Bill Moyers: Instead Of A 'Soul,' Donald Trump Has An 'Open Sore' | The Last Word | MSNBC

Veteran journalist and former LBJ press secretary Bill Moyers compares the Trump presidency to the Johnson administration. He tells Lawrence O'Donnell why Trump's reaction to the removal of Confederate statues demonstrates the president's consistent inconsistency.
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Bill Moyers: Instead Of A 'Soul,' Donald Trump Has An 'Open Sore' | The Last Word | MSNBC

[@arlingtonguy54]

❤️Bill Moyers

[@mmpw5775]

Me too. ❤️

[@jintzie1950jth]

This is so cool. It’s amazing how stabilizing and reassuring it is to hear someone tell the simple truth.

[@TheSaltydog07]

Jane Hardy, it's refreshing and heartening to read your comment.

[@peterhanson3391]

tRump is a danger to society. He should be removed from society as soon as possible.

[@anarabrinmere739]

Bill Moyers is a national treasure. One day we won't have him any more. When that day comes I would like to see a great tribute made for the greatness of this man. It would be unlikely, but it would be wonderful if someone steps up to his plate. We need to hear things from such a man. He speaks truth w/ such honor & straightforward grace. If he's on, I'm watching, listening, & mentally bowing at his feet.

[@gallen2101]

I love Bill Moyers Emotional Intellect!

[@gsherlock]

Nazi iconography is illegal in Germany. Mr Bill Moyer's, thanks for you sage and calm discourse on this matter.

[@plymouth491]

Americans, however, never considered Confederate symbolism similarly odius. We just tolerated it.

[@melodymarks4927]

Gavin Sherlock bravo bill moyers

[@rd264]

Nazis and the Confederacy are not equivalent; they both committed terrible, unforgivable crimes, but historically and culturally their crimes are not equivalent. I dont support slavery, obviously, but I do support secession or the right of states to secede for the reasons stated in the Declaration of Independence. No Civil War fought to preserve any Union is worth it, ie no federal government is worth sacrificing 1 million lives.

[@timberrr1126]

Confederates fought to save their rural livelihoods. Slavery was on its way out due to mechanization; the Eli Whitney cotton gin.

[@timberrr1126]

The South did not want Northern interference. The South intended to sell their cotton to UK garment makers. The North interfered. Cotton harvesting machines were invented, thus no longer a need for expansive slave labor. The Civil War was about economics, less so about morality of capitalism. The slaves merely converted over to share croppers living the same lower class lifestyle.

[@jstephens2758]

He is worried that someday, someone will want to tear down his statue. But he doesn't need to worry. There won't be one.

[@marusnak1113]

From your electronic lips to the higher power!

[@normahernandez355]

Oh that is good one!! Lol 😂

[@aevelynmoose609]

YES THERE WILL BE. AT THAT PROPOSED MILITARY POST IN POLAND. TOADIE FROM MARIO KART. 3RD ID HAS AND STILL HAS ROCKY MARNE

[@beemanminnesota7683]

Yes, No need to worry Trump will have a monument forever in my heart! I will forever profess Trump as POTUS 45, God truly chosen President!

[@marusnak1113]

@@beemanminnesota7683 Why? I really would like to try to understand why God that decision.

[@50zcarsman]

As a Government employee, I once told a Southern military-analyst colleague who'd attended the Virginia Military Academy that the Confederates had indeed fought bravely, but for one of the WORST causes for which men have ever fought. He was speechless -- couldn't even entertain the thought; was never given the vocabulary to do so.

[@walterm.robertsiiiphd2157]

@@cwporter324 The Wehrmach did the same in 1940. Why wouldn't one call a goat a goat?

[@Toni-lo9ms]

How is the country supposed to follow a president like that? It shouldn't. The best course with a man like Trump is to resist and contain him at every turn and push for his removal as soon as possible. No other response is possible for anyone who doesn't want this country to go the route of a South Africa or Nazi Germany. #Resist #Remove Peace

[@lastgreatest7821]

Balthazar21 Just keep saying No!

[@khaley1661]

Be patient. Obama killed 995,000 people. You will get rid of this horrible man who just pulled CIA FUNDING FOR THE COVERT KILLING OF sYRIANS and get another bloodthirsty politician to resume the killing, you horror of a "human being"

[@Toni-lo9ms]

K Haley Thanks for reminding me, I forgot to mention treating trolls, insane conspiracy theory followers, racists and other Trump groupies with the contempt they at this point deserve. In other words do what adults do when ignorant children try to disrupt their conversation, ignore them.

[@kjsalomonsen9299]

Balthazar21 thank you.

[@richarddarlington1139]

K Haley Do you watch Fox news? Well, I think you'll get a kick out of this... 21st Century Fox CEO, James Murdoch (Yes, Rupert's son) has pledged to donate one million dollars to the Anti Defamation League in protest to Donald Trump. It's true. You should read his e-mail on the subject. It is absolutely beautiful. This was reported earlier today by Maggie Haberman of the New York Times. Fake news? I think not! The e-mail speaks for itself.

[@jillneuner8132]

Amazing this was 3 years ago ! Still relevant! Love Bill Moyers🥰

[@shawncrawford3146]

Bill Moyers is pure class. He is unabashedly liberal, unassailable, and smart. His body of work over the decades is fantastic, and it wasn't all politics. Peace

[@khaley1661]

Ask this classy man why he insisted JFK's bubble top be removed from his car the day he was assassinated. Bill has refused to answer the question for the last 50+ years.

