he says that he would have recommended that it not be put up, but i think more than anything the fact he realizes this was offensive and something that should not have been posted in the first place and it was taken down. okay. we can all agree in the interest of time. he might not have done that. i want to try to get keith in. we re truncated because of the town hall. what does it say, alice, about king that his staff thinks that s something that he would or should communicate to his constituents, that he would be okay with it? look, at the end of the day this is something that someone on his staff decided that they wanted to put up. the congressman saw it and decided it should be taken down. okay. because it is offensive. and that s the takeaway. are they going to take action? are they going to be fired or disciplined in any way? he didn t indicate that was going to happen, but i think the main thing is he realizes that it shouldn t have been put up and it s n
tweeting drunken stereotypes about irish people and steve king is threatening a civil war. this is exactly the tyime you want the country to come together and not be divided. trump isn t helping with that at all. the republican party isn t helping with that at all. steve king is not helping with that at all and trump has not condemned him. he didn t say a word about steve king or this outrageous meme. alice, there a lot of memes on his facebook page. dozens in the past week. look, i think more than anything we can all agree this particular meme was inappropriate. it was offensive. there is no place in the public arena for a meme like this, and the congressman when it was brought to his attention, he ordered that it be taken down. two days later. i ll push back on something that keith said. the congressman, while he has said a lot of things in the past that i disagree with, he is not and never has and never would advocated for civil war. i think that s highly he has threaten
national committee is busy tweeting drunken stereotypes about irish people and steve king is threatening a civil war. this is exactly the time you want the country to come together and not be divided. trump isn t helping with that at all. the republican party isn t helping with that at all. steve king is not helping with that at all and trump has not condemned him. he had time to condemn everybody else. he didn t say a word about steve king or this outrageous meme. alice, there a lot of memes on his facebook page. dozens in the past week. look, i think more than anything we can all agree this particular meme was inappropriate. it was offensive. there is no place in the public arena for a meme like this, and the congressman, when it was brought to his attention, he ordered that it be taken down. two days later. i ll push back on something that keith said. the congressman, while he has said a lot of things in the past that i disagree with, he is not and never has and never would
anything the fact he realizes this was offensive and something that should not have been posted in the first place and it was taken down. okay. we can all agree in the interest of time. he might not have done that. i want to try to get keith in. we re truncated because of the town hall. what does it say, alice, about king that his staff thinks that s something that he would or should communicate to his constituents, that he would be okay with it? look, at the end of the day this is something that someone on his staff decided that they wanted to put up. the congressman saw it and decided it should be taken down. okay. because it is offensive. and that s the takeaway. are they going to take action? are they going to be fired or disciplined in any way? he didn t indicate that was going to happen, but i think the main thing is he realizes that it shouldn t have been put up and it s no longer up there. so, keith, i want you to weigh in. you heard what she had to say.
people trying to come into this country can i respond to that? and heartless that is true. here s my point. that s different than democrats organizing this. this is classic alice. this will help donald trump. this is what he ran on. this is what he won on, being tough on the border. he will be able to show he s being tough. we can help mexico as they try to prevent these people from coming into our country as secretary pompeo said. donald trump says if we need to send the military down there, we will do that. i want to get keith, in alice, jufst for time purposes. alice, two things. first, i don t know how this would benefit the democracy to create this whole sort of exactly. parade of people coming from a different country. secondly, i want to relay something very personal. i know someone very close to me who is a cuban citizen. he fled cuba this year and moved to chile. he s an undocumented immigrant. he lost his job a few weeks ago. he s trying to