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tlaib. today video resurfaced of meadows making birther comments about obama back in 2012. listen to these. what we re going to do is take back our country. 2012 is the time we re going to send mr. obama home to kenya or wherever it is. d. lemon, thank you for being here. there s another one, too. yes. is that a racist statement? well, if you consider that the whole birther thing was a lie, yes, it s a racist statement. i keep saying as i said last night in my opening, because you say something that s racist or you do something that s racist that may not mean it may not mean the entire part of you is racist, but, yes, this whole conspiracy theory and lie that barack obama was not born in the united states is indeed racist because you re questioning whether he is an american
prop and therefore racist. today video s resurfaced of meadows making birther comments about barack obama back in 2012. listen for yourself to a piece. what we re going to do is take back our country. 2012 is the time that we re going to send mr. obama home to kenya or wherever it is. d. lemon, thank you for being here. there s another one, too, of him saying similar things. yes. is that a racist statement? well, if you consider that the birther whole birther thing was a lie, yes, it is a racist statement. as i said last night in my opening, because you say something that s racist or you do something that s racist, that may not mean it may not mean the entire part of you is racist. but, yes, this whole conspiracy theory and lie that barack obama was not born in the united states is, indeed, racist because you re other-izing him and questioning whether he is an
right. this sexual harassment scandal is about harvey weinstein and who else knew about it. margaret, talk about the politics of this, because he raised a ton of money for big name democrats. he was a bundler for hillary clinton in 2016 in her campaign, over $1.4 million raised for her, a little over $600,000 for president obama in 2012. listen to michele obama when he was at the white house here is what she said in 2013. i want to start by thanking harvey weinstein for organizing this amazing day. [ applause ] harvey. this is possible because of harvey. he is a wonderful human being, a good friend, and just a powerhouse. this is before any of this
planned here, a chemical attack but clearly kourc lly counterpro the larger effort. rick is right. exactly draw the response they don t want. look, i think they had to move quickly on this statement, because as rick can attest, it doesn t take that long to mount up weaponry or a fighter jet. saw indications that was happening quickly. they moved as fast as they could on this. rick francona, a lot of us remember the warning, the red line warning that president obama delivered to the syrian regime back in 2012. listen to what he said then, because it sounds similar to what we re hearing now. we have been very clear to the assad regime and also to other players on the ground that a red line for us is, we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons being around our