jeremiah wright is actually a gifted preacher. i've heard his sermons for years in different churches. i'd been to trinity. he speaks in incredible hyperbole, something which in many black congregations we take for granted. we recognize he's saying crazy things, and we laugh. unfortunately, in a political environment, it kind of really is not something -- literal lives, and he was very literal many times ask was taken that way even her times. you know, i don't -- i think that he's right that jeremiah wright was speaking from the old grievance model, but he was speaking it for a reason. he is part of that coto horse of older black -- cohort of older black politicians and cultural leaders ask ambassadors who believes you can't forget that there are a whole lot of people who are not spoken about or to by the shiny ivy league folks that are our leaders. i was thinking about this a couple days ago going through washington. everywhere in washington was caught up in the excitement and the glitz of the inaugustingal and the first african-

what we have here, you've got jeremiah wright there on the screen. the pearl clutching that took place, as you called it rightly, pretty much almost upended barack obama's campaign for the presidency because of his pastor gave a sermon several years earlier where he wasn't even president and yet he had to atone for that. meanwhile, a guy who gives a platform to white supremacy and then goes and joins the presidential campaign of donald trump as its chairman and will soon be a few steps away from the oval office and in the ear of the president of the united states, to me it's mind boggling that there hasn't been the same amount if not more pearl clutching going on. because what we have here is someone who is completely anti-thet cal to who we are as a country and who we are as a people or at least i thought, at least i was taught. and i think that's one of the reasons why myself, dean, you, a whole lot, millions of other americans are simply horrified that this man is so close to power. i also say that that then requires all of us who are concerned ab

now president spoke about jeremiah wright and this is part of the speech. let's watch that. >> reverend wright's comments were not only wrong but divisive. divisive at a time when we need unity. racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems. >> now that he's president elect, tara, do you think that donald trump needs a moment of punctuation, seeing increase in these types of attack and g graffiti and this celebration planned by the kkk. >> yes. you can't ignore what's happening here. there are -- those protesters are basically anarchists, a lot have -- they would have protested either way at some point and that level of rioting and the violence and people advocating being killed i saw a protester say that. that kind of stuff is out of bounds. but that doesn't dismiss the real fear and anxiety sbrep dags that millions and millions of people, especially people of color in this country have as a result of a donald trump presidency. which a lot of it was fomented by donald trump's own words during this campaign.

he didn't pretend that jeremiah wright didn't say them. >> maria. >> -- let my finish! let me finish. let me finish. >> quickly. >> he gave a speech that showed the kind of leader with the kind of backbone that you need to lead as president of the united states that will actually bring people together. donald trump has an opportunity here. he needs to step up to the plate to do exactly that. >> what we're going to do is take a quick break. ahead we're going to talk about this. we're going to talk about what americans many of whom supported donald trump and many of these key state, what they are making of this discussion. i'm going to speak to jamie vance, outer of the hillbilly elegy. r body too. no wonder doctors and patients have trusted advil... for their tough pains for over 30 years. relief doesn't get any better than this. advil. see me. see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that... ...i won't stop until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of med

you have barack obama sitting in jeremiah wright's church for 20 years, he disassociated himself with -- >> none of those people were advisers to the president. >> you're not applying the same standard to both people. barack obama was the president and came from this environment. steve bannon does not come from this environment. ana navarro and macmullan have lied openly about steve bannon. evan is on your show tonight. he can't defend that statement. >> sure i can. >> kurt bardella didn't try to say whether steve bannon is an anti-semite. evan can't defend it, kurt can't defend it. and it's not true. i think that when you do this, this is what the media does -- they throw out a bunch of innuendo to try to smear someone. the most offensive thing steve bannon did was win the white house with donald trump. if it was up to these people, it would be hillary clinton picking the supreme court and con signing our democracy to decline. steve bannon deserves the praise of these folks, not their condemnation. >> i don't know how you can talk about decline on clinton's behalf. one of the first t

when president obama was running and the issue came up with his pastor, jeremiah wright, he gave a very significant, a very important speech. donald trump is now about to become the president of the united states of america. and i emphasize united. and i think it is time, not just talking to the "new york times" or talking in private meetings, but that he give a speech. dedicated solely to uniting the country. telling people not to be doing these acts of hatred and talk about unifying the country and talk about the things dole to unify the country. and one of the things i would like him to do is talk to his republican colleagues in the house and the senate about voting rights. making sure every american has the right to vote and to stop telling them on stop trying to diminish the rights of african-americans, hispanics and others. i think unity and the right to vote is significant and i'm hoping he'll do that. >> senator bernie sanders, he thinks the democratic party right now should move away from what he calls identity politics. do you agree with the senator? >> i think that we, i thin

when jeremiah wright, jonathan cape hart has a great comment, when jeremiah wright made statements in sermons that barack obama wasn't even in the church to hearings he had to give an entire race speech before he became president to calm america's fears about his attitudes on race. why is there no grand call for donald trump to either distance himself from these people or similarly give a speech? jfk had to give a speech to assure the country he wasn't going to be a stooge somehow of the catholic church. there is no call for donald trump to stand up and give a speech and denounce this. why is that, steve? >> well, this is the challenge. i think it's that -- frankly it's the reluctance and certain amount of timidity on the part of progressive democratic leaders and also on the part of the media, is that the range of unacceptable, outrageous and harkening to and sending these dog whistles and foghorns to people who have racist views as well as the misogyny as well as the xenophobia, it all gets excused and maybe even laughed away and forgotten about, but that's how this man got to the w

