being a white supremacist is not a bad thing. >> and according to allgier, being a white supremacistoesn't mean he belongs to one of utah state's white supremacist prison gangs. >> you got fourth reich, those dudes are aren't white supremacist. they were started by people who were rats, and pc cases. >> interesting thing about curtis was he claims he's not in a gang. he's not a gang member. he's just a white supremacist, a skinhead. and he felt there was a really, really severe difference. >> i'm no part of them. i've never been a part of them. nor will i ever be a part of them. those dudes in my mind are weak, and they're not white supremacist, more will they ever be. >> at that point one of the officers leaned in to my ear and said if you use that, he's going to get attacked. he's going to get stabbed. >> while inmates like allgier are completely aware that talking about gangs could put them in peril it is a risk they have taken time and time again when interviewed on "lockup." >> we knew that theoretically that sound bite might put him in danger but we also knew on the other hand

the majority of the gang members here belong to white supremacist gangs.n officials suspect that asatru might be a front for white supremacist gangs. marcus murray denies that. >> there has never been anything in my studies that says one race is more dominant over another one culture. nor one religion dominant over another. asatru believers believe that our religion is fine, your religion is fine. >> guy radcliffe who has been practicing asatru for several years here. said there's one group that is not welcome. >> if we found out someone in the community was a child molester, he would be banned from the community. he cannot participate. it's a bylaw, you cannot be a sex offender and be in asatru. >> radcliffe also defended the fact that some members have swastikas tattooed often their bodies. >> the swastika was around long before adolf hitler came along. okay? now, i don't have nothing against uncle adolf, but he took something from my religion, which was a sun wheel and made it part of his party. it goes back to ancient civilizations. they had a swastika

nobody has seen any video of steve scalise's remarks to that white supremacist group but storm front as an online hate exchange, it still exists. and the storm front archives are searchable back to when it was founded. that contemporaneous reporting about steve scalise speaking to that white supremacist group, that contemporaneous reporting on storm front, somebody saying on storm front that they'd seen him there, that's the seminal evidence that steve scalise in fact spoke to that david duke associated white supremacist klan derived group. since that story broke last week, national media outlets, including "the new york times" have been able to track down confirmation he was there from people who remember going to that event and who remember steve scalise speaking there. one former representative said steve scalise's speech was about how america was founded on christian principles and how america would go forward as a christian nation. another contemporaneous source a long time reporter for the "times picayune" in new orleans is now also said that she remembers meeting with congress

being a white supremacist is not a bad thing. >> according to him, being a white supremacist doesn'tn he belongs to one of utah state's prison gangs. >> you got them and those dudes are not white supremacists. >> curtis was -- he claims he is not in a gang. he's not a gang member. he's a white supremacist and a skin head and he felt there was a severe difference. >> i have no part of them nor will i ever be a part of them. they are weak and lame. they are not white supremacists nor will they ever be. >> at that time one of the officers leaned into my ear and said if you use that, he is going to get attacked. he is going to get stabbed. >> inmates like this are completely aware that talking about gangs can put them in peril, it is a risk they have taken time and time again when interviewed. >> we knew that might put him in danger, but we knew how important it was to curtis that that distinction be made. that's the choice that we went be. >> finally he spoke about the wife and two children he left behind on the outside. >> if i can't look at pictures of my wife and my family and my kid

it begins with david duke, followed by two speakers expressing white supremacist views. >> this meetingttended i leaders of european member organizations dedicated to our heritage freedom from all over the european-american world. >> one advantage we have over the jewish supremacists who oppose our people's awakening is there growth occurred either in numbers or power is severely restricted. ours is not. >> we are the white race. we of the ingenuity and the creativity to overcome anything they can put up against us. >> that is from a 2005 video about the euro conference were steve scalise spoke three years earlier. in a 2002 post on the neo-nazi website stormfront, a commenter who said he attended the euro conference praised scalise's speech. using the name "alsace hebert," the commenter wrote -- "representative scalise brought into sharp focus the dire circumstances pervasive in many important, under-funded needs of the community at the expense of graft within the housing and urban development fund, an apparent give-away to a selective group based on race." two years later, the same co

