ahead. and i know chris is going to have more on that. the news continues. chris? >> i am chris cuomo and welcome to "prime time." the president likes to appeal to those who hate. too few in his party say something. too many justify it. and they try to curry his favor and maybe the favor of the same hateful lot. it is all sickening. we have new reaction from the brown and black-skinned lawmakers he told to go back where they came from. is this president's pension for division driving his i.c.e. roundups. we have the acting head of cbp is here. what happened this weekend and why are the occurrences so secret. and joe biden told me he was looking for a fight on one of the biggest dividing lines for 2020. he just teed it up today. will he win or lose? what do you say? let's get after it.

so the president told four lawmakers of color to leave the country. not because he thinks they're criticism makes them un-american. who has said un-american things than he, arguably? no one tells him to go back to where he wrongly said his father was born in germany. he said it because there are brown and black and he knows saying that will work with people that he wants to like him. and the lawmakers that he targeted get that too. >> i am not surprised at what he's doing. we won't get caught sleeping because all of this is a distraction. >> this is a president who has said grab women by the pussy. this is a president who is called people who come from black and brown countries

shitholes. it's time for us to impeach this president. >> take your politics as you like. white nationalists do support a lot of what this president says and that should be troubling to someone who says something, right? not to this president. >> it doesn't concern me because many people agree with me and all i'm saying, they want to leave, they can leave. >> the good news is, many may agree, many, many more disagree. so, let's start discussing how this president is putting his thoughts into acting. we have the acting cbp head here tonight, mark morgan. i do not envy your position tonight. but you have to deal with what is coloring the perception of your job which are these tweets. the border security matters. let me just put this simply, would you say what the president

said? >> look, chris, i'm not the president's press secretary -- >> i know you're not, but you're doing a job that people say is reflective of his feelings. and i want you to make it straight. would you say it? >> again, you're going to have the president what he meant by his tweet -- >> we know what he meant. >> i am his customs and border protection commissioner. that's what i like to talk about today. i like to talk about the crisis that we have that congress has failed to do their job and to pass meaningful legislation to fix the loopholes that could end this crisis tomorrow. >> look, i'm with you. congress has to act. i don't think that the way the white house is doing it with its asylum change, i think they have trouble frankly because the idea of a safe country is undermined by what the president has said about mexico. i think he's going to create his own legal hurdle. what you said about aoc and concentrations camps, you didn't have to talk about that either, but you found it offensive.

i just want people to know where your head and your heart are. >> i'm a law enforcement professional and when i talk about the comments and the rhetoric coming from congress today, i talk about what's affecting the men and women of cbp. and the rhetoric that's coming out about the men and women, it's unjust, unfair and it does nothing to further a solution for this crisis. that is in my lane to discuss. >> look at the fight in this country right now is do we treat brown people different than we would treat white people. how many people do you have under your guide right now working down on the border who are of latino extract. do you think they like hearing that? you cannot divorce the job that you do from the man who's telling you to do it. if what is driving him, i want people to know it's harsh, i

want them to know they'll be kept in a way that sucks, and then they won't come. is that what you understand the policy to be? >> no, chris. stop asking me what the president's intentions are -- >> i'm not asking you about his intentions. i'm asking if you agree with what he said. >> you need to ask the president. i'm not his press secretary. i'm the commissioner. let's talk about the crisis. let's talk about the overcrowding that we have and the reason why we have the overcrowding is because congress won't do their job. let's talk about that we ask congress for months to pass a bill to get families and kids out of the holding facilities which we have been saying we agree for months they shouldn't be there and congress drug their feet and blamed cbp for the conditions, chris. let's talk about that. >> first of all, you got to investigate and make sure that none of your men and women are doing anything wrong. there are allegations. you know how i've been arguing for the border and the need for action. >> and you've been there. and i appreciate it. i wish more people like you

would go to the border. >> you don't have to be down there to know it for what it is. but just to be clear, i don't envy your position. i don't ca i don't like that you have to own his words. but you have to because you can't argue what you're about and say i'm not the press secretary. you ask him what he meant. i'm not asking you what he meant. i want to know whether you agree the same with him. would you say that about brown lawmakers, if you don't like it here, you should go back to wherever you're from, even though they're american? >> you know that's not my position. i'm not going to comment on what the president says -- >> you don't want the american men and women of this audience and of this country who are going to watch this to know where your head is when it comes to equality. >> yes, i want them to know where my head is at. it's at the rule of law and doing that and enforcing that with humanity and compassion. that's what i want. you can ask me where i stand,

