Service. School and homes have been targeted. Children have been morning the casualties, wolf. The Syrian Regime and russia have not stopped this. A warning from the united nations, there will be mass starvation in this city if food, Water Supplies and water are not allowed in very soon. Will ripley reporting for us. Thanks very much. Thats it for me. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Outfront, the Breaking News, President Elect trump at this hour laying out his promises for day one. You will hear him. Plus, trumps controversial Chief Strategist steve bannon speaking out and saying, im not a racist. Trump meeting with americas first selfmade black billionaire. Hes a democrat. How did that conversation go . Hes my guest tonight. Lets go outfront. Good evening, im erin
burnett. Ooutfront tonight, Breaking News, trump releasing a new video, first policy statement since his trip to the white house after the election. Trump breaking his silence breaking straight to camera in a somber
our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. these sinister ideology must be defeated. hate has no place in america. hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul. this president has trafficked in racism. espoused bigotry. and resisted condemning white supremacy. until the shootings he was using racism as an electoral strategy. we have the measure of this man. we know the measure of this man. did he own that? of course not. the president blames the shootings on violence in our society. referring to gruesome video games. and on people suffering mental health problems. we know the suspected killer in el paso was targeting hispanics.
refusing to do anything to establish the most common sense gun regulations like background checks supported by 90% of the voters. to contribute to the slaughters in the streets he cannot say i condemn racism and white supremacy and violence. he hasn t done anything to stop the problems. he s making them worse. we talk about the mental illness piece. i wonder if the president and allies are conflating hate and mental illness. think about this. in other countries, they have mental illness. rates that are not too different than here in the united states. they don t have access to guns. we know what happened in new zealand. how do we fix this and choose not to?
so, all of us need to demand congress brave enough to stand up to the gun lobbies lies. then as today, he called on congress to pass sensible gun legislation. it didn t. it did not. president trump denouncing racism and bigotry. but ignoring any mention of his own rhetoric. my panel will discuss next.
racism, bigotry and white supremacy. despite his own racist remarks. the closest he came to gun control proposal was red flag laws. restricting firearm access to anybody believed to be a risk to public safety. let s discuss now. former mayor of san antonio is here. julian castro. a short time after president trump speech, the nra tweeted out support for the president calling out in calling out mental illness role in mass shootings. what does it tell you what the nra is on the same page as the white house? this is just a coordinated cheap denial. by the president and by the nra. meant as a distraction. now i don t doubt that in some of the instances the person had an issue with mental health.