That they know bad things about him. Good reason to keep really really really good files. You never no who will end up being president of the large western country. Adam davidson, reporter for the new yorker. Now time for last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening. Good evening, rachel. Boy am i glad ive never done business in russia. Doesnt that all sound obvious when you hear it that of course it would work that way. Well and the fact the thing i have learned from adam davidsons reporting at the new yorker is you dont have to be perfect but you do have to look to see if you are really obviously doing dirty business with people who Everybody Knows are dirty. And it doesnt matter if thats okay in their country. It is not okay in the united
states if youre an American Company or american businessman doing that. Just willful refusal to look and recognize dirt you are wallowing in, thats enough to get nailed in this country under our lawes. And it is absolutely not okay if youre a Bus
charlottesville and it reminds me also of right before super tuesday when he said he would not condemn the ku klux klan because he knew nothing about them. didn t know david duke and then he said it was an earpiece and i mean, this is what he does all the time. but he usually ends up on the most racist position possible. and that s what he s done here too. by the way, he s turned it up. he s turned it up a notch. the racism and the hatred and the nativism and the xenophobia. this isn t just this isn t groundhog s day. this is a new level of racism and hatred. brought to you by donald trump and the republicans who enable him. all right. the president s use of the word nightmare there certainly could be applied to the red sox pitching staff, joe, but we ll set that aside. certainly true. you re right, we spoke a few days ago and saw this coming. it s very similar to what he did in charlottesville.
interviews for 25 years. in fact, calling him a racist. but he was asked him in 2016, when david duke supported him. here s what trump said. will you, unequivocally condemn david duke and say that you don t want his vote or that of other white supremacists in this election? well, just so you understand, i don t know anything about david duke, okay? i don t know anything about what you re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. so i don t know. would you just say, unequivocally, you condemn them and you don t want their support? well, i have to look at the group. i mean, i don t know what group you re talking about. i don t know why anyone needs to look at the group. it s either a white supremacist or it s not. i think that trump has been very consistent. he really doesn t care who it is that supports him, as long as they support him, whether they re racist, whether they re crazy, whatever, he is not going to disavow that. and i think that that s unfortu
it. well, you know, trump also didn t know david duke, he didn t know about white supremacists. he always says that. he certainly knows about steve king s reputation. as a matter of fact, one of the things that steve king says is that he helped lead trump down the road of supporting a wall. he has been well, trump has bragged about raising more money for steve king than anyone else, which is a pretty big thing to brag about and not know what he s saying. well, there gryou go. so he of course knows what steve king has said. he knows who he is. he knows what he represents. and frankly, i think that part of steve king being so emboldened now is because of the atmosphere that has been created by president trump. you know, you mentioned david duke. and obviously, trump today saying that hep doesn t know the steve king story, which obviously, anybody who watches cable news or is on twitter knows it and nobody watches those two things more than this president. during the campaign, r
okay. jim, does that even make sense? no. who is that laughing. short answer, no. because it s rick. because i m watching at home. right. and you know, as the car had hit the person by the time the president gave the press conference. how many times though has he gotten out of the ahead of the facts to call something a terrorist attack. for years he said the president barack obama wasn t born in this country. he said barack obama wire tap me at trump tower. didn t have all the facts when he made those statements. there s a litany of examples where he made statements without having the facts. that s ridiculous. the other thing he said was i didn t know david duke was there. he said i watched this more closely than probably you guys did. time and again, there were contradictions in what he said all day long. you know, i don t think it s really a surprise to anybody that he s espousing these views. you know, we ve been talking about dog whistles all day today. these were