What was he projecting when he was tweeting that meeting at the trump tower was about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton . Why would he tweet something that completely contradicts the statement that they wrote saying it wasnt about that and that he lied to us saying he had nothing to do with it. I rest my case. Come on, hes saying exactly what is happening and exactly what is true about him. He cannot help himself. Listen, you know, chris, we do not take this lightly. When this man was on the campaign trail with every being to be objective and report him in a fair equitable manner. And then when we became president of the United States, the same thing. It always gets me when people say this study shows theres 90 of the reports show about this president are negative, but they dont talk about the things that comes out of his mouth and the policies he proposes and what he says or does to people. How are we as media to report positively on something thats negative . The president called countries shole countries. Oh, well, thats great. You dont do that. You dont do things like that. You dont talk about people in the way this president does at least if youre a president of the United States youre not supposed to. So that whole thing about the media is biased and that 90 of what we report about donald trump is negative, if that is indeed true you need to counter balance that and weigh it against what comes out of this president s mouth and what hes doing. My concern is more what were almost forced to let go by the flood of activity that i believe, again, is one of trumps signature traits. He know he floods the zone some of its going to make it through. I worry about what we ignore, what we empower. I remember all the way back to Paul Manafort, with that silly Speech Ivanka gave that wound up being plagiarized melania. Melania gave a speech and did a great job and michelle had that speech and it was a great speech. Manafort said can we move on,
you said yourself melania gave a good speech. But i said i know but i cant move on because you keep lying about the plagiarism. We should have known. Remember spicer said it was my sparkle phony, whatever the saying was. We should have known from then. Im fired up, and by the way before i let you go, i saw screening last night of black klansman. It brings everything into perspective, Whats Going On now as opposed to whats happening back in the 60s and 70s. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. I want to start by saying i wouldnt normally address this. Because how important it is for each of us to stand up for what is right and what is decent im going to tell you exactly how i
feel starting right now. So President Trump is on vacation this week at his golf resort in new jersey, but he is not taking any time off from twitter and apparently from watching me on cnn, which he denies, by the way. I know this because he has tweeted a nasty hateful swipe at me and lebron james weve been discussing here. Youve probably read about it or saw it somewhere. I sat down with an nba great after lebron just opened a school for 240 at risk third and forty graders. And during our conversation lebron said this. We are in a position right
now in america more importantly where this whole race thing has taken over, and one because i believe our president is kind of trying to divide us. But for him to like i said use sports to kind of divide us is something that i cant i cant sit back and not say nothing. What would you say to the president if he were sitting right here . I would never sit across from him. You would never . You wouldnt want to talk to him . No. I would sit across from barack, though. He made lebron look smart,
which isnt easy to do, i like mike. Unlike this president who lashes out loudly at anyone who criticizes him, i have pretty thick skin and lebron james in addition to being a brilliant black man, a superstar in his sport and a hero to his community is taking a high road, which is exactly where he belongs. Since this president has used so many insults so often, the president has called a lot of people stupid, some of those people are right. But i would like to note referring to africanamericans as dumb remember this is america. Referring to of concern american as dumb is one of the oldest parts of americas past and present that black people are of inferior intelligence. And pretty much everyone and anyone in this country reacted. Heres what dan rather tweeted. Id much rather live in a world reflecting the values, philanthropy and yes intelligence of lebron james than the divisive peevish lies and narrow selfinterest displayed by the president of the United States. This tweet from barbara streisand. Why is he constantly projecting
onto others what he knows about himself. Rather than criticizing king james we can be celebrating him for his Charity Efforts to help kids. Even Michael Jordan is weighing in congratulating lebron for the work hes doing for his local community. But maybe cnn commentator keith boykin listen to this summed it up the best with this tweet. In trumps world obama, maxine waters, low iq, black countries, shut holes, black athletes sobs, black tenants unwelcome, black workers lazy. Central park five, guilty. Mexicans, rapists. Muslims, terrorists. Indians, fake. Nazis wait for it very fine people. Notice a pattern . This president constantly denigrates people of color and
