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Charged. letss talk about this with nia-malika henderson. nia, let me start with you. trump has been using the term, silent majority in many speeches. lets play that for you and get your response to what the term means. listen to this. >> so, you have a silent majority of this country that feels abused, that feels forgotten, that feels mistreated. its a term that hasnt been brought up in years. people havent heard that term in many years. is sort of interesting as to why. there are all different...

Lets get to inside politics on "new day" with john king. hi, john. >> happy friday to you. lots to talk about. we will be back in a few minutes. with me is nia-malika henderson. if you look at the history of richard nixon, the use of silent majority and what he meant. trump is surging in the polls, 28% among the republicans. you can see a path for trump. a path to presidency is iffy. donald trump says theres something brewing in america. >> you have a silent majority in this country that feels a...

That though soledad. wouldnt the protesters people who have been going out of their way on the streets of baltimore in peaceful protest -- >> those would be peaceful protesters. >> object to the words there are protesters throwing the rocks and bottles. >> i think theres violent protesters peaceful protesters drunk protesters angry protesters. when you look specifically about how the word riot is used and thug is used its always used around people of color specifically in an inner city context. ...

Do you agree, or do you think there were any errors made? >> well, obviously, there were errors. if you think that the -- the mayor used a descriptive term. its like somebody blew a whistle and everybody decided to leave at the exact same time and thats exactly what happened. whether or not we blew the whistle earlier, i dont know the answer to that. >> did you make the right call? >> well, i think we did under the circumstances of what we knew at the time. we alerted our state employees so that...

Those were trayvon martins words. they were disparaging and unkind words, but he used it as a description for george zimmerman. she just repeated what trayvon martin said and since they werent kind words it made her more credible because shes not trying to sugar coat anything. shes not trying to make him sound better. shes not saying he side a white gentleman was following me. she used his words and made her more credible. >> do you think it made her credible using the word cracker is not a raci...

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