truthful to a portion of his base. they were motivated by racial an muss and motivated by what is clear. you are right. i said a portion of it. >> enough to make what he is doing rewarding to him. enough to say that parts of my base will say go get em, tiger and stand up and tell the truth. the unfortunate reality is here's a president who is piping this vicious bigotry and horrendous thoughts about african people and about haitian people at a time when we need to forge connections and build bridges so that the world which is increasingly shrinking because of threats of terror and globalization and the like, this president is not only failing to deal with race, but the very economic problems that poor white people are suffering anyway. >> there were seven lawmakers in this meeting and we now heard from republican senators purdue and cotton.