[@LardGreystoke]

Is it the same bubble you've been living in? Under the grassy knoll?

[@youreterriblemuriel5903]

Shawn Crawford and not too stubborn or proud to admit that he was far from perfect. Something no one in the current administration is capable of doing.

[@cachickadee]

K Haley ...Here you are again troll. Where did you find this crock of B.S. story? Do you wear an aluminum foil hat?

[@kezkezooie8595]

K Haley Bill Moyers was the Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the time - he didn't have the authority to order any such thing.

[@chadisan]

"He doesn't have a soul, he has an open sore."

[@margaretgonzalez9350]

HE IS AN OPEN SORE FOR ALL PEOPLE!

[@markhall7646]

Nice assessment from someone who would know the darkness and festering in himself.

[@coldwinter5710]

A perfect description of Trump

[@coldwinter5710]

@watchinglosersagain Such a mature response

[@colleenmcdevitt6416]

@@margaretgonzalez9350 Trump is like Hitler

[@normahernandez355]

Replace the statues with a TREE !!! A sign of growth in intelligence and change!!! Peace ✌️

[@wetbrainflora2687]

I love Moyers.

[@susanclack3055]

Bill Moyers has always spoken the truth regardless of the consequences that have tried to silence him. He has been my hero since I was 10 years old!

[@marcmarinacci7378]

Uhhhh, what about the JFK assassination ?

[@goodenergy11]

Bill Moyer’s, would you be my neighbor?

[@charlesnwarren]

Honey, you're still 10 years old.

[@BIvey]

Alvin moresod

[@charlesnwarren]

You still are.

[@HJ-yg4bp]

Life-long thanks to Bill Moyers. An inspiration -- always made himself better, and so, PBS & all of us, too. A sublime, uncorrupted teller of truth to power. Superb clip.

[@HorseMuse]

How about statues of leaders who invented something that improved life, leaders who lead, healers, inventors, vs it’s always got to be war we raise up.

[@caroloconnor669]

Such good thinking.

[@whygohome172]

Really!

[@lindabilly5471]

I concur. The black man who invented the automobile Patterson. The black doctor who invented the light bulb.

[@lindabilly5471]

The traffic light. The BOARD of Education breakfast. Lunch for students. The real McCall machine. The whiskey industry. The telephone industry. The heart surgery black doctor. The beer industry. The bank industry. The life insurance industry. The movie industry. The boats industry. The building industry. The highway industry etc.......!

[@blindbat495]

@@lindabilly5471 he didn’t invent the light bulb just a longer lasting one. Get it right

[@cynthiawecksler8600]

Mr.Moyers you are a delight to hear. When I was younger I would watch your news. Thank you

[@k311ydcart3r]

Everything being said here still rings true in June 2020. It keeps getting worse.

[@markhall7646]

No. Everyone is still CHEWING on the same chunk of fat since August 17, 2017. Go look at the video date. What a pathetic waste of time to nurse a grudge this long. It really needs its diaper changed.

[@redman840]

Mark Hall That’s one big diaper that Trump will be needing,then.

[@frogstamper]

@@markhall7646 A little like republicans still chewing on the same bit of fat for one hundred and fifty years that the confederacy wasn't fighting for slavery and that the civil war was about state's rights, a shameful excuse that should have been buried generations ago. Not only is that a pathetic waste of time it's completely disingenuous, whereas the discussion over Trump is totally germain in that there is an election in four months.

[@waltbayer5237]

WEB

[@jkryanspark]

His fascistic and sadistic ways are, at least, consistent.

[@vivaldesque]

Bill Moyers has always been an intelligent voice in the world of media and journalism.

[@markhall7646]

Fake News Media and yellow rag journalism.

[@coldwinter5710]

@@markhall7646 Sorry Mark, you are on the WRONG side of history on this one.

[@angelocasio870]

You see how the devil show himself in different ways to deceive the innocent.

[@markhall7646]

Yep. It talks about Lucifer doing that in scripture. A fallen angel can do that. Not a mere mortal like Trump.

[@kytediane6964]

John 8:44

[@padmasalam5267]

Angel Ocasio I have been telling folks that, for sometime now. And yes, sometimes Satan disguises as a bright ray of sunlight, and it is very good at fooling us. I know deep in my heart, that Trump is the anti-Christ, and no one can tell me differently. I am a spiritual person, who was born with a good six-sense, and I can sense evil a mile away. Trump is a (harmon--male Jezebel). I can feel it in my every bone and muscles. He is wicked and is up to no good, unfortunately! Sad state of affairs really. 🥂🍺 Cheers and beers mates!

[@maxxhanley9006]

Are their really any innocent? We all know the history! You who voted in ignorance for Trump, need to wake up and care about the country, not some fantasy you have!

[@audreydunham4600]

The Cross with Jesus should be replaced by the Statues that have been toppled down in America. On Good Friday place a wreath at his foot. Stop the travelling to countries for Photo Shoots and communicate with all Leaders the Character of God. DEATH TOLL ON THE RISE 125,763 26th June 2020. Become an AMERICAN and not an AMERI-CANT facebook.com/groups/280802499580120/ (JOIN/SHARE) facebook.com/groups/588058305237857/ (discuss) (JOIN)

[@nikiedmonds6236]

"This is a man who is unable to finish a sentence in the way he obviously intended it when he started" 🤣 FACTS! 💯

[@funcastglobal]

he is too double-minded and a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways

[@krumbsbakery154]

@@funcastglobal he is illiterate for whatever reason, same as kanye

[@elizabethcimino6559]

To all HATERS for trump; he babbles, he talks NONSENSE, but the man has NO CHARACTER. PRESIDENT BIDEN is the answer.

