freshman members who were really insulted. congresswoman talib basically saying this in and of itself was a racist act, bringing this black woman who was silent there as a prop was in itself a racist act and then you had mark meadows again citing his friendship with elijah cummings in citing his relatives who are people of color basically taking ombre at the idea that he could have committed a racist act. there was all this tokenism and rhetoric around race that really, think, struck a nerve with folks on that panel and certainly the broader public. and there was internal politics involved there too. do we have kpt change? did you want to kmaert chanwant between rashida tlaib? let s play that. the fact that someone would actually use a prop, a black
was not born in the united states of america is racist. it was peddled by racists. it was racist when donald trump did it before he was even a candidate. it was racist when he did it as a candidate. and members of congress were elected on that type of rhetoric. using racism for political gain. what we saw here today with congressman meadows was fascinating for several reasons. first, the initial tokenism of lynne patton. here is a black woman who works for donald trump, and so therefore donald trump cannot be racist, which on its face is ridiculous. second, she doesn t even get to speak. stand up, black woman. see? she likes donald trump. okay. you can sit down now. we re going to go back to talking. the framing of it was remarkable. but then to have a woman of color congresswoman later on speak the way that many of us at home watching this were thinking, right, that this was offensive. this was strange. yeah. having heard her say that and to then have this congresswoman so almost
that president trump is he can t be racist because he has a black employee. i ll let you tackle that one. well, obviously it s one of the most asinine things to come out of the mouth of a congressman during one of these hearings. and then to pull the stunt that he did to use a black woman as a prop, to say, see? no, look. she s going to dispute what you said, michael cohen. she works for donald trump. she doesn t think he s a racist. and she s black. and she s black. and to have her stand there on display like that was something i ve never seen. you know, when i worked in congress, i ve been in a lot of hearings also. i ve never seen anything like that. and it infuriated me to watch it. shouldn t someone get him and say, okay, listen. maybe you don t think you re a racist, but what you did was certainly racially insensitive. yes. you need to learn. this is the problem when you don t have diversity on satisfy, when you don t have people of color in decision-making positi
politics and completely focusing on being creative. tara, perhaps he ll be more creative than his 000000 password. yeah. kanye has been a mess for quite some time. he s vacillated between positions on a number of things. i felt as though the trump administration was exploiting him in a number of ways. i caught a lot of criticism because i called him a token. i m sorry, but this is exactly what tokenism looks like. i m glad that kanye west has opened his eyes and decided he no longer wanted to be one. tara and angela, thank you. president trump stirring up more vitriol against the migrant caravan making its way toward the u.s., calling them thugs and criminals. he plans to send 5,000 troops to the border. how much will that cost you, the taxpayer? and a connecticut candidate
and puts out these statements, the other day it was the president who directed staff to put out the first statement he wanted to respond to this book. they put out another one today about the interviews this morning. this is bothering the president. he doesn t like it. and the statements make sense. it does reflect on omarosa s character to be doing this. but the question always comes next. why was she there? why was she given this position? why was she given $180,000 taxpayer salary? i think we know what the answer is. the answer is there were not a lot of minorities who were willing to go you took our answer, tokenism. it s hard to say when you re a reporter reporting on this white house, but there are not there s nobody else in there. kellyanne conway got a question this morning, who is the next highest ranking black official in the white house? she s pretty good in these interviews at vamping and she was stumped. so let me clarify the record