you ve got to have a jewish accountant. but he continues, you ve got to watch them. here it is. i thought this was bad ethnic humor. this is tommy gambino to joe gambino. go figure. what happens mou? does organized crime this is serious stuff. we shouldn t laugh too much. there s a murder in these indictments. people have been killed, are being killed by organized crime. does organized crime shift who takes over now? does it become a different ethnicity? what happens? well, this look, i don t want to cast aspersions on italian-americans. italian-americans are moving, have moved into the american mainstream, the economic mainstream. a talented bright italian american don t have to go into the mob like they might have thought they had to do in the 1930s and 1940s. they can do anything today because i think the amount of discrimination has been eliminated, if not reduced to the point of elimination. but there are still kids who are wanna bes. they want to get into this stuff.
trafficking for the most part. there were exceptions occasionally because it was a lot of money involved. but for the most part, they were making enough money in sort of legitimate business. eliot, you ve got to tell this story. you were wiretapping somebody. pursuant to court order let me get that out there. the evidence was admitted to court later in trial. we had a bug and wire taps in tommy gambino s office, the son of carlo. he and joe gambino shared a desk, the partners desk. i used to listen to hours of conversation. most of it was boring. they were running a trucking company. put that aside. one day tommy leans over to joe. do you remember what dad told us? dad being carlo gambino, the don of all dons, and i m thinking we re going to get the most important piece of organized crime lore ever. tommy says to joe, remember what dad said?
shootings, and calls for everyone to tune down the harsh rhetoric. has it grown even worse? plus one of the biggest mafia busts ever. over 120 arrested, but it s been a long time since the godfather came out. do we now have an entirely different kind of mafia? and new questions about ronald reagan. did he have alzheimer s disease while he was in the white house? his son gives us the whole story. but first, our top story. for the past few weeks, ever since the awful shootings in tucson, this country s been looking inward, wondering if the tone of our political rhetoric might have triggered the violence. so tonight we want to take a closer look at it, zeroing in on a couple of examples of where it s gone wrong, really wrong. and i m talking about incidents that occurred after we learned about what happened in tucson. a mere two hours after being sworn into office as governor, republican robert bentley gave a speech at the very church where martin luther king once preached.