. >> then, out of the blue, in 1912, the local courthouse contacts maurice's father, walter person. >ot just any bible. they say it's the personal copy of nat turner, which had been locked away in the evidence room for the past eight decades. >> they knew that since walter person had ties to nat turner, they said, "here. would you like the bible that nat turner left behind?" >> walter person not only accepts, he displays the bible in the living room, on the family piano, for the next 30 years. some people would be shocked that the bible was given not to nat turner's family but to a white family who wasn't the only family that lost people. >> right. >> didn't you ever feel you should give it to the turner family? >> well, the times were very different. slavery's still a very sensitive issue. >> walter dies in 1945. that's when his son maurice inherits the old, tattered bible. unlike his dad, maurice moves it out of plain sight. >> it just sat in a closet in the dark, wrapped in a cotton towel. >> was it because he was ashamed, or he felt it was a private matter? >> it wasn't the proper

jesse jackson and especially in 1984 was less so 88, was an example of what walter's wanted to have a black personun for president and utilize the publicity and utilize the power that they would get from the presidential run to do what? to really have leverage. they talk about independent leverage versus dependent leverage. they would mean that you can negotiate with white powerbrokers independently. dependent leverage which is what jesse jackson achieved is that jesse jackson was too weighed to the democratic party. you asked for concessions within the framework of the democratic party. when you think about the 84 presidential run of jesse jackson, it was usually important and jesse jackson does as the universal candidate and determined as a black candidate and tries to run universal health care and ending power pretty and all these different things and you talk about 84 being a great example of how ronald waters is transitioning into a political insider but a political insider who still concerned about black power and its impact on the grassroots. he's a campaign manager for domestic issues and

walter was saying about the cia guy. he doesn't want, he can't testify in person, we can't see him because he's terrified that he might be killed. he's a cia. he's not the guy that repels down zero no, far too risky for that. all right, thoughts on this week cat. >> i don't know. i think trump should be pretty concerned about this impeachment task force. >> why. >> he's got rosie o'donnell. it's like the greatest political genius since abraham lincoln. i looked at her twitter, check out this one bar should be disbarred # impeachment task force, like fourscore and seven years ago has nothing on that. very scared. i'm just happy i can still read her tweets because a few years ago she blocked me on twitter just because i told her she should take a bath when i was on fox and friends it was a military coup to get trump out of office and i said you should relax, maybe take a bath and light some candles. she started tweeting at me. >> that ruined our fox and friends. we have a lot to talk about. we were only on their for 18 seconds and that's what we talked about. it was because of you and your fight. >> that's amazing that thi

walter reed. i met such a person. he was on the roof with tyrone wood and the other heroes. he had much of his leg blown off. i met him and i honored his request for anonymity. but i couldn't sit there and listen to the republican chairman of intelligence perpetrating what he thought was true but was not and i knew it wasn't and i said, that's not true. he got red-faced and said, that is true. i said, no, i had lunch with one yesterday. he said, that's not true. and he told me later after the meeting, i've talked to our intelligence people and they tell me that the guy you must have seen, he's not at walter reed, he comes there for physical therapy. i said, no, i can tell you the building number and where his apartment is and it adjoins the physical therapy, it is right there on walter reed. but anyway. he didn't believe it. and i had texted or this great hero and didn't hear from him for a couple of weeks and later he emailed back that, gee, strangest thing happened. i had the most painful surgery on my leg. he had had numerous surgeries. but this was the most painful since

walter wong, head of the wong family association was one of the two victims. wong and i walked across the same cross-walk today, where he was attacked. >> translator: something, two person hold me up and raise me up, and then i don't remember anything and fell down on the street. >> reporter: these cell phone stil stills -- show him unconscious on the ground. he later sits up waiting for an ambulance. his friend, came to his rescue. this video shows him being punched and knocked to the ground by the same suspects. >> we were able to get a clear picture of the suspects in the case. >> reporter: these security camera videos taken near where the assault took place. clear images, close ups of the faces of the suspects allowing the police to identify pearson, the primary suspect. in the after math of the attacks the mayor visited the area to assure residents and merchants that city hall had their backs. this after community meetings here, where angry residents said they were in the midst of a crime wave. and today, with the arrest, a different mood in china down. >> we want to thank the police department, for the officer that worked so hard to help us. >> reporter: president

walter -- where the right loses still in the blank. they basically got trump to shut down the government for the wall. who is that person?> that's interesting. i hate to give this individual so much credit because i think it is brazen of what he's done. he's way smarter and knows better, i think he could be a big shift if he lost tucker. i don't think donald trump ever has to worry about losinining s. >> my thanks to most of all, thanks to you for watching. i will be back at 9:00 filling in for my friend, rachel maddow. >> chuck todd starts now with "mtv daily." >> welcome to thursday. it is "meet the press daily." i am chuck todd here in washington. i will say this lightly. let's be frank, the national nightmare is upon us. we begin tonight with a series admission of the president. republicans have been silent on what we have seen from the president. he called on two foreign governments to