[@fahimabemberry9756]

OMG Sir Moyers really hit the nail upon the head. May the All Mighty Preserve you in His Goodness, Grace, & Guidance!🙏🙏🏾🙏🙏🏾🙏

[@nini1957]

Wow! Bill Moyers! A legend and an honest journalist! Great spot!

[@markhall7646]

Don't make me vomit on your Pradas lady.

[@Intrepid-hz1wi]

The liberals are the farthest thing from honest that there is

[@Intrepid-hz1wi]

@@markhall7646 LMAO

[@RobertMadden]

How about extraordinary ex-slaves. Harriett Tubman, Frederick Douglas. Or inventors like Garrett Morgan, Frederick McKinley Jones who created things that affect our lives daily.

[@quasimodem5260]

I think the concept of statues isn't something I agree with.

[@thepragmatist1456]

Well said Bro - the inventors of electricity - glass - solar panel - paper - Toyota which is a man - Doctors that invented tools - Neil Armstrong should have one - anyone whether White black or brown - no matter the origin - create a world history museum with those ppl that affect our lives to date. Those other statue can go in a separate museum for the fanatics living in another realm

[@charlesnwarren]

Made our lives miserable. Can we get on board with a back-to-Africa plan? That was what Lincoln had proposed before he got it in the back of the head.

[@RobertMadden]

Charles Warren wrong. Their presence in this country, makes this country! Their contribution to the social fabric is immeasurable. From them we witness, and when we’re ready, learn true Grace.

[@sarapulford5957]

@@thepragmatist1456 🇬🇧 Paper was invented by the Chinese.

[@creatingpeace8945]

Bill, Lawrence! You both typify what is truly great in o called "white intellectualism". Love you for reigning down on this disese of a leadership.

[@mac2phin]

I have re-use Mr. Moyers "open sore" remark several times regarding our so-called president.

[@ARichardP]

Trump removes those whom he sees as traitorous to his administration. Just axed another one today. But monuments to those who fought against the United States are A-OK? Lee himself said he didn’t want monuments to himself, thinking it would be divisive and looking backwards rather than forwards. Change is painful.

[@td2555]

I loved the way you put that. Well said.👍🏾

[@yosemadysam9068]

You lied then and your lying now,fool.!!!!!!?

[@yosemadysam9068]

Trump 20/20

[@Intrepid-hz1wi]

@@yosemadysam9068 yes baby🙌🙌🙌

[@quasimodem5260]

Just wrote something before reading your comment. I think that these types of statues are divisive and it doesn't make a difference if the statue is of Mother Teresa. A well tended garden would be better.

[@CCJJ160Channels]

Has no problem with preserving confederate monuments, but shrinks natural monuments like Bears Ear Park.

[@gilbert6181]

So wait you consider racist SOB's more important then national parks!

[@katlovesdogs4119]

@watchinglosersagain you have a useless brain.

[@haunebu2360]

watchinglosersagain What would make it useful?

[@patriciahuffman6327]

Those destroying the monuments don't have an knowledge of history---they're defacing and destroying those who fought to end slavery. They're just a mob causing terrorism with no thought of George Floyd or his family or trying to make lives better for anyone. There is no systemic racism in this Country, although democrats want to continue that rhetoric without doing anything to improve our Country--just want to keep it going up to the election to get more votes by supporting the terrorists who are even confronting and threatening people in their homes.

[@haunebu2360]

Patricia Huffman They don’t care they just want to destroy and destroy and not even know why, they’re doing what they are told and taught by cnn and others, who are telling them to destroy!! the people who run the media, they know why! they have their own agenda and using these morons as a weapon against the people! President Trump and America is the only thing standing between us and globalism that’s why there’s such a resistance

[@gwenviviani327]

it just came out that almost 2/3 of Republicans approve of Trump and would vote for him again. That is very depressing, and it makes me angry.

[@LardGreystoke]

Lot more racists than you think. If he shot somebody on 5th Ave. he wouldn't go below 27%.

[@Tabletop-Newtype]

DR Dubois did you get your username from a book called seven eves?

[@contactkeithstack]

Gwen Viviani was it really less than 66%? That's way down and impossibly low for a presidents own party 8 months in.

[@cachickadee]

DR Dubois ...It's like a moral sickness taken hold in our country. I still have a hard time accepting that so many people choose to continue to follow such an amoral, horrible individual, no matter what he says, how much he lies, who he insults, how bad he makes us look to the rest of world or endangers us with his ego posturing.

[@smockytubers1188]

contactkeithstack Right. Also worth noting, that's actually even lower than just months ago too, even if it does still seem somewhat high objectively. Also, remember that "Republicans" means registered Republicans which is far far less than 50% of the electorate. So 66% of less than 50%... And those are the guys that are supposed to be in your corner basically unquestionably? That's bad... Really bad.

[@marciaclark7072]

I love Bill Moyer’s he knows how to get right to the heart of a subject!

[@stevengrotte2987]

To President Trump "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN"--------RESIGN!!!!

[@loverainthunder]

Steven Grotte please god yes

[@emilykrahn3185]

Steven Grotte YES!

