problem. you have people upset with some terrible horrific remarks that donald trump made. but the paradox here, the other choice is what most americans think is somebody who is also unqualified to be president. roughly 60% of an unfavorable viewpoint of her, almost 80% thought the fbi should have indicted her for past behaviors. so the problem is a bigger one for america. they say both of these candidates at this point is being generally unqualified to be president. and i think probably most americans would rather have mike pence versus tim kaine right now. i don t think there s any poll that shows people think that donald trump and hillary clinton are two sides of a coin. there are people who have unfavorable views but are you saying that anything you know about hillary clinton is the equivalent of what we just learned in the last 24 hours, the central park five case is a case of ongoing racism, quite frankly, threats against teenagers, wanting to have them executed. are you saying
prison and later cleared and the confession of the real perpetrator and won a $41 million settlement from the city for their wrongful conviction. yet, trump still considers the exonerated men guilty. he said as much in a statement this week that said, they admitted they were guilty. the police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. the fact the case was settled with so much against them is outrageous and the woman so badly injured will never be the same. tara and john, former senior strategist for rick santorum s presidential campaign. kurt eichenwald. thank you all for being here. where to begin, tara, you re here at the table with me. the idea that these men who were convicted as teenage boys, thrown into prison, longest for 13 years, there was a statement that came out from one of the central park five who was 14 years old when he was in prison
skin care line and thought, he could use a little help with the make-up and reached out to him and also said, the man is 70 years old. she s much older and didn t really think there would be a problem. d, you know, tried to do a business deal with him. i don t think that s hard to understand. absolutely. and lisa, lastly, erin burnett, a host on cnn, a friend of hers, donald trump attempted to kiss her against wishes and nancy in the vulgar video is billy bush s co-host, nancy o del. they re not commenting on the case. with this being something apparently donald trump thought his celebrity gave him the entitlement to do, what would you advise this person who is wealthy, who is famous with a celebrity and this behavior is perpetrated against them, as an attorney, what should women do in this situation? you should reach out to
so they should sue him. and the other point i find very fascinating about this is this is the same donald trump here and now in the present that said he would bail out his protesters, his supporters who were violent against protesters. he said he would bail them out for violence. he has encouraged violence from his own supporters against protesters but yet this is the same man that led a witch hunt against these black men. let s put back up to this ad. element six. this is the ad that donald trump took out in 1989 after the central park jogger case. bring back the death penalty. bring back our police. and you have to, kurt eichenwald put into context. he was the real estate mogul celebrity and essentially, our culture was worshipping wealth and that s how he became famous and for him to bring this
$41 million settlement. as a private citizen, donald trump was outspoken about this case, saying he thought the so-called central park five were guilty. and yesterday in a story published by cnn, the now-republican nominee repeated his belief we saying, quote, they admitted they were guilty. the police doing the original investigation said they were guilty. the fact that the case was se d settled with so much evidence against this is outrageous. joining us to talk about someone who played a public role in that case is reverend al sharpton, host of msnbc s politics nation. rev, good to see you. good to see you. just right off the bat here, your reaction to donald trump still sticking with the notion that the central park five were guilty is what? i mean, if he wanted to say that i believed it at that time, that s one thing. to say now, after dna established, dna. we re talking about scientific evidence, that someone that confessed to it in jail was, in fact, the one that did it, a