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>> had a meeting at 10:00 a.m., the phone kept buzzing. what is going on. >> mob came after natasha tynes because the metro employee was black. natasha tynes, an immigrant from jordan. >> things turned into a race issue. a race issue, wait, what is go on, who brought race in here? dan: her breakfast tweet went viral before lunch. >> all of these big influence in african-american community started telling me about black women, i was like what? how did this student into this. the idea of -- highwa...

The phone kept buzzing. what is going on. >> mob came after natasha tynes because the metro employee was black. natasha tynes, an immigrant from jordan. >> things turned into a race issue. a race issue, wait, what is go on, who brought race in here? dan: her breakfast tweet went viral before lunch. >> all of these big influence in african-american community started telling me about black women, i was like what? how did this student into this. the idea of -- highway did thisn into this. the idea ...

Disabled people, asian people, native people, workers. it will take away our things -- 56 million americans use in the past election. theyre trying to take away early voting, take away same day registration. take away mail in. drop box. 56 million people used thoets methods in the plavt election. in the franchise voting. we must see this for what it is, january 6th was a violent insurrection. what were seeing in these state houses is a political insurrection an attempt to do a political coup of ...

National Geographic was ahead of the curve. While it took last summer’s uprisings after the police killing of George Floyd for many media outlets to address bias in their reporting and newsroom culture, the magazine announced its own racial reckoning in 2018. That year it dedicated its April issue to the topic of race, and Susan Goldberg — the first woman to be the magazine’s editor-in-chief — publicly acknowledged the publication’s long history of racism in its coverage of people of...

Their 19-year-old son devon bailey and as you said, they want to see an independent investigation. what devons father has made clear is he does not want anyone to make this into a race issue. he thinks that the issue is with the justice system in how something like this could hap n happen. devons mother was asked yesterday what she would say to the officers involved. >> how could you just shoot him like an animal on the street? how could you? how dare you take my son away from me? you didnt even...

>> you can also hear officers calling for a medical kit in this video if you watch a little more of it. you hear that? and you hear him moaning as well. the officers did find a gun on his him. scott mclain is in denver. scott, what is the family saying this morning? >> reporter: his family is focused on burying him today. his funeral is set for today. his father, though, doesnt want to make this into a race issue. he sees this as a larger issue with the justice system and how something like this...

And he spoke to them and made these visits which are completely appropriate and the right thing to do. i think this will be seen as overreaching by the american people. in short order these attacks on the president and this exaggeration that somehow his passion for policy issues regarding illegal immigration constitute racism or white supremacy. he is not a white supremacist. he denounced it. it is very clear that the president is committed to a point of view that democrats are now trying desper...

The president has a higher responsibility than the one hes executing today. the president more than anything , maria and you know this youve been covering it for a long time, the president is a cultural figure, more than anything. maria: yeah. >> and you set the cultural tone of the country. were either going to go to the moon or tell people to go back to the country they came from, and those are two completely different examples of how to use your cultural position. maria: yeah, but you mention...

>> its clear what hes doing. and unfortunately too many people are becoming desensitized because this is what he does and you forget what he did immediately beforehand. >> what do you say to the counter argument, look, elijah cummings said his community is drug-infested. the place is under it, and that you guys are confusing criticism of conditions that cummings and democrats in cities all over the country have allowed to persist and making it a race issue. >> this president talks about people, ...

Robbed. too bad. he says it wasnt a wise guy tweet. he was just repeating what he heard. >> come on. this guy is a terrible, terrible human being and hes unfortunately the president of the united states. >> what do you think his intention was with the tweet? >> its clearly that he was doing a wise guy tweet about elijah cummings. he was trying to perpetuate what he was saying previously. >> told you it was a bad place. >> its clear what hes doing. and unfortunately too many people are becoming d...