okay, well you keep trying to hop around. no, i m quoting you the president. the president has raised questions about the loyalty of a judge of mexican descent, so i m just pointing out things your president said. okay, and i think that was a mistake during the campaign. what isn t a mistake, though, is protecting our borders for all americans for whatever color they happen to be. american first, we all bleed red, white, and blue, and we salute one flag and it s not an american flag. this is like a list of the greatest hits. they bleed red, we all bleed red. a reminder don t miss the van jones show this weekend. you can catch it saturday 7:00 p.m. eastern time right here on cnn. just ahead, breaking news. a report on the fiscal education involving the president s chief of staff and president s campaign chief.
last summer, in another immigration meeting, the president said haitians all have aids. and immigrants from nigeria would never go back to their huts after seeing the united states. as a candidate, mr. trump called mexicans rapists and insulted an american born judge of mexican descent. each time you hear one of these, we laugh it off, it s always been a mistake. who can forget when he infamously equated white supremacists with the people protesting against them last august in charlottesville, virginia. i think there s blame on both sides. you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. on both sides, remember that? it was never two sides to that. you never equate anything with white supremacy and hate. we don t do that in this country. the president did. this is who he is. and it is no small irony that oprah does come to mind for me.
it is who is he. it wasn t a fit of peak. it wasn t a slip of the tongue. how do we know? because he has given us the same impression of how he feels every chance he has. facts, according to the new york times, last summer in another immigration meeting the president said haitians, quote, all have a.i.d.s. and he reportedly said that immigrants from nigeria would, quote, never go back to their huts after seeing the united states. as a candidate, mr. trump called mexicans rapists, and insulted an american-born judge of mexican descent. each time you hear one of these, we laugh it off and it s always been a mistake. who can forget when he infamously equated white supremacists with the people protesting against them last august in charlottesville, virginia? listen. i think there s blame on both sides. you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. on both sides. remember that? it was never two sides to that.
i think of two things now, chris. my father i m a first generation american. and my dad came from what i guess trump would call a shithole, it was a very rural and poor area. and a very poor family from poland, and he came to the united states alone at the age of 17. i cannot believe the courage that that took. and he was able to make a living and raise a family in the united states to become a very proud american. and second of all, what i think of, chris, today all over this country you have decent people who sit down with their kids at the dinner table and say, judge people based on their character. don t judge people based on the color of their skin or the country that they came from. whether or not they have an accent or not. judge them on whether or not they are good human beings, and we have a president today, the leader of our nation telling the whole world that that s not what
all of that stuff that trump s playing to. it is offensive and i ve got to say back to sheriff joe, that he conducted himself in a lawless way over many years and sheriff down there and a lot of people didn t like him. and he disobeyed the orders of a judge. that s just lawlessness, i am very much concerned about this, but i m not surprised. because last november, december, newt gingrich was mouthing off in interview with me at npr about how president trump could pardon anybody he wanted to who engaged in unethical behavior. i guess police brutality, obstruction of justice, contempt of court, all of that is going to get pardoned if the president thinks you re on his side. but we re talking about a smaller and smaller base wean when we re winnowing down to the alt-right and ku klux klan. that s really very troubling for a president who is supposed to be leading the entire country. there are a lot of republicans, and