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Committee. it was an early example of what we think of as independent expenditures. the campaign ad the bush campaign did was called the revolving door and had criminals coming in and out. president bush's view was that, a, we didn't put out the ad with the mug shot and, b, the furlough program was wrong. and i was right on that issue. and he held that view certainly the last time i talked to him about it was probably six, seven years ago. >> we see echoes of this, though, in what the trump campaign has been doing on immigration. >> yes. the effort to tap racial fears. if you are getting ethic...

Comment was no comment. >> on this awful video. what went through your mind when you watched? >> two words. willie horton from the 1988 democratic versus dukakis versus george h.w. bush. he was geared towards trying to have race baiting fear mongering talking about the weekend furlough program in massachusetts that dukakis was a fan of. the person was able to get out on the weekend and committed an assault and a rain of a white woman. that fired the kkk prop gappeda. this is not about black americans, but a black male and the race-based fear mongering used towards people who are undocumented i...

She changed during that time and that the petting zoo has played a large role. >> translator: everyone connects to one of the animals. me, it's my bird. he reminded me of myself. he was really aggressive. just like i was when i came here. he used to attack. he just took out flesh from the girls. and with me, somehow we found a common language. and now we have a love affair. and the fact that i come and take care of them, it's a responsibility. >> sabet's progress in prison made her eligible for one of the more surprising privileges available to israeli inmates. they call it vacation. but it's ...

Program in america in 1988 was the furlough program under the reagan-bush administration. and i never said that. >> why? >> because i wasn't going to respond to the attack. which in retrospect sounds crazy, doesn't it? >> despite all of it, bush hadn't knocked dukakis out. as they entered the final presidential debate, bush was only slightly ahead in the polls. >> the first question goes to governor dukakis. >> right out of the gate, bernie shaw threw a grenade. >> governor, if kitty dukakis were raped and murdered. would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer? >> no, i don't. a...

Crimes like kidnap and rape and many are still at large. >> it really became the symbol of first, dukakis' permissiveness on the furlough program, and in retrospect, as the years have gone by, become a symbol of the negativity, the alleged negativity of that campaign. >> many called the campaign one of the nastiest ever, but the strategy was working, and bush was gaining on dukakis. bush went on to a solid victory, gaining 53.4% of the popular vote, an amount no president, republican or democrat, has gotten since. only a few days before he took office, he privately took stock of himself and hi...