is very well known and well respected in the field and has a mcarthur genius grant that he got for the very concept of tracking human population migrations via dna. he is really the person that everybody who i talked to beforehand said this is who i would go to if i were. i called him and he never called me back. i kind of suspected that he was working on this while i called him. he found out what in terms of how much american native dna she has? the way he characterized it, he has a high degree of certainty that elizabeth warren had at least one native american ancestor in her family tree going somewhere between six and ten generations back. and that s a really interesting that s a big window. that puts her anywhere from 1/32
conference next week, and does the saudi arabia regime response to pressure? one indication they are not responding right now, is yesterday they announced anybody within saudi arabia anybody spreading false information can face five years in prison. that s not an optimistic sign. i fear they will try and pin this on somebody else, create some fall person and i don t see any indication they are coming clean on what looks like a murder at the behest of the crown prince. let s move on to elizabeth warren. she has taken the step of taking a dna test, of releasing the results that say she is somewhere between 1/32nd native american, and she put out a video interviewing her family members and dna experts to talk about this.
setting up a challenge to affirmative action. the ivy looking school claims asian american admission has grown significantly since 2010. senator elizabeth warren finally getting around to taking that d.n.a. test democrat following through after criticized for her claims of native american ancestry. strongly suggest we had a native american ancestor dating back in her family six to ten generations. if that s true, she is the 1/32nd. if it s 10 generations back she would only be 1/512th native american. brian: why don t do you 23 and me and end this. carley: carlos, a stanford university professor. ainsley: 1/512th. so you are saying there is a
from it. what do the facts say? reporter: the report indicates senator warren s native american ancestry is between six and ten generations back. that would make her as much as 1/32 or at least 1/1024 native person. president trump razzed her calling her pocohontas. this morning from the white house a different tone. i will give you $1 million for your favorite charity paid for by trump if you take the test and it shows you re an indian. reporter: this morning at the white house, the president denying that he ever said that. senator warren called the president out on twitter telling him to pay $1 million to the national indigenous resource center which works to protect native women from sexual violence. dana: jackie, what is the rnc
family tree that ranges from 1/32 to 1/1024. we have former chair of the democratic national committee. and ceo of the democratic national convention committee. they re the authors behind the new book, there it is. for colored girls who have considered politics . we ll get to your book in a moment. the president went onto say this. i hope she s running for president because i think she d be very easy. i hope that she is running. i do not think she d be difficult at all. she ll destroy the country. be careful what you wish for. you know what she will do? she will, i think, bring about major change in washington d.c. you know what s in her dna? a willingness to fight for our democracy and working class people. a willingness to fight for women and minorities.