and william lloyd garrison was a native of massachusetts. he was a white man. he was from a working-class background. his father had abandoned the family when he was quite young. and william had to go out to work. he started supporting himself when he was very young. he went into the printing business. he was a printer, and he worked for several newspapers. he for a while worked for a paper in baltimore, and he saw slavery up close and personal when he was living in a slave state, in the state of maryland. and he was horrified by what he saw. and he went back to boston and decided that he was going to open his own newspaper and he was going to devote it completely to abolishing slavery. and the newspaper was called -- does anybody know the name of his paper? yes. >> "the liberatoliberator." >> yes. "the liberator." good name. it's a good name for an anti-slavery newspaper. "the liberatoliberator." he found td in 1831. and garrison did the whole thing himself. he wrote many of the articles. he did the actual printing of the paper. he distributed the paper. this i

and william white is one of those unsung heroes of the abolitionist movement. you know, there are hundreds of people we don't know very much about who nonetheless took an active part in the movement and white is one of them. douglass said later i shall never forget that we were like two brothers, we were ready to dare, to do, and even die for each other. and he said that william white was a noble person. so this is, you know, high praise from one abolitionist to another. and we must remember that even though douglass was a black man and a slave and had experienced all kinds of racial prejudice in his life he did not hate white people. he understood that there were good-hearted, decent white people like william white. now, as douglass's and white's experience remind us, this was dangerous. this was a dangerous line of work. and some people would fight back. some abolitionist speakers when they were attacked, when they were physically assaulted, they would fight back. obviously, douglass and white are ready to fight back. some speakers believed in non-resistance,

here to discuss that and the obama re-election campaign is joe williams white house correspondent foritico. joe, welcome. >> hi. nice to be here. >> yeah. nice to have you inside the war room, political jumpingie that you are -- junkie that you are, we are glad to get your insight. your website is calling this yet to be published book dangerous. why? >> that's because in a white house and a re-election campaign, you don't want any surprises. you want your narrative tightly controlled. you want to be able to introduce the public or reintroduce you in this case if you are president obama, to the public on your own terms. the book actually re-examines president obama's youth and his formative years in new york city and comes up with a few details that he didn't quite spell out so clearly until "dreams for my father." that's number 1. no. 2, you have a white house that images everything messages everything so they don't like something that's out of their control, something that they have no ability to manage. so that's a second possibility that they are really worried about. the third is

if the corn crop failed, these local, king williams, whites and blacks, might be doing real poorly next winter. the indians would still be doing just fine, thank you. therefore, you can expect that there will be plenty of indians still. the refuge areas they were able to go to and they used resources that the white competition didn't want, enabled them to change their culture at a slow pace. it didn't mean it wasn't painful. we are all living through that now. they were able to adopt and survive and they are still here. thank you. [ applause ] >> any questions, pertinent or im? >> what was the food preparation with that stuff? were they making it into bread? was it a big mush? what was it? >> they did both. it makes only a moderately good flour. my chef friend who was the dirty one on the left side found that even with a quee sen art, he couldn't get it into smooth flour, the way you can with corn. from there, you can make it into a mush. what's recorded is that they made it into bread. by the way, i don't know whether it is going to be book number 9 or 10 for me. i am co-authoring a bo

. >> cnbc political analyst and joe williams, white house reporter for politico.en, i don't know if you were as skired as i was, but there was a commander-in-chief meeting with some in scary sit yaegss on post, during the night and day. and there he is telling countries behind them. whether that's true or not, i can only imagine chris, that's the one thing they want it hear. >> you know, chris, the commandener chief role i think is often down played in election times, particularly election times where the economy is so front and center. but i would say it is the most basic hurdle you have to clear. barack obama after becoming democratic nominee in 2008 went to europe to show that on a world stage he could be a commanding presence and he had kind of the right experience to do so. i think if you don't get beyond that initial hurdle to be able to give those speeches, to give remarks like you just heard with credibility, and with gravity, all the other stuff doesn't matter. it's kind after sinnonnon. and senate republic nominees will have to check that box. >> to see

