people later in this hour. donald trump is still refusing to apologize for dining with public antisemites, with state and federal prosecutors closing in on him and the senate candidates he endorses are losing, donald trump is such a wounded political animal that one of the people competing for the title of most cowardly republican people in history, mike pence, has actually summoned up the courage to call on donald trump to apologize for dining with antisemites. senate majority leader chuck schumer, the first jewish senate leader in history, said donald trump s embrace of antisemites is disgusting, scary and pure evil. the former president to sit down and have dinner with a high profile antisemite is disgusting and dangerous. to give an antisemite even the
i mean, clearly, he doesn t know the man. apology is not in his lexicon. this is not something donald trump would ever do. he would never admit it was wrong. he would never apologize. so, i agree with mike pence, as you said, blah, blah, blah. one of my favorites today was john cornyn, saying he had better things to do, and condemn the leader of his party for having dinner with someone who call the victims of the holocaust a now, what does he have that s better to do than condemning at leader who thinks it s appropriate to dine with white nationalists and antisemites? i can t imagine anything john corden had to do today that was more important than that. so, you know, they re still afraid of the base, of the republican party, and even though trump align candidates are not ready, he still has more than 50% of the republican base following his corner, and these other republicans very afraid of those folks. and that cornyn quote, carlos, i don t want to overly psychologist here, but
fuentes, and others are staying silent. writes for the washington post, trump is not only the one handing white supremacists of victory with this meeting so are republicans with their silence. back with us to discuss, a veteran political strategist and stewart s evens, a former republican strategist who worked on five presidential campaigns. he now works with the lincoln project and pro democracy group, it s obvious, this was a huge, huge win for white with some premise. kevin mccarthy, that s a guy who also needs a win. what does his silence tell you about what s to come in congress? look, he knows who s in control. right? i just need to remind everyone here that trump has been giving antisemites and white supremacism a platform for years, and that whole time, the gop has been riding right along with him through charlottesville, where they were very fine people through
secret sauce for taking back america. i just want to read you this quote here. we are going to take power in this country. we re going to do it within my life time. we are coming for you. your days in power are numbered. you think you can replace us? you re wrong. we will replace you. that is the man who had dinner last week with the former president of the united states. and not just any dinner. dinner at mar-a-lago which former president trump calls his florida white house, his southern white house program this is the place where classified documents were seized by the fbi that the president had taken, stolen from areas where these documents are kept in our government, office buildings and in the white house, and brought them to mar-a-lago. this is where he s having dinner now with white supremacists and antisemites. jonathan lemire, he refuses
supremacist fascist movement, and at its core right now. not all republicans but that the core of the party. so what s gonna make them change? losing more elections, i think. that s the only chance. molly, what do you make of donald trump s fancy dining with the quaint s? i mean, i agree that his previous ambassador saying that is who trump is. that s very much to trump s. and that is who he ran on being. so you don t see him say i disavow this person. i disavow all cause denies. and even kanye who wasn t the sort of headliner of that event as recently been dropped by all his committees for antisemitic rhetoric. i mean when people show you who they are, believe them. i would say trump has made this sort of very craven flag to tell you that values conservative views he s not antisemitic towards, but you, know you hang out with antisemites who are antisemitic. so i do think this is ultimately a bad look for him. but you know republicans are gonna have to keep losing elections, righ