joining me now is my political panel, democratic strategist michael hardaway and republican strategist del percio. let me go right to it. earlier this week, and my capacity as a founding president of national action network, i condemned comments made by presidential candidate and former south governor nikki haley, in which she declined to say the civil war was fought over slavery. she later clarified comments, but the fact that she did not mention slavery at all, and a very long answer, i might add, about what caused civil war is pretty astonishing. i want to remind my viewers that this summer i took my daughters to the former plantation south carolina where my great-grandfather, coleman, was a slave. we stepped into the hood where he and an untold number of other slaves were held against their will. he worked that land and eventually separated when coleman was sent to florida to pay off a date for his slave owners. he received his freedom because the union won the civil war. yet, we are here more than 150 years later, still fighting for his memory as well as the countless black americ