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florida said he will help his family and do good for humanity. we begin with the fallout over the president's incendiary remarks about people from haiti, africa, and el salvador. moments ago he tweeted, democrats are all talk and no action. they're doing nothing to fix daca. great opportunity missed. too bad. then another tweet, america first! well, the front pages of newspapers indicate the controversy is far from over. the "washington post" global outrage over on trump comments persist. the stanford advocate, haitians vow to fight back. "miami herald", republican congressman was there. won't say whether trump dispair acknowledged haiti. here's corey lewandowsky. >> in haiti, the average person is $804 a year. in norway, $97,000.

if those refugees will come to the united states, do you want a person with whose average income is $800 or a year and contributing to salary or $97,000? >> joining me now, actor and activist is the founder of hollywood unites for haiti. a welcome to you. a big thanks for you getting up some early in l.a. for he me. before i get to the reaction on what you heard there, i want to ask as a haitian-american, what was your reaction when you first learned about the president's reported remarks? >> well, i guess i wasn't surprised because he has been conducting himself in such a way from the very beginning. and i was sad to hear that about haiti, about africa. because at the end of the day we are nations that are contributing quite a bit. we have done a lot in the country of the united states. i think without some of the africans and without the

haitians america wouldn't be america. so we have to always remind ourselves of that. without haiti, the purchase would not have happened. it is up to us, up to the africans and the haitians to come together and rise up. >> so corey lewandowsky, he's making the same argument that the white house put out, essentially saying the president was making the case that immigration should be based on merit. is that a fair argument in your perspective? >> immigration is based on merit. i mean, let's go back a little bit. what was america made of? a few centuries ago. i don't think there was any merit in what happened. we don't know where the native americans went, you know? i guess to deal with immigration now we have to make a conscious

effort to understand what happened before. do we want america to be the kind of of land where it is only one group of people that is allowed to be under some special circumstances with some kind of under others or do we want america to be a nation for all people, all nations. so we have to be very careful with that line. we are just walking that line. and only having people come from norway, scandinavia, or people who might look like the president is a bit -- you know, we have to be careful. >> indeed. you talk about having haitians and africans all stand together in this. the african group of ambassadors to the united nations issued a statement. here's in part what the group says. it strongly condemns the racist

and screen phobic remarks attributed to the president of the united states. jimmy, they're calling his remarks racist. others call the president a racist. where do you stand on that and does it even matter trying to distinguish between the two? >> it doesn't really to me. the actions are more important than the word. and i think actions speak loud since he's in power. and we have to be careful with where we go with these actions, you know? unfortunately, he might speak is for a lot of people. and those people do agree with some of what he says. and who are they? he was elected. he was elected by a lot of people, you know? unfortunately, what he says

represents some of the people in america. who are those people? do they agree with everything he says? i understand that among close friends you might have the kind of conversation because they agree with everything you say. but you are the president of the united states. we have to speak for everybody, for all groups. it's not up to me, but let's look at his actions. >> in terms of things that he says, jimmy, his latest remarks are in direct contrast with what he said in 2016. this when he was addressing a group in miami. listen to what he said then. >> the 2010 haitian earthquake unleashed a horrible and catastrophic devastation. over 300,000 dead. unbelievable. 300,000. tax payer dollars intended for

haiti and the earthquake victims went to a lot of the clinton cronies. i really want to be your greatest champion and i will be your champion whether you vote for me or not. >> do you believe the president meant what he said there? is there anything he can do now to alter the narrative, jimmy? >> well, i think he wanted some votes. we know that florida is full of haitians. and those votes did count, unfortunately. so once he got his vote, he's moving on with his agenda. >> okay. jimmy jean-louis, thank you for getting up early. it was good speaking to you. >> thank you very much. >> let's bring in zerlina maxwell, now director of progressive programming for sirius xm. joe watkins, former aide to george h.w. bush and "the new pc" practical consideration. and rick tyler, co-founder of

foundry strategies. or just the saturday morning gang. how about that. good to see you all. good morning. zerlina, amid all of this fallout, the president went forward with honoring martin luther king jr. what was playing through your mind? >> it was surreal. i couldn't believe he was arc c articulating the equality and justice that march the tin luther king stood for and died for when he said some of the most outrageous things he said to date. i wasn't surprised at all by his comments this week as reported. donald trump has long been a racist. he has articulated racist -- his racist beliefs for decades. he started his career discriminating against black people in housing. he called for the execution of the central park five. he started his political career being a birther. there are a myriad of examples where donald trump either espoused racist beliefs or did

