Sayonara. Hardball with Chris Matthews is next. I know you are but what am i . Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im joy reid. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton continued to trade blows today over charges of racism and bigotry a day after clinton accused trump of encouraging and stoking racist voices. Calling in to morning joe today, she said trump is taking hate groups and making them mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party. From the start, he has built
his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. Hes questioned the citizenship of president obama. He has a disturbing pattern of courting white supremacists. Hes been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color. Hes attacked a judge for his mexican heritage. Hes promised mass Deportation Force and what i want to make clear is this. A man with a long history of Racial Discrimination who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and these kind of white supremacist, White Nationalist, antisemitic groups should never run our government our command our military. For his part, donald trump doubled down on calling clinton a bigot. Here he is last night on cnn. She is a bigot. Because you look at whats happening to the inner cities, you look at whats happening to africanamericans and hispanics
in this country, where she talks all the time, shes talking, look at the vets where she said the vets are being treated essentially just fine, that its overexaggerated whats happening to the vets not so long ago. How is she bigoted . Bigoted is having hatred toward a particular group. Because shes selling them down the tubes. Because shes not doing anything for those communities. She talks a good game. Youre saying she has hatred or dislikes the black people . Her policies are bigoted because she knows theyre not going to work. You are saying shes personally bigoted. She is. Of course she is. Theyre her policies. All that and its not even labor day. With 74 days to go before the election, where can things possibly go from here . Jonathan capehart is an opinion writer for the Washington Post. David corn is Washington Bureau chief for mother jones. Robert costa is National Political reporter for the Washington Post and all are msnbc political analysts. Robert, you have now had the direct tying of the altright and right nationalist sort of elements to donald trump by Hillary Clinton and the trump
campaign, are they surprised, nonplussed . What is their reaction to the fact that republicans have not come forward to refute what Hillary Clinton is saying . What we have seen from the Trump Campaign in recent days is an effort to try to improve trumps numbers with minority voters, talk about upcoming outreach to black voters in particular as well as latino voters and those overtures have come in the way trump has been talking about softening possibly his immigration stance. What were seeing is the Trump Campaign with a new Leadership Team trying to adjust to the barrage thats coming from brooklyn and from secretary clinton and its going to continue to come. They know that. Robert, do they, are they reaching out to members of the rnc . You have sean spicer working parttime out of trump tower. Are they expecting elected republicans to come forward and defend him, because so far, chuck todd has called it the sound of silence. Its a fair assessment. Based on my reporting, joy, the rnc is intertwined with theTrump Campaign with sean spicer and Reince Priebus financially, politically, they are all in the same boat. They will ride it until november. When it comes to capitol hill and the vulnerable house members for the gop, the Vulnerable Senate races, they are much more reluctant to come out now with just 75 days before the election and to engage in any kind of defensive effort for donald trump, especially on an issue like race. Yeah. Absolutely. Donald trump calling Hillary Clinton a bigot by the way. Didnt sit well with some of his supporters. Dr. Ben carson told the daily beast today i dont generally get into the name calling thing. I kind of left that behind in the third grade. I certainly dont encourage it because the issues that were facing are incredibly important for us and for the future generations and he threw in, thats what people do when they dont have anything to talk about. Meanwhile, sean spicer, the chief strategist and Communications Director for the rnc, who has indeed been working out of trump tower parttime as part of the coordinated campaign had this to say earlier on msnbc. Do you think Hillary Clintons a bigot . No. I mean, i think some of the policies that shes supported have not helped the africanamerican but i think anybody who knows me, i just dont tend to use certain words but again, im not so i dont thats not something that i might personally say, no. Why go after saying shes a bigot . Many people have said it just doesnt make sense. Well, i think he looks at when she has said about him and hes looked at the policy and hes concluded that this is how hes going to label her. Thats up for him. Hes running for president of the united states. Jonathan capehart, the i know you are but what am i strategy does work in grade school, the im rubber, youre glue, et cetera. But you saw the plain discomfort of sean spicer who is now working with ydonald trump tryig to elect him president. Your opinion that republicans writ large have said absolutely nothing in defense of donald trump as hes being labeled this way by Hillary Clinton . Because its difficult to defend the indefensible. This is a man who has run a campaign for 14 months, from the
moment he got off that down escalator and stepped to the microphones in trump tower in the lobby on june 16, 2015, he said mexicans are rapists and it went further downhill from there, seemingly every week of his campaign for the next 14 months. So if you are a republican and this person is now the nominee of your party, and the democratic nominee lays out a brief against your nominee, and that are based on facts, theres no way, you cant even refute. Why would you put yourself out in front to defend, like i said, to defend the indefensible . Meanwhile, yesterday Hillary Clinton did cite other examples, twisting the knife a little more. Republican leaders in the past who stood up to racist elements in their own party. Lets take a listen. 20 years ago, when bob dole accepted the republican nomination, he pointed to the exits in the Convention Hall and
