are you racist? >> i am the least racist person that you have ever met. i am the least racist person. >> i don't think that president trump is a racist. i think president trump is racially ignorant or racial uninformed. >> do we need more hatians? and then he went on when he started to describe the immigration from africa calling the nations they come from shitholes. >> president trump, haiti is not what he called it. >> we should hear from some of the republican house members who

were in that oval office meeting. >> how many times are you going to be required to go up and say no, i don't agree with what the president said and move on to the next question. >> every time. >> but if it's every day, no, i don't think every time. >> did it make you say maybe i'm not going to vote for donald trump. >> crude, but i can live with it. >> this is "new day" weekend with victor blackwell and christie paul. >> we are always so grateful to have your company. welcome. we want to talk about this morning the global backlash against president trump here. world leaders, organizations, slamming his comments as quote, racist, shameful and outrageous. the african union is demanding an apology from the president after he reportedly asked why the u.s. needs more immigrants from as he described them, shithole countries in africa. world leaders are now calling

u.s. diplomats demanding they come in and explain the president. democrats are leading an effort to officially censure the president. we're here with international reactions to the president's comments. what are you hearing this morning? >> it certainly is a swift and harsh reaction, very unusual for african countries or in fact any countries to explicitly criticize a president of the united states because of the economic ties because of the foreign aid that's coming to some african countries, but criticize they have. this from u.n. ambassadors saying it's extremely appalling and strongly condemns the outrageous remarks attributed to the president and perhaps even more strident from botswana

saying highly irresponsible, reprehensible and racist. so certainly strong remarks and not being afraid to point the finger directly at trump and call him a racist. >> all right. we understand -- i mean, we know that you are in that -- in that country, in that continent and you know it extremely well. help us understand the context of what he's saying and what it means to the people there. >> well, certainly it's shocking to many africans, you know, i'm from south africa. i've reported in more than 30 countries. people have been posting on social media what they say, my shithole and excuse the phrase that is being repeated frequently -- attributed to the u.s. president buzz they're posting these pictures and here's some of my own that are of our travels throughout the african continent. so the fear here is this will just add more to the kind of

racist or stereo typical types referring to the african continent. this is a very diverse group of countries, sure there's certainly big problems in these countries like in any other part of the world, but they're also a huge growing economy, faster than the u.s. in this continent as well as strong connections both in terms of people and in terms of policy between the u.s. and the african continent. this will make the job of state department officials that much harder to try and reach out to the equivalents in these countries and one must remember the u.s. government is really pushing the war against terror in some countries in africa and that will also not be helped by the president's attributed statements. >> very good point to make. so grateful to hear from you today. thank you. >> all right. let's go to abby phillip now. abby is in washington. the president is back at his beach resort.

abby, to you, we've heard from dozens of republicans and democrats as david has talked about, world leaders as well but we have not heard much from republican leadership in washington. >> that's right, victor. there's been a bit of a mixed reaction from republicans, most of it silence. we did hear from house speaker paul ryan who gave an interview on this subject and called the comments unfortunate and unhelpful and he referenced his own family's history as being immigrants from ireland but you did not hear a strong condemnation of the president's comments, a call for an apology as some other republicans have and from other republican leaders like senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, there have been no comments whatsoever. there's a bit of a back and forth between the republicans and the democrats who were present in that meeting. some of the republicans saying they don't recall the president saying those comments and others saying we confronted the

president in that meeting, lindsay graham saying he spoke directly to the president after he made those comments and dick derbin calling out the president's comments as being racist. the president had a martin luther king jr. event at the white house and i want to play a little bit of what martin luther king's nephew said about president trump right after that meeting. >> i don't think that president trump is a racist in the traditional sense as we know in this country. i think that president trump is racially ignorant or racially uninformed but i don't think he's a racist in the traditional sense. >> not exactly a ringing praise there from someone who was hat the white house with president trump yesterday and of course right after that event the president was peppered with questions by reporters about whether his comments were in fact, racist.

