Field, where players are protesting Racial Injustice. The President Tweeting about that. All happening as a former white house insider makes explosive, new claims about donald trump and the n word. Well share details in a moment. All going down one day before the anniversary of the deadly White Supremacist rally in charlottesville. A State Of Emergency already declared in virginia. Racists planning to take their protests here to d. C. Were talking with two women personally impacted by this violence. If mother of heather hire, the woman killed in charlottesville, will join me, as well as charlotsha charlottesvil charlottesvilles mayor. Also, the Manhattan Madame testifying today. Why the Special Counsel wants her and what she is telling our team this morning. Youll only see it and hear it here on msnbc. Our team is set up and ready to go on this friday. Were going to start with President Trump up add bedminster, putting himself in the middle of the culture wars again. Coverage of nation
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there needed to be a moment of june unity? lebron james, a black athlete who the president insulted his intelligence a week ago, talked about this. what i noticed the last few months, that he kind of used sport to kind of divide us, and that s something i can t relate to. sports have never divided people. it brings people together. the president has made clear that the politics of division, he sees it as a winning issue for him. there s been no desire expressed on his part to bring the country together, even in the immediate aftermath of charlottesville, as you say. is there anything you can point to that he is doing to help the african-american community? no. hbcus, for example? he s done a lot of photo-ops. if you talk to the presidents of the hbcus afterwards, they felt they were used for props. so far, he sees his base as buying into these culture wars. wanting to being in favor of his attacks on nfl players and
charlottesville? i personally couldn t say one way or the other. i can tell you what david duke and richard spencer and jason kessler, and i believe matthew has said, which is the administration has given them the go-ahead, the thumbs up, the wink and a nod. that s their words, not mine. i have no information about it one way or the other. okay. susan bro, remembering your daughter, heather heyer, as we all are today, and this weekend. i appreciate you coming on the show and joining us here. thank you for making the time. thank you so much for having me. it is an honor. on sunday, of course, the one-year mark of the deadly fights in charlottesville. msnbc will be sharing the story of a former white supremacist who has dedicated his life to reforming others. breaking hate airs sunday at 9:00 eastern on msnbc. coming up on this show after the break, the final frontier might be the next frontier for the pentagon, but what will the
rapists, and things like that. he continued this approach during his black voter outreach, which was not effective, perhaps, obviously. the challenge with all of this, malcolm jenkins, so many players have written op-eds, given interviews, repeatedly tweeted why they re protesting. what hasn t happened is president trump clearly articulating that he understands why the protest is happening. you wonder if this is another example of projection that comes out of the white house when he doesn t understand. he says the person he is going against doesn t understand, trying to confuse his base. for the most part, they tend to be falling for it. i want to touch on a final thought as we look ahead to what will happen this weekend and these rallies and protests in washington and elsewhere after charlottesville, a year after that. i covered the president, obviously, a year ago, and so did you. it was the question of, can you bring together the country at a time when they so clearly people so