tv The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC August 19, 2016 9:00pm-10:01pm PDT
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>> and it's difficult for him to get away from because he said those things. joan walsh, susan del percio, thanks to both of you. that is "all in" this evening. i'll be back here tomorrow morning on my show at how are you? happy friday, my friend. >> happy friday, you get a reprieve from the 11:00 p.m. eastern return just so you can get enough sleep to be back here at 10:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow. >> but i could have done it, if they'd given me cocktails. >> you know where my oice is. you know what i keep in that giant chest that looks like it's a work related thing behind my desk. >> oh, i do. have a great show. >> wash the glasses when you're done. >> thank you. >> thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us. it's a happy friday. nice to have you here. here's an american entrepreneur story that's quite remarkable. really, somebody who changed the world. self-made zillion air.
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after world war ii, young american man, grown up in michigan. he had worked at baush & lom and a company kuld univiz. but he founded a company called armor light. what he did at armor light changed everything for that industry. it changed everything for all of us who wear glasses. because he invented prescription eyeglass lenses that were not made of glass. they were made of plastic. and that was genius, and it absolutely changed the world. at least the world of glasses. by 1978, when the founder of
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that company was ready to sell that company that he had built, he found a very willing buyer in 3 m and they bought his company in 1978 for $70 million at the time. in today's money, that would be about a quarter billion dollars. and this was a privately held firm. so basically all of the purchase price, as far as i can tell, went to him. almost all the purchase price went to the one guy who had the idea and founded that company and made it happen. the founder of armor light, the inventor of plastic eyeglass lenses. he obviously was doing well for quite some time running armor light. but once he got bought by 3m in 1978, then he was doing well on the order of a different magnitude. he was crazily wildly rich, all of a sudden. and that ended up being very good for "saturday night live,"
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because it turns out the guy who invented plastic eyeglass lenses, when he got to be a zillion aire, he turned out to be a self-made, super rich zillionaire, with truly amazing ideas about himself and what he wants to do with his money. a lot of people have more or less insane self-agrandizing fantasies about themselves. but when it gets to be like sci-fi on earth, or straight into the "saturday night live" skit, is when people who have crazy, self-agrandizing ideas, also end up having tons and tons of money to make their crazy visions come true on earth. we've got one of those right now in this week's news. you might remember the eccentric trump-supporting billionaire, one of them at least, who spoke at the republican national convention on behalf of donald trump. peter thiel, he's been in the news this week because he sued the website gawker out of existence. he didn't like the way that gawker covered him, so he funded a secret legal campaign against gawker and its founder to
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bankrupt them and put them out of business. gawker closes next week. peter thiel has been in the news because of that, but he's also an illustrative idea or example of this thing that we have in america. he's the latest in a long string of these guys who are richer than god and a little kooky and once they're richer than god, they decide they can basically transcend the other bounds that hold us mere mortals within what the rest of us think of as reality. i mean, consider that both the armor light eyeglasses guy back in the day and peter thiel right now, both of them, as super rich guys, with very interesting ideas about themselves, both of them tried to found their own countries. peter thiel tried to buy himself a new country made of shipping containers that would be governed as an ant arktic libertarian floating country on the seas. the eyeglasses guy wanted to i mean, consider that both the armor light eyeglasses guy back in the day and peter thiel right now, both of them, as super rich guys, with very interesting ideas about themselves, both of them tried to found their own countries. peter thiel tried to buy himself a new country made of shipping containers that would be governed as an ant arktic libertarian floating country on the seas. the eyeglasses guy wanted to found his own country by buying an existing island somewhere
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which he would run not as a libertarian utopia, but he would run his as an exclusive haven. a nation built by and exclusively for scientists, and they would invent stuff and that's how their economy would work. and the reason they wouldn't need to do anything but invent stuff is because they were scientific geniuses. and in this new world, they wouldn't have any interference from all the morons who populate other countries and get in the way. just elite scientists and so everything would be perfect. the eyeglasses zillion aire explored that idea in the early '70s. it didn't go anywhere. but when we got his giant quarter billion dollar windfall in 1978, he decided to move on instead with another of his mad scientist genius ideas. it was a different idea.
