A recap of the days news. Twitter and apparently from watching me on cnn, which he denies, by the way. I know this because he has tweeted a nasty hateful swipe at me and lebron james weve been discussing here. Youve probably read about it or saw it somewhere. I sat down with an nba great after lebron just opened a school for 240 at risk third and forty graders. And during our conversation lebron said this. We are in a position right now in america more importantly where this whole race thing has taken over, and one because i believe our president is kind of trying to divide us. But for him to like i said use sports to kind of divide us is something that i cant i cant sit back and not say nothing. What would you say to the president if he were sitting right here . I would never sit across from him. You would never . You wouldnt want to talk to
him . No. I would sit across from barack, though. He made lebron look smart, which isnt easy to do, i like mike. Unlike this president who lashes out loudly at anyone who criticizes him, i have pretty thick skin and lebron james in addition to being a brilliant black man, a superstar in his sport and a hero to his community is taking a high road, which is exactly where he belongs. Since this president has used so many insults so often, the president has called a lot of people stupid, some of those people are right. But i would like to note referring to africanamericans as dumb remember this is america. Referring to of concern american as dumb is one of the oldest parts of americas past and present that black people are of inferior intelligence. And pretty much everyone and
anyone in this country reacted. Heres what dan rather tweeted. Id much rather live in a world reflecting the values, philanthropy and yes intelligence of lebron james than the divisive peevish lies and narrow selfinterest displayed by the president of the United States. This tweet from barbara sttrisa. Why is he constantly projecting onto others what he knows about himself. Rather than criticizing king james we can be celebrating him for his Charity Efforts to help kids. Even Michael Jordan is weighing
in congratulating lebron for the work hes doing for his local community. But maybe cnn commentator keith boykin listen to this summed it up the best with this tweet. In trumps world obama, Maxine Waters, low iq, black countries, shut holes, black athletes sobs, black tenants unwellic, black workers lazy. Central park five, guilty. Mexicans, rapists. Muslims, terrorists. Indians, fake. Nazis wait for it very fine people. Notice a pattern . This president constantly denigrates people of color and women too. Congress woman Maxine Waters his
new favorite target. Maxine waters, a very low iq individual. Maxine waters. A low iq individual. She is a low iq individual, Maxine Waters. I said it the other day. I mean honestly shes somewhere in the mid60s. Maxine waters. Very low iq. Low iq. But then again this is the same man who for years tried to deny the legitimacy Of Americas First Black President by Questioning Over and over and over and over whether barack obama was born in this country. I want him to show his Birth Certificate. Theres something on that Birth Certificate that he doesnt like. I brought it up just routinely and all of a sudden a lot of
facts are emerging and im starting to wonder myself whether or not he was born in this country. I would like to have him show his Birth Certificate. And can i be honest with you, i hope he can. Because if he cant if he cant and if he wasnt born in this country, which is real possibility, if he doesnt its one of the greatest scams in the history of politics. And black athletes who kneel during the National Anthem as a former protest against racism and police brutality, well, they get this disrespect. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag, to say get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now . Hes fired. Hes fired this week marks the one Year Anniversary of that violent and deadly White Nationalist rally in charlottesville. The one where angry white racists carried torches and shouted antisemitic slogans including jews will not replace
us. The one where heather heyer, a 32yearold young lady was killed by a bigot who intentionally drove his car through a crowd, a crowd that was there to fight against the hate. But this is how this president famously characterized that. You also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. Cross burnings, tiki torches, white hoods replaced by no hoods and khaki pants, these are the very fine people in the president s eyes. And yes, let me not mince words here. This president traffics in racism and is fueled by bouleyinboule bulling. President trump is trying a Divide And Conquer strategy here and heres how it goes. He divides by race and tries to conquer decency by smearing and besmirching the truth and the people who fight to uphold it. Ive wondered sometimes, youve seen chris and i, i wonder if he will succeed. If President Trump who has his finger on his hes the one who has his finger on the pulse of this country. Is he revealing who we really are . Think about that. Is this who we really are . The overwhelmingly negative response to his unfair and unkind attack on a good man, lebron james, Shows America rejects what he is pedaling, most of america anyway, not all of america. But what about the impact his policies have without a platform through sports like lebron or through media like me . What about those who dont have a voice . What is his presidency doing to
them . The kids separated from their parents at the bord, the kids who dont have the chance to attend lebrons school or any halfway decent school, the parents who cant honestly you cant honestly tell their children to be proud of a president of the United States. The people of color who are attacked by their fellow citizens who feel emboldened to be publicly racist because the president is. Will the country stand up for them . We, the decent and truly patriotic people who really love america and believe in its greatness have to because clearly donald trump wont. I want to bring in now cnn commentator charles blow, steve cortez, former Trump Campaign advisor and annie carny White House Reporter for politico. Well discuss all of this right after the break. With our largest variety of crab all year like new crabfest combo. Your one chance to have new Jumbo Snow Crabwith tender dungeness crab. Or try crab lovers dream. But hurry in. Cause Crabfest will be gone in a snap. What does help for heart the beat goes on. It looks like emily cooking dinner for ten. The beat goes on. It looks like jonathan on a date with his wife. Ladiladi. Entresto is a Heart Failure medicine that helps your heart. So you can keep on doing what you love. In the largest Heart Failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. It helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. Dont take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an Ace Inhibitor or aliskiren,
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did. I am a private citizen, and i didnt run for office but i am a public figure here but i take the criticism just the president of the United States should be better and should do better and should not be tweeting bad things about nba stars or cable news anchors. Its just beneath the office of the presidency and he should learn that. So i want to bring in charles in. Charles, this is from one of your latest columns. Thank you so much for writing it. Donald trump has a pension for labeling particular people. It might strike some as just another insult from a Petulant Urchin of a man who insults everyone with who he takes issue. But i believe the nature of his intults to specific kinds of people Say Something more about the character and nature of the man, something which he may or may not be aware. I believe that the fact he so often attacks the intellectual
