extremist terrorists spreading various chests anti-american and violent extremism except for like timothy mcveigh every terrorist has been a muslim there's a theology that seems terrorism now i don't claim to understand it because the co i don't know the expert at all all knows what i'm told all along was a demon spirit even more ham at thought so extremist muslim terrorism the terrorist muslim extremist muslim extremist terrorist and end of story. the point here once again is that this kind of fear and hardline condemnation of entire groups of people seems to be based less on our actual relationship with those people then on our relationship with media. with african americans the situation is somewhat different this has been a group that has achieved some recognition on television in terms of being a group people in terms of certain visibility on television that. african-americans are about fourteen percent of the television population which is close to the real population but their representation is very peculiar this bacteria. allows itself to be. peculiarly they are healthier they're wealthie

. >> reporter: the shooter's motives are unclear, but not since timothy mcveigh attacked the federal building in oklahoma city has a crime sparked such swift attention on anti-government rhetoric. >> i have every right -- >> wait a minute, wait a minute. >> reporter: those town hall meeting meltdowns are a symptom of a problem both parties are facing. political extremism with a voice louder than ever. >> we have to be careful not to blame one side or the other, because both sides are guilty of this. you have extremes on both sides. >> reporter: that fringe makes words and images vulnerable to abuse. sarah palin says she wasn't endorsing violence with that facebook map of cross hairs over arizona, but at the time congresswoman giffords wondered aloud why use that image in the first place? >> when people do that there's consequences to that action. >> reporter: that's what seems to have gotten loss. consequences and boundaries. interrupting the president with an insult is now a reality. >> you lie. >> reporter: visitors shout condemnations from the normally hushed house gallery. and th

what happened after oklahoma city is of course you had the criminal prosecution of timothy mcveigh, a couple of his accomplices as well, and his eventual execution. you got something of a law enforcement crackdown on the militia movement and on sort of the far right relatively fringe movements but i think the conversation that was starteded then ultimately about our national discourse and where it was going didn't sustain for very long and maybe if it had we would be in a different position today in the 21st century. >> lehrer: kathleen, before we go, what's your memory of what happened after oklahoma city? do you agree it kind of petered out after a while or did it have some lasting effect? >> it petered out after a while but there's an underlying tendency in particularly congressional rhetoric in which after the turnover in power and the 104th had just occurred when the turnovers in power you have higher levels of incivility as they adjust to their new role. by the second session the level of civility in congress had returned to its historic norm. this tends to ebb and flow. you hav

she has helped represent pretty high profile clients including timothy mcveigh and the unabomber. >> extraordinary case. all right. karen brown in tucson. thank you. >> let's talk at some of the heros. several bystanders subdued the gunman. witnesses say the suspect casually approached giffords and shot her from about three feet away. he then started shooting everybody in sight. while he was trying to reload a woman pulled the ammunition clip away and he was subdued as two men fought him to the ground. a doctor played dead to avoid being shot and then helped hold the shooter down. >> very -- frightening especially coming from such a young guy. >> reporter: authorities say he was firing a nine millimeter semi automatic pistol. it holds 30 rounds. he bout it legally last fall. >>> one of the haven'ts killed in the shooting was a federal judge. the judge was at the center of the state's bat the over immigration. in 2009 he received hundreds of threats after he allowed a lawsuit filed by illegal immigrants to go forward. besides him and the 9-year-old girl the other victims killed in the

the public defender in arizona is asking the judge to a point the same lawyer who convicted timothy mcveigh to represent laffner. >>> several people stepped up and stopped the suspect from hurting more people. the local sheriff credits this woman with likely saving dozens of lives. two men tackled him while she tried to pry the gun from his hand. >> the gun was in his right hand and he was secured with his right side against the sidewalk. i was not able to reach the gun, but he was pulling a magazine out of his pant pocket with his left hand and i was able to grab the magazine. somebody said when he pulled that up they said get the magazine. so i got the magazine and was able to secure that. >> she lined up with others to greet giffords. doctors praised daniel hernandez for helping stop the congresswoman's bleeding during the chaos. it was his first week on-the-jo. tonight giffords is in a medically enduced coma and her doctors call her condition still precarious. surgeons removed part of her skull to help her recover. >> it is like any other injury you have swelling that happens after the

that is why we of timothy mcveigh and protests -- have timothy mcveigh and protests and people killing their own congressman. this is downright atrocious. to get back to egypt, egypt has a ruler who has been there 30 years and he is probably a stick in the mud on policies and people want to will mobilize a more progressive -- in more progressive and modern times. host: republican, you are on? caller: my god, did he use this as an opportunity to bash reagan? two words -- net neutrality. middle of december they passed a law -- let's see the big picture. net neutrality, shutting down social networking sites, the internet, that is where this government is going. the only way to get the word out is marginalize talk radio and fox and they will not be happy until that closes down. c-span, you will be the last man standing. i listen to your calls and i hear when you represent the conservative point of view, you get all sorts of calls. thank you, c-span, but you are a little bit biased but i understand the pressure you are under. thank you. goodbye. host: john from maryland. referring to some p

