silence from every other republican. with me now is jeff toobin gloria borger, david urban, paul begala. also we welcome cnn political commentator tara setmayer. tara-s there a difference between things the president has said in the past and what steve king has said and the reaction to it? >> well, no to the former. and yes to the latter. they are very similar in things they have said. and the president's history is -- of saying racially insensitive and flat out racist things. paul ryan even said that during the campaign when he attacked judge curiel saying he couldn't possibly rule fairly on the trump university case because he was a mexican. actually, he's from indiana. so the president has done things like this before. the reaction has been very different because he has taken over the republican party and republicans have been craven and they have been cowards in standing up to this. and it's gotten worse and worse and worse. and you could have tried to -- even i was reluctant to...