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Disinformation and misinformation about validity of our democracy. he also talked about the reality of our democracy being us needing to be concerned, but the way that we get out of this is to ensure that we continue to tell the truth. if former president trump a week ago wants to say that he will be president in august, we have to say absolutely not, you are delusional, you are lying to your base, you are lying to the plead i media and we cant stand for it. >> and the president also in this fan...

Majority, in this country, and white americans, to recognize that, look, you -- you can be proud of this country. and its traditions and its history. and our forefathers. and yet, it is, also, true that this terrible stuff happened. and that, you know, the vestiges of that linger, and continue. and the truth is, is that when i tried to tell that story, oftentimes, my political opponents would deliberately not only block out that story. but try to exploit it for their own, political gain. i -- yo...

Gates, a harvard professor, trying to get into his own house, gets arrested and unmasked about it. i dont know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts what role race played in that. but i think its fair to say number one, any of us would be pretty angry. number two, that the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. subsequent polling showed that my support among white voters dropped more precipitously after t...

Still is the embodiment of race. he is -- he was a president who just happened to be black. but his campaign and he knew if he went out there and talked about race all the time, he would lose out. when he talked about skip gates, he lost a certain segment of white america and never gained it back. hes keenly aware that he wrote about it in the book and he talked about it in this great interview with anderson cooper, but he talked about race with skip gates. he talked about race as he said in the...

Us. and, you know, sometimes unconscious. but i also think that there are certain right wing media venues, for example, that monetize and capitalize on stoking the fear and resentment of a white population that is witnessing a changing america. >> lets bring in abby phillip, anchor of "inside politics sunday" and cnn senior political correspondent. so interesting to hear the former president basically say, look what happened when i tried. look what happened in that moment with the lowest of low ...

Continue. the truth is when i tried to tell that story oftentimes my political opponents would deliberately not only block out that story but try to exploit it for their own political gain. i tell the story in the book about the situation where skip gates, harvard professor, who is trying to get into his own house, gets arrested and im asked about it. >> i dont know not having been there and not seeing all the facts what role race played in that, but i think its fair to say, number one, any of u...

Its hard for the majority in this country of white americans to recognize that, look, you can be proud of this country and its traditions and its history and our forefathers, and yet it is also true that this terrible stuff happened and that, you know, the vestiges of that linger and continue. and the truth is that when i tried to tell that story, oftentimes my political opponents would deliberately not only block out that story but try to exploit it for their own political gain. >> the former p...

Reconciled with our history. but the fact is that it is a hard thing to hear. its hard for the majority in this country of white americans to recognize that, look, you can be proud of this country and its traditions and its history and our forefathers and yet it is also true that this terrible stuff happened. and that, you know, the vestiges of that linger and continue. and the truth is that when i tried to tell that story, oftentimes my political opponents would deliberately not only block out ...

The platform. >> i dont think it was a signature issue back then. more broadly something he says in his book, that we talk about. is it every time he talked about race, his poll numbers plummeted. something i found revealing, he says you remember the incident where the police arrests harvard professor. skip gates on his porch. and obama says the police acted stupidly. something he says that nothing in his presidency no event in the entirety of the eight years drops the support among white voters...

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