>> all right. thank you, abby. so antonio okafor, whose parents are from nigeria as well as wendy osofo. ladies, we appreciate you being here. wendy, of course was born in nigeria, so i do want to start with you antonio i want to start with you. so let's play a part of that. >> this really goes out to this narrative of perpetuating that donald trump is racist. and i think people -- the american people are sick of this perpetuation when they haven't seen anything that has really shown anything of the sort. >> after hearing these latest comments, do you still feel that same way? >> well, yeah, you know, as a proud daughter of nigerian immigrants i feel like it's important to educate the american people and i think

first of all with nigerian immigrants, they are the most educated immigrant group in america. they tout of the most advanced degrees in america. they also make $10,000 more than the average white family in america as well. so i think it goes to show and wendy also can personally attest as well that nigerian immigrants are very well educated. they come from a country that produced the best and the brightest. >> but when you hear the president call it a shithole country then, how do you reconcile those two things? >> well, you know, if the reports are true, then i've never denied that, the reports are true, then of course the president should absolutely apologize and i'm just sorry to show that it's not just the president if the reports are true that are ignorant to comments or things like that. there are a lot of people that think that african people

unfortunately come from a place that is not as developed as where they went to and that's true. and there are a lot of aspects of that that that's true. but i think the wording that unfortunately we're starting to deal with and we're starting to talk about. >> so are you saying that you agree with -- you agree with martin luther king's nephew who said he believes the president is racially ignorant? >> i believe there are a lot of people who are ignorant when it comes to the fact that will are people not -- >> but what about the president? based on the verbiage he used, do you think he is racist or is racially ignorant? >> no, i don't think he's racist. it's the policies, it's what he actually does, his actions -- >> but he was talking about policy, why are we letting people come into the u.s. he was talking about immigration policies. >> if we're going to talk about what people are saying as well,

i guess hillary clinton -- >> but she didn't call them shithole countries. >> black men were super predators and we're not talking about that. >> well, we have talked about that. we have talked about that. i'm sorry. i just -- i want to give wendy a chance to chime in here. >> there's no gray area here. as a nigerian immigrant i am deeply offended by the racially charged comments. not only are his comments racially charged, they're dubious. we see that 19% of white americans have bachelor's degrees compared to 37% of nigerians and then 11% of white americans have advanced degrees compared to 25% of nigerians so it's not just about saying comments that are offensive. it's also about saying things that are incorrect. and when we look at being a racist or a big got, that's a moral issue, but when you transpose those characteristics to the leader of the free world you have an administration that

sets forth policies that impact black and brown people, we see this with daca and the roll back of the doj and the muslim ban so this is not calling a group of people from a geographic location shitholes, this is about the shithole policies coming out of pennsylvania avenue. >> you have said that the president is a racist, that he owes nigerians and others an apology. what would that apology have to be for you to accept it? >> for him to own up, not just to the comments that he has made, but the systematic infractions he has made towards black and brown people during the tenure of his presidency, let's talk about him not giving credence to la david johnson when he passed away, a fallen star hero. let's talk about him saying charlottesville, that there were people on both sides of the aisle. let's talk about him trying to attack nfl and flrnba players.

we need to know that our leader does not sit here and segregate people. we need a unifier, not a divider in the president in chief. >> he's actually done a lot for the african community, more than i would say president obama which i voted for twice i will say. because -- and i stop because i realize his policies, the ones that he was implementing were not helping the african american community. in fact, poverty levels went through the roof when he was president. >> let me ask you something. as an african american. as an african american woman, how do you feel supported by president trump? >> i feel supported in the fact that he is for all americans. my family came from nigeria here for a better life. and regardless of the venacular, the wording that people have been using right now, it was not a country that my family decided to stay in, they left everything

behind and came here because america was the place where they were able to have the american dream. that to say as well, i think it's important that we show that those values that i have that have maybe who i am today, i'm also conservative values and i'm going to support a president that's going implement conservative policies. >> you cannot support a president that don't support people that look like you. >> okay. wendy, go ahead. >> you cannot support a president who does not support people who look like you and that is the issue. he has talked about a judge not being qualified because of his hispanic ancestry and he further went ahead and said we want people from norway. this is clearly an issue of race and there is no way to cut that. that is what this president is doing. he's trying to speak to his base but he's continuing to wedge a divide within our society to make it a us versus then type of

narrative and anyone who supports that is supporting the wrong side of history. >> if anyone is really making a divisive statement or really going to perpetuate like i said before, the divisive nature right now in race is stations like cnn that continuously talk about whether president trump is a racist. >> he is a racist. >> people are tired of that that he's a racist. >> we have government in south africa calling him a racist today based on what he said. so we just -- we are trying to get through this conversation and figure out how we can all move forward and what that is going to take. we appreciate you both taking time to be here. thank you. iran says the president has crossed the line with new sanctions but president trump is frontal systeming to go even further. >> and the president asked a group of bipartisan lawmakers

