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telling people of color to go back to the country they came from, is literally in the eeoc definition of racist things you're not allowed to say. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i know you have to get ready for the lead at the top of the hour. the chaplin's morning prayer sounds like an score six. >> this has been a difficult and contentious week in which darker spirits seem to have been at play in the people's house. in your most holy name, i cast out all spirits of darkness from this chamber, spirits not from you. let your spirit of comety of brother and sisterhood and love of our nation and of all colleagues in this chamber empower our better angels to be at play. >> and that's not the only sign of a nation on edge. less than two hours after the president walked off the stage in north carolina. racism became the most searched word according to miriam webster's tweet. socialism, fascism, concentration camp and bigot. just more proof of how much words matter. joining us now, a member of the congressional civility and respect caucus. congressman, good to have you with us. the president

we making the same amount, supervisor will probably say salaries.t talk about maybe she goes to the eeoc, the equal employment office. "i have a hunch here." "can you prove it? what you got?" putting the onus on her. she will have to come out of pocket for her own lawyer. this working woman has to prove -- the burden is on her to prove she is not being paid equally for equal work. kind of done with that. let me tell you what i'm prepared to do. shift the burden to the corporation. [cheers and applause] senator harris: but there's more. requiring them to post on their womene -- are they paying equal for equal work? you know how restaurants get ratings and stuff like that? it's got to be on their website. and -- because there is more -- until they reach equity, what will also happen to give positive encouragement and to create some kind of accountability, for every 1% differential between what they are paying men and women for equal work, there will be a fine of 1% of their previous year's profit. that will get their attention. that will get their attention. again, the way under a harris a

they broke a federal law, eeoc law. so the president himself is lighting fire to equal opportunity employment laws, right, in this country where any other venue if the president had said this, any other venue there would be consequences. seemingly now there are no consequences, but that needs to be addressed. yes, we need to focus on the issues and the president does not like to focus on policy issues but i think you can't move on from this topic without acknowledging that. >> such a great point. thank you very much. >>> all right, now to what's happening in puerto rico. police firing tear gas at protesters who are demanding that the island's embattled governor resign. cnn's leyla santiago live in san juan covering it for us. she just spoke to puerto rico's secretaries of public safety. and what did the secretary tell you, leyla? >> reporter: alyson, i immediately asked him how long they can sustain this, working these protests with thousands of people. and he said he didn't know but is committed to safety. this morning

if you go the eeoc, there's a complaint and as settlements for people using that same language and our president, the leader of the free world, should not use that language and nobody should defend it, period. >> martha: mark, what do you say to that? >> i don't defend it at all, i condemn -- i'm the son of an immigrant too, my mother was a war refugee, a stateless refugee in america welcomed her here. immigrants are what makes this country great. it's unsettling sometimes because most of the vast majority of immigrants are incredibly patriotic and love their country and don't have hate in a particularly have a love of the country because they've seen what oppression is like or what a lack of opportunity is like and what real discrimination is like, and it's unsettling to see somebody like ilhan omar, who it is a somali refugee who was welcomed into this country, to express and so much hostility to the country that welcomed her in such a violent anti-semitism. so the solution is not to say go back home. the solution is to oppose her in a democratic process and share what makes america

so then maybe she goes to the eeoc. equal employment office. i have a hunch here. well, what you got? putting the onus on her to prove the situation, and maybe she might even take it so far that she wants to take it to litigation. she's going to have to come out of her own pocket for a lawyer. this working woman has to prove, the burden is on her, to prove she's not being paid equally for equal work. kind of done with that. so let me tell what you i'm going to do and what i'm prepared to do. shift the burden to the corporation. [ cheers and applause ] but there's more. so turning to a 3:00 infomercial. but there's more. so requiring them to post on their website, are they paying women equal for equal work? so you know how restaurants get ratings and stuff like that? it's going to be on their website, and because there is more, and until they reach equity, what will also happen to give positive encouragement and also to create some kind of accountability, for every 1% differential between what they are paying men and women for equal work, there will be a fine of 1%

to the agency that can -- is in charge of enforcing pay discrimination laws, and it would give the eeocrmation and tools to enforce the law. some problems with rooting out pay discrimination is a culture of secrecy around pay. it is hard for an individual in a workplace to know if there is a pay discrimination problem, because employers have that information and employees do not. host: we have some calls. we will start with lynn in st. petersburg, you are on. go ahead. been in and out of the workforce and to the question i have is whether it is women or men, regarding the family leave policy, who exactly is supposed to be doing the jobs of the people who are out? i have seen jobs, i have been on jobs, and if somebody leaves you cannot just replace them for a few months. so this is a serious question. guest: it is a serious question. under current law, the family medical leave act, which has been the law since 1992, requires larger employers to provide unpaid leave of up to 12 weeks for family and medical leave issues. is thathort answer companies have a lot of experience figuring this o

i suspect the president did not consult the eeoc before he made thinks comments last night. he's playing. he believes it helps him in 2020. i think we're, what, 15 months away from an election? there is much worse ahead of us right now after what we saw last night. and over the last four years, let's call its, there's been hyperbole, there's been overreaction in some cases to president trump. but what we saw last night was, in fact, un-american. and by that i mean when you disagree with someone in this country, the call is not to send them back to whatever country you came from. omar is a united states citizen. the president could disagree with her. but in america, you put somebody up against her to run against her in an election. you don't send her back to the country she came from and you certainty don't step back from a podium and allow a frothy crowd on a hot summer night to chant send her back. >> president trump has absolutely and clearly settled on a strategy of fear focused on identity, focused on these four women of color and specifically representative omar. he's n