. >>> in pretenders, mo brooks ducking cover. alabama congressman says white people are under attack. brooks took issue with a diagnosis of the gop on fox news sunday. >> fastest growing voting bloc in the country thinks the republican party hates them. your party cannot be the party of the future i don't understand november if you're seen as the part difference white people. >> mo brooks says the comments are evidence of president obama leading a race war. >> this is a part of the war on whites that's being launched by the democratic party. the way in which they are launching the war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. it's part of the strategy that barack obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012 where he divides us on race, sex, greed, envy, class warfare, those things. >> the republican party doesn't need to fight a war on whites. the republican party needs to fight to stay alive. mo brooks is living example, the living example of why the gop is doomed to fail advocating inclusion isn't a war on any race. it's

alabama congressman mo brooks is now claiming that dreamers who wish to serve their country in the u.s. military should not be allowed to do so because they chose a threat to national security. >> we're hired to represent merge citizens and i don't want american citizens having to compete with illegal aliens for jobs in our military particularly when you take into account that what does our military do? depends our country. these individuals have to be absolutely 100% loyal and trustworthy.fends our country. these individuals have to be absolutely 100% loyal and trustworthy. because they will have access to all sorts of military weaponry, even to the point of having access to weapons of mass destruction. and i'll have much greater faith in the loyalty of an american citizen than a person who is a citizen of a foreign nation. >> joining me now, jess mcint h mcintosh. jess, let's start with rand paul and his shirt which says this is my best party shirt. but is rand paul pursuing the best party strategy? >> if i had to put my money on it, i would say rand paul is the closest to becoming t

bill: this is what mo brooks said.de anybody based on national heritage or race but bring us all together. that is melting pot idea of america is all about. american's skin pigmentation is acquired at birth. has nothing to do with merits of person how one should -- quickly, going to arbiter in chief. >> if this was a liberal politician said there was a war on blacks, you would not be hearing the same kind of argument and shock. bill: you believe that? >> we hear it all the time. bill: michael, what do you think of this, based on what you're hearing? >> yeah, i think if mo brooks could have done it again he wouldn't use the term war on whites. i agree with the both the guests, this is something that affects people of all races. i will say one thing, there is something interesting going on here, not necessarily a war on whites but i do think the democratic party is indifferent to the traditional white democrat. i don't think that white democrats really fit n. talking middle class, blue-collar, white democrats fit into th

congressman mo brooks, thank you so much for joining us tonight. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> to the very latest on growing tensions between russia and the west. the obama administration warning russia against any further intervention in neighboring ukraine, including any effort to deliver humanitarian aid. here is u.n. ambassador samantha power, at the u.n. security council meeting. >> in ukraine, urgent humanitarian assistance should be delivered by the international humanitarian organizations that have the expertise, experience and independence to provide it. it should not be delivered by russia. and given that ukraine has allowed international humanitarian groups to deliver aid within its territory, there is no logical reason why russia should seek to deliver it. there for any further unilateral intervention by russia into ukrainian territory, including one under the guise of providing humanitarian aid would be completely unacceptable and deeply alarming and it would be viewed as an invasion of ukraine. >> power is skeptical about russi

when it comes to racial politics, mo brooks is anything but a saint especially with his view of hispanics entering this country illegally. this is how brooks pitched himself to voters during his first term in office. >> as your congressman on the house floor i will do anything short of shooting them. anything that's lawful needs to be done. illegal aliens need to quit taking jobs from american citizens. >> okay, he's going to shoot them. what's short of shooting. i didn't know if the jobs were posted. some were tough jobs. he wants to shoot them if nothing else works. this is your crowd. you chose to be a republican. >> this is an outlier. this is not a representative of where republicans are. >> as they say on the news there is no news until there is an accident. maybe these are accidents but they are more typical. gene has heard it before, too. >> well -- >> you don't get the right mail yet. >> this victimization is more intense as they become -- feel more beleaguered. >> how about making him work for free for 350 years. >> what an idea. >> 350 years working without a single payday. isn