soil by attacks from violent far right groups, including white supremacists than those inspired by al qaeda. >> white power! >> coming up neck, hear interest some of the new strategies strategies and re-branding efforts these gripes are use to go gain more followers. and can and should the government be doing more to curb their recruitment? >> beyond the verdict and on the streets >> there's been another teenager shot and killed by the police >> a fault lines special investigation >> there's a general distrust of this prosecutor >> courageous and in depth... >> it's a target you can't get rid of... >> the untold story... >> who do you protect? >> ...of what's really going on in ferguson >> they were so angry because it could have been them >> fault lines ferguson: race and justice in the u.s. one hour special only on al jazeera america >>> welcome back. we mentioned before the break that there have been more attacks on americans in the past decade by violent far right groups including white supremacists than by individuals inspired by al qaeda. if that sounded troubling, listen to thi

soil by attacks from violent far right groups, including white supremacists than those inspired by al qaeda. >> white power! >> coming up neck, hear interest some of the new strategies strategies and re-branding efforts these gripes are use to go gain more followers. and can and should the government be doing more to curb their recruitment? >> start with one issue education... gun control... the gap between rich and poor... job creation... climate change... tax policy... the economy... iran... healthcare... ad guests on all sides of the debate. >> this is a right we should all have... >> it's just the way it is... >> there's something seriously wrong... >> there's been acrimony... >> the conservative ideal... >> it's an urgent need... and a host willing to ask the tough questions >> how do you explain it to yourself? and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5 eastern only on al jazeera america >>> welcome back. we mentioned before the break that there have been more attacks on americans in the past decade by violent far right groups including white

i was never a white supremacist. i am not a white supremacist.roup was a charted civil organization and in the louisiana legislature, i sponsored a bill that forbid racial discrimination and the programs called affirmative action. >> now back to congressman scalise. because he is in the eye of the tiger. you were not there were you aware he was go to speak to your group? >> i heard about that. but yeah, i tell you frankly i know your next question is was he there. i can't be sure that he was there. >> all right. you do not know whether he showed up. in new orleans the newspaper is saying he spoke but not to your group but to another group at the same hotel and blah, blah, blah. >> i know he was scheduled to speak. i don't know if he spoke. here is the deal. i was out of the klan at this time, longer than robert byrd was out of the klan when he went to the united states congress. in fact he was in it for years after i was. i was in my 20s. i always condemned violence. and here is president obama with robert byrd. when he died, he was there clinton

he may have been in the same room and he spoke at 5:00 and the white supremacist came in at 8:00. guilt by proximity. he's had colleagues like senator richman who says he doesn't have a racist bone this his body. democrats said i know scalise and he's far too right and conservative but i don't think he's a racist. on the question of robert byrd it wasn't that he dropped by and went to a hotel ball room where the kkk had a meeting, he recruited 150 brand new members to the kkk in west virginia, he also wrote a letter to one of the klan leaders and said he didn't want to serve in the u.s. military if it got integrated saying i don't want to serve with race mongrels, meaning black people. and he was the senate democrat leader for years. you saw that wonderful glowing funeral he had with democrats lining up. >> juan is right this is about politics. the president's going to veto the keystone pipeline says he's going to veto the gop's move on obama care reforms, raising the work week from 30 hours by definition, probably a medical device tax. i actually think this is good because republ

