to get back to that. mike murphy, you know him so well. i was really struck by a number of things. his attitude towards, throughout all of this. his consistent voice speaking out on subjects like the torture report and taking a stand on gina haspel confirmation, even though it was painful to do and going dense a lot of former intelligence and defense officials. how does he maintain that attitude and that consistent courage? well, i think it s some mix of things. it s mostly character. he knows what he believes, and he s not afraid to fight for it. in fact, he s scotch-irish and loves a good fight. his greatest disappointment in the 20000 campaign i worked on, other than we didn t manage to get the nomination, never got in a proper fistfight with any p
you also have a chance fareed to speak with the president about personal issues, about race for example, about his hardest moments in the oval office what. else can we expect to see in tonight s documentary? well we start with race. because it seemed to me and i said this to him, that the first line of barack obama s biography is not going to be something he did but who he is, the first african american president. and yet as i said to him you are biracial. in fact you are half white and you were raised by three white people. a mother and two grandparents who are scotch irish. how did he feel about that? and he goes into some length and depth about what, you know, how he sees being black in america. and we take you through how he tries to navigate each of the crises, racial crises take place during his president, the shootings. the traichb martin affair.
improve society. they were more comfortable with a collective and government regulation. you have the midlands right here in the area below. the midwest founded by english quakers. government is less welcome, but they believe society should be organized around a middle class. joining me now is the man who put all of this together. he is state and national affairs writer and the sunday telegram and the author of this book, american nations, a history of the 11 rival cultures of north america. colin, just a great way and a reminder to look at this and i go back to what they wrote about the history of the scotch irish in america. he was making the same case. born fighting. absolutely. making the case about guns in particular and the gun culture and as he tried to translate it
black people won t end up suffering the consequences. i have to disagree with the reverend. i think there is a class element, as well, having to do with section 8 housing in these communities. i think we probably would have heard about this case anyway even if the point is the death of young, black men doesn t usually get national attention. this case is also about the gun culture, isn t it, reverend? listen. we re talking about alligator wrestling, trailer park folk that love guns. it s the south. so, there s not that s not quite news. it s southern, you know, trailer park gun culture. and that s been part of the south since the first scotch irish landed there. jason? that s not entirely it. look, i walk this neighborhood. this is one of the nicer areas in sanford and what you really have going on here is that that community was affected by the housing boom and now you have people from section eight housing living there and, therefore, residents, homeowners who happen to liv
kid wants an apple. fox and friends for st. patrick s day continues now. how cool is that the keltic cross. brian: it is amazing. the white house painted the fountain green. foo food color. not iodine. brian: here s the thing. i think like halloween st. patrick s day is a holiday that is growing through my lifetime . more and more people claim to be irish. 92 you said this morning. brian: scotch irish. steve: you have scotch in you. ainsley: i am glad you wore the green as a child you get