heard about the war on women but now there's reportedly a war on whites, according to representative mo brooks. he used the term of war on whites, to accuse democrats of race baiting. >> this is a part of the war on whites that's being launched by the democratic party and the way in which they are launching this war is claiming that whites hate everybody else. it's a part of the strategy that barack obama implemented in 2012, where he divides us on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those things. >> he wasn't exactly on board with his phrasing, calling it a little out there. >>> we want to begin with the yankees tigers, bottom of the third. yankees with a deep shot to left center, it is going, going, and not gone! outfield outfielder, a miracle catch. yankees beat the tigers 2-1. >>> a stair down in vegas, it turnt violate, they started the melee, until security broke it up. jones, come on dc, where was your take down defense, i put you on your back in six seconds. >> i got some take down defense for you. don't ever put your dirty face on me again. >> yikes. the two are scheduled to meet on

today republican congressman mo brooks is standing by his explosive claim that democrats and president obama are waging, quote, a war on whites. this morning despite outrage from the right and left and ridiculed on social media, congressman brooks refused to bow down. >> you have made a lot of news on the war on whites comment. >> yes. what i'm saying is the democrats have a political strategy where they try to appeal to the public based on skin color. >> the congressman didn't stop there. accusing president obama of engaging in this so-called war. >> they are trying to demonize whites in order to get hispanics to vote democrat, in order to get blacks to vote dem, in order to get asian-americans to vote democrat. so when the president talks about how republicans hate that's part of the theme. >> the democrats are trying to demonize and divide us based on skin color. >> this ugly rhetoric has no place in our political discourse, let alone this the halls of congress. it's pushing the gop in exactly the wrong direction. here is what one of the gop elder statesmen, former senator bob dole

ta takeaway number two, the party of congressman mo brooks who this week accused democrats of waging war on whites, continues to do absolutely terribly among minority groups. what a shock. not much better among women. the "post"/abc poll showed the republican party is viewed favorably by 25% of nonwhites while 70% view them unfavorably. that brings us to our third big takeaway. americans are split on who they want controlling congress. in the new nbc news/"wall street journal" survey, 44% want republicans in charge, while 43% want democrats in control. the nbc poll found while congressional democrats don't have a great reputation, 31% of voters have a positive image, while 46% have a negative one. republicans fair much worse. they're viewed positively by just 19%, while 54%, 54% have a negative image of the party. that is a net negative of 35 points for the gop. > okay. so if people dislike republicans so much more, why are they split on who should control congress? it is related at least in part to president obama whose own approval rating this poll was 40%. more than one in five re

joining us now, congressman mo brooks, republican from alabama. congressman, my understanding is you view the president's deferred action order of 2012 as i illegitimate. is that correct? >> yes, i do. >> do you support deporting the 500,000 people who have used deferred action? >> and more. let me be real clear. there's a real stark contrast between the democrats and republicans on this particular issue. to republicans, border security means protecting our border and forcing immigration laws we have now which, by the way, is the most generous in the world in terms of the number of legal immigrants that come into america. that in turn you have to enforce the law with respect to illegal immigrants. >> so i just want to -- >> to the democrats, the border security problem is really a question where they come up with the money for the welcome mats and happy meals. that's a big contrast. >> are there happy meals in the legislation? >> there's everything the president can give away, food, free food, free clothing, free shelter, free health care, free ed

. >>> you have heard of the war on women, but now according throws a war on whites, according to mo brooks from alabama. on monday, including the appearance of conservative host laura ingram, he turned the war of whites to accuse democrats of race baiting to get more votes. take a listen. >> this is a part of the war on whites that's being launched by the democratic party. and the way in which they're launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. it's part of the strategy that barack obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012 where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things." >> ingram wasn't exactly on board with his phrasing calling it "a little out there." >>> for one texas fisherman it is a deadly catch he will never forget. byron spring made his bi-annual fishing trip, but once he hit the water, he hooked this. an 800 pound tiger shark. reeling it in was no easy task. >> fought really hard. seven hours of pure pain and suffering. it was all well worth it, though. >> the shark ended up pulling spring's boat 15 miles a

