The people the brothers and brings them to my family especially his son who was on the zuma who was. In the company that i was working with which was a joint venture television station present 2 months somehow to her beauty about a 3rd stake in the company and the deal there was for president zuma to get the biggest Government Departments in the seas to get advertisements to the station and a share of that to go to president who must run so they had been he throws a very close relationship i was part of the business meeting thats a cover others had with president obama and i saw from many close quarters that this is not just a relationship between a head of state and a corporate entity but it was much much more than that also they would speak with him as a partner in the kind of inventor you know i was part of the team that went and give presentations and the president would speak to me and i want to say more than that company would ask about finance it is about. The state of preparedness that the television station was at the studio the design. Even the name of the station was given by the president so thats at the level of the legions of that i thought i could give you one instance you know there was a time when the independent Election Commission in south africa had an advertisement budget which they were giving to the biggest television stations and newspapers and the media on a stand on that and they were very angry about that in the complaint of the president elect you should be interviewed and ensure that the court dined. Off of that but just wasnt there and i was torn off of the meeting that they had that. And thats because the president has spoken on their behalf through the independent Election Commission about about this particular issue so this was of a nation ship which was a post immigration ship as well as a business relationship a lot of businesses having people from prison to my family as director of the company. Plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news hour including a renewed threat from a bowler in the democratic republic of congo person faction is detected in a densely populated area. And after another weekend of a rest home calls leader risks further inflaming tensions in refers to protest as well as rioters. Burned in sports so the Girls Football fans see their country take another step towards their 1st africa cup of nations total. Now the u. S. President is under fire for a series of racially charged tweets against democratic congresswoman told trump called the foreign born troublemakers and told them to go back from where they came. To has more from washington d. C. The dehumanization is not only with those families but its also with the agents that weve had told to do this to these families their 1st time congresswoman and vocal critics of the u. S. President and it appears theyve gotten under donald trump skin he took to twitter to say in part Progressive Democrat Congress women who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe should go back to the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came however 3 of the Congress Women were born in the u. S. Not elsewhere as he suggested alexandria cortez of puerto rican descent was born in new york Ayana Presley is from massachusetts and russia to tell you the palestinian american was born in michigan she responded to trumps attack on social media this is our country and no amount of heat shield myleene from the white house is going to change that were going to fight back together and were going to become stronger for it please know that ill never back down. No bully no kind of attack to silence me is going to work another target of trump congresswoman ileana omar was born in somalia came to the us as a refugee when she was a teenager and became a u. S. Citizen nearly 20 years ago omar responded to trump by tweeting mr president as members of congress the only country we swear an oath to is the United States which is why we are fighting to protect it from the worst most corrupt and inept president we have ever seen the racially tinge tweets came on the same day trump said immigration officials would be conducting raids throughout the country to arrest any victim undocumented migrants with removal orders it stoked fear in immigrant communities of being caught up in a dragnet of mass deportations and earlier in the week trump threaten to go around the Supreme Court and demand people answer a question in next years census on whether they are u. S. Citizens analysts say its all part of a trial pattern this is a president who once said that he called for the total and complete shutdown of muslims entering into the United States once referred to mexicans as the rapists once started the barack obama birth or controversy and so its really important when you see this sort of racism zina phobia massage any islamophobia coming from the commander in chief its really important for minority communities here in the United States to act as intersectional allies to one another ensure that hes a one term President Trumps anti immigrant and racially divided undertones in the run up to the 2016 election did not prevent him from becoming president he won anyway he now likely thinks that his latest rhetoric will not hurt his chances for reelection next year gabriels on dough aljazeera washington will complete the snow line from washington d. C. What is the white house saying about this. Well its really notable that the white house isnt think anything about this in fact there have been opportunities in the last 24 hours or more for white house officials to speak on National Television about this most are letting the president and his words for themselves for his part donald trump has continued to tweet doubling down even early this morning here in washington once again attacking those same progressive Congress Women especially declaring that every time theyre confronted that their defense is to call those who attacked our challenge their views as racist now we should point out in all of this says Gabriel Osama has reported Race Relations in the United States continue to be particularly fragile most are pretty shocked in the United States that these kind of comments are coming from the president the United States they really are something more that many people would expect sort of a disorderly elderly uncle to say it at a Family Reunion that most would be embarrassed not something that sort of put out in social media for all of this we should point out that the president is likely to speak a little bit later today or at least there is the opportunity to speak when he hosts a made in America Forum that will be taking place in the lawn of the white house in the coming hours we do expect that the media will challenge some of these tweets and we are very eager to see what the president might have to say about that but of course that can be gabriel alluded to in his report about the timing of these comments on the back of his rights across the country its sort of so you can get to get. U. S. Policy on whats coming out of the white house and how the white house. Is really gearing up to selling those policies nationwide in the in the light about 2020 president ial election. Yeah donald trump is a master manipulator of the news narrative but its something that he did on the campaign trail a twin. 16 he continues to do it in the white house and presumably if he wins reelection will continue to do so hes very tuned to how the media works how he can control the narrative what hes doing right now by putting out these tweets were talking exactly about what he wants to talk about it as and some would even argue helping his reelection bid by putting out discussing these very inflammatory issues in the United States this may be a part too because donald trump is facing some testimony on capitol hill the could perhaps be unfavorable there are a number of hearings that will take place particularly in the house side this week discussing immigration issues particularly with regard to the Top Administration policy is theres the Robert Muller testimony that will be coming it was originally scheduled for wednesday now will be next week and weve