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It was the marshalling of the power of the federal government that played the most important role in pushing back white supremacist violence and terror. you describe the enforcement acts and the ku klux klan acts and these were all passed during reconstruction and the first civil rights statute passed since reconstruction was the civil rights act of 1957 which created the department of justice, and the department of justice played a vital role in the late 1950s and in the early 1960s in addressing the role of white supremacist violence, if we think about the bombing of the birmingham church, i...

floor answered has kept his word. i'd like to thank the ranking member, ms. waters. she committed to help with this bill, in fact, the genesis of this was a conversation that i had with her and she kept her word. i would like to that mr. mchenry. indeed he and i do serve on oversight investigations and i appreciate very much his being here today to help us by managing this piece of legislation. i believe that he and i will accomplish additional things on a bipartisan basis. this is a bipartisan piece of legislation. i'd also like to thank the staff. while i will stand here and hopefu...

murdered district attorney. in the murder of mike mclelland and his wife gunned down in their home over the weekend. his assistant prosecutor murdered in january. well, now investigators are trying to figure out if a local official who lost his job after a corruption investigation may be tied to the killings. he reportedly threatened both prosecutors. a white supremacist prison gang also being investigated for the crimes. a stunning development in the case of tom clements, the head of colorado's prison system murdered last month. we've now learned the suspect, white supremacist eva...

person was grazed by bullets. both went to the hospital with what we're told is non-life- threatening injuries. but when police arrived at the scene, several officers surrounded the hotel. they tried to set up a perimeter to make sure no one directly involved fled the scene, and a police sergeant says their radio system then stopped working properly. >> when we first arrived, our radios weren't working as well in that area, i'm not sure if it was connectivity issues but we couldn't stick to dispatch of used our can radios. >> but in order to do that, use the car radios instead, the s...

up tonight at 6:30. >> well, president's plane made it in just fine, but not the case for everybody. because of the storm, there's two and three hour delays for arriving flights, that, of course, having a domino effect, delaying several flights out as well. for most of you, this is the story of your day. downtown video from san francisco. wet day. at the beaches, a high surf advisory was in effect for most of the day. some very high tides causing flooding in the also lido area, of all places. this is mt. st. helena. plows had to work double time to keep the roads clear for drivers. p...