absolutely. >> how do you feel about the administration separating kids and parents and saying they like the harshness. >> when you enforce the rule of law and consequences are applied, history has shown as the numbers go down -- >> separation is not a consequence of law. it wasn't supposed to be meant as a punishment. you see what i'm saying? but they used it as a punishment. >> no, no. that's where you and i are going to have to disagree. there was never such thing as a family separation policy. >> i had the paperwork of the policy. i had the paperwork of what was submitted to nielsen. we like this option because if you separate kids and families, it's going to freak them out and they won't want to come and message will spread. don't go there. they're going to take your kid from you. it was in the papers. she signed it. >> so, chris, i wasn't there. i wasn't part of that discussion

back then. all i can tell you is where i'm at today, and what needs to be done. and i can tell you right now, we are doing everything we can to address this issue with humanity and compassion. we are putting children first. we're putting families first. we're developing new facilities, costing taxpayers millions and millions of dollars to make sure we get them out of these facilities and we care for them -- >> i think it's a strong move what you're doing. i wish you would have been able to do it sooner, i wish the fence debate didn't go the way it did, i wish congress didn't play with this the way they did, but we're here now. these i.c.e. raids, i'm not against law enforcement, all right? i'm an officer of the court. i'm a lawyer. but you are overwhelmed, you cannot handle the flow, i'm not judging you. i'm saying you can't handle it. >> that's correct. >> and this is the time to do a roundup? where are you going to put them? who's going to process them? why now? >> chris, look, one of the biggest -- this is a great

question. i'm glad you're asking this. the american people need to understand this is not an issue that you solve at the border. this is a continuum. and one of the largest pull factors for people coming right now is families. you grab a kid and you know this because you've been there. you grab a kid, that's your passport because our laws are broke and once you get here, you're allowed to stay if nothing happens to you. if we don't apply consequences on the back end, then they will keep coming. they will continue to take advantage of our loopholes and on the back end, they know they're going to stay -- >> when you're in crisis, attack this analogy, you're in the middle of a riot and running around with a limited amount of officers to grab people who have unpaid parking tickets. that's what you're doing right now. deal with the border first and then do the roundup. >> i disagree with the analogy. if you enforce -- we did this under the obama administration. we removed families under the

obama administration and you saw the numbers go down at the southwest border. it had a positive impact on the crisis. the numbers go down, the crisis is helped. >> but context matters. let me ask you something, there's all these secrets around what you did this weekend. be straight with my audience. how many people did you round up? >> you're talking about another agency. i know i did just come there -- >> you're the i.c.e. commissioner. who's going to know if you don't? >> because i'm the cbp commissioner right now. i.c.e. handles that. what i would say, here's something important for the american people because words do matter. these aren't raids, these are targeted enforcement operations. let me give you one example, these are individuals, families who have come here illegally, have received due process, more due process than any other country would give somebody who comes here illegally, and they received a final order of removal from a judge and they refused to go.

what would you do? >> i think time, place and manner works and i think you're sending a message to get out. >> what do you do with the individuals who have come here, received due process, received a final order and they still remain here illegally? what do you do, chris? >> here's the answer to the question. you enforce the law. like i said, that's why i came up with the analogy i had. you're overwhelmed with people coming in and that's where your kids are. the president said they're all military age, gang members, 50% at least are kids and families. okay, deal with that first. they'll still be here. you can still get them. what i don't like is you won't give me the numbers. why won't you give me the numbers. you guys know the numbers. cuccinelli said the same thing. give us the numbers. >> chris, i never said i'll give you the numbers -- >> i'm asking you to give me the numbers. >> so i'm telling you, i don't know the numbers -- >> how can you not know. you're the guy's boss.