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a plan that he came up with. he did put it into effect and it became very interesting news in california. not a new country, but his other idea was about genius sperm. he founded a special, elite, millionaires sperm bank, that was designed specifically to stock the sperm of nobel prize winning scientists. mankind cannot live on sperm alone, but he had a plan to solve that problem too. the way this bank would work, if you wanted to get your hands or whatever on that sweet, sweet, elite nobel scientist sperm, the
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millionaire eyeglass mogul in charge of this private sperm bank, he wasn't going to let just anybody make a withdrawal from his vault. not any rag tag woman come up to the teller window in that particular bank. no, he decided, according to the rules of his eccentric sperm project, anyone who wanted access to this sperm repository would have to prove that she was a member of mensa. this really happened. "the l.a. times" did a great biography of the eyeglass zillion air like ten years ago. i still have a print-out of it in a physical file, just in case the internet gets erased sometime and i won't be able to find it again. they call it darwin's engineer. and it's the story of how this self-made millionaire, the man who ground-out prescription eyeglasses from plastic, then decided what he was going to do with that fortune was grind out, not exactly a master race, but sort of a genetic improvement program for a group of hand-selected, deliberately bred elite babies. the nobel prize sperm bank. the problem, ultimately with his
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project was that only one nobel prize winner would publicly admit that he had donated his sperm. the only one who went public with the fact that he was supporting this deal was named william shockley. that name may be familiar to you. william shockley is a legitimate scientific phenomenon. he invented the transistor, won the nobel prize in 1956. he donated his sperm to the eyeglasses guy. shockley had been this physics genius, but by the time he was
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talking to newspapers in the '70s about him happily making deposits in the eyeglass mogul's elite sperm bank, by then, william shockley was kind of a different guy. he was a man who had given up physics, in order to devote himself full time to spreading the news about the inherent genetic inferiority and intellectual incapacity of black people. in his later years, shockley became devoted to the idea that african americans were socially inferior and it was genetic. they were genetically inferior human beings because of their race. william shockley said society should pay people with low iqs to sterilize themselves. he did a lot in science, but he was also, by the end of his life, a full on racist yujen sift. who was trying to propagate his own sperm at an elite sperm bank, instead of all the inferior sperm that was out there in the world messing up the gene pool. and he ended up being the public face of the nobel prize sperm bank. and therefore it ended up being
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one of the weirder california news stories of the late '70s and early '80s, which is saying something, because that was a weird time. "saturday night live" in 1980 did a skit about it, that they called dr. shockley's house of sperm. >> dr. shockley's house of sperm. no. we're open 24 hours. just bring in a recent iq test or an s.a.t. test, something like that. thank you. goodbye. >> hello. my husband and i would like to have a child, but unfortunately my husband is sterile. >> hi. good afternoon. could i help you? >> yeah. you got any rosa? >> no. >> how about andrew young? >> no, sorry. >> willie mays? >> i'm afraid dr. shockley may not have stocked exactly what you have in mind. about the closest we could get
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for you is tony orlando. >> i tell you what, since you don't have no brothers in there, who is that white dude, the one that -- >> oh, rodney dangerfield. >> yeah, you got him? >> no, wait a minute, that's what we've been waiting for, the rodney dangerfield. >> we were here first. >> the rodney dangerfield sperm, kind of a long story, kind of hard to get there in the time we have available this evening. but inevitably because of the subject of the joke era, you have to wrap the skit around to uniform nazis showing up later on in the skit and getting in line to get their genetically superior sperm as well. of course this was a news story at the time, but it ended up on "snl," because it was an elite, seemingly racist sperm bank, based on eugenics, improving the gene pool and that's ridiculous and hilarious with the right
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cast. but the nazi is there for a reason too. right? it's all creepy. and it's also an idea for which there are american die-hards. and the zillionaire eyeglass mogul who got all this public ridicule for it in the '70s and '80s and ending up on "saturday night live" and all the rest of it, while he was trying to found his nobel scientist sperm bank, and getting all this press about it being a racist, yujen sift endeavor, he did get some support at the time from some eugenics die-hards. in 1996, in fact, he got a letter from a guy who founded something called the society for genetic education. this guy wrote to the nobel prize winner sperm bank guy, the eyeglasses guy, to try to help him out with his pr, to give him alternative strategies for how to talk about what he was trying to do, that maybe wouldn't creep people out so easily. he said the way his group was doing it, they emphasize said mankind's use of yujennic emphasis on plants and lower animals, as a way to condition
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the public for genetic manipulation and raise the application to the human race. he said he found it helpful to do his work under the term genetics rather than eugenics. stop talking about eugenics. it's not a subtle idea now matter how many nobel laureates you get to make deposits. it's always going to feel a little german, right? but whatever you call it, the idea was clear in this case, it was the same. this is from that same letter, from the society for genetic education guy to the eyeglasses mogul, trying to run the genius sperm bank. same letter. he says, quote, do we leave it to individuals to decide they are the intelligent ones to have more kids?
