Better hotel. I have a home there. Of course you do. Kidding about that. Hey, chris, you know what i think that really warmed my heart. That showup for shabbat. Did you see different faiths from all aunder round the country. Reporter but all weekend through the services to remember the people in pennsylvania who lost their lives and the people there who are in mourning right now. I think its just fantastic. Ive seen it from protestant churches to muslims, and were going to talk about it a little bit later. I love it. I just hope that people see what the message was in the murders. That man was trying to stamp out the instinct to do for others. He was trying to stamp out that ethos in these 11 people. You cant reward that with quiet. You cant. You got to get loud and proud, and you have to do exactly those things that he was trying to stamp out. Thats how you honor the legacy of who was lost and the commitment we should have to one another no matter what your faith is. Mmhmm. Hey, lets put up some of the pictures. I just want to show it if we have a picture of it. Go ahead. There it is. Look at the line. I think thats the one in d. C. Mmhmm. There was one in boston too. There it is. Theres one in boca raton, florida, as well. Its just really, really amazing. You know what . Heres what i say. This is one in new york. This is what i say. When anyone who is in a marginalized community or anyone who has a history of being discriminated against, jews, africanamericans, muslims, women, whomever, we must stand up for each other with the passion that we stand up for our own group because otherwise when you attack one, you attack us all. If we dont do that, its the end of america. It is the end of this democracy and with some big holes in the fabric of our society. Amen, amen. Yeah. Have a great weekend. Thank you for your fantastic work. Ill see you on sunday. All right, bud. Ill see you. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thank you so much for joining us on this friday. If you had any doubt at all that the midterm elections, just four days away by the way, that it may be the most important one of our lives, well, take a look at your screen now. Heres the proof. Not one but two president s out on the campaign trail, making their closing arguments. Youre going to decide maybe which Party Controls the United States senate. Its a very powerful vote. And a vote for joe is a vote for schumer. Its a vote for a majority leader who will be not good. If thats what you end up with, its your fault, not mine. It shouldnt be democratic or republican to say we dont lie with impunity. It shouldnt be democratic or republican to say we dont punish our political opponents trying to use a justice system, that we dont threaten the freedom of the press because they Say Something we dont like. What a contrast there. Two president s taking aim at each other. President trump, of course, mocking former president obamas name. Its no surprise that joe donnelly is holding a rally this weekend with barack h. Obama. I watched him speak today. He had a very small crowd. They dont talk about that. Barack h. What do you think that meant, huh . The 44th president calling the 45th a liar. What we have not seen the way were seeing right now is politicians just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying, just making stuff up. Thats what theyre doing right now all the time. Dont be bamboozled. Dont be hoodwinked. When words stop meaning anything, when truth doesnt matter, when people can just lie with abandon, democracy cant work. Lets compare and contrast their approval ratings, shall we . President trump at 40 in the latest gallup poll. The former president barack obama at 63 . But both have seen their share of hecklers. Lets also compare and contrast their reactions. Were okay. Were okay. Were okay. You know what . This is what i look forward to is having a few hecklers to get me back in the mood. You know . I enjoy that. You always got to have a few in order to know that youre on the campaign trail. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this . Theyd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. Id like to punch him in the face. If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you . Seriously. So the last one is a president who in spite of encouraging violence himself, today actually tried to blame reporters for political violence. I guess he forgot that this network was targeted along with Top Democrats by an alleged bomber who is a trump supporter. And in case you think this is all just politics, in case you think its all just talk and it doesnt affect real people, here are some pictures that will show you how its affecting everyday americans. These are teachers at an Elementary School in idaho dressed for halloween as a stereotype of mexicans and as President Trumps promised wall labeled make America Great again. The superintendent ended up apologizing for their costumes and their actions today, saying, quote, we are better than this, that he was deeply troubled by what he called the clearly insensitive and inappropriate costumes. If only our president had the integrity of that School Superintendent in idaho. Its no accident that this is happening under this president who, dont forget, started his cha Campaign Like this. When mexico sends its people, theyre not sending their best. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. So that kind of language, language that divides us. Thats not what this country is supposed to be about. Come on. Cant we all just admit that . Thats not who we should be. We aspire to live up to the words that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Since this country was founded, many people fought to expand those rights to cover more americans, people of color, women, lgbtq americans. But along with our rights, every one of us also has a responsibility right now, okay . I hope everyone is listening. We all have a responsibility. Its a responsibility thats at the heart of our democracy. We have to vote. It doesnt matter whether youre republican or democrat or an independent. Youve got to vote. And dont let anybody on any side tell you that this election is in the bag because its not, that your vote wont make the difference. Millions of people in this country have already cast their ballots in early voting states. Plenty of them support the president , and plenty dont. And no one will know who wins until after election day. So youve got to vote. Youve got to make your voice heard. And thats a message thats especially important for young voters, young people. Listen to me. I have to be honest because too many of you have been, lets say, unmotivated about voting in the past. Just 17 of citizens under 25 voted in 2014. But there is some good news that may be turning things around this year. A harvard poll found that 40 of people under 30 say theyll definitely vote in the midterms. It should be higher, but 40 is better than 17 . Of course saying that youll vote and actually voting, thats two different things. So if youre tempted to skip going to the polls, i want you to imagine this, right . Imagine how youll feel on wednesday morning if the results arent what you hoped for. Imagine how youll feel when its too late because by then it will be too late. Lots to talk about now with mark mckinnon, gel ady cobb and max boot. Were going to dig into it next. To help hand everyone a better world. Thats why we, at the Cocacola Company, make shore breaks with actual coconuts. Tea, organically. Treats for celebrations. Water with added minerals for taste. 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The president s lies and fearmongering reaching a new low. Tonight he claimed that democrats want to turn america into a giant sanctuary for predators and ms13 killers. Theres obviously no truth to that. But the question is four days before the midterms, will it matter . Lets discuss now. Mark mckinnon is here, the executive producer of showtimes the circus. Jelani cobb of the new yorker. And max boot, author of the corrosion of conservatism, why i left the right. Good evening. Welcome to the program. Ive got to as these words are coming out of my mouth, you know, ms13, you know, they want to turn into sanctuary cities, hes sowing hate and division and fear. The question is will america go for it on tuesday . Well, i mean america went for it in 2016. And, you know, weve kind of seen that even as we had the conversation where we kept trying to avoid what this actually was, you remember the age of the economic anxiety argument. And then what people have done in the aftermath is seen time and time and time again that people were attracted to the very thing that people on the left found most loathsome about the way donald trump ran his campaign. And also it helped that there was a kind of disaffected democratic voter on the other side. So the question is really now what were looking at is in some ways a referendum on the current presidency. Certainly thats what midterms tend to be. Were also looking at a kind of referendum on issues that people care about, but in a way that is very atypical and uncommon. This midterm is a referendum on human nature, that are people going to be motivated and captive to fears. Every single its almost like it was like a cameo from the most recent halloween movie. Like everything that could terrify you is coming out now. Theyre predators. Then when talking about the caravan, at first they were saying these were people who were trying to invade america. Then they were saying they were unknown middle eastern people. It was like pick a staereotypst. Its every kind of thing that people could fear rolled into one. I kept thinking as i hear him say that at the rallies, its like a marauding gang from an old western movie carrying torches trying to break into your houses. That is never, ever, ever going to happen. Max, i want to bring you in here because president obama also made the case tonight that no matter what your party, that you need to vote for democrats. Heres why he said that. It shouldnt be democratic or republican to say that we dont try to monkey around with the rules of our democracy, that we dont threaten the freedom of the press just because they write something about us we dont like. It should not be a matter of partisan politics to say we dont target certain groups of people based on what they look like or how they pray or who they love. Max, you left the Republican Party, but youre still a conservative, is that correct . Yes. Yes. So you make the same case. You write in the washington post, vote against all republicans, every single one. Why . What the former president said, does that resonate with you . Absolutely, don. Youve got to send a message. This is so unconscionable what donald trump and the republicans are doing now. This kind of fearmongering, this kind of racism