the tropes are those david duke uses. during the campaign everybody that, president trump must disavow david duke. i'll take on it faith that representative omar is not in favor of david duke but this goes both ways. >> one of the things that i think president trump, one of his great skills is honing in on something that's in front of everybody but it doesn't necessarily have a name. low energy jeb or whatever. you can say this is outrageous. the way he is saying the democratic party is anti-semitic. but would the president have more credibility if he had condemned congressman steve king's rhetoric? or kevin mccarthy who stood up to king and the president didn't. >> i understand that. i have the same feeling about that as do i being screamed at. you must disavow and she must disavow david duke. we know she doesn't like david duke and continuing president doesn't like white nationalism. i know the president isn't fond of what king said. here's the same thing i want to say. i'll just recognize the reality here. the republic

just like he didn't say anything condemning david duke. when pressed on it by jake tapper, he falsely denied even knowing the man. >> just so you understand, i don't think anything about david duke, okay. i don't know what you're talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. so i don't know. i don't know, did he endorse me or what's going on because i know nothing about david duke. i know nothing about white supremacists. >>, in fact, he knew who duke was and had condemned him in the past. in addition to that, certain aspects of his twitter feed and official campaign material appeared to adopt, in some people's opinions, anti-semitic tropica trops. there was the six pointed star, and a pile of cash most corrupt candidate ever, an image that was posed to an anti-semitic message board. the star of david looking shape was called, quote, the sheriff's badge which he said fit with the theme of corrupt hillary. which must be why the anti-semitic website posted it as well. right. the explanation does provide the veneer of deniable. as

. >> will you condemn david duke? >> i don't know anything about david duke. i don't know anything about what you are talking about with the white supremacist or supremacy. there is a problem with the words that come out of donald trump's mouth. anyone who's denying it is denying reality. the problem is bigger than him, it was here before him and it will be hereafter him. the u.s. have had an issue with white supremacists since its founding and committing mass murders. the olympic park bombing and the oklahoma city bombing, the shooting at a six-temple in oak creek wisconsin and charleston, south carolina all fuelled by a belief that white is right. it is getting worse. according to the antidefamation link, the fbi and department of homeland security, there has been a resurgence of these movements. white supremacist propaganda increased events in 2018. wh joining me now national security and justice reporter julie ainsley and our new york times and msnbc political contributor brett stevens and our former fbi and speci

, i don't know anything about david duke, okay? i don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. i don't know. i don't know, did he endorse me or what's going on? because, you know, i know nothing about david duke. i know nothing about white supremacists and so you're asking me a question that i'm supposed to be talking about people that i know nothing about. i have to look at the group. i mean, i don't know what group you're talking about. you wouldn't want me to talk about a group i know nothing about. i would have to list. if you will send me a list of the groups i would do research on them. certainly i would disavow. honestly, i don't know david duke. i'm pretty sure i never met him. i just don't know anything about him. >> don't forget this tweet. after mail bombs were sent to people he views as his political enemies including cnn, quote, republicans are doing so well in early voting and now this bomb stuff happens and then the momentum greatly slows? news not talking polit

he wouldn't condemn david duke. there's just so many points of evidence that indicate that for some reason, he is reluctant to condemn white supremacy or recognize it. and i think that's dangerous. not just to communities of color, jews, gays, people like that. it's dangerous to the government because i think that, for one

about david duke. how does that align when the president speaks about the attacks and they're not white supremacists, and they're brown people? >> yeah, they repeatedly condemns illegal immigrants when they commit crimes in the u.s. and he seems to know all of the facts about those types of incidents. an it kind of reminds me of some of his former top staffers get indicted or charged with crimes, in the mueller investigation. he says, i barely knew them. you know, he tries to distance himself. he says, you know, when he gets criticized from steve bannon, he says, you know, he didn't -- bannon came on late in the campaign. so, it's kind of this pattern of disclaiming knowledge, and doesn't seem to be that curious that he is going to get asked about this question so he's going to dig into this. because in a week or so, the media will move on, and there will be a new controversy that we're covering. so we're not going to follow up, mr. president, have you read that manifesto? what's been your response? yo