in 2008, if you recall the reverend jeremiah wright controversy. good friend of president obama said horrible things and what did president obama do? didn't pretend he didn't say them or take a week or month to avoid them, let me finish. he gave a speech that showed the kind of leader with the backbone that you need to be the president of the united states to actually bring people together. donald trump has an opportunity here. he needs to step up to the plate to do exactly that. >> take a quick break and talk about this and what americans, many of whom supported donald trump in many of the key states, what they're making of this discussion. speak to j.d. vance, author of "hillbilly elegy" his memoir of growing up in a poor town. ♪ ♪ how else do you think he gets around so fast? take the reins this holiday and get the mercedes-benz you've always wanted during the winter event. now lease the 2017 gla250 for $329 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, isn't it time to let the real you shine th

. >> can you imagine if president obama had brought in reverend jeremiah wright as president? that's the exact analogy. >> go ahead angela. >> talked about needing to rebuild this country. it's important to note how this country was started to begin with, who do you think built it to begin with john? >> right now my family came from italy and they didn't go and cost 19,000 per pupil in the schools. >> just wanted to know who you thought built the country. >> fact of the matter is you can't just say who built the country. right now illegal immigration is a huge cost. >> asking who built the country because forced immigrants. >> i think point is immigrants -- spipd all the fem who came over were illegal. >> my family were barbers. didn't get free and welfare they learned how to speak english. >> your president-elect has paid zero in federal taxes for at least past twenty years. undocumented immigrants pay thousands more than your president-elect. >> they don't pay taxes. >> yes they do. >> to say they don't underscores how little you know about this issue. >> i do know a lot. >>

wright. in that campaign, the way president obama dealt with wright, was to give a very pointed speech in which he not only disavowed wright by name, he disavowed the things that wright had said, the things that wright stood for and was very specific about it. then barack obama never had to talk about it again. and if trump would deliver a similar speech, he would never have to talk about it ever again. it wouldn't cost him an ounce of political capital. his supporters really don't care what he does. but the way trump looks at it is he doesn't do what a typical politician should do, and he looks at his victory as something that didn't happen in spite of himself, it happened because of himself. it reaffirms every way in which he conducted his campaign. so i think this is why they don't like to speak to it. but i actually think it would enhance his image and presidency and make him look really good. >> jackie, his team says, mr. trump continues to denounce racism. when has he denounced it? >> d

she put them in chains, the government put them on slave quarters-- - jeremiah wright had been the pastor of obama's church for a long time. and somebody that he was really close to. - passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "god bless america." no, no, no. not "god bless america," "god damn america," that's in the bible for killing innocent people. - the emergence of the reverend wright tape is potentially so damaging to many in the electorate. the question becomes, "have we gotten barack obama wrong? is that what he believes?" - but race is an issue that i believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. - he said that a lot of african-americans had these attitudes toward our country for understandable reasons. rooted in our history of treating blacks very, very badly. - obama's candidacy needs to fight against the perception that someone who is black is going to be angry in politics. barack obama's style is a low key, thoughtful style that makes it virtually impossible for the opposing candidate to play him into those sets of stereotypes. - the profound mistake of rev

wright made those incendiary statements, the reaction of president obama was to not only denounce and distance himself but condemn those comments and sever his relationship with reverend wright. steve bannon puts out a breitbart article or headline that is misogynistic, anti-semitic and puts out six or seven dog whistles to white nationalists and he's brought in as the senior strategist. there's a movement that says let's not normalize donald trump. some have already normalized donald trump as president. what cannot happen is the normalization of the behavior of the american public. they need to be vigilant. they need to be out there, and they need to be loud and have a zero tolerance to this type of behavior. i point to laura ingram who was with referenced earlier, three days before the election she said that univision and telemundo were toxic, hispanic centric outlets that reviled the american experience and she's potentially press secretary which only leads to the question will there be a press blackout now of these outlets that reach tens of millions of americans. frightening time

one example of that is reverend jeremiah a. wright was abandoned by the president of the united states for challenging the moral authority. now america challenges the moral authority of its president-elect. he was told to be quiet for speaking out against islamophobia. now america has elected a president who is unapologetic in his divisive rhetoric. reverend wright was told he was an embarrassment to the nation and now our nation is a joke to the world. the prophetic voice of one who dared to speak to the reality of a thriving and robust state of racism in america was mocked and reduced to jokes calling him the crazy uncle. now america has come to realize that the wisdom of the sage has been redeemed and the roosters have come home to roost. reverend wright was the proverbial bewildered uncle, then who is donald trump? our moral authority is quite critical and i think also, to echo my brother here, in addition to the role in the local community, we must also be prophetic in the diaspora. we have to be involved in palestine, we