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With Robert De Niro directing, anything can happen. Listen, donald trump was elected, we dont know anything these days. Behind the scenes with stars whose dreams are coming true. One proud pa. Shes shes on broadway, how cool is it . Our anchor byron. You point them as well as you can but first the nightline 5. Constipated . Use dulcolax tablets for gentle overnight relief, suppositories for relief in minutes, stool softeners for comfortable relief of hard stools. Dull la kaction for dependable relief. Ive seen a change in einstein. The number one ingredient was beef. The beef was fantastic. He has enough energy to believe he can jump high enough to catch a bird. Try beneful originals with beef as the number one ingredient. Number one in just 60 seconds. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Tonight we take you to a showdown between a selfproclaimed White Nationalist and hundreds of protesters. Richard spencer, founder of the socalled altright movement which has gained National Attention in recent months, became infamous when video went viral of his supporters hailing trump with nazi salutes. When he accepted an invitation to speak on a college campus, the Community Stood against him. Reporter emotions bubbling over at texas a m. With the University Becoming an ideological battleground. Last night, thousands came together to protest one man. White people are ruling right now. White people have tremendous amount of power. Reporter richard spencer, the man who coined the term altright, who critics are now calling a suit and tie racist. Hail trump hail our people hail victory reporter last month this video of spencer at a socalled altright conference exalting in trumps win. Going viral after some in attendance went as far as throwing the deeply disturbing nazi salute, propelling him into the national spotlight. A white country, designed for ourselves and our policy teboss reporter his movement he says boosted by trumps win. You went from obscurity to notoriety. I think donald trump slingshoted our movement into fame. Reporter we traveled to texas to examine the roots of the new generation of racial extremism, meeting up with a 38yearold just before his next event. You gave a speech, it went viral on the atlantic. At the end you said, hail trump. Hail victory. You laugh. Why . Because that was said in a spirit of irony and exuberance. What is exuberant about genocide . What is fun about mass murder . I said hail trump, but i held up a glass of whiskey. Theres some people that, a half dozen in the audience, who gave a roman salute. Its not a roman salute, you know that, it is a nazi party salu salute. Are you trying to normalize racism . Yes, im trying to normal it racism as you call it, absolutely, im trying to nor l normalize my ideas, our ideas of the altright, yes. I do not want the altright to be a fringe movement, i want the altright to be a dominant movement. Reporter he claims hes not a white supremacist or a racist but it is difficult to understand his inflammatory rhetoric in any other way. You told mother jones his pan ins and africanamericans have lower average iqs than whites and are more genetically predisposed to commit crimes. Yes. That is a classic tenet of White Supremacy. Its empirical fact. Genetically predisposed . That is not a fact. When you study average intelligence around the world and you keep getting the same answer, at some point youre going to have to look towards genetics as a cause. What do your parents think of your ideas . They think im a bit crazy. They do . Its actually strained your relationship, according to you . A lot of things have been strained because of my activism, yes. Its been very difficult. Businesses in the montana have banned you, restaurants have said you cant come . Sure. Ive been banned from most of europe. Reporter texas a m denounced his views but decided not to ban him, citing free speech. He was invited by a former student, hoping to spread his incendiary views. His presence today not without considerable controversy. We dont like him go home spencer, we dont want you, thats what hes saying. Right. Im here. I think thats good. Do you feel like a pariah, though . Do you feel like a skunk at the garden party . A skunk at the garden party . No. What kinds of things were you shouting . I want people to see through their lies and misguidance. They are not altright. They are not racial realists. They are neonazis. Look, theyre just like theyre gutter punks. Theyre not good people. Lets be honest. Hey, could i borrow a marker . Thanks. Reporter with our cameras rolling spencer further defies his detractors, writing on a wall the students set up to voice messages against him. You enjoy being a provocateur . Yeah, who wasnt . Reporter spencer and his supporters feel emboldened by a Political Landscape he never dreamed of. Thank you very much. What was your reaction the moment you knew that trump won the presidency . It was a kind of miracle. If someone told me two years ago that donald trump would be the altright hero and he would be president i would be like, what ridiculous movie are you talking about . This is not real life. But it is real life. Reporter although the president elect publicly distanced himself from the altright in an interview with the new york times. Altright. You say you coined the phrase. Yes. What does it mean to you . The identity politics for white people in the 21st century. Look. I think the