that's the same david duke who trump wouldn't condemn during the campaign. >> i don't know anything aboutuke, okay dpoipt know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. so i don't know. >> you know what shouldn't be hard? condemning the kkk and knewio nazis. but then of course this past tlokt was the tree of life synagogue massacre by a white nationalist who accused them of bring invaders that kill our people. president trump quickly condemned the massacre and visited the synagogue, but he didn't stop using that language of invasion to describe undocumented immigrants. the maniac who killed 50 muslims on friday, tapped into a similar strain about conspiracy theories about replacement and invasion. and in an aside manifesto praised president trump. does this resemble like responsibility? snow but it's the latest sign of the white supremacist taking note of the receiptic rick ahet. right wing extremists have accounted for 73% of extremist related murders compared from three% from left wing extremists and 23% associated with islamist extremists

his father was a leader in the ku klux klan, and his god father is david duke, but the experiences inollege profou profoundly changed him, and he ended up denouncing and apologizing for his past views. take a look at my interview with derek black. >> look, man, it takes courage to change anything, to change your whole world view takes a lot of courage. help us understand before we talk about that, why do you think all of this is happening now? what is behind this appeal for white nationalism in america? >> coming from that background that i do, it's always been happening. it's always been sometimes not on tv, but it's always been there. there's always been people who were saying those things you saw at charlottesville, there's always been politicians saying the things that donald trump says now. they didn't get as much support, and i think we didn't pay as much attention to them as we probably should have. >> mm-hmm. you actually were able to run for office and win using some of these kind of dog whistles. one of the dog whistles that you found effective when you were part of this mov

. >> stephen: you've gotten some fans in the trump supporter world, david duke, steve bannon and matth they like you? >> you should ask them. look, i have denounced strongly time and again the white nationalist views of david duke and racist and bigoted views of people who are spewing hatred and even violence. this is unacceptable and something we should all stand up and condemn. >> stephen: last question because we've got to go here, how many lessons will it take john podestjon andi to learn to? >> have you ever been before? >> stephen: i have never surfed. >> i think the first day we can do it. >> stephen: thank you so much. thank you so much. >> stephen: congresswoman tulsi gabbard, everybody! we'll be right back with a performance by ellie goulding. the audience arrives. ( ♪ ) courage. we have a fragrance for that. new glade plugins scented oil. sc johnson. -jamie, this is your house? -i know, it's not much, but it's home. right, kids? -kids? -papa, papa! -[ laughs ] -you didn't tell me your friends were coming. -oh, yeah. -this one is tiny like a child. -yeah, she is. oh, but ser

during all this, former ku klux klan grand dragon david duke sent a tweet with a heart emoji about omarsrael by calling it zog, for the zion occupational government. >> one can be critical of israel without resorting to anti-semitism. >> some of her constituents are hurt and worried. >> it's consistent with things anti-semites say. the piece about allegiance to a foreign country, we use the word, i use the word appalling. it's appalling on its face. the accusation, the canard of dual loyalty against jews has a long and ugly history. >> steve is with the jewish community relations council. he said he met with representative omar the week before her allegiance comments. he showed her a photo of his cousin he said was killed fighting for america in world war ii, after he and other jewish leaders talked, she made the comment that worried them most. >> really scary, really terrifying to see this is the words of one of our potential elected officials representing us on the national level that it really drove to the heart of the fear for many of us. >> at a local coffee shop in her district, h

she condemn david duke? >> greg: i have no idea. he claims that omar is the most important member of congress. >> jedediah: it's amazing she doesn't take eat from that. she doesn't take heat for that. >> jesse: peter doocy should ask her. >> jedediah: for nancy pelosi to come out and say it's not about omar. of course it is and it would benefit you to say that it is about her. because now people are asking, who is it about? is it about all of you that you all felt engaged, and make this vague, odd commentary about this when in fact all the language in it, it points exactly to the comments omar made, talking about dual allegiance. it shows a refusal on their part when someone of their own rank does something outrageous like nixon anti-semitic comments, they are refusing to hold that person accountable. although people in the middle of the country, it may make the base happy but there are people in the center of the country that look at this and say why did the democratic party feel they need to do this. are p

