corporations have a right to say we don't want to stand next to this person. >> this has gone directly. ben ferguson, respond directly to what he said about african americans. surely, you must find that offensive. >> i don't think that's the reality most were around. i can't call him a liar if he never heard someone that didn't say it. let's be honest, this guy lives in the back woods and may believe this. >> i have no doubt. >> that doesn't mean he's going to lie to the american people -- >> preentitlement, pre -- let's read that again to you, ben. wait a minute, preentitlement, prewelfare, you say were they happy? they were happy. no one was singing the blues, but once black people got entitlement and welfare, wow, they got miserable. come on. this is unbelievable. >> piers, the outrageous thing here -- >> the best part of that quote