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separate to that though is the broader frankly, you might say more consequential issue of iran's own nuclear program and what was announced yesterday by the trump administration. they agreed waiving the specific sanctions in place for iran not to continue their nuclear research, but those are very strong kicker in that. the administration said this is the last time they will issue such a waiver and that given the european allies, an interesting tactic, they're not negotiating directly with iran, they can let them negotiate a better picture with iran. some of the clauses seem to expire after a period of time and the white house wants to see missile technology lumped in with nuclear technology so they can't for example test long range missiles and have consequences for that. this is being disparaged by the

foreign minister saying this is not something that can be renegotiated. the european allies the trump administration asking to renegotiate this deal very publicly asked last week that they are wholly behind the deal as it stands. so we are now into a complicated situation as the u.s. said it's ramping up sanks against different parts of the iranian government, a key figure in the judiciary who they sanctioned individually because of alleged human rights abuses. they continue to ramp up sections in other areas that are not the nuclear sanctions and the problem is they're putting a rift between themselves and their allies. teheran will probably not take european requests for a tightening of the deal that seriously because they know they're not made in ernest and the kind of fabric of the deal fall apart. the pressure is certainly been

but the trump administration might possibly have to follow through on this threat on the next deadline. back to you. >> all right. thank you so much. so the question, why do we need more hatians? the person asking it, the president of the united states. president trump's remarks now really out raging people across the world. hatian americans specifically. why they say are deeply hurt by these comments. >> when i just read it, i feel so so sad. i cry. so i add activia yogurt to my day. with its billions of live and active probiotics, activia may help support my digestive health, so i can take on my day. activia. now in probiotic dailies.

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morning condemning president trump for calling african nations shitholes during a bipartisan meeting on immigration reform this week. >> but he singlinged out haiti telling lawmakers that immigrants from that nation should be left out of any immigration deal saying why should we need more hatians? take them out. the hatians and the community in fla fl aorida are reacting. >> i'm running to be president of all americans. that's everybody and whether you vote for me or you don't vote for me, i really want to be your greatest champion and i will be your champion. >> that was then candidate donald trump speaking in little haiti neighborhood just before the 2016 election. >> the hatian people deserve better and that's what i deserve to give them. >> reporter: but in the wake of reports that the president

complained about immigrants coming from quote, shithole countries among other disparaging comments, hatians here agree, they deserve better. >> when i just read it, i feel so so sad. i cried. >> reporter: a hatian living in miami under temporary protected status or tps gave candidate trump the benefit of the doubt and took him at his word, but she said the president has now shown his true colors. >> so this is how he treat us. we can see that. now we're seeing the real face of donald trump and this is ace of hate, of racism. >> reporter: one of the more than 20,000 hatians liffing in south florida now facing deportation after the trump administration announced it would end the country's tps status. trump made the comment during immigration policy negotiations on thursday.

he had denied saying anything derogatory about hatians. he had a quote, wonderful relationship with them, he says. >> you're telling many eyou have a great relationship with hatian people? how is that possible? >> little haiti came out en masse on friday. an event intended to commemorate the anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the nation and killed as many as 300,000. but a sol um memorial at times resembled an anti trump rally. >> we are hear to tell president trump, haiti is not what he called it. haiti is a proud nation. >> reporter: for the president to stand up and make such a comment at this time, it just leaves me reeling. it leaves me angry. it leaves me offended.

it leaves me hurt. and it leaves me wanting justice. >> reporter: justice perhaps to be delivered at the ballot box. >> i'm going to make sure to remember what he said in the midterm elections of this year, 2018 and clearly we will not have short memories in 2020. >> and let's start right there. 2018, 2020. paris denard a member of p president trump's advisory board. good morning to you. we've had millions of african immigrants, hatian immigrants in the country, american born blacks offended by the comments from the president. what does this mean for your party. >> well, what this means for the republican party is that we've got to do what its original intent of that meeting was about which was to get to the bottom of the immigration system. and put together a positive

