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You dont agree with. >> do you think hes racist? >> no. when you celebrate your ability to work with the racist, you celebrate the racist. >> it is attracting 100,000 voters to south carolina where democrats make up about 20% of the democratic primary electorate. >> he cant lose it. weve had a lot of frontrunners. i often think about president howard dean. how does that sound to you? >> respect for biden runs deep, but voters like sue taylor is looking for a new direction. >> right now elizabeth...

James clyburn defended him and said he worked with segregationis segregationists. >> i believe its ludicrous to blame someone for working with people who dont agree with. >> do you think hes celebrating a racist? >> when you celebrate your ability to work with a racist, you celebrating a racist. >> reporter: the controversy is an awkward backdrop to the state democratic convention which is attracting 21 presidential candidates where black voters make up 6 60% of the democratic primary electorate...

We dont get invited to any meetings. five of us or four committee chairpersons, we dont get consulted on any issue relative to our committee. so you know, hes kind of pushed the cbc aside. what we have to do is stand strong. we call ours the conscious of the congress and im saying to the congress right now, join the cbc in getting donald trump his impeachment proceedings so the rest of this country will see what hes been up to. >> you are the cbc collectively as an important group to nancy pelos...

Ending his speakership. let me tell you, lice is polled less than -- head lice is more popular, right. he polls less than head lice, sires seriously, okay why arent we ask figure hes likeable. paul lice polls better than paul ryan. >> our political reporter. well throw this to you. were in this business, right, and there is a -- there is a meme with political journalists, hillary was emails. everyone felt compelled to weigh in and have a bite and get a take in some way. with elizabeth warren, it...

Warren is -- shes a dynamic speaker. the things she talks about, and shes authentic. >> yes. >> the thing she talks about, shes been talking about it for years. right, the middle class, the working class. shes been fighting against the big banks. and i think she is undervalued. a lot of it is because she is the first one out. we talked about castro actually announcing his exploratory committee. she is one of the big i guess five that have come out. thats another reason why shes getting all the s...

Single day for the next six years for every single one of us to meet these very high expectations. and we are standing by and for one another. you all ready to win? >> joining our discussion now, eugene robinson, associate editor and pulitzer prizewinning winner for "the washington post," and jennifer palmerry. and eugene, who does beto orourke remind you of. there were other reporters around and everybody immediately started talking about who he reminds them of. and for some people it can be bo...

There were other reporters around and everybody immediately started talking about who he reminds them of. and for some people it can be bobby kennedy, for others barack obama. hes a very dynamic speaker. >> he is a dynamic speaker. i would go more for kennedy. its a bit different for obama for me, slightly different approach. what those politicians have in common is that "x" factor, that things that allows them to reach audiences in a different way, not to just convince them but to inspire them,...

>> dana: why were you looking down shaking your head at that? >> bob: for two reasons. one, i think she is a dynamic speaker. no question about that. the real issue were talking about here is why is it that african-americans have not made republican inroads with the african-americans? even among middle class and upper class blacks which remain 93 to 95%. it doesnt seem to be anything -- the best was george w. bush and he only picked up 8%. part of the reason is if you look at this, first of all,...

>> well, i could say that i have done some of those things. i have horsed around with kids. i have shourd after workouts. >> youre going to hear more from jerry sandusky throughout the hour. the heart of the occupy movement now wiped clean. these are shots of new yorks zuccotti park being cleared of protesters in a police sweep early this morning. over 100 people were arrested. tents were pulled up at the stakes, and now mayor michael bloomberg says the campout is over. theres not go...

And shortly after he left, he took the stage. he runs a website. this is a tea party sponsored event. he took the stage and he heard those comments that you just played. and the reaction from the crowd was he is a dynamic speaker. the mission statement from the webb is that it is their hope through aggressive its, that more people of color will run for office or support the party. >> the speaker as dynamic as he been, he compared the people in the democratic party to the kkk. he had what he call...