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And fight against that and fight for right to vote and on and on. some of us doing with different tactics and ways but standing up for the self-affirmation of who we are as human beings equal that god made and created us from the beginning. and no temporary friend or foe should get in the way of that historic thread. and all races, white, black, latino, asian, everybody, lgbtq, women, everybody ought to be part of that flow because the fight for anybody is the fight for everybody. and joining in our fight is joining in your fight. that's why this is more important than who you get along with o...

Pennsylvania. so for this president-elect, it's telling folks this is what we're going to do when i get to washington. kate? >> chris jansing down in baton rouge. chris, thanks so much for staying with us as donald trump continues to speak to the audience there. let me turn to jeremy peters with "the new york times" and an msnbc contributor. jeremy, you have been listening to all of this too. one of the other lines that struck me is i believe in peace through strength, which i believe is a reagan line originally. talking about the way he views the world. what do you make of what you've heard? ...

That democrats have to be unafraid to be democrats. stand up, tell the truth from their perspective. narrate the story from your outlook and be unafraid to tell the american people that this is not only what's good for our party, it is what is good for the american populous. so unless we stand up and have confidence, self affirmation, we won't be able to confirm or affirm to a populous that is teetering on the brink of destruction because they are caught between two warring parties, that their best interests are at stake here. finally, i think what we've got to do is to be able to clearly tell...

C-span. he didn't have to go down there. >> it was a minstrel show. let's define it for the audience, is that inherently racist a minstrel show. >> i think in today's conversation, today's vernacular it certainly has racist implications. he drew that conclusion because there was a black tea party member, i think it was alonzo who was on the stage and an asian and latino had come up. he said it was pathetic to see these people obviousfully a quest for self-affirmation by being at this tea party it was obviously the typical inside "new york times." i wish he would have talked to some the people ...

C-span. he didn't have to go down there. >> it was a minstrel show. let's define it for the audience, is that inherently racist a minstrel show. >> i think in today's conversation, today's vernacular it certainly has racist implications. he drew that conclusion because there was a black tea party member, i think it was alonzo who was on the stage and an asian and latino had come up. he said it was pathetic to see these people obviousfully a quest for self-affirmation by being at this tea party it was obviously the typical inside "new york times." i wish he would have talked to some the people ...