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You also have four people have never gotten burned in in the minority. >> harris: she came up with a 14-page green new deal, but we are not seeing the 14-page -- sheet missed an opportunity, jessica. she is driving so much concert attention. >> jessica: im just saying i dont want to make it out that shes only out there for attention. >> chris: if you look at who they are primariing, the democratic socialists or whatever, we are looking at black, hispanic -- black and hispanic members of congress...

U.s. virgin islands. whether or not he has other accounts. this raises questions. >> that money is a floor maybe, not necessarily the ceiling. >> perfectly put. >> could be more here. tom winter, thank you. great reporting there. i appreciate that. meanwhile, the other big news in washington today, alex acosta, donald trumps embattled labor secretary, has now resigned. acosta joined the president who teed up the announcement while on his way to marine one earlier today. >> i just want to let y...

Well, the economy just hit the highest point yesterday in the history of our country. our unemployment numbers are the best i have ever been. you look at specifically certain groups, african-american, asian, hispanic, the best unemployment numbers in the history of our country. there are so many good things, and he didnt want to distract from that, and i understand that 100%. >> did paul ryan prevent you from -- >> president trump: what? so, paul ryan was not a talent. he wasnt a leader. when th...

Not wanting to round up people whove been scheduled for deportation? >> trump has driven this litany that immigrants, and particularly brown-skinned hispanic immigrants who come across the southern border are criminals, that they carry disease, that theyre undesirable. and its important, i think, for democrats just to take a foundational stand that immigration is what has made this country great, that we were all, most of us, immigrants, or had family that were immigrants at one point or another...

Particularly brown-skinned hispanic immigrants who come across the southern border are criminals, that they carry disease, that theyre undesirable. and its important, i think, for democrats just to take a foundational stand that immigration is what has made this country great, that we were all, most of us, immigrants, or had family that were immigrants at one point or another, and that the entire point of america was to open immigrants with open arms. the real peril here for the president, this ...

Minority businesses have done rather poorly in sharing the business of the city, even though 40% of the city is black and hispanic. these are questions that i asked him. we had some interesting exchanges on it and, you know, he has to solve it. and i think ehis campaign knows he has to solve it which is one of the reasons why he was out there with an 18-page plan yesterday to deal with a whole range of issues affecting the community. >> and he got a lot of credit on his response, i think rather ...

How many different ways does the republican party want to alienate hispanics. this feels like -- pete wilson would blush at this when you think about what happened in 1994 in california that basically turned california to a swing state to a blue state because of the way the republican party was seen as the party that was -- >> former governor pete wilson. >> what do we think the hispanic vote is going to look like in a decade? this may short term allow the president to keep the base fired up. th...

In florida. thats one of the reasons why the president has been calling around asking him about and laying the groundwork for this resignation today. we should point out that in addition to the all the vacancies in the cabinet, he has no hispanic member of the cabinet. latino and hispanics make up 18% of the u.s. population. now 0% of the -- >> i think he was quick to point out the acting secretary will be latino, because hes the deputy moving up, did i hear that correctly on the south lawn? >> ...

>> trump has driven this litany that immigrants, and particularly brown-skinned hispanic immigrants who come across the southern border are criminals, that they carry disease, that theyre undesirable. and its important, i think, for democrats just to take a foundational stand that immigration is what has made this country great, that we were all, most of us, immigrants, or had family that were immigrants at one point or another, and that the entire point of america was to open immigrants with op...

Because im with him. he was a -- hes a tremendous talent. hes a hispanic man. he went to harvard. a great student. and in so many ways, i just hate what hes saying now because were going to miss him. >> a hispanic man who went to harvard. kaitlin collins is at the white house. it was just two days ago that we saw acosta giving a press conference to defend himself, which was highly criticized afterwards, but it did look like acosta might have a chance to weather all of this. what has happened in ...