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Veteran journalist. he was covering the nixon impeachment inquiry, the clinton impeachment and now here we are on the brink of another impeachment vote on wednesday. jim, what do -- the polling numbers weve seen again and again, poll after show showing people are fixed in their positions. what does that tell you about america in 2019? >> well, its a story that been there from the very beginning. i would say the last three or four years ago the story of division, the division that existed within ...

Was created with the help of steve bannon and this trump supporters money and peter schweitzer who wrote it to get the story into the main stream press. and it did hit the front page of the "new york times." >> it parters with "the new york times." they got an exclusive look at the book. >> the "times" is very touchy about this. they are saying we made no deals. all i can tell you is in 2015, the year -- as the election was yearing up, they mentioned the book on the front page and referred to th...

Pay. they were delinquent. they were delinquent. im tired of paying for other nations anyway. i have to be honest with you. [ cheers and applause ] and today our nation is stronger than ever before. >> our nation. he never -- he took the nato thing and he took it a step forward and it feels like the next step is im not going to pay the dues. >> this is why every foreign friend of the u.s. i speak to says i think we can make it through these four years, the next year and a half. emboldened and th...

Pictures of the police dogs and the kids being arrested, those were all powerful and firecrackers on policy in washington. this is intolerable. this has to stop. this puts the pressure on. >> by now the mainstream press was covering all the horrible things and particularly what happened in birmingham. thats an important moment in time. it kind of opens up the door for lyndon johnson and gives him the space needed to pick up the torch from president kennedy and push through the civil rights act o...

To resign after a yearbook photo showing some truly offensive content surfaced. this page from a yearbook belonging to northam made its way to the mainstream press. northam was a pediatric neurologist. the page is from a medical school yearbook whether he was 25 years old. it shows northam and a friend, one dressed in black face and another dressed as a ku klux klan. it was posted on a right-wing website called "big league politics." the guys that run the site used to run roy moores senate campa...

Press basically ignored african-americans and not just episodes of violence against them, but achievements, anything to do with their daily life. basically flat out ignored them. >> they didnt even often use their names. the names of black people because that would be a sign of respect. its galling now to look at the level of disregard and oblivion that was in the media at that time. >> so long as you sit in the back, you have a false sense of, inferiority, and so long as you let the white man s...

>> the constant pressure of these stories, the pictures of the police dogs and the fire hoses and the kids being arrested, those were all powerful firecrackers, if you will, on policy in washington. you start to see the country as a whole saying, "this is intolerable. this has got to stop." and that puts the pressure on. >> reporter: by now the mainstream press was covering all the horrible things in the movement and particularly what had happened in birmingham, and thats an important moment in ...

Freedom rider, that he would suffer an even greater punishment than the freedom riders. reporters gathered at the birmingham bus station to await the arrival of the second bus. a mob of club-wielding segregationists waited there too. >> the bus came in. they collected around it. they dragged about six of the passengers out, both negro and white. they took them into corridors and alleys and began beating them, began hitting them with lead pipes. at that point someone behind me whispered in my ear...

Shouldnt have to dress my best for you to see me as a human being. >> reporter: when black lives matter activists objected to the coverage of their movement by mainstream media -- >> looks like weve got a stash here of some amsterdam, new amsterdam citron vodka. >> reporter: they took control of their story. >> we were not pleased with the media, because somebody would be at home watching a channel. they would text or tweet someone and say this is the story thats being told about you. >> this is...

>> i dont want -- we will obviously, the special counsel about his testimony. we need to get a full accounting of what took place. >> reporter: sounds like the key part of what adam shifts that is we will be in consultation. >> mark meadows and the number of depositions, designed to get at the facts. and the star witness in an open hearing, i dont see how they will get through that. the thing that bothers me about this. and it was reported in mainstream press that rod rosenstein said to subordin...