also gotten just the last few minutes or so some new news coming out of the department of justice as well as department of Homeland Security that the trumpet ministration is now putting into effect starting tomorrow some new rules with respect to asylum essentially what this will do is restrict those who can claim asylum in the United States this will particularly affect those that are flooding the southern border of the United States from Central America essentially arguing that if you are entering from a socalled safe country in this case it would be in mexico that you cannot claim asylum what this would do essentially is limit those who may be migrating to the United States for economic reasons really putting to the front of the line those that are claiming that they are seeking asylum because of persecution so maybe in all of this the president mindful that this is something that will be discussed is trying to get ahead of that news narrative wolf that i believe if i can we hope of our correspondent in washington d. C. Thank you. Well u. S. Congresswoman spoke exclusively to aljazeera she says the u. S. Is living through what she calls a historic tonis in time and double leadership. Polarization in this country really has existed for a long time and what were seeing right now is the an earthling of the kind of cancerous that could really present. But the positive things that every time when there is a challenge there is an opportunity so because we have the most the face of president were living in. Historically traumatizing time at least in my generation in this country. And you can watch our full interview with the lamo more on saturday at 430 g. M. T. When the seller is cofounder of the womens Public Leadership Network she joins me now live from washington d. C. Via skype good to have you with us on the program some may argue that the only real americans are these sort of indigenous native American Indians that everyone else originates from elsewhere including trump i mean whats your reaction to what his comments have been on twitter. I have to say i had to take a moment when i saw those tweets i was not only disgusted i felt really wronged because im a woman of color im a daughter of immigrants i was born and raised in a very rural part of West Virginia surrounded by predominately white people and i never realized my color because growing up in the early eightys in southern West Virginia i felt like i was just as american as everybody else and today that there is no mary i ruffin is a race that supports this president and the people overwhelmingly voted for him gave him this presidency and theres a sense in me that maybe there have been a lot more people who carry the sentiment that this president reflected in those tweets more so than i thought all these years i mean his own party have for the moment sort of remained quiet on the matter a lot so you for the moment are you expecting any critical comment. You know i think right now everybody is doing what they usually do with the president outlandish comments and what i say everybody i mean were all in members of the u. S. Senate and the house inside theyre likely troubled and aghast lightly not believing that there is somebody who occupies the oval office clearly doesnt understand our constitution doesnt understand the values that are in strength in our constitution that these people these elected officials on the republican side are likely going to be quiet that the jury of that because they worry about their big worry about being reelected if they lose the ybor republicans nationally as well as the white house but you are republican yourself and so i have to ask you know does the policy performance the statements of the code it republican president and his administration really fit with who you are i mean do you still have the same ideology and stunts all the all the Republican Movement in the usa in 2019. Yes simply put so you know i dont i dont reflect the republican electorate these days ive been a republican strategist long before president truck came down the goal of the escalator declaring his candidacy as a republican at that time myself and many established republicans who lived in washington worked for other republicans years felt that he was a joke we felt that he was hijacked the Republican Party big unions and i feel the same today that you answered your question do i in my inbox that with todays Republican Party absolutely not with you i believe in the core values of the party was very founded upon that i know that the party really cares about grounds im physically more conservative than i am socially and thats ok because i dont think this president is really a republican i think he hijacked the party and remade it in the in can eat youth image and therefore the party is going to require a real soul search after he has done it in office so the moment i would you say that this sort of stunts from President Trump will affect his support base as he sort of heads towards reelection in 2020 i mean its based still there was its really behind to hold the base that he thinks he has. So there are 2 things here i think number one the republican electorate is not as racist as perhaps the Mainstream Media in the us paints it out to be accountable to the country and have a great privilege of doing so for my work over many years i have the privilege of traveling the world i can tell you there are good United States that dont hold these to white supremacist values but the real calm has been that the city present United States has not denounced White Nationalism this primacy hes not denounced it. And that of course it has given rise to a faction of republicans that do have weak and carry racism and therefore the color of the whole party in that sentiment i think there are a lot of republicans me why at this moment secondly do i think the base is going to abandon him for remarks i dont think so because they have their full support behind him and there were 3 tribalism has meet them where he rose colored glasses or the president and therefore they werent and got him simply because of these comments he said much worse indeed we shall see what does happen for the women we know she has been a pleasure to have you all to play with thanks very much for your insight thank you so much as to whether the his cabinet back in the states is to looking at hurricane barry well the hurricane is the over was talking about a depression now but really really with depression theres still some circulation as well as a lot of moisture with this particular storm so the flooding situation is still going to go on but it was a very disorganized system as you can see on satellite image we really didnt have a good circulation with the clouds but most of the rain had always been towards the east and you can see here the a lot of the video coming out showing widespread areas of flooding for parts of the wheezy ena gulf coast mississippi alabama as well as now into arkansas you can see here with the flow is coming know the air of low pressure is still in arkansas thats going to be weakening just about there but the flow of moisture is going to continue know the next few days were still going to get that that pump. Moisture as well as the flooding across much of the area and we could be seeing another 200. 00 possibly 250. 00 millimeters of rain in some locations so the flooding situation will continue of the next few days as long as we have this particular circulation going on in terms of that your blish and this is where we do expect to see it anywhere from arkansas and still down here towards parts of louisiana now our other story for the United States is whats going to be happening as we go towards mid week and later we do have a heat wave thats going to be building across much of the east coast take a look what we do expect to see for new york as we go towards the weekend not too bad for thursday friday 34 saturday 37 our normal highs are normally 29 and this is only one out of the east coast cities that will experience a he way of. Thanks ken well still ahead here all the news are slowing down the trade war with the u. S. 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