theres something on that Birth Certificate that he doesnt like. I brought it up just routinely and all of a sudden a lot of facts are emerging and im starting to wonder myself whether or not he was born in this country. I would like to have him show his Birth Certificate. And can i be honest with you, i hope he can. Because if he cant if he cant and if he wasnt born in this country, which is real possibility, if he doesnt its one of the greatest scams in the history of politics. And black athletes who kneel during the National Anthem as a former protest against racism and police brutality, well, they get this disrespect. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag, to say get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now . Hes fired. Hes fired this week marks the one Year Anniversary of that violent and deadly White Nationalist rally in charlottesville. The one where angry white racists carried torches and shouted antisemitic slogans including jews will not replace us. The one where heather heyer, a 32yearold young lady was killed by a bigot who intentionally drove his car through a crowd, a crowd that was there to fight against the hate. But this is how this president famously characterized that. You also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. Cross burnings, tiki torches, white hoods replaced by no hoods and khaki pants, these are the very fine people in the president s eyes. And yes, let me not mince words here. This president traffics in racism and is fueled by boule bulling. President trump is trying a Divide And Conquer strategy here and heres how it goes. He divides by race and tries to conquer decency by smearing and besmirching the truth and the people who fight to uphold it. Ive wondered sometimes, youve seen chris and i, i wonder if he will succeed. If President Trump who has his finger on his hes the one who has his finger on the pulse of this country. Is he revealing who we really are . Think about that. Is this who we really are . The overwhelmingly negative response to his unfair and unkind attack on a good man, lebron james, Shows America rejects what he is pedaling, most of america anyway, not all
of america. But what about the impact his policies have without a platform through sports like lebron or through media like me . What about those who dont have a voice . What is his presidency doing to them . The kids separated from their parents at the bord, the kids who dont have the chance to attend lebrons school or any halfway decent school, the parents who cant honestly you cant honestly tell their children to be proud of a president of the United States. The people of color who are attacked by their fellow citizens who feel emboldened to be publicly racist because the president is. Will the country stand up for them . A recap of the days news. Hawaii is the first state in the u. S. To have 100 Renewable Energy goal. Were a very small electric utility. But, if we dont make this move were going to have changes in our environment, and have a negative impact to hawaiis economy. Verizon provided us a solution using Smart Sensors on their network that lets us collect near Real Time Data on our power grid. colton this technology is helping us integrate rooftop solar, which is a very important element of getting us to our Renewable Energy goals. shelee if we can create our own energy, we can take care of this beautiful place that i grew up in. I knew at that exact moment. Im beating this. My main focus was to find a team of doctors. Its not just picking a surgeon, its picking the care team and feeling secure in where you are. Visit cancercenter. Com breast were back. President Trump Mapping out a larger strategy when he takes to twitter and goes on the attack, particularly when going after people of color like me and lebron james. So lets bring in charles blow, an oped columnist for the New York Times, and annie karni, the White House Reporter for
politico. You told me the white house you said that the president s tweet was wrong and you told the white house. I do. And i do believe that. I think it was a mistake to go after lebron james. Look, id love to be as dumb as lebron james if thats dumb because hes not only the greatest athlete in the world in my opinion, he also is an incredible businessman and he has a great heart. Not just writing a check, that would be enough, because also being deeply involved in the curriculum. Whenever i hear about him the last thing i think of is dumb. My advice to the president who as you know i have Great Respect for, my advice to him is he should follow his wifes lead. We can praise the great work hes doing there. We can ignore the fact he personally doesnt care for the president. And i encourage the president like melania did to reach out to him, i think that would prove a lot to country, we care about the great things youre doing, youre a private citizen and how can we learn from each other in that regard . I hope the president will do that. Im very glad the first lady did. I am a private citizen, and i didnt run for office but i am a public figure here but i take the criticism just the president of the United States should be better and should do better and should not be tweeting bad things about nba stars or cable news anchors. Its just beneath the office of the presidency and he should learn that. So i want to bring in charles in. Charles, this is from one of your latest columns. Thank you so much for writing it. Donald trump has a pension for labeling particular people. It might strike some as just another insult from a Petulant Urchin of a man who insults everyone with who he takes