for democrats -- take note of times when republicans speak at white supremacist meetings. also mitch mcconnell gives the president a morning and barack obama hits the road for the pre-state of the union address. >> look, i will be contrarian about this. i think the president has the upper hand and the reason is republicans have gotten very used to being in a posture of reflexive opposition. they have gotten good political benefits from that in operas. they have not had to legislate or govern in any meaningful way. the question of whether these guys can get together and move a positive agenda -- there is no evidence. >> and there are tons of things on the calendar that could trip them up. deadlines. the other thing they may have to deal with is -- republicans may not be feeling the benefits of the improved economy as much as they would like, but the press is getting the message the president would like them to get. the economy is, in a lot of ways, getting better. at if the economy continues to improve -- and that is and if -- if it continues to improve, they are in trouble

lease after one of the most powerful members of congress after he acknowledged addressing a white supremacistroup more than a decade ago. he says he spoke to many groups while trying too fight a state budget. in a statement he says in part one wf 0 the many groups i spoke with was a group who views i wholeheartedly condemn. it was a mistake i admit. now there are new questions over whether he ever actually addressed the group at all. a long time political aid to david duke, the former founder of the group, he told a new orleans newspaper ska lease addressed a civic organization hours before the white supremacist group convened. that seems to contradict what knight told the washington post where he's quoted as saying i asked so lease to be the first speaker. >> the coalition closed down 2014 with 30 air strikes in iraq and syria, destroying several isis units. but as "the wall street journal" reports, the battle against isis will see a new focus in 2014. a top priority will be a ground offensive by iraqi forces to regain control of mosul. and there are fierce clashes near baghdad as u.s. troop

governor. >> before i move on, you matt you wrote this, five ways you know you you are speaking to white supremacist. it was founded by david duke. banners that say white group. the name of the group. the hotel hosting the event is ashamed. and no one there cares about his tax stand, which is what scalise claimed. you don't buy the story? >> i don't. i was having fun with it. why this story resonates is because the leadership of the republican party says they want to be responsible, a party that can show america they are serious about governing. there's a feeling they are indull gent off the radar screen of some of the darker impulses in their party and the darker impulses in america. that's why a story from 2002 resonates the way it does. i don't think it's credible just because david duke's right hand man said maybe he didn't speak. i think he was there and everybody knew what was going on. >> let's move to what we saw there senators individually always say that they will get things done and they will work together. then the reality hits the road. keystone gets on the pre's desk. he will veto it.

though he has apologized for speaking to a white supremacist group 12 years ago as a louisiana stateawmaker, members of the congressional black caucus would like to see him do more. some have suggested he deliver a major address, or push a big restoring key provisions of the voting rights act which were struck down by the supreme court. or she should consider attending the 50th anniversary of the march in selma, or even make a point to meet with the black caucus to explain his historic views. the seedry set if i was steve, i would be concerned about my legacy, and i'm sure he doesn't want hi legacy to be that he spoke to a david duke crowd. one southern government republican laking toed held newspaper that i think he would be prudent to put hess action to words. jonathan capeheart joins us, and kristin bell atoni, and -- i want to start and one through the job, jonathan, kristina and jack, all of you get in here. what should the member of congress do to respond -- it's hard to read it, or trust suggestions for his own welfare. jonathan, you first? >> it's definitely needed. if he wan

the powerful republican congressman who spoke at a white supremacist event in 2002. today the white house press secretary questioned whether scalise should still be the third ranking republican in the house after admitting he spoke before a group founded by former kkk leader david duke. >> who they choose to serve in their leadership says a lot about who they are, what their values are, and what the priorities of the conference should be. mr. scalise reportedly described himself as david duke without the baggage. so it will be up to republicans to decide what that says about their conference. >> it's the first time the white house has gone on the record about scalise's past. and it comes just a day before what was supposed to be the gop's triumphant takeover of congress, with a new republican majority. but now, speaker boehner finds himself trying to put down a tea party revolt in the house and senator mcconnell finds himself having to assure voters that the gop won't be quote, scary. he might not want americans to be afraid but just listen to what they've talked abou

