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Appeal to black voters. perhaps you remember this. >> look how much african-american communities have suffered under democratic control. to those i say the following. what do you have to lose by trying something new, like trump? what do you have to lose? >> i remember a moment back in michigan in 2016. lets turn to the panel. joining me is jason johnson, the politics editor at the root. laura bassset. laura, i want to start with you, i want to play a congressman gregory meeks. he explained why h...

A lottery and were going to attribute those visas to those from haiti and those from africa and those from honduras, were going to give them at 25,000 a year so they can stay in this country. the poorest country in the world, the two poorest countries in this hemisphere, they compete, honduras and haiti. were going to send people back from the richest nation in the world? shame on donald trump. this is a racist remark and we need to call it for what it was. >> well said, congressman luis gutierr...

Immigration hard-liner who played golf with the president just a few weeks ago when they were both down in palm beach. youve got lindsey graham whos another frequent new sort of trump ally whos on the far opposite side of this. very much wants to see a kedeal done to prodiretect dreamers. can those instructions go back to these lawmakers into getting something done? you talk about the time line. theres an increasing amount of discussion on the hill that an immigration deal and another maybe shor...

Running menacing ad, portraying his componeopponent as a scary . the most recent poll has him up by 8%. jason johnson is politics editor at "the root" and msnbc contributor and sarah rumpf is a republican strategy, opposed to donald trump. so sara, it was a treat by gabe schoenfeld that said, i worked with ed gillespie on the romney campaign, a great guy now covering himself in filth. what does it say about the republican party that one must cover themselves in that alt-right filth, as schoenfel...

The most recent poll has him up by 8%. jason johnson is politics editor at "the root" and msnbc contributor and sarah rumpf is a republican strategy, opposed to donald trump. so sara, it was a treat by gabe schoenfeld that said, i worked with ed gillespie on the romney campaign, a great guy now covering himself in filth. what does it say about the republican party that one must cover themselves in that alt-right filth, as schoenfeld put it, in order to run for governor of virginia, of all places...

Years. joining me now is jason johnson, politics editor for "the root" and an msnbc contributor. and paul barry of "night life with paul berry iii" and a former congressional candidate of missouris first district. jason, when we raised this issue again after these horrific killings in las vegas, right away the white house pivots to chicago, detroit, inference os black on black crime iner iffing race. heres what the white house press secretary said monday after the las vegas shooting. >> i think ...

>> let me add to the conversation. jason johnsing, politics editor for "the root." thanks for being with us what turned out to be a bigger breaking news day than we thought. first, your reaction to the resignation of secretary price? >> i have to ask rev for lottery numbers. a great prediction. five minutes later. >> i get those. hes my date. >> look, this is probably general kelly coming in to play, because remember, weve got a president who has spent more in the first eight months of his presi...

Met this week for the first legislative conference of the trump era. joining me is cbc member and congressman gregory meeks, democrat of new york. and jason johnson, politics editor of the root and professor at morgan state university. congressman meeks, you and i go way back. we even took a knee when there was a police killing in new york in 99 and were arrested together with the former mayor standing up to mr. trumps friend rudy giuliani. now we see people taking knees in a nonviolent protest ...

Supremaci supremaci supremacist sympathizer. were not going to be able to pull this tree up by the root. >> congressman. >> absolutely. i think if it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, at this point we need to stop thinking donald trump is misstating things or off the talking points. these were his off the cuff remarks. they do represent sympathy for nazis and white supremacists. thats who was there this weekend. he said there were good people in there. they would have had to walk through...

Of a horrible disaster known as obamacare. >> that was president trump today before his trip to west virginia tonight putting pressure on his own party to get a health care bill passed. the senate will vote tomorrow as we said to advance a bill repealing obamacare. however, its not clear which version of the legislation will be on the floor. as you may know, a little civics, republicans need 51 votes to move forward, but appear a little short of a majority. we learn tonight as we said john mccai...