american, cherokee, advanced her career at harvard, 1/1,000 native. north and south america and almost every american has a sliver of native american blood. this was family lore. we believed we were native. i told people that. the bottom line it s not true. i did the test and it s not accurate. i apologize. let s move on and americans we re forgiving and can move beyond. the fact that she put out a video. she opens this up. donald trump will drive a truck through this. i think it ruins her chances as a 2020 presidential candidate. bill: here is part of the statement from the cherokee nation. to lay claim to any connection to any other tribal nation vaguely is inappropriate and wrong from yesterday. so then that forced her reaction last night when warren came out and said i will not
sit quietly for trump s racism. dna and family history has nothing to do with tribal affiliation and citizenship determined only by tribal nations. i respect the distinction and don t list myself as native in the senate. she is reflecting the reaction of cherokee nation in that comment there. if she was trying to use that cherokee nation and that family lore to advance her own career and now geted swatted upside the head. if you look at diversity. college campuses want diversity, everything but political thought. she thought it could help her out and bring it to harvard when it s a scam. by the way, the scam of her being native. this is the scam like socialism as she promotes. i was on the financial services committee when she was rolling up the cfpb alleging they would
communicatio communications. he said argue all you want. why do it before a race? why did senator warren have to do her announcement now? why can t dems ever stay focused? three question marks? i think you raise a fair point. it s clear senator warren was right about all of this. probably will mean the racist slur the president s been using to describe her loses some of its punch. but i do wish she had waited a month. this is a big mid term coming up. dana: it is a huge midterms. the president would like nothing more than talk about this. if she is 1/1024 native american, did she benefit from putting her heritage on these forms and then identifying that way? she must be noted that she put her heritage claim on the forms on the basis of family
swedish, and really sort of all over europe. when i met with him in 2015, we tried to unravel this. michael d antonio, author of the book, the truth about trump, gave us a recording of his exchange with trump about his heritage. there was a short period of time when your dad and then you talked about being swedish instead of being german. well, there is some swedish in there someplace. do you think he swwas sensite to it could have been. i never asked him that question. it could have been. but my father was german. the family lore is similar to warren s own description of how she says she learned of her heritage. my brothers and i learned from our mother and our daddy and our grandparents who we are. reporter: in 2016, one of trump s cousins said the family hid its german heritage in part to make it easier to sell apartments to jewish tenants. that cousin, john walter,
the president was once again derisively referring to senator elizabeth warren who has cited her oklahoma family lore to claim partial native american ancestry, even though investigations have never turned up definitive proof one way or the other on the matter. nor has it ever been proven she gained anything professionally from those ancestral claims. but that has not stopped the president from obsessively attacking her. senator warren responded earlier on msnbc. it is deeply unfortunate that the president of the united states cannot even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without having to throw out a racial slur. and just in case you thought this was just trump alone, a short time later sarah huckabee sanders made it clear the official position of the white house is one of nastiness and cheap shots. at the event that the president just did with the navajo code talkers, he referred to pocahantas being in the senate. why did he feel the need to say something that i