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and more troublesome, what about the less intelligent? who logically should have less. who's going to break the news to less intelligent individuals and how will it be implemented? in other words, how are we going to get the elite to have lots of kids, and the lesser humans to stop producing all these filthy offspring, which is so genetically terrible for us? that guy writing to the noblel prize sperm bank, don't say eugenics, woring about how we're going to break it to the lesser humans among us that they can't breed anymore, that guy was the founder of the society for genetic education. a new years earlier, he had mused in print about creating an organization with a less subtle name. kicked around the idea of leader, standing for the league for european american defense education and research, the idea of "leader" would be to work to
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genetically protect a white majority for the united states of america. that group was never founded, but he's on paper musing about creating it. he's on the record saying that is maybe what he wanted to do. he's a guy who has become pretty famous in the modern history of american racism and eugenics, his name is johnitanton. he says, quote, i've come to the point of view that -- the arizona republic published his memos in the late '80s, where he lamented a latino onslaught in this country. he questioned the edka billity of hispanics as a race of people. can they even be educated? another one of the organizations he founded was called u.s. english. when those memos were published in the arizona public and his views became known, a bunch of
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mainstream people, walter kron cite, arnold schwarzenegger, linda chavez, they had all previous associated with this group, when those memos came out showing his racial views, they bugged out and disavowed any further association with him. but john tanton kept it up. it's been his life's work. he's founded lots and lots of different anti-immigrant groups over the years. and the two that have really stuck and really succeeded, a group called fair and a think-tank called the center for immigration studies. ever that name before? if you heard that name today, it's because that name, center for immigration studies, appears on screen in the brand-new donald trump ad that came out today.
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ten seconds into the 30-second ad, this is the first ad that donald trump has run in the general election and right out of the gate, he's citing the center for immigration studies the head of the center has met with donald trump and his camp. he's bragged about that. it's part of the anti-immigrant groups founded by john tanton that you see here. he's kept many people very busy for decades, as they keep trying to remind people who he is, as he drifts in and out of white supremacist circles and eugenics groups and continues to found on serve on the board of groups that advocate anti-immigrant policies. and the reason those watchdog groups are so busy about him, some of these john tanton groups make a point of trying to make themselves seem very mainstream, normal republican and conservative organizations, but they're all part of the same network, all founded by the same guy and they never stay camouflaged for all that long. the center for immigration studies, for example, will distribute essays from holocaust deniers every now and again.
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oops. they keep finding themselves digesting and sending around work by white nationalists. i mean, you get back to that dark side. you slip back into that really fast when you're circulating arguments like, the native ethnic stock that founded and built the u.s. is systematically being replaced through massive third world immigration. native ethnic stock. for the first national donald trump ad of the presidential election to be citing the john tanton group, that's nuclear. a lot of people have noted today that the content of the first donald trump ad which came out today looks nothing like this ad from california that you see on the left, around the time that john tanton was writing helpful "don't say eugenics" to the nobel prize sperm bank. this was from pete wilson in support of anti-immigrant legislation that california
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passed that year and that he supported. and that anti-immigrant stuff it passed in the mid '90s, but the effect of that and the advertising campaigns that pete wilson ran for that policy, they have had a longer term effect on california politics that's legendary. people talk about that pete wilson ad as the swarm ad. that leaves an impression on people you're trying to scare about immigrants and latinos. in california, republicans did well with that issue at the time, in the mi '90s. but imagery like that doesn't just have an impact on the people you're trying to scare. the people you're depicting are cockroaches, they're not likely to forget how you've depicted them, and trying to scare other people into thinking of them as a sub human threat.
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california used to be a red state. will you put up that picture again? ronald reagan, republican governor of california for a reason. pete wilson was republican governor of california for a reason. it was a swing state or a red state. but you know what, every since under pete wilson, they went hard-core anti-immigrant in the mid '90s. every since then, the republican party in california has gone extinct. there hasn't been a republican elected statewide in california in a decade and counting. so, yeah, pete wilson won on that issue for a minute. but look what it did to the republican party. donald trump ran his first ad in the general election campaign. if it feels familiar, that's for clean food.