altright has gained a great deal of ground precisely because we are provocative and precisely because to use bad language, we dont give a [ bleep ]. The term altright is really nothing more than a rebranding of White Supremacy for the digital 18 age. I dont think anybody should be fooled by what it is at its core, and that is, White Supremacy. Reporter according to the Southern Poverty Law Center theres already been a spike of hate crimes and harassment in the days after the president ial election. More than 800 reported in 47 states. They believe the first line of defense is spotlighting what they consider dangerous hate speech. Richard spencer. Hes the head of the altright. The godfather of the altright. And quite frankly, mr. Trump ran a racially divisive campaign. I think the media has an obligation to cover richard spencer. No kkk the shouting, this pretty rowdy group of protesters, a coalition of student groups and antihate groups who says, he has every right to say what he says, but its their First Amendment right to protest. This is us uniting together to have fun and come together. Reporter spencer says his ideal world is an allwhite ethnostate where races are segregated, with a peaceful ethnic cleansing. Would i be allowed to live in your ethnostate . No, but you could have your own ethnostate. Very gracious of you. This would be a new type of society. A big empire for all europeans how do you remove 100 million blacks, latinos, asians from your ethnostate . The ethnostate is an ideal. Its not going to happen tomorrow morning. Youre quoted as saying it could be horribly bloody and terrible. That thats a possibility. Of course thats a possibility. I think the current paradigm that we are living under is going to lead to blood and tears, period. Youre predicting a race war . Basically. I dont know exactly whats going to happen, but yes, i do think that it will be a crackup predominantly on racial lines. Reporter as night pfalls, several hundred have gathered for spencers talk. Were about ten minutes away and he has a packed house. I would expect fireworks. Across the street the universitys president signs that very wall that spencer wrote on earlier in the day. Well, i believe we live in a world where the differences actually make us stronger. Reporter and he, along with a series of musicians, students aggies united reporter literally drowning out his hateful message at the nearby football stadium. When theres fear and hate inside us, when our differences divide us, let love lead the way. I love you all. Im referring to people like you reporter back at spencers event, the vast majority of his audience indeed was there in opposition. With multiple outbursts and clashes erupting during his speech. Security had to intervien to deescalate several volatile exchanges. At one point, police in riot gear entered the student union. But none of the hostility took spencer off message. This is out of goddamn country. Our goddamn country. Reporter at the football stadium, it is the soaring message of tolerance and diversity that unites the aggies and drowns out that hateful and unwelcome din next door. Up next, its one of the hottest shows on broadway. A bronx tale. Codirector Robert De Niro tells us about his creative process. And my nightline coanchor byron pitts has a very special connection to the show. Easy booger man. Take mucinex dm. Itll take care of your cough. Fine ill text you in 4 hours when your cough returns. One pill lasts 12 hours, so. Looks like im good all night ah david, please, listen. Still not coughing. Not fair you guys waffles are my favorite ah some cough medicines only last 4 hours. But just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Lets end this. Why does your tummy go grumbily, grumbily, grumbily . No more questions for you ooph, that milk in your cereal was messing with you, wasnt it . Try lactaid, its real milk, without that annoying lactose. Good, right . Mmm, yeah. Lactaid. The milk that doesnt mess with you. Nothseafood celebration. 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Tonight we can live a parents proudest moments through the teary eyes of my nightline coanchor, byron pitts. Familys in the car, were headed ed ted to longacre thea see Robert De Niros the bronx tale. Reporter Opening Night always special but this is personal. My youngest christiane making her broadway debut. My late mother used to say, child, about to break a bra strap, im so proud. Look at the line. Congratulations. Thanks a lot. Reporter a bronx tale. Chazz palminteris awe biographic at oneman show that became a classic film of the 90s starring Robert De Niro. Thats bad money. Reporter a young boy caught between the love of his father and admiration of a local mob boss sonny. Leave my son alone, please. Hey. Dont you see how i treat that kid . I treat that kid like hes my son. He aint your son, hes my son. This is a bronx tale. Reporter the story timeless and now modernized for broadway. The dowop soundtrack of the 1960s the backdrop for a brandnew musical. At the helm, veterans of stage and screen, jerry zax and de niro, taking his first stab at broadway directing. Youre veterans. Are you nervous . Opening night . I feel good. I hope im right. Listen, donald trump was ele elected, we dont know anything these days. Any clashes . Its an impossible situation weve made work. Weve made it work because i think weve been very respectful of each other. Reporter the movie set the spotlight on new yorks diversity, undertones