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>> it depends on how angry some in the hispanic community want to be against him. i think to some extent he has run afoul of the p.c. police. every immigrant grooum has been told you can succeed in america by assimilating while maintaining your cultural identity. i think that, you know, at a time they have to talk about for very successful hispanic tv pundits to say my children speak perfect english misses the fact for many struggling immigrant families they dont have the time to tutor their stu...

Negotiating. they wont negotiate. the president is so good when he goes on the road. i would love to see him in a latino neighborhood, african-american community, different places, to talk about what immigration and the right kind of immigration does, great stuff, and the wrong kind of illegal immigration does to communities. i would love to see that. i think that is powerful. that puts pressures on the democrats constituents. >> he had a naturalization ceremony in the oval office, the first of ...

The president and certainly nothing with the white house. roger stone is somebody who has been a consultant for dozens of republican presidents and candidates and members of congress. the president did nothing wrong. there was no collusion on his part. the president has actually, unlike his predecessor been tough on russia. >> reporter: this is a well worn strategy. weve seen the white house do this with george pop dopiloapad saying he was a low level coffee boy, paul manafort only played a smal...

Doesnt work for the people. >> so, steve, it sounds like shes banking on puerto rican voters, other latinos holding that against the president at the ballot box. what do you think? >> right. well, look, i think first in terms of the democratic primary, youre absolutely right, of course, minority votes are key, so key, in fact, that somebody like beto orourke whos an irishman, robert francis orourke somehow re-branded himself as an hispanic and somebody like elizabeth warren at least for a while ...

Orourke has somehow rebranded himself as an hispanic. somebody like elizabeth warren at least for a while tried to rebrand herself as a native american. clearly its important. >> and ted cruz who ran for president. >> ted cruz is hispanic by the way. one thing i would point out, to be fair to republicans, two of the three finalists in the republican primary were hispanics. all three were sons of immigrants. so were often unfairly maligned as a party that doesnt like immigration and doesnt like d...

Hispanic, latino people coming from below the border that his constituents are worried about. its not about drugs. its ethnicity and race. >> i dont think he caress about anything but himself and keeping his base and so yes, theres an undercurrent of race. butted he keeps talking about drugs. if he really caress about drugs, they would hammer out a stopping the flow of drugs. but the thing theyre going to vote on that mitch is going to put on the floor for the republicans and whats called a side...

First time, in the oval office, the first thing he said to me, was what can i do to empower the hispanic community? we had substantive conversations. not conversations, results. my answer was small business. the best way to have black and brown people in this country is to revitalize entrepreneurialship. that has happened in so many ways, its really amazing, over the last two years and i believe its one of the reasons why hispanic support for him, according to pbs, has risen all the way to 50%. ...

In the oval office. the first thing he said to me no, cameras anywhere. was what can i do to empower the hispanic community? we had substantive conversations. not conversations, results. my answer was small business. the best way to have black and brown people in this country is to revitalize entrepreneurialship. >> that has happened, its amazing. i believe its one of the reasons why hispanic support to him according to pbs has ris on the 50 part approval f. hes a racist, hes the worst racist in...

Time and try to enumerate the things you already knew. when he e num rated those things, you started to try to defend them as not being as everybody in america knows what they are. >> i disagree. >> im not knocking you for supporting his racist. thats what youre doing. i have eyes and i have ears and i can see you doing it and you can see yourself doing it and you just need to own it. >> no. and as a matter of fact, you know whats truly racist is to say that were going to consign entire american...

>> i especially want to thank you for calling this what it is, a humanitarian crisis. although some dont want to you to have a heart of compassion i know you as a man who does have this heart of compassion. its genuine and authentic. the pastors that im here representing today salute you and thank you support from leading hispanic pastor down in texas. pastor has supported the president sips 2016 and has been a member of his hispanic advisory counsel. you might have not heard much about him in t...