know, lack of any safety because you didn't hear deepseek talk about, you know, possible safety problems, which u.s. companies tend to adhere to. and so it's sort of this wild west situation. and then you'll hear u.s. companies saying, no more regulations because, you know, china is going to beat us. china is beating us because they're taking advantage of our innovation. and the question is, how can we make it so it's inexpensive for innovation to happen everywhere. and so there'll be an initial panic because of all the money spent, say nvidia's perfect. these chips are very expensive. they've been bought up by all the big rich companies. do you need those chips particularly? are there better ways to do it? and so the question is how can our country innovate on at all levels of this? because we are the we are the first in line here. so it definitely is a wake up call for everyone to see where this is headed, which will be good for some and not so good for others. >> yeah, deepseek using just just a fraction of the chips that others have. kara swisher we'll be watching it all,

hopefully with you here to help us. so thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks. >> thank you all for joining us. cnn news night with abby phillip is up next. >> tonight, a. >> government purge. donald trump shows the door to government watchdogs and official who quit over the president's sweeping january 6th pardons. joins us in minutes. plus, made for tv raves. donald trump shows the country his immigration crackdown by turning the cameras on i.c.e. and on doctor phil. also, maga mocks actress selena gomez for her tears over the deportation blitz. >> oh my people are getting back. >> and forget. never forget elon musk asks germany to leave its guilt. in the past, just days before the world pauses to remember the holocaust, live at the table. ashley allison, scott jennings, maria cardona and tim

pawlenty. americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. punishment for trying to punish crimes allegedly committed by one man. that one man now occupies the oval office. tonight, donald trump is saying the quiet part out loud and on paper. a letter by his acting attorney general. james mchenry leaves no doubt about why he fired the more than dozen career department lawyers. they're, quote, significant role in prosecuting the president. the assumption here, of course, is that the lawyers who were doing their jobs will not pass a maga loyalty test. he also writes, i do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to assist in implementing the president's agenda, faithfully joining us in our fifth seat at the table is ashley akers, a former federal

prosecutor involved in some of these january 6th cases. she resigned in protest just last week. ashley, these prosecutors that are now being fired, what is this, in your view, something that is just within trump's authority, a normal turnover, or is this retaliation? >> it's seemingly. >> unprecedented. >> these are. career prosecutors. >> who have been at the department of justice during the biden administration, during the last trump administration, and even prior. the only thing that's different this time is that they were asked to join a case against the president. there's there's no suggestion that they did anything wrong other than abide by their duties, which is examining the case based on the facts, the evidence and the law, and making independent judgments, which the department of justice is supposed to do in proceeding forward. >> yeah. so so there are crime here. according to the trump justice department. now, is that they said yes when their

superiors asked them to take a case. i mean, what does that do to people who are coming up in the ranks at doj, who are being every day asked to take on all kinds of controversial cases, public corruption cases, all kinds of different cases. >> well, it's certainly going to scare prosecutors. and that's not what we want to do, right? we want prosecutors to have independent judgment to be able to think constructively, analyze the law, the facts, the evidence, like i mentioned, and not be scared of political retribution, political calculation, calculation should never come in to a prosecutor's mind when they're exercising their discretion. >> governor, what do you think about all this? >> well, i think. >> the nation is on a slippery slope once you start politicizing the judiciary and law enforcement, you begin to have this escalation of it. and you saw it under the biden administration with various acts that they took in terms of their pardons and some of the charges against donald trump, i think, were not well founded, not well thought out from a prosecutorial

perspective. and now you have trump raising the ante. >> what about the one that the justice department was handling involving the january 6th cases? >> i did read the fisher. >> case, his january 6th case. >> the u.s. supreme court had a case last year. in 2024, it's the fisher case. and they said that a number of the doj defendants were mischarged. they weren't properly charged. that is not right. but it's also not reasonable. >> for the, i guess, seditious conspiracy. >> or the obstruction of. >> justice of justice. >> i'm sorry, obstruction of justice charges. >> so one element of the broader january 6th. >> right. so they in those cases, not all the six, but in those cases, the department of justice was deemed to have acted inappropriately. that does not justify firing career prosecutors and beginning to undermine our traditions and norms in terms of justice in america. >> you know, one of the. >> things i. >> think about is. >> a lot of times. >> charges are. >> brought because the attorney. >> prosecutor believes. >> they have standing, and then you aren't. >> found guilty of them. and that is how it's usually adjudicated in the court of law. like every charge you you charge isn't always found guilty. i

