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The sense of the crime. and when you are not, when you are removed and a celebrity or a politician and you are removed from everything that happens in the real world, then you are going to buy into it because it fits your agenda and you are willing to jump in with both feet because it is what you want to hear. you want to champion somebody for your cause. >> laura: yeah, tio i want to play something from "good morning america" interview that smolletts mack did about whether people would have bel...

Is not clear who they arrested because part of a conspiracy with jussie smollett were arrested for assaulting jussie smollett, they have not been charged to it. and unconfirmed reports to the police, kind of knocking down yesterday saying, this was an orchestrated hoax. it is hard to know what to believe. >> martha: and chicago reported it was a hoax and that he was being written off of the show. they say that there is no cooperation of that from the police in chicago. here is one more sound bit...

They have to do with lying to mueller. so, i think that theres nothing surprising whatsoever about this. just surprising the way that congressman schiff tried to spin it. >> laura: alright. i have to bring this up to you by ron. when i think of the individual and sol you and i over the months have been talking about these individuals as has byron been writing about them. from people meaning john brennan who have gone on television night after night after night trashing this president and giving ...

This is dylan byers of nbc. this all could be good in a waye for visa, lets watch. >> to me, its not so much whatg "national enquirer" have on jeff bezos describing the story. what i wonder what jeff bezos may be have on "national enquirer." what does he have about the ties to trump. he has earned his journalism wings with this move. so he has pulled up a masterstroke in terms of recasting his own image, in terms of making himselff look likegu a good guy again. >> laura: that isre a pretty inter...

Announced that the business meeting that he was reopening the rush investigation. i dont know what these people are going to do, the scottish people of press people they are going to have to learn code or something, they arent going to have a job after this. >> laura: they are going to bring whitaker up to testify. the acting attorney general. there was some fight in the administration, what can you tell us? >> i dont know why you would want him, hes been the acting ag for a month. >> and any co...

Harris have all rushed into sups green new deal, is as a litmus test for the left? >> they jumped in and supported it before they even knew it was in it, its something democrats occasionally do with obamacare and other things. now they have inadvertently supported a trojan horse filled with socialist planning on housing and food and everything else, its going to be hard for them to back out to. >> laura: the only thing i didnt see and there was what we were talking about closing. everything else...

But what it does do is make insensitivity. when you have a platform, an opportunity to talk about these issues whether they happened yesterday or in the past, if necessary to do it instead of just pushing it off and saying its no big deal. >> laura: eric dyson political analyst had an interesting comment about the privilege issue and the blackface issue, lets watch. >> this shows the vast reaches of ignorance, unconsciousness that many white people have and are allowed to have. when we talk abou...

Democratic party and the progressive movement you had on the one hand a condoning of racism and the ku klux klan of black vaudeville and blackface, on the other hand this kind of idea that to use the phrase should be disposed of, this racism come of this thread of looking at people as unwanted, a feeling we should be able to get rid of them, this is still in the democratic party and we cant lose sight of that. >> laura: this is what al sharpton said today about the northam controversy specifical...

He did it in a little slightly different way but i want to play, this is about 20 seconds but this is the president on that stark divide, the elites versus the rest of america on immigration, lets watch. >> no issue better illustrates the divide between americas working class and americas political class than illegal immigration. wealthy politicians and donors push for open borders while living their lives behind walls and gates and guards. >> laura: a friend of mine was fairly liberal, lets jus...

The senate claire mccaskill was on another network tonight. essentially saying the president is threatening democrats, lets watch. >> the weirdest thing for me was the line he put in about there cannot be legislation -- essentially what he said is there cannot be legislation if you are investigating. basically threatening congress. >> laura: is that what he did tonight? >> of course not. this is the false narrative. when you cant talk about your policies and the results that they have achieved t...