came very close to winning. stully actually won the majority of white votes. both duke and his group euro was very well known. it is worth remembering at the time david duke was the best known white-supremacist in the world. yeah. so it got enormous attention. it is not possible it seems to me that scalise didn t know who duke and the group were. and so scalise wants the american public to believe he didn t know about the group and he didn t have anything to do with them and he has a small staff at the time and that s why they did research. what politician didn t know what group he s talking to. this is amazing. doctor, you ve had your own experience with scalise. do you believe his story? absolutely not. look, this is not about racism. scalise knew. whether he is racist or not it doesn t matter he wanted votes
in an interview with fusion he claims scalise is not the only politico he s met and had associations with and said this. so in other words, he s saying he is going to identify those who he has had associations with in the past which i would think most politicians couldn t want anything to do with. right. so boehner releases a statement today saying this. doctor what do you make of the statement and the position of the speaker? i ll tell you what i ve met david duke on many occasions, he s not the kind of guy that just lets people come into his fray and doesn t like the way that they do business or their politics. so, you know sbainjohn boehner is
louisiana state representatives who voted against making martin luther king s birthday a state holiday. one of six who voted against a similar bill. for the king holiday we all knew was going to be approved yet scalise made a point of voting against it anyway. those votes, i believe, take on a new meaning today. who doesn t know david duke and what he is all about. give me a break. he was first elected to office in 1989. if steve scalise is that ignorant to his own state politics he shouldn t be representing louisiana in anyway, shape, or form. joining us now professor and senior fellow at the southern poverty law center. gentleman great to have you with us. pleasure.
neo-nazi neo-nazi s when he was state legislature. his office confirmed he spoke before the group known as euro back in 2002 was founded by none other than david duke former grand wizard of the kkk who ran for governor in 1991 euro is recognized as a hate group, plain and simple. which is why scalise is now calling the whole thing a big mistake and regrets it all. he said this. not entirely ludicrous. in 1999 he was one of three
at all cost he s a politician. this is more about a divided republican party. the ultra conservatives and the conservatives. we know they only need 30 votes to oust john boehner. and then this comes out? sounds fishy. people call it lesser of two evils i call it the evil of two lessers. i testify in congress with steve scalise sub committee on the use of fema trailers and steve scalise is an okay guy. the issue is not about the fact he went to this david duke rally, for lack of a better term because that s basically what it is what it s about with the sony issue with all this hacking, you would be surprised all the stuff that comes out when we start delving into our politicians pockets and e-mails. all right.