it is only for those who are overseas and believe to be overseas. >> one wonders whether his comments can be used in litigation as they have been. thank you both. and that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening, joy. what a night to be alive. >> wow. >> yeah. i know, i mean, you have kids, i know that you're a person who does not want to -- i mean, it's this -- i've never really had a night where it's very hard to cover what is going on in the news without saying stuff that's not okay to say on tv. >> that's correct. you have to actually curse to quote the president of the united states, go figure. >> not just cursing in exclamation but cursing to adequately do the story. >> and talking about countries from which both of their parents' families are from. >> thank you, my friend. much appreciated. >> bye. >> we'll get through it. thanks to you at home for joining us. all right. last night, we closed this show with a short news item and a

reference to something that had happened at the white house that apparently a lot of you guys thought was fake. i didn't realize that when i said it last night at the end of the show, but late last night after we were off the air and over the course of the day today, it's clear lots of people that saw the end of the show last night thought i was joshing. thought that i was being hyping sarcastic when we reported at the end of the show last night that upon the visit of wone particular world leader, they put out a statement announcing her as the prime minister of normay. we reported that last night. i was not kidding. in fact, the white house did put out that announcement. here is the daily guidance and press conference for yesterday as you can see there, it says quote, the president will then greet prime minister of normay.

there is a lot of countries in the world with sill words, norm? it was strange the white house put that out. they never corrected it. that's still the president's press from yesterday. the white house does stuff like that all the time. before the president went to israel, the white house said the president was taking that trip to israel to quote, promote the possibility of lasting peach. okay. when british prime minister teresa may the white house released a schedule that misspelled her name not once, not twice but three times. the white house does this institutionally, the president does this kind of stuff himself while the president yesterday was hosting the prime minister of normay, i mean norway and we

started selling that country the f-52 fighter jets. there is no such thing as an f-52 fighter jet. >> in november we started delivering the first f-52 and f-35 fighter jets. >> there is no f-52. maybe a b-52 cover band somewhere but "the washington post" noted there is a fake plane called the f-52 that features in the 2014 call of duty video game. that's what it looks like when you fly it. don't let that information distract you because obviously the normegians are too smart to buy that f-52 and doesn't bother to correct once he said it wrong. this little stuff, this is little stuff every day with this president and white house and we

have learned to slough it off and move on. we proceed like it didn't happen. this white house like no other white house before it screws up even the most basic easiest stuff and have literally from day one, do you remember the commemorative smiling picture of the brand-new president? that was the inauguration posted that misspelled the word to. the nation needs to heal, h-e-e-l and that's not the way he means it. they once told a totally made up story about president obama not being allowed to land air force one in the philippines. that is a false story. the president told it in the cabinet room. that was a false story. then he told it again with more completely made up embellished

details to a group of reporters because he liked the fake story so much the first time he kept telling it to get it into the press. this morning the president appears to have accidently come out against his surveillance policy and didn't know enough about what his policy is supposed to be to realize it was his policy fox and friends were telling him to denounce. it's every day. every single day and in general as a country, we have adapted, shockingly, quickly, to this being our new reality. right? when these things happen, we beat up, roll off. beat up, roll off. we're a duck. bizarre blatantly false assertions, giant obvious mistakes inventing a country called normay or whatever the latest drunken swerve off of normal is. as a country, we have started to just learn to go with these things. i mean, sure, the american presidency may never be viewed

quite the same way again, esteem for the office thing will get sorted out but some later generation. we'll always have to own the fact that ours is the generation that lost it. but on a day to day basis as these things happen from this president, from this white house, we have adapted to a new normal of embarrassing competence and dishonesty and i don't say that stuff lightly. it's just been a year now and this is it. this is true. there is no reason to soft pedal it. it happens every day. at the end of every day where it's happened again like well, okay, still standing. so i'm uncomfortable with the peace that i have arrived at as a person that talks about the news for a living on that stuff. i don't necessarily cover the president's tweets and stuff said from the podium at the briefing room and misstatements and lies from senior administration officials and the president himself and viels preside -- vice president. i have a very uneasy piece about