. >> representative steve scalise is facing backlash after it was revealed he spoke before a white supremacistanization in 2002. >> jon: really, backlash? we have to look at it with a little historical content. back in 2002, back then, the civil rights act had only been in effect for ay really long time. good luck spinning your way out of this one, scalise. >> i'm not familiar who that griewt grooup was but from what i've seen about them they don't represent the values that i represent. i detest hate groups of any kind. >> jon: seriously though, you didn't know that you were talking to a white supremacist group? what did you think it was an oddly musicallist toga party? >> how could he not know? the group was founded by former ku klux klan grand wizard david dukes. it's called one of the leading top groups. >> jon: it's one of the top hate groups. it's not one of the safety hate groups people don't get in when they don't hate enough. those rankings are determined by j.d. white power and associates. so the republicans, they have some issues, but with the whole legislative branch to command they

. >> he spoke to white supremacists, i think it says volumes that the republican party in the house ising to run out john boehner and not steve scalise. >> listen, i think scalise is a good whip, he's a good man and a good congressman and i think he'll stick around. >> that's good for the democrats. they'll never forget this. this is on their happy list. dana milbank defending nobody. john defending steve scalise. >>> coming up, bob mcdonnell, once a rising star in the republican party, was on the short list to be mitt romney's running mate not so long ago, is going to the federal pen for a couple years. mcdonnell was sentenced today to two years behind bars. >>> and later, more on the festering problem for republicans that's not going away. as long as steve scalise stays in leadership, i believe the party has a chronic illness. do they really want to send the message that it's okay to associate with neo-nazi groups? this is "hardball," the place for politics. boy: once upon a time, there was a nice house that lived with a family. one day, it started to rain. the house tried to keep ou

. >> and a white supremacist finds conflict with the jail, his gang, and his girlfriend. >> just -- >> [ bleep ] you. >> no, baby, stop -- >> bye. bye. >> no. don't go. ♪ >>> san antonio, texas is synonymous with the 1836 battle of the alamo. the mission turned fort still stands at the heart of downtown as a symbol of honor and bravery. today, however, a very different war rages in san antonio, as two rival gangs shed blood in a power struggle to control a wide range of criminal activity, including drugs, prostitution, and human trafficking. and this turf war has expanded from the streets to inside the walls of san antonio's bear county jail. >> traditionally the mexican mafia, an outgrowth of a prison gang, had been a controlling gang here in san antonio, but here lately because members of the mexican mafia are getting older and some younger groups have come in and it's creating a lot of problems for us here at the bexar county jail. >> the capacity for 4,500 men and women, bexar county jail is larger than many state prisons. most of the inmates here are pretrial detainees, meaning t

white kids in the north are growing up and being taught by what can only be characterized as a white supremacist culture that there are races, they have immutable values, and white people are superior. i don't know how much that had an effect on him. i assume it had some, because after all he is living in that culture, you know what i am saying? i've got no documentation that says otherwise. that is the important point, guys. in the absence of reliable documentation to the contrary, i have to conclude that culture would have some affect on him. what the result is, i don't know. he leaves indiana with his family, moves to illinois. i will explain this in a second. that picture on the left is a romanticized picture of lincoln cutting fence rails about the time he leaves for illinois. norman rockwell, that sort of thing. haven't you guys seen this your life? the romantic lincoln, the rags to riches story. the great lincoln myth. i'm not going to argue with that. but here's the thing. if you had been a typical white person walking through the woods of indiana and you ran across this rawboned kid --

you are backing a guy that spoke to a white supremacist group. >> you mean senator burr. >> and the reality boehner is going to have this fight on the appropriations battles on all of the fights coming up. that's going to define the republican party. it's a fair problem for the 2016 presidential candidates that have to run with that than it is for boehner himself. >> your claim it was not a white supremacist group or it was okay because -- >> my claim is that he's apologized with the former democratic -- >> he should have known better. >> been a member of the ku klux klan and there's a double standard. african-american democrats in louisiana who know steve scalise have come out in his defense. lastly, we won a huge election here. there are more republicans in the hose than ever before. john boehner has a cushion to governor as he said a centrist agenda that is going to be put before the american people. >> it's not what i want to hear -- >> as much as i would like to start 2015 playing referee, we are out of time. big thank you. >> thank you. >>> i love it when they thank each other. that's

