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Driven, as we all know, by president trump himself. you re saying the president adds to that hatred? there s no question about it. i think his comments over a period of time have indicated his animosity towards people of color. he starts his campaign by calling mexicans, you know, rapists and criminals. he s continued ever since against muslims, against different people of color. so it starts at the top, jim. and we have some of that rhetoric right here in the state of texas as well. we ve heard that from some of our state leadership, unfortunately. and that s not something that we should tolerate. that s something that we as a society not just here in texas but across the country need to come to terms with. we need to do something more than just offering prayers and consolation to the families. reporter: i spoke a short time ago to another state ....
Really talked about white nationalism and talked about invasion of mexico. he said of mexicans, rather, to this country. he said that he s going to speak to the nation sometime tomorrow morning around 10:00. do you feel the president should address directly this whole question of white nationalism and sentiment against mexicans and other people of color given his own statements of calling mexicans rapists and all, do you think he should directly address what is being clearly put as a motive for at least the shooter in el paso? well, rev, to the point of your question, he has addressed it over and over and over again. he has emboldened it, given it power, he has elevated it. he s cottled it and he s got to stop. we have a president of the ....
They didn t let any blacks on the floor while he walked in. you look what he did with the central park five. when he ran for president, he wanted to ban muslims from coming into this country. i mean, then he calls mexicans all rapists and criminals. none of this should surprise any of us. he because of his rhetoric, he s incited these people and they now feel it is okay. the whole group of them. and as i said that day in charlottesville, when you read the book, go home, get the heck out of virginia, get the heck out of our country, we don t want you. you think you are a bunch of patriots, you re not. you re a bunch of cowards. when you had the conversation with the president the day after charlottesville and you were hoping he was going to say more, you told him of the neo nazi and the white supremacist flavor of the march that had happened the day before they caused a death there and he did not after talking to you as governor, he did not address that in his statement when he instea ....
What does that tell us? well, it tells us he thinks it s a winning strategy because that s what worked for him in the last election. these attacks is nothing new. he is a one trick pony. he needed a new face to put behind his attacks. had we said the same thing in 2015 when he kicked off his campaigns by calling mexicans rapists and drug dealers. we ve known for decades when he called for the execution of the central park five. when he accused the first black president of being born in africa. listen, this is not anything that s shocking to a lot of people across the country. we ve known this. i think it s, you know, challenging for some of us to watch when we ve seen over the past few years for us to describe these comments as racially charged or some people perceive them to be as racist. we have to start calling this ....
For any of us to leave. america is as much our country as it is anyone else s. and the question i have for mitch mcconnell and all the republicans who did not come out and say anything about what the president said today is, is this what today s republican party stands for? what happened to the big tent? so, i completely agree with you. i do think, though, we have to acknowledge that, i ll quote my friend eric dyson here and say franken stein was the doctor, not the monster. this is the monster that the gop created and we have to acknowledge that. this didn t begin this year. this certainly isn t the first time that we have a white nationalist in the oval office of this country. this isn t the first time we ve had white nationalists walking to capitol hill. but we see right now this is what happens when we re silent. i would even go a step further and say this is the first time that the media has been so bold to say the president made racist comments. oh, not comments with racial und ....