of us were here. although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. they call her pocahontas. there was silence after that comment. because everyone in the room knew he was using a racial slur directed at senator elizabeth baron. joining me now, bakari sellers and ed martin. good evening everyone, here we are bakari, i want to read this, this is from maggie haber man. this is from the new york times. it says, in recent months, they say mr. trump has used closed door conversations to question the authenticity of president barack obama s birth certificate, he claims he lost the popular vote last year because of widespread voter fraud. one senator who listened as the president revived his doubts
we do business where you do business. the president still questioning the authenticity of the former president s birth certificate, according to a new report from the new york times why would he revive this false conspiracy theory that the first african-american president was not born in the united states? perhaps the same reason he called senator warren pocahontas. tom foeshman has more. some of his recent statements give ammunition to people who believe he says things to at the very least encourage racist viewpoints. donald trump s digs at elizabeth
he will call maggie haberman and she s so discredited why did the president call her? the question was why does he continue to do it when he knows it s an insult? about pocahontas you mean? why does he continue to insult even beyond pocahontas? i think the pocahontas comment, i don t think it s racial slur in any way. and let me say why. if you call someone who is a native american poke hcahontasp that s not a racial slur. and if you call someone who isn t a native-american pocahontas i think that isn t a slur. i think that s called making fun of someone, not a racial slur. we don t know that she is. she s already admitted regardless it s not the forum. it s inappropriate. [ overlapping speakers ] does anybody realize pocahontas was a real person? she s associated with james town in 1613. she was actually kidnapped by
african-americans, mexicans, muslims. the latest slur against native americans, here s what he said in the middle of an event honoring navajo veterans yesterday. you were here long before any of us were here. although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. they call her pocahontas. there was silence after that comment. because everyone in the room knew he was using a racial slur directed at senator elizabeth baron. joining me now, bakari sellers and ed martin. good evening everyone, here we are bakari, i want to read this, this is from maggie haberman. this is from the new york times. it says, in recent months, they say mr. trump has used closed door conversations to question the authenticity of president
chuckled on tuesday as recalled the conversation. the president has had a hard time letting go of his claim that the president was not born in the united states. his political career began with birtherism, this was a conspiracy theory he harbored. why can t he let this go? maybe because that s who he is. i don t think this is anything new about his character, you can go back to atlantic city, can you go back to the central park five, housing discrimination, his comments about muslim americans, about mexican americans, judge curial, we can talk about the usage of pocahontas under the portrait of andrew jackson. at a memorial where we remembered some world war ii veterans. you can go through this long litany of things.