a tool, right . Shes not involved with him on a policy issue, he just wants to say the word pocahontas. He just wants to use maxine you know a lot of democratic congressmen who vehemently disagree with this president are on television all the time saying how much they disagree with him, senators, too. He does not use them. He chose the black women and says this is their new hero, and no one is saying the mexicans are the face of the party, but he wants to make her that because it is useful to him. Because it is a weapon and a tool. Just say it because because its race and misogyny as well because he likes the idea of using her. And that happens over and over in his insulting. He will pick someone hell pick, you know, athletes like lebron, pick you. But he wants to find a face. And he likes the fact that that face is female or minority. And its easy to beat up on them in his mind. Annie, the timing of this tweet from the president comes just about a year after charlottesville. And you in your piece for politico you write about the real lesson trump learned from that episode and ultimately he came out unscathed, right . In the shortterm, absolutely. We saw a year ago republicans on the hill distancing themselves from him. We saw executives quitting his business councils. We saw a lot of hemming and hawing among white house staffers whether they would leave the administration and cohen privately expressing consternation. A year later everyone sort of has crawled back one way or another. The corporate ceos are having dinners privately just at ivankas house or jareds house
and no one quit. I think in the shortterm is that nothing matters. The fifth avenue principle, his poll numbers are at an alltime high of his presidency, his fox news crew is still behind him. And from a Historical Perspective will this put him on the wrong side of history, that is question well find out later. But a year later hes doing just fine. Steve, i wanted to make sure you got in. I think thats unfair and the facts dont bear out. Okay, i dont believe its at all racial, and heres why no, heres why. Im about to give you facts, don. That was charles. Sorry, charles. Here, are some of the facts, people hes called dumb, people like mit romney. Political opponent. Like i said, political opponents. Go ahead, keep going. How about the way he criticizes people like chuck todd and joe scarborough, if you want to go into media. He does not seem to hold back
look at those men who are kneeling to protect the lives of other black and brown boys and men who have been shot by the police and doing so quite frankly in one of the most peaceful ways you could possibly do it, not even saying a word, just going down on a knee, it is literally one of the most peaceful ways of protest you could think of. But he knows that people in those audiences dont see that. They see black men being disobedient, and that is what he is using. So you can charles, This Is Brown face he can tell another lie on tv, which what he does. Can you stop calling me a liar . You lie all the time and this its very apparent to anybody whos watching. Let him say his piece. This is brown face, by the way, who appreciates very much what this president is doing for my community and communities of color in this country who are more prosperous and more secure they have been. And by the way, a brown face that is sick of being taken for granted by liberals who want to keep minorities in a political plantation where they are dependent on government and where their views are only respected at election time. And that i believe is real racism. Players played well politically
for him. So he used them. They werent constantly coming at him, which is the lie you just told. They never mentioned him. But yall let him come in here and lie. But he keeps coming back at them because it works for him, and look at those men who are kneeling to protect the lives of other black and brown boys and men who have been shot by the police and doing so quite frankly in one of the most peaceful ways you could possibly do it, not even saying a word, just going down on a knee, it is literally one of the most peaceful ways of protest you could think of. But he knows that people in those audiences dont see that. They see black men being disobedient, and that is what he is using. So you can charles, This Is Brown face he can tell another lie on tv, which what he does. Can you stop calling me a liar . You lie all the time and this its very apparent to
anybody whos watching. Let him say his piece. This is brown face, by the way, who appreciates very much what this president is doing for my community and communities of color in this country who are more prosperous and more secure they have been. And by the way, a brown face that is sick of being taken for granted by liberals who want to keep minorities in a political plantation where they are dependent on government and where their views are only respected at election time. And that i believe is real racism. They constantly no, its not a dog whistle. Im saying the democrats want that mentality. Only black and brown republican use the Plantation Metaphor because they can get away with doing it. And its the dog whistle to white people saying i would like to say that but they would call me racist so thank you black and
brown people because they would call me racist. Why dont we take a break here . Steve, im going to let you talk on the other side. There is a difference between, a huge difference that America Needs to understand about people who perceive themselves to be forgotten because of political strategy or because of politics or because someone is trying to use them in their vote. Theres a difference between that and people who have been historically forgotten about and discriminated against. Theres a huge difference in that. One is a perception, the other a reality. Well talk about that when we come back. Crabfest is back at red lobster, with our largest variety of crab all year like new crabfest combo. Your one chance to have new Jumbo Snow Crab with tender dungeness crab. Or try crab lovers dream. But hurry in. Cause Crabfest will be gone in a snap. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. A place with 24hour fvalet servicee
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