remarkable that about a quarter of all americans don t ever see people of other races. i think that s an important piece of this conversation as we look at the rise of hate, as we look at sort of how people reacting to racist rhetoric, i think it probably a lot easier to view people, to demonize them if you never see them, if you never see them in the media or in your neighborhoods. and that filters through the politics, as more and more the democratic party becomes a party of people of color, as a pluralist party, courts white voters and white grievance, the polls show that the parties are reflecting the attitudes and the policy preferences of people of different races. vann, that certainly seems to be the case more dramatically in the trump area. i m wondering did you find anything in the polling that
when you look at the arrest scene that we see there, obviously there is no medical condition there. i ve had sources tell me that he didn t have a weapon. that it was very possibly a cell phone and it looked to me like he was attempting a murder by cop suicide by cop scenario. it is remarkable when you look at the video. we haven t confirmed an the police have not confirmed that is the suspect. but pointing something at a cop in a situation like that is you might think you have a death wish. phil mudd, in counter-terrorism, and you see driving a rental vann which is an m.o. we ve seen before in new york in halloween last year. something that certainly was a terror attack. as you piece together this early information and again we should emphasize this is early information, what does it tell you? there are two things it tells me. i won be looking at the van and looking at motive. but there are two clue we have not only one obviously access to
companies and how it affect communities of color. it happened in flint and it happened in hurricane katrina and harvey and maria. this is going to be the fact of life the next 50 years going forward. i am going to have have to lever it there. thank you valerie and john ellison and vann. still ahead, a gubernatorial, a confederate monument backfires in her face. i will tell you why and how, i will explain, you are watching politics nation.
questions here. the real question is about the second amendment but the courts have been fairly clear that even though the second amendment allows people to keep them in their own home it doesn t prevent the government from pursuing a background check. the more important question is what speaker ryan alluded to. that s whether the president is interpreting federal statutes, the ones that require background checks already, is it a reasonable interpretation of the statute to say that individuals selling guns on the internet and at gun shows who are doing more than selling guns to family members are also covered fwi same federal statute, based on what we ve seen so far, that s a long shot for them to be making much more politically sensitive than legally precise. hmm. steve, richard, vann, thank you all so much. this conversation is just getting under way. it s going to be a very busy week in terms of this conversation. thursday night president obama
congress do something about it. there s a circle of constitutional authority and concern. where they overlap the president can act. this president acting is a good thing. it s very good thing. vann, but i want you to get i want to get you on this point to. what he s saying that one of the proposals is $500 million investment to increase access to mental health care. if everyone agrees that that s a good thing, why has it taken the president so long? that gets to what critics of the president say is that this is as much politically motivated as it is a policy i don t think that that s fair. if you look at it overall, you ve got some carrots, some sticks, some pleas, some prayers. the president is basically putting everything on the table and saying, can we get something done. and the same people who criticize the president for not going to congress, now he s going to congress and they re saying it s too late. if this congress want odd to act, congress could have acted on mental he