think that the timing of the release of these prosecutors was executed with almost perfection by donald trump, because it was booked in on the friday night of also terminator and terminating the solicitor general's. and i think there is a story that the administration is trying to paint. now, i don't think the determination of the prosecutors is right, but the determination of the inspector general, excuse me, is not he didn't follow the law. and and to the american people, sometimes it's so much that they don't digest it all and they can't make one. what is different from one and the other? and they just say like, okay, maybe he's just getting rid of people in a form of retribution. and i think that that is a slippery slope. and they did it quite well because you have to then sometimes pick, well, what thing are you going to talk about in this moment? >> yeah, i mean, i think, as ashley pointed out, the other ashley, that this is unprecedented on the prosecutor's side, but also, as you pointed out, the inspector general's on capitol hill. republicans are the ones saying

that trump needs to come tell them what's going on. lisa murkowski says this kind of summary dismissal of everybody has raised concerns. chuck grassley said there may be a good reason why they were fired, but we need to know, and i'd like further explanation from trump, collins says. i don't understand why one would fire individuals whose mission is to root out waste, fraud and abuse, which is a very good question. why fire the people whose job it is to to look inward at the department and figure out what went wrong? >> yeah, i think the ig thing is separate. from the in my mind, it's two separate issues on the specifically on the prosecutors. i actually think it's pretty reasonable for the president, who was just elected to not want people in his government that he runs, who were just most recently trying to put him in jail. i mean, it seems like common sense to me that it wouldn't be right to force the president to run a government at least, which in part has been recently trying to jail him. i, i, you know, i'm not i grant you that nothing wrong may have happened, that they may have done everything correctly. but

still he got elected. this is a government of the people that elects the president. it's not a government of the career prosecutors. and so i think i think for now, it's fine that they're not in the government when he's not the president. and if they want to come back, i'm not sure i would have a problem with that. but i do think it's reasonable for the president to believe that the entire executive branch is, you know, rowing in the direction that he sets as the duly elected president. >> i just think that forgets the point that the department of justice and the attorneys in the department should act free from any political influence or will. >> but it's a it's a department of the executive branch. the president appoints the attorney general. it works for the president. >> but the department. >> of justice does. >> not work for the president. >> yeah. the department. >> of justice worked. >> for the american people. >> it works for the it works for the executive branch. it's in the constitution. it exists in the executive branch. >> the lawyers. >> of the justice. >> department work for the american people. >> you're acting like it's an independent branch of government. it's in the executive branch run by the president. >> i mean, you don't think there should be the.

>> lawyers of the justice department work for the american people, not for the president of the united states, not the person in the office. >> so you don't think anyone you don't think anyone in the executive branch is bound to the head of the executive branch? >> no, here's here's the difference. here's the difference, though i think this is very critical. you have political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the president. they can be fired whenever, for whatever reason, the president doesn't even need to say why. these are career prosecutors. these are career inspector generals. there's actually a law that says that you cannot fire them without cause. >> i guess i guess by that, by what you're saying, then if the former department of justice under joe biden actually acted under his, then there was nothing wrong with it. if everything, by your logic, if you apply it to the last administration, which i don't think is the case, then if joe biden wanted to go after donald trump because he wanted to go after the attorney general should be able to do it, and there was no. >> they did go after. >> donald trump. >> because joe biden didn't. >> want to do a special prosecutor. he had no, i mean. >> but at the. >> or why is it wrong? why is it like i'm making i'm making. >> scott. hold on. scott, you just said something that's not

