here now is cnn s sara sidener. first of all, the big subject that s before us all that some might refer to as the elephant in the room is a situation of a new york times quote. a quote that his own party thought was so racist, they stripped congressman steve king of his congressional committee assignments. in it he says white nationalist, white supremacist, western civilization how did that language become offensive? why did i sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization? he chose those words and pungt wa punctuated them the way he did. but i was not punishing the words white supremacy and white nationalism. when i said why did that language become offensive, i was speaking directly about western sievization. they are denigrating western civilization today. king spoke to his
what s going on in western sievization. this would have been their first opportunity to have that experience. and those opportunities potentially will be lost in the future because of the antics of dennis yesterday in your interview. does it change the analysis, though, that they agreed to play this good will game on the ruler s birthday and what they had to know rodman was terming a gift and of course the money involved? first of all, that s a huge leap to make that assumption. and again, let s face it, i consider myself to be reasonably educated, i didn t know it was kim junk un s jong-un s birthday. so they may not have known? those guys could have been blind sided. you saw how uncomfortable they were sitting there when dennis rent on his rave and his rant. i don t think there s any question they were compensated