larry flynt would be a trophy killing for the white supremacist. i has noted him down. i m not going to deny that. reporter: you remember the shots ringing out? yeah. well, just sort of like a hot poker hitting me in my stomach. reporter: flint will never forget 1978. the shots like most of franklin s targets, came from a distance. flint would barely survive the two bullets that truck struck him. he would never walk again. by the time the police finally arrested franklin in september of 1980, at least 22 people were dead. days away from his execution, he spoke to me about his three-year killing spree. three years, same length of time jesus was on his mission. and what was your mission? well, to try or get a race war started. reporter: he showed me a
shot. larry flynt would be a killing trophy. you hunted him down? yeah. i was hunting him down. you remember the shots ringing out? yeah. sort of like a hot poker hitting me in my stomach. reporter: he ll never forget, march, 6th, 1978. the shots like most of franklin s targets, came from a distance. flint would barely survive the two bullets that struck him. he would never walk again. by the time they arrested franklin in september of 1980, at least 22 people were dead. days away from his constitution, franklin spoke to me from death row about his killing spree. three years. just the same length of time jesus was on his mission. and what was your mission? well, to try to get a race war started. franklin showed me a tattoo.
says i don t even know what the number is. nobody gives him his turn in the barrel. bill: you and him and other deactors would say it has gone up $6 trillion under your watch. 5 trillion to be fair. bill: $16 now and 10.8. i want to be fair to him. bill: here we have the polling numbers seem to suggest that the president s gaining sfwround on mitt romney. you re reaching back into 1980 to tell us things were much different even late in october. back that up. mid-september of 1980 jimmy carter was ahead of ronald reagan 44-40. i was a young director of the texas campaign, historically democrat state. i was the executive director of texans for reagan-bush. when poll came out, double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment. interest rates at 20%. how could we be losing to this guy. in october, third week of october and polls came out reagan dropped to 39 and
virginia 50, 43. if that s true, and that holds, then the governor loses, correct? you know,. we have got more polls than you can ever imagine. do you know how many national polls and daily tracking polls have been in the last 80 days? 83. if you imagine the national polls how many state polls we have h we have got to be careful about them. first of all be careful about reading too much into the polls. in mid september of 1980, ronald reagan was trailing jimmy carter 44 to 40 despite double digit inflation, double digit unemployment and double digit interest rates. by mid october reagan had dropped 1 point to 39 and carter had risen three points to 47. yet, as we all know it turned out a big blow out. bill: let me get this straight. in 1980, in the middle of october, just three weeks before the vote, carter was up
consumed a big part of the dialogue. neil: i heard a democratic strategist warning other democrats saying it is not over until karl rove sings. the argument is do not get ahead your sell. but many are just being arrogant. guest: people said if a previous campaign, this guy is so bad, we have double digit inflation and double digit interest rates why in the middle of september of 1980, when i was a young kid in charge of the texas reagan-bush campaign why is ronald reagan losing to carter 44 to 40 in the middle of september. in mid-october, when the new gallup poll came out and ronald reagan dipped to 39 and jimmy carter went up to 47, people s wallets starting slamming shut and they threatened to walk out