for and you missed that mark. we need to do better. i want to know what those conversations are like with some of the people that are around him. where are and i know i m getting a little off script. where are the ray lewiss and jim browns and steve harveys and all of these people who he used to cloak himself in some type of respectability? where are they now? where are their voices now when it person is continually dividing our country at the very heart what have our number one issue is which is race. so i m looking for some of these voices. i heard j.c. watt the other day, the congressman who our politics are different but i love and admire his courage and dignity and how he s speaking up and speaking out. we need more voices like that. so i m just i am kind of intrigued by the legacy of dr. king on that stage and i m really instriged by ben carson who growing up in the south as a
black man on your ball you h n your wall you had a book gifted hands that everybody read. i m trying to figure out where somebody is who can tell him he s lead ourg country astray. april, quickly. i want to get rick in, as well. bakari is right. i m thinking about what paul ryan said last night to jake tapper. he said in the initial statements president trump messed up. now, what does paul ryan have to say about tonight? and bakari is absolutely right. the question is, what s going to happen. and black republicans are very upset. there s the j.c. watts and the tim scotts versus the only rosa and the diamond and silk crew. so it s it s unfortunate but
they did not just happen when president obama got elected. they were heightened and intensified over president obama and it carried over the trump s administration. jc watts as an elected official and a leader if you will and president obama or president trump, we all have obligation as leaders to not put salt in the wounds and bring a decency and respect to the wound. when you have people like my 2-year-old granddaughter because of her skin color would say she should be eradicated or on the face of earth. we don t want to live in harmony with her. chuck, she does not know those people. when any of us speak to the side of evil or we maybe intentionally given the impression that we are siding with the evil that s a tough ditch to get out of. if you are serving in congress and you are in leadership, how would you handle president trump right now.
doesn t have moral authority right now. can he get it back? you know, i think one of the things we were talking about that you showed in your what i thought were fabulous interviews with j.c. watts, who was so bracing, and andrew young, who seemed so wise and at a grandfatherly distance, but the subtext of the questioning was has the president lost his moral authority because of the events of the past week. i thought about that, and i think the problem for him is that he did not lose his moral authority because he did not have moral authority, and you cannot lose what you do not have. the whole tale of the first seven months of his presidency was i know i m unusual, i know i m different, i know i have things that have been offensive to people in my past. however, i m going to grow into this figure who is the serious,
to disagree with the president on many issues and you know this is not a time for us to be afraid of being tweeted. you know this is not a time to suppress our conviction. i know a lot of those members of congress and they don t think like that. they don t think the way the white supremacists or the kkk. however, if you are silent, they wear the cap of intentionally or unintentionally, they wear the cap saying we agree with that and thank god for being sad or rand paul or john mccain or lyndsey graham. those members came out and said we totally disagree with that. that s not who we are and not the country that we live in and not the party that we want to represent. jc watts, i am going to leave it there. congressman from oklahoma, good to see you, sir. i appreciate it. yesterday i spoke with one of the early leaders, andrew young. he was the executive director of the southern leadership