that day to day embarrassing, wrong, exploited stuff. but there is stuff that happens on another level, even if we are in the day to day debasement of the office and the debasement of the institution. there is another level to his behavior. to which i think none of us are hearing. i don't know how many times he has to show up. i do not look forward to that day. on december 23rd, right before christmas this year, "the new york times" published an article looking at the policies on immigration and started the article with an saying, quote, late to his own meeting and waving a sheet of numbers, president trump stormed into the oval office one day in june. according to six officials attended or braefiefed, mr. tru

began reading aloud from the document that steven miller gave him just before the meeting. the document listed how many immigrants received visas into the united states in 2017. more than 2500 were from afghanistan. the president complained that afghanistan was a terrorist haven. the nation of haiti had sent 15,000 people. the president grumbled they quote all have aids. 40,000 people had come from the nation of nigeria, mr. trump said once they had seen the united states, they would quote never go back to their huts in africa. so this piece came out the day before christmas eve. white house denied these claims and these quotes. white house press secretary called this story lies. white house officials quote strenuously insisted that mr. trump never used the words huts or aids to describe people from any country. the white house put out a statement in the name of a lot

of senior administration officials reportedly inside the meeting and put out a statement in the name of those other people saying that they all as a group denied that trump had used those words. quote, general kelly and mcelderry mcmaster and tillerson deny these outrageous claims. there was a white house denial but "the times" published its story including the denials. they stood by their reporting and explained their sourcing. the president saying that people from haiti all have aids was quote according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there. the comments about nigerians going back to their huts was described by two officials. after the white house specifically denied that the president used the word aids or the word huts, "the times" explained two officials that explained them found them so

note worthy they related them to others at the time of the meeting. this was obviously a very explosive thing to have reported about an american president, right? you have these very, very clear denials from the white house in the name of all these senior officials. who are you going to believe? well, door number one or door number two? people who believed "the times" reporting were disturbed by the comments being attributed to the president. the comments have clear implications for the president's broader mind set, right? frank sherry, executive director of america's voice was quoted by the times in that story before christmas as saying that the president's immigration agenda is motivated by racism, basically those quotes proved it. quote, he's basically saying you people of color coming to america seeking the dream are a threat to the white people. he's come into office with a strategy of trying to reverse the demographic changes underway in america. there is somebody involved that

says those comments from the president tells you where he's coming from on policy, on immigration. it's his personal bigotry. all right? some disturbing stuff. at the time that story came out at christmas, you either believed the story from "the times" in which these were very disturbing and yes, plblatantly racist quotes or you believe the denials from the white house, it's ridiculous for the president to talk like that. at the time, which door did you choose? who did you believe? "the times" and their sources or the white house? tonight we know which door had the truth behind it. i mean, what the white house had going for them around the first story printed in december about a meeting that reportedly happened last june, the white house never denied that the meeting happened, they denied what happened in the meeting and what they had going for them where the president was quoted

saying these racist things. the one thing they had going for them is the only other people in the room with the president were administration officials. it was a bunch of cabinet level officials and administration staffers. it was all trump administration folks and even though two of them apparently anonymously leaked word of what they heard because they were at least somewhat distressed or thought it was notable, you know, everybody else in that room, right, administration loyalists, senior officials put their name on denials that it had happened. well, now this time, what's being reported on is a meeting that happened not months ago. a meeting that happened this afternoon and this time it was not just a meeting with people to whom the president has given jobs, it wasn't just a meeting with cabinet officials and administration staffers, today the meeting was with members of congress. according to the "new york times," the members included at least one democrat and a bunch of republicans. it was the senator of illinois who arrived with lindsey graham.

durban and graham have been working on a fix for the daca program for the so-called d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s and kevin mccarthy, the number two republican in the house. georgia senator david purdue, tom cotton and congressman bob goodlatte of virginia. all of them were reportedly in the room. we have contacted all of those senator s and members of congress tonight to try to get from them their confirmation this, in fact, happened and the president said these things and we want to find out how did you guys react? did you do when the president said this stuff? if you can confirm that he said it. all right. we know at least somebody in that room reacted to what the president said believing the room and going to tell reporters about it because josh at the

washington post was the first reporter to publish these alleged quotes from the president today. "the new york times" and nbc news published their own versionsstory, importantly, they are not denying. josh broke the news about this. quote, graham and durbin thought they would meet with trump alone and were surprised to find representative bob goodlatte and tom cotton out meeting. the meeting came after phone calls this morning. graham and durbin came to outline a deal for countries that have been removed from the temporary prospected status while adding money for a border wall and making changes to the visa lottery system and restoring protections for immigrants from haiti, el salvador and african countries as part of the deal.

