discrimination, he's at odds now with his own chairman of the joint chiefs, chairman melee, with general petraeus. and these are people who in republican circles still have credibility and they cross cut the trump coalition. he's doing himself grave harm by being out on this racist public-facing -- and i agree with elena. he has governed that way. but by making this the public-facing message of his re-elect with about 100 days left, it's a giant loser. >> in 2016, donald trump might have gotten a pass from some of the voters that we called "hold your nose" trump voters, who didn't like the way he talked about race, but they didn't want to vote for hillary clinton. four years later, his racist campaign strategy clearly isn't working. and it's bad on two levels. first, i hope that this actually is a moment of seismic change for race relations in the united states. but i do worry a little bit that it could be about donald trump's unpopularity, which not -- you know, neither of those scenarios are good for donald trump, granted i really hope that it's actually a sea change and not just about trump's