should not it is ludicrous. it is a impeachment is a constitutional process. and if he thinks this part of the constitutional process is being it treating him unfairly, he s welcome to talk about that but we have all agreed in society we should not minimize lynching. that is one of the acts in this country s history that we have all agreed is super egregious. that should be a society standard and i m not opposed to speech codes but that is a fair one and he throws it out brazenly. it is about a decade ago, i think, i might be wrong on the timing, but i think a decade ago the united states senate took up avenue bill to formally apologize for lynching. yeah. i think we re giving the president way too much credit here. look, he can t figure out what the name of the secretary of defense is. he sent a ridiculous and embarrassing letter to the turks
and that is what happened in lynchings in america. over 4,000. not just african-americans but 3/4 to african-americans and things like unpop you ll sayrity and unfounded crimes and allegations. the president has a million words at his disposal to be more apropos to talk about what he believes a baseless allegation against himself but to reduce lynching to thinking that it is if i m inconvenienced by a charge against myself then i m involved in a lynching. i don t like it when now just clarence thomas used it talking about the anita hill hearings as a high tech lynching or when bill cosby spoke about it because it was inconvenience to him about allegations and cannot be reduced in this way and we re here we few weeks before halloween where the term is a witch hunt. that might have been better in this instance but to have the president of the united states given all of the things he s said by race up to this moment in time to be completely inept
inappropriate to have a foreign government trying to investigate your domestic political adversaries. we have americans to do that, jobs americans will take. and i don t understand that component is okay and president trump sparking a racial controversy in the middle of this. because why not. why not throw some racial logs on the fire. he called the impeachment probe a lynching. and then as bill taylor stunning new testimony enough to convince. ? we we ll talk to one of the potential jurors. stay with us. announcer: the lead with jake tapper brought you to by dell technologies. when you ve got public clouds, and private clouds, and hybrid clouds- things can get a bit cloudy for you. but now, there s the dell technologies cloud, powered by vmware.
more now on the politics lead. the republican reflex is to defend president trump but today his likening of the impeachment inquiry to a lynching. that is not the language i would use. it is very clear that what the democrats are doing here does not go across does not have due process. it is not fair in the process. it is not something that this house has done ever in the past. why wouldn t you use that word? i don t agree with that language. it is pretty simple. well that is something. lara, let me go to you. what do you think president trump declared on twitter that the impeachment inquiry was like a lynching. what was your response when you heard that word. i was irate and disgusted and dumbfounded because the president hasn t been castrated or dragged into a square and hung with a noose around his neck and tortured and put oil all over his body and reduce him to being a swine over a roast
condemnation after he went even further and likened it to a lynching. trump tweeting at the impeachment inquiry is without due process or fairness or any legal rights as he urged republicans to remember this in the future. but critics said he should remember the past. democrats immediately rebuked the president for invoking the racist history of barbaric white mob murders of black people. you knew exactly what he was saying and exactly how it would come across. why would you use the term lynching. why would you say that? reporter: members of trump s own party distanced themselves from his words including majority leader mitch mcconnell. given the history in our country, i would not compare this to a lynching. that was an unfortunate choice of words. reporter: tim scott the only african-american republican senator had this to say. there is no question that the impeachment process is the closest thing of a political death row trial.