right now, we're visiting with joe williams, white house correspondent for politico. politico.com. can follow joe again on his twitter handle at jdub321. w. someone else we know. >> no relation. >> bill: we're looking at this latest campaign, planned campaign against president obama to hit the week of the democratic convention, joe. and to highlight race-related sermons by jeremiah wright. what they're saying if john mccain had done this, no problem. obama would have never been elected, right? >> i don't think so. no. there was a reason why -- in the times story, they talk about how the consultants for john mccain were complaining he wouldn't let them go there because we think it is too incendiary, it is not good for the country. he's an old fuddy fuddy-duddy they said. there is a reason why mccain said no to this kind of a campaign because not only is it divisive, it also reminds fair-minded people, people who are independent and who don't necessarily lean one way or the other, the fact that the republican party has a real issue with the fact that this candidate is an african-amer

on january 27th, 1948, a white man, william horner, who was a secondhand store dealer in downtown trenton, new jersey, was murdered. seen leaving this crime were two light-skinned african-americans. six men were ultimately arrested. they had no way to fight back, no knowledge of their rights. the sister of one was determined to to find justice for the men. she found the civil rights congress when no one else would help. the civil rights congress was an arm of the communist party usa. the men were -- cases were appealed to the new jersey supreme court. after the appeal the convictions were all overturned. they were tried again. this time four men were acquitted, two men were found guilty, and this time not sentenced to be electrocuted. they were sentenced to death at hard labor. these two appealed, their convictions were overturned again. this time one died in if -- in prison before he could be tried again, and he was the brother of the lady who got them help. the last one made a deal for time served. people think that this could not happen now, but i would refer you to the cases of the no

chris, alice stewart, former campaign press secretary for rick santorum and joe williams, the white houserespondent for politico. it's great to see all 3 of you. alice, mitt romney is going to be in iowa to speak about the economy and the nation's debt. this new romney ad, featured unemployed iowans. the unemployment rate is 5.2%. iowa being the swing state as it is. alice i know you know it well from the primary season. if iowa is on a consistent path right now, what does mitt romney offer to iowans that might make them change course off of president obama. >> well, no matter what the unemployment rate is in iowa, there's still many people in iowa and across the country out of work, 23 million to be exact. the web out that they put out showed struggling iowans, people that have faced the consequences of the failed policies of the obama administration. they're telling their stories about how they lost jobs and their companies shut down due to the policies of the administration that failed to make things better for people in iowa and across the country. there's a big difference, a sharp co

because he's not brian williams and it's not nbc. >> sean: republicans saying -- oh, i mean the whitese... watch this. >> what do you think of the republican criticism that we are politicizing the white house, i should say, is politicizing it with the obama ad, which focuses on this, in part? and all of the events around today? >> sean: we are politicizing -- i mean white house, not me. i meant the white house. >> you know, ms-nbc is a mess in so many ways. this week, we get the memos from al qaeda and it turns out that an al qaeda spokesman called ms-nbc, a good and neutral network. >> sean: bin laden apparently missioned keith oberman and thought that was a great loss to the network. >> i love it when he's analyzing fox news. >> sean: yeah. no, no, no -- we are the most hated network. i think it's a badge of honor. >> you know, how is it that andrea mitchell reports the news at night and analyze its in the morning. saying the other night, as she said, we should call the advand interrogation techniques, otherwise known as torture. >> sean: chris mathews had a thrill up his leg that c

kennedy came to my college, university of georgia in 1971, and the desegregation was given by a white judge, william boodle and kennedy came in may of '61 to speak at the law day ceremony, and by this time the consciousness of the administration had been raised to a certain extent and so the state representatives, none of the top officials of georgia would attend because they were afraid of what bobby kennedy would say. here i was one of two black students on a campus of 20,000 who had rioted when we went into the university, but that calmed down after three days. we didn't have to have ernie's troops come in. [ laughter ] so ken i did coming and i really want to hear what he has to say especially since all of these georgia laegtd tours were so concerned about what he was going to say. so i spoke to a sympathetic professor, most of whom didn't speak to me at that point, but he did, and so he got me into the room, and sure enough, he started with the whole notion of the cold war. that was his context for saying that you have to obey the federal laws. and then -- and i wrote about this in my first boo

university of georgia, i desegregated in january of '61 the desegregation order was given by a white republican judge william boodel. kennedy came at '61 to speak at the lay day ceremony. by this time there has been a consciousness of the administration had been raised to a certain extent. so the state representatives, none of the top officials of georgia would attend because they were afraid of what bobby kennedy was going to say. and so here i was one of two black student tons campus of 20,000 who had rioted when we went into the university, but that calmed down after about three days. we didn't have to haver knee's troops come -- have ernie's troops come in. kennedy is coming and i'm saying, i really want to hear what he has to say. especially since all of these georgia legislatures were so concerned about what he was going to say. i spoke to a sympathetic professor, most of whom didn't speak to me at that point, but he did. so he got me into the room. and sure enough he started with the whole notion of the cold war. i was sitting somewhere invisible in the class of room of 200 or 300 students. and all of

