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Even if it costs you all your black vote. even though jesse helms did everything he could to filibuster the holiday, it didn't end up being a single person filibuster record. the record longest filibuster in the united states by any state senator, that record actually is not a jesse helms record. that record was also set against civil rights election but it is a record that belongs to this guy. >> i wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there is not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the negro race into our theaters, into our swimmin...

Didn't end up being a single person filibuster record. the record longest filibuster in the united states by any state senator, that record actually is that record was also set against civil rights election but it is a record that belongs to this guy. gentlemen, that there is not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools. churches. it was the two political parties in our country, he said, that were not racist enough, so he

-- a totalitarian state in these united states. >> strom thurmond running for president in 1948 to stop the totalitarianism of civil rights and desegregation. he ran and did all right, lost. it was 1954 before south carolina was ready to elect him to the senate. and south carolina would not stop for another 40-plus years until strom thurmond became the oldest man ever in the united states senate. he still holds the one-man filibuster record for the more than 24 hours as a one-man filibuster against civil rights legislation. even at his 100th birthday, everybody was still talking about strom th...

Their conscience, they should vote on behalf of their constituents. but they should vote. that's what they're there to do. and ultimately if you've got a majority of folks who believe in something, then it should be able to pass. >> what a concept. that a majority should be able to get things done. it's called democracy. and that's what right wingers have been undermining for decades often in the ugliest way possible. in 1938, southern senators filibustered a law to make lynching a federal crime. in 1957 south carolina senator strom thurman set the filibuster record talking for 24 hours straig...

The president's accomplishments happened in spite of a congress with the worst filibuster record in history. and, of course, with the republican leader in the senate saying his number one goal was to defeat barack obama and make him a one-term president. but right wingers still say he's not a leader. if you doubt president obama's leadership, he has an answer for you right here. >> ask osama bin laden and the 22 out of 30 top al qaeda leaders who've been taken off the field, whether i engage in appeasement. or whoever's left out there. >> let's bring in msnbc analyst jonathan alter. you've wri...