>> i'm not the boss. i'm the commissioner of cbp. i.c.e. is enforcing that operation -- >> you were at i.c.e. you were there helping plan this stuff and now they cut you out? >> they don't cut me out. it would be inappropriate for me in my current position to talk about another agency's targeted actions. >> i'm not trying to beat you over the head with this. >> that's okay. >> he's not at i.c.e. anymore. i totally get it. what i'm saying is this, the message on top of the context of the president, and i know you don't want him coming after you, i understand, it's working throughout the whole party, what i'm saying is this, you could talk about it, you didn't have to talk about the aoc stuff, but you did. >> i needed to talk about the aoc because it specifically targeted the men and women that i represent and i'm not going to accept that. >> so is this. he's coloring the perception of your men and women by making them look like storm troopers. >> i disagree. if somebody attacks the men and

women of customs and border protection, i'm going to go and set the record straight. >> i have no problem with that. >> like saying that the men and women of cbp force immigrants to brink out of a toilet. that's false. when that happens i'm going to come back and set the record straight. >> what was the woman told. >> she was not told to drink from the toilet. >> how do you know? >> because we've actually talked to the individuals that were there. we've talked to those agents. >> all i'm saying is this, the entire country is watching, you are not my enemy. you are doing something that's good for me and my family, you're keeping us safe. >> thank you. >> we take it case by case, you do something wrong, you got to come after you. >> as you should. >> but i'm saying when the president says what he says, it colors the perception of why you're rounding people up, how you're keeping people at the border, how people are separated, that's why i have to ask, this country must do matter than what we see around the

world in terms of how people -- >> chris -- >> that's why i'm asking you. i don't give a damn about the politics. >> could we talk about just as much equal air time that congress has failed again and again to pass meaningful legislation. >> you're hurting my feelings now. that's all i do on this show is to go after congress to do more. i don't want to see their tears, i want to see their action. >> i think that's a key ingredient. we don't generally talk enough about that. if they fix the flores agreement, 85% of this crisis would end tomorrow. why don't they pass meaningful legislation? >> i have no problem with that. they should debate the rules, figure out how they want to asylum the work, with whom they want it to work. they should talk about how to keep families together, all of it. but there's a lot of different levels of culpability to go around. that's why i need you on this show and you're always welcome.

mark morgan, thank you very much. >> thanks, chris. look, you got to keep banging on these doors. they know what the numbers are. the president is exaggerate rating the reach because he likes the idea of i.c.e. catching everybody. you got to stay on it. we have to. and it extends to what the president has said, why is he saying this, get out of here if you're brown? because it's all part of the same message. and what is his justification? a lot of people agree with me. really? so will what he said help or hurt his re-election efforts. how about that for a great debate with these two, next. >> announcer: one on one is brought to you by t-mobile. now connecting 99% of americans. t-mobile, america's network. tch. need a few more reasons to switch? 1. do you like netflix? sure you do. that's why it's on us. 2. unlimited data. use as much as you want, when you want.

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this is a time to be counted not to be quiet. is it really that hard to say saying racist things is wrong? stop, mr. president. doesn't feel that hard. still, too many in the power positions of the gop are quiet or worse, spinning this poison as pablum. help me, mike, help me understand, a real conservative, how can you listcotton with thi

kind of speech. >> i don't know what you mean by cotton. i'll say that from the beginning, but your question is why aren't republicans speaking out about it. and i have three reasons i can tell you that. first is, i believe the president inartfully was trying to start a conversation about whether or not people on the left are in a place where they don't like the country. i think conservatives love america and think it needs to be better and there are some people on the left that think as a sum, america's bad. and they kneel during the national anthem, there was an i.c.e. facility that was attempted to be fire bombed. >> here's the problem, mike -- they put up a mexico flag and it's wrong. this doesn't work anywhere in humanity. the idea of i'm not going to say that what i did is wrong because you did something that is wrong. >> what i'm saying -- >> you cannot do that here.

>> that's not my point. you're wondering why republicans aren't speaking out. the reason, as a republican, as a conservative, the second reason is, they don't get a whole lot for it. there was a couple of senators -- >> what do you need to say saying racist things is wrong? >> how about a couple senators today criticized the president and immediately were attacked on the left for not going far enough. there's an atmosphere -- >> people are being attacked ton right because you're not saying anything or spinning it. listen, anna, the reward for doing the right thing is not supposed to be a pat on the head by the president or anyone else. this was your party. i grew up around real conservatives, okay? character counts. respecting humanity. that is not your party anymore. >> why don't you tell me something i don't know. listen, it's very painful to see what's going on in the republican party. it's very painful to see what's going on in the country. and i think it's particularly

