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But the lack of an ability to compromise led to the civil war, and men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand. >> the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders refusing for two days in a row to clarify kellys remarks. so joining me now cnn political analyst april ryan, tim wise, the author of white like me. welcome to the program. wow. a lot to discuss. so, tim. >> yeah. >> you say that general john kelly is either ignoran...

>> i will tell you that robert echlt lee was an honorable man. he was a man that gave up his country to fight for his state, which in 150 years ago was more important than country. it was always loyalty to state first back in those days. now its different today. but the lack of an ability to compromise led to the civil war, and men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand with their conscious had them make their stand. >> the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders refus...

Compromise on what? and on both sides. tim, i know you want to jump in here. let mow just give you this quote. historian core ill low writes for the washington post the white house loves a both sides narrative especially one that con seals the vial riceism of one sides ideology. is that the problem here? >> is that the problem. but whats really ironic is you have john kelly actually making excuses for a bunch of people who fired on and killed hundreds of thousands of men who wore the uniform tha...

So i asked a simple question. as theyre supporting the confederacy and these statues and the general kelly saying robert e. lee, do you think slavery is wrong? thats a legitimate question. it wasnt to be smart or anything. i wasnt trying to attack her or make any assertions. i was asking a legitimate question. >> of course its a legitimate and its a very simple answer. she could have said yes, absolutely we believe that slavery is wrong. but she cant. shes in a tough spot because she has to defe...

On that, tim wise. people are overaccusing the media who are back in business as a result of the trump campaign. do you think people are overblowing that? >> they never went out of business. they are being emboldened. there is an upsurge of organizing with groups like surge showing up for racial justice. there are just as many folks out there trying to organize against this as there are trying to o organize for it. >> thank you. coming up at noon. new reaction to trumps phone call with the lea...

Perspective of, oh, my god, change, its going to mean something. whereas, for example, i run my own newsroom. its a diverse newsroom. we are committed to reporting about the demographic change and latinos. so this kind of demographic change for us is not, oh, my god, it is who we are. and the question is, why do we as our country, why do we fear who we already are? >> tim, i will ask you that question. if you have people taking in messages from the media that say that, you know, the only time th...

Along with an apparent desire to recast the history of discrimination with themselves as the victim. joining me is host of fake the nation podcast and a new book and tim wise, anti-racism educator. tim, theres an interesting pieces of data in this piir poll. they say it comes at the expense of white americans. clinton supporters, only 16% say 21% of democrats say that and if you jump to republicans, its 49% and white working-class voters, its 4 in 10. what is going on that people feel diversity ...

15, 20 years is clear that the media does present oftentimes dimensional images of immigrants, of black folks in communities and thats why donald trump was able to say all black people live in hell. they get shot walking out the door. thats an image that the media has portrayed. clearly, the media bears a responsibility. even though it may be a small minority, the real key for us going forward is how many white folks are not going to be silent collaborators? how many are going to challenge those...

Magic. acutally, its the samsung galaxy s6 edge, with discreet edge notifications. the man accused of fatally shooting a sheriffs deputy was ruled mentally incompetent. in 2012, shannon miles faced felony assault charges but freed after spending time in a mental hospital. he appeared in a courtroom packed with police officers. tim wise, author of, dear white america" and color blind." we have to start with the mental

Case, which are so compelling and the intent, shooting an officer in the back of a head -- >> unloading his gun on him. >> what happens is the evidence is compelling. it points to him. the defenses only play is to look at his mental state. it is difficult in texas. the burden is on the defendant to demonstrate sanity. briefly, you remember, six months ago, we were talking the american sniper. he was convicted. people with the mental incompetence cannot be sentenced to death. >> let me bring in t...