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But you will not inhabit the first part. and i can't believe it. >> chris, you asked -- look, i just told you. i don't think he should have said it. >> but that's not enough. why shouldn't he have said it -- >> do you think what he -- >> that's my point. you actually made my first point for me which is i'm trying to agree with you, and it's not enough. >> you said he shouldn't have said it. that could apply to when he gets a number wrong. but this is racist stuff. >> can i ask a question? >> actually that's my job. but go ahead. >> do you think the tweet was racist, mike? >> yeah, i do. i don'...

President trump had opportunities to fix what he did here. he could have apologized for the racist bile that he tweeted. instead he doubled down. why? he sees advantage. let's get some perspective from ron brownstein, look, and i keep saying this to the mike shieldses of the world, i take no pleasure in calling out what is obvious about this president. but what's just as obvious, ron, is that his party is afraid of it. so help us understand. why would the president say this and say he thinks he sees advantage? >> look, i think this was the most extreme example since charlottesville of his basi...

To start a conversation about whether or not people on the left are at a place where they don't like the country. i think conservatives love america and think it needs to be better and there are some people on the left that think as a sum, america's bad. and they kneel during the national anthem, there was an i.c.e. facility that was attempted to be firebombed. the left isn't speaking out about that today. >> here's the problem, mike -- they put up a mexican flag and it's wrong. but here's the problem. this doesn't work anywhere in humanity. the idea of i'm not going to say that what i did is ...

>> let me give you -- >> i got to go. i don't want to go down any rabbit holes. >> a fourth reason why republicans don't say anything, fear, cowardice, and kissing donald trump's ring because they're afraid of his mean tweets and that he will go after them and knock them out of their political -- >> i don't think the president meant to say what he said today. and i think he fixed it later on today. >> he meant it. of course he meant to say it. he didn't fix it. he doesn't want to fix it because the effect is to get the people who believe it to like him. but, mike, let me tell you this. you adm...

This is a time to be counted not to be quiet. is it really that hard to say saying racist things is wrong? stop, mr. president. doesn't feel that hard. still, too many in the power positions of the gop are quiet or worse, spinning this poison as pablum. that is the start of tonight's great debate with ana and mike. help me, mike, help me understand, a real conservative, how can you cotton to this kind of speech. >> i don't know what you mean by cotton. i don't agree with the way the president said this, or using those types of words. i'll say that from the beginning, but your question is why a...