painful for people like me who get this daily, go back to your country. i've been in this country for 40 years now. this is my country. this is where i live. this is where i love, this is where i've built my life. and there are people like me all over this country who get this on a daily basis. i'm sure your father got it all the time. i'm not sure if your generation still gets it. here's what people need to understand, not being racist is not a passive act. being silent while other people are racist and divide this country and build up these hostilities and fan the flames of division, of them versus us, that is not a passive act. if you want to say that you are not racist, then really you should -- you've got to go further and not enabling, not legitizing a racist. you've got to believe to call a spade a spade. you've got to believe to call a racist a racist, even if it is

the president of the united states. you've got to be able to have conviction and principle and backbone and you've got to love this country enough to know it's been built by people who have come from everywhere else. >> are the squad anti-semitic? >> when ilhan omar made some of those comments, i picked up the phone and called her and told her i was very uncomfortable with some of the things she had said about venezuela, things she had said about israel and i explained to her why. and i called her out publicly. i called her out on twitter. the same way that you can call them anti-semitic, you see that's where it is -- >> i don't get the equivalency argument. i got to tell you, i can't believe that you're making the

argument. look, here's the only tweak, the only tweak is this, i don't know why he says this ugly stuff. he says he's not a racist, but he keeps saying this ugly stuff and it's killing us with the majority of this country. and, look, i get why he's upset, because the left does this and this. that's the only tweak to the argument. but you will not inhabit the first part. and i can't believe it. >> chris, you asked -- look, i don't think he should have said it. >> but that's not enough. why shouldn't he have said it -- >> do you think what he -- >> that's my point. you actually made my first point for me which is i'm trying to agree with you, and it's not enough. >> that could apply when he gets a number wrong, when he doesn't know where his father was born. but this was racist stuff -- >> can i ask a question? >> actually that's my job. but go ahead. >> do you think the tweet was racist, mike? >> yeah, i do. i don't think it's the right thing to say. and i think -- >> i'm not asking if it's the

right thing to say. do you think it's a racist tweet that needs to be condemned. >> you should start with that and everything you say is ten times as powerful. >> here's the thing. here's the third reason, there's such a -- the reason it is relevant to talk about them being anti-semitic because there's a massive double standard that you're calling on all of these republicans to speak out and yet democratic leadership has done almost nothing to the members of their caucus. there's a governor in virginia who appeared in black face who is still in office, there's no one picketing his office right now. if that had been a republican, there would be wall-to-wall coverage. the president says something, i believe that he's tried to correct -- >> you know what the irony -- >> let me finish my point. >> i'm not going to let you say he's trying to correct anything let me be very clear about something, this president has

once again been given ample opportunity to fix and explain. and he hasn't done any of those. and that guy in virginia, played by trump's playbook, deny that you did it. and it worked for him the same way it worked for the president. >> the president -- >> let me give you -- >> i don't believe -- >> i got to go. i don't want to go down any rabbit holes. >> a fourth reason why republicans don't say anything, fear, and kissing donald trump's ring because they're afraid of his mean tweets and that he will go after them and knock them out of their political -- >> i don't think the president meant to say what he said today. >> he meant it. of course he meant to say it. he didn't fix it. he doesn't want to fix it because the effect is to get the people who believe it to like him. let me tell you this, you admitted something that's hard to admit right now about the president. nobody wants to say that ability the president. >> the president is not a racist. they're inappropriate, they're a

part of old tropes. i think he tried to fix it -- >> i got to go. end on a win -- >> for years and decades, what do you call somebody that calls black people sons of bitches. what do you call somebody that -- >> i think people would agree with the president's agenda -- >> what do you call somebody that call brown and black -- >> anna, i got to go. >> people who do racist things are racist. like i said before, ask -- >> so, anna, mike, thank you. mike, i got to take away half the credit because you backed away from it at the end. the only thing that makes sense, there's too big a price to pay right now in this party to go after the president. you can say it's always that way. no, it's never been this way. we've never had this kind of