told any racists in the party to get out. The week after 9 11, george w. Bush went to a mosque and declared for everyone to hear that muslims love america just as much as i do. In 2008, john mccain told his own supporters that they were wrong about the man he was trying to defeat. Senator mccain made sure they knew barack obama, he said, is an american citizen and a decent person. We need that kind of leadership again. So david corn, this definitely feels like triangulation ju jetsu. You have Hillary Clinton saying come to me, republicans, because separating them from donald trump even as they are silently i guess walking away from him. What do you make of it . We reached a pretty absurd situation when donald trump gets out there and says hillary
clintons a bigot, shes a bigot. You know shes a bigot. Shes a bigot. Like youre a bigot, joy, im a bigot, maybe even roberts a bigot. Its just a word he uses. The media has to sort of cover it. Today the candidates traded charges about whos a bigot. When actually, its his record thats been sort of on trial and we keep, i keep reminding people that before he got to the nomination, he was known for being the champion of birtherism which was a racist charge. Its been race all along from him whether its immigration or attacking and trying to delegitimize the first black president. Yet we are still trying to figure out how to deal with a person who is acting like a crazy man. I dont know how else to put it. Because his interview with Anderson Cooper last night, you saw it again and again, anderson said you may not like her policies, but does that make her a bigot . Yes. Shes a bigot. Theres no logic here and
theres no way as jonathan said that republicans can defend it and the question people like sean spicer is okay, youre not going to defend the use of this word and wont use it yourself but why are you still with trump, how can you countenance a nominee like this. And robert, the term bigot, calling Hillary Clinton that, that was not an off the cuff donald trump remark. It was actually written into his prepared remarks. He read it off the teleprompter. So talk a little bit about this. Hillary clinton has made an issue of steve bannon, who is now the ceo of the Trump Campaign, the altright sort of one of the kind of features of it is turning this idea of racism back on people of color, back on liberals, back on democrats, its something even Andrew Breitbart was into. Who is not running this message . Is this donald trump leading a message where he wants to go in on Hillary Clinton and attempt to tie her to racism, or is this that altright faction in his Campaign Leading him around . There are intense discussions around donald trump about how to proceed with his candidacy, with his message. Its not being dominated by a particular person but theres an orbit around him, Rudy Giuliani, steve bannon, new jersey governor christie, Kellyanne Conway, and its about whos with him at trump tower, whos on the phone with him, whos on the plane with him. These people are telling him on some fronts to moderate and soften his pitch. Others like sessions are more reflective of that populist nationalist core of the Trump Campaign. This is something trump navigated like hes in the political dark trying to figure out how to win without losing who he is with this campaign. That actually is kind of alarming because it sounds like trump is sort of being blown by the winds whichever direction they are blowing strongest inside of his inner circle. Is there a coherent core here or is this a campaign thats sort of being led by the loudest voice in the moment . But that gets to the key thing. You used the right word. Core. You dont get blown around, you dont get swayed from one minute to the other if you have a solid core. If you have a foundation that
you believe in. His signature issue has been immigration, build the wall, deport 11 Million People. Today, could someone please explain to me exactly what his immigration plan is because its hardened, its softened, its gone away, its come back, all within the space of four days. So if he cant stick to his core message, if he plays the room and tries to figure out what the room wants to hear in terms of getting applause or getting laughter, well then you are going to go wherever they want to hear so one day we are not going to build the wall, im not going to build a wall, next day its you know what, no ones applauding for me. Lets build the wall, and you get the cheers. To me, it seems like donald trump and his campaign is in a very desperate moment, so desperate that his immigration plan is nonsense and this
outreach to africanamericans and latino voters quite frankly is a fools errand at this point. Robert, you are covering this campaign from the inside. What is the immigration policy . At one point i think he asked the audience to applaud for whether they want him to do deportations or not. Hes actually polling the audience to get his policy. Do you know at this point what the donald trump immigration plan is . What we are watching in realtime and we experience this every day as reporters, is a candidate who hitched himself to this populist right wing element of the Republican Party more than a year ago and has ever since really associated with that wing and embraced that wing. But that wing has never been who trump really is. It hasnt been something hes cultivated throughout his life or during his political career. Its something he found, he embraced and has held on to but now in this final chapter of the campaign, hes going back and rethinking does he really need to embrace this populist right wing part of the party as much as he has. Im going to give the last
word to david corn, because robert is much more polite about calling them populist and right wing. Everyone sort of understands what breitbart and steve bannon are and they are altright. He claims to be altright. Would you agree that donald trump doesnt have a natural affinity with them . Well, i think certainly from the birther days on, which we now have four or five years here, he has had a natural affinity. I think the big issue here is that donald trump i think ultimately doesnt care about anything other than donald trump. After a year of talking about immigration, he doesnt know what his policy is. He doesnt seem to be even interested in figuring out what to do about 11 Million People here. He thought he had an answer. Now he doesnt know. Hes not talked about policy, he says hes going to fix the education system, fix the inner cities. He doesnt really care. Its just about presentation and about donald trump. The one thing he cares about are polls and how well hes doing,
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relationship with the blacks. What the hell do you have to lose . For more, im joined by sean jackson, trump supporter and chairman of the Republican Caucus of florida and hector sanchez, chairman of the National Hispanic leadership agenda. Gentlemen, thank you for being here. Sean, i want to start with you. You are from florida. I lived in florida f