and i will say this: i never thought david duke and i would agree on something.aid "malcolm x" is his favorite film of mine. >> stephen: what? >> he told 'em that. >> stephen: did he say why? >> i wasn't there, but-- >> stephen: he's a big denzel fan? >> i don't know what it is! >> stephen: well, i want to get into it, and i want to show you guys a fantastic clip from the movie in just a moment. but we've got to take a little bit of a break and we'll be right back with more spike lee. ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) ♪ we all care about amazing taste. that's why we've been making the best mayonnaise for over 100 years. best foods. we're on the side of food. the right tech can move you. the best tech can move the world. destress your drive with the all-new 2019 nissan altima. impossibly smart. stop fearing your alarm clock... with zzzquil pure zzzs. a drug-free blend of botanicals with melatonin that supports your natural sleep cycle so you can seize the morning. zzzquil pure zzzs. ed gets copays as lowlily go to as zero dollars on medicare part d prescrip

white supremacists like david duke, attacker in new zealand and the pittsburgh shooter view president as a symbol. unto itself that is a problem. let's think about what presidents typically do after a terrorist attack. unfortunately i was at the white house and watched president obama respond to mass casualty events. amp terrorist attacks they watch every word that they're about to say, because it's a high-threat environment and they don't want to incite more violence. this should be doubly true for president trump, because he has inspired attacks in the past. instead he did just the opposite. used the word invasion to describe immigrants at our southern border right after the alleged manifesto from the new zealand attacker used exactly this language. he re-used a white nationalist dog whistle, which he knows has incited violence. instead of wage tweeting on "snl," after a terror attack asked for threat assessment thinking if they need more resources to keep american people say saying that p ing tit trump said white nationalism isn't a threat. we know he can schedule meetings, find re

and said he wasn't familiar with david duke's views. today it's chiefly on the right. not only on the right. if you talk to actual neo-nazis, the thing you hear from them over and over again is that trump is making the ideas of the far-right and neo-nazis more palatable in the mainstream and they see him as their guy in the mainstream way, mainstream american politics. now there's plenty of anti-semitism in the world and omar has ben dinged for her comments. it's ridiculous to say the left is the repository for all these things. what we're seeing is the fight for rulers of israel and the current president of israel, netanyahu. it's mostly about him. >> richard haass, it is interesting what's happening in israel right now. netanyahu is embracing donald trump. donald trump did talk about moving the embassy to jerusalem. and moved in that direction after presidents of both parties have been promising to do so for years. and yet, of course, the sentiment not only towards trump but netanyahu and the american jewish community is more than spl

is a marginalized irrelevant group of folk which was the same logic and line that he used when david dukeduring the campaign. he tried to pretend that he didn't know who he was and i think he was doing it very purposefully to marginalize this extreme group of psychopaths. look, chris, all of us know a little bit about american history and there was a time that blacks and jews and catholics and others were under siege by the kkk and by white extremist groups that had a tremendous amount of power over our public officials, be they in congress or state legislatures throughout the country. we're in a different time and context matters. and i think what the president was attempting to do and continues to attempt to do is marginalize it. >> i hear the argument. so his argument is the reason the president says it is he was trying to mitigate the threat. >> i think first of all you don't make the threat go away by ignoring it which is what he has been doing. you come out and strongly and forcefully denounce it and say that's not who we are. they are us. number one. number two, you put money into

i remember there were questions about david duke.ke asking him and some point he said who is that? i just think this is, you know, this is donald trump. maybe it's uninformed. maybe it's political but why are we surprised by it? >> i want to say i do think this is really important. regardless of what he believes the president needs to understand it ma it's a sizes. >> and that's lot more recovering right now including other important news. north korea threatening to resume missile testing and they are blaming the united states. ♪ ♪ just hold on, i'm comin' ♪ hold on, i'm comin' ♪ hold on ♪ don't you worry, i'm comin' ♪ here i come so...how many credit cards did i have after business school? six? yeah...that interest rate was crazy. good thing i got a loan to pay them off faster. and right before i got engaged. but now that i'm debt-free, i can actually contribute to the wedding. and go on a honeymoon. you know... out of state. well, this is why i sofi. with sofi's no-fee personal loans, consolidate your credit cards to get one lower