another one was dragged down a road by white supremacists.de after those deaths when obama signed the federal hate crimes law named in their honor, it was news partly because that law added sex to minorities of partial hate crimes. but that law also made one more important change about prosecuting these kinds of crimes. previously for the federal government to get involved to help prosecute a case like this, the victim would have had to be doing something or trying to do something that had specific federal protection, something like voting or going to school. the new law closed that loophole, allowing federal prosecutors to step in when, say, a man was attacked in a hotel parking lot for no reason other than the fact that he was black. because of that new law, because of the closing of that loophole, that killing in that hotel parking lot in jackson in 2011, that became a federal case. the killing of craig anderson became the first time the u.s. justice department used that new law in a murder case. and listen to what happened. first of all,

but he is good as gold. >> i ain't got nothing. >> gaffney pushed aside his white supremacist views to learn spanish from vote. >> once in a while we will get, white people, ex-aryan brotherhood. >> this is a culture shock. everyone speaks spanish around here. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i am the third wheel. i am lost. >> he is teaching me spanish, but doing no good. if i don't know what he is talking about. you know it is like, what is this in spanish? >> that's the same thing. >> oh, uno. is that what it is? >> yeah. >> ha-ha-ha. >> shows you how much i know. >> only time can tell, a permanent or sincere, the changes claimed by those in the ex-gang unit who will be here. kyle beauchamp, experienced undeniable changes in his stay at bexar county. he is now a trustee or inmate order. >> i have been working laundry for a week now. work, 9. 45, 10:00, whenever we are done. 6:00 in the morning. 7:00 in the morning. one of the benefits working laundry, coming out of the pod. eight, nine hours on end. also we work for food. we get two trays in the morning. two trays in the morning is

while still a teenager, he discovered the turner diaries, a venomously racist novel, lead by white supremacistsgainst a oppressive federal government. >> it describes a truck bombing of fbi headquarters in washington, d.c., shortly after 9:00 in the morning sounding very similar to what took place in oklahoma city on april 19th, 1995. >> if timothy mcveigh was looking to make a statement, then he had succeeded in the worst way possible. >> debris, glass. it looks as though emergency crews are on the scene. >> the incredible explosion that ripped apart the nine-story alfred p. murrah building hit with the force of roughly two tons of tnt. the air inside was whipped into a turning tornado on glass shards and choking black smoke. one floor pancaked onto the next crushing and trapping men, women and children below. >> the roof has collapsed. >> the second floor held a daycare center. the lucky ones staggered into the street, some barely alive. >> standing by. >> what the heck happened? >> i saw a yellow flash, and then everything went pitch black. >> the force of the blast bent me over my desk. >>

skau lease came under fire for attending a meeting held by a white supremacist group in 2002 when heit was a mace particular i regret and i am oppose the divisive retial and religious views groups like these hold. and joining me now is our congressional reporter for the "washington post." happy new year. >> thank you. >> this is the worst fallout for these for the republicans. >> unless something new surfaces regarding the associations with the white supremacist in louisiana he should pretty much be scott free. i think you will see democrats at different times try to remind voters about this but, you know he seems to have admitted that this was a one-time thing, and it's an anomaly, and top republicans and aides stand with him and agree with him, and they acknowledge if something else were to surface and provide more evidence of his associations with these people then he might be in trouble and might have to relinquish that leadership post. he got out ahead of it, and boehner as well the speaker supported him, and said there was nothing more to see and we will see what happens. >> wh