according to two people, trump said, i have to tell you, i'm going to swear, i will say it once, i have to to convey it. according to two people trump said quote why are we having all these people from shithole countries here? norway, the country with the white people that just bought our f-52s. so these remarks from the president today, this is not the typical granule stuff. this is is not accident recalling it normay. this is not lying about the size of the inaugural crowd. right after the white supremacist rally when president trump asserted there were fine people on the neo-nazi side of that gathering, one is facing

murder charges for dill rememel driving into counter protesters, after protesting, house speaker paul ryan was asked how he squares his role as washington's leading republican with president trump's views on race. >> i think, like i said before, he's learning. i know his heart is in the right place. >> how do you know that? >> i've had some candidate conversations with him about this, especially during that time. i've had candid conversations. so i do believe his heart is in the right place. >> at that time he means after he praised the neo nazi. how do you know that? on what basis does paul ryan and other republicans that support the president in congress, on what basis would you think that the president's heart is in the right place on this subject? i mean, whatever your own views

on the subject, the president has been nothing if not consistent on this subject and if we're being honest as a country, we have to admit we knew exactly what we were getting on this subject when he was elected. >> at least 2 million, 2 million think of it criminal aliens now inside of our country, 2 million people, criminal aliens. >> boo! >> we will begin moving them out day one as soon as i take office. day one. my first hour in office, those people are gone. their days have run out in this country. the crime will stop. they are going to be gone. it will be over. >> the president has not made incidental, accidental,

misspelled screwup comments on immigrate and race and religion. he's been very consistent and he's shown himself very openly on this. this is how and why he ran for president. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shut down of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. [ applause ] [ cheers ] >> we have no choice. we have no choice. we have no choice. >> that's who he was as a candidate. we knew what was coming. that's who america elected. there is an institutional piece of this. there is a national piece of

this that's not about him. it's about us as a country and us as a country under the rule of law because it tells you something about a man to know he talks and thinks this way and seeks advantage and stoking bigotry. you can take a measure of a man that way. but him saying this stuff now that he's president has consequences. it has negative consequences for him and for what he's trying to do as president to let the ideas of his loose into the world as the policy of the american government on everything from the muslim ban to who is allowed to sue him for his health care policies to the sentencing of beau bergdahl on issue after issue and the statements, verbal statements, twitter statements, all of it have been used against him in courts of law to stop him from getting what he wants. because his public remarks in many instances reveal his preferred policies to be

unconstitutional. you may be able to put together a temporary restriction on visas from certain countries based on national security threat that you're attributing to those countries on the basis to something you can prove to a court but you can't have a ban that's effectively a muslim ban if you also say out loud what you're really trying to do is ban muslims from the united states. once you're president, your public statements matter and they can be used against you in a court of law. mr. president, you have the right to remain silent about any policies. the fact you haven't hurts you over and over and over again. just this week, a federal judge ordered the trump administration to restore part of daca. the judge ordered homeland security department to resume accepting renewal applications for the d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s. for the ill advised public remarks about that program and about those immigrants. his public remarks meant his

administration lost their ability to pursue their chosen policy on that subject this week. thanks to the rule of law. today, today is the 16th anniversary of the opening of the military prison at guantanamo bay. president bush opened it but at the time he left office, he was trying to close it. barack obama, john mccain agreed it should be closed. barack obama is the one who won that election and then spent two whole terms trying hard to close guantanamo but neither he, nor president george w. bush was able to do it, even though they wanted to. that said, a new lawsuit filed today on behalf of 11 men held there for more than a decade puts forth a solid argument the president that might be able to close it is donald trump, not because he wants to but because of his public statements arguing it should never be closed and