donald trump invitinging david duke into the republican party. there's only 25 years ago goldstein went into a mosque in the west bank and fired 29 workers. and now yetten yeah hew brought political movement into the fold. and coming to the u.s. to talk to ashes pac. along side house speaker, nancy pelosi and hoyer. the progressive group move on the response is urging 2020 democratic candidates to stay away out of protest of netanyahu's racism. and lots of nof candidates are agreeing like kamala harris, bernie sanders as well as beto o'rourke and julian castro, which highlights the bigger problem for all the folks invested in maintaining a pro-israel bipartisan consensus. the netanyahu government has acted for years and continues to act now in ways that american liberals, jewish and nonjewish view as otherly indefensible. and that central fact is getting more and more difficult to simply paper over. audible members know listening has the power to change us make us better parents, better leaders, better people. and there's no better place to liste

consistently for talking about his version of nationalism for, you know, after charlottesville, david duke praised him saying this is good as we could expect from an american president actually talking about moral equivalency between neonazis and protesters. and then of course you actually have the killer in new zealand saying that donald trump is a champion of white nationalism and an inspiration. >> yeah, we've seen that from the 2016 campaign right up until today when there's been a spike worldwide in attacks and hate incidents inspired by white nationalism, inspired by anti-semitism and in several instances law enforcement agencies have said that they've gone back through the social media posts of these people and they have found specific references to donald trump and how donald trump has given them some sense of sucker. mick mulvaney over the course of the weekend saying how many times do we have to say that the president is not a white nationalist and that the president after charlottesville having given one speech then give another little impromptu speech in which he said white nat

president cutting a political deal with david duke the former kkk leader.ne wonder what will donald trump do politically if he's the one backed thinl corner? he's the one backed thinl corner my mom washes the dishes... ...before she puts them in the dishwasher. so what does the dishwasher do? cascade platinum does the work for you, prewashing and removing stuck-on foods, the first time. wow, that's clean! cascade platinum. >>> in the wake of michael cohen's testimony there is a strange conventional wisdom about what impeachment for president trump would mean politically. not because it's necessarily wrong but the democrats have a dilemma buecause there is evidence he committed a crime or more but to pursue impeachment. there are possible political risks in doing so and it also misses the point and there is something odd about framing the criminality as a problem for democrats. by any normal standard, trump committed numerous impeachability offenses and robert mueller almost asusuredl going to tell us about many more and if it's a manifest to an unfit presid

but most white nationalists seem to be fans of trump, david duke and the kkk about he was so reluctantrt of the issue that you followed here is the language that is used internationally for these things. >> we're on track for a million illegal aliens to rush our borders. we have a country that is under siege. people don't look the word invasion. we have a country being invaded by criminals and by drugs. and we're going to stop it. >> at this very moment average well organized caravans of mo migrants are coming to our border, it's like an invasion. it is common language used by on list mooumvements around the wo. and the new zealand shooter used it in his manifesto, and he lacks the decency to not use that phrase just hours after. and a shooter that shot 11 worshippers, donald trump and other republicans were using in the run up to the midterms. this has been going on for years. the people reretweeted, the people that endorsed him. breitbart has been platforming white nationalists for years, hear, shortly after coming to office, they wanted to focus on muz limits, not on white nationali

he refused to disavow david duke. he calls elizabeth warren "pocahontas." he said that nigerians would never want to "go back to their huts" after seeing america. he calls himself a nationalist. i'm just saying, if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, then why does it keep goose-stepping? ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) so, on friday, a reporter asked trump about it point blank. >> do you see today white nationalism as a rising threat around the world? >> i don't really. i think it's a small group of people that have very, very serious problems. >> stephen: yes, but other than your cabinet. ( laughter ) over the weekend, trump got an assist from acting chief of staff and beaver upset none of the other forest creatures remembered his birthday, mick mulvaney. mulvaney made rounds on the sunday morning shows, where fox news's chris wallace asked him directly why trump won't specifically condemn white supremacy. >> to the degree that there is an issue with white supremacist, white nationalist, anti-muslim bigotry in this country, and

that we know from david duke and other organizations, white nationalists, these radical right-wing groups that have flourished over the last few years. he doesn't seem to have any interest in taking them on. we saw that first and foremost in charlottesville, right? he had an tournlt seopportunity message to these folks, and he basically made an argument that both sides were wrong. that's just unbelievable and it was such a symbolic moment for this president, who he is and who he stands for. >> he said they will fire were people on both sides. in the manifesto written by the killer, the terrorist in new zealand, he said that donald trump was an inspiration and that he brought white identity back. let's say for argument's sake that the president didn't know at the time of the q&a, we haven't seen a tweet or a statement from him since denouncing that this terrorist would in any way say that he could identity with any part of what president trump has said. so is his silence speaking loudly to the absence of his trying to disassociate himself with the spirit of nationalism. i'm not blaming him

