>> But you like many have accused him of racism.
But if you go back and look at that tweet, he's not talking about race.
He's talking about whether or not you love this country and appreciate it.
And if you don't appreciate it, don't love it, and don't want to work to make it better,
then maybe you could consider going somewhere else.
>> What the hell, come on, Pete.
This is their country.
They're citizens of the United States.
>> He's talking about in general about the principles of our country.
>> If you don't like it, you can leave.
>> Absolutley, they can say that to me.
>> You cannot say that.
You can't say it to me.
I've had ten street fights based on that, someone saying to me because I’m Puerto
Rican go back to where I came from.
I was born on 17th Street, this is where I came from.
>> I'm not looking at the color of your skin, I’m looking at what you stand for and the
principles of our country.
White, black, otherwise, it's not about race.
>> Once you make nationhood and citizenship like that, conditional on your political loyalties,
you run a very dangerous path there, Major, and you should know that.
>> It's a lack of gratitude.
>> The gratitude line.
>> Hegseth is the worst, we'll get to him in just a second.
But I have to say something about Geraldo that stands out to me, and is indicative of
a lot of right wingers to be quite honest.
Look, he is good when it comes to the immigration issue.
He's been good on the immigration issue.
Even during the election, when Trump started his demagogic activity and behavior, Geraldo
Rivera did speak out against him.
But even in that clip he mentioned his own heritage, he mentioned his own personal experiences.
And I hate how they have to experience it personally to understand what it’s like
to be dehumanized and to be treated like the other, right.
Why is that?
Why can't you have some sympathy and just put yourself in the shoes of someone that
you share absolutely nothing in common with, but you should treat as a human being because
they're human beings.
>> Yeah, I felt the same exact thing as I was watching that clip.
Geraldo's really bad on any issue that doesn't affect him personally.
If it affects him personally, he said, wait a minute, don't do that, I'm Puerto Rican.
They're gonna say send me back.
I'll get into a street fight over that, right?
Nonetheless, I'll take it because again he's piercing the Fox bubble.
And there's two good parts to that.
One is, is it about race?
Come on, guys.
Look, is anybody asking how many generations your family's been here when they go after
a Puerto Rican or even, Ayanna Pressley, who's just an African American, right?
Go back to where, I don't know what the hell you're talking about, right?
Who do you think's more likely to get the comment, go back to your own country?
Either a Latino, or let's say an Arab-American whose family has been here for ten generations.
Or a Norwegian whose family's only been here for two generations.
You know the answer.
>> Norway.
>> Norway, no another one.
>> No non-racist, non-bigot has ever yelled go back where you came from.
And that's the thing, we've watched in all these little focus groups that they have with
like the housewives of Dallas essentially sitting around and having these conversations
where they try really hard to defend Trump.
But they can not wrap, I just wanna tell them, you close your eyes and you picture the person
who yells go back where you came from, and you picture who they're yelling at.
You know, it's just that you know, and they know it, and that's why you see them.
They're not saying go back where you came from, except in the rally where they're shrouded
in the anonymity of the crowd.
They all change the original thing to if you don't like it, leave.
They do that, which isn't what he said.
And that's how you know they can't defend the original statement, is cuz they have to
change it before they start defending something that's slightly in their minds more defensible.
>> And by the way, Trump then went further in those tweets.
People forget about the second part about what he tweeted, which was, essentially in
his own way, it's calling them s-hole countries, right?
>> Yeah, yeah, those countries that are in terrible shape, etc., filled with corruption.
Actually, that part of the tweet was true, cuz they're actually from America led by a
very corrupt government that's in disasterous shape.
But I don't wanna skip past Geraldo's secondary point.
He said, once you make citizenship conditional on your political loyalties, you're on a very
dangerous path.
There, you heard him say that, right?
>> Aren't we supposed to be able to discuss ideas in America, right?
We're supposed to have all, we're supposed to have people who disagree with the president,
who disagree with politicians.
That's the whole point of a democracy, right, ideas.
>> And you gotta turn those, the dial of ideas to hot.
>> Extra hot.
>> Right, okay, and, and so if we did that during the Obama era, or, you don't like Obama?
Get out, get out!
Okay, go back to where you came from.
There wouldn't be many right-wingers left in this country.
And final thing, guys, I'm gonna read you the First Amendment, because I know that a
lot of right wingers pretend that they are in favor of it, but notice the full amendment.
It say, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof, interesting.
I don’t think anybody’s ever read that part if they’re a right winger.
Or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press are the right of the people peaceably
to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
>> I don't like that last part.
The last part is terrible.
>> So when they say, if you don't love it, leave it.
That is unconstitutional as an idea, of course not unconstitutional as in the Supreme Court's
gonna rule on it, right?
But it violates the spirit of the Constitution and it is deeply un-American.
You are supposed to petition the government for a redress of grievances so you make your
government better.
That's how a democracy works.
And the way a dictatorship works is you either love the people in charge or you leave!
Right, that's not what America's about.
And guys like Pete Hegseth has never understood that.
He's a blockhead, he never loved this country for what it is, which is the idea of America,
and the United States Constitution.
He liked it as a race or an identity, and he missed the whole point.