you the reconciliation process up to them to get this done. the white house continues to warn there could be economic consequences if this does not happen. we will see if the president has more to say about this later today. steve, ainsley and brian, back to you guys. steve: you have to figure he will when he goes to michigan. all right. thank you very much mark meredith. let s bring in congressman ken buck who joins us now. hey, congressman. ainsley: good morning. good morning. steve: what do you make of we just featured two of the examples of these aggressive activists who surrounded joe manchin s house and, you know, were yelling at him and then you had somebody chasing kyrsten sinema cornering her in a bathroom just outside a stall. what do you make of what s going on? it seems like they are trying so much on the progressive left to pressure those two to do something else. you know, it s just a head scratcher. well, there is a line in politics. and obviously these protesters cr
it doesn t make sense. it doesn t make sense, based on the facts of what we know, there s nothing actually that s wrong here. it s c it s he s trying to to be independent leader. he s already been a member of the trump transition team and here he is doing this activity at the white house and it makes a lot of people wonder whether he can be trusted. what about the changing of cars, i don t think in my whole life, i ve had some interesting times, i don t think i ever switched surveillance or evade somebody chasing after me. it s like follow that cat. it s like a movie. it keeps us talking about it and in the news. it s like the russian investigation, like drip drip drip of information and we keep wanting to know more and it keeps it in the news. it s what we re talking about instead of the things he deeds to get done, the things he s following behind on. trump went friday politico
somebody chasing after him for a reason he didn t know. we do know that s how it started. of course he might be refer to the person as a cracker because he s a human being. and since this week, we have heard that there are times when we might, perhaps, excuse some white people from using the n word. i ve written about that, too. i think we can understand that cracker may have been an appropriate term at the time. john mcwhorter from columbia university. thank you very much. thank you, chris. a lot of people are beating up glenn greenwald for nsa secrets. their silence against cnn s pentagon correspondent and her reporting. i ll tell you why there s a double standard, next.
live in? the area i was raised in you re trying to say? right. i ll say it this way. do people that you live around and with call white people creepy ass crackers? not creepy, but cracker, yeah. you re saying in the culture you live in, in your community, people call people there call white people crackers? yes, sir. i love the fact that she s like, yeah, we call them creepy crackers if they re creepy. like, and again, it was like everybody understands, everybody understands what this interaction is. what the subtext is trying to draw out some type of racial grievance for the jury. needless to say, i think given how the trayvon martin case went, there would seem to be some cause for some preliminary racial grievance for the poor boy to have had somebody chasing after him for a reason he didn t know.
you re trying to say? right. i ll say it this way. do people that you live around and with call white people creepy ass crackers? not creepy, but cracker, yeah. you re saying in the culture you live in, in your community, people call people there call white people crackers? yes, sir. i love the fact that she s like, yeah, we call them creepy crackers if they re creepy. like, and again, it was like everybody understands, everybody understands what this interaction is. what the subtext is trying to draw out some type of racial grievance for the jury. needless to say, i think given how the trayvon martin case went, there would seem to be some cause for some preliminary racial grievance for the poor boy to have had somebody chasing after him for a reason he didn t know. we do know that s how it started.