society. >> alabama's segregationist governor george wallace first raised the confederate flag over the state capital dome on april 25th, 1963. alabama's segregationist politicians had been happily governing in the state house without help or inspiration of the confederate flag. governor wallace raised the flag that day, not in honor of confederate soldiers but in defiance of the united states of america. specific defiance of the attorney general of the united states robert kennedy, who came to visit george wallace that day to tell him that the united states government would crush him, if he carried out his announced plan to stand in the doorway of the university of alabama to prevent the first black students from entering the university. months later, wallace flamboyantly stood in that doorway and, as promised, was pushed aside by the national guard on the orders of president kennedy. and the confederate flag continued to fly over the alabama state capital, as nothing but a symbol of defiance. defiance crushed by the government of the united states of america. as of today, that flag is

the united states robert kennedy, who came to visit george wallace that day to tell him that the united states government would crush him, if he carried out his announced plan to stand in the doorway of the university of alabama to prevent the first black students from entering the university. months later, wallace flamboyantly stood in that doorway and, as promised, was pushed aside by the national guard on the orders of president kennedy. and the confederate flag continued to fly over the alabama state capital, as nothing but a symbol of defiance. defiance crushed by the government of the united states of america. as of today, that flag is no longer flying. the governor bentley had all four confederate flags on the grounds removed this morning. in south carolina today, thousands of people came to pay their respects to state senator clementa pinckney whose body is lying in state in the capital row dunn ta. according to the charleston post and courier, he is the first african-american given the honor since reconstruction. black curtain was placed over a window of the rotunda to b

, it's "late night with seth meyers." tonight -- edie falco. comedian george wallace. music from fall out boy. featuring the 8g band with jon theodore. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now, here he is, seth meyers! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening, everyone. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how's everybody doin' tonight? [ cheers and applause ] good to hear, you guys. let's get this out of the way. congrats to american pharoah for winning the triple crown. did anybody watch the race on saturday? [ cheers and applause ] very exciting for american pharoah. in fact, experts say american pharoah can now breed with between 120 and 150 horses per year which is a lot for a horse. but not really a lot for a professional athlete, so -- [ laughter ] nice to know it's fair. for both man and horse. [ applause ] >> seth: it was a big weekend. last night was also game two of the nba finals and the tony awards, and if you couldn't decide which of those to watch i'm guessing that's not the only decision you're struggling with. [ laughter ] that was me -- that was me last night,

forces. third party candidate george wallace was more blunt. referring to the court as a sorry, lousy, no account outfits and blaming it for just about everything. indeed, in the hands of nixon and wallace the supreme court became a powerful tool for attracting voters. a device for constructing a new electoral coalition. for example, the nixon campaign features a powerful commercial like one entitled "the first civil right of every american," which meant the right to be free from domestic violence. nixon's use of the phrase "the first civil right," turns the notion of civil rights on its head. no longer were civil rights about ending racial discrimination. there were about combating crimes in the streets. hearing these words, liberals were alarmed. nixon's election -- they feared his appointments would challenge and even perhaps even reverse some of the warren court's great decision expanding rights. court suggests the president did not succeed. in the view of liberal and conservative scholars and commentators, it was a counterrevolution that was not. the berger court not only left ma

have a george wallace. well, who is today's george wallace standing in the door of the schoolhouse or standing at the side of the flagpole? and so we're going to see that happening, but i think eventually people -- like you saw in charleston, white folks and black folks have come together in times of adversity where we have decided that we have to be together in order to make a better america. >> judith brown dianis, that it is. rachel maddow starts now. >>> thanks at home for joining us at this hour. the web site gawker is occasionally really quite profane. gawker is known, for example, for posting celebrity sex tapes. gawker also occasionally breaks real news, as they did with this story that they did on the shirtless craigslist ads which resulted in a married family values new york republican resigning from the united states congress. gawker also occasionally breaks big news as they did with this dump on photos, photos of the security contractors who were charged with guarding the u.s. embassy in kabul. they were guarding the embassy in kabul until this story came out and these

will be long remembered in history as the george wallace for the struggle blocking the door of the hall of justice and saying no twice. but we have come long and far from that day. we newly that this myth that we even here perpetuated by a number of number of supreme court justices today that the definition of marriage hasn't been changed for thousands of years why change it now? i say this to my friends in the press in particular, when anyone says to you that they are defending traditional marriage, ask them what their definition of traditional marriage is? is it the definition of marriage as we know it from the bible that if the bride is not a virgin on her wedding day that we stone her to death? is that your definition of traditional marriage? or is it the definition of marriage up until the mid 19th century until women could not sign contracts independent of their husbands because they and their labor were literally and legally the property of their husbands? is that the definition of marriage you're defending? or before the fact of divorce until death do us part? a lifetime co