racist things through policy. and so it wasn't surprising, but it was so unfortunate on a week when we were honoring the legacy of dr. martin luther king jr. that the president would, with no sense of irony, stand there after saying racist things in the white house. >> how about from a republican perspective, joe is? what was your reaction? do you make any fact that ben carson, the only member of the president's cabinet attending that event? >> yeah. well, there continues to be a lack of diversity at the white house and the administration. it is just painfully obvious. you see the same people over and over at these functions. there should be african-americans on the single most levels of the white house. how african-americans feel about his policies. it's important for a president to hear what people have to say, whether they like it or not. i'm african-american. i happen to be republican.

i worked in the white house for an american president. i say everybody matters. people matter. how we treat people matter. what we say about people matters. and clearly if those remarks are true, they are beneath the office of the presidency. no american leader should talk about anybody being from an s-hole country. we are a nation of immigrants. we welcome people from other countries. my family is an immigrant family. and i think we've been blessed to make tremendous contributions here. whatever our per capita income was when my family came to the united states, it doesn't matter. it's the contribution they made since they have been here. my sister patricia watkins just got her research accepted by the smithsonian institution. if our family hadn't come here, she wouldn't have been able to make that great contribution. i was very, very disappointed by the comments. i thought they were beneath the

office of the president of the united states, if indeed he made them. >> congrats to patricia. that's pretty great. rick, i want to ask on the fallout rating here. two sources close to the administration told nbc news that trump worked the phones thundershowers thursday night calling friends and allies outside the white house to gauge reaction to fallout from the s-hole comments. one source characterized trump as seeking reassurance, and described his mood regarding the fallout and average of his comments as pledge rent. belligerent. do you think they are telling him to double down on the denial? >> no. trump calls people who will tell him yes. otherwise, he doesn't continue to call him. the president has once again showed his true lack of on colors, if you will, as he has demonstrated over and over again. really an ignorance towards this country. there is no american dna.

america is an idea. and if you accept the idea and assimilate to the idea, you're in. you're american. it doesn't matter what your background is. it doesn't matter what your race is or what particular country you come from. and the idea that we're comparing income levels of different countries of people who come to this country is completely ignorant. it is so suggest that if you come from a country that has a low income per capita, that that person is incapable of making more income. america is an idea. what breaks my heart about the republican party is the republican party used to represent the party of freedom. that is the right to pursue. so anybody from anywhere in the world, any immigrant could come here and succeed and make astronomical amounts of money. it doesn't matter what country they come from, what particular race. all of this just plays to a base that is just very disturbing. and i hope that -- the idea that

the president would call around to see how his base was reacting to what he said about african countries and haitian countries and the idea that america is first, and norway is second, and russia is third but haiti is last. it's absurd and heartbreak stpwhrg sit is tight. i will have you back in just a little bit. we'll talk again. president trump a picture of health? what are the chances the public would hear otherwise? coming your way at the top of the hour, former u.s. ambassador to south africa patrick gaspard. i had frequent heartburn, but my doctor recommended...

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president's first medical checkup went exceptional well. it is not telling us anything much. we will he get a read tuesday. are you surprised more was not released at this point? >> two-sentence statement, and we knew it would come out saying he's exceptionally well, fit to be president and more information coming. that is going to happen tuesday. >> what information? >> dr. ronny was obama's doctor as well. he gave us a detailed analysis. he went from head to toe. the examination looking at the eyes, ears, lungs, stomach, everything. any surgeries he had, any medicines he was on, any other issues, and lab tests. from president trump's own backgrou background, we got cholesterol, testosterone and psa. those are the only lab tests we

had. i assume we will get the same thing with height and weight, which are the things we mainly look at. >> you and i were talking before the show. you mentioned former president obama's colonoscopy, the results from that were released. that can be a touch and go situation. is there ever anything released about a president's health that's bad? or is it always put into a positive light? >> it is almost always put into a positive light. the last six to ten, anything that has come out, he's great. excellent health. i don't know if you remember the campaign when senator mccain released his 1,200 page detailed analysis of his history. he let reporters go in for two hours and gain information. president wouldn't release his information at first. then he released it. they are touchy. political reasons, national security interest reasons. presidents have had strokes,

