front-runner in what will be a very big cool of candidates on the democratic side. others are very vocally and quietly saying, why is she doing this three weeks before the midterms when democrats need to be laser focused at taking the house and making at least making a bid to take the senate. so it s been divisive within the party, and we see the president reacting about how we expected him to. steve kornacki, i want to show you a tweet by joe scarborough, who was a republican member of congress. memo to democrats please do your part in keeping the most divisive figures in your party out of the news for 22 days. it just can t be that hard. now, i don t know who he was talking about, but i can imagine, this is the kind of thing, though, that the party is watching every day. it is. it also says something to i think about elizabeth warren. her mind is part of it is on 2018, but it s also clearly on 2020. one of the things that s
correction tonight by the boston globe. this is actually their second correction of the evening for math. and this kind of says all you need to know about this story today. due to a matter ror, a story about elizabeth warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 6th to 10th generation relative. the generational range, based on the ancestor that the report identified, suggests she s between 1/64th and 1/1024th native american. with us to talk about the whole mess, kimberly atkins for the boston herald, and massachusetts native steve kornacki is here with us in the studio and happens to be the author of the new book the red and the blue, the 1990s and the birth of political tribalism. after seeing him on bill maher friday night, i didn t know if
front-runner in what will be a very big pool of candidates on the democratic side. others are very vocally and quietly saying, why is she doing this three weeks before the midterms when democrats need to be laser focused at taking the house and making at least making a bid to take the senate. so it s been divisive within the party, and we see the president reacting about how we expected him to. steve kornacki, i want to show you a tweet by our colleague, joe scarborough, who was a republican member of congress. memo to democrats, please do your part in keeping the most divisive figures in your party out of the news for 22 days. it just can t be that hard. now, i don t know who he was talking about, but i can imagine, this is the kind of thing, though, that the party is watching every day. it is. it also says something to i think about elizabeth warren. her mind is part of it is on 2018, but it s also clearly on 2020.
middle of the debate, when she proclaims that she s of indian heritage, because her mother says she has high cheekbones, we ll take that little kit, and say but we have to do it gently, because we re in the me too generation, so we have to be very gentle. and we will very gently take that kit and we will slowly toss it, hoping it doesn t hit her and injure her arm, and we will say, i will give you $1 million to your favorite charity, paid for my trump, if you take the test and it shows you re an indian. doesn t appear president trump is going to make good on that prejudice. senator elizabeth warren released a win video today, announcing the results of a dna test. it concluded the existence of a native american ancestor, likely in the range of six to ten generations ago. and on twitter, she encouraged
the president to send the check to the national indigenous women s resource center. after first denying he put up the million dollars, donald trump clarified his terms for the donation. no, i have who cares? you said you would donate $1 million to charity. you better read it again. senator warren released some of her dna results that show a strong likelihood that she does have native american roots. how much, 1/1,000? she owes the country an apology. what about the money you told her you mean if she gets the nomination in a debate, where i was going to have her tested? i ll only do it if i can test her personally, okay? that will not be something i enjoy doing. that escalated quickly. the early reporting and confusing math concerning warren s dna test led to an epic