about 1950s, which clearly explains why black evangelicals are not on this side. what do you make of that, just in the context of these religious communities. i think party affiliation, first of all, to use a bad pun in this moment, is everything. they ve been republican voters essentially since 1964, and especially since 1968. for them, this is fundamentally instrumental politics what s interesting in how we think about putting aside the cultural issues is the transactional nature of it at this point. donald trump is their person. it doesn t matter, and it really calls into question now 50-year reappraisal of the very nature of the republican party s commitment to values. we really do have to go back and look at all this again and say was it ever really about beliefs? wall it just about drumming up support, because those voters
confessed and dna evidence linked him to the crime. new york city settled with the five men for $41 million. but none of that was enough to convince trump, who just last week told cnn, quote, they admitted they were guilty, the police doing the original investigation say th were guilty. the fact that the case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. this week, yusef responded, writing in an op-ed, quote, when i heard trump s latest proclamation, it was the worst feeling in the world. i couldn t breathe. i m overwhelmed with fear that an overzealous trump supporter might take matters into his or her own hands. and i m joined how by yu sef salam. you spent 12 years in prison for a crime you did not commit. that your four friends were coerced into confessing to. talk about what it would mean to you if donald trump, having written that op-ed, calling for your murder, essentially, for
if you say that you re about the constitution and you re opposed to what obama is doing with executive actions, because that shows he s a tie rant, but you re okay with a guy who says to his opponent in the middle of a debate, i m going to throw you in jail? how does that work? welcome back to a.m. joy. president obama stumping for hillary clinton on friday reminded us that threatening to jail one s political opponent is an afelon to democracy, yet locking up hillary clinton remains one of the most defining battle cries to the donald trump campaign. tell you what, for what she s done, they should lock her up. joining me now is john dean, a former white house counsel under president nixon, author of
we live in today. we re supposed to be progressing forward. we re supposed to be moving forward. but donald trump is continuing to pull us back into the darkness. yeah. well, yusef salam, thank you for being here. i think people should watch that video, as well as the central park documentary. i m so sorry for what you went through. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. i appreciate it. thank you very much. and on a bit of an up note now, we have talked about a lot of dark subjects today. but yesterday i had the opportunity to be in louisville, kentucky, to be with the lovely ladies of the louisville chapter of the links incorporated. carolyn tandy and her fellow links were so gracious to me. and they even gave me an interesting proclamation that makes me a colonel. look at that. a colonel like colonel sanders. he was indeducted and so have i been. there are a lot of people that have gotten that nor,
over whom he has power, and that is what sexual assault and sexual harassment are about. it s about taking advantage of people. even if you take aside the women and allegations about his behavior there, what about all the small business owners? again taking advantage of people over whom you have power. so we are to believe all of these small business owners, some of whom went out of the business, active lawsuits on the report, lawsuits against him about not being paid. all of these people, the women, all of these women who said he said things, and it s been consistent with what he said and all the stories are consistent with each other. we are to suspend belief and believe now that he is the victim and none of this occurred? will issa bloom, your client jill hart is both, somebody whose business suffered in terms of not being paid by donald trump, there was a lawsuit about that, and she has these allegations of having been sexually assaulted or, you know, she posted a facebook piece