because his playbook was to dou cozy up by tweeting thin like white genocide and not denouncing david dukek and a wakeup for all of us that this could be a scary time for 2020. >> all right. thank you so much to you both. >>> still ahead, beto o'rourke is running. literally. life he hits tis hitting the racecourse. we'll take you there live next. naysayer said no one would subscribe to a car the way they subscribe to movies. we don't follow the naysayers. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ it's taking over ♪ there's no escape ♪ you better get moving ♪ ready or not ♪ it's about to go down here it comes now ♪ ♪ get ready ♪ oh oh oh oh ♪ oh oh oh oh ♪ get ready ♪ moving ♪ ready or not ♪ get ready ♪ oh oh oh oh oh ♪ hey and the golden retriever er are very different. they eat, digest, and process energy differently. at royal canin, we developed over 200 precise formulas to transform every cat and dog into a magnificent animal. royal canin hi, what's this social security alert? it's a free alert if we find your social security number on the dark web. good, cuz i'm a little worried about my information getting out. why's

he was endorsed by white nationalists like the kkk and david duke who he only belatedly disavowed.inted a white nationalist as a delegate in california. after becoming president, he appointed his chief strategist steve bannon who proudly bragged that breitbart was the platform of the alt-right. he appointed sebastian gar ka. he called nazis in charlottesville very fine people. his national economic adviser hosted a white nationalist at his birth day party last week. >> medi, i only have so much time. this is only an hour show. >> i can go on all night. here's my point, don, it doesn't matter whether mick mulvaney -- we can debate whether he's a white nationalist or not. the point is the white nationalists think he's a white nationalist. >> so, scott, you just heard what medi just said. give him the benefit of the doubt if you want. a lot of his rhetoric is welcomed by white nationalists. he uses a lot of the same terminology and rhetoric. if he doesn't want to give them me comfort and encouragement, why doesn't he just stop it and stop retweeting things from what nationalists and o

>> in the book i talk about actually in the early '90s i served with david duke. legislature. i sat across to him, listened to him, watch his eyes roll back in his head and said this dude is dangerous. and vowed that, you know, if that ever happened to really speak about it. and the only way that you could handle him is to confront him directly to call him out for who he was, not let him hide behind the soft rhetoric, falls equivocations. and here we are and you know this work better than anybody in the country, but hate does not know geographic boundaries. and you can see white you sue pr supremacy and white nationalism rearing its head but while the had had us nation, he needs to ask himself who did the shooting in charleston, at the synagogue, and not act like what happened in new zealand is not happening in the united states of america. you remember well in the letter from birmingham, dr. king bemoaning the fact that the people he was most ashamed of with were good people of goodwill who said nothing. and on the issue of white nationalism and white supremacy y

go back to the weekend in march 2016 when he would not immediately condemn david duke and his support before a group of southern primaries. he will not draw a line that excludes this kind of extremist radical violence because it is on a continuum. it is the far end of a continuum of views that are uneasy about demographic change, uneasy about cultural change, that view muslims as more likely to be prone to violence or islam isn't compatible with american ideals and views. his coalition is centered on the portions of america that share to some degree those concerns. that doesn't mean that they are radicalized and going to commit violence. it does mean that he is unwilling to kind of separate that out. that has been consistent all the way through. it is a future not above the way he talks about race. >> all that anyone has to do is look at the stats from the adl, from the justice department on the rise in white nationalist hate and action and murders in this country and around the world. and when the president was asked about it over the past few days does he think it is on the rise his

david duke, he wouldn't even disavow that.e needs to make a speech to the nation and now unfortunately the world. he needs completely denounce white supremacy, attack anyone that would associate him with it. but i think anyone that has been favorable to him no matter who they are or what they believe, he will never come out against them. he couldn't say the word muslim. he couldn't express any empathy to the people that had been killed. but he's consistent on this. >> a consistent narcissist. it all revolves around him. thank you for your lyrical essay tonight. and katy raujrs for your reporting for the "new york times" here at the bureau here. and why would anyone lend money to someone with a reputation as a dead beat? that would be donald trump. joins me with information on his overseas pigy bank. he never gives them money back but they keep giving it to him. >>> and stop picking on donald trump and kevin nunez. how they're trying to punish and silence their critics. remember the midnight ride working for the white house sec

