no, i don t. the whole idea about defunding the police and the whole crime issue happening across the country, i ve been saying, gosh, now for months even before they had all the candidates stacked up for mayor, as goes new york so goes the rest of the country. and so that the new york mayoral race was going to be a litmus test for the rest of the country. and it certainly has turned out to be that way. i tried to get the candidates on from the very beginning. it wasn t time for it because the rest of the country just was not interested in it, it wasn t close enough. but i knew this would be az said a litmus test for the rest of the country. and i think that this really exposed where democrats you say this is a democrat problem where democrats actually are on crime, where they are actually as a party. i think it exposed so much about the left and the rhetoric on the right. this one race in new york city, i believe, did that. you wind up having eric adams, who is a former cop,
it was on protecting voting rights. he was clear. he says we re facing the most significant test for democracy since the civil war. what we didn t hear is any mention of changing the filibuster. if democracy is on the line, how can the president avoid that? well, don, thanks for having me. as you know, you and i have had this conversation for well over a month where i talked about it being a most perilous point since the civil war, and i m glad to see the president has come to that position, the real reality position of where we are. this is the way i see the president right now, and much of the administration and probably most of the senate democrats is they have been going through the stages of grief of what the republican party fundamentally is. it took them a while. they were first in denial of what the republican party really was. they thought donald trump was the bad part, he ll be removed, they ll go back to normal. they didn t. then they went into this bargaining position as
true nature of critical race theory. you tweeted that it is, you are going to create something toxic when it comes to the way people think about critical race theory. that s what you yourself tweeted. isn t that bad for america? that s wrong, that s inaccurate. critical race theory is intrinsically toxic. i m merely revealing it, and i m merely exposing it and i m merely creating a framework for people to understand it. but it s not that i ve turned critical race theory toxic. reporter: but that is not what he tweeted in march. his tweet? we have successfully frozen their brand, critical race theory, into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. we will eventually turn it toxic. as we put all the various cultural insanities under that brand category. judging from what is happening in some school districts across the country, the debate has turned toxic. but the school districts suddenly being targeted say they are not teaching critical race theo
respond this way and it tells you kind of how to respond. if someone says there s systematic racism in this country. but i do think we need to recognize and folks need to look at how parents are feeling because some of the language that has been used to try and teach children, some of the new things that are being tried has really rattled people, not just white parents, not just conservative parents but parents across the board. and one of the things we talked about is that book, which is not critical race theory but a book for fourth and fifth-graders that said whiteness is a bad deal. imagine if that was flipped around and it said blackness is a bad deal. so you can see how parents would be very concerned. and the biggest concern, don, it really is fear. it s fear their children, particularly white children, are going to be demonized just for being white. and most people we talked to said they don t want to see anything like that. but this reminds them of something. it reminds them o
is not the party we thought it was. they ve finally gotten to anger. the president s finally gotten to the point of anger, and i think the next thing, which i believe if the president s words are authentic, which i believe they are, and his anger is authentic, then they ll get to acceptance of this is who they re dealing with, this is the republican party, it s not what joe biden has worked with over the last 40 years, and they will get to that point i think because in the end you have to say and you know, you went over the history of the filibuster in the brief before the show, and before i came on, that it s always been used in a way to keep people from voting. it s always been used to keep people from civil rights and it s again being used to do that. so i think would i have preferred this to have happened a month ago or six weeks ago? don, yes. but i think the president s finally getting to the point of acceptance of who the republicans fundamentally are. do you think it s too