correct. you tried to slip it in there. you said at the order of the president. that is completely. >> he did not. he did. he did not appoint. >> that is completely false that joe biden ordered the creation of someone to investigate donald trump. that did not happen. >> what do you mean? >> you just said that and it didn't. that didn't happen. >> they they had. >> a special they had a special. >> prosecutor under the biden administration that that went after donald trump. >> the order of the president did. >> all these things are in the executive branch. this is my and this is my argument. >> i get. >> it is it is an executive branch. and the president's. >> at the. >> top of it. there's no evidence that joe biden ordered the investigation. >> he said on the record multiple times that donald trump should have been thrown in jail and said that merrick garland failed by not. >> doing it. if ashley's point is correct that you think that it's just fine for the president of the united states to order whatever investigation he wants. what's wrong with that? >> i think the i think i am making a simple personnel argument. >> what's wrong with. >> the justice department exists in the executive branch, and it exists under the president. it is not an independent agency. >> that is the case. then what would be wrong with joe biden if

if that's the case, what would be wrong with joe biden saying, i'm going to order the justice department to go after my political enemies? wouldn't there be nothing wrong with that, by your logic? >> well, i don't think that there's any problem with the president as the head of the executive branch telling the justice department, i think things need to be investigated here, but it's up to. but it's up. but it's up to them. it's up to them to decide whether laws were broken. >> it's quite an extraordinary acknowledgment. after four years of saying the justice department has been wrongly weaponized against republicans, you are now saying, it's okay. >> i'm not saying it should be weaponized, but i'm not saying it doesn't exist separate from the president. it does not. we have no evidence that biden ordered it. but biden's justice department did, in fact, go after donald trump. in fact, for example, when he when donald trump had classified documents, he gets prosecuted when biden has him in his garage. >> he gets. >> biden as an old guy. >> biden's justice department also went after his son. his justice department also created a special counsel that did investigate his classified his use of classified documents, and released a scathing report that

you could argue hurt him politically in an election year. >> so but this. >> is all you. >> know, all trump ran. >> all the cards on. >> the table, ran. >> the ones. >> it was it was hiding in plain sight. trump ran on the notion that i'm going to get the folks who are trying to get me and those folks wait, wait, those folks work for the american people at the department of justice. and the american people heard donald trump and they voted him into office. >> that is true. he did say donald trump was very clear that he was going to get into the oval office and work on his enemies list. he is, in fact, working on his enemies list. what he is doing with the inspector generals, with the prosecutors, and with everything else that he's doing. he is methodically going down his enemies. but here's the problem. he did campaign on it, and his maga supporters loved it. and he got elected. the people who voted for him, who were not his maga supporters, voted for him because donald trump promised to bring down the cost of groceries, gas and rent and everything that he has done since he got elected and more does absolutely nothing to bring

down. >> the cost of grassroots retribution was going to be the first thing he did on day one. this is not retribution. that's right. we were. told we were crazy. >> this is. >> not this is not retribution. >> prosecuted a lot of these january 6th, some i shouldn't say it shouldn't exaggerate. you prosecuted january 6th cases a lot. donald. donald trump just pardoned everybody. basically, when you saw that you resigned. why? >> i think it's i described this before as sort of a guttural, guttural reaction. i view this crime having watched hundreds and hundreds of hours of video of it as an attack, not only on the capitol building, as an institution, the capitol police officers, but also on our democracy. this was january 6th. these people weren't there as a coincidence. that's the day that our congress certifies the electoral college vote. they attacked the capitol on that day to stop the peaceful transition of power. and that is really what's the heart of our democracy. that's what makes us

different than a lot of other countries. and so for a president to come into office and immediately absolve all crimes and all criminality and all guilt or anything and everything, it's insulting to the american people. it's insulting to the police officers who risked their lives to lives, who gave their lives. and, you know, the department of justice is a prestigious institution. the people who work there are proud to do so. and i sort of stopped feeling that. are you. are you. >> worried for your own safety? there have been a lot of threats that have been going around from some of these very people who were pardoned there. >> there are a lot of threats. there are people right now who feel very emboldened, people who were violent criminals, who myself and my colleagues prosecuted, who are now told that what they did was not only right, but okay, and it's being condoned by the president of the united states. so i hope that nothing happens. and the and