attorney assigned to defend him, judy clark, whose previous clients include oklahoma city bomber timothy mcveigh. on a cold winter morning in washington, president and mrs. obama led the nation in prayer for the victims of the shooting and their families. others also remembered. on the steps of the capitol, hundreds of congressional aides bowed their heads. the supreme court justices observed a moment of silence. flags all over the country were lowered to half-staff in honor of those who died. and a makeshift memorial has sprung up in front of the hospital where some of the wounded are still being treated. >> eight patients in the hospital, two of them remain in the i.c.u., however only one of those two is in critical condition. >> couric: that one is congresswoman giffords, shot point blank in the head. doctors remain hopeful about her prognosis. >> with regard to congresswoman giffords' recovery, at this phase in the game, no change is good. and we have no change. >> couric: the six killed in the shooting ranged in age from nine to 79. christina greene was born on the day the world trade tower

keep those people safe i wouldn't torture but what about the difference between you bring up timothy mcveigh and gay members and maybe those threats weren't as imminent as the try to answer in fact fox news let me tell you that you hate americans that's right glenn beck you have eight americans because you lie to them you scare them you try to warp their minds you tell them that we're becoming some socialist country that all immigrants anyone who's a brown person is a drug dealer a rapist you're not on the side of america and the fact that my channel is more honest with the american people is something you should be ashamed of before we go tonight i have one more unplugged moment from two thousand and ten it was a political ad from our four inch can of that the aired on d.c. area t.v. stations and needless to say the ad was distasteful offensive on many levels and it was an issue that sparked heated debate in this country. you know the freedom of speech to beautiful things but good lord sometimes you really wish you didn't have to see and hear what people put out there let me introduce you t

who wasn't born in this country and is actually a radical muslim, it conjures up imagess from timothy mcveigh and oklahoma city in 1995. republican party than was accused and newt gingrich was accused of this anti-government rhetoric that translated into this terroristic act. there's nothing anyone can feel proud of seeing these perceptions, being fomented by fox news, an entire network which has abandoned the ethics of journalism in news in pursuit of profits and propaganda. >> clinton was seen as the guy who was going to keep the right wing in check and obama could develop the same image. >> as we closed, more of a glass half full kind of gal, i did write a piece more than a year ago and i want to stand by it again later in which i pointed out right after the joe wilson you lied moment in the state of the union address, at before everyone speaks out about people ripping up posters and bringing weapons to rallies let's not forget we have seen this before. we saw it after slaves were freed and the lynching epidemic. we were on the brink of progress. we saw it at the height of the civil-rights

on right wing radio show host and others were the same things we heard back at the time of the timothy mcveigh, the oklahoma city bombing. we heard all of this before. we've been through this cycle before. that didn't lead anywhere. >> you don't think things are higher in terms of the tenor of this moment? >> on the lunatic fringe, they're always high and obviously were high in this case. >> decision by the house republican leadership the put off the repeal vote on wednesday, as a result of this tragedy? i asked the congresswoman about that, you know, shifting the schedule. >> well, they're putting off all the votes and the business of the house for a week. i suppose it's reasonable thing -- it's probably a reasonable thing to do in light of the shock of this and a congresswoman being critically wounded and her staff member being killed. i wouldn't second guess it. they'll have to get back to work. obviously, people will have to vote the way they think is right for the country. i don't think this will end up having honestly much political effect. it assumes that the voters are really, the vote

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that is why we of timothy mcveigh and protests -- have timothy mcveigh and protests and people killing their own congressman. this is downright atrious. to get back to egypt, egypt has a ruler who has been there 30 years and he is probably a stick in the mud on policies and people want to will mobilize a more progressive -- in more >> we will leave "washington journal" at this point, and go live to president obama. this introduced by families usa executive director. this is live coverage, here on c-span. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [applause] >> yes we can. yes we can. yes recant. -- as we can. >> i think some of the applause was for you. [laughter] >> mr. president, we are very honored by your willingness. >> thank you, mr. president. [applause] >> to join us here this morning. as you know, so well, numerous president's over many decades tried to secure health reform legislation that would move us toward high-quality, affordable health care for all americans. you, mr. president, actually ac

his attorney rep accidented timothy mcveigh and susan smith. >>> overnight, the husband of the congresswoman put out a statement. he said he's drawing strength from the stories of heroism that emerged. you're going to hear from some of them and the 911 call as well. ♪ across the state of arizona, hundreds of people paying their respects to the victims of saturday's shooting. >> we need more than one ambulance. there's more than one person down. >> reporter: the 911 calls give you a real taste of the madness. >> the guy had a semiautomatic pistol. and he went in. he just started firing and then he ran. >> reporter: even the operators are losing their composier. >> is anybody injured? did you say gabrielle giffords was hit? >> she's hit. i believe she's breathing. there's multiple people shot. >> okay, oh, my god. >> reporter: one caller, a man named manuel hernandez explains that he's trying to provide information while he's helping the wounded. >> like i said, he shot. >> okay. ? you okay? you okay sir? we got help coming. >> reporter: and this call from sally badger desperately searching fo