minorities who thought so much of this was in the past. we are again watching ku klux klan and white supremacists march through the streets of washington, right? but i also at the same time, to the chairman s point on this, the 30 people showing doesn t mean anything, right? because we understand it s a strategy they re going underground. and when you look at sort of the racism that i think trump is making okay again in this country, that s going to hurt us long term because one of the things i talked about before is we re not going to get whiter as a country so we better figure out how to live with each other whether you re republican or democrat. we have to do a better job of figuring out how to live with each other and the president must play a central role in that. yeah. eli stokols, from a political perspective, this is a president who feeds off crowds. he watches what happens in front of him. he tosses things out to the crowd. he sees how they react to it and oftentimes he ll c
leadership optics and in the president s rhetoric, but also the fact that there are no longer any credible african americans in any leadership role anywhere, it seems, in the congress or in the executive branch. it s hard to make up a particularly when you ve got a changing landscape in the country not to even mention the lack of latino leaders in the very same party. so you ve got to look at this in terms of where it s come from maybe 15 years ago to where it is directionally in the wrong direction if you consider the demographic shifts in the country for the gop. fair points. we are just getting started here on kasie d.c. we re going to take you back live to the streets in washington as some of the most dramatic moments come from antifa protesters. plus reality show plot twist 15 years in the making. omarosa throws the book at the president. we re back after this.
condemns this awful ideology of nazism and anti-semitism. we need him to lead at this difficult and challenging time in american history. we haven t heard that. and i think we should hear it. cornell belcher, first of all, your perspective on what we ve seen unfold in the streets of washington today. what kind of lasting damage might president trump be doing to public relationships with the gop for african americans thinking about where can i have a home? right, where can i have a home is a big issue. we ve seen in a lot of polling and cbs polling, we did polling in battle ground for african americans for black pac. you have over 70% of americans thinking that racism is on the rise, right? and a majority think their communities are under attack. so that s the sort of reality for minorities, for many
administration did, right up the street in baltimore around reforming around reform, he s rolling that back and trying to implement the 1980s law and order sort of nonsense we threw out a long time and locking more people up and building more prisons. he s very effective at that. we often talk about him in the context of russia. that does get overlooked. lie stokols, joyce vance, thank you for your time. we appreciate it. still to come, white nationalists and counter protesters take to the streets here in d.c. one year after the deadly riot in charlottesville. but for many today was also a day of mourning. we re back after this. okay we need to get
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