and xenophobia, we have not seen this in modern american politics. I dont think theres any precedent for it until you go back to the dark days of jim crow and the way that southern segregationists would compete with one other for bashing africanamericans. This is so blatant, so over the top. The ad that we were discussing a few days ago that trump released with the cop killer immigrant, he blames democrats for that when he actually entered the United States under president bush and he was arrested and released by sheriff joe. The whole thing is such a pack of lies to suggest there is some kind of invasion of Illegal Immigrants going on when, in fact, illegal immigration is down 80 since the year 2000, or to suggest that this caravan of these poor refugees is this marauding hoard of criminals and terrorists financed by george soros. I mean this is so crazy. This is so offensive. There is no way that republicans should be allowed to get away with this because if they do get away with it, youre going to see more of it in the future. And we dont want to live in a country where fearmongering and racism and hatred is a way to win an election. You just took the words out of my mouth because its in some way, hes not hiding it anymore. Its this sort of behavior is becoming normalized. Are you oh, no question about it. Its back to the old playbook that we saw in 2016. You know, im waiting for a video to surface of steve bannon handing out 100 bills in Central American to immigrants to join the caravan. This is so perfectly to his script. The thing that im struck by is theres such powerful Economic News every single day these days. What would Ronald Reagan do . It would be morning in america, right . Instead we have midnight in america. I hearken back to one of our episodes with steve bannon where bannon was saying if the deplorables are leaning on their shovels say things are great, so crank up the fear machine. Let me ask you something as a republican. This is something from fareed zakaria. He said the Republican Party has many good people and good ideas, but none of them matters while it houses and feeds fantasies, conspiracies and paranoia tinged with racism, bigotry, and antisemitism. Republicans are now squarely the party of mccarthy, he says, and until that cancer is excised, they should not be entrusted with power. On the one hand, you can say that thats not fair. On the other hand, have republicans done enough . No, clearly not. And you see you feel like so many members of congress, of the Republican Party, they seem like hostages, you know. And the only people speaking up are the people leaving office. And all these other republicans, i mean theyre complicit. They cant escape this because theyre taking part in it, and theyre not repudiating what trump is doing. A lot of them are even imitating it. To carry the Mccarthy Point forward, its crucial that we remember that mccarthys fall came about in part because he alienated himself from the Republican Party. It was eisenhower. He didnt fall under truman. It was the eisenhower presidency where he said this is actually corrosive and we have to put a stop to this. So it was not simply a preordained thing that when you have a demagogic figure in your party, you are obligated to toe the line and support this person, defend this person time and time again, yet weve seen feeble, at best, criticism of donald trump from within the Republican Party, and partly because of the nature of the populist swell he has, kind of cult of personality that hes constructed, that no ones willing to take the risk of the political fallout of criticizing him. Trump exercises his political power. He is not shy about going into districts in primaries and taking people out if they dont toe the line. Which brings us back to gerrymandering. I just wonder if theyre safety in numbers. Arent they smart enough to realize if enough of us come together and say, you know what, this is i dont think it would matter so much. I think i think its up to them to help pull the voter along and get them somehow out of their fog and really tell the truth about this presidency. I think these politicians need to realize theres more about being a political leader in this country than simply doing whatever it takes to win the election. Exactly. You have to have some larger principle. How cute of us to think that way. Beyond your own selfinterest. I know we have to get a break in but let me get this in for jelani before we go to break. This is the current president talking about the former president. Watch this. Its no surprise that joe donnelly is holding a rally this weekend with barack h. Obama. Barack obama. What do you think . H. , emphasizing the h. Sure. Hussein. Thats right. We can remember that this person introduced himself to american political life by lying, outright lying about the origins of the first black president of the United States. Thats what hes doing again and kind of whipping up this idea that the person who is named hussein, you know, how much can you trust them . Are they in league with people who are enemies and so on . And this has been. And weve never seen that level of contempt and disrespect between one presidency and a prior one. You didnt see that between carter and the Nixon Administration or ford, you know, who for all the excesses and violations that happened during the Nixon Administration, yet we see this between donald trump and barack obama. And so the