why do you want richard spencer and david duke saying that is not easy to condemn. why do you want that support? and the answer is that he needs it because the shrinking republican party, up wards of 88% approval, it is a smaller and smaller portion of the voting population. she gra she grasping at straws. they have criticized the party and trump fairly, there is not a lot you agree on. and the behavior of donald trump is to divide and use hatred as a way of triangling an issue, it used to be we would pick certain issues and he would pick hate. he is not happy and he thinks it is his best tactic to put that out there, to divide, and to keep the country as divided as possible. it worked for him in 2016, he is still the president of the united states. the office of the president, that's why we keep talking about it, about all of these normal things, it is the president of the united states that happens that donald trump fills that office right now and that is still so disturbing. >> it's not normal, robert, thank you very much for all of your reporting. we appreciate

stormer, the number one white supremacist website in america sees donald trump as an ally, so does david duke of the kkk, so does richard spencer of the alt-right movement. why are all these groups and also the shooter seeing donald trump as a blunt instrument, as an enabler and ally for their poise on ideology? a question i have for american viewers on the fence. >> as they sit and think on that, we know the president speaking at the white house in a couple of minutes. he's got this veto. he's asked for camera in the oval. he could make other comments. wajahat, if he chooses to discuss what's happening in new zealand, if he labels it a terror attack or condemns it, will it ring hollow or will it make a difference? >> how can it not -- how can it not ring hollow? this is the same president who says i think islam hates us. this is the same president who's retweeted the fake news of britain first, a right wing anti-muslim group. this is the same person who said he's seen a video of muslim celebrating terror attacks that never existed. yes, it rings hollow especially when he's so mute when it co

when you have spike lee looking at david duke and white supremacy, he was doing that reporting and thatcourse. >> what is it about the sad truth that sometimes the culture comes to these things before the rest of us? >> when i did fight the power, understand there was a fight the power done by theizely brothers just 15 years prior talking about the same conditions. it may be a long time for culture but sgaenl years, 20 years in regular real-time life. and so people come and go but the idea is destroy the stench or the stigma that's laced inside institutions. >> there is something that lawyers and public enemy fans have in common. >> very few lawyers. oh, my god. go ahead. >> any honest lawyer will tell you -- >> how many of those? >> fair. but even if they don't admit it, they'll tell you white people and black people are treated completely differently in this country. i know very conservative republican lawyers who will tell you we see that and we have the data. last year there were two white officers convicted of murdering people for the first time in over a decade. do you view that a

he would not condemn david duke. there are so many points of evidence that indicate that for some reason he is reluctant to condemn white supremacy or recognize it. >> martha: that debate on "special report" a couple of minutes ago. whether or not he has strongly come against these elements. >> before i answer that let me preface this by saying i cover the oklahoma city bombing when they killed all those children of the day care. that was a white supremacist. that was during bill clinton's administration. to say that bill clinton was responsible for what timothy did we have to stop transferring guilt to people that we don't like or that we oppose politically because we are frustrated by what happened. we don't know that. in terms of the president i think the president is tempestuous, he is then scanned. i love the guy could have known him forever. he is no white supremacist or racist. there are times where wish you could reinforce and emphasize his point. i know that he is not a white supremacist. i wish that attempt

and you go all the way back to march 2016 where he would not condemn david duke's support in a conversation with jake tapper right here on cnn just before a clutch of southern states voted through charlottesville and on. he is not -- he goes out of his way to avoid condemning the violence that is ascending in white nationalism and continues to use language that resonates with those groups, describing immigration as invaders. even this week. >> and what is at the root of this, rachel? will we ever know with clarity? >> i'm not going to speculate what is in the president's head and why he doesn't take a more forceful line pushing back against white supremacy and rebuking it. and i can say though that this has been an issue that has really befuddled republicans as well who know that long term they can't be even remotely seen as condoning such actions because that will shrink the party's participation in the future. this will be a problem for them going forward. how do you win in 2020, how do you win re-election without rebuking things like this. it should be a no-brainer. and it is not just de

