that is what divides george conway from kellyanne conway.eople thrown with trump are happy to say we're happy to get short term political wins even if it means we're tarred as racists. >> i think you see in that one marriage two types of republicans, those willing to sell their soul and those who aren't. the prop is 98% are with kellyanne conway. >>> the topic of racial relations in the country. out to the campaign trail next. t ♪ in big ways and in small, bank of america is here to help you get things done. what would you like the power to do?® ♪ done what would you like the power to do?® governot just the powerful and well-connected. that's the american promise. but big corporations and special interests are in control. nothing's happening for real people. our democracy has been purchased. the candidates running for president have great ideas. but we can't get anything done unless we make our democracy serve the people again. i'm tom steyer. i approve this message. i'm running for president because it's time our democracy works for people.

george conway writes naivety, resentment, outright racism roiled in a toxic mix have given us a racist president. is he right? >> i don't -- i think we've entered this nee era of peewee

. >> george conway, washington lawyer, trump critic and husband of kellyanne critic wrote a blistering op ed for the washington post. sunday left no doubt, conway wrote, naf tai, resentment and outright racism in a toxic mix have given us a racist president. now the women are pushing back. we've got more now from white house correspondent caitlyn collins. >> reporter: dave and jessica, not only is the president not backing off the remarks he made over the weekend, he's escalating his attacks on these four democratic congress women accusing them of hating the country and saying they do not like living here, then they should leave. he was at an event on the south lawn of the white house when he came prepared with pieces of paper with bullet points to make the case where he thought he was right. >> as far as i'm concerned, if you hate our country, if you're not happy here, you can leave. that's what i say all the time. that's what i said in a tweet, which i guess some people think is controversial. a lot of people love it, by the way. >> reporter: the women he has accused held a press con

it comes the same day conway's husband george conway released a scathing op-ed in "the washington post" titled trump is a racist president. meantime top republican mitch mcconnell fended off his own questions about the president's comments and his spouse, transportation secretary elaine chao. >> if someone were to say to her she should go back to her country, wouldn't you consider that a racist attack. >> well the secretary of transportation came here at age eight legally and not speaking a word of english and realized the american dream. >> the aclu is asking a federal judge to block president trump's new asylum rule. the request was just filed in court this morning. the aclu is seeking a hearing on the issue tomorrow in san francisco. the new rules went into effect yesterday and prevent most migrants from seeking protection as refugees if they pass through another country first. >>> so let's talk about the weather. let's take a peak outside. a live look at san francisco this midday. kari hall is tracking our forecast. a nice day. >> it is a nice day. it is nice to see the sunshine ou

. >> wes, george conway, well known conservative attorney, kellyanne conway's husband, who has become a vocal critic of the president. he wrote an op ed for the "washington post" and in part he wrote this. no matter how much i found him ultimately unfit i still gave him a benefit of the doubt about being a racist. i didn't want to think that the president of the united states is a racial bigot, but sunday left no doubt. sunday was when the president tweeted this. and he also goes on to say the president's comments are racist to the core. this is the impossible question for me to ask, but do you see how folks move forward from this? >> i'm frankly not really sure how folks move forward from this. at the end of the day you do have an increasing grappling among white americans and certainly some republicans who are now seeing and hearing and coming to an understanding that many other people, certainly the vast majority of people of color in the country have long been to. i think that politically it's certainly significant that one of the president's closest advisers wrote an op ed callin

george conway, kellyanne's husband supports impeachment. i mean, this is no for high crimes and miss def meanors. this is not something you decide based on political calculations, put your finger in the air and determine which it's right to hold the president accountable. it's wrong to let the president establish that the united states can engage in unlawful behavior and have no accountability for that. we have constitutional and a moral obligation to do somethi something. >> final word, robert? >> public opinion changes all the time. preserving and protecting this tugs we are facing an unprecedented assault in our crosscy. if we don't stand up as we under attack by russia, if we don't stand up and defend that, we see to be america. >> good to see you both. don't miss two big nights, the cnn democratic debates this tuesday and wednesday live from detroit a starting a the 8 eastern time. >> coming up, or a section of the border wall go up? plus trump now attacking one of the top democrats on taint calling and the congressman responding. ♪ ♪