[@johnmoore9862]

Steven Grotte, Yes, right on the button.

[@marcmarinacci7378]

I like !!

[@francesvansiclen3245]

Steven Gottle- and you could disappear !

[@WhoIsElKabong]

"I think it wiser not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.” Robert E Lee on the erecting statues in the honor of the Confederacy...

[@carolkeenan6488]

L

[@aqueenstandsalone3954]

imperial_glass very appropriate quote

[@jeffwells1255]

Excellent point!

[@sooz9433]

Why can't we get a leader in the white house who excercises the same beautiful reason as Bill Moyers...

[@davidlafleche1142]

Bill Moyers is a Socialist liar.

[@TheSaltydog07]

Obama is eloquent, so is Bill Clinton.

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@TheSaltydog07 Eloquence is useless, if the speaker is pushing Socialism. "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful" (Psalm 1:1, KJV). Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Establish the Kingdom in Jerusalem, and keep the world safe from Democracy!

[@rockradstone]

@@davidlafleche1142 Go away! Freedom FROM religion is a very good thing.

[@davidlafleche1142]

@Xen Tell that to the so-called "pope."

[@petediamond2721]

👍❤ Bill Moyers, one of the last of the line of journalists that speaks with integrity character and class!

[@ataattosbt]

Most of the time he does but not this time. Not a match. Very disappointing considering aired an interview on the Deep State ) , a combo of “hired hands” in government who come from the Democratic and Republican parties.

[@ketchenraleese3109]

To all of the "christians" marching to keep statues of people who fought to uphold the evil of slavery, a question: How many slaves did Jesus own?

[@miapdx503]

Ketchen Raleese The Bible references the "Great Deception." I do believe it's begun. To see "preachers" praying over a Satanist was just surreal.

[@gwen3010]

Thank you!

[@martonburg]

Ketchen Raleese: Why march when you can vote for the demorats, who were against stopping slavery, and were the major slave owners at that time in history, or is that fact, the reason you want the statues removed, to hide your historic crimes?

[@marietellez6021]

@@martonburg liar The Democrats detested RACISTS. from The beginning of Time , the only Republican who tried to free slaves and was shot cold blooded and killed by another criminal Republican was Abraham Lincoln , sad and disgusting #TROLLS

[@doak4886]

Ketchen Raleese I think the Dem. administrations running our major cities have done a wonderful job for black people over the last 50 years. There’s hardly any poverty or black on black crime anymore. No wonder blacks love the Dems.

[@daniellemarquez7137]

Trump will go down in history as the biggest bamboozle in America.

[@wendymacmullen6480]

Stop being so kind.

[@markhall7646]

Really, Ethel?

[@Shermanbay]

In three years, what Bill Moyers said in this video has become more important than ever.

[@amythompson7700]

I found yesterday that Bill Moyers was the guy that declared that the clear bubble that would have been over the head of JFK was NOT used on the day he was MURDERED. Then, he got an important job with LBJ!

[@llew777]

Morrow, Cronkite and Moyers the top 3 Thank You

[@khaley1661]

Ask this classy man why he insisted JFK's bubble top be removed from his car the day he was assassinated. Bill has refused to answer the question for the last 50+ years.

[@aaronwinegar9724]

We know the answer to that. We know that a guard accidentally shot Kennedy, who was going to die anyways from other wounds. We know they protected the guard's identity for his and his family's sake, since he had enough to deal with. And when this era is done and past, the documents will be released to the public. What more do you need to know?

[@dianeowen5258]

Aaron - Good Lord. That's different.

[@kezkezooie8595]

K Haley He was Deputy Director of Public Affairs in 1963. He didn't have the authority to order any such thing.

[@goodwilj]

That's what you think.

[@jonbbaca5580]

Bill Moyers is one of my heroes. He's been a voice for the moral conscious of this country for decades. I've missed his weekly take on the news since he left his show on PBS years ago. Basically he's the man.

[@Amy-gn6zw]

I hope to see Trump back in New York....permanently. He needs to stay out of the White House.

[@jimhall6341]

In a New York prison

[@WWZenaDo]

@@jimhall6341 Rikers Island.

[@FrannieMC69]

Wow. Thank you Mr Moyers for explaining this so historically. As an AA I hate the reminders of slavery, but I was of the mindset that the statutes are apart of our history and reminds us of a lesson of where we've been or came from in America; but they can be displayed in a museum as stated and tell the same story.

[@dansorger7714]

The South is a weird place, its the only place on earth where people celebrate loosing a war.

[@quasimodem5260]

lol

[@shihtzusrule9115]

Actually, I think it's more like surviving when they weren't supposed to. The South wasn't just defeated they were destroyed and felt the typical atrocities that befalls the losing side in a war including starvation. I don't think you'll find anyone in the South who will want to sing praises of a 300- or 400-year-old stain like slavery. Baltimore and Minneapolis are pretty far north of that Mason-Dixon line. It's funny, but everyone always wants to start in the south "fixing" things, then eventually work their way north.

[@REELKILLERS]

Dan Sorger It’s because they love the culture that once was.

[@gordonflann5855]

Looks like nobody learned you to how to spel good. Loser.

[@katlovesdogs4119]

@@shihtzusrule9115 Really? Have you seen and listened to the people at Trump rallies?

[@marmiteman2196]

This too shall pass. Trump and his selfish acolytes will be gone soon. And we will return to progress, and they become a fading bad memory.

