>>> TODAY THE PRESIDENT
CONTINUES TO PLAY TO THE MOST
EXTREME FACTIONS OF HIS
POLITICAL BASE TWEETING AN
ATTACK AGAINST BUBBA WALLACE,
THE ONLY BLACK SPONSORED DRIVER
IN NASCAR.
THE PRESIDENT ASKING, "HAS BUBBA
WALLACE APOLOGIZED TO ALL OF
THOSE GREAT NASCAR DRIVES AND
OFFICIALS WHO CAME TO HIS AIDE,
STOOD BY HIS SIDE AND WILLING TO
SACRIFICE EVERYTHING FOR HIM
ONLY TO FIND OUT THE WHOLE THING
WAS JUST ANOTHER HOAX," WELL, IT
WASN’T
ACTUALLY WALLACE AND NASCAR
REPLIED IN FULL IN THE LAST DAYS
AND WEEKS THE ROPE FOUND IN THIS
GARAGE WAS UNLIKE ALL OTHERS
SHAPED LIKE A NOOSE.
THE DIFFERENCE, IT HAD BEEN
THERE A WHILE AND NOT FOUND BY
THE FBI TO BE AIMED SPECIFICALLY
AT BUBBA WALLACE
ANOTHER DRIVER TWEETING WE DON’T
NEED AN APOLOGIZE.
WE’LL DO JUST FINE WITHOUT I
DON’T SUPPORT.
THE PRESIDENT DECIDING AN ATTACK
ON CRITICS OF THE CONFEDERATE
MONUMENTS IS A BIG APPEAL TO HIS
BASE DURING THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND
SPEECHES IN THE MOUNT RUSHMORE
AND IN WASHINGTON.
>> THE RADICAL IDEOLOGY
ATTACKING OUR COUNTRY ADVANCES
UNDER THE BANNER OF SOCIAL
JUSTICE, BUT IN TRUTH, IT WOULD
DEMOLISH BOTH JUSTICE AND
SOCIETY.
IT WOULD TRANSFORM JUSTICE INTO
AN INSTRUMENT OF DIVISION AND
VENGEANCE.
>> THEIR GOAL IS NOT A BETTER
AMERICA.
THEIR GOAL IS TO END AMERICA.
>> WE WILL NEVER ALLOW AN ANGRY
MOB TO TEAR DOWN OUR STATUES,
ERASE OR HISTORY INDOCTRINATE
OUR CHILDREN OR TRAMPLE ON OUR
FREEDOMS
[ APPLAUSE ]
>> AND JOINING ME NOW, NBC WHITE
HOUSE CORRESPONDENT AND "WEEKEND
TODAY" CO-HOST PETER ALEXANDER,
MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST RICK
TYLER.
PBS NEWS HOUR WHITE HOUSE
CORRESPONDENT YAMICHE ALCINDOR
AND WELCOME TO ALL
WHAT A WAY TO CELEBRATE THE
NATION’S BIRTHDAY AND BRING THE
NATION TOGETHER.
PETER, THE ATTACKS CONTINUING
TODAY.
THE BUB BA WALLACE
WHY GO AFTER BUBBA WALLACE
PERSONALLY WITH THAT DIG TODAY
>> ANDREA, EXACTLY RIGHT
NOT JUST GOING AFTER BUBBA
WALLACE ALSO PERHAPS STRIKING IN
THE TWEET HIM BEING SO
SUPPORTIVE OF THE CONFEDERATE
FLAG IN HIS TWO ADDRESSES OVER
THE WEEKEND THAT FACED A LOT OF
CRITICISM.
HE TRIED TO UPHOLD THE AMERICAN
HERITAGE AS HE DESCRIBES IT BUT
STEERED CLEAR OF MAKING ANY
PARTICULAR REFERENCES TO THE
CONFEDERACY.
HE DID THAT, THOUGH, IN THIS
TWEET, IN SPEAKING TO ONE OF THE
PRESIDENT’S ALLIES WITHIN THE
LAST HOUR THIS INDIVIDUAL
DESCRIBED IT TO ME AND AN
UNFORCED ERROR, A STEP BACKWARDS
AND THE PRESIDENT BASICALLY
PURSUING A SMALLER AND SMALLER
SLICE OF THE PIE RIGHT NOW
ALSO STRUCK BY WHAT LINDSEY
GRAHAM SAID ABOUT THIS JUST
MOMENTS AGO, PUSHING BACK, ONE
OF THE PRESIDENT’S OWN ALLIES
PUSHING BACK PUBLICLY TO THE
PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT SAYING TO
FOX NEWSRADIO ABOUT NASCAR,
THEY’RE TRYING TO GROW THE
SPORT.
I’VE LIVED IN SOUTH CAROLINA OWL
MY LIFE.
IN BUSINESS, THE CONFEDERATE
FLAG IS NOT A GOOD WAY TO GROW
YOUR BUSINESS.
AS WE’VE WITNESSED THIS IS THE
PRESIDENT NOT JUST DOUBLING,
TRIPLES, BE QUADRUPLE DOWN ON
THE CULTURE WARS AGAINST STOKING
RACIAL DIVISIONS WITHIN THE
COUNTRY, ANDREA.
>> PETER, YOU DID GREAT.
WE CAN HEAR YOU FINE OVER THAT
BLOWER OR TRUCKS AND EVERYTHING
ELSE ON THE NORTH LAWN
YAMICHE ALCINDOR, THE PRESIDENT
FALLING BACK ON HIS DENIAL IN
TERMS OF THE VIRUS AND FOCUSING
ON DIVIDING THE COUNTRY BY GOING
AFTER PROTESTERS AND EMPHASIZING
ANY VIOLENCE IN THE PROTESTERS
AND REALLY DRILLING DOWN ON
SUPPORT FOR THE CONFEDERATE
SOLDIERS SAYING THEY WERE
FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM, NOT
FIGHTING AGAINST RACISM.
