all. >> donor are concerned, whether or not you've lost a step, core cogniabiliti cogniabilities, say the wrong word at times, unable to complete your thoughts? you don't believe that's the issue? >> no, i'm not. >> no one should be concerned about that. >> no one should be concerned about that. why am i so far ahead in the national polls, so far ahead here, so far ahead in nevada. tell me, why? if everybody says the people are thi

one of our great justices, may have misled the senate when he denied that he was a member of the ku klux klan, before the court. i think it is a different issue. the president is in one box. he is a politician and not a judge. a supreme court justice is in one box. and a trial judge, someone will actually decides facts on crimes and criminal cases. the text is the same, but the structures are all different. >> so another way of saying just that point, in charles black's book, which is a new edition, there is a whole new section by professor bobbitt, and i commend this book >> very important book, especially with philip's addition. >> it is very slender and easy to read and it is about all the precedence on presidential impeachments. when we say structure, here is one example of what we mean. when the senate of the united states, as an impeachment court, votes to convict, let's say, a cabinet officer, or a judge, they're voting to undo a commission that they basically participated in. they made that person by their advice and consent, the senate did, a cabinet officer, a judge. it is one thing

fields carrying torches and chanting the anti-semitic bile with faces contorted and the head of the ku klux klan, the former head, saying, you know, this is why we elected him. and then him being asked when a young woman got killed, what do you think? >> so you got our back. you have black folks' back, is that what you're saying? >> they've had my back my whole caree career. it's presumptuous of me to say this, but i've always been engaged with the community my whole career. >> let's talk about black women because black women, the backbone of the democratic party for a while, especially lately. >> yeah. >> elizabeth warren is making a play for black women, speaking directly to them. how are you specifically going to propose policies or appeal to african-american women for the election? >> well, you saw me do in that coffee shop i was just there. you saw all those black women there. look, it's about -- look, the fact is that black women have led politically in the democratic party. >> mm-hmm. >> and they understand. and, look, number one, we have to provide for serious educational opportunities f

led by his father, a dedicated white supremacist, who at one time had been a grand wizard of the ku klux klan, and who still maintains a website dedicated to his white supremacists views. black was an eager student of his father's tching from an early age. and, as he grew, he became one of the most vocal and prominent young members of the movement. his story was initially captured in a book "rising out of hatre"" by eli saslow. joining us., thank you for >> thanks for having me, charlayne. >> reporter: you grew up in a mily of white nationalists. do you remember some of the things your fathou taught you that whole life and those concepts? >> yeah. he always talked about it like it was a calling. like there was nobody in america at this point who was willing to point out what he thought was just true. that it was completeng, integration was completely wrong. that race was true and biological and everybody wanted to ... really secretly wanted to live separately and... t reporter: secretly want live separately? >> yeah, yeah. secretly and publicly. like he believed that every white person was re

it means after charlottesville there were two sides and one side of the ku klux klan. there is only one side and that is theamerican side . what that means is if multimillionaires can refinance their yachts, then students should beable to refinance their loans . and to the nra and to big oil and big pharma, you do not own america and when i am president they will not own me. the citizens own washington dc. and what this means is that we will take on existential crisis of our time. climate change and i will get us back into the international climate change agreement on day one. they do, bring back a clean power standards. debris, the college standards and introduce legislation and get that done in one year. that is what we have todo, democrats . there is an old saying and it is this. great leaders make decisions, not for this generation but for generations, seven generations from now.we have a president that can't keep his decisions seven minutes from now. so i want you to imagine what it will be like to have a candidate on the debate stage can literally look at this gu

the 27-year-old from pueblo, colorado, who self describes as a former member of the ku klux klan andnhead, was in federal court today where he faced a domestic terrorism charge that he "intentionally attempted to obstruct persons in the enjoyment of the free exercise of religious beliefs through force and the attempted use of explosives and fire." the u.s. attorney in denver, jason john, says he was planning to poison congregants of the temple mount which is about a two hour drive from denver, and also detonate pipe bombs at the house of worship. posing as like-minded individuals. in a direct message, holzer told one agent in october "i'm getting ready for rachel," " meaning a racial holy war. it came to an end this past friday one holzer met with undercover agents in a hotel buried >> received inert explosive devices that have been fabricated by the fbi. including two pipe bombs in 14 sticks of dynamite. according to the affidavit, mr. holzer allegedly planned to detonate the explosive several hours later in the early morning hours of saturday. >> when you ask what my reaction to th

nominate a candidate in 1924 in the convention into votes out of like 4000 votes declined the ku klux klan. in the fight there. today's democratic party and the most loyal members include religious black americans and unusually secular liberals. they are going to work together to impeach donald trump so it appears when it comes to beto o'rourke's argument of tax-exempt in the don't perform same-sex marriage is going to be disagreementl there. between the two groups. i think these two enduring charactersrs help to explain the longevity. it has been important in a nation that has always been diverse. you will hear a lot of commentary this is in the last three years or 12 years we've become a diverse country. we have always become a diverse country. thee british colonies were a diverse group of colonies. the founding father recognized that when they created a constitution that retained power in the state and provided for freedom of religion also said there'd be a federal government establishment but you could continue to have them in the state of massachusetts and connecticut while virginia g

