suppress people they disagree with, speech that they don t want to hear. the reality is this president has been a president for all americans. i fundamentally disagree with the view if you criticize somebody, and they happened to be a different color skin that that makes it a racial criticism. i welcome in my panel, shana thomas is back with us. senior wring for politico jake sherman. senior adviser in the trump white house matt martial arts, and campaign director for the center for american progress, juanita tolliver. shauna, let me start with on you what miller just said there, where he basically said that the word racist is becoming a political term, not one that actually means anything. well, i mean, i think he is trying to defend this president and change the subject. if you watch that whole interview, he changes it to socialism and everything else, but the thing is, when you write
absolutely. absolutely. division first and foremost, which hurts all of america. as you heard rep cummings say, he was told this same phrase, go back where you came from, you don t belong here. so when a person who has lived that experience, brings that forward as evidence, there s no disputing that this is racist behavior, and trump is only going to continue that, because that is his strategy, right? he s looking to divide and looking to rile up hi base. he knows this is something that they re going to latch on to. the rallies will chant this, and basket in his sound for 13 seconds. then, of course, he disavowed it and then embraced it again. matt martial arts, this is something that has caused some of his fer colleagues to actually say things in anthony scaramucci omarosa has
questions. that s because i think she knows it does work with the base. so, matt, here s my question. if the sense is that and perhaps liz cheney is reflecting this, and mahana made this point earlier, when we talk about racism, everybody just shuts down. let s say this divides america, and it inflames people on both sides, at the end of the day he ll need independent voters to win. i think it comes down to a policy discussion, and the ideas, the results we spoke about earlier, and the economic policy that the squad and now all leading democrat parties which are following the squad are also adopting, which is a largely, you know, socialist rhetoric. i was in the state department for two years, down in bogata, colombia working on our response, because venezuela was falling apart because of a lot
about the republican attacks, socialism and health care. watch. if we adopt a platform that s way out to the left, they re going to say we re socialists. if we adopt a more plod rat or conservative platform, they re going to say we re socialists. so we might as well just do what we think is right, make the case for it, and then let them do what they want. so, is he right? yeah, i think so. i should be asking you, matt. it s not no matter what they do, it s what they re doing. they re taking on a platform that alexandria ocasio-cortez has designed and changing and making it their own. so i mean, you don t want to be linked with a socialist, don t sound like a socialist. with that, when we continue, there is a crisis in puerto rico. tens of thousands protesting in the streets, calling for the governor to step down.