just to be clear, when the president says things like january 6th is a national injustice, and he calls these people political prisoners, that is condoning what they did. >> look, this was adjudicated by the american people in november. at this point. they they they looked at all of this and decided to put donald trump back in the white house and just back on this personnel matter. article two all executive authority is vested in a president of the united states, not in career prosecutors, not in some imaginary separate agency that you think exists outside of the executive branch. there's one executive branch. there's one president. all of this exists underneath him, period. end of. >> story. >> that is that is i'm glad, scott, that you acknowledged that there is no weaponization of the doj happening in the united states government. thank you for that acknowledgment. ashley akers, thank you very much for joining us. everyone else, hold on. coming up next, president trump is literally producing a made for tv show of his deportations, from telling

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administration labels as dangerous. and this trump produced story comes complete with a popular television host. >> that reffitt doctor phil. >> yeah. >> how do you know me? >> no. >> i seen i seen. >> doctor phil. you know. >> on tv. >> yeah, yeah. you've been charged with sex crimes with children. >> not really. >> not really. i've never been deported. >> well. >> huh let's take them in process and lock them up. >> that's a clip posted by yes, doctor phil from what he called a ride along with ice agents and trump immigration czar tom homan. doctor phil and the maga folks that he wants to see this, believe that this is all must see tv. some people can't bear to look though. they include selena gomez, who posted this video after later deleting it. >> i'm so sorry.

how many people are getting attacked and children? i don't understand. >> joining us in our fifth seat at the table is maria santana. she is an anchor and correspondent for cnn espanol. maria, great to have you here. i mean, you've been covering this immigration issue for a very long time. so you've seen it all? yes. i imagine there is a quality to this that is about making sure that we do see it. right. and the trump team, according to our reporting, they've told ice agents to be ready for cameras. they are using military planes even though charter flights are cheaper. they want this to be a show. what are you are you seeing a difference though in substance of what's happening right now? >> well. >> not as much in. >> terms of. >> the people. >> that are being arrested. >> it hasn't changed very much from the biden administration. but what we are seeing.

>> is a lot of fear. in these communities. >> and i. >> think that the point of. showing these arrests, of making people believe that ice is right around the corner, that they're going to bust into churches and schools and hospitals, is to gin up a lot of fear to make it very uncomfortable for immigrants to live in this country, and also to deter other migrants from coming into the country illegally because they're not going to have a good time. that's the message that is being sent. but at the same time, it is very paralyzing for these communities. i've been out speaking to immigrants these this last week, talking to activists, talking to religious leaders who elected leaders. and what they're seeing is people who haven't left their homes since january 20th, people who are not sending their children to school, who are sending their neighbors to take their kids to school or go out to get them groceries, who haven't been going back to church just because they are so afraid of getting deported. and for most people, it's about family. it's about being separated from their families. and what are they going to do if they get picked up and have to leave their

children behind? so i think the fear is the difference. >> i mean, the fear is the point. i mean, that is what they are trying to do. but, but but maria, look, it is, it seems, working to a degree. i mean, border crossings have slowed in the last several weeks. they were slowing already under biden, but they are continuing to slow. it is working to a degree and and if most of these people are people who already have deportation orders, already have criminal records, um, that is something that i don't necessarily think even democrats can oppose, because those people still would have been deported under biden. >> a couple of things. first of all, no one opposes the deportation of violent criminals. you know, yes. leave here. get out of here. we don't want you here. there's no question about that. there's never been a question about that. the biden administration, the obama administration, the first trump

administration, the george bush's administration, all administrations have always focused on the most violent criminals. what is going on now, though, abby, and what is really working actually is not necessarily the deterrence. because you're right, the numbers were already down. historically, they were less when joe biden was in office than when trump was in office. so it's really all for show right now. and while i understand that this is something that he ran on it. the fear and the panic and the division is, i think, something that we should all be concerned about because people are staying home. the central valley, you have agricultural fields that have been empty and those fields are starting to rot. this is going to start having an effect on our economy. you have textile factories, meat processing plants where workers are not going and things are not getting done. that is where we are going to feel it. and you also starting to have images of