. >> when you look at what was said today, and then you compare that to what her husband, george conway wrote in the washington post. this is not the first time these two spouses have been at odds. naivety and racism have given us a race oift president. this is a new one, this puts kellyanne conway in a rather awkward position. >> i don't envy her, and i don't want to guess as to what's going on in a marriage, not being married myself, i wouldn't presume to know. i'm sympathetic, i think this whole thing goes to what a lot of folks say is a central tenant of the trump presidency, making america great again in the president's words means making america great for americans as he and his supporters see americans. and asking my ethnicity, i'm an americ american, and that should be the only thing that matters. i'm not sure what the point was. >> way to stand your ground. thank you so much. >> andrew fine berd. >> happening right now, on the floor of the house of representatives, lawmakers are currently debating whether to rebuke the president over those racist remarks. one conservative comme

people were upset about this, like george conway. you know him.ing oh, my god, everybody likes this guy. he's a good guy. the parties at the embassy were great. on the one side there is trump and on the other are people desperate to preserve their cocktail party status. going to lose my free champagne and crudites. used to watch the fireworks on the rooftop of the embassy. that will never happen because trump is the skunk at the garden party. people are upset, they threw great parties and the diplomat was a nice guy and he could do me favor is that trump doesn't give a crap about that. >> juan: i will say to be a diplomat in washington these days, diplomats say they don't have any idea what's going on. they can predict trump. if you go to the state department, which is normally the way you would do it, you go to treasury or you go to any of the agencies, they say we can't tell you anything, even militarily. can't tell you about pullouts or anything. you've got to talk to trump. >> greg: and everything is working awesome! >> juan: is that right? >>

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one reason i have been so sort of upset over the last 48 hours, george conway my friend has a powerful op-ed in the "washington post" today similarly. the republicans need to step up for the sake of the country. it's really important. if you look at the history of past demagogues and how they have been checked or at least the damage they have been done has mitigated. it was often members of their own party, people coming from the same part of the political spectrum who were most effective in trying to stop them. the democrats should criticize the president and an awful lot of voters look at that and say that's partisan politics. joe mccarthy was stopped when republicans said enough. george wallace, the most effective opponents were southerners, white southerners who said no, no, no, we've got to not go down this path of rebel rousing and demagogue rousing, pat buchanan, george w. bush helped expel him from the republican party, and other republicans fought against him. it's really important, if you think this is really dangerous what trump is doing, and i think it undoubtedly is, a kin

>>originally from meanwhile her husband george conway writing in a pad that sunday left no doubt made it a resentment and outright racism roiled in a toxic mix have given us a racist president. >>other news tonight, a roadblock for president trump's push for a citizenship question on the next senses. today a federal judge in new york issued an order that prevents adding the question on the 2020 senses in any shape or form the trump administration already announced it was abandoning efforts to amend the census questionnaire last week the president said he would seek citizenship information from other federal agencies not through the senses. but in today's ruling the judge said the court will keep monitoring the issue to make sure his order is enforced. city officials in stockton are helping protect undocumented immigrants. >>by handing out updated handouts. what to do if they encounter an ice agent kaye receive has the story. >>gloria lorenzo cruz is a confident delta college student who works hard to give back to her community i want to become an urban us a community leader who credit

george conway. okay. you want me to keep going. go through the a.p., the associated press. everybody previously was saying you shouldn't -- >> greg: they're all objective before. >> juan: i don't see how you can get away from a comment that to me has been used to demonize people -- >> greg: what part of the comment -- >> juan: if it was the italians or jews -- >> greg: racists don't ask you to come back. >> juan: how about the americans? they don't have anywhere to go -- >> if we're going to talk about bad comments, let's go back to what these ladies have said. omar talked about introducing legislation with bds, which hurts palestinians. she doesn't care about that. we're going to talk about bad rhetoric, it's let's -- >> juan: is there a chance that trump prefers having these four as targets -- >> dana: right now, the house of representatives is just picking up -- debating right now the impeachment. i think that will probably go down. i think they'll bring it up over and over again. the president is speaking to reporters and we'll have that in just a moment for you because