[@ho2cultcha]

what planet do you live on? not this one!

[@cbeaucrawford]

K Haley - You have fallen down a rabbit hole. Please google this phrase 'Correlation does not imply causation'. You are simply spouting random news headlines.

[@BixbyConsequence]

I'm not confused about my gender. But keep that open sore of yours fresh, ok?

[@TheNefastor]

Joshua Dunne sorry, but the politicians and people that enabled a Trump "presidency" will still be there.

[@Nehaa18]

Joshua Dunne I don't doubt you, but I also see how the Trump presidency can do far-reaching, unprecedented damage to our republic and its institutions.

[@droolalot5795]

Is that tax audit done yet 🤔?

[@marilynbrice5976]

That 's a joke; he doesn't ever want America to see his crookedness which I am sure those tax returns would show, but you can be sure Robert Mueller will subpoena them.

[@lcfiddles]

Thank you for interviewing Bill Moyers. I miss him so much, as he is seen less in the Media. He is a national treasure!! Liked what he said! So wise!

[@johnmcguigan1112]

4 score and 7 years ago .....

[@BiggPoppa56]

festering wound

[@nofaithjusthope8714]

trump don't worry about statues you ain't getting one.

[@sambrown329]

It would be DEFACED instantly

[@marjatikkanen6155]

Yes with the Putin and Russian hooker's

[@WWZenaDo]

Well, there is that fleshy thing showing Trump nude. I'm not going to link it because once seen it cannot be unseen. And then there's that baby blimp the British trot out for each of Trump's visits... And "Trump on the Toilet".

[@dennischallinor8497]

@@WWZenaDo I'd love a Trump Baby Blimp on my front lawn but I don't think I could afford the helium to fill the perishing thing, not to mention someone would probably shoot it the first hour it was up. Boooo!!!

[@WWZenaDo]

@@dennischallinor8497 Perhaps a smaller version, or a cardboard/particle board cutout profile of the blimp? Save it for public display on special occasions, like his birthday on June 14th...

[@taritabonita22]

They also need to rewrite the history books in the school system by telling the whole truth! History is watching Trump. 🇺🇸

[@newton63100]

I love it and I am 76 years old. I for the most part never believed those History Books. A Country could never be that great. That is common sense.

[@philipgrice1026]

While they are at it they could address the LBJ murder of JFK. The lying has never stopped. Trump is an imbecile. LBJ was a murderer.

[@DudesRights]

Tara J. Fitzgerald school system is a lie

[@DarkMetaOFFICIAL]

👀

[@lakelover6014]

Trump will go down in history known as the BIG JOKE OF A PRESIDENT that made CORONA GREAT AGAIN IN 2020 !!! DUMP TRUMP HE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO RUN ANYTHING BIGGER THAN HIS MOUTH!!! DUMP THE TRUMP

[@markaf1]

confederates lost tear em down

[@angelamillard6418]

Watching this June 2020. That's really all I need to say. VOTE!!!!!!

[@prestonbutton6493]

Bless that man for speaking truth.

[@michaelstrickland6035]

Moyers is something that Trump can never, ever, hope to be: articulate.

[@gwen3010]

Also smart!

[@charlesnwarren]

Articulate? Moyers? Moyers sucks.

[@nigeljames6017]

Charles Warren Do you know the meaning of the word “articulate” ? If not, look it up, but I suspect you do. Tell me how Trump’s sentence structure compares to this man ?

[@charlesnwarren]

Oh, come on. Sentence structure aside, Moyers has poor judgment.

[@nigeljames6017]

Charles Warren Look over your original comment, the first word is “articulate” followed by a question mark. In English this denotes a derision of his “articulation”. I suggest you listen to his sentence structure and formation ideas. You do NOT have to agree with him.

[@Queenie-the-genie]

I love Bill Moyers!

[@victoriagrayson7079]

Bill Moyer....a gentleman. Thank you, Lawrence O'Donnell, this was a nice gift.

[@brysonrowden5322]

I love Moyer so honest and real.

[@vonsuthoff]

Hey Christians! Moyer's is displaying what you should be thinking, doing and saying. Moyer's is a great example of a truly "good" man...and unlike Trump, history will prove this man righteous.

[@markhall7646]

Thank you for your post. Reading it helped me have that bowel movement I've been needing to have for the past three days.

[@vonsuthoff]

@@markhall7646 ... At my age, that is about the nicest thing anyone has said to me in quite a while. Think I'm gonna well up now... Scuze me.

[@nanochase]

Imagine being a man who sees his children as fashion accessories like a watch or a bag. Who views the women in his life as biological receptacles. Imagine fearing everyone around you so much that you must order your food covertly from a machine out of fear of being poisoned. Imagine being a man like that staring in the mirror, the void recursively infinitely witnessing itself

[@emilycarlton3706]

I can't

[@cilliastilesbrumblecadenas6943]

His biggest curse is he can't get away from himself. When you are that negative and hypocritical it only gives you a glance of the self- talk that takes place in his mind. We treat others the way we feel we should be treated. Enough said... He knows he has one of the nastiest and hatred hearts of all times.

[@markhall7646]

Yeah. I get it. Imagine yourself trying to write something greatly significant to yourself and SUCKING HARD at it. Nice try.

[@katlovesdogs4119]

Nanochase, well written, and insightful.

