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But then that political adviser who initially told "the washington post" that scalise was there, backtracked and said that scalise addressed a civic association, as the contradictory statements are parsed given making inroads in the minority community. i have questions and who better to ask about scalise's appearance than david duke himself. so 2002 did steve scalise speak to the group you founded? >> frankly i'm not sure. i was in russia at the time doing research for my dissertation dissertation i since got a ph.d., and i was in moscow in fact almost every day, i did a telephone hook-up. it'...

Character and intig rity. that's a point to make. he's not as some would like to paint him to be. this is not about him being a racist. it's a question of judgment don't you think, gentlemen? >> i would love to ask john boehner if he thought trent lot should have resigned from leadership. trent lot's sin was nothing compared to what representative scalise did. trent lot told a halfway bad joke. >> hogan? >> yeah, but governor senator harry reid uses commons like barack obama is an articulate negro. doesn't make him racist. it makes him stupid for saying it. you had robert bird -- [ all speak a...

Collected, but as its third highest member. some very high profile and face of the republican party given the party's support among nonwhite americans. >> look, foolishness does that erate to racism. harry reid said barack obama was arrestcticticulate negro. and robert bird was a recruiter for the kkk. when he left, everyone gave him a ticker tape parade leaving the is that the saying how great he was. so there has been a long line of people who said foolish things. doesn't equate to racism. and in this particular instance, the party itself of republican, we do have an issue of african america...

The real reason you have so much sunnis joining the uprising after they had gone in the opposite direction in the last part of the last decade is because maliki has so marginalized them and so repressed them and ignored them, i think we have to press them for a more inclusive government. >> it's saddam of a different sorts, it really is. >> yep. >> looking back on what happened in 2003, i remember senator robert bird of west virginia on the senate floor telling this country that we need to be aware of a second war and that would be the war for the peace. and i believe that we are there right n...

Sh is this is this a wake-up call for america? when are we going to learn? >> when are we going to learn? >> do we remember when robert bird stood on the senate floor and begged us not to go to war in iraq. he warn d us that iraq is fighting iran. iran is the most dangerous actor in the middle east. he said the enemy of your enemy is your friend. stay out. don't go there. if we would have spent a fraction of the money that we spent by going to war in iraq on bidding alternative energy, wind turbines like the one that my grandfather and father had on their farm 80 years ago, if we would have bu...