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Press, all the news media, right over here for a private conference. >> in every way as strong and as dangerous to them and to jim crow and segregation as the civil rights protests. >> information media including the tv networks have publicized and dramatized the race issue far beyond its relative importance in todays world. >> theyre cold and a little cramped, but not hungry. >> the people who hated us called us outside agitators thought that we were of a piece with the civil rights people, tha...

Their tactics have become so extreme? >> thats a great question. obviously the defeat they suffered in florida which is one of the most hospitable states to unlimited gun rights is evidence of their waning power. what im struck by is how much of the rhetoric that comes out of the nra, how little of it actually has to do with the guns. the organization has basically morphed into this kind of paranoid, conspiracy minded fringe group that presents this distorted picture of reality that america is b...

Himself said, when he was challenged to take down the statues, mitch said, what are you talking about? i dont know what you mean. statues mean white supremacy? the reason that mitch did not understand that, a lot of folks in this city do not see the statues that way. >> laura: lets go back to malcolm. malcolm, malcolm, hold on. malcolm -- >> when these statues -- >> laura: malcolm, until the last, i dont know, two, three years -- ive come to new orleans on and off for the last two or three years...

White supremacy. in fact, mitch landrieu wrote himself said, when he was challenged to take down the statues, mitch said, what are you talking about? i dont know what you mean. statues mean white supremacy? the reason that mitch did not understand that, a lot of folks in this city do not see the statues that way. >> laura: lets go back to malcolm. malcolm, malcolm, hold on. malcolm -- >> when these statues -- >> laura: malcolm, until the last, i dont know, two, three years -- ive come to new orl...

Marking the victory in the persian gulf war. joining me now is nbc news pennsylvania correspondent hans nichols. most americans know the history, france was overrun by the nazis. its a democratically elected government was replaced by nazi collaborators. so in europe, the concept of showing that you have a military is a little different than it is in america because weve still got agitators around europe so its a sense that we actually have a military. we can do something with it. >> yeah. franc...

Wait until next week, well take care of that next week and hoped hed calm down and thats what happened with jeff sessions. he would repeatedly asked for jeff sessions resignations. he would rage and fume about his recusal and the folks around him would try to calm him down and hoping he moved on to something else. so far jeff sessions has been able to survive because of that. it still seems hes in a delicate spot. >> the president wants this memo, nunes memo released. chris cuomo said the presid...

Between political factions who want to replace the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini. of course the regime there has blamed outside agitators, specifically the united states and israel. president trump offered strong statement of support for the protesters in the first days of the protests. but despite statements the iranian regime maintains an iron grip over much of that country if not all the country. so these protests lasted longer than people thought. but they were not able to achieve much i...

-- theyre trying to figure out what was the problem. >> julie: demonstrators clash with government forces for a seventh day now in iran. the leaders are blaming the unrest on foreign agitators, meanwhile the u.s. has called for an emergency meeting at the u.n. to discuss a possible solution. here is what sarah sanders had to say. >> the international community cant sit silent as it did then. we call on the regime to respect its citizens right to peacefully express their desire for change. americ...

>> ds protest began last thursday, but not in cities like tehran, urban areas, more rogue conservative cities, and they are continuing to defy the leadership, the central complaint appears to be the stagnant iranian economy, we see protests around the country, and that is really the key point, its not the urban elite, the conservative base as well, the crackdown reporting more than 100 people have been arrested, at least 20 people killed while iran leader, ali khamenei said outside agitators and...

Outside agitators. something they did quite effectively in 1969. >> right. but the argument that prevailed, theyll say it anyway. and meanwhile you can give them that support. >> to me the technology thing is the most significant game changer here. jason brought it up. >> and there was a really excellent piece in the atlantic. only $1 million people had smartphones in 2009. we talked about the not obama play book. remember, obama handled it very differently in the arab spring revolution thats br...