. >>> to prince william county now. a white supremacist is under arrest. he is suspected we should a. the fbi legally obtained a fully automatic ak-47. they began investigating after he posted about his intention to buy the gun. he also wrote threatening posts about president obama. if convicted, he faces 10 years in prison. >>> a baby-sitter is charged with child neglect after three young children walked more than a mile from home. that baby-sitter is la sheka harmon. the manager of a taco bell found a 7-year-old at the restaurant and called police. officers found the child's four and six-year-old siblings walk nation nearby field. investigators say harmon was at home watching and 18-month-old and claims she let the kid outside to play. children have been returned to their mother now. >>> troubling news about the air we breathe. up next here on fox 5 morning national hurricane center a not so pleasant global milestone. >> a man opens fire in a cafe. the latest on this deadly scene as we check more headlines.  does your phone give you all day battery l

joe williams is a white house reporter for politico, fill in some details if you can what will be done now in reality, not in theory or moral victories, how will people get to vote given all of these laws like in georgia and pennsylvania that are onerous requirements to get to vote. >> it seems like when barack obama put his hand on the bible in 2008, it evaporated. they will take some tactics from the '60s, and teach people at churches, get pastors to talk about this this church, with neighbors, knocking on row houses to make sure everyone knows what law is and everyone is prepared to meet the law when the polls open in november. >> i actually think it could be, you know, a surprisingly positive thing. it's done for all the wrong reasons, but if this energizes the local people to get them to go do to door to work with the people, to get to that office and get that id card, this could energize people. maybe it's a bigger hurdle than they should have had to face. if they get out there and pass this hurdle and do this work politically, you might be able to reenergize local politics. >> t

and joe williams covers the white house for the politico. good afternoon to all of you.e president going off to hollywood in a moment. it is mother and son day and ann romney has an editorial column in "usa today." she's done an interview that will be broadcast tomorrow on fox news. this appears to be, the dualed pillars, which is ann romney and fox news. where does mitt romney come in? >> i'm not sure. she said some lovely things. it was a beautifully written op ed and it talk about her mom and her being a mother. she said that her husband gives her lilacs every mother's day and it was lovely. it shows that she will have to carry the whole ball here. she is the one most capable of sounding human. so they're going to use her in that way. >> dane, a there is a third leg to this pack that i was just referring to. super pac attack ads. here is the latest right now. watch this. >> ann romney raised five boys. she successfully battled breast cancer. and multiple sclerosis. what does white house insider hilary rosen say about ann romney? >> guess what. his wife has actually ne

joe williams covers the white house for politico. and dana milbank for the "washington post."on to all of you. rush limbaugh is ranting again. this time because of a new book about president obama. today's politico features a story claiming it could be potentially problematic for the white house. the book is titled, barack obama, the story, written by pulitzer prize winner david maraniss. and it features a detailed look at it's as obama's time in new york city and his relationship with this woman, genevieve cook, whom he dated in the early 1980s, including some revealing entries from her diary. joe, does this book threaten the life narrative that the president has so carefully written in his autobiographies? >> well, it threatens it to the degree that not everything that he wrote about was actually real or actually, he admitted that. i think to that end, it is not all that threatening to his life narrative. it probably brings a lot more details, a few more details into sharper relief. and frankly, when i read it i felt like it was more salacious than revelatory, if i can get t

. >> in your response to william daley, the white house chief of staffs and the obama administrationed the strike against anwar awlaki and easy one? >> i think one of the things the article did would shed light on president obama's character. we can talk a lot about his policies, and that is what is usually must and. he has been embracing these radical theories of executive power even george bush's chief and former cia has lavishly praised another bush officials are over the moon about in terms of president obama and forcing them, so we know his policies have been a radical, but you have one of the most controversial things a president can do -- ordering an american citizen assassinated by the cia and total secrecy without any due process, never been charged with a crime. they could have charged him if they really had evidence. they simply secretly ordered his assassination. it turns out there was no straggling in terms of the difficult constitutional and ethical issues it presents. he has declared this was a "easy" decision, something he made quite easily. we find out not only is ex

