united states congress to do so as well. democratic candidates as you ve been watching have been really split on whether you label president trump as a white supremacist or not. this is something that joe biden has been reluctant to do. tell us his thinking on that. well, vice president biden dedicated 35 minutes last week to give what many people are calling one of the most poignant and important speeches thus far in this entire election. he talked about white supremacy in that speech. he said that donald trump is fanning the flames, flames of white supremacy. he laid out the case to the american people and really spelled out for them what s going on. i know a lot of people in the media would like to i think there was a tally going on that i saw last week. not you, brianna, but a lot of people in the political press corps, there s a tally of who has called donald trump what name this week. here s my question and i think this is important because this is a conscious decision th
life synagogue and killed 11 juice use the same word invasion. in march the christchurch terrorist left behind a manifesto with the word invasion. in that he said donald trump is my renewed symbol of white identity and i share a common purpose with him. the christchurch killer s manifesto inspired the el paso terrorist. he says it right at the top. he goes once i read that manifesto, i decided to target hispanics. he uses the word invasion. donald trump has helped to mainstream a white supremacist talking point and tucker carlson, who is on fox news, mainstreams all these talking points. he said that white supremacy is a hoax. guess what, it s not. according to the fbi, christopher wray, appointed by donald trump, white supremacist terrorism is the number one domestic terrorism threat in america. so the buck stops with the president. we have to ask ourselves, if you don t want to be called a racist, why are you promoting a racist conspiracy theory that has been mainstreamed by the
the president with that moniker is to associate him with everyone who has voted for donald trump and essentially bring them under that label as well? is that a worry of the former vice president s? brianna, the worry of vice president biden is to allow white supremacy to run rampant through the streets of america, is to allow this moment to go unchecked. that s what he s worried about, which is why he dedicated 35 minutes talking about this issue. it s one thing to just flthrow t flippant names. are other democrats going over the top? that s for other campaigns to decide and the american people. what vice president biden has done and our campaign has done is to clearly arctiticulate wha this moment means. vice president biden got into this race because he believed this was a fight for the soul of our nation. many people said that we were, quote unquote, making a general election argument and we remember missing the moment. then what happened last week?
those kids from parkland went up to see me when i was vice president and some of you covered it. you watch what happened when they went up in the halls of congress. congressmen were basically cowering, not wanting to see them. they did not want to have to face it on camera. now, biden of course was not in office when the parkland tragedy occurred in 2018. he did meet with the parkland survivors. he did do a lot on gun policy when he was in the obama white house. and while this is hardly his first slip of the tongue, democrats are concerned how these misstatements will play out if he were to take on president trump in the general election. i want to bring in simone sanders, a senior advisor to the biden campaign. simone. brianna. do you think voters care about this, and why should they overlook these gaffes? what s your case for that? i want to be really clear. this is a press narrative, not a voter narrative. if you were to look at the coverage in iowa this weekend and juxtapos
san francisco. that is exploiting the misery of that family. you re exploiting it by downplaying it. it s a sanctuary policy. you re equating trump s comments with all immigrants. what he said was is trump s comments specifically pointed at illegals. i m talking about the reaction to trump. you tell me it is not an immigration response. it is tapping into it is exploiting it is exploiting and sensationalizing. from a guy that exploits and sensationalized everything. you re lucky you re my friend or i would knock you out right now. where do you get your stuff from? all right.