one thing that he did say is that he had a much smaller crowd. He said obama had a really small crowd. You know where obama had a bigger crowd . At the inauguration. In the electoral college. And the inauguration. Okay. Stand by, everyone. Stay with me because the president is also talking up the good economy today. But if he truly believes that his party is the reason for the countrys success, why is he also admitting republicans could lose the house . Infive hundred year storm should happen every five hundred years, right . Fact is, there have been twentysix in the last decade. Allstate is adapting. With drones to assess home damage sooner. And if a flying object damages your car, you can snap a photo and get your claim processed in hours, not days. Plus, allstate can pay your claim in minutes. Now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . So the last jobs report came out today, and the last one brought before the election, it brought some good news. Jobs created, 250,000 jobs created, and hourly wages growing at the fastest rate in nearly a decade. Could the strength of the economy provide a boost to the president and his party . Back with me now, mark mckinnon, jelani cobb, and max boot. I got to ask you, you know, we undoubtedly saw some good job numbers today. There was good news for the economy. The economy is booming, that he inherited from president obama. The interesting thing, he keeps criticizing that president , but im wondering if the thing that is shielding him for the real repercussions of his actions is the economy that the former president created for him. That may be the thing thats lifting him and keeping him at least somewhat above water. Well, i would say this. You know, at what point do we say its his economy . Its two years in now, right . Thats a very good question. When do you . And i remember when people said that about obama to bush, you know. So its two years in now. I think at a certain point you have to say, okay, its his economy. Theres a difference, those, when you inherit one of the worst for sure. Right . Since the Great Depression and one thats already booming. But you could also say coming out of that wall street fall had nowhere to go but up. But up, right. Well, i dont know about that. You remember the emergency meetings where they called obama in before he was even president , saying this economy is about to go off the cliff. You should know that. We could have been greece, right . Sorry. Go on. Everybody got together and made some very hard decisions. Right. But i would say at a certain point start giving the guy credit. Max calls it a sugar high. You could also call it day trading on deficit numbers. Donald trump says i love debt, and he does. At a certain point, is there going to be a price to pay for the short term benefits . Lets talk about that because jelani, you write here you said the country has been fixating on trump for over two years. You read in the new yorker about trump has both remoted and profited from the racial siege mentality. What happens if there is no reckoning for that . Yeah. I mean thats the real kind of terrible scenario because whats happened is lets say donald trump decides in 2020 that he wont run again. Lets say he runs and loses. The inescapable difficulty is the fact that he has already created a template for the ideas that were once on the margin, these ideas that were once beyond the pale through a lot of work, a lot of effort through the 20th century, people trying to push these ideas out of mainstream acceptable political thought and rhetoric. Hes still created a temp lat to make those things work. Trumpism can exist outside the presence of donald trump. I think thats the thing we should be really concerned about, especially as we look at the demographic changes afoot in the country. Thats really the prime vehicle that is the prime vehicle as you said, and study after study has shown its not economic anxiety as people said. Its really the changing demographics. Right. Thats what it is. Its going to be a massive multiera for don to detoxify american politics even after donald trump leaves the scene. I mean i think were going to have to have some kind of Public HealthCampaign Like we had to stigmatize smoking. Were going to have to have a campaign to stigmatize racism, xenophobia, all these things i thought were already stigmatized, but donald trump has brought them into the open, using them to his political advantage. And we as a society have to signal thats not acceptable. What happens tuesday if the house goes to the democrats . Is that a less on. If the other thing happens and if they actually win, youre going to see this dialed up to 20. If its like at an eight or nine now, hes going to dial it up even higher. Its going to be disastrous for our social fabric. If that happens, the president is going if he wants to get anything done in the next two years, hes going to have to find areas of common ground. The only thing he wants to get done is to avoid impeachment. Thats going to be his number one priority. Really thats why hes trying to shore up the senate, right . Hes so focused on the senate because thats where the real impeachment problem lies because you have to have twothirds of the senate. He just has to hang on to 16, 17 republican senator. Presumably we dont know what is in the mueller report. We dont know i do. Ive got it right here. Keep it under your hat, right. You know what i