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Of thousands of our fellow citizens and maybe even is responsible for the deaths of thousands of our fellow citizens. that is deadly serious. >> by pushing these, he's stoking resentment of democrats or of the media or researchers, scientists. what was your reaction to this ongoing messaging that he's coming out with about puerto rico? >> well, to me it's nothing new because floating these conspiracy theories is really a way for him to deflect responsibility. and if you look at some of the defining narratives of his presidency, which is why i think brendan is right to call him a conspiracy the...

No one is doing that. that's one of the elements of whipping up the hysteria kbens the media. >> he's stoking resentment, very specifically. i was actually going to say with that lead, quote from mccain, first thing dictators do is stop the free press. the first thing they do is delegitimize it. the first thing they do is exactly what he's doing now, turn people against it, make them doubt it. again, what's actually really frustrating, it's not in the service of even telling some greater truth, it's just to get people confused and have them doubt everything. a colleague of mine said, you know,...

Course, with misstating the case. lying that the news media is trying to tell us what to do. >> right. >> nobody -- you're not going to tell me what to do. he gets that reflex right away fw t tell us how to live. they're not telling how to live. no one is doing that. that's one of the elements of whipping up the hysteria kbens the media. >> he's stoking resentment, very specifically. i was actually going to say with that lead, quote from mccain, first thing dictators do is stop the free press. the first thing they do is delegitimize it. the first thing they do is exactly what he's doing now, t...

Were to read his mind, hey, look, they don't like me because i'm black. >> no, look. black people and white people have two different histories, okay? the twin devils of slavery and segregation does something to the psyche. we have two different perceptions of things because of our two different histories. but, let's not pretend that these guys aren't doing when they are doing for cheap political reasons. they have to rev up their base. they know that republicans don't need anybody to get them out to vote. republicans are going to be out there. if barack obama can't get democrats out to vote, ...