who don't know about the white citizens council this was the uptown rotary club version of the ku klux klan. same values as the clan but didn't wear the hoods. they wore business suits and went about pursuing their resistance through economic pressure and could ruin people's lives if they were too friendly to black liberation. buckley poses up with people like him behind-the-scenes but buckley himself stated views on civil rights very clearly in 1957 and one of his most infamous pieces of writing called why the south must prevail. it should have been called why the white south must prevail. the proximate cause for this piece of writing from buckley is the civil rights act of 1957. a piece of legislation we don't talk about anymore so this piece of legislation that was hollowed out of just about any meaning by senators like strom thurmond. it was a bill that would help protect civil rights of african-americans in the south. thurmond had a clause included in the bill that would say any accusation, a violation of civil rights decided by juries, not by federal judges. you know what is going on.

around 1866, we get resurgence of the ku klux klan. the domestic terrorism takes hold. african-americans are still seeking a taste for freedom that does not cost them their lives. they will make tracks to kansas. this westward expansion in hopes that if they died along the way, that sense of freedom is better than their life being taken. by 1870, we see not only has the population in kansas almost doubled, but 10 years later we will see it almost triple. that is how much freedom mattered to those who considered themselves african-american. this would be the handbill sent out as many making their way to kansas. there is what some would argue the exit duster, pat singleton. he was known for, at all cost, trying to get other african-americans free. i will put a bookmark here. the african-american experience is so complex and rich, because it we look back to the days of the civil war, here you have free african-americans who are endeavoring in their freedom, enjoying life, willing to put on a military uniform to die for african-americans who they will never meet. pat single

what they considered rational behavior exhibited by p.o.w.s in the camps, so for example, the ku klux klan. the u.s. military evaluation of all of these interrogations concludes that this organization which was formed in most of the camps and the membership included a few well-meaning individuals who sent anonymous notes, bearing the signature kkk, and beatings were also administered to progressives and informers. so when an american p.o.w., like african-american clarence adams, who is one of the 21 p.o.w.s who decides to stay in china, when he announces after the signing of the ceasefire that he is now repatriating to the u.s. as an act of protest against jim crow society in america, we can understand how the experience of threatened violence by white supremacy was neither abstract nor distant for american p.o.w.s in p.o.w. camps along the yalu river. so at first glance, it appears that these, the u.s. military really incorrectly theorizes the oriental interrogator. but i think that the deeper anxiety, at the heart of this inquiry, was that the oriental interrogator might have correctly t

. >> remember, david duke was a former head of the ku klux klan. but it is interesting that romney, for all of his conventional, rather austere approach, departmeidn't win ove of people. >> i thought his remarks were atrocious but generally, we focus way too much on this stuff. i don't think that this wasn't a substantial move in the african-american vote. if anything, trump did better than mitt romney. mitt romney had that, you know, very milktoast message, don't offend anyone other than that 53% remark. he tried very hard to run a conventional campaign. i don't think pandering really helps. i recognize you are not saying that. there's a distinction between pandering and being offensive. i certainly think trump could dial back his offensiveness. but i don't think that's the main issue here. i think at the end of the day we are talking about long-term historical trend which you noted, i disagree with your assessment about the southern strategy, this was the result of a long shift in african-american voters from the 1930s and '40s during the new dea

and to treat them it was the democratic party that are the ones who are racist and protected the ku klux klan232-196 vote, a traffic -- a graphic portrayal in "usa today." 232 democrats in favor. one independent, justin amash from michigan. two democrats in "the new york the two democrats who broke ranks on impeachment. two conservative lawmakers became the only defectors of the party. jeff van drew, one of them. they write that before the house vote on thursday, endorsing the democratic led inquiry into president trump, two of the most conservative lawmakers -- whether colleagues might join them in opposing the measure. it might just be up. in the end, -- it might just be us. in the end, they were right. democrats on thursday linked arms and took the plunge into the impeachment pool, as republicans unanimously opposed the resolution to a 232-196 vote. hear from betty next in lubbock, texas, on our democrats line. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i was just listening. i have been listening. our country is in such a state pittedt everybody is against each other. trump is not m

it means that after notlottesville, there were to sides when one side is the ku klux klan.ents should be able to refinance their loans. [cheers and applause] sen. klobuchar: and to the nra and to big pharma, no, you do not own america. when i'm president, they will not own me. citizens own washington, d.c. and what this means is that we will take on the existential crisis of our time, climate change. and i will get us back into the international climate change agreement on day one. day two, bring back mclean power standard. the gase, bring back mileage standard. and then introduce sweeping legislation and get that done in one year. that is what we have to do, democrats. [cheers and applause] there is an old saying, and it is this, great leaders make decisions, not for this generation but for generations from now. we have a president that cannot keep his decisions seven minutes from now. so i want you to imagine what it will be like to have a candidate on the debate stage that can literally look at this guy and say "you know what, the midwest is not flyover country, i live h