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Nation. this is what the underbelly of all this is about. it's a fear of immigrants, a fear of people of color, a fear of women, a fear of what has never been and people that have voices now, so this callousness and this coldness that you see is also deeply rooted in who we are as a nation going back to 1619 when we brought slaves here for the first time in august of 1619, 20 african slaves in chains and then the process of separating slave women from their children and ripping families apart is really a part of our history, and we have to deal with that to come forward to understand the callo...

Cnn did some research and found that pruitt's landlords, they also were political donors. rene marsh, cnn, washington. all right, rene, thank you. joining me now to discuss this, amy kramer, the co-chair of women vote trump. and josh waring, former spokesperson for hillary clinton. you saw the comment on the epa administrator pruitt. is this overblown or is this something he should be held to account for? step down from his post as a result of this? >> i think he should be held accountable. i think everyone in washington should. it's been turned over to the ig at the epa and the ig i'm sure ...

One thing we've seen over the past year, you're correct, there have been democratic scandals and republican scandals. for the most part, democrats have stood up and held themselves accountable. called for resignations. called for their members to be investigated. republicans haven't always done that. donald trump has scandal after scandal the republicans refuse to call out. this has to go both ways. both parties need to take their own actions into account. >> all right, we're going to wrap it there. josh, amy kramer, thank you for joining me. the u.n. now calling for an independent inquiry i...

Amy and i have debated. i am a big supporter of daca. i think these d.r.e.a.m.ers should not be penalized because of these very tough decisions that their parents made to come to this country for prosperity. what we've seen from donald trump, every time he tries to act presidential, every time he actually tries to govern, he goes and he says something like this vulgar comment or he tweets something that totally distracts the american people from being able to instill confidence in our congress to work in a bipartisan way to move forward these agendas. so let's not blame this on the democrats. ...

Because this president has a long history of making racist, bigoted comments about people even before he decided to run for president and even when he was a business owner in new york city. so this is dividing our country. this is on the heels of him doing something great for dr. martin luther king jr., but to make that comment in the white house and to be as nonpresidential as he was, it's just deplorable and i think he should apologize not only to the people who he was talking about but also for the american people at a time when we're trying to make sure that we unite this country and have ...