>> one thing that struck me was a tweet from george conway, of course, he is the husband of kellyanneow he doesn't like the press at all. think about this. here's what he wrote on twitter. what would likely happen if anyone even a ceo made such a racist statement in any workplace in america? ayesha? can you imagine if a ceo said this, they would be out in 0.2 second. >> they would be. this is not acceptable from ceos or anyone who had to, you know, if you were the head of a company, no, this type of language would not be acceptable so coming from the president of the united states, it does carry a weight and it does at times it is tied to policy, right, and all of these things so when you have this coming from the president of the united states making these -- saying that american citizens, u.s. citizens need to go back to where they came from, that message to the american people, it is a question of you can understand what he's trying to do. i think he's trying to rile up his base but at what cost? >> yeah, karoun, we're 16 months away from a presidential election, again, of course,

never trumpers like mona, george conway, tom nichols, rick wilson, they are saying never trump.hey're not going to vote for trump. think it's a question of whether they vote for our nominee or don't vote at all. now, i find their insights about trump, their insights about the party and particularly their insights and understanding of why people voted for trump in 2016 fascinating. they are welcome in my home for dinner, i want them to make themselves at home, but i also want them to stay out of the kitchen. because the second what we're conflating with are what i would call never again trumpers who are the people who voted for him who in 2018 might have voted for barack obama. it's not just in wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania. it's places like ohio. and while we won missouri, there was a close call there. so if this is an ideological argument that republicans are considering, trump is not a good guy and he's a hot mess in everything he does. but republicans are getting their judges, kavanaugh, gorsuch. they're getting their tax cuts. they're getting their environmental regu

then there is george conway, the husband of the president of counselor to the president, kellyanne conway, who says this in an op-ed in "the washington post." "by virtue of his office, he speaks for the country. what's at stake now is more important than judges or tax cuts or regulations or any policy issue of the day. what's at stake are the nation's ideals, its very soul." he's right. the president is dividing americans and breeding hate. there are republicans tonight rebuking him, but it is absolutely disgraceful that everybody in our government hasn't stood up against this. and those who haven't, those who have stayed silent should remember these words from dr. martin luther king jr. "in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." as members of his own party struggle with how to respond to the president's latest racist comments, i'm going to ask the author of a new book about -- about the gop. are republicans afraid to speak up? guys - i've got an idea. ooh - what is it? so people love iphone xr, right? well, it does have an incredible came

you saw what george conway wrote.kellyanne conway who is the -- >> god bless him. >> right. who's a senior advise tore tvis president. he said, trump is a racist president. here's why he said republicans are silent because they're knowing that he is inencourage bl. what do you think of conway's tweet? we'll put it up while you respond. >> yeah, they say he knows he's a fool and don't want to say anything. that's true. that's been my experience talking to my republican friends in washington. they say all of these things about donald trump in private. but like i said before, there are no profiles of courage here with anyone who's elected. and i think that's a disgrace. where's mitt romney, where's ben sasse? where are they when it matters? and where is the evangelical church? where are these people? they preach these things from the pulpit every week about loving each other, about, you know, accepting -- we're supposed to help the poor and all these things and they are some of the most rabid supporters of this president