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idea for medicare for all. that would be a full overhaul of almost 40% of the economy. when you stack up the plans on both extremes, okay, let's take a look, on the far left of the party, you got sanders, warren, harris, okay, all americans will be covered. biden's plan, 97%. medicare for all ends insurance through work. it's over 60% of the country. biden's plan keeps for most people. sanders, no premiums. biden does the same but not for everyone. what's the big ticket? paying for it. folks like bernie sanders admit taxes are going to go up for the middle class, but he says health care costs would come down, but not right away. and the biggest problem for sanders and those on the far left is that estimates of transition costs going from what we have now to his plan, would be in the trillions. biden counters with taxing the income, wealthy make off of their investment. and it's nowhere near medicare

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president trump had an opportunities to fix what he did here. he could have apologized for the racist bile that he tweeted. instead he doubled down. why? he says advantage. let's get some perspective from ron brownstein, look, and i keep saying this to the mike shields of the world, i take no pleasure

in calling out what is obvious about this president. but what's just as obvious, ron, is that his party is afraid of it. why would the president say this and thinks he sees advantage? >> look, i think this was the most extreme example since charlottesville of his basic political goal, which is to define the electorate of attitudes towards the fundamental demographic. he's building what i have called a coalition of restoration, focus centered on voters who are most uneasy with the way we are changing, the role of women, rights for gays and transgenders. and that is what he believes whenever he gets in trouble, whenever he feels that he's falters politically, he turns back towards animating that coalition, usually with a racially charged confrontation. and, chris, the point is, this

is a conscious trade that he's imposing on the republican party. if you divide the electorate in this manner, you are trading young voters for older voters, diverse voters, metro voters for nonmetro voters. he's essentially putting the chips on squeezing bigger advantages out of groups that are shrinking in society and the republican party is following along with him almost without a peep. >> so let's look at the second part because even if you don't want to look at it in terms of principle, i don't like that trade if i'm in that party. and yet we see all this silence. is it just fear of him coming at them? why are they buying in? >> i think there's more to it. it's self-reinforcing. the people who are the most offended and threatened by this in many ways have been weeded out of the party. less than 10% -- excuse me, only about 10% of the republicans in

the house now represent districts where immigrants exceed their share of the population. less than 20% of the house republicans are in districts where the minority population exceeds its share of the national population. if you look at the senate, the republicans are down to eight of the 40 senate seats in the 20 states that have the largest share of immigrants in their populations, 45 of the republicans are from the states with the fewest share of immigrants. they've barricaded themselves off from the changes remaking america. and so it is becoming trump's party in the sense that it is counting on the same voters, the same coalition of restoration that he is looking to reelect him in 2020. >> i don't know that you'd get canned or let alone consensus among that base. if you could poll it, what you would to see is if you have a nexus on a poll and sympathy to

the ugly things he says. >> there is polling that tells us a lot about this. one of the questions the pollsters ask, is do you think the growing number of newcomers strengthens american society or threatens tradition american customs and values. 60% of the country overall says it strengthens american society. two-thirds of republicans say it threatens americans customs and values. that's about equal among college educated and noncollege republicans. you'll see the same things on gender roles where substantial numbers are uneasy with the changing role of women in society. he basically is drawing a line in the electorate, and we were heading this way for years. but trump has consciously accelerated this. steve bannon said when we're talking about culture, we're winning, but the point -- that is their view. they can squeeze out an electoral majority by getting bigger advantages by groups who are shrinking.

turnout was elevated among minorities and millennials and republicans had their weakest performance among suburban voters and moved against republicans in the midterm. >> it's a clear divide he's trying to make. what he will do, we will see. that explains like people say paying women the same as men depresses men. we're going to bring d. lemon in. what's his take on what's going on here? are we coming the same way? let's see. ♪ goin' down the only road i've ever known ♪ ♪ like a-- ♪ drifter i was ♪born to walk alone! you're a drifter? i thought you were kevin's dad.

