is donald trump a white supremacist, going from racist to white supremacist and a lot of them are saying yes at in point. it s become the new litmus test questions and you have bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, pete buttigieg and beto o rourke and kirsten gillibrand saying on the record, on camera, the president is a white supremacist. you have some demurring like joe biden and kamala harris and others. but it has become the new litmus test question. based on our reporting, what we re hearing and what i expect to see from the trump campaign and people associated with the president is for them to try to turn this as you re calling his supporters racist. so almost a revival of the deplorables comment in 2016. and karine, i guess as jonathan is reporting the trump white house doesn t mind this because they say if you re saying who anybody that supports
accept the findings of the intelligence community. and so, you know, now we re faced with this situation where he s invited the president of russia to the white house. the president of russia seems to be demurring. and tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. the president has a meeting on his schedule with paul ryan, speaker of the house and majority leader mitch mcconnell, both of whom today said they would not welcome putin to congress, to capitol hill. so i would love to be a fly on the wall when the three of them meet tomorrow. because i thought from the beginning that the two republican leaders of congress would do everything in their power to make this putin visit not come off because it s the last thing they need before the election. with that our thanks to the trump floor tonight. really appreciate you guys stepping up on a busy news night. we ll have more ahead on tonight s breaking news. plus on this day when the
so, jackie, where does this put us on a tuesday night heading on into wednesday morning? well, it puts us right back at the beginning. it was a week ago today that trump was cleaning up the mess he made the day before in helsinki standing side by side with vladimir putin. when he sided with the russian president, accepting his denials of any interference in our election, and subversion in our 2016 election and against the overwhelming unanimous conclusions of our intelligence community. and tuesday he s saying, no, no he meant he said would be when he meant wouldn t be. and he really believes his intelligence community. well, every day since then up to this tweet you just read he s given us more evidence, that, no, it s right back where he started from which is he doesn t accept the findings of the intelligence community. and so, you know, now we re faced with this situation where he s invited the president of russia to the white house. the president of russia seems to be demurring.
james baldwin and his people, figured out we have to do something. and it clicked on bobby. and there s a great scene in robert drew s documentary where jack and bobby are in the same room with kenny o donnell and all the others, ted sorenson and bobby says jack, you ve got to go on television. you have to come out for civil rights. you have to do it. and jack s demurring, i don t know if it s the right time. bobby said this is the time. bobby was he was amazingly good. how s that for a word? he was good. he had a moral authority. imagine being a white person, i hate talking like this, but let s face it. we re a racially divided country in many ways. he went into indianapolis the night martin luther king was killed. he had to go in and tell an african-american crowd in a tough neighborhood, the police wouldn t go in with him. he said, i m going in. i have to go. and he stood in front of that crowd on the top of a truck and he said, martin luther king has just been killed. you know ho
ted sorensen. jack, you have to go on television. you have to come out for civil rights. you have to do it. jack is demurring, i don t know if this is this is the right time. bobby said this is the time. bobby was, he was amazingly good. how is that for a word? he was good. he had a moral authority. imagine being a white person, i hate talking like this, but let s face it. we re a racially divided country in many ways. he went into indianapolis the night martin luther king was killed. he had to go in and tell an african-american crowd in a tough neighborhood, the police wouldn t go in with him. he said, i m going in. i have to go. and he stood in front of that crowd on the top of a truck and he said, mash tin luther king has just been killed. you know how you could hear from the old nbc tape. he said, do they know yet? the guy says they don t know yet. he had to tell them. who has the moral authority today to say to a group that has reason to be rebellious over what happened? he said w