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If they continue at the trend they are working at. they are saying to black voters we don't care about you, we don't want to talk to you, we don't care about it and we double down on this rhetoric. >> eric: we are up against the clock, what do you think? >> the president said it best from the podium last night, i was told not to say this, i was told not to say that, and he said it. if you would just take the advice he was given and don't appeal to the base. the bases with you know matter what, you have to appeal beyond your base. >> eric: brad and richard, thank you. we will see if that contin...

Lee. some were taken better at general robert e lee. this is robert lee, the asian-american sports reporter. the network is standing by his decision in a statement that says "we collectively made the decision with robert to switch games as the tragic events in charlottesville were unfolding. was what simple because of the coincidence of his name. in that moment, it felt right to all parties. it's a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who called play-by-play for a football game has become an issue." for more on this, joined by former dnc staffer and mollie hemingw...

That produced the so-called dirty dossier was question for hours in a closed doors reading with congressional investigators. there he is on the right. his name is glenn simpson, and mr. simpson's lawyer is claiming "the investigation into mr. simpson began as a desperate attempt by the trump campaign and its allies to smear fusion gps because of its reported connection to the trump dossier." what did they say? chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has more on the testimony live from washington. >> the statement from simpson's lawyer did not address the key question raised by fox ...

Situation. it is sort of the logical dead end of the cultural revolution that we are in right now that begins with toppling statues, goes after markers, and now apparently short of staring at similarity with a name is enough to get you pulled from a broadcast. >> shannon: i don't know your reaction. it felt very the onion to be when i read it. i thought i was getting pumped like we are getting let along here until i saw the official statement from espn. do you think that anyone watching or listening to this uva game, cannot wait for college football, would've said that announcers name is rober...

That's to me what it sounds like and now everybody is circling the wagons. >> shannon: that's quite a nancy drew theory. >> you know how it is in broadcast. >> shannon: i know what it's like to be made a meme of io. >> espn came out with a statement saying they were the ones that approached robert lee and asked him to pull himself from the broadcast, and they said he eventually agreed to it, which means they put pressure on him. but so ridiculous about it is robert lee is such a common name. i have encountered probably hundreds of robert lee's, and no one associates robert lee with robert e le...