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Here. when you listen to the podcasts that have been deleted, when he lands in philly, in a predominantly black neighborhood and he was saying it was planet of the apes. he tried to show it was like africa. "planet of the apes" is a 1968 movie with charlton heston where apes have taken over the reality. it has nothing to do with africa or black people, unless you have a stereotyping of apes. thats historically occurred. they called dr. martin luther king jr., dr. martin akuhn king jr. in the sou...

Spent ten years in the league. daunte, as you know, the last, lets say, five years or so, the nfl constantly in the political headlines in part because former president trump would always drag them there, attacking players over kneeling for the national anthem, making football about politics. as we all know, theres no separating sports and politics, and really the politics of race in this country. >> no, there isnt. when you look back to 1968, just a couple months after dr. martin luther king wa...

A war hero and grew up in the suburbs of buffalo. we needed to know. it was a sense, an obligation to find out who this man was. >> timothy mcveigh was born on april 23rd, 1968, in the town of lockport in upstate, new york. by all accounts, he had an ordinary childhood and adolescence. >> we were never told anything that would have gave you warning he was going to do something like this. in fact, as a teenager, he was the young man that people in the neighborhood would choose to babysit their ki...

Who either, a, didnt even know who was playing, and they were supposed sports fans, or, b, they just didnt care, the bengals, 57% of fans want them to win among those who have a preference versus just 43% of los angeles raiders -- los angeles rams -- raiders, my goodness, my head, we were talking about that. im not a big l.a. guy, im a new york guy. im going for the bengals. >> this is the number in l.a. too. i dont know a lot of people there know they have a team. but in terms of who hasnt won ...

Understand that the motive was political. rustin from the front line for a while, to not distract from the civil rights movement, but reemerged in 1963. once again, working with martin luther king, as the architect of the legendary march on washington, where king delivered his iconic i have a dream speech. the march was much more successful than anyone had imagined, it was a true turning point for both the country, the civil rights movement, and rustin himself. following the success of the march...

Is pretty limited here. he is not come out yet and affirmatively said, donald trump -- and i, lost this election. there was no fraud that mattered. thats the line. we have to be where this cheney s, or the rest doesnt really matter. the key reality here is, when will the president be -- a presidential nominee at a republican party, when will we have one who will assert that joe biden was legally elected? which all that assertion is to be -- its unimaginable to me that in 24 there will be republi...

Along, he is swift, determined and resolute. thats the partnership between the two i think is so interesting and essential in terms of the documentary. >> doris, we cannot wait to watch this next weekend. we will be glued to it. we love having you on, we love having john meacham on, historians who serve, who take the long view of things and can look at the wide scope of history and dont have to get mired in every detail of the scrums in washington. im curious for our viewers on a friday where yo...

1968. all the cool kids are saying it. liz cheney has decided her lifes mission is now to defend democracy. jim acostas new cnn show in which he uses there were democracy in the way some people use prepositions. in every sentence. at 2:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow there is a zoom webinar on democracy, which are welcome to attend in case you havent heard enough about it already. every left of center nitwit on twitter will be there. all of them will be fretting about the future of democracy. pretty am...

Tribes or eaten by lions and tigers. i know that aint politically correct to say. but its true. true. >> my father had a grocery store in washington, d.c. in 1968, i was about 12, my father was working this store, and they were expecting a riot. about 10:00 that night we get a phone call, his store burned to

To fight for my country. i want to refer to a document that came out. the center tr defense strategy. which is very respected. it does quote such stark figures. 87 tactical groups about 147,000 personnel. service that it mass around the border. it does make clear there are no signs that the additional reenforcements needed for a large scale offensive are in the offing. the accumulated forces on the border are insufficient for a large scale operation in capturing all or significant part of the uk...