>> this is a little more than an insult, though. >> for someone to question your legitimacy, the same thing happened to obama, the same thing happened to george bush. you stand above you and you say, look, come work with me and i am above this criticism. the second issue is this, for him to attract the district -- the fifth district includes the cnn headquarters in atlanta. >> and coca-cola. >> for him to attract an entire district of the united states and say it's crime ridden and crumbling apart especially as that can be perceived as a racial liesed insult as a black district. >> did you read it that way? >> not only did i read it that way, local democrats read it that way, the vice president at the national civil rights museum read it that way. it's insulting, unnecessary. the president needs to be above this kind of criticism because this isn't the first or last person that is going to insult him while he is in office. >> questioning the legitimacy of the president that can go beyond criticism in some cases if you ask the question i was asking before how does this help