>> this is a story that i really didn't know about, this was lafayette square. , as is senator lester huntdemocrat from wyoming. he was elected right at the time of joe mccarthy, when he was at its height. lester huntt -- hated joe mccarthy, and joe mccarthy hated lester hunt. everybody knows that mccarthy was anti-communist and all that. there was also a certain anti-gay movement, part of mccarthyism. at the time, lafayette square, lafayette park was a meeting place for gay men. lester hunt's son, who was in his early 20's, i think, was over there. and was going to -- you know. police were there people lookingre for a good time. he was arrested. normally, this would not lead to anything. but joe mccarthy and his henchmen found out about it and said this is how we are going to get rid of lester hunt. democrat in a a very republican-leaning state. so let's threaten him, that we were going to expose this throughout wyoming, that his son had been arrested. at first, lester hunt fought that off. but then he was about to run for we areion, and they said really going to smear this all over the s

at first, lester hunt said -- fought that off. was running for reelection and they said we are really going to smear this all over the state. he was so distraught that he went into his office in the senate and shot himself with a rifle, committed suicide. so that was a story i had not heard. about thettle bit story of gay rights in america before things changed. >> yes. here we are getting up to guy, georgews this h.w. bush. at the beginning of his administration, crack cocaine epidemic was sweeping the country. one of the first things he wanted to do was come up with federal policy to try to stop crack cocaine. he wanted to give an oval office speech. oval office speeches are very rare. but he knew that the only way he could convince people outside of the inner cities that this was a problem was to try to show that this crack cocaine was everywhere. so his staff with his approval asked the dea to do a crack cocaine buy in lafayette square. now they pulled it off. they found somebody they had been trailing for a while and yaid, we

joe mccarthy hated lester hunt. everybody knows that mccarthy that.ti-communist and all there was also a certain anti-gay movement, part of mccarthyism. at the time, lafayette square, lafayette park was a meeting place for gay men. who was in's son, wasearly 20's, i think, over there. the police, undercover police were out there trying to spare people looking for a good time. he was arrested. normally, this wouldn't lead to anything. to mccarthy and his henchmen found out about it. re's how we are going to get rid of lester hunt. him -- we were going to expose this in wyoming, that his son had been arrested. --first, lester hunt said flop that off -- fought that off. he was running for reelection and he was so distraught that he went into his office and shot himself with a rifle, committed suicide. that was a story i had not heard. a bit about the story of gay before thingsica changed. here, we are getting up to this bush. george h w at the beginning of his administration, crack cocaine epidemic was sweeping the cou

lester holt. >> why? >> because the president literally says, there's a witch hunt, the mueller case, i'm getting rid of john something about collusion and secondly, because he's been critical of me about the mueller investigation. if you look at john brennan's tweets, they are, you know, they are emotional, they are energized. this is someone who sees the sort of denigration of america's security and national security apparatus day by day and whose committed decades of his life to defending it and supporting it. and so the president just -- that seems to me more of an admission than even where lester holt -- where donald trump was a little bit more wavering. i just want to say one thing about john brennan, and i said it yesterday. you know, the -- i knew him, because i was in an agency that he essentially was the point person for, the department of homeland security. it is so odd to see him in this role, this was a person who, you know, if there were politics, he was on the other side of the room, whether it was immigration or, you know, the bp oil spill -- >> times have changed. >> -- with the white house,

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calls a rigged witch hunt a number of commentators said this evening that could be entered into evidence what his state of mind has been. i'll remind you, this goes back to his lester holt interview following the firing of james comey, when he said he had the russia investigation in mind when he fired jim comey, the former fbi director. i think there's abundant evidence obstruction and intent to interfere with the ongoing investigation whether or not russia committed some conspiracy with the trump campaign in order to violate our federal election laws. that's been out there in plain view now for months. my answer why president trump did that this morning is a combination appealing to his base and delegitimizing the mueller investigation and he can't help himself. >> can't help himself. his lawyer said it was come from the top and didn't do what it did. >> sometimes it feels like we're all going through a type of law school together in this era. you would be one of our voluntary professor, i suppose. collusion, conspiracy, criminal hacking and theft, fraud against the united states, foreign campaign contributions, those are all felonies that relate to what has been

hunting. good to see you both thanks for joining us today. >>> twitter suspending alex jones over a tweet this comes before a big interview tonight on nbc lester holt sitting down with twitter ceo jack dorsey. >> jack dorsey telling our own lester holt that the suspension of alex jones is a, quote, time-out and whether he felt the move seemed like a minor response, here's what dorsey had to say >> i feel, you know, any suspension, whether it be a permanent one or a temporary one makes someone think about their actions and their behaviors. >> you think alex jones is going to change his behavior based on a time-out >> i don't know. we have found that it does have the potential to change -- impact and change behavior so whether it works in this case to change some of those behaviors and change some of those actions, i don't know, but this is consistent with how we enforce. >> as lester holt notes, the video that got alex jones into trouble, a video calling on people to get their battle rifles ready against the media dorsey acknowledging that sent a chill up his spine and that his platform, he says, will not allow calls to incite violence dorsey's

kasie hunt, it is becoming more and more obvious, of course, donald trump again all you have to do is listen to what he said to lester holt and the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador to the united states to figure out that he fired comey to end the russian investigation, even white house press admitted as much, he wanted to end the russian investigation. but even on the other side of this, for republicans staring at the facts and you look at the indictments of the 12 russians that worked for the gru and it becomes very obvious with the forensic evidence, it becomes very obvious that vladimir putin and russia were trying to undermine u.s. democracy. tom nichols who is not only a professor but also writes for the federalist and he's a twitter exextraordinary. a lot of republicans are starting to get there saying, hey listen, there is no question anymore that members of trump's team were trying to coordinate with the russian government to influence the outcome of the campaign. the only question is what did the president know, how much did he know and when did he know it? aren't the facts by this week by