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For americans, colonial control over the philippines. it is not a model. and yet even more deeply, this notion that by being as brutal and as inhumane as your adversary works is totally debunked by history as well. just look at the french and algeria. >> and when it comes to just american history, and president trump trying to defend himself and also defend confederate monuments by bringing up george washington and explain the difference between george washington and jefferson to jen lee. >> it ...

You but of course were watching an ongoing situation. the president of the united states is now tweeting, "looks like many anti-police agitators in boston. police are looking tough and smart. thank you." i dont know if the president is seeing this coverage live as were following it in boston as police just loaded someone into the back of a police vehicle, but brian, talk to us about what the president has said about this. the presidents referred to these anti-nazi, ant fascist protesters as the ...

Rating the most evil regime in all of history, that let loose horrors and human suffering on a scale that beggers the imagination. for an american president to equivocate on the denunciation of that evil is a profound moral failure. the false equivalency is an obligation upon political leaders to fix it, to address it. each generation as we move to the end of the life span of the survivors of the death car. s, the men who stormed beaches in normandy, each generation who willley 100 years from no...

Horrors and human suffering on a scale that beggers the imagination. for an american president to equivocate on the denunciation of that evil is a profound moral failure. the false equivalency is an obligation upon political leaders to fix it, to address it. each generation as we move to the end of the life span of the survivors of the death car. s, the men who stormed beaches in normandy, each generation who willley 100 years from now, we have an obligation to bear witness to the magnitude of t...

Movement as a credible force in american politics with neo-nazis and ku klux klan. and the republican party cannot exist in coalition with these groups. and so now a titanic political battle is joined and that battle requires every elected republican leader to denounce both the white supremacists and neo-nazis and kkk, but it also requires them to denounce by name the false equivalency because that false equivalency on the part of the presidency of -- the president of the united states is in and...

In this false equivalency, that he gave -- >> gloria, do you think he should give it another shot to -- >> i hope so. maybe third time is a charm. maybe third times a charm. >> we talked about why do these white nationalists feel so comfortable with trump. its because he sent them signals throughout the campaign. his son would retweet nationalists throughout the campaign. kellyanne conway said, wow, look at that, everyone should watch the whole thing. ratin ratings bonaza. thats why people need ...

>> i agree with you. thats why i said earlier -- look at my original statement. >> there is no other conversation to have. >> when youre the president of the united states of america, when youre the president of the united states of america, i said this a moment ago, there is a leadership conversation you have to have when you come out. literally the conversation you have at that moment is to condemn the people that just killed somebody. that is something i agree with. messaging is vitally impor...

"lincoln and the power of the press." lets talk about what the concepts are that are involved here. the president saying whos next? washington? jefferson? why does that make sense? why does it not? >> well its false equivalency. one set of people, the founders, may have been hypocritical in the conset of liberty but created the foundations of government. articulated the provision of men all power created equal even if not able to live by it. the people who are monumentalized in h the south defie...

There has been some agitation until the la in the last year or two about statues of thomas jefferson thomas jefferson particularly. here in new york city, one of our elected officials say said, lets take the jefferson out of city hall rotunda so hes not off on that score, but what hes saying is that flawed people who still created the moral framework of our democracy and our system can be compared to traitors who led a war that killed 750,000 americans, the equivalent of 10 or 12 million today t...

Which is were it is so important that this false equivalency be rejected for the generations who dont understand what naziism was because they havent read history books or they didnt know grand parents who fought it. they must know through our testimony of what the magnitude of these crimes were. and the most horrible period of human suffering in the history of the world. so this is such a moral failure on the part of leaders in the house. and they should not be approaching this as an issue calc...