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Of next year. so joining me now to disuss all this is democratic strategist and cnn political commentator dave jacobson, and the former lieutenant governor of south carolina, and cnn political commentator andre bauer. andre, let's start with you. and the departure of zinke that was announced today. he is the latest to resign amid ethics concerns. we have also seen the same with hhs secretary tom price and scott pruitt at the epa. so what does this say about the people who president trump chose to fill his cabinet? >> well, you know, some of them i was very strong on. some of them not so much. ...

I think some people are now trying to turn that. jake, the president, for five decades, worked in one of the most diverse cities in the world. he worked with blacks and whites and people of all races and colors with unions and elected leaders from across the board and nobody ever said this about him. he got things done. >> well, andre, he was sued by the nixon administration. >> you couldn't get these things done if you were that racist. >> he was sued for discrimination in housing by the nixon administration. >> again, he was one of the most successful developers that new york city's ever had...

Policies and how he's run his campaign. he started his campaign disparaging mexican immigrants as possibly rapists, refooused to condemn white nationalists and white supremacists. he resurfaced the term america first as a campaign slogan. so he was, in some ways, owning the term that really does encapsulate who he is both in the ways he plays footsie with these dark, racist forces in our society but also in terms of how he campaigns and mobile isles -- mobi mobilizes his base, us versus them. so it is fitting that he acknowledged what he is. >> andre, president trump says this is just about tr...

But the reality is that coalition, that support is the politics of white grievance and the president, time and time again, plays it up. he's not just talking about immigration and jobs. he's using specific language about who these people are and why they might be coming, stealing our country away and what we know is that our history has a long and pretty ugly moments where immigrants of all sorts have been described this way and the president, time and time again, uses very similar language to that. >> andre, obviously, the president is trying to get republican voters to the polls, the electio...

Integration. that's what this was really about, and so stacey abrams stood by her participation in that protest earlier in the debate tonight, and i do believe that is, in fact, why. >> that's right, democratic governor marvin griffin who had campaigned as the white man's candidate with a promise to prevent the state schools from being integrated, quote, come hell or high water is chiefly responsible for the flag having the confederate symbol on it, and there is that context, which is very important. you can see the flag that was burned there on the left and the current flag on the right. andr...