find interesting . The former president brought it up today. You see all of these ads now with republicans saying, you know, i will secure preexisting conditions. I will protect preexisting conditions when they have been fighting for years to undo the Affordable Care act or obamacare. What gives here . Why lie about it . Because they realize that people actually do care about this . They do care and theyve discovered its a huge liability and thats what democrats have been running on and making a lot of ground on it. The striking thing to me about the whole Health Care Debate with republicans over the last four, six, eight, since obamacare is that weve always been against obamacare but never really put forward a credible solution. You know, theres just never really been a republican plan thats credible or works. Except for obamacare. Unless you get rid of preexisting conditions and lower the Insurance Markets and those are the kinds of things they say they arent doing now. And they never replace. The thing is if you have something and actually people are honestly are finding out now, like, actually this is not as bad as its been made out to be. So if its not, why cant this is our pollyannaish thought again. Why cant they say this isnt perfect, lets fix this part of the Affordable Care act and jettison this and fix that part. Thats based on the supposition that people want to get stuff done instead of just politicking. These lies about health care i find almost benign because thats kind of standard issue political lies. But lies about george soros financing the caravan, those are not standard lies. Those are off the charts or lies about latino immigrants and the caravan. All this stuff is much more corrosive and i think much more dangerous. So i got to get this in for mr. Mckinnon because i cant wait to see the circus on showtime. I want to play this swlip from sundays episode. This is from an interview with andrew young, a civil rights icon and former congressman. I want you to hear what he had to say about this election. In some white people that black progress is going to come at the expense of white people. Its actually the other way around. Dr. King used to say that if youre going to keep somebody down in the ditch, you got to keep one foot down there to keep them down. But why dont we all just get up on the curb and sidewalk and try to walk together . I got elected when nobody thought i had a chance, and it poured down rain. Everything was going against me. And suddenly we had a 74 black turnout, and i was trying to get 10 of the white vote, and we got 14 . Yeah. And lo and behold, everything changed. Yeah. You think that kind of thing can happen again in. I think it will happen. Is he right . He says we need a multiracial coalition. Do you think well see that come this election this year . I love the kind of campaigns that Stacey Abrams and gillum are running in florida, particularly Stacey Abrams. Its like a nuke democratic playbook where shes saying and others are saying to some extent, lets not just go and try to find more sort of centrist independent soft republican white voters. Lets enfranchise the people of color and others who havent been coming out to vote. Lets expand our own coalition and get the people out who are being affected, who havent been voting. And i think that message is getting through, and i think were going to see that in georgia and florida and across the country. Dont you think republicans can take a lesson from this in two ways . One, the diversity of the party if they have a bigger tent. Number two, under diversity, i mean youth, right . If you look at and im just using this as an example because it was a stark contrast. At the pictures coming from the Kavanaugh Hearings where you see all of these older guys, older people of the same ethnicity running this country, if youre a young person, especially a diverse person or a person of color, you go, whats in this for me . Im not represented in this. I think both parties that was the lesson that republicans took away from 2012. But then donald trump turned it on its ear and said were not going to go for minority votes or young votes. Were just going to crank up these angry old white people and turn them out with these kinds of appeals and it worked. Theres one quick thing i want to say about this. Weve seen the worst kind of populism in the last two years, and people have called it populism. Theyre trying to be euphemistic about the racism, the homophobia, the misogyny. We said we dont want to say that explicitly so well just call it all populism. And populism has this terrible strand in which all those things are very prominent. But to marks point, the think we dont pay enough attention to is there actually is an inclusive tradition of populism in this country. That is what dr. King was talking about in 1968 with the poor peoples campaign. Weve talked a whole lot about george wallace. We dont talk about Henry Wallace and his president ial campaign in 1948, which was cross racial, looking at people who were all at the bottom of the economic pile and saying that we have much more in common than we have that separates us. And there is that kind of legacy, even what we saw with the reverend William Barber doing. Correct woincredible work. That is the tradition we should be thinking about. It doesnt have to simply be the kro Kavanaugh Hearing versus everyone else being excluded. Make populism great again. I