libertarians, neoconservatives white supremacists, black panthers. the right to own, exploit, and rape african-americans and their descendents forever. another comment, from a critic -- from bitter, defeated critics after appomattox, and academics in our own time, the 16th president has become an historical man for all seasons with each group having its own swing at the piÑata. it is amazing how some and he groups ideologically opposed to one another can hold a mirror up to this unique figure in american history and find the same monster staring back at them. [applause] >> thank you for having me here this evening. it is nice to hear those comments. michael was very kind to me at various points. that was nice when he gave a blurb. i was also lucky that my father-in-law grew up in a family of eight children, so i was able to go all over the u.s. for free while i did research. this is my wife's uncle, peter gutierrez. i am staying with him. i want to recognize peter and his family for all they have done for me. [applause] the title of my talk is unders

court documents show that brumback has ties to a white supremacist group. >>> ich'm following a developing story, the clock is ticking for jordanian authorities to heat the demands of isis militants and two lives hang in the balance. here is the deal presented to jordanian authorities. isis wants a woman that was convicted in a hotel bombing thisin 2005 released, in good change respect they will release a japanese journalist and they won't kill a jordanian pilot also be held hostage. the pilot won't be released but he won't be killed. the deadline has been extended to sun down. there is also a new audiotape from that japanese journalist kin gi go toe. he says the woman must be turned over at the tur bish borekish border in just a few hours. >>> the atf will begin recreating the deadly fire that burned down a mansion in annapolis. the fire started in an outlet that was powering 15,000 lights on the pyle family 15-foot christmas tree. the tree had been up for 65 days and was dried out. the fire spread quickly. don and sandy pyle and their grandchildren had no time to get out. investigators s

it's chief whip in the house of representatives admits to speaking at a meeting of white supremacistsgroup founded by international holocaust denier david duke. steve scalise of louisiana stands now as the party's entrenched evidence that its promise to reach out to other groups. to the far theft right when it comes to issues of race in this country. meanwhile, we look at a new film and whether it gives president lyndon johnson the respect he earned in pushing the civil rights act in 1964 and the voting rights act a year later. or does it make him a symbol of white resistance. especially to a president many consider the greatest civil rights advocate in american history. joining me now, jack king of georgia and ron christie, former adviser to vice president dick cheney. let me ask you this. after their losses in 2012, the republican national committee came up with a new strategy to appeal to minority communities called the growth and opportunity report. here's what chairman reince priebus said of that strategy before the national association of black journalists just last summer. >> l

after the boehner vote today scalise came under more pressure for speaking at a white supremacist event in 2002. john lewis called on scalise to apologize. and there's even pushback from within his own party with politico quoting that scalise may be quote, toxic in some gop circles. so on day one of the new congress, the gop is on the defensive. and president obama is throwing down the gauntlet. today the white house said it would veto the first bill the gop senate is planning to pass the keystone pipeline. and the president called on congress to work with him. i'm confident that there are going to be areas where we disagree and there will be some battles, but i'm also confident that there are enormous areas of potential agreement that would deliver to the american people. and we just have to make sure that we focus on those areas where we can make significant progress together. >> but in 2015 can speaker boehner work with the president? even if he can't even count on republicans to work with him? joining me now is msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt and political strategist angela

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. >> what i found is the power of white -- i think white supremacists understand whiteness the least, because -- >> and they understand grammar the least and -- >> and history and math and -- but like white supremacists are these people who bought into the promise of whiteness, that there's this pure white race that's been endowed with all the superiority of the other races which is all nonsense. but they bank everything on the purity of the white race and keeping the white race speur pure from all contamination. i don't think that's actually where the power of whiteness comes from. the power comes from the fact that it can mean anything. and i think i saw a brag once -- if you look at the definition of whiteness, versus what this definition is today, it's completely changed. that is sort of why i think what i do about the year 2042, beige being the new white, whiteness will be whatever it needs to be to stay right where it is. and that is the enduring underlying power of that idea. it's a horrible idea, a bad idea. communism is dying. white freedom supremacy just marches on year afte