trump s fault. what do you say to that? this is the democrats not learning from their mistake in the past election. any time we have a failed policy from the democratic party, then they start to spread this whole racism thing or gender politics. this identity politics. and i think they should learn from their lesson in the past election where that didn t work. pete: sure, absolutely. of course politically it doesn t work. but how about just the blatant hypocrisy from it. we have seen racist actions over the course of our entire country just in recent memory the killing at the black church in charleston, horrifically racist incident. that happened while barack obama was president. no one tied it to him. right. pete: now they are trying to tie it to president trump. i think it s important to also note that hate has no political party. thethere are hateful people in both political parties or say they are a part of the party. there is another distinction. difference twr from a report
the point he wanted to make about those four minutes, lisa, overall, let s assess this first half of his closing argument. has it been effective so far? has he stayed on point? has it had has it been organized? give me your assessment. please be seat. court will be in recess for 15 minutes. did we lose lisa? i think we lost lisa bloom here. my jeez for that. as you know, is thethere is a s ves there. you ve heard this morning s roundup on that. in a few minutes, we will come back and see how long it is after this. we will end up we are going to take a quick a quick little break. chris jansing will take over and the trial will continue. [ male announcer ] some things are designed to draw crowds.
welcome back to morning joe. at 46 past the hour here with us columnist for the washington post kathleen parker. a lot to talk to you about this morning. what was that you just said about the truth? i said there s no profit in telling the truth because i live in washington. that s true, actually. that s a whole different conversation. reading all the excerpts of mark leibovitz book and fascinating. i can t wait to read the whole thing. is thethere is some sort of unofficial one. i can t wait to read the whole thing. where are you planning to retire? he said anywhere but here. wow. we ll get to that. we ll have him on the show. i m scared to read that. here s a part of your piece in the washington post about the trayvon martin case. a bullet through the heart. this is an interesting question you raised. suddenly this high-stakes trial has become a test of the credibility of two mothers. does maternal instinct convince
the civilian contribution corps did and making enough money to survive but built things that still last. i think is thethere s a range o activities if you put people in teams, i d like to see them work on teams about a year and something i think they will feel good about afterwards. a great concept certainly and we wish you the best about it. i want to ask you about some of the other big stories that are taking place rice now, specifically, the background check vote. the last time you were on this show, you supported even an assault weapons ban. what do you make of what is happening in washington and how this didn t go through? i m disappointed. i believe that there is a very difficult issue in front of us and that is how are we going to deal with everything about weapons. we have such an incredible number of americans harmed each year by weapons that i think not having an unemotional informed discussion is unfortunate. and so i think that things like
much. in the meantime let s go back to where there are serious new questions being raids by president obama d being raise raised being raised that if the debt ceiling is not raise the seniors may not get their social security checks august 3. this is the president s interview with cbs where he talked about this. be can you tell the folks at home no matter what happens social security checks will go south august 3. this is not just a matter of social security checks. these are veterans checks, folks on disability and their checks. thethere are about 70 million checks that go out. reporter: can you guarantee as president that those checks will go out on august 3. i cannot guarantee those checks go out on august 3 if we