lives are complicated when people like him stop masking up. it s the trauma the asian-americans are coping with and the ongoing attacks and fears of more attacks they face daily. a house judiciary committee heard about lawmakers about the climate of hatred they are experiencing. the committee heard from chip roy, the ranking republican who used part of his time to fondly recall the good ole days when lynchings in texas were a-okay. there s old sayings in texas about, you know, find all the rope in texas and get a tall oak tree. we take justice very seriously and we ought to do that, round up the bad guys. so, to a community living in fear of random acts of violence during a hearing to address that violence in discrimination, congressman roy there seems to have praised the idea of mobs of people lynching other people from trees. just as americans of asian descent are being slandered with false loyalty to another country, congressman roy decided now is the time to stoke th
co coping with in the wake of the atlanta shootings. today, a house judiciary subcommittee heard testimony from asian-american lawmakers about the climate of hatred that they, and their constituents, are experiencing. the committee also heard from texas congressman, chip roy. the ranking republican who used part of his time to recall the good, old days, when lynchings in texas were a-okay. there s old sayings in texas about, you know, find the rope in texas and get a tall-oak tree. we take justice very seriously, and we ought to do that. round up the bad guys. so, to a community living in fear of random acts of violence, during a hearing to address that violence and discrimination. congressman roy, there, seems to have praised the idea of mobs of people lynching other people from trees. and just as as americans of asian desent are being slandered with false allegations of loyalty to a foreign country, racist allegations that have, frankly, a long history in this country
operate, it is operating on 1.0 operating systems all the time. if anybody could do it, it would be this administration, because they are kind of not afraid to break a whole lot of china in doing so. if you focused on stuff like that and american infrastructure and had a populist message of building up america, making it great and tried to govern in that way with some democrats, you would transform history in a bit. you would have somebody who was truly a populist independent. so, walter, do you see it sounds like you may see last week, as a new opportunity for trump. absolutely. to turn the page on a disastrous 60 days and move in the direction you re talking about. absolutely. there s a great chance to turn the page. i was always surprised that when he came into office, here is a guy who is not exactly a long-time republican. certainly not a member of the
in the past it wasn t. in 2005, 217 voted for the legislation. but the house wouldn t even take it up for a vote. how about that for a scandal? joining me now is jim mcdermott, democrat from washington. the state where that bridge collapsed and the washington post e.j. dionne. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. good to be with you, reverend. congressman, let me go to you first. isn t it in the republican s interest to deal with this and if they focused on building up america, isn t it in the interest than trying to tear down the president? well, they ve clearly spent the last five years trying to tear the president down but they have done it by throwing society under the bus.
endorsements but a bit of a dark cloud on the horizon. more on that in just a moment, but, first, his fight for the gop nomination. a new nbc news/ wall street journal poll shows him with a commanding lead over mitt romney. the other candidates trailing far behind. paul steinhauser is in washington. paul, the same poll shows gingrich struggling in a head-to-head race against president obama. tell us about that. that horse race poll and two others indicate the same thing. way ahead in the horse race. look at this, hypothetical matchups next november. president obama versus gingrich and president obama against mitt romney. president obama 11 points ahead of gingrich. among all voters. but, basically, dead even with romney. so, the nbc/ wall street journal poll maybe an electable issue for newt gingrich. you ve seen the democratic national committee go after romney left and right over everything. not so much about gingrich. but yesterday, this is interesting, jessica yellin