The record whether they condemn the president s remarks or not, and only four of those republicans did condemn them. They were will hurd of texas, susan brooks of indiana and Brian Fitzpatrick of pennsylvania. House minority leader whip Stephen Scalise of louisiana and democratic congressman john lewis each made closing arguments for each side before the vote. Lets watch. Rather than engaging in this constant barrage of personality attack that weve seen week after week after week, the American People expect us to be spending our time up here fighting for the issues they care about, and these are easy issues for us to solve if we come together and spend realtime in good faith working on them. Rather than this foolishness. I rise with a sense of righteous indignation to support this resolution. I know racism when i see it. I know racism when i feel it. And at the highest level of government, there is no room for racism. Well, the rebuke to the president comes after he tripled down on his racist attacks again today, saying that those four women of congress hate their country. The democratic congresswomen should leave if theyre not happy. Where should they go . Its up to them. Go wherever they want, wherever they can stay. But they should love our country. They shouldnt hate our country. And the way theyre treating israel is a disgrace. But not only israel, its what they say about our country. Its my opinion they hate our country, and thats not good. Its not acceptable. Well, trump also insists on twitter that those tweets were not racist. I dont have a racist bone in my body. The socalled vote is to be taken is a democrat con game. Republicans should not show weakness and fall into their trap. Thats all trump talking there. House minority leader Kevin Mccarthy was quick to endorse trumps behavior this morning. Were the president s tweets that said go back racist . Yes, or no. No. I believe this is about ideology. This is about socialism versus freedom. Likewise, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell defended the president and said both sides are to blame. I think everybody ought to tone down their rhetoric. We have examples of that across the ideological spectrum in the country, all across it, everyone ought to tone down their rhetoric and we ought to move back to talking about the issues. But youve stopped short of calling his comments racist . Well, the president is not a racist. The president is not a racist. And i think the tone of all of this is not good for the country. Im joined now by two democratic congressmen, David Cicilline of rhode island. Congressman cicilline, you start. Jack kennedy when he was president said sometimes Party Loyalty asks too much. I dont understand these republicans. There is a chance they say i like his tax cuts. I like husband deregulation. I dont like his personal behavior. This was about his personal behavior, and they voted with him like lemmings. Your thoughts . Yeah, its very disappointing. This is really a sad vote in many ways. We only had four republicans who were willing to show the courage of their convictions to speak up and condemn this racist language in strong terms. The president evidenced he doesnt understand what is really great about this country and that is our diversity, the fact that america is a welcoming place for people from all over the world. The idea saying go back to your country is one of the oldest, racist trope theres. It should have been condemned by every american. Its unamerican. It was disgusting. The president owes them an apology. Owes the American People an apology. Congressman liu, you said something very powerful on this. I wish you would say it again. Thank you, chris, for your questions. So like many people in america, im an immigrant. I also served on active duty in the United States military because i love america, and yet people have told me to go back to china or japan or north korea, and its very hurtful when that happens. Like many immigrants, when we get that go back insult, we feel that we dont belong here in america. And make no mistake, the go back insult is flatout racist because its based on race. If i was white, people wouldnt tell me to go back to china. They tell me because i happen to be of asian race. But whats good is americans now realize that immigration is a good thing. We have high support for immigration. In fact, record highs according to a new poll, and David Cicilline and i are still going to be standing here after the occupant of the white house departs. Yeah, i think thats true, mr. Cicilline. Nobody would tell some west virginian from scotch irish background to go back to scotland or northern ireland. Nobody would think of that because theyre white. Thats right. Its so obvious. Its so obvious, and whats so disappointing is you look at the president s language. You look at his policies. This is clearly racism, and that was an opportunity for everyone to stand up and say enough is enough. We need to move forward on a whole range of important policy issues. Weve passed 230 pieces of legislation that are sitting on Mitch Mcconnells desk. We have lots of work to do for the American People. But it would have been very helpful today if everyone in the Congress Said this is not america, this is not acceptable and condemned and voted to condemn the president for what he did. And it was very disappointing that we only had four republicans that were willing to add their voices to this. This is doesnt reflect who we are as a country. We cannot let the president say these things