nobody should ever be released from guantanamo, ever. they let it stay open for 16 years but at least said everybody that was held there needs to be adjudicated as an individual and be treated on a case by case basis. trump blew that up with his forgive me, dumb public statements on guantanamo suggesting nobody should get out, treat them as a group. he might be the one that closes guantanamo. the white house is not denying this multiple source reporting tonight. that the president demanded to know at an oval office meeting why he should accept immigrants from quote bleep hole countries rather than from places like norway. hmmm, why norway? as we try to figure out as a country and individual citizens what we can stand and can't. what stands as a typical day's new insanity beat up, roll off, beat up, roll off and what counts as a breaking point, one

of the things that we can now factor into the balance of harm that is caused by having an openly racist president, i don't say that lightly. one of the things we can factor into understanding the balance of harm that causes this country is the very live question of whether his racist uttering and public statements can also and will also be used to undo the most radical work of this white house. ♪

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today, it's reported with multiple news outlets that the president referred to haiti, eloqueel salvador as bleep hole countries. "the washington post" was first to report the remarks they described to lawmakers in the room as quote taken aback by what the president said. again, the white house not denying that the president made these remarks. congresswoman mia love is a republican member from utah. she's the only member of congress who is haitian american. she put out this statement tonight which read in part, quote, the president's comments are unkind, divisive, and fly in the face of our nation's values. this is unacceptable from the leader of our nation. my parents came from one of those countries and took on the responsibilities everything being a citizen comes with. the president must apologize to the american people and nations. one of the questions raised by the president's remarks is whether or not this is an

instance in which the public statements not denied by the white house might end up being used against him in a court of law as the president seeks to implement policies on the most deeply held believes. joining us is javier paciria, who is now the attorney general of the state of california which has been suing the trump administration quite a lot. mr. attorney general, thank you for being with us. appreciate your time tonight. >> absolutely, rachel. >> can i get your reaction to this reporting tonight in general, just your top line response? >> you can only tiptoe around these things so long before you have to come out and say what it is, call a spade a spade and donald trump is made racist remarks before and this is about as much as i think people should tolerate. it's time to respond, otherwise, what we are at risk of is allowing the exception, which is donald trump become the rule and that's the last thing we should allow in a country where we

worked for over 200 years to elevate the democracy and principles that the statute of liberty stands for. >> one of the things that happened this week before these remarks were reported today was that the administration suffered a significant blow for its immigration policies when a district court, federal court blocked their rescission of daca in part based on the president's public remarks about immigrants and the daca program. are you of the impression, do you have any impression on the president's remarks, that those could be a legal problem for him in terms of trying to implement his administration's policies? >> well, we certainly used his remarks in the case that you just sited that we filed against him and where we got that injectii injunction to stop the repeal of the program during the pending of the trial. he made remarks that make it very clear where he stands and all of the remarks become evidence for the record.

so donald trump's remarks, at least in a court of law, tend to hurt his cause and i'm glad they do because we're finding out what his cause is. >> i want to ask you about something else that broke before we got on the air tonight and it's on the subject of the daca program and dreamers and it's basically remarks you would put in the category of strange or confused from the president on this subject. this is a just posted transcript of an interview that the wall street journal had today with the president and this is the part he seems maybe confused or maybe playing three-dimensional chess here. mr. trump says quote, there is a big difference between daca and d.r.e.m.e.r.s. d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s. are different, there is a big difference between daca and d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s.

i said please use the word daca, you know, it's a totally different word and the wall street journal reporter replies sure. do you know what the president is talking about and can you explain why this seems crazy? >> well, i know he's not playing three-dimensional chess and i doubt checkers reaches checkers. i can't explain it other than perhaps he's jealous that these young americans who are fighting so hard and so courageously to demonstrate they belong in this country have made him very jealous. i don't know. all i know is d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s. are daca recipients and not qualified and those who are d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s. who have come to this country deserve a chance. whether you call them daca recipients, at the end of the day, the thing that made this so

great, they are the kind of people at the end of the day will be some of the greatest leaders. >> are you worried sometimes the president doesn't seem like he knows what he's talking about? >> yeah, i always tell folks i look less at his words, i focus on his deeds and that allows us then to know how to act and when we've taken action when we file that lawsuit to protect the daca program, we worked on and focused on his deeds and today we got the injectiunction again the deeds because he did them against the law. >> really appreciate your time tonight, sir. >> thank you. we've got more to come tonight including news that the haitian government has now formally summed a u.s. official. not sayi ing su ing summing the ambassador to complain trump's

