you hear the delegate there saying and we re watching this footage pretty powerful, you can t send us back. the sign you see there says deport hate the person we re about to hear from was ultimately escorted out of the event but not the beat. ibrahim samira, welcome to the beat. thank you for having me, ari. absolutely. we just saw that footage. i want to understand and viewers to understand, why was it important to you being a lawmaker being able be in that room to use your freedom of speech that way? it was extremely tough decision to go into it. this is a monumental celebration for virginia. 400th anniversary of democracy not just in virginia but in the entirety of the western hemisphere. and here we have a president coming and espousing all sorts
around trump circle, i think very interesting. the folks around trump sensing political danger with this attack he has taken on race. the president himself is immune to that message. is that what s going on? everybody who works in this white house understands you will not convince the president to do something he doesn t want to do. no point trying to persuade him to take a different tact. you have seen the white house trying to correct around the president. he s not going to apologize, not going to back down andened to talk today about representative cummings and baltimore. you have seen a few efforts for the president to emphasize places he thinks, lines that will resonate nor strongly with african-americans. today, he was speaking in virginia, 400th anniversary of jamestown settlement and worked into that speech, prepared
about the confirmation process given the concerns on the other side of capitol hill that that position should not be occupied by a trump loyalist. the president didn t engage on the question. he just called him a wonderful person and said he s been talking to him about this position for a very long time. some news there. and so, yeah, i think that s kind of where we start as the president heads to jamestown to participate in this commemoration marking the 400th anniversary of representative democracy, hallie, as you see him board the steps of air force one. . just moments ago. geoff, stand by. we are working to turn around some of your sound and questioning of president trump there. but i want to bring in to join the conversation msnbc political analyst cornell belcher and tim miller, former deputy communications director and contributor to the bulwark. gentlemen, we brought you on to talk about the democratic debate. president trump, as he often does, is looking to insert himself in
northam said he s setting up a reconciliation tour that will take him around the state to engage in conversations about race and healing but that he had no details yet. he said, quote, i really believe there s a calling for all of us and the fact that this happened the year on the 400th anniversary of the first africans arriving in virginia to be sold into slavery. i think there s a reason for that, northam said. he s going to make the cause of his governorship race relations for the next three years. what do you make of this? i think northam should have stepped down when he implied that babies should be killed outside of the woman. that s the first thing. second thing he can do all of the touring he wants in virginia. black people are goin not goingo vote. he ll never get 80% of black people voting for him again. when they look at that photo, they don t look at him being in blackface, they see him as the ku klux klansman.
being southern is not an excuse, being white is not an excuse, being a white male southerner is not an excuse. we should demand better of our people as allies with people of color before we go, it is very true what tim is saying, that we really can t excuse it. this is where charlottesville happened. now he s going to be the governor of a state that we will mark as the 400th anniversary of where enslaved blacks were first brought to this country in 1619. he s going to be the governor preside over this. what will happen, what can happen in the house of delegates if he does not resign? will there be moves to remove him? i can tell you this. just to go back to something i heard earlier, i want to be clear that the virginia