capacity of women and minorities exposes a racial and gender bias. You think theres a pattern . Absolutely. The New York Times does a great job of Keeping Track of literally every insult. I went through that database and tried to see what patterns emerged from that. There are political opponents and he would say a lot of things about them. And people who would disagree with him on specific policies and he would attack that person because of that. But only with minorities and women did he use them as tools of division, right . So these were not his political enemies. They had no impact on policy. These were just people who disagreed with him, and he would in many cases some people had difference in some policies so elizabeth warren, he uses her as a tool, right . Shes not involved with him on a policy issue, he just wants to say the word pocahontas. He just wants to use maxine you know a lot of democratic congressmen who vehemently disagree with this president are on television all the time saying how much they disagree with him, senators, too. He does not use them. He chose the black women and says this is their new hero, and no one is saying the mexicans are the face of the party, but he wants to make her that because it is useful to him. Because it is a weapon and a tool. Just say it because because its race and misogyny as well because he likes the idea of using her. And that happens over and over in his insulting. He will pick someone hell pick, you know, athletes like lebron, pick you. But he wants to find a face. And he likes the fact that that face is female or minority. And its easy to beat up on them in his mind. Annie, the timing of this tweet from the president comes just about a year after charlottesville. And you in your piece for politico you write about the real lesson trump learned from that episode and ultimately he came out unscathed, right . In the shortterm, absolutely. We saw a year ago republicans on the hill distancing themselves from him. We saw executives quitting his business councils. We saw a lot of hemming and hawing among white house staffers whether they would leave the administration and cohen privately expressing consternation. A year later everyone sort ofs has crawled back one way or another. The corporate ceos are having dinners privately just at ivankas house or jareds house and no one quit. I think in the shortterm is that nothing matters. The fifth avenue principle, his poll numbers are at an alltime high of his presidency, his fox news crew is still behind him. And from a Historical Perspective will this put him on the wrong side of history, that is question well find out later. But a year later hes doing just fine. Steve, i wanted to make sure you got in. I think thats unfair and the facts dont bear out. Okay, i dont believe its at all racial, and heres why no, heres why. Im about to give you facts, don. That was charles. Sorry, charles. Here, are some of the facts, people hes called dumb, people like mit romney. Political opponent. Like i said, political opponents. Go ahead, keep going. How about the way he criticizes people like chuck todd and joe skacarborough, if u want to go into media. He does not seem to hold back regardless of gender or ethnicity at all. And in all those cases, by the way, ill also defend him on this again i dont think he should go after lebron because hes not in politics. In all these cases these are people that come at the president first. Hes probably going to punch back harder than you gave it to him in the first place. Hes the Floyd Mayweather of politics. I dont want him to do it against people who arent in the
political arena but he does it regardless of gender or race. I just want to say, youre going to get in, but i didnt attack him. I was interviewing lebron james. He chose to attack me. You didnt that night, but, don, you have called him a racist youve called him a racist. It is a punch to the throat of the president and he punches back and thats totally fair. How much more evidence do you need . How much more evidence do you need . Being a racist does not mean walking down the street calling people the nword. It is what you do, your practice. It is what you say, how you treat people, who you hang out with, it is what comes out of your mouth. Its not active like, oh, my gosh, you catch someone in the act being racist. You judge people on their lies and their action. And thats what ive judged from his action. And know this administration is
fact challenged but all you have to do is look at the facts. No, im not yes, you are. This is again a whole bunch of things that are not related to each other and tries to get around the actual facts we put on the table. Thats what you do. Ive seen you on television a million times and its kind of clever but its not clever with me, right . The idea that he uses particular people as as weapons, as clubs when he goes to his rallies, that he constantly comes back, and this has been reported out, that he thought that him attacking those nfl players played well politically for him. So he used them. They werent constantly coming at him, which is the lie you just told. They never mentioned him. But yall let him come in here and lie. But he keeps coming back at them because it works for him, and look at those men who are kneeling to protect the lives of other black and brown boys and men who have been shot by the police and doing so quite frankly in one of the most peaceful ways you could possibly do it, not even saying a word, just going down on a knee, it is literally one of the most peaceful ways of protest you could think of. But he knows that people in those audiences dont see that. They see black men being disobedient, and that is what he is using. So you can charles, This Is Brown face he can tell another lie on tv, which what he does. Can you stop calling me a liar . You lie all the time and this its very apparent to anybody whos watching. Let him say his piece. This is brown face, by the way, who appreciates very much
what this president is doing for my community and communities of color in this country who are more prosperous and more secure they have been. And by the way, a brown face that is sick of being taken for granted by liberals who want to keep minorities in a political plantation where they are dependent on government and where their views are only respected at election time. And that i believe is real racism. They constantly no, its not a dog whistle. Im saying the democrats want that mentality. Only black and brown republican use the Plantation Metaphor because they can get away with odoidoing it. And its the dog whistle to white people saying i would like to say that but they would call me racist so thank you black and brown people because they would call me racist. Why dont we take a break here . Steve, im going to let you talk on the other side. There is a difference between, a huge difference that America Needs to understand about people who perceive themselves to be forgotten because of political strategy or because of politics or because someone is trying to use them in their vote. Theres a difference between that and people who have been historically forgotten about and discriminat