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Bill ayers is considered not somebody to be shunned. >> you dont know anybody people on the left if you think that that that is true. >> our next seg mnlment is abouw the left went on to welcome bill ayers, bernardine dorin into the academic circles of this country. im talking bernardine dorin, who wanted to overthroe the government, and who was on the fbis ten most wanted is now teaching at northwestern law school. thats next. you drop 40 grand on a new set of wheels, then... wham! a minivan t-...

That unit. his proposition was the violent overthrow of the united states of america. for whatever reasons right or wrong, that was his mission. they conspired with militant groups, such as the black panthers and the black liberation army whose soul purpose in life was to kill people, rob banks, do horrendous acts of terror, he was supported of all of them, his own group, which blew themselves up in greenwich village, i remember like it was yesterday. used anti-personnel devices, they put shrapn...

His knees. >> ayers and his co horts upped the rhetoric and it turned murderous. >> we want to deliver the most horrific hit the united states government had ever suffered on its territories we wanted to light it up. our slogan is bring the war home. we wanted to give the united states and the rest of the world a sense this country was going to be unlivable. if the united states continued in vietnam. >> in 1970, 3 of ayers comrades prepared a nail bomb, intended to execute military families in a...

You just heard weather underground leader bill ayers deny and deflect when i pressed him about violent bombings. in the 24 hours since we ran part one of our report, we have heard from local police and federal investigators who dealt with this group, including one of the first responders to a bombing that took the life of a police officer. thanking us for shining a light on this part of his story. joining us now, warren sunny, richard janotti and william reagan. thank you all for being here. wil...

Immunity and get her friends off. i know the woman very well, i dont agree to that at all. i truly believe that bernadine had something to do with it, ayers -- >> well, a lot of people have ideas, i want to ask you richard before you go. the reports that i read, and i read a lot said that the fbi had been investigating these folks and had illegally sur veiled them in wiretaps that were not useable in a court of law, that was not necessarily the only piece, but a major piece. >> that goes back, t...

>> no, they were a highly organized, very dedicated, violent group of revolutionaries that started out with some of the property damage, but as they progressed, they were getting more and more violent, using weapons, explosives, targeting people. and as willie and i worked the case, that came down, they were ready to kill a federal judge, and then they were ready to bomb the state senator in southern california. they were very, very violent, and i dont agree with what mr. ayers was saying. >> we...

About may be predisposes of. >> i have to go, but ill ask you -- >> i have to respond to that. >> megan, could i add one thing. >> my final word is, bill ayers said he would consider perhaps doing this again today if the situation was correct. he used and his bomb makers used state of the art technology back then. he would use that state of the art technology again today. except today, he would be taking 11-year-olds and putting bomb vests on them, and sending them out to pizza rheas on malls. t...

Bomb this country again? >> what im saying is that it seems to long ago. what im saying in that passage is that it seems so long ago, so far away. like another world. on the other hand, as violent and nuts as we can be as a country, i cant say no, boy never, ever rise up in opposition in a very militant and serious way. i cant say i wont. i doubt it. im 70 years old. its unlikely. i think i wanted to say there what bernadine said on tape. no. im in the committed to nonviolence as an ideology. th...

They talked specifically killing a federal judge hearing the ames trials i believe in south dakota or maybe minneapolis, and then they diverted their attention to bombing a state senators office in southern california. >> i tried to press him on whether his own violent rhetoric, if you read the other writings of weather underground people, they talk about ayers and his rhetoric in particular, which was very violent. our rhetoric outstripped our actual actions. he refused to acknowledge that that...

Intending to kill people. it was very, very high pressure. >> by 1981 their former weatherman colleagues were at it again, robbing a brinks truck, killing two police officers and a security guard. their goal? to steal $1 million. all in the name of redistributing wealth. ayes and dorn remain close to the killers to this day, refusing to help prosecutors investigate the crime. ayers and dorn might also be in jail but the fbi broke the law pursuing them when z.no convick was brought the now colleg...