Star herself, quoting her, Muslim Brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby, followed by the equal sign and the initials v. J. Who is v. J. . Valerie jarrett, a former adviser to president barack obama. She then said i am truly sorry about making a bad joke about her politics and jokes. I should have known better. Forgive me, my joke was in bad taste. And then the fallout continues and now the show is cancelled. So lets have a huge discussion. Joining me now, brian stelter, who hosts reliable sources. Solomon jones is with us today, a radio host on praise 107. 9 africanamerican, april ryan is with us is with us. Let me just go round robin. First brian stelter, to you on the news and the statement significantly coming from the first female black president of abc entertainment coming out and, i mean, her words abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values. The same as many felt when hethesaw this tweet from Roseanne Barr, abc went silent for several hours. You were sitting in
a retired english teacher is schooling president trump on grammar and spelling. evan mason wrote a letter to the president after the parkland massacre to express how the families were treated. she got a form letter in response and as is par for the course but the former teacher says she was so appalled by the errors in it that she pulled out her trusty teachers pen and marked up a response and sent it back. joining us now is that teacher yvonne mason. thank you very much for being here. good morning, i m glad to be here. you sent a letter you wanted to suggest that the president visit every one of the parkland families and you got back a form letter and we have, again, we ll put it up, the full screen of you marking up what you felt were the grammatical errors. what was it that you were so appalled by? mostly i was appalled by the just random capitalization of
president trump to task offer over a letter he wrote to her. when she received his written response she noticed it was filled with grammatical errors. so she did what any english teacher would do, she pulled out her purple pen and got to work. yvonne mason is with me now. yvonne, first of all, thank you for all of your teachings throughout the years. my nom mom is a teacher so i wao say that. normally when people get letters from the white house, they frame them. what possessed to you start marking it up? people who know me know that i mark a lot of things up. i don t typically send things back but i think an official communique or communication, excuse me, should be a little more grammatically correct, even