donald trump and i will protect you from the scary black people. antifa is widely perceived as an african-american organization and this is just part of the same story of lebron james and don lemon and maxine waters in the nfl player than the ucla basketball players. this is about black versus white. this is about donald trump s appeal to racism. an organization is perfect. there was some violence. no one condones the violence but there are different reasons for antifa and these neo-nazis to be there. brian: no organization is perfect. antifa was just beating up the press and just beating up the press for a while and other people happen to be standing there. that was two weeks ago. then they smashed windows in february. i don t think they are black. they wear black masks. let s start on the first one. cnn, part of the reason they are not walking the story back, lisa, is the fact that caller
the scary, black people. antifa is widely perceived as an african-american organization, and this is just part of the same story of lebron james and don lemon and maxine waters and the nfl players and the ucla basketball players. this is about black versus white. this is about donald trump s appeal to racism and it just happens all the time. we never say it we don t say it enough for what it is, but that s what is going on here. what do you think, ron? well, look, i don t disagree, but i would frame it more broadly. i mean i think trump basically has portrayed himself from the beginning as kind of the last line of defense for his supporters against all of the forces that he suggests are trying to take america away from them. sometimes it is coastal elites like his attack on google this morning, and sometimes, often, it is minority leaders like all of the attacks that jeffrey
come on. just be honest about this. how many black people does the president have to attack in these terms? i mean, he s always whether it s nfl football players or, you know, ucla basketball players, come on. is it a coincidence of a senior black legislator low iq? it s revolting and we should just be clear about what s going on here. going after george h.w. bush s thousand points of light almost as if he s mocking the concept of kindness. and volunteerism. doing good in your community and so on. right. you know? he d rather hear make america great again. okay. volunteering and showing acts of kindness, that also helps make the country great, as well. it does. let s just ask donald trump the question. what has he done to serve his country? when s the last time he volunteered to serve his country in going after war volunteers, volunteer program and like to know when the last time was he volunteered and did something to
there wasn t this great theater, there weren t a lot of celebrities involved, there were no celebrities, but that is how you impact a lot of lives. you know, this is yet another example by fighting with the nfl players, by fighting with the ucla basketball players, by his comments in charlottesville, president trump gets to fight with black people, which he thinks is a great advantage politically. and, you know, this is not an olive branch. this is a more opportunity to define himself. you don t think he s employing a political strategy to try to portray himself as being open to their concerns? i think that s clearly what he was doing on the south lawn, whether or not it is genuine or not, can call that out, but that s clearly the political strategy by what he said. well, yeah, i mean, there is pretend political strategy and there is actually what is going on in the real world and i think in the real world whether it is in terms of voting rights
i think we re getting to the serious part where we find out as much as we can what happened in 2016 and what happened in 2017 and 2018 in terms of possible obstruction. i want to turn now to the president s meeting with republican senators on capitol hill. john mccain never came up. essentially trump gave a 458-minute monologue and a lot of it was about those ucla basketball players that were arrested or detained for shoplifting there and how his negotiations and he got them released. why won t these folks stand up for their colleague? you mean mccain? i think they d love to demand that the president apologize for what happened but they know they re not going to get anywhere. it s just fascinating because the white house over the last four or five days has never said that remark about mccain was not made. and having no one apologize, not apologizing yourself that would make sense if you re denying that it was made. no one s denying it was made. this is ray great example of how