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Civilization versus eastern anymore. we are a country for everyone, a country where people are respected for who they are and where everyone has an opportunity and that's what the republican party needs to stand for. >> richard, do you think it is enough for the numerous, if not overwhelmingly majority of republicans right now in elected office who are distancing themselves from the trump administration, is that enough to, as you say, save the republican party from going the way of the wigs? >> they need to distance themselves from the policies of the trump administration. the attack on our af...

Internation internet to arrange marches like this. it's a terrorist movement, a racist movement. it's a serious threat to our democracy, to our national security, and the white house doesn't recognize that and then people who were with the alt-right or inside the white house, we do not trust the justice department. we're going to have to rely on our own state government to protect ourselves, and i can tell you that the alt-right people and the bannonites come to minnesota we're going to have our governor call out the national guard. we're not going to put up with that kind of thing and a lot o...

>> shannon: the white house pushing back strongly against the "the new york times" in a story that the justice department would be going after affirmative action programs as university and the implication was to uncover bias against white students. the doj and white house say the times got it wrong. this is about a group of asia american students in a complaint filed in 2015 under president obama. to talk about it matt schlapp. jessica tarlov and senior director of research and co-author of a new book, you're both very busy. >> i'm exhausted hearing it. >> shannon: thank you for taking time to...

Friends in the press and then get the administration to put the brakes on and say we weren't going to do that. i hope the department of justice doesn't overreact with this story and stop this very reasonable attempt, if they're doing it, to scrutinize affirmative action programs and make sure these programs aren't actually discriminating against americans. >> shannon: something we have from the justice department. the posting sought volunteers to investigate one administrative complaint filed by asian american associations that the prior administration left behind unresolved. the department of...

>> just last year, in june of 2016, the supreme court, for the third time in 40 years, validated the use of race in college admissions. it basically validated the use of affirmative action programs to promote and expand democracy in our institutions of higher learning. it was a 4-3 decision it was written by justice kennedy, a justice on the fence on this issue in the past, but who spoke out quite strongly and clearly in 2016 saying this is precisely what our nation requires for equality and dignity of all residents, and that colleges and universities can craft narrowly tailored plans that sup...