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Than falsely complaining about the election results. all talk, talk, talk, no action or results. sad. >> personal insults against john lewis are not going to hurt john lewis' reputation or standing and the work he's done for many, many year, and by the way, maybe the president should visit atlanta, georgia a thriving new city which just elected a woman mayor a few days ago and not a city "that's falling apart." i would like president trump to sit down with distinguished scholars like skip gates and michael eric dyson, sylvia silas and sincerely educate himself on the contributions that african...

That you can or cannot do this during work hours. no one is trying to take away these players' rights to do this. i think the nfl, it's an embarrassment that they are supporting disrespecting this country all races who protect and defend this country and every race in this country has had someone die for this country sesk in o serving in our military and it's sad. >> mark? >> this is not a question of first amendment. i'm a little surprised that ben has this position around donald trump weighing in on twitter. when president obama weighed in on the skip gates controversy when a harvard profess...

Say the crust of you acting surprised you had slaves. >> i have never heard of my great -- my great, great, great, great grandfather on m >> what have his last name? >> burwell boykin. i have never heard of him before. >> you have no idea? >> the cooper. >> the vanderbilt. >> it was my dad's side from mississippi. they fought for the # confederacy and thought they would have owned slaves if they could have. they were sharecroppers. >> never heard that until that moment? >> i had not. >> do you currently have any slaves? >> no. i honestly not heard that. that's a great show on public television...

Second term. first term barack obama we dealt with issues of race but not in the way he did the second term. first term he talked about issues -- well, he was asked by lynn sweet about the issue with skip gates and the police officer in boston and that was a knee-jerk reaction that caused a whole crescendo of police issues for this president and he had to have the beer summit. then later on in the first term we had the trayvon martin issue where he said "that could be me." so we saw issues and in the second term he became a person we saw as, wow, he's engaged in the community more, talking abo...

300 extra people who are out of work. then watching donald trump, watching erin burnett last night and hearing what this local union official had to say, then has to tweet about it. so again, drawing attention where he doesn't need to draw attention to himself. he should take the win and try to move on. but i suspect that's not going to happen for the next four years. >> eliana, last word? >> for trump, using the power of the bully pulpit now that he's president to personally attack individual american citizens, you saw him do it during the campaign toward republican fund-raisers who were spen...