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very clear from the book that it was george wallace who was votethe loose cannon in alabama. you attended a meeting with him and earlier with president johnson. tell me about those two men. >> interesting personalities indeed. i was chosen at the end of the selma, montgomery march. i missing infant and dexter avenue baptist church with my wife joyce who is in the audience today, and here was dr. king on this stage, winding out a powerful event, dr. king gave one of his greatest speeches even greater than the i have a dream speech, is not well known but they were winding everything down and dr. king and announces the 15 clergy who were to meet with george wallace. george wallace would not meet with dr. king, said that is off-limits and king said okay, meet with the leaders of the movement. clergy had been involved in the movement and when he read off my name, the only white clergy in the group, i was quite surprised. it was an interesting meeting to meet with the man who said in front of the university door, trying to -- previously trying to shutdown integration of the university

department how to handle george wallace. here he is, bob kennedy. >> i would take it to almost dismiss him as being a second rate figure. >> amazing thing to have a brother who is willing to be your enforcer. >> that's what bobby did. there he is. and they're bothered, wallace is driving them crazy. he won't take their calls. he won't meet bobby kennedy. there he is down in alabama standing in the door of the university against those, the two students in the car unable to register. they say why do we have to deal with this guy? he's on the wrong side of history. we know he is. they will face him down later in the afternoon. jfk will issue an executive order. they'll call the national guard, move him out of there and they won't waste a crisis, which is why he'll go on the air and announce in that extraordinary speech. >> great to have aggressive federal government who knows what it's doing. right out of the gate this year hillary clinton is calling out her republican opponents to restrict access to the ballot box. here she is in houston last week. >> republicans are systematical

florida is a state with a racist past itself. they voted for george wallace. >> he had a conversion late in his life. >> he had a conversion. they voted for him before le had a conversion. >> right. >> i think that sort of leadership, it sends a message. you can sit there and wing your lands or say, actually what alabama's governor said i'm governor. he did it 14 years later than jeb. i'm governor and i'm taking him down. >> there is, you are right, joe, this is an example by some to denounce what the flag symbolizes for so many americans and say this belongs in a museum and not flying over state capitals but there are many other republicans, particularly republican candidates who have had a moment of pause in terms of moral clarity. >> if you polled those state senators two weeks ago, how would the polls have been? >> probably the opposite. it is striking how it took such a horrendous act of racial murder so to speak in terms of this young killer to really shift the politics on this so quick. >> it wasn't that south carolina was edging in that direction. >> well there have been eff

away from talking about race openly. we can do like george wallace or goldwater, we have to find a way to talk about race without sounding like -- he listed a number of things. tax cuts, forced busing, states rights as code language for talking about race. ronald reagan used it when he started his campaign. he started his campaign in philadelphia, mississippi. he never said the n-word, but he used the code words. and by being in philadelphia where suwanee, cheney and goodman were killed, -- today with the president is saying you have to look at structural systemic racism. that is what that young men meant when he said summit is try to take over and destroy my country. he had heard politicians and others saying the president is running the country, he's a socialist and a communist, medicaid, destroying the country. we raise the wages, destroying the country. only the willfully deaf cannot hear the racialized implications of that kind of rhetoric in a kind of policy, which is why i agree with the president that we have to talk about race in terms of systemic racism and situational ra

discovered king in the study did george wallace's speeches and actually found them sort of brilliant in what he did and admired and them. let me ask a question everybody. what did you all read the as you wrote your books to get your head in into this world that you are trying to encompass besides the research you are reading? for example, jonathan, you're immersed yourself and try to write like -- did you try to, -- some of you sound like you have been reading paperback thrillers to get that taste of of the drama of the narrative going. so what did you all read? malcolm: i read a bunch of mexican crime books, mainly one. if anybody is adjusted and mexican organized-crime he knows it all. he has been very close to it as a journalist, not connected legally. he knows how it all works. in terms of other books i read it -- i've been a fan of mark bowden. partly because i speak spanish. i understand mexican and at the end of the day i'm cornyn and mark bowden has had a with black hawk down, killing paulo capturing a foreign story and making it a narrative and that's very readable. part of my goal

