we also have louis farrakhan, please.play the video of louis farrakhan. >> you are the instrument that god is going to use to bring about universal change. that is why barack has captured you. when the messiah speaks, you will hear. glenn: ok, then one last thing. we have been looking for two weeks for connections on this. he we can't find anything. they have sealed this story down as tight as a drum, but look how these guys are dressed. military. listen to what they're saying. remember this from the election? we all thought it was nuts. what is this? >> because of obama, i will take to the streets! >> stop. stop. i am not suggesting that the president of the united states or anybody in this government has anything to do with the black panthers, with louis farrakhan, or this group here, but this is a -- that was a very militant-looking group. the black panthers are very militant looking, and they are militant. pat, what is this? what is happening here? >> the justice department wanted to prosecute them. mr. holden decided

the nation of islam had its own issues certainly with louis farrakhan, and whether or not that was reallyslamic call those issues were out there. in so many ways, malcolm x was lin controversial than dr. king. dr. king was on the front lines, was going to be put in jail, was willing to risk himself, his body, ultimately he did die. those men died at age 39. there is a huge difference in alrms of the impact on civil rights in this country between dr. king and malcolm x. if i was to make a judgment as a historian, dr. king is largely for as the defiant black valise wilhe street corners in harlem, an important figure in the theron of islam, his willingness to challenge what was going on. al terms of civil rights, he is ki the paper occasionally, when president kennedy was killed, talking about chickens coming home to roost but dr. king was on the front lines challenging the country for the montgomery boycott, through the march on washington, there is dr. king in birmingham, all these key moments in american history, he o a central player who is not just a man of worth, but a man of action in

country today and nation of islam had its own issues, of course, with, you know, certainly with louis farrakhant even going back to, you know, elijah poole and, you know -- and whether or not that was real islam versus -- all those issues are out there. so i think in so many ways malcolm x was a more controversial figure than dr. king. pÑ3t@ú for us now the defiant black voice who was on the street corners in harlem, an important figure in terms of the nation of islam, his willingness to challenge what was going on there. but in terms of civil rights, it's a smaller imprint. he was in the papers occasionally when president kennedy was killed talking about chickens coming home to roost and all that. but dr. king was on the front lines challenging the country from the montgomery boycott through marshall on washington, through selma. there's dr. king, birmingham, all these key moments in american history he is a central player who is not just a man of words, of course, he was a tremendous orator but also a man of action in a way that's hard to contemplate. that's why he wins the nobel peace prize.