it's easy to say the david dukes, richard spencers. even trump can attack them. let's talk about mainstream journalists and commentators. pundits. the kind of hate speech and islamaphobia they're trafficking in cable news, on national newspapers. you read the manifesto from this horrific individual in new zealand and that's language you see and hear on cable news and magazines. are we going to call out islamaphobia on the other 364 days of the year as well? >> it's a important conversation to have. really appreciate it. >>> and coming up after the congress issued a major rebuke on his border wall, in a stunning scene, how it puts him and his fellow republican. puts and his fellow republican. i deep clean carpets and floors, so i got this. yep, this too, and this, please. even long hair and pet hair are no problem, but the one thing i won't have to clean is this because the shark's self-cleaning brush roll removes the hair wrap while i clean. ♪ - [announcer] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans now cleans itself. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one el

he wouldn't speak out against david duke.ottesville and now to new zealand with this very lukewarm statement, unable to say the words that white supremacy is wrong, it is against our values and it is a threat of terrorism in our country and global ly. like my grandmother said, when someone shows you who they are, believe them. this president shows us over and over who he is by failing to denounce white supremacy. >> appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, erica. >> we'll have a chance to find out if the president will speak out further against this. he will be taking questions from reporters later today. in the meantime, we are following breaking news outs of syria where isis fighters linked to a deadly attack on u.s. soldiers have been captured. this is an important development. we have a live report from syria next. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. flonase helps block

he has time and time again, from the early days of the campaign, when he was slow to reject david duke's endorsement, to now, where he's not delivered the forthright, fulsome condemnation we expect our presidents, who are the moral leaders of our country, to do. >> he is defending pirro. anyway, you know, so i mean, george conway, kellyanne conway's husband, took to twitter to question the president's mental stability. kellyanne was asked about it on the north lawn this morning. here's what she said. >> your husband has been 2003ing his concerns about the president's mental fitness for office. are those concerns you share so? >> i have four kids, so i didn't talk to the president about substance. i may not be up to speed on all of them. >> so if she's not up to speed, i will tell you, what her husband suggested, doug, is that donald trump has at least two diagnosable disorders. he tweeted the sections of the medical books that describe what goes into that. i wonder, even as we are, as we've said, mourning what happened in new zealand, or any time, is it helpful to go there, even if the p

this goes back to david duke in the 2016 campaign to his comments after charlottesville and the praises getting from some of these figures. so it's incumbent. he can't be ignoring this, however defensive his staff may be. so denounce it clearly and remove some of that oxygen from their conversation. >> and of course there's a question about the republican party. and the republicans in congress right now. and there's just one microcosm here is lindsey graham. president went after senator john mccain. john mccain and lindsey graham were best friends. lindsey graham was devoted to john mccain. and how did lindsey graham respond to his friend, his fallen dear friend being attacked by the president months after his death? he put out a milquetoast tweets. i should give him credit for two. he said as the senator john mccain showed did he votion to his country, he stepped forward to serve his country and served honorably and wads one of the most consequential service to the body. nothing about his service willing change order diminished. do you think had lindsey graham been attacked by the pre

. >> david duke grand wizard of the kkk, when george bush was asked if he knew him, didn't wanted his support, george bush straight out of the gate, i don't want his vote. donald trump, he waited, tripped over it, i don't know that guy. make it clear, we're against hate. >> dozens republicans have broken with trump helping pass a resolution helping overturn his national emergency resolution. now he's threatening to veto. it is more about presidential power than it is about the wall. >> but first an update on the russia investigation. the u.s. special counsel's office says president trump's former deputy campaign chairman rick gates is not ready to be sentenced yet. in a court filing today, robert mueller says gates is cooperating in ongoing investigations. remember he testified against former campaign chairman, former business partner paul manafort in august. this came after he struck a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to fbi agents. we have a lot to cover. you're watching "velshi & ruhle." i'm here to let all these folks know how easy it is to save mon