. >>> tonight an extraordinary look inside the white house situation room. brian williamsjoin us to talk about it. >>> man pulls over a woman on her way to church, flashing a bafrmg. now a warning for all drivers in the area. >>> caps and rangers, overtime duel at verizon center. we'll have the highlights. >> we begin with rare inside into the situation room. it was about a year ago as president obama watched and navy s.e.a.l. team 6 carried out a raid on the compound. the talk was the liter of al qaeda, osama bin laden. the mission took less than an hour, but president obama said it with us the longest 40 minutes of his life. the final decision whether to carry out the plan took much longer and was made in the days before. >> we had been preparing for months now. at that point, you have some serenity in knowing that you've made the best possible decision that you can and, you know, in that situation, you just -- you do some praying. >> the most important day of your presidency? >> most important single day of my presidency. the most intense concentrated day that i've had

there was a moment of white settlers -- white individuals playing william henry harrison and american soldiers fighting against white actors playing the shawnee prophet and native american warriors reenact the battle of tippecanoe in 1811 and immediately following that they exited stage left to never return to the pageant at march that clear so it is concise breaking point between an empty genius landscape and one that was wait state development and state driven. despite the fact that indiana is or who shares the that communities like the miami community still lived among them, many of them probably attended itself in the tercel passions of the road in northern indiana that challenged. most of it is to justify a war further emphasize the state development and progress and there is a narrative of progress moving away from a colonial indigenous path to one of modernism and development at hoosier source of taking part in today and still telling themselves. the native people from the landscape for a century and a half now going on two centuries was part of that story progress. historians

and there's a moment where white settlers, and it was really white individuals playing william henry harrison and american soldiers fighting against again white actors playing on the shawnee prophet and native american warriors. they reenacted the battle of 1811. following that indians exited stage left and never returned in the pageant. it marked a clear set of concise breaking point between an indigenous path landscape and one that was white state development and state driven. despite the fact that hoosiers in 1916 knew that committees like the communities in indiana still lived among the many of them probably attended the pageant itself. and rehousing paget's of their own in northern indiana that challenged the very near to. i think most of it is to justify or empathize state development and progress. and it is this narrative of progress moving away from a indigenous past one of modernism and development that hoosiers are still taking part today, and still telling themselves. and i think the landscape for century and have not gone on to centuries was part of that story of progress.

and now an msnbc political analyst and joe williams who covers the white house for politico.to both of you. mitt found a severely conservative line to use on the president this week that marriage is between a man and his offshore bank accounts. sorry, i mean, a man and his wife. i'm sorry. a man and his wife. i do apologize. was that appearance at liberty more about winning votes or is he really having just to remind conservatives that hey, i'm one of you, really. >> yeah. i think that appearance at liberty was design to try to make additional inroads with religious conservatives. we know that that is a voting bloc that he is going to need a great deal of support from if you just look at the places in the country, the states in the country where he is trying to cobble together the votes to get to 70. this is an important vote he can't take for grand. he had to address this issue of same sex marriage. but i think as rand paul showed, there is a danger to the republican party that their own folks will go too far in the way they talk about the issue and kind of wedge mitt romney

performance where they reenacted that history and there is a moment where white settlers and it was really quite individuals playing william henry harrison and american soldiers fighting against white actors playing the shawnee prophet and native american warrior, to the battle typical new --tippecanoe. it marked a clear concise breaking point between the an indigenous landscape and one that was white state development and state driven. next -- despite the fact in 1916 they knew that miami communities of indiana still lived among them many of them attended the pageant itself and were hosting pageants of their own in northern indiana that challenge that. most

white. keith williams thought he was going to be meeting a young teenage girl. what would have happened if i wasn't here, keith? you show up with booze. what else? >> that's all, booze. >> you got booze? you're going to booze up a 13-year-old girl? >> i don't even know if she was 13, no matter what she says. >> what did she tell you? >> you're right. can we get down to you can hang around, i'm telling you i am wrong. >> it's not your first time down this road, chat wise. >> i'll get rid of my computer, i'm not that great on it anyway. i'll get rid of it. i'll never touch the thing again. i'll go to meetings whatever you need me to do. it's not that i'm kissing your ass. it's just that i know that i'm wrong. >> so many guys deny, deny, deny. but williams almost immediately falls on his own sword. i mean, he's admitting to me, yeah, i was wrong, i shouldn't have done it, what's going to happen to me now? he wants to figure out how he can move through the process as quickly as possible. >> how much trouble am i in here? >> how much trouble do you think you're in? >