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this president has probably faced more claims that he's a racist than any nonracist ever. d. lemon confronted him on it. remember this? >> are you racist? >> i'm the least racist person that you have ever met. i am the least racist person. >> are you bigoted in any way? >> i don't think so, no. >> d. lemon, here's my argument, that if he isn't racist, then his words and deeds are even

more wicked because he has no defense of ignorance. he knows what he says is wrong, but he does it anyway. >> i only know what you say and do. i know the if part does not even compute -- >> he said to you he isn't -- >> from your words and his words and his actions, there's no other way of putting it. there's no other way -- if it walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. if it walks like a racist and it talks like a racist, then it is a racist. >> i hear you. do you regret not saying in that interview, i'm not going to ask you, i'm going to tell you, you are a racist? you need to own it and here's why? >> yeah. well, that was one of a number of interviews where he started the whole racist thing. this is what you should know, i confronted him on his racism the night that osama bin laden was killed. we had a huge argument. and he said he would never do n

interview with me. and i said it's going to be a big story, an hour later, osama bin laden was killed and i didn't really make headlines. if you go back, you can see it. after that, i started doing interviews with him and i would ask him if he was racist, but the evidence just wasn't there yet. plus he was a candidate and he was not the nominee at the point where i did those interviews. >> right. >> so i didn't then, but i would now, which is one reason he probably won't do interviews with us because he doesn't want to deal with the facts of the matter. >> i'll check back with you in a second. >> i got to tell you, this book, "american carnage" he knows more about the administration. he's going to talk to us about why this is happening with this administration, the white house, and to answer your question, as well, is a really a racist or just doing this for political expedience. >> thank you, brother. i'll see you in a second. >> see you. the time to ask the question

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if you hate our country, if you are not happy here, you can leave. >> the president -- notice it is not what the president is saying. his justification is that people agree with him. they claim to this notion that if the president does not say he's a racist, well, he can't be one. their own safe space of if he won't own it, he ain't it. expose of something bad. he knows his words are ugly and untrue and divisive, un-american even. he does it any way to curry

favor with those who rejects diversity. that's why he always says a lot of people agree with me. he wants to lead the mobs. the greeks have a word for that, demagogue. that's what he is. that's why i have called him that for a long time. he has always been this. listen to him on the central park five. birthism, immigrants. listen to him closely. >> of course i hate these people. let's all hate these people. maybe hate is all we need to get something done. >> perhaps i am going to say hawaii or kenya or perhaps it is going to say something. i would like to see place of birth, when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crimes, they're rapists

and some i assume are good people. donald trump is calling shutdown of muslims entering the united states. you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. they got a lot of rough big people in those caravans. they are not angels. >> you go back and look at where he says they're bright angels. what do i call them? he is too smart to say things that are this stupid. that's what a demagogue does. he wants to peno of this country to love us. do you remember peno? do the right thing? peno is an ignorant fool limited by exposure and education and culture bias. i grew up around a slew of

penos, i get it. this president is far more dangerous than him and his defenders should know it. i keep on saying this president and his defenders intentionally, hiding in his shadow 100% of the time new york city good. time to shine the light. number one. >> there is a huge level of frustration across america that there are people in america that are not proud of america and they're always calling the president to be impeached and they're always criticizing him. >> republican of kentucky. how dare you empower his statement? if you are brown you are an other. politic political frustration does not found its satisfaction and bigotry, not here. and then this guy. >> we all know aoc and israel,

they hate our own country and they are socialists and they an ant ant anti-semantic. >> what happened to senator graham? he calls this guy xenophobic. that comes with an odor and it will remain. my team reached out to all of these republicans in leadership nearly every committee chair or ranking member or every republican in leadership in both chambers of congress. it is a big job and we needed to do it. more than 50 offices called. you are looking at the gop leaders who we have not heard from. three commented to the team. by our account ten others spoke

out elsewhere. it has been more than 36 hours since the president tweeted. i no longer wants the off the record call, the helpful people who call to say oh, we had to add another p to gop. it is the grand old pity party now. we don't like what he says. we get no sympathy. if you hide, your weakness is obvious. what you rationalize is something other than what it is you now own. if you don't call racist bs like what this president said and did, then you are as bad as this president for saying it. the worst part is you all know it. you know everything i just said, just like this president. that's easy part of the argument. the hardest part of what to do. this political proximi-- the sag thing is calling out the president, calling out those m.

those who opposed still playing the president's home field that way. you got to change the game. you can't let the game change you. the solution is not the most satisfying. it is not calling out what's wrong. it is doing that and all caps showing what's right. showing who we are at our best. do that more than ever. find ways to show it. be better than what and whom you oppose. that's the power. that's what we need. "cnn tonight" starts now. >> when i was coming out, you play that clip from doing the right thing people would say go back to africa and i would say i have never been to africa. i have only been to louisiana which is where i am from. i can't believe this weekend when i read that and i said the president