war against hamas as fears of a potential escalation in the region intensifies. plus, russia pounds ukraine s two biggest cities in a new wave of attacks. the assaults are likely to strain nuclear s defenses as the country continues to plead for more military assistance from the u.s. and donald trump is appealing the landmark ruling from maine that disqualified him from the state s primary ballot. later in the program, we ll be joined by maine s secretary of state to talk about her decision there and charlie sykes with his new piece that asks, is disqualifying trump anti-democratic? we ll get the answer along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent to bbc news, katty kay, and founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes is with us. willie, we are going to start with some political snapshots of where the race stands, and then we ll get to all the big major news breaking overnight. we have a lot to
backgrounds and that you have more scholarly rigor and more value can be brought by having people from different backgrounds. this is an attack on diversity. this is an attack on multi-culturism. and on many of the values that a lot of us hold dear and in fact, anybody, really, who is around my age in their 30s, who went to any public, major public university or private university in this country, these are values that are very important. and i think that s why these presidents are under attack. that s why claudine dpae was under attack. the fact that she s a black woman and the first person who is a black american to lead harvard only added to their thirst to dethrone her. and this i don t have to say that they re racist, but you can hear and see the racism in the
in our nation s history to confront the truth about race as it means to bringing people together. for generations our diversity and multi-culturism has been seen as one of the nation s great strengths. you added this. there is nowhere in this country where we have fully reckoned with our past or the issues of race and identity. you say ignoring racism allows it to grow. i think that s absolutely true. i think when people who are concerned about this say, listen, we ve dealt with it, you know. we had slavery. we had jim crow. we re past it. i think that s not true. i think there s a lot of pain about this in the country, and i quite frankly don t think we talk about it well with each other. i ve said many times on the issue of race, you can t go around it. you really have to go through it, and you have to deal with people s pain, and you really cannot get past it unless you actually acknowledge that it happened, acknowledge what was correct, and then talk about how to get to the other
i think they have to be fair and everyone has to go back to home base. i think we all agree on that. very well said. let s talk about this because you wrote a powerful piece for usa today. racial reconciliation will help us live up to our nation s values. you say there s no better time in our nation s history to confront the truth about race as it means to bringing people together. for generations our diversity and multi-culturism has been seen as one of the nation s great strengths. you added this. there is nowhere in this country where we have fully reckoned with our past or the issues of race and identity. you say ignoring racism allows it to grow. i think that s absolutely true. i think when people who are concerned about this say, listen, we ve dealt with it, you know. we had slavery. we had jim crow. we re past it. i think that s not true. i think there s a lot of pain about this in the country, and i quite frankly don t think we talk about it well with each other. i ve sai
the fact is, there s a demographic struggle going on. and it s real and i think we should be real about it. reporter: that s richard spencer, who coined the term alt-right. a fate worse than death. reporter: his website features a slick video, urging white people to defend america against multi-culturism. it s a country for everyone, and thus a country for no one. it s a country in which we, ourselves, have become strangers. the breitbart website, which has been tied to the alt-right movement, suggests alt-right adherents are mostly white, mostly male, middle american radicals who are unapologetically embracing a new identity politics that prioritizes the interests of their own demographic. so when other americans protest the election results, the alt-right sees more of what they ve seen all along, an ocean of enemies of white men, and the movement never hesitates to