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. >>> a suspected white supremacist is prince william county is facing federal began charges after authorities he illegally obtained a fully automatic ak-47. the fbi says they began investigating story after he posted on a white supremacist web site about his intexts to buy the gun and murder law enforcement officers if martial law was enacted in the u.s. he also wrote threatening posts about president obama. >>> he says he was just trying to help a person in need by giving him a few bucks. but what did he get in return for it? >> how about a hefty ticket? several hundred dollars in fact. up next, we'll explain why he will be in court today. stay with us. [ male announcer ] we began with the rx. ♪ then we turned the page, creating the rx hybrid. ♪ now we've turned the page again with the all-new rx f sport. ♪ this is the next chapter for the rx. this is the next chapter for lexus. this is the pursuit of perfection. . >>> the house is set to vote today on a bill that would make day federal crime to have an abortion based on the gender of fetus. supporter argue it is also happening in the u.s. a

top secret meetings started up inside the situation room, the sit room as it's known in white house parts. william mccraven outlined the possible raid on the suspected bin laden compound. >> i had 100% faith in the navy s.e.a.l.s themselves. bill mccraven, the head of special forces, had worked with us for months to think through every possible scenario. he's a guy that inspires a lot of confidence. he's a no nonsense guy. >> i remember a moment in the sit room. someone said, you know, this sounds really dangerous. we're going to expose our guys. what do we know is going to happen? he said with all due respect, we've done this hundreds of times. >> the planning picked up speed and by april 21st of last year, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mike mullen attended a dress rehearsal at a mock compound they set up in the nevada desert. >> i met that night every single member the night of the rehearsal. every member that was on that mission. i got to look each of them in the eye. they showed me in their execution of rehearsal and also in that steely-eyed glare that they give you that they were

william l. finley, he would come to the white house and show him pictures of wild oregon, roosevelt went up to portland and met him once, and it became a movement to save the wildlife of oregon. the states particularly in the west and florida, you can't even -- you can't write about the states without seeing the impact roosevelt has had. these weren't easy things to do. when he saved the grand canyon, he went there and said don't mar the grand canyon, standing on the rim, it's for future generations you cannot improve the beauty of it. he then was shocked to find congress that was ready to mine it for asbestos and zing zinc, copper and commercialize it. roosevelt used and executive order, congress refused to make the grand canyon a national park. they refused. roosevelt had a weapon, the antiquitieies act of 1906, i so declare it a national monument for future generations. overriding congress. the key to tr's conservation he did it with a group but congress and particularly western senators and congressmen were not in the federal government grabbing an area like the grand canyon and closing it off. roo

bobby williams skinner, white house counsel on faith based and neighborhood partnerships will come atme to lead us to the throne of grace that every heart be. dr. skinner. >> let us look to the hills this morning, our brothers and sisters. oh sovereign god of the universe and creator of all that live, god we greet you this morning with praise on our lips and thanksgiving in our hearts for another day to acknowledge your awesome power, your excellent greatness and your matchless love. god, there are no words this morning to express our gratitude for your keeping power over our lives and our families and our work. for even when we moved in ways that offended you, god, you still sent jesus to die in our place, giving us the authority this morning to come boldly to your thrown of grace to seek the help and mercy in time of need. god, today the conference of national black churches needs your grace and mercy for the healing of our people, the building of communities and the empowering of those left on the back roads of life. this morning, lord, we feel a special gratitude for the many head

"the ed show" is taking the night off to show you brian williams and his exclusive look at what happened inside the white house situation room the night osama bin laden was killed. enjoy the show. we'll be back tomorrow night. >>> tonight on "rock center," from the chair the president was sitting in when this photo was taken, from this very room, television cameras are inside the white house situation room for the very first time as we look back on the death of osama bin laden. >> we had been preparing for months. we had seen mock-ups of the compound. we had looked at helicopter flight patterns. >> the president said, it's a go. and we looked at him. he said, it's a go. >> you know, in that situation, you just, you do some praying. >> what were you watching? >> we were able to monitor in realtime what was taking place. >> the mood was tense. >> we could see the helicopters, we could see our guys moving. >> when we saw the helicopter spinning, we said, that's not the plan. >> we were all holding our breath. >> and everyone went like, whoa. >> we thought about if there was a failure here, it would have dis