are concerned. borzou, what do you make of that? well, at this point, katy, the details that you mention i think are important but almost beside the point. the trump administration is so close to the saudis and the emirates, it seems to be you can t really distinguish where one country s policy ends and where the other begins. you know, we basically through almost happenstance without really planning it have gotten into bed with this whole war and it s really hard to get out at this point. ugly things are happening. the war is getting uglier. you have maggie michaels of the associated press has been reporting on these horrendous human rights abuses allegedly at the hands of our allies in yemen. we re very close to the emirates and close to the saudis politically. there s no criticism of anything that saudi arabia does at this point in the region. so it really, i think, hurts the
reaches, and i think that s important for us to give context to this and understand that this is gibberish. there is a demographic shift occurring in this country. on a conservative level, 2043 is the turning point. i predict it will probably be a little bit earlier where you have a black and hispanic, black and brown united states. there are a lot of white folks inside and outside my party, inside and outside the democratic party, americans who are not happy about that prospect. this is the kind of crazy you get when people aren t happy. okay. we are going to move on to one other topic. we are going to talk about congress. to do that i want to bring in nbc political reporter alley vitale. my cohort on the campaign trail in 2016. she is back on the road covering the midterms. there is a lot of drama within the democratic party maybe drama is an inflated word for this. but there is talk about nancy pelosi and whether or not nancy pelosi should remain as leader, and if it comes to th
blamed both sides for that violence. so far today the white house hasn t made any mention of the anniversary or the deteriorating state of race relations in this country. but this morning the president indirectly touched it, going back at the nfl after several players protested during the national anthem as the nfl kicked off its preseason last night. trump claimed the players are, quote, outraged at something, most are unable to define. odd since the players have repeatedly made it clear that they are outraged about police brutality against african-americans. the president believes attacking the nfl is a winning political issue for him. his former top political strategist steve bannon said identity politics, i.e. race, was a winning issue in 2016 and will still be a winning issue in the midterms and 2020. but now someone else who served on his campaign and in his white house is saying donald trump s race baiting is deeper than
this is plain, you know, open and out there racism. she is talking about race. when she is using the word demographic shift or the words demographic shift, she is talking about the racial makeup of this country and the fact that in a few years we are going to be a majority brown country. white people will not be the majority in the country anymore, and the folks that are not comfortable with that are consuming fox and it s dangerous what she is saying. there is violence happening to black and brown people in the real world. i have a new clip in a moment. i am going to take a brief pause. we have news in the paul manafort trial. michael and zerlina, stick with us basil that breaking news in the paul manafort trial. nbc news national security and justice reporter julia ainsley has just left the courtroom. what s been going on? reporter: so, katy, we just got out of a three and a half hour recess only to come back and have the judge say, please bring your next witness. this is incredi
heard this tape, i have heard the president say these things. omarosa is now just talking about second-hand knowledge here. something else. moving on from omarosa. let s go to fox news. let s play, first off, what laura ingraham said the other night about the changing demographics in this country. because in some parts of the country it does seem like the america that we know and love doesn t exist anymore. massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the american people, and they are changes that none of us ever voted for and most of us don t like from virginia to california. we see stark examples of how radically in some ways the country has changed. now, much of this is related to both illegal and in some cases legal immigration that, of course, progressives love. i m going to give that to you first. i think we have to stop pretending this is not racism.