george conway writes naivety, resentment, outright racism roiled in a toxic mix have given us a racist president. is he right? >> i don't -- i think we've entered this nee era of peewee herman name-calling i know you are but what am i politics. this dissent in making it personal the way it has i think is not good for the future of the united states. and everybody, both parties ought to stop doing it. and the problem here is i think the president is using his social media to engage others who have used pretty inflammatory language, and they both love it. and i think both sides of that conversation love it. >> but is chairman rogers, respectfully, is this really a both sides comparison, an equivalency to the president of united states who should be at the top when it comes to using this stuff, using these words, why don't they elected members of congress go back and fix the tolly crime infested broken places where they came from. three of four you know are from america, saying you can't leave fast enough. and then this morning calling them pro-terrorists. this is about brown and black el

george conway wrote this thing earlier this week where he said as many times as he criticized trump butways wanted hold out this hope he wasn't really a racist bigot and this last days has proven to him that he was, my side of that has been i have thought and said critical things about donald trump has anybody has ever done over the course of the last couple of years. but i never thought we would quite get to a point where you would see the president of the united states target an individual member of congress with violence effectively. it's a ridiculous piece of gaslighting to claim he was delighted with it. you watched him on stage. he was loving it, leading this. telling lies about this woman. demonizing her for days. he attacked all of the women in the squad but omar in particular. you know why, she's the most exotic looking to his eye. she's the one who was not born here. she's the one who has african pedigree. he selected her out. the name sounds more foreign and he's chosen her, demonized her, lied about her, demagogued her and ripped this crowd into a violent, frothing hate-fill

republican colleagues but i think the president knows what he's doing and this is overt racism george conway you know what the husband of kellyanne conway who had a brilliant piece in the washington post today talking about himself being a young boy and being told to go back where he came from when he was with his mother and met somebody and this was the most awful thing that happened to him as a young man so this is hitting a lot of people very hard some members of his own republican policy a run doing on him over this is he damaged and if he is does he care. one very very hard to find time you know in a normal universe with normal gravity this would be damaging in donald trump's land he's using this as a. wedge to further push people out of the republican party that have doubts about him and to further increase the intensity of support that he has within his own party so he is not challenge and that he can ride into the 2020 election with a solid base without any doubt about where they stand this is this is a test and i think it's an interesting one because one would think that someone mak

. >> let me ask you this, george conway, kellyanne conway alluded to the fact.cool as to what he was saying or they were based on his racial view of the world. which one is it? >> donald trump's pad. >> the president of the united states wears many hats, one of them, though, is leader of the party, when he makes that kind of a statement, he is leading his party. the rally in north carolina, which is a presidential re-election bid. he stems back and he allows them to yell sends them back. send them back. he is running for the renomination as a republican nominee for president. you know, for another four years. so yes, it's coming from donald trump. as donald trump is the president of the united states, as the head of the party? >> let emily weigh on this. she is down in d.c. there are many people arguing whether this could have a long-term impact on the republican party. his poll numbers in the south are up since all of this happened. >> look. first of all, what we are seeing are the most regular, if there is anything regular about trump, the most regular series

george conway iii, the husband of kellyanne conway, george conway not shy about treating his concernsbout the president year -- past month and naivete, resentment, and outright racism embroiled in a toxic mix has given us a racist president, telling members of congress, american citizens to go back to the countries they originally came from -- that is racist to the core. it does not matter what these representatives are for or against. there is plenty to criticize them for. it is beyond the bounds of human decency. dennis from michigan. caller: i would like to say that president trump said the right thing. i get tired of hearing everybody put the country down. if they don't like it, they do not have to live here. as far as the immigrants, i think we ought to enforce all of pay for the not immigrants coming here illegally. host: plenty more to come on the 50th anniversary of the launch of the apollo 11 moon mission. we will spend the rest of our program talking to six members of the house science, space and technology committee and hearing from you about u.s. space polity -- policy pri

