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Assange at the ecuadorian embassy in london. a lot of things that have been floated out there and by some accepted as fact because of roger stones involvement, because he has often not been the most credible commentator on this. to you, he was categorical in his denials. now, you also saw in the interview some of the kind of classic roger stone, claiming he was poisoned, for instance, by polonium. listen, i covered the poisoning with polonium of litvinenko in london by russia in 2006. if you are...

Who wrote a book claiming that lbj killed kennedy. >> there would be medical records that if somebody really wanted to they could. have you talked to him about this poisoning. >> it is ludicrous. in terms of assange, you know, he had spoken to us in july and august of 2018. and his desire. and one of the things i find striking about all of this is why he wouldnt have wanted us to be there if he didnt meet with assange, it would have puffed up his role in the campaign. >> if mueller has been aski...

Bobby kennedy despised lyndon johnson. they were like dogs with the hair standing up on the back of their neck. >> joe kennedy didnt feel that way. he was looking in strategic terms at the map and realized that his son needed texas. >> so the two brothers tapped lyndon johnson to be jacks vice presidential running mate. and they did that for one reason. they were going to do anything it took to get jack elected president. >> first kennedy must beat one of the most experienced politicians in amer...

>> reporter: its left workmen with no other choice. twice a week hope and her daughter drive up this dirt path on the side of a mountain. >> this is what we go through to get water. >> reporter: 20 years ago, she placed this 3 1/2 foot long type into this hillside to take a spring. just to collect clean drinking water because, obviously, no one drinks the water here. do you drink it? >> oh, no. no. no way that he drink it. >> reporter: gary ball is the editor of the local paper and water is has ...

National committeeman from maryland. the excitement of it was great because my father had been a big supporter. >> jack kennedys main rival for the democratic nomination is lbj. >> i move here and now to socit the votes of every delegate present in this room or the sound of my voice. >> lyndon johnson, the majority leader of the united states senate, senator from texas, thinks kennedy is sort of a lightweight. >> some of us talk about how we ought to do it. and then when we get down to doing it,...

>> with his ego bruised, johnson gets personal. >> lbj began to disparage joe kennedy sr. as being an appeaser back there with hitler in the pre-war era. >> johnson not only smears jacks family, he also attempts to expose jacks deepest secret. >> the day before the vote, the johnson people put under the hotel room doors of every delegate a yellow sheet of paper saying that kennedy had addisons disease. >> for bobby kennedy, that was absolutely verboten. from that point forward he considered lbj ...

Lie, to say that jack is healthy as can be. >> will bobbys damage control pay off? >> climactic moments of the democratic convention. before the first ballot is completed, wyoming clinches the kennedy triumph with the deciding votes. >> john f. kennedy fights off strong opposition to win the nomination. he is now the democratic partys presidential candidate. >> we will carry the fight to the people in the fall, and we shall win. >> jack faces a tough decision. he must pick a running mate. >> whe...

Extensively for republicans prior to 1960. even in 1960 you saw nixon get a lot of black votes. goldwater runs in 1964. they appeal with the southern strategy and thats been the case ever since. here is the other piece were dealing with. youve got a bunch of broke white folks in america. you have african-americans who are poor. so america did not truly fully embrace lbjs war on poverty and we still have seen that. youre seeing rev right-hand william barb barber picking up where dr. king was as n...

On the side of a mountain. >> this is what we go through to get water. >> reporter: 20 years ago, she placed this 3 1/2 foot long pipe into this hillside to tap a spring. just to collect clean drinking water. because obviously, no one drinks the water here. do you drink it? >> no. theres no way that i drink it. >> reporter: gary ball is the editor in chief of the local weekly paper, "the mountain citizen." water has been a front page story for most of his career. whats going on here? the citizen...

Drinking water because obviously no one drinks the water here. >> do you drink it? >> oh, no. theres no way that i drink it. >> reporter: gary ball is the editor and chief of the local weekly paper, the mountain citizen. water has been a front page story for most of his career. whats going on here, the citizens, the people who live here and deal with this every day, where do they put this on their list of concerns? >> in 2018 in the very place where lbj declared the war on poverty 54 years ago, ...