mit s willie geist here in nw york. attorney general jeff sessions in sacramento railing against sanctuary cities. how does that debate play out. not just progressives in california, but people across the country who say look, sanctuary cities are in violation of immigration law. it is in a way working. the point of the fear is to create the point of the policy is to create this sense of dread. the point of the dread is to create a deterrent to new people coming in and also to fuel self deportation in the famous phrase. so there is this tension taking place in the sanctuary cities as well where people feel a little bit safer, but then in recent weeks, we ve seen in california an uptick in ice raids throughout california, including in some sanctuary cities.
i don t agree with you about that. i understand what you are talking about. self deportation is not that far off. i was seeing i don t speak in dog whistles. so when it comes to donald trump, if you said to me is mitt romney a racist and i would say no, it is disgusting you would say that. and you say is donald trump a racist, i can t answer that question. it is an arguable proposition that he is. the fact that we are existing in 2018 at a moment in which i as a conservative can say that about the president of the united states who supposedly is a conservative, is a pretty terrible thing. we ll have you back in just a couple moments. stay with us. appreciate it. ahead, the big blue wave appears to be building. how the president is planning to fight back ahead of the mid terms. we danced in a german de group. i wore lederhosen. when i first got on ancestry i was really surprised that i wasn t finding all of these germans in my tree. i decided to have my dna tested through ance
trump is at present to limit immigration, particularly limit immigration from non-european countries. mitt romney said self-deportation. donald trump, not his words, to pastor burns commentary, but his deeds are more deportation, fewer immigrants that are not european, apparently more norwegians. wonder why he wants that. what do you make of those comments made in the oval office? is there a way back for donald trump from having said that. donald trump campaigned on making america great again. he wants other countries to respect us. now he s being going around the country saying other countries now respect us. no, they don t respect us when you re willing to insult other countries and people from there. i think that it s not making america great again. it s making america look weak. like we have an insecure bully leading us. one big problem we have is that world leaders look at donald trump and think this is not a guy playing with a full deck in terms of he doesn t understand
clean bill means. but the american people know what it means. you save those d.r.e.a.m.ers. why did they come here? through no fault of their own. why did my mother s family come here? for hope, opportunity, justice, and fairness. america, all of us are immigrants. so i would say we should all be insulted at this. including donald trump s family. donald trump s family came here and emigrated to this country. thank you, yes. jason, going back to 2013 and cpac, donald trump complained there weren t more european immigrants whom he contrasted with illegal immigrants he claimed were voting democratic. trump said, i say to myself why aren t we letting in people from europe? we know his history with the central park five, his father arrested at a klan rally. this is not an unknown quantity. americans knew who they were electing. right. is the bigger problem not just donald trump? i mean, self-deportation was
with illegal immigrants he claimed were voting democratic. trump said, i say to myself why aren t we letting in people from europe? we know his history with the central park five, his father arrested at a klan rally. this is not an unknown quantity. americans knew who they were electing. right. is the bigger problem not just donald trump? i mean, self-deportation was mitt romney s slogan, this is not new. right, it s not new. but again, what it speaks to is remember, as you were commenting before, there are people in his administration who are happy about this. there are people in his administration who are saying, yes, racist white nationalists in the united states of america are happy to hear this, happy to hear this unvarnished commentary that donald trump wants to create a white nationalist state that he wants to make sure that nonwhite, nonchristian people do