If I recall, Cole had a "hit contract" put out on him for $100,000 about 10 years ago.

I would guess that this is from that era. Montel was at his peak popularity at that time as well.


To add further...

After watching these video's, who do you think presented the more compelling argument?

Did you see the Black guy from the audience accuse the Jews of being the enablers for slavery by owning all the slave ships?

Or the Ukrainian guy who was outraged that the Jews felt that the victim status was unique to them. After which an Jew from the audience stood up and openly stated that the Ukrainians were the worst collaborators with the Nazi's.

Weber and Cole did receive applause on some of their points as well.

I thought Montel asked some very good questions and it did seem like he was genuinely interested in both sides of the issue.