of status and race. Boys like him reporter translated to stage. This relationship between father and son, the man he admires whos not his dad, the issues of race and interracial couples, talk about those moral dilemmas. People are not nobodys all black, all white, you know. Its just not that way. So youre saying that donald trump has some redeeming again, and its in essence, i am saying that possibly i give him the benefit of the doubt. You know, thats a fair thing to do. Hes a punk. Hes a dog. Reporter de niro had strong words for the candidate before the election. As part of the vote your future campaign. Do you regret at all the video clip . Not at all. If he has the gall to say such horrible things, whether he really meant them or not, that affects people. Then somebody has to say no. The same to you. I said, you said you want to punch people in the days . I want to punch you in the face, how do you like that, hows that feel . Thats all. Thats simple. Yeah. But now hes the president , you know. He said all those horrible things and i cant tell him, what, are you kidding . Now hes got to grow up and be the president. Thats the way he was in rehearsal with me, unbelievable. Reporter we went behind the scenes backstage to meet some of the stars. This is our stage. This is where we enter from stage right. Reporter tonynominated nick cordero playing sonny, a mobsters mobster. Treat them well but not too well we have to get creative with how everything is stored. Here we are barging into the hair and wig room. All keeps of hairy wiggery. Sonny takes this kid under his wing, teaches him about the real world, how things arent always black and white, that you have to make complicated decisions and what kind of a man do you want to be, do you want to live in love or do you want to live in fear . You want to know what to give them the answer aint love its fear sonnys clearly made a choice of fear is his motivator. As you know, postelection, america is a divided nation. Where does a bronx tale fit do you think . Its interesting, i read a review on our play that said that if this show had opened last season, it might be a nostalgia throwback piece. But now, given the election, it seems a little morrell. I think were all being asked that question. Is it better to live in fear or in love . Reporter we swing by and meet the lead of the show. Hey, how are you . Reporter bobby conte thornton, who plays c, his first role on broadway, 24 years old. How is it when you walk out on that stage . Its fun now. Because my longest stage partner is essentially the audience for the show. And so its immediately assessing their energy and what theyre kind of looking for. Reporter an embarrassing father, i couldnt help but say hi to chris. Does it seem real . It does. The place is real, the people are real. But its still the dream. And it still feels like theres so much further to go. Do you appreciate what a gift you all have been for the young actors in the show . Its the best. I mean, i love them. We get them to Pay Attention and to appreciate how privileged they are to be doing a broadway show. Garys a great jewish mother. Thats right, i am. I am. Reporter outside, after Opening Night, i couldnt stop beaming. We are shamelessly giddy. Shamelessly giddy a great poem by jebron, says parenting, what you hope to do as parenting, is that youre the bow and the child is the arrow, you point them as high as you can. Reporter as my family has discovered, dreams are a journey that for the few and the fortunate never end. Hey congratulations. Thank you. Dont cry again. Theres nothing like it. Reporter for nightline, im byron pitts in new york. Up next, a date that will live in infamy. Our tribute, remembering pearl harbor. When cold and flu hold you back try theraflu expressmax, now in new caplets. Its the only cold flu caplet that has a maximum strength formula with a unique warming sensation you instantly feel. Theraflu. For a powerful comeback. New expressmax caplets. And let roomba from irobot help with your everyday messes. Roomba navigates your entire home. Cleaning up pet hair and debris for up to 2 hours. Which means your floors are always clean. You and roomba, from irobot. Better. Together. This holiday, on americas most awarded brand, during the ford year end event. Ford, the brand with the most 5star ratings. The highest owner loyalty. And awardwinning value from kelley blue book. 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Miles above, a nakajima b5m releases four direct hits from 800kilogram bombs exploding across the deck of the uss arizona. Nine minutes later the burning battleship lists and sinks, taking with her 1,177 lives. 8 55 a. M. The second wave begins. 167 additional japanese aircraft join the attack. But this time the american antiaircraft defense is strong. Six u. S. Fighter pilots engage japanese bombers in a ferocious dogfight above the fiery landscape. It was over in less than two hours. 2,403 americans lost their lives. Another 1,178 sustained injuries. Unfathomable loss. In memoriam, we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Thanks for watching abc news. As always were online at abcnews. Com and our to win on this show, you need three things brains, guts, and an industrialstrength antiperspirant. You ready . Lets play who wants to be a millionaire. [dramatic music] hey, everybody. Welcome to the show. Are you guys ready to play millionaire today . 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