why would she go to those lengths today? maybe part of it is a little bit to challenge president trump on how he challenged her on this issue, but i think, you know, she s a political force in her party and she is certainly a high level political leader in this country, and i don t believe being 1/32nd american indian helps her become the president or not, and she has things she needs to be talking about more than this. alisyn said she made fun of me because i said she s running, and why do it today? i guess i don t fully understand three weeks plus one day or two weeks plus one day before the midterms, and why do it today? my theory is the thing that unites democrats, the moderates and the progressives, the far
that year, and if that was part of the discussion i would have known about it. her name with respect to minority hires, no, never. it s nonsense. her reputation as a teacher was stellar and we hired her because she was the best teacher on the market. that s the point, nick. it s not the dna i don t think the dna test would ever quiet trump and his supporters because they don t think that 1/32nd matters, and they say she exploited it and listed it as a credential to get special treatment. i think that s exactly right. it would be worthy if there was no ancestry at all from the native american side, but the real vulnerability in a lot of american families was the idea that she gained in her career from this. a few months ago it looked as if that might be possible. i don t know if her video
probably the only one at the table that brought all of them, but the results are ambiguous. under the law, 1/32 would allow her to under oath be native american. when you do read all of it, you do see the imprecise scientific. well, we have more outnumbered right here in just a moment. stay here if you want to use it to get cash, call newday usa. va loans are all they do. and don t let less than perfect credit hold you back. even if you ve been turned down for a va loan by your bank, call newday usa. they ve been given automatic authority by the va. they can often help veterans when other lenders won t. by re-financing up to 100 percent of your home s value, you could take out 54,000 dollars or more.
that s just a portion of it. joining us now to talk about this and so much more, senator dick durbin, democratic whip. good morning, senator. good morning. how are you? i m doing well. what do you think elizabeth warren is up to? why has she released the dna findings? the president ridicules her every chance he gets and perhaps that s a reason to get back in his face. i m curious of the timing. to fill you in, and for our viewers who haven t heard it, she has done a dna test, which she says has proven she is at least 1/32 native american. it could be 1/500 but she does have native american ancestry. okay. obviously she s rebutting the president s insults. we understand that. why 22 days before the midterms? i don t know why she picked today. elizabeth is a busy woman. i work with her every week, almost every day of every week. i m sure this isn t the highest
native american to something like 1/512 native american, a lot smaller of a percentage. in either case really you re looking at a very, very, very small percentage but this is the first sort of documentary evidence that supports this claim that warren has always made that there is in this family there s native american heritage. does it support that claim if it s between 1/32 and 1/512? if it s 1/32, it s more supportive. but what it does, it says that these family myths, which they ve been up until now, are based somewhere in fact, that it s not a complete fabrication. it s not an utter family myth. my family, we have some crazy family myths that we re related to the kennedys and i don t think that s true but i would never say it. in her case she finally has some sort of evidence that, hey, look, my grandma s stories were