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States citizens. we're americans. you are? you know there is this constant history here in the united states that has constantly treated puerto ricans as less than, subpar, second class citizens. and i felt that the president's delayed response just personified that. >> john heilemann positted this to show yesterday that it was possible the president may not have even known that puerto ricans were americans. >> i -- that's completely believable. there is a lot of people that did not know that puerto ricans were americans. are americans, excuse me. and so it's completely believable from this pr...

Nobody that i'm aware of, but the idea then saying this is a larger problem that -- i just would say we have problems of racism in this country. but that's not -- tying that to white supremacists is -- >> 250 years -- worth of slavery, almost 100 years jim crow. the fact the systems still treat black folks in particular as second class citizens, and part of what the senator doesn't want to face is also part of the problem. no one has said that all white people are racists. but we do in this country have a racist institutions. there were white folks out there marching against the neo-nazi and t...

Cities and we're fighting over monuments. get them out of the way to focus on the problems. >> trish: a lot of americans are going to say no, this is part of my heritage, it's part of my history. my family members fought in that war. i don't think we should erase it from being. what do you say to them? >> listen, i'm a student of history. i love american history. even the good, the bad and the ugly. i don't think we ought to sanitize it. that's a totalitarian and authoritarian move. i think that we ought to get this out of the public domain, public spaces, ought to be for all of us and if ther...

Green cards when in fact we need both. we need low skilled immigration. we need low skilled immigration. this concept that all of those low skilled jobs would be filled by americans does not bear out. >> i think what we can do is have temporary visas for agricultural workers. we can bring people in for five or ten years at a time and we must i want pledge the -- implement the dream act. that's a human rights issue to have hundreds of thousands born in america or brought to america when they were young living here, second class citizens, is not acceptable. but maybe now we can bring that up as ...

>> martha: the potentially landmark case at the supreme court right now bringing the issue of religious freedom front and center. speculation abounds as to how the justices may fall on this. the newest high court justice neil gore such hearing is most important cates, case when he took a seat on the court. trinity lutheran church in missouri, which was denied state funds to improve the surface of its playgrounds because of its religious affiliations. turnout is the lawyer who argued that in front of the supreme court. on behalf of the church, david portman of the alliance defendant freedom. gi...