To a very prominent North Carolina citizen to take brattens senate seat. He decided to give it to the president of the university of North Carolina. And the president of the university of North Carolina at that time, 1949, was a really interesting guy. He came from an academic background, had been a history professor. He ended up proving to be a politically skilled guy. When he became president of unc, he made lots of friends in washington. He turneded that into lots of federal funding for unc. He was broadminded for his time. There had previously been a quote on as the number of jews that unc would accept at its medical school. When Frank Porter Graham became the president of unc, he scrapped the jew quota. Frank Porter Graham, unc president. In 1949, he was unexpectedly vaulted into the United States senate. When he was asked to fill the open seat when the senator who jump won the seat unexpectedly died. When Frank Porter Graham was given that seat in 1949, in North Carolina, there w
Choked. A preview of tomorrows trump romney meeting. There are some things you just cant imagine happening in your life. This is one of them. All in starts right now. He choked. Good evening from new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for chris hayes tonight. Donald trump making three major picks for his National Security team. The head of the cia trump tapping representative mike pompeo, a kansas republican who serves on the house intelligence committee. Former army officer who supports the socalled enhanced interrogation techniques and opposing closing guantanamo bay. Best known for his aggressive questioning during the benghazi hearings of Hillary Clinton, accusing her of failing to act when american lives were on the line. Come payo has to be confirmed by the senate if hes going to take over the cia. On the other side theres no confirmation necessary when it comes to trumps pick for National Security adviser, and that would be retired army general and trump loyalist michael flynn. Hes the
Mitt let us down. He let us down. Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake. He choked, like a dog he choked. A preview of tomorrows trump romney meeting. There are some things you just cant imagine happening in your life. This is one of them. All in starts right now. He choked. Good evening from new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for chris hayes tonight. Donald trump making three major picks for his National Security team. The head of the cia trump tapping representative mike pompeo, a kansas republican who serves on the house intelligence committee. Former army officer who supports the socalled enhanced interrogation techniques and opposing closing guantanamo bay. Best known for his aggressive questioning during the benghazi hearings of Hillary Clinton, accusing her of failing to act when american lives were on the line. Come payo has to be confirmed by the senate if hes going to take over the cia. On the other side theres no confirmation necessary when it comes to trumps pick for National Security
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sessions had called him boy and had warned him, quote, to be careful what you say to white folks. what we re about to show you now is an nbc news report from that time, from the controversial sessions nomination battle back in 1986. this is reporter ken bodie, the date, march 17th, 1986. mr. sessions is a thoughback to a shameful era which i know both black and white americans thought was in our past. it s inconceivable to me that a person of this attitude is qualified to be a u.s. attorney let alone a united states federal judge. jefferson beauregard sessions iii, he was brought face-to-face with things he personally had said. for example, that the naacp and the civil liberties union are un-american organizations. these comments that you could say about county organization or something, i may have said something like that in a general way and this probably was wrong.