A recap of the days news. When you listen to the rhetoric of the politicians and the leaders and the people in that movie, right, and i remember listen, i remember one of my friends, a white kid. I went to pick him up at his restaurant in louisiana. We were going out. I was going to lsu. He was talking about some incident that happened in the restaurant because his family owned it. I said, who are you talking about . He said, whos that . He said, just some that works for us. Then he caught himself. He didnt realize that word gets thrown around a lot. That i was there. This was 1987. 86. And it just it jolted me. It was a moment. It was like a moment of complete awakening for me. I think this movie, im sure youre hoping its going to be the same way for some people. I hope so. I mean, as an artist, as a filmmaker, whether youre whatever you are, you put your stuff out there and you hope that people connect to it. You know, in my case, don, ive had several films that people didnt get when
that was then-candidate donald trump, mocking a reporter with a disability, even though he insisted he never mocked a reporter with a disability. it turns out that moment, that s part of why one of the world champion washington nationals will not be showing up at the white house today, after the president invited the team there. we re talking about relief pitcher sean doolittle who told the washington post he has a brother-in-law in autism. he says how would i explain to him that i hung out with someone who made fun of the way he talked or waved his hands. we ve done work with refugees, people that come from the s hole countries, referencing something else the president said. doolittle is the first to publicly decline the president s invitation, but he may not be the only one. a handful of other players are also wrestling with whether or not to go. sports editor for the nation joins me now. thanks for being on. what are you hearing? are there other nationals who
24 hours to realize, oh, wait a second, all of those women i just named are on one side and the president is on the immoral side of this issue. and the president has also seized upon that moment, because that moment of the squad and nancy pelosi and, you know, alexandria ocasio-cortez saying that the house speaker was singling out women of color. the president is perhaps springing off that, but at the same time the president already has a prior history of his sentiment from the s-hole countries to, you know, mexican rapists, et cetera, salena. so it doesn t make it that much more easy to digest that this would come from the president and on a day when i.c.e. raids are under way, singling out, looking for undocumented
his grandfather from germany. sorry. his first wife, ivana, came from czechoslovakia. between ivana and melania, four out of the president s five children were born to immigrant mothers. so how much of a role do you think race, joan, the country of origin, played with this president? you say i mean, it sounds like he s saying, hey, we want to do away with, you know, family reunification. right. what he calls chain migration. if you re mexican or if you come from south or central america. i think he s sotold us about the s-hole countries, told us he d like more norwegians coming to the country. i think race does play a role. i don t know about most, but many of the people who take advantage of family reunification now tends to be latino, don, and those are the people that he and jeff sessions also have suggested don t belong here. they don t contribute, they don t bring skills. and it s kind of disgusting. i also want to fact
and rex tillerson, dating back to this past friday. the first call to tillerson from the chief of staff coming friday here, early saturday morning in africa, where tillerson was effectively doing an apology tour on behalf of the president for the s-hole comment the president used about african nations, only a matter of months ago. at the time, tillerson, we are told, according to white house officials, effectively being told by the chief of staff that the president wanted him to, quote, step aside. then we understand according to officials here, there was a separate phone call that took place saturday, in effect, saying that the ouster or that tillerson s ouster was, quote, imminent, recognized that rex tillerson didn t land back in the states until the wee hours, overnight, early this morning, and it was only a matter of hours after that that we understand that he officially got the word that he was being fired by the president s tweet this morning, announcing his new selection for se