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Its in the past. >> have you heard that princeton took will joe wilsons name of the school? i dont even understand the false equivalency. cultural issues are over here. attacks on our democracy should be up here. >> i have sleepless nights because its exactly -- the way you are thinking. and its a republican party that has been captured by someone who spoke to our think lower nature, not our higher nature. think of what donald trump was saying this week. it was all negative, angry stuff and fill...

And serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law against prisoners of war and hundreds of cases of enforced disappearances and mandatory detentions of civilians were also documented. mr president, life is a living hell for the people of ukraine. the us secretary of state antony blinken also addressed the un — heres what he had to say. members of this council should not fall into the false equivalency- of calling on both sides to stop - fighting or calling on other nati...

Because i didnt know, you know? but it was really offensive. he had not even been buried, and you drew this false equivalency. there was no equivalency, this was a black man driving down the street in america, trying to get to his moms house who had not committed a crime. versus an insurrectionist, who was coming to kill some of your colleagues, or harm them in some way. the fact that you think they are on the same level is a problem for me. because youre basically saying that a white woman in a...

Right, neither president of either party should have these documents. i think there is a very clear contrast between malice intent and probably just making some silly mistakes. >> this question to you, don. will the facts matter more ultimately or the way it was handled matter more? >> not to fox news and not to republicans, the facts on the matter at all. you will prepare to see the greatest false equivalency, perhaps not the greatest but the substantial false equivalency. where you know what h...

Kimberly crenshaw and some others came up with it and primarily taught it in law school. its a dog whistle and they are talking to -- it just boggles my mind. seems like conservatives always want to make a false equivalency. they need to come tell the truth. their goal is to erase or diminish the history of black people and other marginalized populations. instead, we should be educating, enlightening people, empower people. lets talk about the structural imbalances in this country and do somethi...

The reason i think that matters because of the overwhelming message from the american public. theyre basically saying, listen, we believe in free and fair elections. we believe in democracy. i dont necessarily know this going to be a trend. >> we may have been worried about this going into midterm elections. if that is any indication. i do think that what barbara said, she used the word radicalization. i think that was a big important point. we also to be mindful of the fact that not just differ...

The white house that they were going to see multiple requests into things like the afghanistan withdrawal, how covid money was spent, all of that was expected. but in recent weeks its clear that people on both sides, republican and democrat think this is a gift for republicans. it puts democrats in the space of having condemned former president trump for doing something that was similar, though very different in terms of the bstruction that was done, at the same time we watched them this weekend...

Throughout the morning on "morning joe." also ahead this hour, well have the latest developments on the classified documents found at president bidens home, and the gops false equivalency when it comes to this discovery. hundreds of files of donald trump tried to stash away at mar-a-lago, to equate is a little tough. congress is on the clock to raise the countrys debt limit. it comes after a dire warning from treasury secretary janet yellen. plus, well get a live report from ukraine following a ...

Sure there are no other classified documents, accidentally being stored. theyre on donald trumps and, the federal government repeatedly asked trumps team to turn over classified documents they believe were being improperly how at mar-a-lago. donald trump resisted turning over those documents. to get them back, the justice department passer than with a search warrant. to secure that warrant, the fbi told the judge, that they expected to find evidence of obstruction. by the former president at mar...

Biden administration cover to say look, as you say these are completely different situations and i think that ultimately at the end of the day american voters are sophisticated enough to be able to see that these are not analogous situations whatsoever. >> okay ferdinand, weigh in here. talking points, melissa pointed out exactly what lucy just did here that merrick garland appointing robert hurd continues to long-standing tradition of democrats thinking republicans to either run the fbi or spec...