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>> i'm learning to be president of all americans, that's everybody. whether you vote for me or don't vote for me, i really want to be your greatest champion and i will be your champion, whether you vote for me or not. [ applause ] >> i'm running to represent haitian americans and african americans and asian americans and everyone who lawfully resides in our borders. >> that was september before the election. i'm running to represent haitian americans. that was september before the election. september 2017. by the following june, "the new york times" reports the president was making disparkiagg remarks about haitians saying to a room that haitians quote all have aids. the white house denied the president said that but tonight "the washington post" was first

to report a meeting in front of a number of lawmakers today in the oval office, the president again decided to expound on the feelings calling haiti a bleep hole country and adding why do we need more haitians? take them out. according to reporting at nbc news, at that point somebody else in the room responded because if you do take them out, it will be obvious why. that's according the a democratic aid and another person briefed on the conversation. joining us is a former national reporter for "the new york times" soon to be white house correspondent for the pbs news hour. nice to see you. thank you for being with us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> i've been following your twitter feed as you been reporting on this tonight. you said you spoke with haiti's ambassador after these remarks from the president were reported. can you tell us about what the ambassador conveyed to you?

>> the ambassador conveyed one, the haitian defendant actually formally summoned a u.s. official to come before the haitian president to explain. they didn't do this when president trump made the comment about aids and haitians because they are trying to get at the tps issue and have good relations with the united states. he said this is a time we need to understand how this president thinks and why he said these things. he told me the president and haitian government condemned these statements. he said haiti's relationship and haitians go back as far as the founding of this country. there is a monument in georgia dedicated to haitian american soldiers that came over to the united states to fight alongside other soldiers for this war. essentially, haitianes are feeling very upset to let president trump know they are upset. >> the important point that

haiti and the government did not raise these kinds of concerns, did not demand the u.s. government explain the behavior. that didn't happen after this december reporting making comments about all haitians having aids. they are expressing themselves as you described with anger and dismay at what the president said. now, is it your sense that the haitian government didn't believe that the president made those earlier remarks? the white house had some denials when first reported in the "new york times" back in december. >> it's my sense the haitian government was trying to move forward because there is an issue of tps and haitians granted the status in negotiations with the united states government over what to do with that. it's been ended but the haitian defendant is trying to figure out what to do with that. in this case, you can imagine with this comment, the haitian government could not be silent anymore. the ambassador told me all day today he's been hearing from

dozens of haitian americans who are u.s. citizens demanding an apology from president trump and said president trump's comments were an assault on haiti and haitian people but on the country and history of haiti. haiti is a place where there are so many people educate that come over to the united states that are professors and doctors, my mother is a social worker and my father is in haiti and runs a non-profit there. they give a lot of time, blood, sweat and tears and there is a monument in savannah, georgia, dedicated to haitians that said we want america to be free from britain. there is this idea haiti's relationship dates back so far. other people have told me that they feel as though president trump was hinting at ethnic cleansing. there is an idea he sees norwegians as white people that should come over and they are more valuable than haitians who

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president donald trump sat down for an interview with four reporters from the wall street journal today. in that interview unprompted, the interview accused an fbi official of committing treason. the wall street journal asked the president if he wanted to shut down the congressional investigation into the russia scandal. he said in, he wanted them to be strong but then continued with this, quote, what went on with the fbi where a man is tweeting to his lover that if hillary clinton loses, we will essentially go to the insurance policy, which is if they lose, we'll go to phase two and get this guy out of use. see, that is treason there. what he tweeted to his lover is a treason act. that's what the president told the wall street journal today referencing texts between peter struck and lisa page who is an fbi lawyer. peter struck was removed from the special counsel

