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Of bravery and its important. what happened with bill clinton is a complete false equivalency. theres no human being in the united states whose personal life, their infidelity were looked at more than bill clinton. his accusers were afforded the opportunity to confront him. he was afforded the ability to defend himself. my point is that it was thorough. >> im going to give you the time to go through. first of all, when you call senator gillibrand hypocrite are you admitting now that a lot of dem...

Misconduct. what do you think it is in the case of franken? >> well, i think the franken case is really complicated. i have a column out now that says he should resign. and i dont say that really lightly or happily. and i see the argument against him resigning. i think is also very strong, right? this thing that he has accused is the wrong word. this thing that he did does not rise to the level of, you know, sexually assaulting 14-year-olds. doesnt rise to the level of what donald trump does. i ...

What donald trump does. i still think that just having this -- even though its a false equivalency, you know, kind of having now this thing hanging over the democrats, even though i think that al franken has been such a good senator, i thought he should run for president before this. but i just -- this idea of kind of slogging it out in an ethics investigation and then waiting to see what kind of penalty theyre able to concoct. and also what kind of investigation. i mean, does the senate now do ...

Democrat. i dont even understand that. >> back to that tribalism and that weve been poisoning the well. because were such a divided nation. where democrats think that republicans are completely evil at the core and vice versa. when you have only far right and far left people voting in primaries, you only get more and more extreme. >> why cant they be a chance to come together? it doesnt have to be republicans or democrats. >> because its viewed as democrats attacking roy moore for being roy moor...

Out, physical out where the people were and physical how to get themselves there. im in the sure they have a clue at this point. and the result is, what weve seen, over the last year. >> im sorry, there is a blessing for donald trump, in terms of opinion and mueller and his investigations go on. but trump gets to give a false equivalency, basically, any time anything russia comes up. its the democrats are crooks the democrats are crooks. and to the average person out there who doesnt do the deep...

Blunt with you, theres three or four senators over there that just like to vote against republicans. >> and nina turner, big supporter of bernie sanders who put forward a single-payor legislation earlier this year. some democrats think that that actually put wind in the back of graham/cassidy by saying, oh,, you know, if you dont get rid of it, this is whats next, single payor. >> thats a false equivalency. people like president fdr have been fighting for this moment for a very long time. congre...

Heres what she said about a liberal version of fox news. >> the other side has dedicated propaganda channels. thats what i call fox news. it has outlets like breitbart and crazy info wars and things like that. i dont understand why people who share our views arent more willing to invest in media that competitive because what youve got is a right wing advocacy propaganda and youve got a kind of mainstream media that engages in false equivalency. >> so she doesnt think the media leans left. she wa...

Setting aside antifa -- okay. we dont condone the violence. its this kind of false equivalency that is creating such a stir. >> i dont think theres a false equivalency. >> if the president could just come out and say i didnt mean to say that these were somehow equal doses of evil, that would go a long way. >> but as far as the violence is concerned, there are equal doses. and the reason you cant equate -- or you can equate antifa, you said you cant -- antifa is a new group. theyre a new group. v...

Who would ever believe that in 2017, a president of the united states would be pursuing an argument where theres a false equivalency narrative about whether or not you should clearly and categorically condemn the kkk and the white nationalist groups or whoever else is creating division and hate in the country. condemn them and work against them. try to put them out of business and not do this bizarre and insulting and really damaging false equivalency. so he has to, at some point, tell the ameri...

When you have individuals -- >> im listen toing you respectably too but its laughable. >> its not. thats the problem. the fact that you find it laughable, people talk about endors lets be clear. >> niger, i think the reference that -- >> the reason why people -- forgive me. the reason people are mobilizing out there today is they want to come together to move forward in a positive direction. we reject hate and racism and bigotry and to have this false equivalency to say that people standing up...