appreciate you guys coming in on a friday. Cant wait to see the circus on showtime. Kick it. Kick it hard. Oprah telling the story of a man who inspires her to vote, a story about a man turned away from multiple polling places and who walked a total of 18 miles only to be told the polls had closed. That mans son joins me next. To and saved hundreds. Excuse me. Winner thats a win. But its not the only reason i switched. Hi geico has licensed agents who i can reach 24 7. Great savings and round the Clock Service . Now thats a winwin. Winner. Winner. Yay me oh, hi good luck. Switch to geico®. Its a winwin. First, it continues to pay paramedics while were on break. Second, it ensures the closest ambulance can respond if you call 911. Vote yes on 11. Proposition 11 proposition 11 is a vote to protect patient safety. It ensures the closest ambulance remains oncall during paid breaks so that they can respond immediately when needed. Vote yes on 11. With just four days to go before the midterm elections, at least 27 million americans have already cast their ballots in early voting. But if you still dont think your vote matters, i want you to listen to a story that oprah tells. I didnt take voting seriously until around my mid20s. And around my mid20s, i had the privilege of hearing reverend otis moss jr. , who is a preacher. You all know him . Preacher. Preacher in cleveland, ohio. And i heard him tell the story of his father, of otis moss sr. , who right here in georgias troop county got up in the morning and put on his only suit and his best tie, and he walked six miles to the voting poll location he was told to go to in le grange. And when he got there after walking six miles in his good suit and tie, they said, boy, you at the wrong place. You at the wrong place. You need to go over to mountville. So he walked another six miles to mountville, and when he got there, they said, boy, you at the wrong place. You need to go to the rosemont school. And i picture him walking from dawn to dusk in his suit, his feet tired, getting to the rosemont school, and they say, boy, you too late. The polls are closed. And he never had a chance to vote. By the time the next election came around, he had died. So when i go to the polls and i cast my ballot, i cast it for a man i never knew. I cast it for otis moss sr. , who walked 18 miles one day just for the chance to vote. [ applause ] joining me now, reverend otis moss jr. And derek johnson, president and ceo of the naacp. So glad to have both of you on. Reverend, you first. Thank you for being here and thank you to your father because his story speaks to what so many people of color and women and other disenfranchised people went through to vote. And thank you, don. And thank you for the work you do. Mmhmm. Shes telling that story, reverend, and i think about when i was born, i am the first person who is i guess with full rights to vote born in that time because everyone born in my people my sisters were born before the Voting Rights act. I was born after. And the Civil Rights Act of 1968. And here i am. I mean it has not been that long ago. And i think about my mom, who tells me the story of my grandmother, who used to have to count the jelly beans, the things in the jar. But those stories are real, and, you know, you were 11 years old when your dad walked those 18 miles. Do you remember anything about that day . What do you remember . That is correct. I remember it well. I remember that Early Morning when he got up with enthusiasm and determination to go and vote, really to vote against a racist governor of georgia who used the nword as though it was an obligation in his vocabulary. And we sat at home waiting enthusiastically with great anticipation for our fathers return because we knew what his determination was and what our aspirations were. And when he returned home and gave us the report, there was a sadness, a kind of heartbreak that one carries to some extent for the rest of your days because by the time of the next election, our father was dead, having been killed in an Automobile Accident not too far from where we lived. And of course our grandfather was born enslaved. So he was born when it was illegal for a black person to vote, and my father lived through that era when the enforcement of Voter Suppression by klan and by other kinds of serious and evil means, and to come through that period and then participate in the Civil Rights Movement and the Voting Rights effort and to share with dr. King in the march from selma to montgomery, and to witness what has taken place is quite a moment. And today it is to me a sin not to vote if you are eligible to vote. You are absolutely right. Can we put the picture up . This is your father back during around that time that we have a picture of him. That is thats actually some years earlier. Hes quite a young man, yes. But its very much his likeness. He was quiwhy a quiet, determin all of his life. And very dignified. He looks very zignified in that photograph, which oprah spoke of his dignity and his tenacity to try to make a difference not only for his family but for the country. I want to bring derek in here. You know, this is a decades old story, derek, of Voter Suppression. Yet today were still hearing examples of this happening all over the country. What is going on . Why is that . Well, that story there, thats a story of the south. Thats a story of an africanamericans journey to fully participate