investigation led by robert mull they are summer after the justice department's inspector general turned up text messages that show struck and page were communicating with each other on a personal level expressing strong political opinions during the campaign. their texts back and forth were at times very strongly anti bernie sanders, anti hillary clinton, anti eric holder, anti ted cruz and yes, anti donald trump. after the wall street journal published this interview tonight where mr. trump made the treason claim, mr. struck's lawyer responded it is beyond reckless for the president of the iunite states to accuse pete struck to defend thing country of treason. it should surprise nobody the president has the facts and the law wrong. a lawyer for ms. page also released a statement tonight, quote, the president attacked a 38-year-old lying attorney who spent her entire career at the

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wrap so they're not wet. when it's raining. these guys have held more than 50 weekly protests targeting daryl issa. very cheerful, jolly protests even in the rain doing anything they can do with a smile on their faces to try to get their congressman daryl issa to please quit. they've been doing it for a year. and then yesterday republican darryl issa announced he'll note run for the seat again at the end of his term. leaving congress. joining a low and growing week, another california republican, congressman ed royce announced that he, too, is retiring. and besides losing the republican incumbents for this year's election, those two california districts have something else in common that's important. hillary clinton won both of those districts in the presidential election in 2016. so that's two seats in california being vacated by retiring republicans where the district leans blue.

clinton won there. we're seeing this phenomenon not just in california but around the country. there have been eight announced house republican retirements of districts that hillary clinton either carried in 2016 or only very narrowly lost. republicans need to pick up 24 seats to take back the house. eight retirements already? that's getting democrats maybe a third of the way there. democrats got another boost this week when a federal court struck down the congressional map in the great state of north carolina. struck it down specifically because of partisan gerrymandering. that had favored republicans. now, that ruling if it's upheld will put republican seethes in play in the next election. by one estimate, democrats could pick up five congressional seats in that state if that ruling stands. so eight republican retirements in clinton held districts, another five out of north carolina. if you're a democrat, you are having a pinch me i'm dreaming moment about the midterms. if you're a republican

especially in a district won by hillary clinton you might be trying to figure out what exactly you will do. congressman issa, for example, is reportedly considering not running in his own district. he said he's not going to run again in the own district and reportedly considering running again in the district next door. districts next door went for donald trump by 15 points. maybe they wouldn't sing outside the office every week. maybe congressman issa thinks that gets him far away from the protesters that brought champagne yesterday to toast the retirement of their district which they have been trying to pressure him into all yearlong. if he tries to return by a redder district, though he should know -- did you see this today? i retweeted this today because of the persistence factor here. the resistance travels, darryl issa. this is from the same folks protesting outside the office. all year. once he said tonight he might

run in a different district they said if issa heads to the district next door to run again, they'll follow him there, too. we'll be right back. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember.

so the president's remarks today about haitians and africans coming from bleep hole countries and that he wanted more people from more places like norway instead, those reported remarks by the president today to a roomful of

senators and congressmen shows no sign of stopping this evening. reactions coming in and including the news we reported this hour that the haitian government is demanding a clarification. we are trying to figure out if the lawmakers in the room at the time while the president said this told the president off once he made these remarks or had any other kind of strong reaction, the kind most americans would have hearing the remarks from some drunk guy at a bar let alone from somebody occupying that office. so we have called all the members of congress who reported to be in the room. we'll let you know if they're able to give us more information about how lawmakers responded to the president's racist remarks. we also have this new reporting from cnn's manu raja reporting what the president was doing at the time that "the washington post" first broke the news about these comments. tweet from cnn's manu rjau, very good reporter and usually

doesn't write this way. you can't make it up, he said. trump was taping a video message for mlk jr. this afternoon as the story broke about his bleep hole comments and per another cnn reporter. so president had to interrupt his martin luther king commemorative remarks presumably to tell the white house spokesperson whether or not he did say that people from haiti and africa are from bleep hole countries and he would prefer norwegians. after you make that clarification and the spokesperson says we're not denying this, do you finish your mlk day message in do you ad lib a little? now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. this is one of those days of parenting in america when the president is teaching little kids a new word. >> yeah. >> a word they're going to learn some point in their