[@TheSaltydog07]

He thinks his daughter is "hot." 😒

[@marcmckenzie5110]

If our country had the equivalent of British knighthood, Mr. Moyers would be Sir William - what a wise and great man.

[@Ronnylama]

How can Trump make America great again if he doesn't even know what made America great in the first place?

[@recruiter1884]

RonnyLama Richardson, You got that right! He doesn't even know how the U.S government work.

[@williamridgesr.6068]

RonnyLama Richardson donny wants to make america great again, like before the civil rights marches, like before women could vote, like back when there were debters prisons, like when white men owned black men.

[@elenatimofte2014]

RonnyLama Richardson STUPID GREEDY 🐖

[@charlesnwarren]

He'll remake it, then.

[@aqueenstandsalone3954]

RonnyLama Richardson it has NEVER been great. Due to greed, hate & racism it never will be great.

[@wt30001]

I have all respect and ideas of Bill Moyer.

[@JustMarioBros]

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump is a flat earther.

[@psychoshamrock]

He believes he is the center of the universe. #narcissism

[@charlesnwarren]

He's a flat no-immigranter, and that's good enough for me.

[@rrbaggett7]

@@charlesnwarren If that were true, his he wouldn't have married 2 of his wives.

[@ChihuahuaChappie]

Fat Birther

[@eddykelly4082]

He is!!! And it is!,,

[@zhukie]

Ironically, Robert E Lee didn't think that Confederate statues should be raised after the war - he said that the country should come together as a unified nation.

[@aaronholley8691]

I think John McCain should have a statue somewhere in these United States

[@markhall7646]

Maybe not a statue. But his image could be used for laxative suppositories. If the medicine don't work, his image will.

[@frogstamper]

Agreed, right outside Trump tower.

[@toyamwarr]

I believe a naval destroyer was dedicated in his name right before he died.

[@quasimodem5260]

Maybe we should give up on statues period for someone who actually lived. Statues that represent a noble idea ...and don't cost the American public money is pretty good. I say the Statue of Liberty should stay...but most others go. It is too hard of a call to elevate anyone. If you want to honor someone do it when they are alive. It's divisive.

[@calamityjane6437]

@@frogstamper EXACTLY what I was going to say! Hahaha

[@gingercat]

I can't help but wonder how much of our strife now is because of the abandonment of reconstruction and so many white supremacist rebels being allowed to come back to power in congress and their states after the war. We've been paying for it ever since. If we'd have dealt with it firmly and decisively then maybe the wound would've been allowed to heal.

[@sandralybrand9407]

Bill Moyers such a smart person, wish we had more to speak, he's a teacher!

[@shomikchakraborty8221]

why did you people vote for Trump????

[@bjoybeads]

@@shomikchakraborty8221 - It's called deception; he''s a master deceiver.

[@charlesnwarren]

And that ranks about up there with a cop these days.

[@markhall7646]

yawn

[@carolm9996]

Bill Moyers is both brilliant and principled. I used to watch him religiously on PBS. What were they thinking when they canceled his program?

[@lisacotton322]

His such an Embarrassment. When is this nightmare going to end?

[@willieshook7802]

Maybe after his second term, maybe not! Lol If you think that Quid Pro Joe, the theif of Ukraine will defeat Donald Trump you're delusional!

[@nosuchthing8]

Worse everyday

[@wendyroithner1071]

@@willieshook7802 we'll see. With the people that are dying because of the virus Trump isn't just killing Democrats, he's killing Republicans too. He doesn't care about anyone but himself. So, like I said...We will see. I think many people are awake now and want a change ASAP. But you go ahead and sign up for the tyrant that doesn't care what you think.

[@wendyroithner1071]

@Lil bit I really think that Trump is sick and believes he's doing a fantastic job. His paranoia is extensive. He doesn't trust anyone, not even himself.

[@markhall7646]

When you die. That's a certainty. Then it won't bother you anymore. Honest.

[@bruceosman2658]

This is a good man...Thank you, Mr. Moyer!!

[@tedsterrett7204]

I was born in 1961, and now I realize just how great my parents were, they always treated all people with respect when we went out together so that I wouldn't become bitter or angry as I grew into a man. They suffered in silence but expressed rage at the injustice that they had to endure, to the family while struggling to provide a home for us. My father was one of the best men I've ever known he suffered mental, and physical abuse that would have destroyed others. I thought we had a lot boy was I naive. The injustice was economically and socially based and we all have been taken advantage of. Thank you for this eyeopening report and for your integrity and honesty.

[@SierWilliam]

I was born in the fifties and my father the youngest of 5 boys, born in 1918 and before was the only one with out predigest against people for their race and was the only brother who served in WW II, raised me with the same values, even though he walked on crutches tell he die because of a Japanese machine gunner. He never held any predigest against Japanese, or Germens, or any other race. He told me their just people like us, flesh and blood, their skin color doesn't matter.

[@zeldolinsky6979]

I always highly respected the thoughtful interviews Bill Moyers did, especially with Joseph Campbell regarding the “Hero’s Journey”. Where are our heroes today? Certainly Donald Trump is no hero nor is he a president who expresses the values and ethics of Americans, regardless of what his administration or his supporters say .

[@travelinggirl8257]

Amen especially to the last thing Mr. Moyers said here. Good for him.

[@juliaset751]

I have always been totally impressed with Bill Moyers’ wisdom and intelligence.

[@redsxncubs23]

I love that the only history Trump knows is who owned slaves...