specific bible verses as the reason they are religiously opposed to interracial marriages. when george wallace gave his inaugural address as governor of alabama and he said segregation today, segregation tomorrow segregation forever, he followed it with this conciliatory explanation that he thought segregation could be good to black people and should be viewed as good for black people because after all, it comes from the bible. it's in his religion. >> we invite the negro citizens of alabama to work with us from a separate racial station, as we will work with him to develop, to grow an individual freedom and enrichment. this is the basic heritage of our religion that we are all the handy work of god. >> the handy work of god. but god made separate handy works. franklin graham says he's got nothing against gay people just that god told him to take his money out of wells fargo and put it this that other bank. god has not yet explained what a parade is but that's next sunday's lesson. michigan lawmakers don't want children to be placed in loving kits because god might tell someone that a

george wallace on yesterday and you guys started together. and i asked him, how -- at what age did you guys -- how early into comedy did you guys know that you were better -- or you were good enough to do it for a living? did you know pretty early? >> yeah. i would say -- well, we didn't know if there was any jobs. >> seth: right. >> when we started in comedy in '75, '76, there were just these clubs in new york it was an open mic auditions. and they would say, "okay, you can come and perform here every night." but it was for free. we didn't know if there was any other jobs. so we didn't know if we would make a living. we really didn't know what we were doing. >> seth: one of my favorite things about doing "comedians in cars", was you -- because you do pay us. i think that's really nice. >> a lot. >> seth: you do pay us. >> yeah, a lot. seth: and it's a very nice thing, because we pay you for being a guest on this show. it's not a lot. >> it's not a lot. [ laughter ] >> seth: and worse is this. because you -- you're never going to see it. it's a check that's going to go to someone e

mentality of a george wallace. >> they are homicidal. >> they are homicidal and we have to get to the bottom of it. i'm glad the federal government is coming around to charge him with a hate crime and defining this as a terrorist act. >> you accompanied the body of senator pinckney into the statehouse yesterday. wasn't that an incredible scene? >> it was. my emotions ran the gamete. i've been saying in trying to describe my feelings when i saw the horse-drawn carriage come up by the flag i was a little bit enraged and for the first time -- i'm feeling hateful in my heart. but then i got a chance to hug his wife and to hug his little girls. and the look in their eyes and to understand that our mission is much larger than that and we have to be resilient. >> reporter: you were feeling hate in your heart because the flag was still hanging here? >> the flag was still hanging here. although the flag did not pull the trigger and shoot my dear friend and those others. it was a ban under which the killer found some justification. and that for me was the heartache. >> reporter: some thought go

and another level he can sound like gorges wallace. that is the george wallace moment. what i gain by appealing to an antigovernment philosophy that suggests i'm in with him and his militia men because they have unpaid grazing fees and want state ownership released and private ownership of the lands. he figures he gains more by siding with bundy than being opposed to his visit ronnic viewpoints and racist beliefs. and you would think rand paul would be a bit more careful in the aftermath of what happened in charleston and the nation's swing against confederate flags and other symptoms in this country. nothing more politically states he is out of tune than his forging connections with bundy. >> this is the kind of thing that can haunt somebody on the campaign trail. he's been trying to connect with african american voters. how far does this set him back in your opinion? >> a long way. there is no explaining this away. and what he's done again, the political calculation is this. what i can gain by appealing to the bundys of the world, i don't mind sacrificing the african american vote t

opposition to federal intervention when it came to civil rights. it was a year after george wallace raised it over the state capitol. many people don't understand this flag actually disappeared for several decades and was brought back to fight the black freedom movement and the civil rights movement. i don't want to hear nonsense who talk about it's our heritage. it's a hate symbol that has no place over any state capitol flying on any grounds in america. >> it's interesting. jeffrey goldberg said he didn't understand why it isn't treated the way the swastika is treated. there was an survey and it found the country divided over this. this is interesting. they found 49% of americans say that the confederate flag is a symbol of racism. an equal number see it as southern pride. are you surprised by that? almost 50/50. >> no. i'm not surprised. because americans have always been lied to when it comes to our history. that's the problem. it's not history, it's history. when you have had numerous politicians, when you had numerous individuals going on television on radio saying no this is about c

