Altright movement within which antisemitism and racist troeps are pervasive. Bannons Appointment Drawing Sharp condemnation. The spokesman for harry reid saying quote it is easy to see why the kkk views trump as their champ when trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of White Supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide. The ceo of the Antidefamation League calling it a quote, sad day. The Executive Director of the council on American Islamic relations says the appointment of bannon sends the disturbing message that the antimuslim Conspiracy Theories and White Nationalist ideology will be welcome in the white house. As thousands across the Country Protest against trump for the fifth straight day, trump addressing his supporters who have harassed minorities in his first tv interview. Postelection. I say stop it. Allen silly is a former Communications Director for ted cruz and hilary rosen is a cnn political commentator. Brian stelter is the cnn senior media correspondent. Welcome to all of you. Good morning. So, brian, i want to start with you. And i want to get in to who Steve Bannon Is, and why so many Minority Rights Organizations have a problem with him. Because he is a bomb thrower. Provocateur. A man that is a symbol of the altright movement. And the altright Movement Means many things one of the things it means is a white identity politics. White nationalism. Thats why we heard some people say this is White Supremacy is a disguise. Now steve bannon rejects that entirely. Says he has nothing to do with that. He told me months ago this is all about populism sweeping the globe. But the bottom line, carol, is that Reince Priebus on the morning shows today said donald trump will be a president for all of americans. Thats not who Steve Bannon Is. Thats not what breitbart is. Breitbart is not a website for all americans. Its a website for the altright. So were getting two messages,
for steve bannon and the campaign moving forward. I do think, being an outsider is one thing. Promoting White Nationalist policies is quite another. If you go to the breitbart headlines of the past, steve bannon was editor, right, of breitbart and im just going to read one, he said head line there not too long ago dear straight people im officially giving you permission to say gay faggot and were. I mean look at these headlines in breitbart. Hillary, is there a difference between an outsider and a White Nationalist provocateur . Like i think so many people theres a huge difference, and that i think hilary. Theres a huge difference, and you know, as brian said this Breitbart News has Fomented Division and anger, and fear in people, and you know, i hate to see, frankly, what power they could have when they have the full resources and secrets of
the federal government to attack people with. And the idea that steve bannon will be conspiring with, you know, right wing media, to send messages out, and kind of appalling to me. But this is really about two Donald Trumps. And donald trump not having an ideology. People are used to our president actually caring about something. And what we have here is, you know, Steve Bannons appointment being focused on fomenting the kind of outsider, White Nationalist movement and Reince Priebus making sure that, you know, the banks get their lobbying deals, and that Climate Change is repealed, and that, you know, essentially the government is handed back to big corporations, and fat cats. And so you have kind of the combination of these two things, and the little guy that donald trump says he got elected for, in my view, ends up getting screwed because those people are
not going to protect them. Well, well heres the thing. I think that there is a line of thought that, that, you know, weve become too politically correct in this country, minorities have too much power, its time to right the ship, you need someone like steve bannon in there to do just that, right . And also, trump Trump Supporters saying when mr. Trump says things he doesnt mean them literally, he just needs to sort of even things out. And one good example of that may be the wall. Right . Because on his website even this morning it still says he wants to build an Impenetrable Physical Wall that mexico will pay for. But last night on 60 minutes he said something different. Lets listen. Could be it could be some fencing. What about the pledge to deport millions and millions of undocumented immigrants . What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, there are a lot of these people. Probably 2 million, could even
be 3 million. Were getting them out of our country, or were going to incarcerate. But, were getting them out of our country. Theyre here illegally. Okay, so, so, david, maybe donald trump means when he says hes going to build this impenetrable wall and have mexico pay for it he doesnt quite mean that literally. But he is going to get something done and wont that be enough for his supporters . Well, i think that remains to be seen, carol. I mean, that is what weve already looked at in the last couple of days with some of the statements that President Elect trump has made. He has, in that interview clip that you just played, he was backing off this idea that hes going to build this big physical structure of the wall across the entire border with no fencing, just a big, as he said, big, Beautiful Wall and make mexico pay for it. He sounded more measured on that. He has made signals in the last couple of days that he is rethinking some of the specifics on the Affordable Care act saying he wants to keep in place letting people keep their kids on their Insurance Plan until theyre 26. Making insurers cover people who
