in this country, and he seems to have no idea, no idea, what the cuccinellis and people like cuccinelli, with names like cuccinelli faced when they were trying to get into this country. they faced people like ken cuccinelli, who s trying to keep people out. and they had to fight past those people to get here. we have seen this before. we have seen it all before, and there would be no cuccinellis in this country if the people who opposed the entry of italian immigrants to this country had their way. we will see if ken cuccinelli is able to block the entry ck, whi clearly, clearly means people with spanish names trying to enter this country. we will cover that later in this hour. we begin tonight with the continuing struggle for democracy, and freedom around the world, a struggle that does
the trump administration has done a lot of rewriting. they have rewritten our tax laws to the benefit of corporations and the super rich. the trump administration has rewritten all sorts of federal regulations and now after rewriting yet another regulation, the trump administration is rewriting the statue of liberty. would you also agree that emma lazarus s words on the statue of liberty, give me your tired, give me your poor are part of the ethos. give me your tired and poor who can stand on their own 2 feet. ken cuccinelli, the newest guardian of our immigration laws. cuccinelli is not a cherokee name, there were no cuccinellis on the may flower. mr. cuccinelli is from a relatively recently arrived
and become, the historic term, public charge. joining our discussion now is presidential candidate julian castro. he was the secretary of housing and urban development in the obama administration and served as mayor of san antonio, texas, before that. secretary castro, thank you very much for joining us tonight. and i want to get your reaction to ken cuccinelli rewriting the statue of liberty, the words to give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own 2 feet and who will not become a public charge. it s awful, lawrence. like so many americans, i come from a family, grew up with a grandmother who had come to this country when she was 7 years old as an orphan, with hardly anything, and worked hard as a maid, cook, and baby-sitter and just two generations after she got here, one of her grandsons,
right. thank you, rachel. thanks, lawrence. one of the democratic presidential candidates has purchased advertising time on tomorrow morning s fox and friends. now, that will make sure that donald trump actually sees that democratic presidential campaign ad. we will show you that ad at the end of the hour, and we will be joined by the democratic presidential candidate who has decided to invade donald trump s tv watching tomorrow morning with that ad. and donald trump s new top cop enforcing immigration law is named cuccinelli. the cuccinelli clan is a relatively recently arrived italian immigrant plan that now has one of their members at the top of the enforcement of immigration law in this country. and he is rewriting the statue of liberty, and he is rewriting rules that allow people to stay
what cuccinelli said and what the administration has proposed could be no further from the truth. and what re seeing in cuccinelli, richard, is this recurring american phenomenon, which is the once an immigrant group has arrived and firmly established itself and has presidents elected that group or they have just established themselves everywhere, they have a tendency, some of the people in that group to want to close the door on the next group. i mean, the irish didn t want to see the italians come in. a lot of irish didn t want to see the italians come in. the people before the irish, didn t want to see the irish come in, and we have seen this constantly, and here we have it again now, and the latest group that the focus is now on is on people who want to come in through our southern border as opposed to, you know, across the atlantic ocean. that s exactly right, and