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He has agreed to go to museum with me and take a tour of it and learn something. >> reporter: he is referring to the national museum of african-american history. >> seeing what he is going to see there is going to plant a seed. the seed may not blossom today or tomorrow or the next day, but lit come out, because the truth can never be squashed. >> reporter: the two men bonding over history, and returning to davis' home to find another shared passion. ♪ >> reporter: his track record speaks volumes. davis says that 200 of the klansmen that he has befriended over the years have left the group. ...

Seeing there is going to plant a seed. the seed may not blossom the next day but the truth will come out. the truth can never be squashed. >> reporter: the two man bonding over history and returning to davis' home to find another shared passion. ♪ >> reporter: his track record speaks volumes. davis says 200 of the klansmen has he befriended over the years have left the group. more than 40 of them with a simple gesture, relinquishing their klan robes to him. >> do you think you will give your robe up? >> no. i'll be buried in it. >> reporter: but then this happened. richard preston, who had n...

Memory of heather heyer who stood as civil rights activists did throughout the long and tragic jim crow era, stood for what we should be. not necessarily what we are all the time. and so i think that's perhaps one of the most important things to take a moment and realize that someone gave her life trying to protest against the neo-nazis and the klansmen who gathered there a year ago. i think that when the history of this era is written the president's reaction to charlottesville, the events of august 11th and august 12th, will loom pretty large because that was the first moment -- maybe not th...

Tomorrow, the next day. but eventually, he'll come out. because the truth never -- can never be squashed. >> reporter: the two men bonding over history and returning to davis' home to find another shared passion. his track record speaks volumes. davis says 200 of the klansmen he's befriended over the years have left the group. more than 40 of them with a simple gesture. relinquishing their klan robes to him. you don't think you'll ever give up your robe? >> no, i'll be buried in it. >> reporter: then this happened. richard preston who had never been married, had daryl davis at his klan wedding...

That's what it was about. and when people try to appropriate it, and we're approaching -- this is the weekend of the anniversary of the terrible violence in charlottesville. where the president of the united states one year ago, you may remember had a hard time figuring out which side of the argument he was on. neo-nazis and klansmen or the people standing up for the america you just described. and that is one of the many reasons we have a crisis in the moral leadership of the country. >> and donny deutsch, the hypocrisy, of course, as always, when it comes to donald trump is just staggering. ...