george wallace, in savpoluos. >> that man mr. wallace exchanged text messages with an unnamed woman and sent her a photograph, a picture of a red back with the ransom money pence of it. according to post the messages read at 9:00 from the woman, dam, i wonder how much it is wallace replied, 40 40,000. she responded, jesus. an hour-and-a-half later he wrote to him, himself, saying package delivered. this morning, three weeks after the mursd of the savalopoulous family the d.c. police are focusing on this man, george wallace, his assistant and personal driver the man that delivered the ransom to the multi-million dollar home n. newly unsealed search warrants wallace admitted he lied and changed his account about the $40,000 ransom including how he received the package, where he left it and what he was told to get the pack annual. detectives obtained a search warrant for all of his call texts and location beginning sunday may 10th three days before police believe the terrifying ordeal began. nbc news has been unable to reach wallace. darren wint remains the only suspect charged in the

robert kennedy was coming to governor george wallace, the democratic party segregationist governor most of them were democratic party segregationist governors at that time, to tell him that if he carried out his public threat to stand in the doorway to block the first african-american students coming to the university of alabama, he would be crushed by the government of the united states of america. and that is exactly what happened. he did carry out his threat to stand on the doorway, national guard on the orders of president john kennedy, pushed him aside. that's what had to happen. but what made that flag go up is george wallace's way of saying to bobby kennedy, i'm here to fight you, i'm here to defy you. so the flag in its new incarnation, 20th century incarnation, was nothing but a message of defiance and defiance directly to the government of the united states of america. >> and amy, obviously a lot happening very quickly since this tragedy. we've got governors across the deep south now saying take it down. >> indeed. and i think long overdue, frankly. as lawrence points out thes

him. >> it reminds me of the court house door or the schoolhouse door with george carly wallace. >> same thing. >> where he stood in the doorway and katzen back who was taller than him moved him aside. the author of "bush's brain" which is still in question. >>> can republicans do anything to slow him down? bigger question is how well he's doing right now going to help hillary clinton win the election next year? we'll get to that with the roundtable. when you travel, we help you make all kinds of connections. connections you almost miss. and ones you never thought you'd make. we help connect where you are. to places you never thought you'd go. this, is why we travel. and why we continue to create new technology to connect you to the people and places that matter. when a moment spontaneously turns romantic why pause to take a pill? and why stop what you're doing to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use, is the only daily tablet approved to treat erectile dysfunction so you can be ready anytime the moment is right. plus cialis treats the frustrating urinary symptoms of bph, like n

integration of the schools. i can still remember seeing george wallace saying segregation now segregation forever. host: all right george. in search valley -- seven valley pennsylvania. a democrat. caller: i'm 76 years old. i remember a lot of presidents when they were in power. for instance for roosevelt, he did a lot for backs. not only for blacks but for all american. i was a young girl at the time. i was born in 1939. in the early 1940's, he and his wife. if wasn't for carter we wouldn't have student loans. he made it affordable so all people can go to school especially black. i became a teacher under carter. he had set up scholarships and things for people like me to go to school and to finish my education. clinton did a lot for the blacks johnson was the one who had his so far civil right bill. kennedy did a lot for the blacks. obama did a lot. you wondering why black people vote for democrats. that's the reason. i was under a lot of republicans presidents. they didn't talk about the black. they only talk about walls and what they will do for the white community. nothing

racist and that george wallace was a prophet. you know voting out large districts that hadn't allowed a single minority person in the student government. and raised a lot of hell and upset a lot of people on my college campus a lot of white people on my college campus. but i never made the link. as i gots older and people talking about how offensive it was, we moved forward and moved forward, it got to a point where you're okay, what point are we trying to make? yes, i lot of south. there are other ways to show i love the south that doesn't offend other people. there became more of a realization as we moved through the 1990s it just stopped being used in polite society. it stopped being like hey, i lot of south. i love the atlanta braves i love whatever. and so here we are in 2015 if this doesn't move people to say enough -- >> oh, my god. >> a massacre in south carolina where the confederate flag is being -- battle flag is being used as a symbol of hatred certainly by this young murderer, then what -- what's -- how far do we have to go? >> if you look in american museums and

very expensive. but you don't want to have candidate, like george wallace shot. you don't want anybody killed. it's on their watch and they are very concerned about it will stop whether the campaign should pay for that, that's very complex. it's an interesting idea. i'm sure the secret service would like to have more funds coming in to cover this. host: we will certainly watch what is going on with that legislation as it moves through congress. we hope to have you back again. james thurber is the director of american cities. you can check it out online. we appreciate your time. and today is officially the start of the 2015 hurricane season and we will talk about the hurricane forecast in the next segment of washington journal and how the federal government distributes moneys to state who suffer natural disasters. that is coming up next. ♪ >> tonight on the communicators jean kimmelman and harold for scott-rot on time warner cable. >> we would love to have more competition. hardly anyone has broadband providers wireless providers are bit, but they cannot provide the video stre

