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good night and i am symone sanders townsend in for stephanie ruhle. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. ♪ ♪ ♪ the capital of the great state of mississippi is of course jackson. the airport in jackson, mississippi is called jackson medgar widely evers international airport. that airport in jackson is named after medgar evers, the civil rights leader. he was a decorated u.s. army veteran in world war ii. after he came home from...

Jeff is going to stay with me. i want to get to the other big breaking news this hour and that is the president today also meeting with his embattled nominee to head the department of veterans affairs, even as a source tells cnn that dr. ronny jackson is not withdrawing his nomination as of now. trump and jackson meeting in the official office this afternoon and the allegations against jackson are serious. they include excessive drinking, overprescribing medication, all of this while he led the ...

Ends of 2017? >> its very hard. you might remember, i certainly do. the democratic party was always a party of coalition. not of united ideology. you always had the segregationists in the south. which was the solid south, necessary in every presidential election, necessary in every congressional vote. thats why the democrats were the majority party. then out the southern segregationists the white people down south who had nothing in common with them except jefferson, the party of jefferson and o...

Which was the solid south, necessary in every presidential election. necessary in every congressional vote. thats why the democrats were the majority party. but they didnt agree. the big cities of the north had minority people who were voting and liberals who were voting, ethnic people who were liberal and many things and then you had the southern segregationists, the while people down south who had nothing in common with them except jefferson, they were the party of jefferson, and of course jac...

>> he has a way of sounding anti-gay. it is day rainbow flag of -- >> yes, alec baldwin was at it again on wednesday getting into another on-line spat that hinted at another homophobe yaw. rett jackson, if with mitt thats his real name. he referenced jacksons profile pic by tweeting, quote, you are on your knees in that photo. what is up with that a? of course jackson promptly retweeted baldwin adding, coming, being 5* homophob [sic]. >> and he deleted the tweet. here is a dramatic re-enactment ...

Columbia, negotiations for his release was reverend jest see jackson. >> he had no one to bargain for him. so i stepped in that gap and bargained for him. >> reporter: of course jackson is best known as a civil rights leader. but the role of third party intermediary and hostage negotiations are -- bobby goodman was shot down over lebanon and taken over by seyri. jackson went to syria without the blessing of the reagan administration. >> the reagan administration said you shouldnt go. >> reporter...

A thing. >> he has a way of sounding anti-gay. it is day rainbow flag of -- >> yes, alec baldwin was at it again on wednesday getting into another on-line spat that hinted at another homophobe yaw. he was embattled with mitt romney aid garrett jackson, if thats his real name. he referenced jacksons profile pic by tweeting, quote, you are on your knees in that photo. what is up with that a? of course jackson promptly retweeted baldwin adding, coming, being 5* homophob [sic]. >> and he deleted the...