steven goldstein? >> that was insane. sean spicer is living in a parallel universe.re we supposed to salute this president? as far as the words of the president being good enough, who said that that our words should be good enough? simply cannot relate to anyone who looks like themselves. as far as this president repeatedly calling out anti-semitism, let alone islamophobia, racism, sexism, he never speaks about it. i don't know what script sean spicer is reading from, but it is not reality. amy: also yesterday, our other guest's organization was raised with a cbs news foreign affairs and white house correspondent margaret brennan also questioned spicer on tuesday. >> the southern poverty law center says the number of anti-muslim groups in the u.s. has tripled between 2015 and 2016 during the time of the campaign. is this message within the [indiscernible] as the president been forceful about that particular issue? >> i think the president in terms of his desire to conduct radical terrorism, he understands people who want to havess a peaceful position every right in o

steven goldstein, the executive director of the anne frank center for mutual respect.he group posted a statement on facebook, "mr. president, you're too little, too late." and in montgomery, alabama, we're joined by mark potok, senior fellow at the southern poverty law center. he authored the group's year-end report, "hate groups increase for second consecutive year as trump electrifies radical right." steven goldstein and mark potok, wewelcome to democracy now! steven, let's begin with you. you just for that same he read of the african american museum. your response? >> i thought the president lost it. his response was remarkable for its -- this president said absolutely nothing over the weekend when jewish grave sites were desecrated. he said absolutely nothing about him threats. he refused even to include jews and the holocaust. amy: you mean the world holocaust day, he did not cite jews. >> astonishing. and all of a sudden, he wakes up on a tuesday, decides to give a speech, which, by the way, he read with all of the sincerity of it a bad method actor. this is a pr

joining me now the executive director of the anne frank museum and man behind that statement steven goldstein. >> brooke, i'm furious, it's preposterous, he's never condemned it before today. look at what happened this weekend. we had 170 attacks on jewish graveyards in st. louis, ten attacks on jewish centers, where was the president? his silence was deafening, its pu purveyor is president trump, nothing made a difference, it was just a band aid, and his hengmen steve bannon have done nothing to change the circumstances. nothing. >> guys do we have the president trump sound bite from this morning from the smithsonian african-american museum. i hear you and before the reporter was asked to sit down and be quiet last week when he didn't condemn the attacks, but he did today. >> but here is the thing, brooke. >> i love you brooke, there has to be a fire storm for this president to respond, brooke, he doesn't respond unless groups like mine just go crazy pleading, begging mr. president condemn anti-semitism. he doesn't do it. >> he did this morning. just this morning. here is the sound. >> this

. >>> now here is the response from the ann frank senter from its director, steven goldstein. he said, "globalists and corporate media, these are code words of anti-semitism and when they're used by a man with an anti-semitic history such as steve bannon, you'd have to be living in the stone age not to connect the dots." this is part of the problem here is that we have someone so close to the president who holds these views and as a result of that, the president, who should step out there and condemn these things hasn't or hasn't. >> look, when the president -- his first statement to the country was he was going to heal the wounds of division. the problem is he's never taken responsibility for opening those wounds himself. he's always been a day late and a dollar short in his denunciations. >> jonathan? >> look, the president of the united states has not just a political responsibility. he has a moral leadership. and we expect more from the president. a that's why we were worried about the surge of hate crimes without a response. the averted mass murder in a synagogue in south