have preexisting conditions. You know, if youre a fan of someone being moderate and judicious in the way they approach their job as president , i guess you could say those are good things. The difficulty is that one, those arent the promises that he made on the campaign trail. And that number two is, is that if youre not supposed to take trump literally at his word on what he said on the campaign, how are you supposed to evaluate now what he says Going Forward when hes making some, what i would say are significant changes to his approach, at least rhetorically, in just the first few days of his transition . Something he seems to be like toeing the line on very carefully is this idea of locking Hillary Clinton because those were campaign chants during the Campaign Lock her up. He said yesterday over the weekend that he was thinking about maybe firing the fbi director. He didnt really know. But as you know the president can appoint an fbi director. And then he said he wouldnt totally take off the table that notion that somehow Hillary Clinton will be prosecuted. Lets listen. You called her crooked hillary, said you wanted to get her to go to jail, your people in your audiences kept saying lock her up. Yeah. She did some bad things. I know but a Special Prosecutor . I dont want to hurt them. I dont want to hurt them. Theyre good people. I dont want to hurt them. And i will give you a very, very good and definitive answer the next time we do 60 minutes together. So, rebecca, thoughts . Well, it does look like he is beginning to back away, carol, from his Campaign Promise to appoint a Special Prosecutor. His assessment apparently being that now that the campaign is over, its less important to settle those scores with a former political rival. And if that is the case, and again his statement is really hard to dissect at this point, and really know what he truly means, or wants, but that should encourage a lot of people on the
democratic side, i would imagine, who were very, very worried when we were hearing these chants at his rallies. When he was talking about a Special Prosecutor, especially because this begins to sound like sort of a third world country sort of thing that you are threatening to jail your former political opponents once you win. So i think this should be encouraging for a lot of people. And certainly its going to be very difficult for donald trump to unite the country, as he says he wants to, if hes actively pursuing a case against Hillary Clinton, his former political rival. All right. I have to leave it there. Thanks to all of you. Still to come in the newsroom its not just protests. A new report shows Hateful Harassment is up postelection. And will having a man with White Nationalist ties so close to the Oval Office Just fan the flames more . Theraflu. For a powerful comeback. New expressmax caplets. It has been six days since america elected a new president and were still a nation divided. Protests planned again today in tucson and in los angeles. The lapd already dealing with several days of protests. 8,000 people marched through downtown saturday. Across the country also large protests in places like new york, portland and philadelphia. This election has set us back, and has definitely shown in the world that we are not as advanced as we think we are. I have been aghast at the the behavior of donald trump. I think his racist and xenophobic rhetoric has been very disruptive. I am a single father. I pay my taxes. Im scared. I really am scared. Of being deported to a country that i am not familiar with. The protesters, because of
incidents like this, Graffiti Reading Trump nation, whites only, that was discovered on sunday morning, sprayed on a wall at an Episcopal Church in a heavily latino neighborhood just outside of washington, d. C. The Southern Poverty Law Center says this is not an isolated incident. It has counted more than 300 cases of election related harassment and intimidation across the country. So lets talk about that. Cnns Correspondent Rachel Crane has been looking into it. Good morning. Good morning, carol. One of the most disturbing things about these incidents is that the Southern Poverty Law Center is saying that the most commonly reported location of these incidents of hate crime, of these incidents of the you know racist graffiti are happening in schools. Children k. Through 12 engaging in this type of horrific behavior. They say that more than 40 incidents have been reported at schools. Now, in michigan, at a middle school, we saw in a cafeteria children chanting build the wall, build the wall. Theres a video of that. Its been viewed millions of times on social media. Incredibly disturbing. To see them engaging in that type of behavior. Also in minnesota at a high school we saw racist graffiti, protrump graffiti in a bathroom reading white america, also reading go back to africa. Trump lets make America Great again. Also, in a high school in california, we saw a Student Giving out fake Deportation Letters to minority students. You know, this isnt just happening in high schools and middle schools, also in colleges. We saw a student at San Diego State university being accosted by two people, she was wearing a hij hijab, they were spewing racial slurs, they skoel her purse, skoel her keys, stole her car. Were also seeing graffiti not just in schools but across the country in philadelphia, because in North Carolina graffiti reading black lives dont matter. Your vote doesnt matter. Carol, just incredibly
