dog. sarah sanders, his press secretary, says she can t guarantee you won t hear him on tape saying the n-word. does trump respect people of color or not? let s debate. symone sanders and david urban are the great debaters tonight. symone, your answer? no. and, don, i don t need to i m sorry. chris, i don t need to did you just call me don? i did. we have made progress in this society, have we not, my sister? i was texting with don literally 20 minutes ago. so my apologies. but i don t need to hear a tape to know if donald trump has hostilities towards people of color because we know he s an original birther. we know that donald and people just willingly ignore it. we know that donald trump was sued by the housing and urban development department in 1973 for housing discrimination. we know that he said a judge could not do his job while he was on the campaign trail because he was of mexican descent. i just really like for me, this isn t a debate. for many other people
said had no credibility, then why would you give it any credence? why would you continue to dedicate more than nine tweets to it today? listen, i think the president s a counterpuncher here. we all know that. he can t sit by when somebody punches him in the nose. that s such a lame excuse. i d like to hear from both of you and symone about why the dnc has remained silent about a really serious issue? we re looking at the allegations right now. i have to know what it s about before i start going with it. it s a standard that sometimes people don t like to apply, but we like to know what we re talking about. chris, can i respond to something that david said? go ahead. there s an issue here. to dismiss what the president said about omarosa today and i m no fan of omarosa. i m not dismissing it. but it s to say that there are far bigger things we should be talking about as though the president calling a woman a dog, as though the president using language symone, it
that this speaks to a larger pattern of the president and frankly some people in the president s orbit. symone, look, the president s called about a dozen white guys, mitt romney, other people dogs. he s called lots of people dogs. so he s an equal opportunity offender in that regard. i think that the president has repeatedly targeted people of color and women in general specifically. and that is not something that should be dismissed. again, i m not dismissing it. i m not dismissing it. it was wrong. he went after the nfl players right on the eve of the charlottesville anniversary. that s who he chose to target as protests right on the eve of the charlottesville anniversary. that was weird. chris, i wouldn t advise that. it s not just about advising. it s about condemning. you and i have kids. if my son said something like that, i would be on him fast. if he looked at me and he said to me, pop, i hear you. but you know what?
crime? could you get out of it that way? chris, i don t think it s okay. from a purely p.r. perspective, why would you give omarosa more oxygen? the best thing the president could have done is simply ignore her. that s a good point. sim oeymon symone, dave just made a good point. when you don t sweat somebody, you know what you do? you ignore them? you don t empower them? that s what the mayor just said about the guy who wrote his book. trump is taking legal action against omarosa. he is. the fact of the matter is there s two things. one, omarosa has a very long history with the president. she knows him very well. that means she knows what can push his buttons. if there s one thing i know omarosa personally. if there s one thing she s skilled in, it s getting all the way up under someone s skin. that s what she s done here with president trump, and we know that president trump cannot resist. he is unable to hold himself together and keep his composure. and if it were me, if
people have willfully ignored who donald trump has repeatedly shown us who he is. that s all that this really is, chris. dave, under the principle of we know what you show, he has said lots of ugly things about people of color. he said lots of ugly things, correct. he s done some pretty good things for people of color. ask our colleague van jones about what he s doing on prison reform and other things that actually matter, getting people of color jobs. how he talks doesn t matter? what he calls them doesn t matter? listen, it does matter, chris. look, i should he be more sensitive to that. in this case today, this constant beating the dead horse of omarosa here, i think that, you know, we should be if you want to focus on things that matter, i think we should focus and talk about and i know symone would probably like to talk about this. keith ellison, the deputy director of the dnc, serious allegations of domestic abuse, and the dnc remains silent. talk about people of colo