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Nice. Reporter new york. Thank you so much for joining us again tonight. Up next is ac 360. John berman in for Anderson Cooper tonight. The president says hes an Excellent Guy, so why did he just give him a shove out the door . Was it something he said . John berman here in for anderson. Those are the two questions tonight about departing white House Counsel don mcgahn. Mr. Mcgahn found out he was departing the same way secretary of state Rex Tillerson did, by reading the president s twitter fee...

I dont think there was any i oi dont -- people who dont like hillary are going after it. >> martha: a president trump said that in the same situation. >> different context because of his hole, divisive nature in terms of racial comments. again, i think in that situation, conservatives dont like politically correct speech, and the inability to make a joke. i think president trump, in that situation, he would have set off alarms, but i think he wouldve had the same dissent. >> martha: we live in s...

>> leadership starts at the top. when mr. desantis became his partys nominee, he went -- so far as noi enot amongst the circles im in. and quite frankly, i think people are taking their cues there. what i think they ought to do is quite frankly stop the dog whistles. stop the bull horns. the attacks on me, the false ads being running are all intended to, quite frankly, further a stereo type about black men, illegal, unethical, take things for free, monkey it up, jungle animals. i mean, those kin...

>> gillum -- taking views from top republicans including his opponent ron desantis. >> leadership starts at the top. when mr. desantis became his partys nominee, he went -- so far as noi enot amongst the circles im in. and quite frankly, i think people are taking their cues there. what i think they ought to do is quite frankly stop the dog whistles. stop the bull horns. the attacks on me, the false ads being running are all intended to, quite frankly, further a stereo type about black men, illeg...

Root.com, msnbc contributor as whistles, stop the bull horns. well. all right. the attacks on me running are i got my florida panel. i got my d.c. panel. all intended quite frankly to no offense, guys, im going to further a stereotype about start with my floridians. plaque men, illegal, unethical, adam, you watched this a long time. take things for free, monkey it is florida making this sharp of a left turn as these polls in up, jungle animals. those kinds of things. the last week indicate? its ...

Bedtime story i believe to his child, talking about build a wall. it didnt surprise me on day one of the general election he decides to use a racial slur and say something that is really awful, monkey it up, and articulate and talk about gillumm in that way. its an unfortunately i believe its going to get worse. i think this is just the beginning and i know that the robocall did not come from the campaign. i understand that. and they did -- >> came from -- >> yep. >> fringe group in idaho. >> i ...

Who says people are taking their cues from desantis and president trump. do you think it played a role with this white supremacist group putting this robocall out, or do you think even without that ever happening, say we have never had a conversation about this monkey it up, was that going to happen anyway? would we be getting those robocalls? >> my sense is you would. i think even if the intent was not -- even if the republican candidate has said, desantis said this has nothing to do with my ca...

Point. its a bullhorn. the relationship thats often asserted between black people and monkeys in white supremacists logic is well-known. and very rarely do people use phrases like "monkey it up" in everyday speech. >> michael caputo, should congressman desantis have known better? >> i suspect -- listen, andrew gillum, it surprised everyone. it shocked the world with his come-from-behind victory. i dont think that congressman desantis has faced off against a candidate as promising as andrew gillu...

Supremacists logic is well-known. and very rarely do people use phrases like "monkey it up" in everyday speech. >> michael caputo, should congressman desantis have known better? >> i suspect -- listen, andrew gillum, it surprised everyone. it shocked the world with his come-from-behind victory. i dont think that congressman desantis has faced off against a candidate as promising as andrew gillum. i think he made a mistake with his words. i dont believe for a second that ron desantis is a racist ...

Race, but its because of that that i know socialism wont work in florida. its not good for any race, color or creed. so this is not about race, its about ideas and principles. >> here to discuss it with us, donna edwards, and david jolly, of florida. ive spoken to a number of people all day. some people said he should get out of the race and he should apologize, and i spoke to a spokesperson of andrew gillum and said, what do you think ron desantis should do, and he said to me, he should keep ta...