policy that is putting america first, securing our borders and fixing this daca issue. so for the party moving it to 2018, we've got to show the american people that we heard them, we hear them and that we are serious about fixing the illegal immigration problem, one, and two, putting -- so that congress can finally do their job and do something about daca. that is what the party has to do. we've got to get back on focus, back on message about fixing this issue once and for all. >> so a legislative fix will certainly and i'm sure everybody hopes that it happens before the government runs out of money so that the u.s. government does not shut down, but the damage created by the president's kmentss, the characterization of african nations as shithole countries or asking why do we need more hatians, take them out, what that means for the party. there's the damage created by the rhetoric aside from the policy, how does the president

fix that if he's not even acknowledging that he said it? >> well, i think, you know, if you go to the -- the sentiment about haiti, i think -- and i guess we all wish we were in the room to hear context and see how it was proposed to him, but if someone mentioned haiti as being added to this and saying we need more hatians i think it's perfectly okay for the president to ask the question to the person asking him, why do we need more hatians? and we don't know what his -- their response was. we doe no the president said he did not say take them out. but on face value for him to ask to the person, why do we need more in a conversation about immigration is not in itself racist, but the other comment -- but the other comments, if they were said about the countries or about the country's governments or how they were run it's unfortunate and it's not helpful and we've seen what this has done. so instead of getting closer to a daca fix or coming to the table or talking about the economy, we're talking about

this comment. >> but that's what the president said. we wouldn't be talking about it if he didn't call african nations shitholes and asking why we didn't need more hatians and i think it's important to pair it with what came after that, the second fragment of the thought. why do we need more hatians we should get more people from norway. >> look, and i -- i think it's important for us to not to say that all of this was in one stream of consciousness and one statement. we don't know that. but what we do know that the president did meet with the president of norway the day before so that norway was top of mind and when you meet with a world leader you go through all of the data, all of the statistics, the crime rate, the gdp, their economies and all those things and i think that's why norway was top of mind because he had just met with the norwegian p norwegian president. i'm not saying that -- but yeah, i think we should just keep that in mind. >> so let me play something for

you from -- this is isaac newton farris, jr., dr. king's nephew who was at the event at the white house. he was certainly -- let's just play the sound byte and talk about it after wards, what he said about the president. >> sure. >>. >> i don't think that president trump is a racist in the traditional sense as we know in this country. i think president trump is racially ignorant or racially uninformed but i don't think he's a racist in the traditional sense. >> that doesn't sound like an endorsement of the president. >> i was at that event yesterday. i've known isaac for about a decade and i think he's a great person because he actually reaches out and wanted to have the president involved and was with the president in atlanta. he was here in washington, d.c. and wanted to have the chairwoman of the republican national committee come to atlanta but couldn't get ahold

of her. so he is one of a positive force in trying to reach out not only to this administration but he did the same with the bush administration too. so to isaac's point i agree with him saying the president is not a racist because he's not a racist. >> be do you agree with the second half of that that he's racially ignorant. >> i think the president is understanding now he's having to deal with issues he's never had to deal with before. >> he's understanding now. he should have understood that before he said i'm running for president of the united states. >> listen, no president comes in here knowing every single thing. no president comes in having an understanding of every -- >> what's the evidence that he understands that? is the evidence that he called african nations shithole countries? when you say he's now understanding, this is a president who's been on the job for 11 months now. how long do you need to not be in office but be alive to know

that 54 nations of africa are not shitholes? >> well, i'll challenge you there. we don't know if there were specific countries named and he responded about specific countries. >> are there specific shitholes in africa? name them for us. >> you can have an intellectual conversation without being a racist comparing nigeria like your other guests did and talking about the economy there, talk about the type of people who come here from nigeria, what they contribute to this nation, their education, their -- the -- how much more than they make than white americans. >> you certainly can have that. >> you can compare them to other african countries that aren't doing so well. >> and what context do you call one of them a shithole? >> i'm not sheer to defend that comment. i would not have used that comment. many people can say and not being against the president sometimes he says somethings

that are the politically correct. does not make him a racist and we should have that conversation. >> you think that calling african countries shitholes is just politically incorrect? >> i'm saying that the president can at times makes politically incorrect statements. i would not have said -- used that language to describe certain african nations. >> you wouldn't have used it. it was wrong for the president to use it. can you at least go that far? >> i don't think i would have used it. >> paris, i don't know that this is asking too much to ask you, is it wrong for the president of the united states, put aside your personal affinity for the man -- >> it's for the office. >> your respect for the office, is it wrong for the president of the united states to call the 54 nations of an entire continent shitholes? that's a simple question. >> i understand what you're trying to get me to do, but the

