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Justify the unlawful murder of unarmed black men by police. joining me now is mark thompson, host of "make it plain" on sirius xm radio. mark, you and i have been involved for many years fighting a lot of these cases, raising the question to just get a fair trial and a fair outcome once the facts are heard. and here we are again, young, unarmed black man in his house. the police officer saying she mistook his apartment for her own, which begs to question what kind of training do you have where y...

From their parents to help deter illegal immigration. now kirstjen nielsen denies it is the trump administrations policy and echoes the president, pointing the finger at congress. >> this administration did not create a policy of separating families at the border. its not a policy. our policy at dhs is to do what were sworn to do, which is to enforce the hlaw. its a law passed by the united states congress, rather than fixing the law, congress is asking those of us who enforce the law to turn ou...

In the movements we see today. right now in the town of memphis, tennessee, the city where dr. king gave his famous mountaintop speech, thousands are gathering to pay tribute to his memory. msnbcs trymaine lee joins me from memphis along with reverend mark thompson host of "make it plain" on sirius xm. germanenginee trymaine, tell us whats happening there today. >> reporter: hello, stephanie. im here at the american federation of state, county, and municipal employees here that were instrumental...

Pettypiece and host of "make it plain" on sirius xm, reverend thompson. the president has continued to tweet about this. denying he said "s"-hole countries. what is the damage assessment of his comments? because one could put the president aside and say this is donald trump, we dont like it, were disgusted by it but lets get back to policy. just last week, someone said to me, you should interview david perdue, you would really like him, former business guy, really reasonable. tom cotton. i alway...

During the anthem. this was long planned, receiving great praise for leaving the game after players showed such disrespect for country. joining me now, host of sirius xm radios "make it plain" and former tennessee titans linebacker colin allred, also running for texas -- excuse me, for congress in texas. colin, i want to start with you. youve got an op-ed out today with some pretty strong words about what happened, and whats been going on. explain, whats your view of what the vice president did ...

He garnered compliments and support from the likes of david duke and richard spencer. i want to bring my panel in. mark thompson, the host of the show "make it plain" on sirius xm radio, nayeera hauk a. mark, since you ran here, i have to give you extra credit for that. >> i got good exercise coming over here. >> tom costello pointed something out that keeps asto d astounding me. the president continues to turn to the alt-left and blaming both sides, almost creating a mor equivalency between naz...

Trump has continued to denounce racism of any kind. to think otherwise is a complete misinterpretation of the movement that united americans from all backgrounds, end quote. now joining us now is kurt bardell. he had a former client of breitbart, and the politics editor of "the atlantic." and the host of "make it plain", on sirius xm radio. your view of what we see in that video, this celebration of white nationalists of donald trump as someone from the alt-right in his white house. >> it occurs...

Reports since election day, and says trump should speak out. its not as if he hasnt found the time to comment on other things. he sent 39 tweets, and an attack on "hamilton" cast. and the trump transition team issued a response to that video, saying, quote, president-elect trump has continued to denounce racism of any kind. to think otherwise is a complete misinterpretation of the movement that united americans from all backgrounds, end quote. now joining us now is kurt bardell. he had a former ...

Idea that we should think about something like the stand wrr ground laws, i just ask people to consider if trayvon martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk? and do we actually think that he would have been justified in shooting mr. zimmerman who had followed him in a car because he felt threatened? and if the answer to that question is at least ambiguous, then it seems to me that we might want to examine those kinds of laws. >> joining us now, charles ogletr o...

>> there he is, the worst reader of audience reaction in political history, he actually told fox news, he thought he was a big hit with the naacp. >> i spoke with a number of african-american leaders after the event, and they said, you know, a lot of folks dont want to say theyre not going to be voting for barack obama, but theyre disappointed in his lack of policies to improve our schools, disappointed in urban policy, disappointed in the economy. 14.4% rate of unemployment among african-americ...