wyoming freshman, a gay man barely alive tonight, in a coma, on life support. shepard, a small man was allegedly beaten with the butt of a pistol, burned with cigarette butts and tied spread eagle to the fence left to die. that was part of nbc s nightly news coverage in october of 1998. that happened four months after the murder of james byrd in texas. it would take more than a decade after that, but in 2009, more than 10 years after those two predatory pact murders, it would take until 2009 for president obama to sign into law the matthew shepard and james byrd jr. hate crime prevention act. when president obama signed that into law and spoke about what that law meant, he stood with dennis and judy, the parents of matthew shepard, you can see to the president s right on the left side of your screen there and also betty and luvonne, the sisters of james byrd, on the right side of your screen there. he stood with them while the president explained this law.
life support. shepard, a small man was allegedly beaten with the butt of a pistol, burned with cigarette butts and tied spread eagle to the fence left to die. that was part of nbc s nightly news coverage in october of 1998. that happened four months after the murder of james byrd in texas. it would take more than a decade after that, but in 2009, more than 10 years after those two predatory pact murders, it would take until 2009 for president obama to sign into law the matthew shepard and james byrd jr. hate crime prevention act. when president obama signed that into law and spoke about what that law meant, he stood with dennis and judy, the parents of matthew shepard, you can see to the president s right on the left side of your screen there and also betty and luvonne, the sisters of james byrd, on the right side of your screen there. he stood with them while the president explained this law.
know, boogiemen for some of the democratic party, right? right. and he s in the context, megyn, of a group of what i would describe as socialists. they are certainly statists, and they and to put this in an even broader context, imagine, it s october of 1998. president clinton is president of the united states. megyn: uh-huh. the economy s growing at a rate of almost 4% a year. unemployment is at 4.6%. things are good. richard m. daley is the mayor of chicago. james edgar, the governor of i ll. things of illinois. things are going the democratic way in illinois, in chicago and still there s this meeting of what are obviously frustrated statists who really have no specific agenda but other than these broad concepts including redistribution. the president was exactly wrong. there wasn t a majority that was supporting in any way gun control in the country.
plumber moment. this is back in october of 1998. listen to this. i think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pull re pool resources and, hence, facilitate some redistribution, because i actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody s got a shot. steve: so for the now president of the united states, be caught on tape saying i actually believe in redistribution, it taps into a lot of the republicans are pushing back using this because it taps into a lot of people s fears that the president is a socialist because he is pushing redistribution. mitt romney took that little bit of news that barak obama likes that idea when he talked last night in dallas. listen. this idea that the president has of a redistributing, i know there are some people in our country who want to have a government take from some to
arrested in october of 1998. i believe they turned it over to qaddafi. i have become good friends with a scottish policeman and fbi agent and spoke to both of them after abdel basset al-megrahi was indicted and i said, is he the only one involved? they said no, there were other libyans. i said, was syria and iran involved? they said, we personally believe that, but we don t have any evidence to prove that. but we believe that syria and iran are involved. we are at that chapter. we do have the ability to find that answer. jamie: do you personally bert, can you make a difference in the investigation to find those others who were responsible? what about working with the libyan government at this point? ironically, we are here, 24 years later, there is an indictment on my government, the british government. vimore confidence in the libyan government because they want to get the truth out about other countries. two years ago, when they released abdel basset al-megrahi, that was an act