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Who would ever believe that in 2017, a president of the united states would be pursuing an argument where theres a false equivalency narrative about whether or not you should clearly and categorically condemn the kkk and the white nationalist groups or whoever else is creating division and hate in the country. condemn them and work against them. try to put them out of business and not do this bizarre and insulting and really damaging false equivalency. so he has to, at some point, tell the ameri...

>> first thing i would say is that the fact that this e-mail is revealing that someone at a high level of the trump administration had direct contact with someone who was communicating a desire to connect directly with putin is, you know, look, there have been a lot of concerning issues that have been raised, but this is one thats particularly concerning. >> why? >> well, largely because this isnt about meeting with officials around putin. this isnt about meeting with officials who represent him...

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Presidency that certainly frustrates republicans because they dont know which one theyre dealing with at any given point. >> right. >> and brooke, i was going to say, ill make a prediction that im certain will come true, because this is a consistency. they will attack the media. i mean, you know -- >> breaking news. >> if there is a consistent thread through donald trumps campaign and through this white house, it is the media is biased, they dont report on us correctly, you guys screw everything...

Police checkpoint. your initial reaction. >> well, the first point, really, for your own viewers is that we dont have all the pieces. we dont have all the information. there are many gaps. we have to be very cautious about when we speculate about both the identity of the perpetrators and the number of the perpetrators. the story is still really evolving. point one. point two, brooke, whats really amazes me about spain and barcelona, in the past four years, since the spectacular rise of isis, spa...

Mirror the federal statute? >> lets be clear, first of all, state laws dont match title 7. point one. point two, the law was sponsored by a legislator whose own business was being sued. point one. point two, the law also caps the amount of damages victims of discrimination are able to get. so, in other words, its harder to make a case of discrimination and its harder to be made whole after youve been discriminated against. this law has been passed in a state thats been wronged maliciously with d...

Separates families, cutting. >> actually, legislation for folks who are already here, they are able -- who have pending family. >> based sponsorships, theyre grandfathered in. point two is that beyond the immediate family members that are covered in the bill, i.e., your minor children and your spouses, your other relatives can come in. they just have to come in through the points-based system. >> question about comprehensive immigration reform. some republicans say we should be focused on compre...

I think thats what sarah was hoping would happen. i think thats exactly what we were hoping would happen. thank you. >> pretty remarkable exchange. lets dig deeper into all of this. jim acosta is still with us. were going to get to you in a moment along with our cnn cornell brooks, former head of the naacp and april ryan, correspondent for radio networks. she was in the briefing as well. cornell, what do you think? he repeatedly made the point this new policy that he and the president would like...

Folks already here, they are here and grandfathered in. so its a new system moving forward, point one. point two, beyond the immediate family members covered in the bill, your minor children, your spouses, your other relatives can come in. they have to come in through the points-based system. then your first part of your question -- >> what about comprehensive immigration reform? some republicans say we should be focused on comprehensive immigration reform instead of a sliver of the problem in o...

Division, to have essentially the front office assume a set of responsibilities and then recruit attorneys from the department. in other words, this work is generally done by the education sites, point one. point two. to suggest that we need to look at college admissions, you do not have college and university presidents talking about, decrying discrimination in their offices of admission, we dont see a human cry in the streets in terms of discrimination in offices, college offices, of admission...