notion that the president said that about all 54 nations is not true and that would be wrong because as you're -- as the other commentator talked about nigeria and the quality of the people that are coming here from nigeria and what they contribute, that does not apply. so i don't think he was talking about them. so no, i don't think it was wright to say that about -- use that phrase, but i do think it is perfectly okay and not racist to have an intellectual conversation when you're talking about immigration and making comparisons to say there are differences between one country and another country. one city in america and another city in america. the recovery in mississippi versus the recovery in new orleans based upon -- after hurricane katrina. you can do that and not be a racist but i will say i would not have used it and i don't think that the president seeing how this panned out would have used that because what i was saying about what he's learning how to do and understanding is

that as president, you can't say certain things. you can't -- and he's learning that, because this is a new thing for him and every president does this. >> all right. >> every president has, but to say he's a racist is wrong. >> thank you so much. all right. well, the wall street journal is reporting on an alleged porn star payoff. how much a lawyer connected to president trump reportedly paid a woman and why. directv has been rated number one in customer satisfaction over cable for 17 years running. but some people still like cable. just like some people like pre-shaken sodas. having their seat kicked on an airplane. being rammed by a shopping cart. sitting in gum. and walking into a glass door. but for everyone else, there's directv. for #1 rated customer satisfaction over cable, switch to directv and get a $200 reward card. call 1-800-directv.

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president trump recently tweeted he went from very

successful businessman to top tv star. and he's right. >> he is right about it. his show, "the apprentice" was quite a success. and now as president of the united states, he's proving, some will say, that he's still a master at stagecraft from having the republican leader stand behind him in what was a carefully staged photo op at camp david and televising a cabinet meeting on immigration live. people were glued to. that president trump sometimes does try to change the conversation with a single tweet. >> yeah. i call it shouting squirrel. remember the scene from up where the dog is paying attention and someone shouts squirrel and the adog loo dog looks to the right. let me bring in our cnn contributor and donald trump biographer. good morning to you. the president, it seems like it was so long ago, but the president was getting praise for that meeting, i believe walit w tuesday with members with congress discussing daca and then thursday changes it all

around. it was another attempt yesterday to fix that. didn't work. >> well, it's all part of the showbiz approach, not just to the presidency but to life. you know, i think we sometimes forget that donald trump has been doing this for 40 years. he began his professional life actually as a broadway producer. terrible play, but his first activity as an adult was to produce a broadway play. so he's very much interested in stagecraft. and this idea of veering from one topic to the next and one emotion to the next is classic trump. he doesn't want us to get comfortable with anything. and is uncomfortable himself if the spotlight moves away from him. so he'll say and do almost anything and i think that's one aspect of the current controversy that we often overlook. >> but there's no doubt it puts his republican counter parts in very difficult situations.

what is the behind the scenes there and how crafted and how intentional on donald trump's part are the tweets and the photo ops? >> i think that my guess is that the positive photo ops are probably orchestrated by people working for the president. he might have an idea that he would like to soften his image or show that he's in command. but they're orchestrating it. i think the tweets and the strange declarations he'll make, you know, when he blasted the nfl players who are protesting, that was very well planned by the president himself. he thought of the line and thought about how he'd like to deliver it and then imagined the response. i think he did that this week with the racist comments about africa. you know, what's strange about all this is we have to try to

decide whether he's playing a character or this is the genuine man or if there is any difference. i think by the time you become president there isn't any difference. so people saying well he doesn't know well enough or he hasn't been educated in something, i think they're missing the point. the point is that this is his character we're seeing. it's the character of radio shock jock or comedian who wants to insult people and get a rise out of the audience. >> all right. michael dantonio, cnn contributor. good to have you this morning. >> the next hour of "your new day" comes up after a quick break. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it's the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why needs a great how.

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that you have ever met. i am the least racist person. >> i don't think that president trump is a racist. i think president trump is racially ignore anant. >> do we need more haitians? then went on and described the immigration from africa, calling the nations they come from shitholes. >> president trump, haiti is not what he called it. >> we should hear from the republican house members who were in that oval office meeting. >> how many times are you going to be required to go up and say, no, i don't agree with what the president said and then move on? >> every time. >> but if it's every day, no, i don't think every time. >> could it make you say maybe i won't vote for donald trump this time? >> i can live with it. >> this is "new day weekend."