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Palestinian protesters at another university. Well look back at an infamous antiwar protest that turned deadly 54 year ago today. Usc professor Christina Balentoni and Michael Beslash join me to talk about the lessons of kent state. And sarah jacobs is here to discuss the latest political fallout over the protests. Hope hicks, one of Donald Trumps closest advisers offers emotional and damning testimony in his trial. And the queen of chaos. Marjorie Taylor Greene prepares to force a vote on ousti...

Economic development and good economic projects and even a good museum doesnt deal with the fact that monday morning we have somebody whos going to wake up in the white house who dmouts seem to actually believe in the things that metger evers gave his life for which is that we have an aggressive forward thinking people, bringing them together torque use common law and the things associated with it. those are things not associated with the white house and that sun fortunate. i also want to say, y...

Honor megan evans who was slain in 1963, charles egger and his sister -- excuse me, he and his wife are going to honor what happened to her husband there, who charles egger did endorse the president of the united states. >> evers. >> evers. other than that, going down 65 and having this awesome museum, this is a great shot in the arm for economic development for jackson, mississippi, which had a 0.5% gdp rate. this is historic. its big. its an honor. everything thats happened in mississippi. >> ...

President is, where the cameras are. hes showing courage and integrity by saying, i wont go. he was the last living person who stood with dr. king on that stage with the "i have a dream" speech and had a chance to speak himself and he does not want to lend his credibility to a president who seems to be an enemy of most of what dr. king stood for, and i applaud john lewis for his consistency. >> i want to just wrap it up. i want to make sure the people who are responsible for the museum arent ove...

Were expecting speeches from ben russell. lets listen to widow of metger evers. >> we marched. we sat. the triumphs and even defeats belong to us all. dr. king told us that he might not get to the mountain top with us, but he said that there is a promise land, and america is that promise land for all of us. uh-oh! guess what day it is?? guess what day it is! huh...anybody? julie! hey...guess what day it is?? ah come on, i know you can hear me.

Unfinished work of american democracy. the congress has to act. >> by the forces of our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splitter the segregated south into a thousand pieces and put them together in the image of god and democracy. >> we must say wake up, america, wake up, for we cannot stop and we will not and cannot be patient. >> bob dylan played his new song, only a pawn in their game, about the murder of metger evers. peter paul and mary all he formed. and then there was ...

Was basically kissing goodbye to the south. the solid south that had gotten democratic presidents from roosevelt on elected. despite ideological differences, they let jim crowe get away with it down there. they let the south get away with what they were doing. kennedy came along in a year before a presidential election where it was not going to be a cakewalk for him, he said okay, im going to do this thing and ill pay the price. >> in 1960, as you well know, he got 70% of the african-american vo...