and change the character of america. And it was disappointing today that we werent joined by our republican colleagues. It was an important thing to do. The country and the president needs to see us standing up and saying this is not acceptable. This is unamerican. This is not who we are. No one should be speaking this way, particularly the president of the United States. Urging a unanimous vote today early today, Speaker Pelosi condemned the president s words as racist, a move that prompted republicans to ask the parliamentarian to strike her words from the record under the rule that prohibits personal attacks on the house floor. Here it is. These comments from the white house are disgraceful and disgusting and these comments are racist. Every Single Member of this institution, democratic and republican should join us in condemning the president s racist tweets. To do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values and a shameful abdication of our oaths of office to protect the American People. I urge an unanimous vote. Thank you. And yield back. I was going to give the gentle speaker of the house if she would like to rephrase that comment. I have cleared my remarks with the parliamentarian before i read them. Can i ask that her words be taken down . I make a point the gentlewomans words are unparliamentarian. The parliamentary later ruled that pelosis language us indeed out of order. However, to strike the words from the word was overruled by a near unanimous democratic vote. Let me ask you, congressman lieu, what do you think of that . One of our producers is pretty sharp and said the wedge was pretty personal about the president. What was wrong with her saying that in her argument for it . There is nothing wrong with what Speaker Pelosi said because it was the truth. There is an antiquated rule in the house of representatives that basically says during debate, you cannot say the president s racist or that his remarks are racist, even if it is. And what the house of representatives did today is we in effect reversed precedent because we want to make sure we say factory true things on the house floor. I want to note that the president is engaging in a new line of attack now. He is attack Legal Immigration and u. S. Citizenship. And the problem for him is that Many Americans are immigrants or have family members who are immigrants. This is backfiring on him in a big way, and he is going to see that most of america does not support what he says. And chris, the real irony of it the real irony of it is the republicans didnt have the courage to stand up and call it out and say its racist and condemn him. Then they try to prevent those of white house have the courage to stand up and tell the truth to prevent us from doing that. Bad enough you dont have the courage, but youre a coward who wont stand up for american principles of equality and diversity and all the things that have made this country strong, but then you want to take down the words of the speaker because she spoke the truth . Its a shameful day. Yeah that. Should stay away i from the lincoln memorial. Thank you so much, u. S. Congressman David Cicilline and congressman ted lieu, thank you, sir. Coming up, michelle goldberg, michael single is republican political consultant, Michael Eric Dyson a professor at georgetown. The Republican Party, i was saying this to michael before, you may have been hiding for two years now saying you know, i dont really like the way this guy tweets or talks. I dont really like his character even, but i like his tax cuts and i like his deregulation and his rahrah. Here is a clear surgical vote today to say all that, we dont like his behavior, his character. This was about the character, about the language the president s used, and they walked away from it, except for four members, they all went down the line like lemmings. Thats right. First of all, im not sure how many of the republicans who do say that they really condemn trumps behavior actually have a history of being antiracist, or having any real problem with racism. But more than that, they know their constituents, particularly in the more red districts, its precisely the racism that makes them so enthusiastic about trump. I think one of the things weve discovered in these last three years is a lot of the base of the Republican Party was never that excited about republican economic policies. It was not excited about the tax cuts. Its never been excited about laissez faire economics or libertarian approach to regulation. What thrills them is the White Nationalism. And so it is very different. I think for most members of the Republican Party to distance themselves from White Nationalism without bringing on the rage and a possible primary challenge from their base, right . I think trump has an accurate assessment of what it is that moves the people who vote for him. Professor dyson, it looks to me like that vote today was a codification of the charge that maga is really White Nationalism. No doubt. I think ms. Goldberg has brilliantly articulated that. It is the principle premise and predicate of this mans engagement politically, and its appeal to people beyond the intelligence of the actor, the citizen, the person he confronts. He appeals directly to an emotional resonance and response. He is a genius at that. A demented genius, but a genius nonetheless. He understands the manipulation. He understands how to characterize things and encapsulate them in bitesized digestible form, and he does it both politically. He does it economically