he said we were the prosecutors and he was the defenda defendant. yes, but earlier, another pastor was on and he basically said he put the question to trump and trump basically didn t say anything. amarosa jumped in and said he didn t have to apologize for anything and trump did not respond to that particular issue. isn t that so political? donald trump is, of course, a politician. i also asked the pasters, did you bring up the issue of some of his inflammatory remarks about muslim americans? they said absolutely we did. they said we told him to tone it down, knock it off. and one thing quickly, if we can talk about it, it was mentioned at the press conference b, he talked about black lives matter and donald trump said yeah, that s important, but i think it s important white lives matter, too. but still, he says he won t meet with them.
and he should be campaigning for all citizens if he wants to be president of all citizens. and just because these pastors meet with donald trump doesn t necessarily mean that they endorse him. i spoke with them in the elevator on the way up here and i asked them how it went and they said, yeah, we gave him a piece of their mind and the they listened and thought it went well. but it s important to understand that there was a one of the pasters said they specifically asked trump to apologize for some of the things he said and there was no response from him as to whether or not he was going to apologize. so i think the idea of you know, if you want to kind of make amends, part of that is to acknowledge that i ve done something that offends you. it s not even whether you admit to defend or not. it is listening to the feelings of the person who is hurt and saying, i hear you and i need to say something for starters. it s a baseline.
others who were coming together to have a discussion, a meeting, a discussion. i don t know how it got out that a hundred pasters were coming to endorse. i don t know why other pastors got involved that way, didn t pick up the telephone to ask us as to what was going on. so i wanted to clear that up. the meeting today was fantastic. i was the one who raised the question on the racial situations and for one hour to 40 minutes, mr. trump sat there and answered those questions. what did he say? he when you asked him about the retweeting of the stats? i didn t ask him about retweeting the stats. i asked him about the black lives matter, the young man who was shot in alabama. in allel 58. and what did he say? he said he didn t know if it was a black lives matter persons or white lives matter. there was 10,000 people in the
the black lives matter activists. he said for him, it s not something that he wants to but, you see, you can t one of the pasters said that s more important. he said to donald trump, what s more important is that the person who is now at 16 hurn pennsylvania avenue deals with that issue rather than donald trump and yeah, but you can t pick audiences and shift messages. so if you were on msnbc i think it was this morning that i read this. and say basically black lives matter, people might have gotten to some of these pasters and that s why they were backing away from him, you can t slam their name and say oh, well, it s really important in the evening when you re in front of a press conference surrounded by black minuisterministers. the idea that we re supposed to be stupid. are you accusing donald trump of back pedalling? no. he does that all the time. it is about selling short people s intelligence to say to people, you didn t hear me say what i said. he does i
we can t attend. just seeing this event here today, just getting that support from the pasters who were there, i think it would have been seen all in all as a success. it would have been talked about as trump doing outreach to the black community. the i think the campaign made it seem like he was going to be getting support from a lot of pasters who don t really agree with trump s rhetoric so far. sara, thank you very much. i appreciate that. now i want to bring in three pastors who met with donald trump today at trump tower. joining me now are pastors darrel scott, mark bloomer bishop core let ta vaughn, daughter of teach your daughters to fly. thank you all for joining us this evening. i m very glad that you re here. let s have a good i want to say go to meeting or come to jesus, whatever you want to talk about. pastor scott one helped organize this. how did this come about? sfwh the meeting kiem about, this is actually a makeup