a candidate like george wallace shot andy don't want anybody killed so it's on their watch. they are very concerned about it. that's very complex and it's an interesting idea. i'm sure the secret service would like to have some more funds coming in to cover this. >> host: we will certainly watch what's going on with the legislation as it moves through congress. hope to have you back again in the future if there is further movement before the 2016 election. james thurber is director of the american center for presidential studies. check it out on line ad american.edu. we appreciate your time this morning. >> guest: thank you. >> we would love to have more competition. very few consumers have more than one wire to the home. some have satellite for video. hardly anybody have two broadband providers. wireless providers are available but they can provide the videostreaming that you get from your cable company or your fios if you have a telephone delivered service and so the question as where'd you get more competition? the competition is coming over that very same wire so it's the sam

at hello. >> yeah. or you can call george clooney and vacation with chris wallace they vacationed together. >> they're buddies but they didn't get invited to the wedding. >> i'm not going to make you choose between these guys. >> clooney, kilmeade or doocy? do you really want an answer to that? >> i'll take a double with kilmeade and doocy. >> i need some hip waders around here. we'll watch you on sunday. >> buy. >>> it is 22 minutes before the top of the hour. >>> we are following a press conference taking place in upstate new york. it is a fox news alert about that prison working that's accused of helping the inmates escape. the district attorney is saying that joyce mitchell did not provide those power tools to inmates. but she provided them with other contraband but wouldn't say what that was. she could face several felony charges. we'll keep you posted as the press conference continues. >>> new images just released shows how depraved isis is. take a look at this picture of children attacking one another in fighting pits. they are believed to be as young as 10 years old. child

of his comments back. joining us now former communications director for president george w. bush and co-host of "the view," nicolle wallace. and in washington writer for the "washington post" and msnbc contributor jonathan capehart. good to have you both. >> nicolle, you came onset and we were talking about connecticut because you live in connecticut, too. >> i love the state and i'm sorry about elizabeth, i can tell how upset you are. she is an extremist. and the notion that she will -- the notion that you would run for president of the united states of america on a kill the economy message is -- i'm fwlab flabbergast that had anyone is attracted to that. i have lived in connecticut since 2009. her message about shutting down wall street she's basically the maven of the occupy wall street sent chlt. >> she's not running, so -- >> but you seem very disappointed by that. that's surprising to me -- >> i never thought she was going to run. >> i don't think she could ever be elected in this country which is based on opportunity and growing the pie, not cutting it up and punishing others.

jordan wallace to the death, but they did not find the money or documents and jordan wallace has not been charged. >>> an early morning murder in a quiet bowie neighborhood has left neighbors in shock. our ellison barber reports tonight from prince george's county. >> there was a bullet in the front storm window. it pierced the storm window. >> reporter: james carroll owns this house. around 6 a.m. he got a call l, my tenant about 6:00 this morning called to let me know there has been an indent. >> reporter: police were already at the house. >> about 1:10 this morning we received a call for a shooting. >> reporter: it was almost a homicide investigation. >> the victim was transported to the hospital where he later passed. >> reporter: the victim's family told wusa9 the person killed here was davonte king, 18 years old. his death marks an unfortunate milestone, bowie's first homicide this year. the people who live here tell us they've been worried about violence for a while. >> it's a trend that's going on from what i'm hearing in this neighborhood. >> young adult here don't have anyt

that woodfox and wallace were guilty. she said at that time that they should be released. george kendall, described -- robert king just said woodfox is not in prison, he is in jail. but how he's being treated, even now -- body cavity searches in the civil lawsuit that has been filed. >> he was moved in february of this year from the louisiana prison system to a parish detention center to await his retrial. he was very quickly reindicted, but he remains, as robert king just told you, he is in a cell 23 hours a day, three days a week, and 24 hours a day the other four days a week. and unlike in angola were at least was behind bars or the concert -- correctional center were he's been the last for years without any disciplinary charges whatsoever, he currently is house behind a steel door. so this really is -- his ability to have contact with neighbors is virtually nonexistent. so he is under even more harsh conditions awaiting this new trial than he was in the louisiana prison system. juan: how do prison authorities justify 40 years of isolation? forget about the injustice of the ac