. >>> republican congressman mo brooks is doubling down on his war on whites, claiming democrats arebaiting in order to win elections. this time in a radio interview, he argued that republicans aren't using race as a factor to turn out more voters. >> i don't know that the republican party has ever appealed to hispanic americans based on race. name a candidate in the united states of america running as a republican who appeals to hispanics based on their skin color. >>> well, one of the dreamers who approached senator rand paul and congressman steve king while in iowa is speaking out on the encounter. erica spoke with jose diaz-balart. here's her reaction to his quick departure the moment she began speaking with him. >> it's a tough issue, but reality is i do have someone who is actually affected by it. i tried to talk to you. you don't run away. you actually sit there and actually try to talk. at least, you know, king, he is king. he did whatever he did. he talked to us, and rand paul, who is planning to run for office in 2016 didn't even finish his burger and bailed out. >> senator

at first when i heard that mo brooks made these remarks, i wondered if they were perhaps some mel brooks it seems so comical to me that people would feel so besieged at this point. after all, what ron fornier and many others were pointing out is just a matter of simple statistics. we are reaching a point in this country where i think the census says 2043, where whites will no longer be the majority. it doesn't mean somebody else will be the majority. it means we're no longer a white majority country. we're very close to that now already. rather than seeing that as some sort of a threat to white people, why not see it as a celebration of what america is and what it was supposed to be? >> before i get your response to, are you leading the war on whites, dana, since you brought it up, you wrote something in your column that was beautifully stated. it was the battle cry of the white man, particularly the soirnth white man feeling besieged. i don't share the fear but i understand it. the united states is experiencing a rapid decoupling of race and nationality. whiteness has less and less to d

. >>> republican congressman mo brooks took a lot of heat earlier in the week when during an interviewar on white being launched by the democratic party and once questioned congressman brooks did not back down. rather he found newlong wj. here he is from thursday on the tea party news network. >> what i want these democrats to do is to stop dividing americans based on race. it doesn't make any difference what your skin pigmentation is. in america this is the land of opportunity. you can excel provided you're willing to study hard, work hard, take advantage of the opportunities and plenty of people that have been able to establish that this race issue should be way behind us, but, unfortunately, the democrat campaign strategy is to keep it going. >> joining me now amy goodman host of "democracy now." vincent hutchings and kye wright and jonathan rosa assistant professor of anth ropology. i want to start with you, jonathan. all of this got kicked off around the question of whether or not the republican party can continue to exist if it is anti-immigration in the way that it has been. wha

it's something that we're actively trying to counter you know though and people like congressman mo brooks of alabama wants to apparently deport everybody well it's also not helpful when democratic activists in kentucky make fun of senator mitch mcconnell's wife because she's asian and that somehow she's not kentucky as they put it because he's from you know asian descent so if you want to go back and forth with people on both sides of this argument that say outrageous things we can be here all day i think the democrats largely get a pass when they go out and say things that are offensive but are you know neither side neither party has a monopoly on comments that are probably unbecoming so but i think that frankly we probably get more attention on the republican side when that happens sean what you've been around why is this so it's i can't remember any time in emerged in probably there has been a time but certainly in birnam earth human history when there's been so much hostility in america so much yes and no we were right you are wrong on both sides why. well that's a great question i do

on laura ingram's radio show alabama congressman mo brooks was played a sound byte from national journal commenting on fox news sunday. this is a long sentence. saying the fastest growing voting block in this country thinks the republican party hates them. brooks responded with his own theory about why the gop can't woo minorities. lend me your ears, ear lenders. >> this is a part of the war on whites that is being launched by the democratic party. and the way in which they are waging this war is that claiming white hate everybody else. it is a part of the strategy that barack obama implemented in 2008 and divided us all on race and sex that's not true. >> you heard it first. there is now a -- i have no idea how dolphins factor into the war on whites. i can see somewhat of a relationship. i remember this show "flipper" where the whole cast was white. they are out there to discuss this sensitive racial issue. i brought in a studio audience. show of hands, how many people have noticed that i have been working out more? not that many. ambassador, is it time to stop using war as a metaphor f