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today we got the third donald trump campaign shake-up in the last five months. after throwing out the campaign leadership once in april and once again in june, they did it again today. trump campaign chairman paul manafort officially out of the trump campaign after one too many headlines concerning his lobbying connections to a pro-russia political party in
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ukraine. those headlines, which seem to be increasing in number by the day, as well as donald trump's continued bad performance in the polls, it's one thing that maybe would let you predict a shake-up at the top. this is the third one in five months, though. is it weird, is it important, to have that much turnover at the top this close to a general election to choose the next president of the united states? joining us now is dan rather, long-time anchor of the cbs evening news. great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> is it unusual to have this much turnover, this frequently ask this close to the election? >> it's not usual. i hesitate to say it's unprecedented, because somewhere back in the 19th century maybe presidential campaigns has it happened this many times, this close to election day. but what it tells you is that donald trump reads the polls like everyone else. he may be saying, as i sometimes say, don't pay too much attention to the polls this time of year, but, look, this is the way it is in losing teams' locker rooms. coaches get fired. and as a matter of fact, this is
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what trump does best. like in his tv program, people come in, and they get fired. >> in a theatrical way. >> but what he's trying to do is once again reboot the whole campaign. and he says to himself, losing momentum, and clearly has he been since the democratic convention. i think part of what happened with the convention and the khan family and how he mishandled that whole thing. that he says to himself, i can't continue with this team this way and expect to win. so he makes a change. and i'll tell you something, i wouldn't be surprised to see him change again before the campaign goes over. >> some people say that the one really good thing about the fact that our presidential elections are so long, and get so much attention, get so much saturation coverage, is that you can't get away with anything. it does end up being a full body mri in terms of how you operate.
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it's very hard to do anything in secret or do anything that everybody doesn't notice. but it also shows how well you operate in terms of running an organization over a long period of time with unrelenting scrutiny on you and that we should see management skill in running a campaign as a way of foreshadowing what you'd be like as a president. >> i think that analogy holds up well. donald trump has never been through this, and he would say that's an advantage, he's not a life politician. but you've hit on it, the campaigns are long, and there's no place to hide. he's just not used to that kind of scrutiny. but i've said before, i don't count him out, at least not yet. but what he's attempting the last say, 24 to 48 hours, maybe longer than that, with his appearance before the group in a white suburb, and somebody remarked, that's no place to talk to african americans. >> right.
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he gave a speech in which he kept saying he was talking to african americans, in an all-white room. >> it's easy, the point, he knows that he's not going to get african american votes. they see him as a threat. what he was attempting to do was to appeal to independents and swing voters, mostly white, who might be inclined to go for him, saying, i'm really not a racist. they were his audience, not the african american audience. the african american audience is smart. they're been through a lot and they're almost impossible to fuel. so they take the attitude, i don't mind you asking me to eat broccoli half as much as trying to convince me that it's a biscuit. >> that's why you get him twice in one week where he's talking about african americans, but supposedly from the podium, to african americans, there are
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none or a very small number of african americans in the room. but you're saying that's actually targeting white people to make them think he's less of a biggot and if you support him, you're not a racist? >> exactly. donald trump knows that his path to win, and he knows it's narrow, it's to get higher percentages of white people who voted in past elections to vote. that's number one. and a higher percentage of the ones who do vote to vote for him. it's not african americans he's talking to. i will say, we're talking about the campaign switches, that kellyanne conway, the woman who is now the manager, she's terrific on television. whether you like donald trump or not, this woman can talk the legs off a table. and she's all over the place and she's presenting in the last, i would say, 48 or 75 or 80 hours, the best case for donald trump that has been put forward so far, with the possible exception of the candidate himself. >> do you think we'll continue to see, one of the things i've been highlighting, these references and use of material from the very far right. the reason i did that center for
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immigration study at the top is because that ought to be a nuclear reference in presidential politics, at least in terms of racial extremism. and we've seen that a bunch of different times from the trump campaign, if they're trying to maximize the white vote. do you think we'll get some of this fringe, racial stuff? >> i think you may get a lot of it, perhaps subtly put, perhaps not as straightforward. but the campaign is being run by donald trump. he's taking aboard, workers who are from the fringes. zealots from the fringes of the party, who are now helping him run the campaign. and they're going to say the kinds of things they were previously saying on right-wing radio, because they think if you say it often enough, they're convinced that will get donald trump the white votes he needs,