. >> well i'm sure you saw the george conway tweet. be married to somebody high up in the administration who let the world know how much certain members of the trump administration loved the uk ambassador, and would go to every single event that they were invited to go to at the british embassy. >> george conway may have had some insight into that question. let's take a turn now to calls for the resignation of labor secretary alex acosta. they continue to intensify on the democratic side. acosta is being criticized newly for his role in a 2008 non-prosecution agreement that allowed epstein to forego the possibility of a heavier jail sentence for sex crimes involving minors, and serve a 13-month county jail term, much of it spent in work release where he could leave and go to work six days a week. multiple top democrats say acosta must go now, including all senate democrats who voted to confirm him in 2017. so far, no republicans in congress have joined them, mika. >> wow. >> so labor secretary alex acosta weighed in on the latest charg

are you going to stop supporting the policies, george conway, who just realized he -- >> anthony scaramuccire your going to come back to the light? >> geraldo. >> right. >> the benefit of this is to rile up his white supremacist base. the cost was to black and brown communities. i was talking to a man who is an environmentalist. he was talking that the raids anchor communities during hurricanes. you're not going to evacuate or leave. you're scared about putting yourself around law enforcement. it happens in all kinds of subtle ways. with the heat wave that's coming through the northeast. are you going to go to a cooling center if you don't have air conditioning? no. you're not going to put yourself in position where authorities can find you. authorities were holding a daughter at the airport as a hostage. >> this is really important. a lot of this is going under cover. just saying, they're on buses. they're on trains. they're in schools. they are taking people from courtrooms and are under cover. i don't know what we're going to label this. but people feeling targeted because they're not bo

it comes the same day conway's husband, george conway, released a scathing op-ed in the "washington post" titled "trump is a racist p esident." torepublican mitch mcconnell fended off his own questions about the president's comments and his spouse, transportation secretary elaine chao. >> if someone wer to say she should go back to her own country because of her dnlicy, woul that be a racist attack? >> well, the secretary of transpgetation came here at a 8 legally, not speaking a word of english, and realized the american dream. >> reporter: peter, the thing that's interesting about this, doesn't seem like anybody is looking to get this story out of the headlines, in particular the president. he is tweeting and talking about it, as well. >> reporter: you're exactly right. what is striking here is that for years republicans have tried to cast nancy pelosi as the villain. ahead of the 2020 campaign, kfore the presidentws who he will face next year, he's now trying to dene the democratic party by these four progressive congsswomen,ffectively trying to tie pelosi to them. it is an us versus

for now i accept the george conways and the tom nichols and the more the merrier. >> i got lost in thatand senator kamala harrisa ever the two of them went head to head in the nbc news debate on the issue of bussing. joe biden has defended his position and he called bussing an asinine concept. he told chris cuomo the attacks left him disappointed. >> i was prepared for them to come after me and i wasn't prepared for the person coming after me, she knew beau. >> kamala harris, on wednesday a reporter asked her to elaborate her position on bussing and it was to remove some of the daylight between these two candidates. sally kohn, let me turn to you this was the subject on the campaign trail. this has become an issue as joe biden said about segregation and he's tried to keep it narrowly focused and as you mentioned about the debate --? yeah. bussing is a very complicated issue and positions on all sides and he's being strategic in term was just trying to make this about bussing. let's be very, very, very clear. biden is on the record multiple times in written form and spoken form saying os

that's george conway attorney, and husband of senior adviser kellyanne conway. >> it is, and you know, that's what so many republicans said who aren't in washington, d.c. believe and so many republicans that, well, used to be members of the party are saying all the time, this isn't difficult steve r ratner and yet there are people inside the white house, let's start with donald trump, who believe this is a good campaign strategy. yesterday, we're going to be talking to jim about this, jim vandehei about this, but yesterday, charlie cook wrote, that there was an intensity among democrats, i think it's like a plus 20 intensity of democrats who believe it is important to get donald trump out of office and they're energized to do that with their vote, compared to 52 or 53% of republicans who believe that it's important to get donald trump out of office and there's this intensity and what vahe's reporting is donald trump believes this will gem up his base. the short side of this is that for every one racist it gems up, three people of color or women or college educated men or working class

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