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Spirited. are you aware the term anchor babies is an offensive term? >> you mean its not politically correct and yet everybody uses it? give me a different term. what else would you like me to say? you want me to say that? no. ill use the word anchor baby. excuse me. ill use the words anchor babies. >> the first time i heard it was negative connotation was yesterday. jeb bush is still using it. donald trump going to bat for it. this is what i hope all candidates get from trump. they should not w...

Election match-ups. why does that matter at this time? biden right now is what we understand or at least people on his behalf are talking to donors. donors care about this right now. and as donors contemplate whether either to leave clinton or maybe to jump in with biden, maybe theyve already on the fence and havent gotten ready for clinton, that evidence matters to them and they help biden put together a campaign even faster. >> nbcs chuck todd, your interview with donald trump set the tone tha...

Spirited. are you aware the term anchor baby, thats an offensive term. people find that -- >> you mean its not politically correct, and yet everybody uses it? give me a different term. what else would you like to say? >> [ inaudible ]. >> ill use the word anchor baby. >> that political tough speak is what has made trump so popular. being politically correct is not something im going to try to be if you make me president. im going to make america great again. he goes on and on. >> so, you know, s...

Swallowed jeremy bush when he was asleep in his bedroom. what an incredible story that was. his body was never recovered. his home and two others were demolished. authorities believe heavy rain caused it to open up again. >> rough aware the term "anger baby" is an offensive term. >> you mean its not politically correct but everybody uses it. give me a different term. what else would you like to say. i will use the word anchor baby. bill: donald trump is not backing away from that controversy on ...

Gangs roving, hurting people, killing people. you look at what happened to kate in san francisco. so we have to be able to get the bad, we got bad dudes out there. bad ones. and well get them out so fast. let me tell you, if im president, well get them out of here so fast, youre heads gonna spin. >> you said that you have a big heart. and that youre not mean-spirited. are you aware that the term anchor babies, thats an offensive term. >> you mean its not politically correct and everybody uses it...

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With people who have vowed never to change something. slavery, immigration, womens rights. so we think one thing thats really great about this country is when many people speak out, change can happen. >> lanny davis pointed out other professional teams with native american logos and mascots, why the main focus on the redskins and not teams like the atlanta braves or cleveland indians, kansas city chiefs, chicago blackhawks? >> well, lets be clear. the name, the "r" word is defined in the diction...

>> now, the redskins, wolf, have responded to all this by saying basically this is an expression of honor, not disparagement. they issued a statement after obama spoke on saturday about this. theyre saying polling one 9-year-old poll that says most native americans are not offended by tname and also most americans do not want the name changed. again, theres more momentum with president obama saying what tee did, and roger goodell saying not tee long ago, if people are offended, we should at leas...

>> no. >> so natalee, lets discuss natalee creepy ass cracker, because the country i come from if youre call add cracker, it means youre exceptionally good looking. i dont think thats what was intended in this context. would you use that phrase? i wouldnt say you would in polite company, but is it an offensive term? >> it is but however, later she cleared it up because if you listen to her testimony in whole, she also said that trayvon said this nigger is following me. he used nigger and creepy ...

Using an offensive term. at first he said he didnt mean it in a degrading way but then republican leaders like house speaker john boehner slammed young and demanded a full apology so later yesterday young released this statement. "there was no malice in my heart or intent to offend. it was a poor choice of words. that word, and the negative attitudes that come with it, should be left in the 20th century." and im sorry that this has shifted our focus away from comprehensive immigration reform." ...