this year, long term, the messaging, turning over your messaging on immigration to steve king and mo brooksthe war on whites guy, is the worst thing you could do long term for the party. there was an important piece in that article, the way they talk about the immigration debate on the places where a lot of latinos are watching the news. and are getting their information. and when they're seeing steve king, they know exactly who he is, while most americans don't. that face of the republican party is hostile to latinos broadly, not just to illegal immigrants, but to latinos broadly is a big problem long term, but i don't think the republicans can solve it. for now, it's older vote irs. >> the viewers enjoy talking about it there. they're not just seeing congressman steve king on their screen. next it was named republican. >> right, right. michele bachmann was the one giving the response to the tea party not the republican party. let's go back to 2008. we had people on that stage saying, aren't we blessed to live in a nation where people would rather break into it as opposed to one people wan

mo brooks who was on the program last week is revving up the red hots in spectacular fashion. during an interview today, he rejected the idea that the gop's hardline stance on immigration is hurting the party. here's his counterattack. >> this is a part of the war on whites that's being launched by the democratic party, and the way in which they're launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. it's a part of the strategy that barack obama implemented in 2008, continued it in 2012 where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things. well, that's not true. >> who do i start with, michelle or michael? i don't even like talking like this. in fact, i don't even say racial. i say ethnic. this thing about war on whites, what's this guy, he seems like a dignified bloke last week and now he's out there raging with the storm? >> there are probably people who are listening to what he says and feel that way and feel that he is saying exactly what they -- exactly what they believe. >> what do you mean? interpret this, channel

you took issue with an assertion mo brooks made last week that there is a so-called war on whites. quoting from your column. what frightens me more than anything is the fact that i might be in their shoes and might meet their tragic end. the so-called victim of the war on whites have no idea what living under that kind of siege, that kind of very real threat is like. just talk to us about your experience. your experiences you're talking about when you write that. >> congressman brooks was not talking about -- his comments came long before the shooting in ferguson. i want to make that clear. why i found this so-called war on whites offensive is in light of what happened to michael brown or what happened to trayvon martin or what happened to renisha mcbride in detroit or eric garner on staten island. as an african-american man, as i wrote in my piece, i was taught by my mother don't run in public. don't run in public with anything in your hands lest you make someone think you stole something. i was taught to keep a discreet distance from white women in case you might be accused of, y

. >> and your view on mo brooks, now in expanded mode. >> yeah. lou eck has a great riff on this. not that white people are better, but that they have it better. to understand white privilege, just look around the country. they control more of the resources and have more of the opportunity. any other way of looking that the is just absolutely bizarre. >> you know, the hill reports that republicans strategists are really nervous about this rhetoric, joan. we're joking a little, you and i, on it, but they say that republican strategists are nervous about this kind of rhetoric. republicans say gop lawmakers make comments that democrats are waging a war on whites. this is what the hill writes. >> the mainstream party does this. one set of voices does this and one set says we don't want to be the white party any more. we can't afford to be the white party any more. then another wing of the party continues to gin up this notion that whites face discrimination, that whites are embattled, that affirmative action ruined what it means to be white. and so, they try to have it both ways. or i

wonders when he is enticing illegal alien children to america -- >> that was republican congressman mo brooksh chris here on friday night. but turned out that congressman brooks was just warming up for what he would say today. >> this is a part of the war on whites that is being launched by the democratic party, and the way in which they're launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. it's a part of the strategy that president barack obama imimplemented in 2008, continued no 2012, dwights us on -- divides us on claim. >> the war on whites. even la a ingram said that might be the best choice of words but let's take a look at some actual numbers that might show what is happening in the war. like average family wealth over the last generation, that blue line is the average for a white family, and there has been a consistently very large gap between that and the wealth of black and hispanic families. it strange that the war on whites has not done more about this. how about income. here's median household income over the past 40 years. white families bring in nearly $20,000 m

today you're buzzing about comments by alabama represent mo brooks.e described his theory for why the gop is losing ground among latinos. >> well, this is a part of the war on whites that's being launched by the democratic party. and the way in which they're launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. it's a part of the strategy that barack obama implemented in 2008, continued it in 2012 where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things. >> you made the hash tag #waronwhites trend today. there's this part. my irony meter just exploded. we reached out to congressman brooks for comment. he released a statement that says in part, quote, as best as i can in the time limitation i have, i tried to make sure people understand what the democrats are doing by using race as an issue every chance they get. it's high time folks started calling out the democrats for their racial appeals. race is immaterial and everybody ought to be treated the same. war on white people. you can read the whole stat

