not aligned with necessarily your racial outlook or gender. so i feel leak this is a healthy process even though it s one democrats are frustrated by. janell, there seems to be an overwhelming fervor in many of the communities of color is they also want the candidate that can beat donald trump. so at one level, you have those that are concerned about identity. another concerned about their interests. and it seems like a lot of people are saying to me on my radio show as i work with national action network, we need to beat donald trump. i think that certainly is what the polling would seem to suggest, that black voters as a group are primarily concerning themselves with dispatching donald trump. that this seems to be the chief priority, and in terms of policy priorities, as one of your other guests said, there are ways in which a kamala harris or other
people of color are going to continue to take up some sort of priority space or some sort of priority time. or if those issues are going to be regarded as side issues or secondary things that debe dealt with if we have time. janell ross, doug thor nel, and noah rothman, thank you very much. up next, the confederate flag is in my final thoughts. stay with us. at fidelity, online u.s. stocks and etfs are commission-free.
advocating this and our feelings about whether or not mr mr. bloomberg is politically motivated or biden or sanders who took a different position on the crime bill in the 90s. we have to feig out where we fall on that. in the tenor of the call with you, was there a sense of humility? it was a sense of michael bloomberg and my dealing with him as 12 years as mayor had never been one that expressed self-doubt or questioned himself. i ve never seen him ever do that. i ve not seen any politician including some running now actually apologize for what they did. whether we accept the apology or not, it does raise the bar on how people deal with some of their past positions that were proven to be inaccurate. janell ross, i want to bring you into this conversation. the choice of venue and the
power-packed show. can t wait for that. i m going to tease that. thank you so much, janell ross, for joining me. as well, all of you watch the reverend al janell is going to be on your show also. saturday and sundays at 5:00 p.m. here on msnbc. breaking news. anti-government protests, more violence in hong kong after almost six months of demonstrations. police are now firing tear gas at people who barricaded at a city university. let s go to matt bradley, joining us from hong kong this morning following this story. what can you tell us, matt? reporter: this is a dangerous and escalating situation. we re six months into this protest movement. this all started because of an extradition bill that has since been withdrawn. now the protests are still continuing almost six months in. now, we ve seen in the last week