I say, do what . How do you get up in the morning an put your pants on. Ill explain it to you some day because weve been talking about politics so long, im o. D. Ed on politics. Im oded on trump. Trump, trump, trump. And debunking the lies about black and brown voters following his rally in the bronx. And trumps trial will also come to an end. While his other cases get slow walked by a friendly judge and the Supreme Court. Plus congresswoman Jasmine Crockett joins me following her epic take down of marg greene and which shaz sparked in amazing music which she is now trademarking. And stick around for our second hour and my full interview with Brittney Griner an how she survived in a russian gulag. Her home coming and much more, including Bonus Content that has never aired before. You do not want to miss it. But we begin tonight with Donald Trumps preoccupation with crowd size. Which continued in an unhinged bronx rally where he boasted of huge crowds of 25,000 plus. Is that what you see here . 25,000 people. Well based on the Police Department and the maps and the existence of eyeballs, you could see that trump once again is lying. It is a lie that launched a thousand memes with folks comparing this paltry scene with what constitutes a crowd of 20,000. Like the crowd Andrea Bocelli drew at the Barkley Center but this rally for barack obama in iowa, ouch, that has got to hurt. Because if anything triggered donald trump, it is the obama factor. Remember back there 2017 on that awful day for American History when trump was inaugurated president. He predicted huge crowds for his ceremony. Bigger than obamas. But then these photos famously showed a view of the crowd on the National Mall at the inaugurations of obama on the left and trump on the right. Both images were shot shortly before noon from the top of the washington monument. The lies continue to this day. Just a couple of weeks ago, a Raucous Beach Front Rally in new jersey drew between 80 and 100,000 people according to officials but they later said the number reflected not how many people were at the rally, but it was the number of people, quote, in our town. Make it make sense. Or rather dont. We know the absurdity is the point. This is a thing with donald trump. An overinflated feeling of self. And you know who else does that . Dictators. Knowing people will believe any narrative they are fed. And we know this about donald trump. But this is also about the media taking the bait. With reportings on trumps Crowd Size Snatching the headlines. This is a call for shoe leather reporting. Was anyone at this rally asked if they are actually from the bronx. Because the bronx, boasted a majority of latino and blue voters. In that crowd, it looked awfully white. It is trying to convince that black and brown americans are really into trump. If trump was lying on the stage, this is what new yorkers were saying on the ground. Nobody who is authentically from the bronx is willing to cosign and xenophobia and misogyny and all of the things that this guy represents. Donald trump knows that hes not welcome in the bronx. Do you think there is any people you know in the bronx or friends that would consider voting for him . No. I dont know anybody that would vote for him. Doesnt fit trumps narrative, does it. And think about it. If trump has so many supporters in new york, why arent they show up in droves to support him at his trial where the courthouse is literally just a subway ride away. This is tuesday. One supporter. Usually there are none. Trust me. Ive been there. And to top off this tomfoolery, trump voted buy lon donald as a potential Vice President pick. The one black guy that republicans love to roll out as fake proof that black people, the blacks are just maga. Theyre maga. It is a joke. And just as credible as when they pretended they would make that guy speaker of the house. Because they werent going to do that either. Joining me now is michael steele, cohost of the weekend on msnbc. Michael tam askii and clay cane, host of the Clay Cane Show and author of the New York Times bestselling book the grift. We were on the list at the same time. We were. Lets talk about this. This particularly bothered me. Because my godmother, my Jamaica Godmother lived in the bronx. That is where i lived after college and after that i went and lived with my godmother so i lived In The South Bronx. I know what the people are like. That aint it. What they are trying to show. They trying to use this location and little crowd which they inflated to make it look like it is black and brown people that are Donald Trumps base. Does it sir tate you as much as it does me. Ive been in the area for almost 25 years and talk about pandering and talk about lies, and lies and more lies. Hes In The South Bronx but the bx is not there with him. Local news were people were traveling there from pennsylvania and tennessee and so on. And then i think about to show us how he cares about black and brown voters he brought out two rappers who have been accused of murder. That is what he thinks and this year marks 25 im sorry 35 years since you he accused of five black men of being rapists and called for their execution. And since he pulled out the ad in the New York Times. And salam represents a district not far from there. So he thought that those kids were garbage. He wanted them dead. That is the guy who anybody would is black, like byron donald who is from brooklyn like me. His family is caribbean american like mine and he knows better than this. I grew up around the time of the Central Park Five and that is why i never watched the apprentice. Anybody black that knows anything about donald trump thinks the way i do. That is why he got 10 or 20 when he ran here. New yorkers dont like him. And when he was running for office come on, we tried to tell you. And in d. C. , why isnt he in florida in his district . Go back to your district. And youre not going to be Vice President. They were going to make me speaker trying to convince us of that. Dont let people rub you in your head. That is my advice to you. I know youre a hiphop man. Chef g and sleepy hallow. Now im aware they were both accused of murder in 140 count indictment. So Donald Trumps pitch to us is gold sneakers, and two rappers who were accused of murder. That is what he thinks of black people. As somebody, michael steele, who tried to expand the ranks of black support in the republican party, what do you think of that . It is an embarrassing affront to all of the work and effort that African Americans are trying to create within their community and trying to get people to Pay Attention to, the Young African american boys and girls who are working their way through school, who just graduated from hbcus this year and from major institutions to set a course for themselves of the american dream. So as a president ial candidate, you want to remind us that were nothing more than rappers with 140 Felony Counts against them including murder. Oh, by the way, were