disturbing. There are some would say because you mentioned a number, 40 high schools and middle schools across the country. We live in a country of 330 Million People, right . So some people might say, you know, so a tiny fraction, you know, a tiny number of idiots across the country are doing these things. But its not a widespread problem. So how would you characterize it. Well, you know, the Southern Poverty Law Center coming out and saying just this morning on cnn, there have been more than 300 incidents of this since donald trump was elected president. And theyre calling on donald trump to take more responsibility for these instances. You know, just last night on 60 minutes donald trump did acknowledge that a handful of these incidences were occurring calling on the people committing these crimes to stop it. But, you know, the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center saying that there are actually hundreds of these crimes happening not just a handful. Thanks so much. So here we are. There is real fear, i hear it in
new york, theyre surprised at this, i hear it from my family in ohio. So how do we as a nation process this . Heres Dave Chappelle on snl. A few weeks ago i went to the white house for a party. It was the first time i had been there many years, and and it was very exciting. And b. E. T. Had sponsored the party. So everyone there was black. And, it was beautiful. I walked through the gates. You know, im from washington, so i saw the bus stop, the the corner where the bus stop used to be where i used to catch the bus to school and dream about nights like tonight. It was a really, really beautiful tonight. And at the end of the night everyone went into the west wing of the white house, and it was a huge party. And everybody in there was black except Bradley Cooper for some reason. And on the because were pictures of all the president s of the past. Now im not sure if this is true but to my knowledge the first black person that was officially invited to the white house was fredrierick douglass, they stopd him at the gates. Abraham lincoln himself had to walk out and escort Frederick Douglass at the white house. It didnt happen again as far as i know until roosevelt was president. Roosevelt was president , he had a black guy over and got so much flak from the media that he literally said i will never have a nigger in this house again. I thought about that, and i looked at that and i saw all those black faces around it, and i saw and i saw how happy everybody was. These people who had been historically disenfranchised. And it made me feel hopeful. And it made me feel proud to be an american. And it made me very happy about the prospects. So in that spirit, im wishing
donald trump luck, and im going to give him a chance, and we, the historically disenfranchised demand that he give us one, too. Thank you very much. All right so thats one point of view. But this is why many minority groups worry. Donald trump appointed that man name steve bannon. A man White Nationalists embrace and for good reason. Bannons breitbart launched headlines like these. Bill kristol a renegade jew. Why islam is the single greatest threat to civilization. The ten things milo hates about islam. And six reasons pamela gellars Muhammad Cartoon contest is no different from selma lets talk about the divide in our country with the Executive Director of c. A. R. E. , welcome, sir. Can you say hello to me again . Because i didnt hear you. Sure, yeah. Oh, good. I was worried there was something wrong with your audio. Im glad there isnt anything. There are there are many people in this country that say the left wing is just in a state of hysteria right now and they should give this man a chance, so why arent they . Well, it would have legitimate concerns, and when you when you see that the President Elect appoints someone who holds antisemitic, antimuslim, antiimmigrant theories, you wonder, are we going to move this country forward . Are we going to heal this country in the next few years . And i think the message that we see by appointing an allright wing theorist we see it the very
own message that our nation needs now. Our nation is divided. Our nation has been wounded. With what we have seen in the past few months and if we would like to move forward we have to appoint Chief Strategists who believe in the plurality, diversity and Core Principles of let me let me let me put it this way. Steve bannon has long been a part of Donald Trumps campaign. So, people went out and voted. And that includes 29 of hispanics, for donald trump, and 8 of africanamericans for donald trump. Those are larger percentages than voted for mitt romney. So he does have some support in the minority community. Yeah, true. And even a small number among