>> THAT’S RIGHT, ANDREA.
WHAT WE SEE IN PRESIDENT TRUMP
IS SOMEONE WHO IS DETERMINED TO
BE ON THE SIDE OF CONFEDERATE
GENERALS, DETERMINED TO BE ON
THE SIDE OF PEOPLE WHO SEE
AMERICAN HISTORY, CRITICS SAY,
AS WEIS WHITE HISTORY.
THE IDEA AMERICA TREATED
EVERYONE EQUALLY AND THERE WAS
NO RACIAL STRIFE IN AMERICA IS THE HISTORY PRESIDENT TRUMP
THE HISTORY PRESIDENT TRUMP
CONTINUE TO HARKIN BACKEARKEN ON
ANDBLE THE BLACK LIVES MATTER,
IT’S SWELLED, SUPPORT OF
AMERICANS ACROSS ALL 50 STATES
INCLUDING IN RED STATES.
PEOPLE TAKING TO THE STREETS
SAYING AFRICAN-AMERICANS SHOULD
BE TREATED EQUALLY
POLICE BRUTALITY SHOULD STOP
THE PARTICULARRESIDENT IS SAYING
AMERICANS ARE ASKING FOR THE
COUNTRY TO COULD BETTER, HE DOES
THE NO WANT THAT MOVEMENT TO
SUCCEED AND TAKING A POLITICAL
RISK
LOOKING A THE PEOPLE AGAINST
MOVING AMERICA FORWARD SAYING,
NO
WE NEED TO BE ON THE OTHER SIDE
OF THOSE PEOPLE.
INTERESTING THAT ALL OF THIS IS
HAPPENING AS THE "NEW YORK
TIMES" HAD TO SUE THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION, THE CDC, TO GET
RACIAL DATA ON THE VIRUS THAT
SHOWS AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND
LATINOS ARE DIEING AND INFECTED
IN THE VIRUS AT HIGHER RATES
THAN WHITE AMERICANS
I THINK ALL OF THIS TOGETHER IS
REALLY SHOWING THAT THE
PRESIDENT IS REALLY RUNNING FROM
THE?
ED THERE IS RACIAL INEQUITIES IN
THIS COUNTRY AND AN INTERESTING
STRATEGY ON HIS PART
WORKED IN 2016
IN 2018 AND WE’LL SEE IF IT
WORKS IN 2020.
>> YOU TRAVELED A LOT WITH THE
PRESIDENT FOCUSING ON THIS
ISSUE.
I WANTED TO SHARE WITH A LOT OF
OUR VIEWERS AN EXCERPT FROM WHAT
YOUR COLLEAGUE WROTE AS WELL
TODAY.
HE WROTE, "TRUMP KNOWS HIS
RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN IS IN
TROUBLE SEES THE FIGHT AGAINST
THIS ENEMY OF HIS CREATION AS
HIS PATHWAY TO VICTORY IN
NOVEMBER
HIS POLITICAL WEAPON OF CHOICE
IS EXAGGERATED AND AT TIMES
RACIST REC RICK DESIGNED TO PIT
AMERICANS AGAINST AMERICAN’S
NEVER IN OUR LIFETIME HAS THE
FOURTH OF JULY BEEN USED FOR
THIS".
>> AND THE IDEA IS THAT THEY’RE
BETTING HARD HERE ON SOMETHING
SOME OF HIS OWN ADVISERS THINK
IS A BAD IDEA, WHICH IS TO FOCUS
ON AN EXTREMELY SMALL SLICE OF
AMERICA, WHICH OVERLAPS WITH
SOME OF HIS MOST HARD CORE
ARDENT SUPPORTERS.
THE PROBLEM IS HE DRIVES AYDRIVE
LARGE SHARE OF HIS ELECTORATE
HE’S GOING TO NEED AT THIS POINT
QUITE TROUBLED CAMPAIGN.
NO ONE AROUND THE PRESIDENT WHO
THINKS THIS IS A BAD STRATEGY
LONG TERM HAS BEEN ABLE TO
PERSUADE HIM OTHERWISE
I THINK WHAT WE SAW THIS WEEKEND
IN THAN DAN BALLS IDENTIFIED SO
CLEARLY, HISTORICAL DIFFERENCE
WE SEE NOW
THE NATION’S BIRTHDAY HAS REALLY
BEEN FOR TWO CENTURIES AND
CERTAINLY IN THE MODERN
COMMUNICATIONS ERA FOR MOST OF
THE LAST CENTURY, BEEN AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR PRESIDENTS TO
SPEAK TO THE COUNTRY IN UNIFYING
FASHION AND TALK ABOUT THE
THINGS THAT UNITE US AND TALK
ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MAKE
AMERICA GREAT AND LOOK FORWARD
TO CONTINUING THAT GREATNESS AND
ALL THE KINDS OF RHETORIC THAT
IS EASY TO SUMMON ON JULY 4th,
AND INSTEAD WHAT WE HAD THIS
WEEKEND IN THIS SPEECH AT MOUNT
RUSHMORE AND AGAIN AT THE JULY
4th SPEECH WAS THE PRESIDENT
ATTEMPTING TO DIVIDE AMERICANS
ONE FROM ANOTHER
SOME OF THE RHETORIC RECALLED TO
ANTI-IMMIGRANTS, RHETORIC FROM