cancers, heart attacksing that we didn't know of until after the fact. >> right. you're a doctor. i imagine you would say soft drinks, not so good. cut out all the junk food. we know what this president consumes on a daily basis. how are they going to spin that? >> that will be one thing of interest on tuesday. the questions you will get are a couple. two different lanes. one will be he doesn't exercise, doesn't eat well, drinks diet cokes all day and he is overweight. he was almost to the obese category. the second lane i think you will see is r his mental status. >> is that done in a regular routine physical exam with our presidents or just in general? is mental fillness analyzed? >> if i get a physical exam at the most i will do a mini mental status exam, asking you what day is it, what date, who is the president, those types of questions and have you draw a clock to see how well you can

draw something. then we will go deeper into it, psychiatric examination. medicare is recommending that for everybody over 65. he falls into that category. on that it is a questionnaire c. it's looking at dementia-type symptoms, so, if that highlights anything then e then you move on to further tests. they already said they will not do any psychiatric exam. i doubt we will do that as well. we will get he's in excellent health is the statement we will get. >> we look forward to tuesday. meantime, thank you for joining me. a renewed call from impeaching president trump, will any vote go further than the last one? that's next. all because of a burst water pipe in their house that ruined the hardwood floors in their kitchen. luckily the geico insurance agency had helped them with homeowners insurance and the inside of their house was repaired and floors replaced. jack and jill no longer have to fetch water.

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i think that the president has really stepped into it here. i think that the congressional black caucus has solidified around some efforts that i think will take place next week. one of which is the pursuit of a

censure resolution. i hope we will do it and get bipartisan support for it. >> a censure in the works on president trump's s-hole comment. joe, there any chance this resolution will receive bipartisan support in the congress? >> well, i'm not sure that it will. but it ought to because everybody in congress, whether you are a democrat or a republican ought to do the right thing and it clearly will be the right thing for this resolution to pass. i agree with congressman clyburn people of color are outraged about this and all americans ought to be and a resolution would be in order. >> so, rick, if we check out all the polls here, there are signs that the public perception overall of the president is continuing to erode. there's the quinnipiac poll finding that 59% of voters think the president does not care about the average american,

which is up 7 points from last year. do you think that creates a climate where this censure resolution could realistically pick up some steam? >> look. it's hard to say. i always said the president's poll numbers are artificially high. the reason i say that is because the economy is actually doing very well. the stockmarket continues to brake all records. unemployment is at historic lows. so there's a lot of good things going on for americans, so in that situation, you would normally have a presidency in his first year enjoying 67 approval ratings yet he is stuck at 36 and is getting worse t. thing is, we'll see and i do believe this sets up to be a wave for the democrats in 2018. it remains to be seen who would strongly, who would be the strongest opponent for donald trump in 2020 so, you know, we got a long way to go.

>> i was going to say, a long ways to go. zerlina, a democratic congressman tweeting he will force another impeachment vote. last time they voted to table that vote. is there any reason to think there could be a different result next week? >> no, i don't think so, i think the impeachment conversation is a little premature. i think al green, his bill actually articulates exactly what we're talking about. the reason why he's calling for an impeachment of the president is his divisiveness as to say obstruction of justice or high crime or misdemeanor that we've seen in previous bills of impeachment that have come forward for a bill clinton, for example. so i think that al green is on topic in terms of what he thinks the reason the president should be impeached for is. but i don't think that this is the time to necessarily put all of our eggs in the impeachment back. it is very unlikely you need to take the majority in the house

and you need 67 senators to vote for removal once the impeachment proceeding takes place in the house. so it's a very difficult thing to do and so i think democrats should actually focus on taking back congress with the argument that we're going to hold the president accountable. we're actually going to be that co-equal branch of government that checks and balances the executive. i think that's a winning strategy for democrats versus putting all of our eggs in the impeachment basket. because like i said, it's very, very difficult. >> i'm glad to see all three of you. standing by the president must be getting tough for republican lawmakers. we will speak with one congressman where he lines up with the president more than 85% of the time.

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