lack of understanding of what forced assimilation does to communities. the 78-year-old special correspondent continued tweeting saying i am sorry, truly sorry my comments were offensive to many. the great enduring american tradition of diversity is to be celebrated and cherished. now some of his colleagues are coming to his defense. joe scarboro saying hopefully he will be shown grace. latino groups want nbc to do more to show the changing face of america. a nation of immigrants, a nation where so many people work so hard to overcome huge struggles and obstacles in order to assimilate. it s part of what makes america great. brokaw didn t seem to get that. let s hear less from brokaw and more from hispanics, that is an option and opportunity for nbc. thank you very much. and next jeanne moos calls the fashion police on roger stone. alright, i brought in
california, he says he will be leaving congress after this year. bob, this news comes two days after you had ed royce, one of the most senior powerful republicans in the california delegation stepping. so they re now 31 house republicans who said they re not going to seek re-election. 19 are retiring. and 12 are running for higher office and the last time this happened was 1994 when 28 democrats left and we know how that story ended. so what are the republicans in the house thinking? is there anybody with any hope that this is going to turn around or is there anybody, any leader thinking, okay, we can go along with donald trump s policies, but how do we start separating ourselves from the parts of his personality that are making republicans lose a generation of voters? well, here s what s interesting, joe, so many law
having help to get out the vote here in alabama from two top the democrats former president barack obama and vice president joe biden reported robo-call. joe jones. former secretary condoleeza rice calling it one of the most significant in alabama s history. you got to admit. did i not tell you the people in alabama are the most polite people. you are telling the teleprompter to go faster. you are always so polite. [ cheers ] no, no she was just saying the teleprompter was going too slow. they just clapd. they re polite people. confirmation, joe. clap for him. condoleeza rice wrote this
to john s point, a core battle between the culture as it has existed and the culture as they want it to be. with the, as soon as i got off the plane yesterday, a gentleman an elderly gentleman at the airport comes up to me and he says, this is going to be a race. i looked over and said, yeah, it is. he said, do you know, but the culture here doesn t want to change. so it goes to, you know, he starts talking about how back when he was a young man how things were and how certain things were send and how other things kind of slipped by. that s the fight, joe, at the end of the day, that ying and that yang. you say you want a change, willie, it s like in new york city, there are a thousand different cull cures, in alabama, there are a lot of different cultures. there is a different culture in birmingham. there is a different culture you know in fair haute than in montgomery. a lot of different moving parts here today. it showed that way in the