people, of families who are being violently separated from one another, where the person who is being taken away, the only thing that they have against them is that they are here without documents. tom homan was on earlier on, on with kate kaitlan collins, and he said that they're focused on the most violent criminals today. the new york times story said that half of the people that they arrested today did not have a criminal record. so they are being very indiscriminate. well, and that. >> to me. >> is not something that we that that is a good strategy. >> if i may, if you came into the country illegally, you're a criminal. you broke our laws. you knew it when you did it. >> the majority of immigrants, that is pretty much the only crime that they've committed is either entering or reentering the country. and they've been. >> you just said they're. >> living here for like 20, 30 years. you've built businesses, you've built. >> homes. >> you you are part of the fabric of the country. you're part of the community. and that is not only that affects the immigrant family or the people that are getting their family members deported. that affects

all of society. when kids start asking, why hasn't my best friend come back to school? why is, you know, why did my friend disappear when businesses start to shutter? when folks. start happening? >> but here's. >> the thing. no amount, by the way. no amount of berating me about this is going to change the fact that the american people literally just voted for this. you're right. they want the criminals out. they want the violent people out, and there's really nothing they want. everybody out. there's really not much of a controversy. >> wait a minute. >> so the democrats. >> latinos. finish the sentence because your point right before you said that was you committed a crime because you came across the border. correct. so the the sentence that you want to say is they want the violent people out. >> and they. >> want they want the criminals out and they want everybody. >> else out. correct. >> yeah. >> so there you have it. >> they want illegal immigration to end. >> they want. >> it to. >> end. so so when people say, i'm just saying like, let's just call it what it is. >> yes, exactly. >> people say we don't want people. we're afraid that people are going to go into

churches or schools. you don't care that they're going into churches and schools. you don't care if children are afraid. you don't care if families want that part. just say that. yeah. and then i can like. >> everybody. >> i do think i do think that there's a couple of things that have been said that i think are inaccurate or out of context, one of which is the idea that it was just as good under biden. that is patently false. biden, belatedly, at the end of his presidency, did some things through executive actions at the last six months, made the numbers look better. >> i didn't say. >> it was just i don't i don't. >> mean to say it was just as good. >> but but i. >> but no, i said the numbers were lower under biden when biden left than when trump was in office. and that is a fact. >> no, over a four year to four. >> year. >> four year, four year to four. >> year, biden left. >> four year to four year who had a better record. the new york. >> times let me, let me hold on. >> you can. >> tell the truth, maria. hold on. i want the governor. >> the new york times, which is no conservative publication, did investigative reporting not long ago that looked at the biden administration and concluded that the number of illegal immigrants that president biden let into this country was the largest number of illegal immigrants in the history of the country, bar none. new york

times beyond that, beyond that, this point about scott just raise the american people are fed up with illegal immigration. they're particularly fed up with people who are criminals and also fugitives from the law. tom homan may get to the point where he's in schools or hospitals will see if criminals are hiding there. they're not there yet. and the idea that somehow this is offensive to go after rapists, murderers, no one sex trafficking, that's offensive. but now those numbers are going to ramp up. i'll just make a prediction to you. trump will increase those numbers well beyond what you saw under biden. and lastly, and lastly, there's a million plus fugitives beyond the criminals who have already been adjudicated, have already had due process that are in the united states. so once they get done with the gang bangers, the sex traffickers, the weapons merchants, the other folks who are involved in heinous crimes, then they can get to work on 1.2 million fugitives who've already been adjudicated and get them out of the country. and when they get that all done, maybe we can get around to some of the other. >> ones. yeah, we played a clip.