and socially and does it in terms of the politics of representation. He knew exactly what he was doing, and he knows by standing up for this principle, he will organize the logic of White Supremacy across the country. Whats interesting is George Corley wallace, the governor of alabama was always careful when he went to the national audience. He would say pointyheaded liberals. He would say the bureaucrat with his attache case with his Peanut Butter sandwiches in there it was a which to diminish federal government power. But he never made the Racial Climate this guy is doing it. Its like bringing swurg a switch blade. Thats what we see going on here. He doesnt have the skill of a george wallace. He doesnt even have the acumen of a george wallace. He doesnt even understand the psychology. What he does understand is the raw emotional appeal of racist ideology. He knows better than anybody else thats what undergirds so much of white response across is there any evil genius at work there, attacking those four Women Elevated them front page in color on the wall street journal today, right at the top. It looked like a scene out of the bible. These were fabulous face, fabulous picture showcased. He did that. Donald trump did that. He took them from a level of being mavericks to being the heroes of the nation to many people. Why did he do it . Is he stupid . Or is he secretly trying to make them the Democratic Party . I dont know. Politically he did it because if you look at swing states, aoc, representative ilhan are not very popular. Democrats in some cases have raised that. So if the argument is a philosophical difference of socialism that is which also does not resonate very well in swing states, then lets have that argument. We have the apparatus. He did not do that. He made it personal based off of race. What really sorts of disappoints me as a republican, as a conservative more than anything, im a conservative who happens to belong to the Republican Party is that donald trump does not even respect the most basic norms, the most basic norms that i think even conservatives and liberals alike have agreed. These are the most basic forms of social knowledge. We all expect people to governor themselves accordingly, particularly leaders, particularly the president. And what donald trump has realized is that it is this group of nationalists. These folks are always part of the Republican Party, doc, but they were really looking for someone to mobilize them and energize them. Donald trump did that better than mitt romney could have. He did it better than john mccain could have. I know. Scary. And the result, chris is you see a rampant form of racism whereas the norm. Here is the scary thing. Michelle goldberg, i thought when w. Was president , it wasnt like a great leader was president who had a great oratorical ability or connects with the people. He had a very limited connection. He was a high back on the slap i married up and all that bs stuff. But he took us into a war that cost the lyes of 100,000 people. Now this president has done something different. He has taken the Republican Party hostage. They are basically all p. O. W. S. They do anything he wants. They say anything he wants, and he has no connection historically to the party. And they have stockholm syndrome. And how did he do this, michelle . How did he make republicans like kevin mr. Contact thimccarthy i stupid guy. I think taking them hostage implies they are unwilling participants in this. I think what donald trump has going for him is he has this kind of limbic connection to the passions and the id if you will of the republican base. And what the Republican Party has learned over the last few years is that a lot of their voters were never in it for the conservative ideology. They were in it for the reaction and for the racism. And so when you see Kevin Mccarthy and all of these other republicans kind of go along with donald trump, its because theyve made their choice. They can either stand up to these extraordinarily dark and Destructive Forces or they can risk their political career. And theyre not willing to do the latter. I think youre right. I think he has a closer connection to the Republican Voters hand the republicans. Whats limbic, mean . I need little help here. Its like the front brain that controls the frontal cortex and brain. I was thinking that. You were educating me the very first stroke there. Well be right back. The same guest are sticking with us. I think this is an historic day, bad day, bad day for the republicans. Theyre not going to be able to live this past with the suburban voters who dont want to be thinking of themselves, whatever they are, they dont want to think of themselves as racist, and trumps blatant hypocrisy about criticizing america, because here he goes. You look at what theyve said, i have clips right here. The most vile, horrible statements about our country. Well, trump says america, love it or leave it. In that case, trump the candidate would have to be asked to leave by trump the president. Well show you some of his very, very bad things he said about our country when he was running, when he was the outsider. And newspapers all across the country in red states and blue are taking a strong stand against trumps divisive language. By the way, nbc, the houston kron cam calling his words the ratest rantings of a bigot. Will it actually cost him any votes next year . The good news, brandnew poms show democrats numbers are on the rise. 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