going to save you on your cigarettes because we know you like smoking their cigarettes and wearing those sneakers. It is all been a lie. It is all been portrayed in a way and this is part that i find the most offensive, when members of our own community promote this crap. Come on. And you dont speak honestly, byron, that is a problem. So you might as well stand on that stage and instead of throwing out maga hats, just throw out a pair of golden sneakers because that is essentially what it is. And so if that is all you could bring to us, then stay your ass home. Hello. We dont need it. He literally through paper towels at puerto ricans. That was his hitch to hispanics and he have marco rubio who knows better who used to be a commentator on rudy who knows better. Who is now okay with them locking up people like him and putting them in camps. You could find someone in the community that is willing to Clarence Thomas it out. And Clarence Thomas who thinks brown v. Board was overly decided and went too far. And that guy. And you have a baby version of him in byron donald. It is embarrassing. Real quick, joy, how does Clarence Thomas get a a Goodly White Billionaire will help him. I think he does believe in the largesse of a good rich person so he thinks hes fine as long as there is a Goodly White Billionaire. He doesnt care about anyone else. I have to bring michael in here. There is a great series in the new republic, i hope you check it out. Because the other piece of this, michael, is the media. The media has got to stand in the way of fascism here. I foe they dont want to take a side. This is what american fascism would look like. Talk about the medias responsibility here, michael, in the terms of the way we talk about this stuff and things like did he get a massive record crowd of black and brown people in the bronx. Were way past the time, joy, when we could do this side and that side kind of journalism when it relates to donald trump and this side said this and that side said that and the truth is somewhere in the middle. That is a traditional approach to objective journalism. We cant have that. Now, im not saying that the media should be schilling for joe biden or apologizing for joe biden or trying to see to it that joe biden wins the election. No, absolutely not. However, the media does have to be standing for the values of democracy. And the values of the republic that we live in and that weve been trying to perfect, for 250 years and against the values that would attack that. Donald trump very clearly is out to attack those values. He tells us that in one form or another every week. We were preparing that issue of the new republic, and you know, i was wonder if, you know, maybe is this going a little far. But then he comes out with the Time Magazine interview and i said no, this Time Magazine is every single word we are writing. And the media has to be more blunt and say, look, this man said he is going to do this, he said hes going to put, you know, try to deport and round up millions and millions of people. What would that look like . We need a series of what that would look like and what that could do to families as jamel wrote in that column today, families that are taxpayer people. Its its sad. It is sad. And let me and i think what is also sad, clay, is the Audition Process that weve seen. Tim scott humiliating himself and marco rubio humiliating himself. And theyre all out there shucking and diving to get donald trump to look at them and trying to get him to rub their tummies. Here is Byron Donalds version. You are not responding to a very simple question about a Conspiracy Theory that you voices. What Conspiracy Theory. That the fbi by having on a document that they are authorized to use deadly force was trying to harm or assassinate former president trump. That is false. Will you acknowledge that . Could i be very clear with you . Sure. Im not sure what Merrick Garland is trying to do these days. So it is clear, that you would not acknowledge it is being weaponized against donald trump, that is clear. You could only embarrass for him, and god bless abby philip for trying to hold him to account. But the real pick is someone like tom cotton, because hes willing to defend slavery and say it was the worst best option. He wants to send in troops to attack people with black lives matter and to send in troops to harm them. He referred to slavery i think as necessary evil. Double down on comments urging em to forcibly remove protests. Hes the violent openly fine with racism if you aint, hes open to it. That is the kind of guy trump wants. Byron donald is not. For all of the tap dancing that byron donald was doing, there was not a reward for yourin decency. You will be go in history as being a disservice to the history of black republicans, to the history of the gop. Youre not going to be rewarded for it. And to see Byron Donaldco signing some bizarre Conspiracy Theory that trump is going to be assassinated or killed by the doj or fbi, that is what a cult leader said. Jim jones said that in 1978. That the government is trying to come after me. And for you to cosign that, it is just shameful. And hes had some experience with the criminal Justice System when he was young and had some financial crimes. And they showed leniency to him. So he knows the criminal Justice System firsthand. And michael steele, this is what the democrats, joe biden, they have an ad out featuring the great robert de niro. Lets play that. From midnight tweets to drinking bleach, to teargassing citizens and staging a photo op. We knew trump was out ever control when he was president. And then he lost the 2020 election and snapped. Desperately trying to hold on to power and now hes running again, this time threatening to be a dictator. Trump wants revenge and hell stop at nothing to get it. Okay, former rnc chair, pikal steele, is that a good retort . That is a good retort. And you know what i like about that ad. This is the takeaway, hes snapped. Hes napped. In all of the connotation that goes with those two words about trump are culminated in that moment, in that imagery. And i think it is a very powerful response. I was talking with some folks today about how it seems the democrats are getting a little bit more mojo in playing the titfortat game. Because politics is not just about oh, okay i respond if i get hit. Sometimes you have to lean in and lay a shot or two first to draw the opponent out. This ad does that on a number of things. It responds in one sense but it also projected a little bit forward to capture the next time donald trump said something that is bad, you know what crazy, he snapped. Very quickly. Last word to you, michael, give us a piece of advice on what we should be doing to counter this oncoming fascism steaming toward us. Warn our friends and neighbors and relatives about the things that donald trump said. Lets not talk about what he did as president from 2016 to 2020. 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