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Past by elizabeth warren are offensive, and she claimed cherokee heritage, and there's no rock solid documentation to back that up. is the white house correct in drawing a focus to this? is there anything wrong with what elizabeth warren has said? >> i think at least one-third of the american population self identifies with having a connection to a native person or family. that is nothing new. elizabeth warren might rightly be or might not be, but that's not the point. the point is that we have an american president that is politicizing an honor situation with the code talkers of the navajo na...

Does that still bother indians in america? the idea that the photograph is code talkers standing in front of president andrew jackson? would you prefer not to have and you jackson presiding over this ceremony? >> well, andrew jackson was a part of the policy to terminate native americans. that was one of those things way back that philosophy. so that was the philosophy back then. and since they couldn't really exterminate us from the planet, they started to remove us. and to control us. and later of course that became the relocation program and then in recent time thankfully that we are now at...

Matter chapter planning a black christmas initiative urging people to only buy from black owned businesses throughout the holiday season in an effort to resist president trump. thanks for joining us this morning. rob: "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> lawmakers are back to work after the thanksgiving break. a lot to do before the end of the year. for instance, the tax plan. tremendous tax cut. the biggest in the history of our country. >> who is really running the government agency that regulates the u.s. financial industry. >> you have a president obama holdover going against presi...

Throwing in a racial slur. >> reporter: now the white house press secretary unable to quell this controversy, essentially tried to argue that the term pocahontas is not a racial slur. chris and alisyn? >> joe, thank you for setting that up for us. let's bring back john avlon and david gregory. the andrew jackson portrait, obviously no hero to the native american population and the pocahontas term, is this insensitive, oblivious or deliberate? >> i'm going to go with b, oblivious. >> john's going to jump in. >> the andrew jackson portrait hangs in the oval. this president, under the administrat...

>> let's be charitable and say chris is right, the intention was to be respectful and honor the code talkers and the intention was not to distract from that. this is an administration that really has to worry about dog whistles. this is the thing. they've been caught on this front many different occasions where racial tones are in play. if they didn't want to make these mistakes, they have to think about what may be perceived as a mistake. it's not the first time we've seen this administration sort of liebling, wait, did they mean to indicate that about -- you know, this is a ceremony honoring...