much evolved. welcome back. the numbers are in. 24 million people watched last night s republican debate on fox news. huge it was huge. it was the highest rated broadcast in the network s history. earlier today donald trump wondered what the ratings would have looked like without him on stage. well i guess it got probably record ratings. i wond wlaer the ratings would have been if i wasn t in the mix. it would have been very interesting to see, frankly. you can t even be mad at donald trump for that. for me let me bring in the assistant professor of english and africana studies a tt university of pennsylvania and the reverend dr. freddy haynes. without you two we wouldn t be getting record numbers in this segment, that i know for sure. professor tillet is this the trump effect? the ratings? definitely. what you have again is reality tv star who is a political
is there anyone on stage and can i see hands, who is unwilling to pledge your support to the eventual nominee of the republican party and pledge to not run an independent campaign against that person? again, we re looking for you to raise your hand now, raise your hand now if you won t make that pledge tonight. mr. trump. present and accounted for. trump is not ruling out an independent run at this time. a stunt like that would all but guarantee a democrat in the white house. trump was also asked to explain his controversial comments about mexican immigrants. what evidence do you have, specific evidence that the mexican government is sending criminals across the border. border patrol i was at the border last week. border patrol, people that i deal with that i talk to they say this is what s happening. because our leaders are stupid. our politicians are stupid. and the mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. and they send the bad ones over
the medium answer is that we need to employ a little bit of political sophistication because it doesn t mean we have to be such antagonists all the time that we just mad. there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. what the congresswoman talked about is where we seem to fall short which is from the church s perspective, what is our political agenda so we know how to engage everybody all the time. which means that you won t always be my friend because there are going to be some issues i got to roll on you on. and i can t be afraid of doing that because i want to come to your house for the private dinners that you have. and i think that what was mentioned earlier was that many of us have gotten too comfortable based on the things that we have. and so i think leadership by and large, and i don t think that s just faith leadership. i think that s my colleagues in the media. i think those that are elected officials. i think there are all of us that are in many cases h
evangelical movement that has bamboozled the black brethren. what s the method, what s the move to attempt to rally those that congresswoman waters have referred to who are not really concerned because there s no food on the table. there s no jobs. how do we make the connection? what s the agenda to make the connection between the political process and not being bamboozled. if that makes sense? we re going to go to congresswoman sheila jackson lee. thank you, congresswoman and let me just thank the panel. thank our co-chairs. congressman rangel and congressman cedric richmond and our chair person. let me just hold up and make two points and then spiritually go to my seat. if there are any poster children for shame, and this is a map of shame, i know that pastor freddy haynes would join me and say that texas is certainly fighting for the prize. and florida is right in the mix. the map of shame, somebody wanted to call out another state, of course is the voter i.d. if you w
the same people for their money to run those organizations that s causing us trouble in the first place. now this is serious business. they can t get the money from our community. and so i was shocked when i learned that the very superpac that was responsible for supporting the work of getting these legislatures online to require more identification, et cetera, was the same ones we vote for every day in the congress. these are the ones that are considered, you know, at&t. and all of your big organizations who are supporting and giving millions of dollars to a superpac that s undermining your rights. so we have a responsibility to know this stuff. and to be able to leverage and to talk with them about it when they come and ask us for something. the other thing is this. we all belong not everybody. we all belong to the democratic party. and the democratic party raises millions of dollars and it decides how it s going to spend them. we are the base bone of the democratic party