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Affectionately of course as pocahontas. pocahontas. pocahontas. how about that? i said it the other day, yes, she is a low i.q. individual, maxine waters. i said it the other day. i mean, honestly, she's somewhere in the mid-60s. i believe that. >> during a meeting in the oval office this afternoon president trump referred to haiti and other countries as, quote, s-hole countries, and told lawmakers more people from places like norway should be invited in. >> we're stopping a lot of them, but we're taking people out of the country. you wouldn't believe how bad these people are. these aren't peo...

Your view? >> yes, i'm not sure. what i know is that he came out and he said what he said about our great basketball player, lebron james. we know -- we heard on the tease what he said about maxine waters, congressman waters. so it's certainly within the realm of possibility. >> you mentioned that. let me just share some of this with people. if people are not familiar. the president does have a history of accusing some of his african-american critics of lacking intelligence. you mentioned lebron james. that was mentioned in the context of my colleague don lemon here at cnn. the president tweet...

Now in america more importantly where this whole race thing has taken over, and one because i believe our president is kind of trying to divide us. but for him to like i said use sports to kind of divide us is something that i can't -- i can't sit back and not say nothing. >> what would you say to the president if he were sitting right here? >> i would never sit across from him. >> you would never? you wouldn't want to talk to him? >> no. i would sit across from barack, though. >> he made lebron look smart,

And so the president is not sitting here going on the attack. he is responding to. that's a distinction. >> that's the response of a 12-year-old. a 12-year-old can't stop themselves if somebody says something, they say something equally mean or worse, or a 5-year-old. this is the president of the united states. i mean, he watched an interview in which lebron james is talking about, you know, this extraordinary thing that he's doing, and speaking about it in a really beautiful way about getting kids the power of a bicycle and a helmet for a kid that when he was a kid and going out and being abl...

Because he tweeted, and i quote, lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon. he made lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do. i like mike. that was a reference to michael jordan, who said through his spokesman afterwards that he supported lebron james and the amazing job he is doing for his community. joining me are professor cornel west of harvard and princeton and cnn political commentator paris denard, former black outreach for president george w. bush. professor, i'm wondering what you make of this which is just the latest example of the president cri...