racist? mr. president, will you respond to these serious questions about your statement, sir? mr. president, are you a racist? brian: does that bother you? it does. i had so many friends there happy to celebrate dr. king s legacy and happy to celebrate that proclamation. but then the entire story was all about not about the words that were spoken there but all about the president s comments, you know, days before. and i think that s problematic. because for american families they want to be able to just enjoy a holiday free from all of the top trending political stories. brian: jeremy, let me ask you asking. served in the military doesn t matter if you are black or white. that s what i get from your op-ed. whether you are the president and like whether dick durbin came forward, you are the president and saw everything that happened or didn t happen, what would do you today. i m not the president. quite low on the totem pole,
another generation of kids stuck in the middle. brian: so more border security. rachel: by the way also a deal of love for american citizens tired of heroin and meth coming over the border. this is a deal of love. there is only one reason why dick durbin leaked the comments whether the president said them or not and by the way durbin has been known to go into closed door meetings and say things that aren t true. he has done that for under president obama. but, even if the president said it, you would only repeat that if you wanted the deal to get busted. brian: made dick durbin look terrible and laughable and marginalize all his other comments when he said i told the president not to use the term chain migration what it means to african-americans. that is a common phrase used on a daily basis by both sides over the last 25 years. chain migration is not an insult to people. it s a way of explaining why one person comes over under a end up with 55 people coming over which is an
minute meeting last tuesday seems like a year ago. steve: the one aired on tv. rachel: i talked to a lot of hispanic friends of mine. everyone felt good. this is the closest we had ever been on getting a deal on both border security and permanent deal on daca. a meeting happened on thursday. comments leaked which seems to have scuttled the agreement or negotiation. steve: nothing was leaked from the first meeting on tuesday because it was all televised. then on thursday they had one behind closed doors and a private meeting and somebody there said that they thought the president of the united states newsed. rachel: salty language. steve: salty language. that s a good way to put it. although now the president has said that s not what i said and now a number of senators, the homeland security secretary say that was not what was said either. they are blaming dick durbin
temporarily from el salvador and honduras and haiti get out like they should have. maybe leave them here and from here forward say when we bring you in from cataclysmic situations you are going to have a duration in which you can stay. all these things we do on a daily basis, we don t get everything from our neighbor. we don t get everything from our town. we don t get everything from our bank. reneg united states to get a car. why can t they get it done? i m tired of thes to purring a government shut down is not going to work for anybody. steve: the deal they presented to the president was great for the democrats but awful for the republicans. brian: negotiate. steve: absolutely. rachel: thursday nancy pelosi said only a clean deal will work for us. listen, when do you a negotiation you have to have two parties who want to come together and you know if you say a clean daca bill no, border security, that s never been what the president wanted. brian: clearly dick durbin didn t get that
brian: i think walking back 15 hours later and then those statements over the weekend i think if the president wants to get ahead of this and make momentum, he should make it clear is he commenting on the countries and not the people in those countries there are geniuses in nigeria, geniuses in haiti that would make america a better place. not everybody in norway makes america a better place. it s a merit based system they want to bring forward. i would love for the president to go out and clarify the remarks. tom cotton has differential take than dick durbin. move forward by making clairive statement. rachel: i don t think there is anything that the president could say that would remove the way these people think about him. they want the conversation to be about racism. i think what this is, the comments that were leaked out of that were about what the president said in the beginning of the first clip they don t want to deal. if you wanted to deal, you would have never leaked that com