ashley of selena gomez at the top, and she's getting raked over the coals for it, to the point where she had to delete it. what do you make of it? >> i saw it tonight. i mean, i think that this is an issue for some people that is extremely emotional and it invokes tears. and if that is like, i'm not going to demean selena gomez because she was emotionally enraged, i think i'm going to say something that might not be popular with my democratic friends, or even my latino brothers and sisters. i think that there is a moment right now we're having in our country where at the end of the day, donald trump was elected not because people of color put him in office, but a significant amount of latinos did vote for donald trump, and they voted for donald trump because they didn't think that you were going to finish the sentence. they didn't think that they were going to. no. >> i totally disagree. i completely. >> disagree. >> totally disagree. you can disagree. but we now are seeing clips of people saying i didn't think they were going to take my family. i didn't think they were going to come after the

cuban community. i didn't think. >> they were. >> i was. >> al-sharaa and so i guess i'm just saying is like elections have consequences. and now we are experiencing the consequences of this election. >> i. >> dred scott i'm shocked that you disagree because you've been saying for weeks elections have consequences. what ashley just said is that that voters voted for deportations, including many hispanic voters. and this is. >> what i disagree with, what i. >> disagree with. >> i think what i disagree is what i disagree with. >> i spoke to many latino voters. trump supporters surprised me. how many latino trump supporters i found this election cycle versus other cycles, and they wanted to vote for trump on the economy. they agreed about criminals being deported from this country because you will not have any latinos celebrating rapists. and the most dangerous criminals being here if they're here illegally. >> it is only. >> they will say that. but they said when i asked, what about mass deportations? it seems like it's everybody, not just criminals. they would say, oh, trump is not going to do that. they didn't believe it. they

didn't believe it. >> they didn't. >> believe it. >> they didn't. >> believe it. >> i on tape, i have them. >> on i know they have all the anecdotes, the assertion, the assertion that all american voters did not know exactly what donald trump is going to do. oh, they didn't think it is totally false. there was mass amount of polling during the campaign. hispanic americans supported deportations in majority. you and i debated this many times. you claimed it wasn't true. and then what they do, they went and voted for. >> donald trump and. >> the election results. >> are clear. >> there is no buyer's remorse. the people who followed our laws and came here legally are more than happy to. >> see the laws enforced. >> but here's what here's what's being missed. i think this is very critical in in a vacuum. yes, majority of americans do support mass deportations, scott. but you have seen this also in polls. when you start telling them what that means. >> illegals leaving, they support it. >> no. what? oh, no. >> they support that. >> yes. they support the criminals. let me finish. when you when you start telling them

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should not be guilty of the sins of their parents or even let alone their parents, their great grandparents. >> joining us in our fifth seat is cnn economics commentator catherine rampell. she is a washington post opinion columnist. that what elon musk just said, there is music to the ears of the afd. according to the anti-defamation league, some of their leaders have twice been fined by a german court for using a banned nazi symbol. they've called for germany to stop atoning for nazi crimes, and a judge ruled that one afd leader could be described as fascist without fear of defamation because it is, quote, a value judgment based on facts. and these are the people that musk is saying, don't worry about the holocaust. we can forget about it. >> look, the the first time that elon musk decides to declare that globalist jews are responsible for the great replacement of brown people into the united states, maybe it was a misunderstanding. you know,

the second time he said that jews are pushing hatred against white people. that's a quote. you know, that was a little iffy by the second. sieg heil. i think he kind of loses the benefit of the doubt to to be not accused of playing footsie with these nazis. i'm not saying he's a nazi. i'm saying the nazis think he's a nazi, which they very clearly did at this event. and this was not these words were not said in a vacuum. as you pointed out, the leaders of afd have embraced, in many cases, the nazi heritage. they have wanted to take down the holocaust memorial in berlin, saying it is inappropriate to recognize this horrific chapter in german history. um, and i just think it's it's horrific. i don't understand why this guy keeps getting the benefit of the doubt, whether or not he believes. >> this stuff. >> even mention the nazi jokes he was making on twitter. >> yeah. >> that actually. >> got he's been given so many. >> chances about it.