representative mo brooks of alabama: >> we can easily solve this problem by spending as little as $30 million a year with respect to the illegal alien children because we know, that is how much it costs to fly every illegal alien child back to their home country and reunite them with their families. >> reporter: the measure offered by g.o.p. leaders would have cost $659 million dollars over the next two months. that total is far less than the $1.5 billion house republicans initially sought. of that, some $400 million would have gone to the department of homeland security to boost border patrol operations. another $197 million had been targeted for the department of health and human services, the agency tasked with caring for the children. the house plan also sought to change a 2008 anti-trafficking law signed by president george w. bush, it required that unaccompanied children from countries other than mexico and canada receive a hearing before deportation. the top democrat in the house, nancy pelosi of california, called the new proposal mean- spirited. >> let's give the children a f

>> that was republican congressman mo brooks with chris here on friday night.t turned out that congressman brooks was just warming up for what he was going to say today. >> this is a part of the war on whites that's being launched by the democratic party, and the way in which they're launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. it's a part of the strategy that barack obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012 where he divides this all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things. >> the war on whites. even radio host laura ingraham responded by saying, "that might not be the best choice of words there." to fact check the allegations of this war on whites, let's take a look at actual numbers that might show what's happening in the war. like average family health over the last generation. that blue line is the average for a white family. and as you can see, there's been a consistently very large gap between that and the wealth of black and hispanic families. it is strange that the war on whites has not done more a

geocongressman mo brooks accused democrats and the president of waging a so-called war on whites. >> wow. >> listen to this. >> this is a part of the war on whites that's being launched by the democratic party, and the way in which they're launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. it's a part of the strategy that barack obama implemented in 2008, continued it in 2012 when he divides us on race, sex, greed, envy, warfare all kinds of things. >> we have heard this rhetoric before from a lot of the right wing talkers and pundits, but does it bother you that we're now hearing this creep into the halls of congress? i mean, these are elected congressman we're talking about. >> it's sad. it's infuriating, frankly, and as you're pointing out, rev, what's shocking here is he says it directly. he just comes out and accuses democrats of some war on whites. but there's this whole mythol y ology in the conservative right that white men are the real victims in this country, that white christian men are under attack, and that fuels a lot of the anger and the resentment you

part the national republican party has for every person like rand paul that wants to reach out, mo brooksy things like that. we see it almost every election cycle at this point. >> to be fair to him, he said his point was all americans want a secure border, all americans want jobs, all americans want economic growth, which is fine, but when you include in that sentence as part of a war on whites? >> to our credit, laura ingram in that interview said we think you're going a little bit too far interest this characterization but jackie is right, this is the problem that republicans have and the issue also is whether or not there's a sort of lingering effect for the party when mo brooks says this, democrats are able to characterize the entire republican party as out of step with the mainstream, how does rand paul work around that, how does he try to rebrand the entire republican party. >> the point mr. fournier was making, the presidential level the republicans can do fine at the house level but it's hard to see the republicans being competitive. the president of the united states, one of the

mo brooks from alabama who just yesterday or the day before was talking about the war on whites.st "the wall street journal" editorial page. there's a huge divide there. if you look at the facts on the ground since then, they have little reason to be frustrated with him as opposed to what they're getting from congress but i think there's a long hangover effect there. >> if i were groucho marx, the duck would have come down because dana got in the war on whites phrase. congratulations, dana. you said the magic phrase. >> we gave people a bunch of lists on how to improve the economy. 78% picked this. increase fines and jail time for executives at financial institutions who broke the law would help. so you've got a public out there that's actually ticked off that nobody went to -- ceos are upset that, hey, you're not doing the corporate tax rate. the public is upset that a ceo isn't in jail. >> and that's what the president is responding to. >> there's a disconnect between america and the east coast. >> a republican candidate that goes out and is anti-big business and anti-big gover