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Charged. lets's talk about this with nia-malika henderson. nia, let me start with you. trump has been using the term, silent majority in many speeches. let's play that for you and get your response to what the term means. listen to this. >> so, you have a silent majority of this country that feels abused, that feels forgotten, that feels mistreated. it's a term that hasn't been brought up in years. people haven't heard that term in many years. i's sort of interesting as to why. there are all different reasons. i think it's a detriptive term. every time i speak i have people. they want to see w...

Let's get to inside politics on "new day" with john king. hi, john. >> happy friday to you. lots to talk about. we will be back in a few minutes. with me is nia-malika henderson. if you look at the history of richard nixon, the use of silent majority and what he meant. trump is surging in the polls, 28% among the republicans. you can see a path for trump. a path to presidency is iffy. donald trump says there's something brewing in america. >> you have a silent majority in this country that feels abused, forgotten and mistreated. it's a term that hasn't been brought up in years.

That though soledad. wouldn't the protesters people who have been going out of their way on the streets of baltimore in peaceful protest -- >> those would be peaceful protesters. >> object to the words there are protesters throwing the rocks and bottles. >> i think there's violent protesters peaceful protesters drunk protesters angry protesters. when you look specifically about how the word riot is used and thug is used it's always used around people of color specifically in an inner city context. i can't tell you how the black mayor does it or the president of the united states chooses to use...

Do you agree, or do you think there were any errors made? >> well, obviously, there were errors. if you think that the -- the mayor used a descriptive term. it's like somebody blew a whistle and everybody decided to leave at the exact same time and that's exactly what happened. whether or not we blew the whistle earlier, i don't know the answer to that. >> did you make the right call? >> well, i think we did under the circumstances of what we knew at the time. we alerted our state employees so that they could leave earlier, get them off the roadways if they were in a position to be able to lea...

Those were trayvon martin's words. they were disparaging and unkind words, but he used it as a description for george zimmerman. she just repeated what trayvon martin said and since they weren't kind words it made her more credible because she's not trying to sugar coat anything. she's not trying to make him sound better. she's not saying he side a white gentleman was following me. she used his words and made her more credible. >> do you think it made her credible using the word cracker is not a racial team? >> yeah, and that's something i've been thinking about. i grew up in the northeast. it...