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the big white turn-out that he needs. i think you're going to see an awful lot of that. the best political analyst strategist i know, mike murphy, run many republican campaigns, brilliant guy. >> great guy. >> he thinks it's suicidal in political terms for donald trump. but donald trump does not. he's turned himself over to a lot of zealots from the fringes of the party and we'll see how that goes. >> see how long that lasts with kellyanne conway putting a shine on it. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> all right, we'll be right back, stay with us. ♪ mapping the oceans. where we explore. protecting biodiversity. everywhere we work. defeating malaria. improving energy efficiency. developing more clean burning natural gas. my job? my job at exxonmobil? turning algae into biofuels. reducing energy poverty in the developing world. making cars go further with less. fueling the global economy. and you thought we just made the gas. ♪
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his mom became deaf and she learned to read lips. so he tried as well. he said he was terrible at it. and that may be true in a conventional sense, but i say he was perfect. just not in the expected way. well, tonight, i'm very pleased to tell you, we have a new one from my anonymous love, bad lip-reading from the democratic convention. that's so great, it's coming up at the end of the show, because it's friday and i love you. that's straight ahead. >> save a pretzel for the gas jets. thank you. i wrote that. here i am... building a jet engine. we've been hearing so much about how you're a digital company, so you can see our confusion. ge is an industrial company that actually builds world-changing machines. machines that can also communicate digitally.
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as far as we know, no one has done an official census of donald trump rallies. we don't have hard numbers on the demographics of his crowds. but if you've been to donald trump rallies or talk to reporters who have been to a lot of them, they will tell you that the crowds are pretty white. so much so that the candidate himself has been known to get
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visibly excited when he sees someone who is not white at one of his events. there was the time he saw a woman hold up a latinos support d. trump sign. invited her up on stage for a hug and a kiss. all the time he pointed out an african american man holding a trump sign at a rally. and he said, look at my african american over there. like it or not, racial hom ojinatey in the crowd is what the trump campaign has been like. and maybe that's the context for understanding an upsetting story in charlotte, north carolina, to jake anangta. he's on the left there. he's 18. that's him with his dad ramesh.
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ramesh's parents emigrated to the u.s. from india. jake was born here, he's a college freshman in north carolina. because jake is 18 years old this year, he has a chance to vote in this year's election. it's exciting when you turn 18 in a presidential election year. jake has been a huge donald trump supporter. he tells us he has a trump "make america great again" t-shirts that he wears to school on a weekly basis. so when the trump campaign announced their charlotte, north carolina rally, jake and thousands of other trump supporters turned out and that meant waiting in the hot sun outside the convention center to get in. and jake waited more once he got inside, waiting for trump to arrive. jake said he was listening to music on his headphones. he was super excited to finally see his candidate. but then something unexpected
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happened. before donald trump even appeared on stage, jake said a member of trump's security team tapped him on the shoulder and told him they recognized him from previous trump rallies. this despite the fact that jake says he's never been to any previous trump rallies. they told him he had to leave. he said he tried to explain that he had never been to a trump rally before. tried to say he was a trump supporter, wasn't there to protest by any means, but they threw him out. charlotte observer picked up the story today. quote, anangta said he stood outside the convention center, watching a stream of white people enter. quote, i thought trump was for all the people. i don't believe it anymore. why are all these white people allowed to attend and i'm not? jake also told the observer that after this experience at his first political rally for the first election he can vote in, he doesn't think he can support trump anymore. the trump campaign is sticking by their assertion they were right to throw jake out. saying, we were informed last night that security identified those individuals, asked to leave, as individuals who have been removed from previous events. trump's spokesman then named a former fbi agent as the trump security director, who was responsible for determining that
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jake anangta was a protester who had been kicked out of previous events and that's why they kicked him out in charlotte last night. in his speech last night at that event, donald trump made a verbal attempt at least to reach out to minority communities, saying he promises fair and equal representation to african americans, hispanic americans, and all americans. that is what donald trump said from the podium last night, but by then jake had been kicked out and he didn't get to see the speech. jake and his dad are here for the interview, next. >> fair and equal as you'll see, when shoppers add an item to their jet carts, they automatically shrink the prices of millions of other products. very impressive. whoo, it's got a little kick to it. sorry, i can't hear you?? nice shirt craig. at jet.com, we always find innovative ways to save. get 15 percent off your first order.
