good luck here. bye-bye. bye. someone was stalking dr. king, but this time they had white house approval to do it. i have a dream today. dr. king s electrifying speech at the march of washington in august of 1963 had made him the movement s hero. it also made him the fbi s nightmare, according to the official paper trail. thank god almighty, we are free at last. we regard martin luther king to be the most dangerous negro leader in the country. they called him, in one of the fbi memos, the most dangerous negro. i think that s probably a compliment. andrew young, one of king s closest advisors, says the inner
other republicans criticizing the occupy wall street movement. he s taken it a step further. west said dr. martin luther king jr. would not have supported it. martin king jr. would not have backed these type of protests. first he had a focus, a message. he was a divinely inspired. i don t know what the inspiration is for these individuals. congressman west, the inspiration and the message is pretty straightforward. it s a call for economic justice in america. in fact, in august of 1963, the sunday before a march on washington, dr. martin luther king, jr. said this on nbc s meet the press. we have waited for well now 345 years for our basic constitutional and god-given rights, and we still confront the fact that we are at the bottom of the economic ladder. we confront the fact that the gap between the medium income of
welcome back to the ed show. the tea party congressman from florida allen west has joined other republicans criticizing the occupy wall street movement. he s taken it a step further. west said dr. martin luther king jr. would not have supported it. martin king jr. would not have backed these type of protests. first he had a focus, a message. he was a divinely inspired. i don t know what the inspiration is for these individuals. congressman west, the inspiration and the message is pretty straightforward. it s a call for economic justice in america. in fact, in august of 1963, the sunday before a march on washington, dr. martin luther king, jr. said this on nbc s meet the press. we have waited for well now 345 years for our basic constitutional and god-given rights, and we still confront the fact that we are at the bottom of the economic ladder. we confront the fact that the gap between the medium income of
and this is state of the union. four months ago one prominent beltway blog said of newt gingrich s troubled presidential run he looks a lot like the bruce willis character in the sixth sense, everyone but him thinks he s dead. but at last week s washington post/bloomberg debate gingrich remained very much alive and kicking. all of the spending cuts that are built in the debt ceiling bill, all of them are acts of congress. they can all be repealed at any moment. it is nonsense to say we re going to disarm the united states unilaterally because we re too stupid to balance the budget any other way. former house speaker and republican presidential candidate newt gingrich joins me now. very much alive and kirking. good to be with you. let me talk to you first about some things that are in the news. let s pretend that president gingrich is in the white house. you received word and uncover a plot to kill the saudi arabian ambassador to the u.s. in the u.s. there is a
this is a special edition of state of the union this morning for the dedication of the martin luther king memorial. reliable sources will return next week. president obama arrived here a short time ago and will soon dlirch his tribute to dr. deliver his tribute to dr. king. this will close with the extraordinarily rare playing of dr. king s i have a dream speech in its entirety. the king family has approved its use for this one event. the president will speak the end transto the memorial, a small area that only accommodates a small number of vips. the general public is assembled in a field with its own stage and jumbo trans. since early morning they have been listening to music and speeches pie some of the people closest to dr. king. cnn s joe johns is down at the memorial dedication site. joe, i ve been listening to the speeches that i could listen to. it seems a little bit from the podium a mixture of remembrance, looking ahead and a sprinkle of politics thrown in t