>> yeah. >> i was hearing a lot of sighing. scott, what's. >> the deal? i mean, we've moved on from trump derangement syndrome to elon derangement syndrome. >> i'm sorry. do you want to defend his saying. >> there's ample. >> the germans get to. >> let him finish. >> catherine. i love i love this game we play where you talk for two minutes, i talk for three seconds, and you freak out. so? so he has a long record of supporting the jewish people. number one. number two, anybody who is asserting this thing he did on the stage the other day was a sieg heil, which i just heard you say, you know, lawyer up. maybe because absolute ridiculous thing to say. under no circumstances in. >> germany thought it was a sieg heil. >> under no circumstance. >> the nazis in. >> germany, no circumstances was he doing anything other than expressing enthusiastically. >> why don't you do it on tv right now? >> his appreciation. >> why don't you do it on tv right now? if you think it's so? >> number three. >> number three. >> you know. >> now. >> number three, i think it is fully appropriate. and i, of course, have been the strongest supporter of the jewish people on this network for over a year since october the 7th.

>> is that true? >> to remember, to remember the holocaust and to remember the atrocities committed against the jewish people. and i also think it's appropriate to remember the atrocities committed against them right now. and it seems to me let me just finish my point. it seems. >> to me i won't let you change the subject. >> it seems to. me i'm trying to finish my. >> point. as the jew at this table. >> i'm trying. i'm trying. >> to finish. i would. >> say the people who are most concerned about and most all over elon musk today have had nary a word for the nazis on college campuses who have gone crazy for the last year. >> and a half. that is bull. that is bull. nothing. i am a jew who has criticized the people on college campuses for saying anti-semitic things. i will go on the record as saying that i am also criticizing this man who, a day or two before holocaust remembrance day, makes light of this moment, this horrific moment in german history, the reason why germans remember this. >> he's not. i don't believe he's making light of it. >> i disagree. absolutely. >> i want you to address what we are talking about here, because you can talk all day about college campuses, but elon musk,

two days before holocaust remembrance day, went and spoke in front of a far right party that, as part of their platform, wants to atone. they want to erase the idea that germany, germany is responsible for this. >> a lot of them deny the holocaust. >> even in history. >> i didn't. >> i didn't. i'm the thing i'm going to do today is speak before a bunch of far right people who, in their own country, have been sent to court for using banned nazi symbols. really? >> look, i think, i think it is possible to do two things. one, support the jewish people and the memory of the victims of the holocaust. and number two, say something that is actually factually correct. nobody being born today is responsible. >> do you know why. >> we what happened in. >> the holocaust? you know why we. >> just like nobody being born today is responsible. >> why? we remember the holocaust. do you know why it's important. >> to teach happens again. >> it's so that we can understand. >> and i. >> totally support. >> and i agree. >> with it. it's so we can understand how normal seeming

people can be complicit in horrific acts. >> i think. >> that is the purpose of understanding and remembering. >> and what horrific act is elon musk endorsing today, in your opinion? >> i don't know. detention camps. >> come on. >> well. >> look. >> come on. what do you mean, come on? >> i mean, i mean, you were way off. >> the rails. kind of. >> i'm off the rails. you're the one who defended sieg heiling as a normal activity. >> this is this this this salute. trutherism is outrageous. this is the most. >> do it right now. the biggest. >> this is the biggest conspiracy. >> right now on tv. do you think it's normal? if you think this is a normal way to greet people, do it right now on tv. why won't you? >> i want to, i want to redirect us here because i get it. it's easier for you to defend for whatever reason, the sieg heil. okay, fine. >> is that what you're calling it? but are you saying it's your position that he was giving a nazi salute? >> i am saying this. you just. you just called it a sieg heil trutherism. she did that conversation that you want to have. but there's another part of the. she brought it up. hold on. that is about elon musk. his pattern of behavior that includes giving support to individuals who, in their own

