long as he can transact. but he s never had key black executives in his organization. look at the record. we are looking at a man that grew up in a city that was mostly of color, that is two-thirds black and latino now, and can say these kind of remarks because he doesn t think anyone s going to do anything about it. we must mobilize. we must mobilize against those that would sit in the room and be an accomplice to this kind of bigotry. this whole thing of i remember when i started attacking him on the birther issue, saying it was race-based. he got angry. and met with me and said, you re calling me a racist. i said, i didn t call you a name, i m saying what you re doing is racism. he later lied and said i apologized for calling him a racist. i got on tv before he could and said that wasn t the discussion. but we ve got this flexible definition about what a racist is. do you have to spray paint the n word in the oval office or have a hood in the lincoln
president obama doing his first interview with prince harry? certainly not what you would consider a hard-hitting interview. talking about issues that are important to president obama. you can see him laying the groundwork for the things he wants to focus on in his post-presidency and deftly avoiding opportunities to take a dig at president trump. it s true. he didn t say it by name, but the social media comment was clearly targeting president trump, right? i thought it was done delicately. if you don t like i m old fashioned and don t like to criticize an american president when i m abroad. president obama was speaking to a foreign interviewer there for the bbc. i think he probably has that view but he managed to raise the question of social media and the responsibility of how to deal with it without mentioning president trump. i thought that was deftly done. it was very tactful the way he responded. i mean, look, president trump has criticized president obama. he started th
about it. i nont he didn t say that. the white house denied it. how do you know? it s so contradictory to the christmas spirit? these are people coming here. i know he didn t say it. seeking refuge. but the thing is once again. is the door not open at the end of the christmas? i don t want to conjecture about it, if he did. that s like if a meteror hits california tomorrow what will happen, it s not going to happen so don t talk about it. i believe the white house over the new york times. i guess i hear you say hillary camp responsible for the birther issue. this was something that the president hammered on over and over again. over and over again i ll say it the hillary clinton camp during that campaign introduced that theory. they introduced that. so we know that. let s move on to something zblels l. let me ask you about the president of the united states,
haitians looking for solutions equitable to everyone else as well as solving this problem. we just spoke with peter baker, new york correspondent for the new york times didn t write the piece. but do you believe what the president said what the times said he said? certainly. it s totally consistent with so many attacks he s made going back ten years against president obama. i mean, just the same mean, nasty spirit is that we ve heard again and again from this guy. let me ask you here, pastor scott f i could, if i could, if he did say that, how would that change your impression? first of all, let me revisit what ben just said. i also want to reiterate the fact that the obama allegations of the birther issue came out of the hillary clinton camp during the campaign. now, we ll leave that right there. but also i know he didn t say it. so i don t want to conjecture
are positions of the white house or president , that hasn t happened. if the president is publicly saying to three people i don t think that s me on the access hollywood tape and if he s bringing up the barack obama citizenship, that would be of concern to you? it would be a concern, but the white house isn t saying that. they re saying the opposite. they re saying they re taking the same position during the campaign, which was those issues were acknowledged and in some cases, apologized for. i m not hearing any of these pushback on the access hollywood tape or on president obama and the birther issue. that s not to say it s not being said. that s not what i m hearing from a large group of people. to the question of whether or not he s competent to be president and axelrod and gergen were talking about doing an intervention. we remember his doctor patch adams who said he was under the best health of all i don t think