[@ca6177]

Of course!

[@plymouth491]

And whose portrait does he have in the Oval Office? Yup, Andrew Jackson.

[@MichaelBrodie68]

I missed this comment - just brilliant!

[@plymouth491]

@Big Wheel Really, sport? How am I rewriting history? And if you're so proud of Jackson having repelled the English, you should, therefore, be wholly opposed to jumping back into a theocracy when the Founding Fathers fought so hard to get out of one. And if you're referring to the removal of Confederate statutes, we both know that it has nothing to do with heritage, but rather the intimidation of black Americans during Jim Crow and segregation. No, you're a nationalist, not a patriot, so don't mistake one for the other, slugger.

[@plymouth491]

@Big Wheel And congratulations on having $60 in your wallet, I guess. Eat your heart out, Bill Gates.

[@lawrencemckeon2842]

Justice Revolution. Heart and soul.

[@kstamps410]

I thought this interview was just hours old because of it’s relevance; it’s 3 years old! Nothing has changed or improved. Instead, Moyers’ perspective on Trump and his presidency has been validated. I’d love to hear an updated interview with Moyers.

[@Mote78]

Hard to believe that this was aired August 2017 yet still rings true today and 1/3 of America still blindly supports him.

[@Vicartje]

Craig Wheeless Right... I just posted a comment about that. I thought there was a glitch in the system or something. So this really is an interview from 2017 then... Unbelievable!

[@quasimodem5260]

The following is what bothers me the most. I was glad that when the news came out that he bragged about grabbing women inappropriately because I thought....thank god. This man just lost the election, and he won. He is right he could shoot someone in broad daylight and still have his following.

[@quasimodem5260]

@@Vicartje I picked up on that before I commented and I agree....unbelievable.

[@GeorgetownDude]

@@Vicartje Exactly the same here. I thought it was from yesterday.

[@GregoryPearsonMusic]

Actually I would say its been completely disproven - why is it blind to support someone with a clear platform who has had success after success implementing it? The alternatives to support were a disgraced criminal who nearly won in 2016 (by either voter fraud or an uninformed electorate) and for 2020 your party is running someone with progressing dementia? Are you serious? Plus, that 1/3 may be something talked about by the liberal news media - but there is massive support for trump as yet unmeasured, support from the people across this land who are responsible for making this country run each day and who understand the issues beyond being influenced by a slanderous, unfair, slanted media attack against someones character. Can't the dems find a leader we could all respect? This is a childish video.

[@antonyirvine9338]

What about a statue of Abolitionist Frederick Douglas?

[@emilykrahn3185]

Antony Irvine Good idea.

[@mistermiserxx]

Antony Irvine - Frederick Douglas was a great thinker and he should have a statue but he was also essentially a segregationist. He wanted white America to leave black America alone. Best example Prince George’s County Maryland. Middle Class and Upper Middle Class Blacks purposely move to an area that is predominantly black and they thrive there. Corporate America and dysfunctional Federal programs have quietly and effectively destroyed most of the middle class black communities by across the country by sapping them if their best and brightest. Frederick Douglas saw that this was going to happen. I’m a conservative middle aged white man and I can’t stand how the liberals have used and abused the black population in this country. No politician is ever going to help anyone. They’re only going to help themselves.

[@remoteaccess3638]

There is a great one of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, NY

[@eyefulpower]

Statues are NOT "history". They are commemorations. What other country commemorates the enemy?

[@asher6657]

@watchinglosersagain But you ave already proven yourself to be ignorant beyond reason .

[@ktkacer8393]

Exactly. Rich rascist m'fers who were able to throw some pennies together and have one made. (statue)

[@carmenn4074]

Brilliant summary

[@IyaPatsyOriginalEgunlady]

Trump lives half a park (Central Park) away from Grant's Tomb. Wonder how many times he's visited it🤔

[@marcmarinacci7378]

shame he's not in it

[@reginamoore6897]

BILL.. never knew you were from Marshall, Tx. I'm from SHREVEPORT!!! I think putting the statues in a local museum of history is a great idea because they're part of history.. painfully so.. but still part of it.. so that WHEN the stories are told ... Just tell the truth. Lincoln didn't fight to free the slaves.. he fought to preserve the Union and rightly so.. as was the Emancipation.. which was as a RESULT of the war. Thank you so much for your service to our nation and to journalism.. YOU sir are a national treasure. Remember in scripture the question of .. "can anything good come out of Nazareth?"... By the same token.. Can ANYTHING good come out of the South?... YES.

[@robertalee60]

I respect LBJ so much , at 9 years old he influenced me to become a lifelong Democrat, he was a good President after JFK was assassinated.

[@christineacalderbank]

Put the confederate status in a museum. Not out in public space.

[@wendymacmullen6480]

Great idea!!

[@markhall7646]

Give them A/C and one wicked guard coverage with big hungry dogs too.

[@pattiinla]

I love Bill Moyers philosophy he had a great show on PBS.

[@cherylk6164]

I agree with Trevor Noah. We should never build statues to people - just don't.

[@brianlemaire4221]

I can think of several people from my lifetime who deserve a statue. Paul Kurtz. Albert Ellis. Daniel Dennett. Olive Higgins Prouty. Lawrence Lessig. Paul Krugman. Elizabeth Warren.