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they all smell bad too. no! you all smell wonderful! i smell bad! if you're a parrot, you repeat things. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. squuuuack, it's what you do. >> fair and equal representation. this is what i promise to african americans, hispanics, americans of all types, of all colors, of all religions. this is what we promise, we all promise, everybody in this room promises. this is what we have to do. >> speaking of who was in the room, a young man from north carolina named jake anangta went to the rally last night, he's 18, voting in his first election this year. went to the rally in charlotte, to see the candidate who he has
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enthusiastically supported. but jake was ejected from the rally by trump security. he said he believes he was racially profiled. joining us now are jake anangta and his father ramesh. welcome to both of you. it's nice of you to come on the show to talk about what happened. i appreciate you both being here. >> yeah, and thank you. >> thanks, rachel. >> jake, let me start with you. tell me if i got anything wrong, if terms of how i explained what happened last night and just put it in your own words. >> you were pretty much correct. i showed up around 2, 2:30, got in line around 3:00 or so. i was waiting in the hot sun until about just before 4:30. they opened the doors, let me in. i went through security.
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everything was fine. i was there fairly early, so i was fairly close to the stage. i had to wait for a while. probably waiting for about an hour and a half, just listening to music, minding my own business and i get a tap on my shoulder from donald trump's head of security, basically telling me that he knows who i am, that i am a protester, i am someone who has been kicked out of previous rallies for disrupting, which isn't true at all. i was shocked to hear this. everything he was saying, i was
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completely shocked. i've never been to a donald trump rally before that. and i would never protest against trump, because i was a donald trump supporter. >> and you explained that to the head of security, and he just said, i don't care, or did he rebut you, or did he -- >> well, he claimed that three people, three individuals, i guess, had pointed me out, while i was standing there. i don't know if these were security guards or just random people that were attending the event. but, i guess there matters were
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more important than mine, holds more weight. i really don't understand. >> can i just ask you how you feel about it? not to explain their motivation or where you think it was coming from, but how it made you feel in the moment and how you feel about it now. >> you know, what i will say, i am definitely not a donald trump supporter anymore. i believe that -- when i was there, everyone welcomed me. everyone there was great. the people i was waiting in line with, who was standing next to. it was a great day until donald trump's head of security essentially is making up a lie about how he knows who i am,
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about how i'm a protester, who has protested at previous rallies and the most frustrating thing, he doesn't give me a name of who he thinks i am, no picture, nothing. he could have fabricated all of this and i was left in the, da. -- in the dark. no matter what i said, he wouldn't have believed me. >> mr. anangta, i understand that you're a republican as well. you haven't been as enthusiastic about donald trump as your son. what did you think about your son going to this event and what do you think about how it worked out? >> it's incredibly disappointing, discouraging, and really heartbreaking. the irony is pretty much unbelievable because jake was the biggest trump supporter, wearing his shirt, you know, just really trump's message resonated with him. he loved the guy. and this is a supporter that trump should be falling over himself to celebrate, to get up on stage. he's young, he's minority, mixed race. i mean, trump should be celebrating him. instead, he kicks him out. yes, it was not donald trump
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himself who pointed to my son and said, get out of here, but it was his head of security, eddy deck, former fbi agent who runs the show for security. and the way trump has been changing campaign managers quicker than his socks, i think he ought to think about changing his security team, because they're not making the rallies a very welcoming or open, inclusive place. to amaze his audience. great show. here you go. now he's added a new routine. making depositing a check seem so effortless. easy to use chase technology, for whatever you're trying to master. isaac, are you ready? yeah. chase. so you can.
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might be better for president obama to wait a bit so they wouldn't have to divert resources to his visit. that kind of concern did not stop donald trump for deciding that he would trump in on louisiana today along with his running mate mike pence which they did not coordinate their visit with the governor's office of louisiana. today the white house announced he'll go to baton rouge next week. the american red cross, of course, is there already in great numbers they tell us as of today they got a thousand volunteers on the ground from all 50 states, plus tons and tons of volunteers. this disaster has not been covered in the news on the same scale you might expect, gin the size -- the size and scale of the devastation. i think largely because of the presidential campaign and the olympics. but the louisiana governor last
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