in this democracy. As a result of that story, and so many others, we had a Voting Rights act. But unfortunately the Supreme Court gutted section 5 of the Voting Rights act, and that has results in the naacp and many other organizations having to File Lawsuits in georgia to ensure that 53,000 Voter Registration applications are process processed. Today we had a court ruling in North Carolina where they gerrymandered districts for racial reasons. Last week we filed a lawsuit successfully in tennessee because they didnt want to process Voter Registration applications. And this week we had to file challenges in four counties in georgia and reviewing a potential challenge in texas because individuals are going to the polling place, casting their ballots, but the ballot is not reflecting the actual vote they cast. And so the story were hearing there, touching story, is the true journey of africanamericans to make democracy work for everyone. Derrick, i need to ask you by Michael Cohens you know, the president s former lawyer and fixer, his account of some of racist conversations alleged, racist conversations he said he had with President Trump. In particular he says the president says black people are too stupid to vote for me. Thats a quote. Do you believe President Trump would say such a thing . Absolutely. Hes demonstrated at every turn, both in word and action, that he is in fact a racist. The comments about african nations being shole countries, his creating false equivalencies during the charlotteville, virginia, march. I believe that this president lacked the ability to asee anything outside of his own image and to respect people for their human self. Yeah. Reverend, in the short time we have left, and i apologize for that, you have any final thoughts for us, please . Well, actually, when we look at what happened to my father not just in the south but throughout the nation and the majority congress, the senate and the congresses are actually bowing to that supporting it it, making it possible. So its not just a regional issue. Its a national issue. It starts at the local level but it is approved at the national level. And we must teach and insift from the generation to generation that everyone should become a part of the voting process and if there is any kind of impediment there should be protests and action. As i said earlier, to refuse to vote when you can is a sin. But to be prevented from voting is a crime. And a sin. And we have hate, crime, and sin uniting in this election. 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Thank you very much for joining us. I appreciate it. Its been a week since the massacre in pittsburgh. You havent heard anything from the president or Jared Kushner or ivanka kushner. Tell us about the relationship. We are disappointed pl ias, would in partnership with the United States government and specifically with the state department to resettle refugees to this country and we invest received a lot of words of support from many elected officials, but many and many others but not a word from the white house nor has any political appointee at the state department contacted us and certainly jared and ivanka have not either. Even though hias, Jared Kushner frankly wouldnt be here were it not for hias. We rescued his grandparents and brought them to this country. Mark, hias became the focus really of Robert Bowers rage because you help immigrants from all over the world. He wrote on social media that hias likes to bring invaders in and kill our people. Where do you think that kind of hate comes from . Well, you know, i think it comes from fear originally. And the problem is that if you dont deal with fear, fear deteriorates into hate speech. And then hate speech deteriorates into hateful acts. What we have now in this country, instead of having leaders that address fears and tell us that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, to tell thaws our fears are not rational, instead they stoke them. And they lie and they mischaracterize anvilly phi refugees, people hole are fleeing terror and say theyre bringing terror but theyre not. Mark, can i ask you something, of forgive me if you think its inappropriate. I mean it for with all the best intentions. What has this done to jews, especially in america . Has it in an odd way is there more solidarity or is the it just a sense of overwhelming grief and loss. Like, what is talk to me about that. You know, thats one of the few good things that have come out of this horrible terrorist act. And that is that we have got be so much support from jews and from others. And frankly, we were getting a lot of support from jews before that. Because you know, there was one thinging this terrorist was right about is that American Jews were welcoming refugees. We had celebrated the first ever refugee shabbat. And this was to show solidarity and love for refugees because American Jews realize that there would not be an American Jewish community but for those times when america opened its doors to refugees, including to Jared Kushners grandparents. Mark hetfield, thank you so much. Thank you, don. Thanks for watching. Cnns special report democracy in peril it, the war on Voting Rights begins in just a few minutes. Looking good at booking. Com, we cant guarantee youll good at that water jet thingy. But we can guarantee the best price on this hotel. Or any accommodation, from homes to yurts. Booking. Com booking. Yeah