offensive, end quote. racial comments are not new for this member of congress. he has been saying things like this for a long time. and while he is notable if you follow politics, people hear him, he is not powerful in any conventional sense. so why is the book getting thrown at him in that building there? why is he taking heat for things that overlap so much with things that the president has said? steve king has said, for example, quote, white nationalists and white supremacists shouldn t necessarily be offensive, but it was donald trump who we all remember would not, when faced with a clear opportunity, denounce an actual gathering of white nationalists and white supremacists at a march where someone was killed in sh charlottesvil charlottesville. i think there s blame on both sides. you look at both sides, i think there is blame on both sides. and i have no doubt about it, and you don t have any doubt about it, either. there s some very bad people in
charlottesvil charlottesville. the second district around virginia beach. also florida at 7:00. look at all those democratic targets down there in florida. some endangered republican incumbents. think of carlos kurbcurbelo. georgia, if stacey abrams, the democratic candidate performs well outside atlanta, someone like rob woodall, republican incumbe incumbent, could be in big trouble there. you were mentioning the pennsylvania, where we find anne thompson. in virginia ten, barack obama is campaigning with tim kaine and jennifer wexton right now. thanks, steve. i don t know how you do it, how you keep your energy up, but we ll be watching you 24/7. joining me to drill down on one of the races steve is looking at, anne thompson in the first congressional district in
charlottesvil charlottesville. there was a small group of protesters that created a great calamity so i don t think these are majority held views but at the fringes, there are more covert or late latent views that are exploited by the president all the time when he picks up issues like the football players and their protest protests. spike lee called it a dog whistle and that s what it is. the president just tweeted the nfl players are at it again taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the national anthem, numerous players wanted to show their
ability to recover from any short-term crisis, has empowering for trump and his allies. three former aids said the take away from charlottesville. there is no question that he s playing to his base and how much contempt he has for his base that he thinks these kinds of you know language actually will stoke up the white working class. these are no longer dog whistles. it is dog horn. it is clear that it is calculated and it is part of his strategy to stoke divisions of our country and unfortunately, we don t see the end of it. in his tweet, he says don lemon and lebron is really dumb. of course, on saturday, at his rally he called his supporters the smartest people in the world while helicoptering to slam
interviewed by dumbest man on television, don lemon. he made lebron look smart which is eanot easy to do. he made us divided. sports is something that should not be divided. let s go back if we can to almost a year ago now, charlottesville, president trump refuses to condemn white nationalists. politico writes this. in some ways, the experience of charlottesville, as well as his