[@henryraymond8676]

So we shouldn't name it Martin Luther King Drive, or any schools, libraries, airports named after famous or noteworthy people? Trevor is a numbnuts let's face it. In my town there was Jefferson and Franklin schools, Columbia, O'hare airport, Lincoln, Sherman, Grant, etc.,etc. All of this is stupid. Let's pretend slavery never existed, the depression never happened, and prohibition was an illusion. O.K. so you must be Napolean Bonaparte that's what you think?

[@henryraymond8676]

@@brianlemaire4221 Who?

[@katlovesdogs4119]

@@henryraymond8676 Paul Kurtz was a renowned humanist, Dani Clement Dennett is a writer, philosopher, and cognitive scientist, Olive Higgins Prouty was an American novelist (wrote Now, Voyager), Lawrence Lessig is an American attorney, political activist, and professor of law at Harvard University, and Paul Krugman, Nobel Price winner (2008) for Economic Sciences. I believe you have heard of Elizabeth Warren.

[@pamr7777]

Looking at MT Rushmore through the eyes of the Lakota,it would be more beautiful by far without the middle carved out.

[@36cmbr]

Nice piece of news by two veteran dedicated to getting to the facts and sharing those discoveries. Terrific!

[@icuamerica9871]

This November take a stand vote for your country not the president.

[@sage1875]

Amen! to that!

[@beckywatt5048]

Like Shitcago , care of Rohm Emmanuel , and Seattle , Washington ???

[@victoriagrayson7079]

For the soul of America.....Joe Biden...for a real American President....2020..Vote🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

[@beckywatt5048]

@@victoriagrayson7079 Yup , Sleepy , Crazy hands , Joe was the only one to vote no on the Alaskan pipeline , really good for America !!!

[@katlovesdogs4119]

@Steven Majercak Loving the dictator wannabe. Oh, and Trump's love Kim jong un is threatening us again with nukes. His negotiations and love letters didn't work. Imagine that.

[@hannahmurray3782]

I remember seeing this at the time and thinking he had described trump exactly. It’s a powerful description. Years later, it’s still the best I’ve heard.

[@bradsanders6954]

Thomas Jefferson not only owned slaves. He had kids with one in particular.

[@markhall7646]

And?

[@romulus_]

@@markhall7646 and denied their existence and any claim to his wealth. they remained enslaved. shows what he was about in at least one aspect of his life.

[@toddinde]

Interestingly, one of Thomas Jefferson's grandchildren descended from his relationship with Sally Hemings was a Union colonel from Wisconsin. Ms. Hemings was Jefferson's slave, but was also his wife's half sister. The US certainly has an interesting history.

[@susancohen7435]

Puss Jefferson had six kids with a slave he had a hitting bedroom beneath his home ASL Merry Christmas who cares

[@marciaclark7072]

Bill Moyer is a treasure fo us all!!

[@CentaurusRelax314]

Better to have to discuss 'where is the line' than to have no line. Trump is ethically and morally deficient and doesn't even have the intellectual capacity, integrity, or interest in gaining an understanding of the concepts that are at issue.

[@kennyhouser9052]

As Rick Wilson observed "Everythibg Trump Touches Dies."

[@nosuchthing8]

I'm not a religious person, but doesnt Trump tick off many boxes we associate with the anti christ.

[@CaminoAir]

And everytime Trump speaks, or Tweets, a brain cell dies somewhere. The man is unbelievably lacking in any substance and substitutes jaw-dropping ignorant bluster and toxicity instead. What is most amazing is the utter lack of justification for what Trump says, beyond "I occupy the role of President."

[@markhall7646]

The First Lady and his son are well and very much alive. 'Spleen that one, Lucy? And everyone he shook hands with is STILL ALIVE AND WELL, including me? Rick Wilson don't have a clue.

[@kennyhouser9052]

I'm glad you got to shake that criminals hand! I'll bet that made you feel good!

[@Intrepid-hz1wi]

Kenny can't spell Trump 2020

[@goodmandawn]

Thanks for the true historic reason for the display of the Confederate statues.

[@hollythorn9004]

Just curious. Who needs any statue? It's nothing but a glorified tombstone.

[@jimcarlson6157]

I agree, but so many people read so much more into these symbolic objects

[@sohowsoon6652]

he's still on the down escalator with more to come

[@harisnandwani6674]

He is right Put them in museum

[@truthstarved]

Moyers is a former director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1967-1974), and a member of the Bilderberg Group. He is the heart and soul of the neoliberal (aka transnational corporatist) establishment.

[@scottsmith1455]

He is the malevolent fury, perfect

[@angelicaluce3230]

When I first came to Los Angeles, I lived next door to a man who worked in film. He was a set builder - he BUILT ATLANTA - or a "facsimile" of Atlanta and then supervised "THE BURNING OF ATLANTA" for the film 'GONE WITH THE WIND" I WAS IMPRESSED! That's one of my FAVORITE MOVIES. It's not because of my "political" opinions - it's a WORK OF ART. The relationship between the heroine and her black "maid" was a close and intimate one. They LOVED each other!. And the STORY was captivating and enchanting. The DESTRUCTION of Atlanta and our heroines bravery in REBUILDING her life and WORKING THE LAND is an EPIC tale that can't be matched. Hattie' (the maid) speech upon accepting her OSCAR tell us all we need to know. A MASTERPIECE! Yet - IT'S BEEN REMOVED from TV because of it's "rascist" nature! I can't BELIEVE HOW STUPID people are

[@Kaagrant]

It’s always good to listen to Bill Moyers.