A recap of the days news. Hello. This is Ron Stallworth calling. Who am i speaking with . David duke. Grand wizard of the ku klux klan, that david duke . Last time i checked. What can i do for you . Well, since you hate plans, i hate to allow you to go down and anyone else who Doesnt Have Pure White Arianne blood. Talking about pure white american. God bless america. Lets talk about it. I dont want to give way to the ending. This is true. Yes. People are sitting in the theater like, ah, i cant believe this necessarily happened. Im like, yes, this is nearly happening and still happening today so i hope this film to
which wakeup, not all of them, going back to school days came out in 88. Theres a lot of time but not for american. I dont know when it will be and also like that that whats happened the last 18 months, a few registered the vote. Midterm election. I dmoent whats going to make you want to vote. This is evidence what happens when you dont show up. I know theres others. I know t
A recap of the days news. When you listen to the rhetoric of the politicians and the leaders and the people in that movie, right, and i remember listen, i remember one of my friends, a white kid. I went to pick him up at his restaurant in louisiana. We were going out. I was going to lsu. He was talking about some incident that happened in the restaurant because his family owned it. I said, who are you talking about . He said, whos that . He said, just some that works for us. Then he caught himself. He didnt realize that word gets thrown around a lot. That i was there. This was 1987. 86. And it just it jolted me. It was a moment. It was like a moment of complete awakening for me. I think this movie, im sure youre hoping its going to be the same way for some people. I hope so. I mean, as an artist, as a filmmaker, whether youre whatever you are, you put your stuff out there and you hope that people connect to it. You know, in my case, don, ive had several films that people didnt get when
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Legislation that this congress has been pushing forward. The biggest example of it was the corrupt gop tax scam where 83 of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 . This was not done for the people. Thats what we stand for as democrats. It was done for the lobbyist, the wealthiest, the billionaires. This is corruption happening in plain sight. I would not disagree that is corrupt. But that is every day corruption. That is a system that is shot through with corruption. I dont want to minimize that. We are talking about specific corruption in that this president has a whole host of corrupt relationships to his business and things like that. That my question would, what would they do if they got the majority they are lying, cheating, stealing and doing it with impunity. And the reason is this congress has refused to do constitutional oversight responsibilities. The House Of Representatives doesnt work for donald trump. We work for the American Peopl
numbers of distant relatives. we want to get rid of chain migration. ending chain migration. you have chain migration. we have to get rid of chain migration. so the first lady herself, who you represented by the way on immigration issues, sponsored her parents for their green cards. didn t melania trump use what he s calling chain migration, or which is actually called family reunification. i think i got awarded one of the new york times best quotes of the last year, where my response to that was, i suppose. look, that is the golden tradition. a person comes to america, they get a green card, they bring those they love. the president misspoke. you cannot bring in 30 relatives. you can only bring in immediate relatives, and the first lady expressed herself at the time that she would love to have her parents babysit. she would love to know her parents are citizen of this nation and then went through the process. mind you, i had the privilege of
i think that the president sees this as a good political opportunity quite honestly. right now what they re going to do is increase and marginalize the demographics to people who can afford to sponsor people. you re a marine. you ve fallen in love with somebody abroad. unless you re making enough money, you can t then issue an affidavit of support to bring them in. this is going to shoot ourselves in our own feet. interesting. you know, we ve heard the president rail against the calls for chain migration, the policy where american citizens are able to obtain residency for their extended family. i want you to listen to this, and then we ll talk. under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives. we want to get rid of chain migration. ending chain migration. you have chain migration. we have to get rid of chain migration. so the first lady herself, who you represented by the way on immigration issues, sponsored her par