country, are believed to be so far to the right that they are adjacent to the nazis. that is what's going on in germany. i mean, i mean, i wonder when you hear. >> i'm sorry, that's what the democrats argued about the republicans in the last election. i mean, in the united states, they called them fascists and they called them nazi rallies. that's what they. >> did, scott. >> that's what they see. you're doing it right now. go ahead and say it out loud. say that republicans are nazis. >> say it. i see. >> so scott, go ahead. >> so are you. >> are you really putting are you really. >> putting your you're defending. >> this. >> adult way to handle this conversation. >> on the line for the afd. like, really. >> i'm not an expert on german politics. >> okay, so then maybe. >> but i'm saying but you're like, oh, these people are nazi adjacent. i heard that same thing at this table for six months. >> you should defend before you defend them. maybe i need to read this again. okay. according to the adl, there have been leaders of this political party that have been twice fined by a german court for using banned nazi symbols. they have also called for germany to stop atoning for nazi germany. >> there are leaders of the democratic party, united states, who condone anti-semitism.

today. >> the co-founders of this party engaged in extremist speech to the extent that a judge ruled that that leader could be described as fascist. okay, these are. >> literally all the things i heard last year in america, germany, all. >> the things are viewed to be extremists, and i'm surprised. >> so are you saying you're saying 15% of republicans deny the existence of the holocaust? because that's the case for afd members. >> i don't know anything about german politics. i'm not an expert on german politics. i am telling you, i am here, i am here, i'm here to stand up against the defamatory. >> statements against elon musk. and then i think we have. >> to just, just. >> just no kidding. >> go ahead. just, just briefly. january 27th. today is international holocaust remembrance or memorial day. today of all days is a great day to have this discussion. and by the way, that elon's comments were we should move beyond. i don't think we should ever move beyond remembering the holocaust, the horrors of the holocaust, the

accountability around how and why it happened, who it impacted, the lessons learned in history. it should resonate forever in our minds and in our conscience and our moral presence. and so i don't want to move beyond. nobody should move beyond those lessons. so, you know, he says a lot of things. let's face it, he is a brilliant, eccentric, provocative, you know, person. and he's going to say a lot of things. this one was out of. >> line with him speaking in front of this group. >> the afd. yeah, i don't know much about it other than what you just said. it's not a group i would recommend, you know, people talking to with that kind of record. >> i would just say we should look at this in the context of all of the other things elon musk has done. this is not a one off event where he spoke to a right wing group. again, he has said he thinks that jews are pushing hatred against white people. that's why he had to do his little like apology tour going to auschwitz, which apparently he's very resentful. >> of replacement theory. i

mean, i heard another sigh from scott, but the great replacement theory is an anti-semitic racist theory like that is what it is. so he endorsed and he endorsed it. so there is that we don't know what what the gesture he made, what it really means. kathryn has made her judgment. you've made yours, but it's all the other stuff that we are talking about. why does he keep doing it? >> it is. it is all the other stuff. and and none of it can be taken in a vacuum, which is what makes it so disturbing, because all of it together. this is not the first group that he talks to, that what he says and what he does and the gestures that he makes give comfort to neo-nazis. i mean, that's the reality. and the fact that he gives comfort to neo-nazis should give a ton of discomfort to people who are. elon musk supporters. especially because he has the ear of the president of the united states. >> all the same, you're the

greatest. >> defender of jews on this. >> all the same. rhetoric that they applied to the republican party and to donald trump in the general election last year. it has literally just been transferred to elon musk. >> i think all of it. i don't think that is accurate, but what i will say is that i don't know what that gesture was he did on stage, but i know if i was accused of doing it and that wasn't what i meant, i would make sure i wasn't doing that. that's i think the adult thing to do is say, i'm sorry if that was what it came off with, but that would never be because this is what i believe and then i wouldn't follow it a week later by being in front of people who deny the holocaust. i just think that, like a student, a child could see that. >> well, look, not everything needs to be defended. even if you think he's a genius, there are some lines that we just don't cross. catherine rampell, thank you very much for joining us back in a moment. >> the boeing 747 has crashed in the lockerbie area. >> trying to find out the. >> why of it became everything. >> nothing is what it seems in the lockerbie story.

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