took a rare semiveiled swipe at president trump. saying this, we should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred. leaders who demonize those who don t look like us or refer to other people as sub human or imply that america belongs to one certain type of people. such language is not new. it has been at the root of most human tragedy throughout history in americaer and around the world. it is the root of slavely, jim crow, the genocide in rwanda and more. it is time for the overwhelming majority of americans of good will of every race and good faith and political party to say as much clearly and unequivocally.
to the people who actually experienced the harm. but it s really curious to me because you said it, john, this is the first year when we had this issue in the history of the congress. why now? what s going on in the discourse in america that we now look back for something that clearly was horrific. your comments were riveting. but why now? why are we having this conversation now? what s going on politically within the democratic party because that s where this is coming from, this is an issue now that has some sense of urgency and that i think is the question that needs to be answered. let me say this. there is two problems with that, right? people keep saying it was 150 years ago. no, it didn t. we kept a kind of quasi slavery long after slavely was eliminated, right? we built into the 13th amendment the clause that says you cannot be forced to give voluntarily labor unless you re convicted of
the allies believe the president s maximum pressure campaign of tough sanctions against tehran is really throttling them and their economy is in shamables. so they are doing these incidents, which are dangerous but are not massive, right? to in order to sort of rattle the cage. ainsley: get our attention, right. ed: get our attention because they are in desperate straits. steve: they re indeed. talk about what is going on on capitol hill. keep in mind historically back in the years 2008 and 2009. congress issued apologies for slavely. fast forward to today and particularly yesterday. house democrats are pushing hr 40. that would then create a commission to study the legacy of slavery and make proposals whether or not african-americans should be paid reparation. ainsley: um-huh. what you are going to hear right now is a little bit of that heated and emotional testimony yesterday in front of that committee. here is some congressman that are going to react. we also have burgess owens
why are we having this conversation now? what s going on politically within the democratic party because that s where this is coming from, this is an issue now that has some sense of urgency and that i think is the question that needs to be answered. let me say this. there is two problems with that, right? people keep saying it was 150 years ago. no, it didn t. we kept a kind of quasi slavery long after slavely was eliminated, right? we built into the 13th amendment the clause that says you cannot be forced to give voluntarily labor unless you re convicted of a crime, which is a backdoor that allowed southern states to basically accuse black people, even children of all sorts of crimes and to put them in convict leasing where they would lease out these bodies, again, pre labor to farmers, to industry, to anybody. this happened until the 1930s.
rapes, murders and slavely taking place in their country that come to our border and need help. but there s also people coached up to say they re not in a gang any more or i m afraid of x, j and z when it s not true. the border patrol people, i think this is just an impossible task for them to process all these people and figure out truth from false on the fly on these kind of field interviews that they conduct and come to rational decisions. the whole system needs an overhaul, can t possibly be a function of fine tuning our border patrol or the resources that they have. laura: both of you, thank you so much. this is obviously a problem that s going to continue unabated until we come to solutions. james referred to solutions necessary. tom homan is with us and louisiana republican congressman and house majority whooip steve scalise, thank you gentlemen for being here. tom given your expertise in this