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Past by elizabeth warren are offensive, and she claimed cherokee heritage, and theres no rock solid documentation to back that up. is the white house correct in drawing a focus to this? is there anything wrong with what elizabeth warren has said? >> i think at least one-third of the american population self identifies with having a connection to a native person or family. that is nothing new. elizabeth warren might rightly be or might not be, but thats not the point. the point is that we have an...

Does that still bother indians in america? the idea that the photograph is code talkers standing in front of president andrew jackson? would you prefer not to have and you jackson presiding over this ceremony? >> well, andrew jackson was a part of the policy to terminate native americans. that was one of those things way back that philosophy. so that was the philosophy back then. and since they couldnt really exterminate us from the planet, they started to remove us. and to control us. and later...

Matter chapter planning a black christmas initiative urging people to only buy from black owned businesses throughout the holiday season in an effort to resist president trump. thanks for joining us this morning. rob: "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> lawmakers are back to work after the thanksgiving break. a lot to do before the end of the year. for instance, the tax plan. tremendous tax cut. the biggest in the history of our country. >> who is really running the government agency th...

Throwing in a racial slur. >> reporter: now the white house press secretary unable to quell this controversy, essentially tried to argue that the term pocahontas is not a racial slur. chris and alisyn? >> joe, thank you for setting that up for us. lets bring back john avlon and david gregory. the andrew jackson portrait, obviously no hero to the native american population and the pocahontas term, is this insensitive, oblivious or deliberate? >> im going to go with b, oblivious. >> johns going to...

>> lets be charitable and say chris is right, the intention was to be respectful and honor the code talkers and the intention was not to distract from that. this is an administration that really has to worry about dog whistles. this is the thing. theyve been caught on this front many different occasions where racial tones are in play. if they didnt want to make these mistakes, they have to think about what may be perceived as a mistake. its not the first time weve seen this administration sort o...

What did you think when you saw that portrait? do you think the president knew what he was doing by holding this event under andrew jackson? >> this was totally staged. i challenge anybody to say it was not staged. he knew what he was doing. he has been on television long enough to know how to stage what is behind you. that podium was placed there for a purpose and that was to showcase andrew jackson and the president. totally condescending to our heroes and the code talkers. i cant explain how ...

Then he launches into that chuck and nancy didnt show up. sand theres sort of a horror in the lack of gravity, that the president is incapable of loaning to a single moment as president. and i think mark just laid out this sort of jarring pivot from this grave moment, the threat of a leader in north korea, who as john heilman said is sort of unmoved by diplomatic efforts by our country and others in the region. but then he turns to trash talking chuck and nancy. we have seen him in the last two ...

Yesterday, they were injured there on the islands when they were there in the campaign. this was a day to honor them and to insert something like that, the word pocahontas as a jab to a senator, that belongs on the campaign trail not in the room when our war heroes are being honored. that was a good gesture by the president, by the white house, to be able to bring our code talkers into the oval office and has not happened before. but then to insert that, i thought it was uncalled for. we need to...

Into thinking there was nothing to see here. brian: he felt as though he was totally on his own. meanwhile, 8 minutes after the hour. lets talk about what the president did. he wanted to honor some real heroes of world war ii that are now in their 90s code talkers. native americans who used some of their native language in order to encode communication during the most heated times during world war ii. at which time when the president was ad-libbing he came up with this. >> you were here long bef...

That. honoring those code talkers, the navaho code talkers, many of whom are no longer with us because these are world war ii veterans should have been the focus of that meeting. what an incredible story what they did for our country. >> such an incredible story. you do not think its appropriate to use a name like that in such a setting? >> again, he and elizabeth warren go back and forth with their name calling and, you know, thats not my style as you know. but i stay out of that. i do think th...