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us of and whether there are good people in charlotte -- when he wouldn't separate himself from david duke before the south carolina primary in 2016. and he really wanted to hope and kind of use that -- use that separation and play on that hate, i think, because he thought those were the people behind him. donald trump uses hate for political reasons. more than anything else. i don't know what is in his heart but i do know he thinks it serves him well politically. >> and the gunman here, nancy cook, not of sound mind based on what he conducted there but he did allude to in his comments in his manifesto to the united states president. >> he certainly did. and i think -- at the white house yesterday they were doing their best to distance themselves from this terrorist. kellyanne conway in the driveway of the white house was telling a group of reporters that maybe he was an eco terrorist. they we they were trying to down play it and we saw it in the oval office as the president was signing the veto, saying he was still getting information on it and he was down playing it, calling white nation

but on several occasions, including associations with david duke and the ku klux klan, including what you mentioned where someone talked to him during the election about what we're going to do with muslims. remember when john mccain was told that barack obama was a muslim and a bad man? he took the moment to be who john mccain was. donald trump doesn't do this. he doesn't distance himself from what you're talking about. >> that's right. so in that clip where we saw before where trump is basically encouraging his supporters with this question -- he has this question where they say, you know, what are we going to do about all these muslims and trump is nodding along saying, that's right, we need this question. a few questions after that, there was a question about climate change and donald trump shut it down. so he can shut things down when he believes that they're wrong, but he doesn't do that with anti-muslim bigotry. in fact, he stokes it. and beyond that, if somebody had accused me of these things, there wouldn't be a long track record of my statements where the shoe sort of fits, r

since then in the early days of the campaign, he was slow to reject the support of david duke.friday when he signed this national emergency declaration, he referred to illegal immigrants as invaders, hours after that same manifesto the new zealand shooter, he used that same word invaders to describe immigrants. this is something that is part and parcel with this president, even looking beyond high-profile moments like charlottesville, this is part of the space he created >> it is the case not only this climate existed before donald trump became a political figure, he piggy backed on it, he exploited it and fed it and now needs it. there's only one world in which donald trump gets elected president and if this environment is in full effect. >>> beto o'rouke, flash in the pan or here to stay? some new data may get us closer to an answer. 19 ford ranger, it's the right gear. with a terrain management system for... this. a bash plate for... that. an electronic locking rear differential for... yeah... this. heading to the supermarket? get any truck. heading out here? get the ford ra

david duke and others that see him as their president. here's a guy that couldn't condemn nazis, whose bigoted language from the time of the campaign. talk about pulling the race card. he came down that escalator and started talking about mexicans and muslims, started talking about the divisions in america. >> is he racist? >> he's a guy -- >> is he a racist? >> racists think he's a racist and his language hurts people. his language is causing pain, fear. the way he's talking, he's making people afraid. i was down at mother emmanuel church. i have talked to people that are afraid -- >> south carolina. >> in south carolina, where there was a hate crime. people who are afraid to go worship at a mosque or a synagogue because hate is on the rise and these hate incidents are on the rise. we have a president that can't stand up with any moral authority and remind us that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere and it's despicable. >> how do we stop this world market, this global market for hatred. 8,000 miles away at new zealand is c

he wouldn't condemn david duke.t so many points of evidence that indicate that for some reason, he is reluctant to condemn white supremacy or recognize it. and i think that's dangerous. not just to communities of color, jews, gays, people like that. it's dangerous to the government because i think that, for one thing is for sure, white supremacists, neo-nazi groups look at governments as complicit, guilty and target government. timothy mcveigh being a perfect example. >> this coward who committed these killings in new zealand put out this document that included language like invasion and invader, which is language that president trump has used. now i'm not saying the president's language caused these attacks, and when i brought this up recently, you can't put this on the president. what is the role in your mind of that type of language? what's the impact of it? >> well, one thing, it signals that there is some connection. i mean, the fact is that he not only is the word invading used or invader by the white supremac

it's very easy to say the alt-right, the david dukes, the richard spencers. it's very easy to attack them. even trump can attack them. let's talk about what people in our industry are doing. the kind of hate speech and islamic nobo islamophobia that they are tracking in recently. you head that manifesto from this horrific individual in new zealand. and a lot of that language is language you hear and see in newspapers and magazines and on cable news. who's going to call that out? it's very easy to call out slaum nobo islamophobia on the day of a mass killing. >> it is a very important conversation to have. adam serwer and mehdi hasan, thank you very much. >>> coming up, after congress issued the president a major rebuke, the president issued a veto. in a stunning scene, how the move puts him and his fellow republicans in a weakened position. that's next. republicans in a we position that's next. look limu. a civilian buying a new car. let's go. limu's right. liberty mutual can save you money by customizing your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need.