>>> AS I JUST MENTIONED YESTERDAY REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN
MARK MEADOWS BROUGHT A BLACK
WOMAN WHO WORKS IN THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION TO STAND SILENTLY
BESIDE HIM DURING THE MICHAEL
COHEN HEARING TO PROVE MICHAEL
COHEN WAS WRONG YESTERDAY WHEN
HE SAID DONALD TRUMP IS A
RACIST.
RACIST. FRESHMAN CONGRESSWOMAN RASHIDA
TLAIB HAD SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT
THAT.
THAT. >> JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE HAS A
PERSON OF COLOR, A BLACK PERSON
WORKING FOR THEM DOESN’T MEAN
THEY AREN’T RACIST AND IT IS
INSENSITIVE AND SOME WOULD
SAY -- THE FACT THAT SOMEONE
WOULD ACTUALLY USE A PROP, A
BLACK WOMAN IN THIS CHAMBER, IN
THIS COMMITTEE, IS ALONE RACIST
IN ITSELF.
IN ITSELF. DONALD TRUMP --
>> MR. CHAIRMAN, I ASK THAT HER
WORDS BE TAKEN DOWN.
>> AND THEN THE HEARING WENT OFF
THE RAILS FOR THE NEXT FEW
MINUTES AS THE CHAIRMAN REFEREED
THE DISPUTE THAT BROKE OUT
BETWEEN RASHIDA TLAIB AND MARK
MEADOWS WHO CLAIMED THAT RASHIDA
TLAIB HAD CALLED HIM A RACIST
WHICH TECHNICALLY SHE DIDN’T.
SHE SAID WHAT HE DID WAS RACIST.
MARK MEADOWS KNEW THAT THE RULES
OF THE HOUSE WERE ON HIS SIDE IN
ASKING FOR THE WORDS TO BE TAKEN
DOWN, STRICKEN FROM THE
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD OF THAT
HEARING.
HEARING. THE RULES OF DAYECOR RUM MAKE
COMMENTS ABOUT THE REPUTATION OF
MEMBERS.
MEMBERS. THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
THAT MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES ARE NOT ALLOWED
TO INSULT ARE MEMBERS OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE
CONSTITUTION ACTUALLY GRANTS
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS THE RIGHT TO
SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ANYONE NO
MATTER HOW LIBELLOUS IT MAY BE
AS LONG AS THEY SAY IT ON THE
HOUSE OR SENATE FLOOR OR IN
HEARING ROOMS, THEY ARE IMMUNE
FROM LIBEL LAWS AS LONG AS
THEY’RE IN THAT BUILDING.
FRESHMAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE
WARNED ABOUT THIS, THEY’RE
WARNED ABOUT THE RULES AND SO
SHE KNEW YESTERDAY THAT THE
RULES OF THE HOUSE GAVE MARK
MEADOWS THE PRIVILEGE OF CALLING
FOR A VOTE TO REMOVE HER WORDS
FROM THE RECORD OF THE HEARING,
SO SHE SAVED HER CHAIRMAN FOR
HAVING TO CALL A VOTE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON STRIKING HER WORDS.
SHE SAID SHE DID NOT INTEND TO
CALL MARK MEADOWS A RACIST.
>> TO MY COLLEAGUE, MR. MEADOWS,
THAT WAS NOT MY INTENTION AND I
DO APOLOGIZE.
DO APOLOGIZE. >> THEN THIS MORNING JUST BEFORE
NOON, MARK MEADOWS APPROACHED
CONGRESSMAN TLAIB ON THE FLOOR
OF THE HOUSE AND ASKED TO PUT
THE EPISODE BEHIND THEM WHICH
SHE DISAGREED TO DO AND THE
MOMENT, EVEN INCLUDED THIS HUG.
THE REASON MARK MEADOWS WANTED
TO GET THIS BEHIND HIM IS THAT
BY THE TIME HE APPROACHED
CONGRESSWOMAN TLAIB, TO
DIFFERENT VIDEOS SHOW THAT MARK
MEADOWS RAN ON SENDING PRESIDENT
OBAMA BACK TO KENYA.
>> 2012 IS THE TIME THAT WE’RE
GOING TO SEND MR. OBAMA HOME TO
KENYA OR WHEREVER.
>> THREE DAYS LATER, MARK
MEADOWS WAS ASKED IF HE IS
ELECTED TO CONGRESS, WILL HE
PURSUE A CONGRESSIONAL
INVESTIGATION OF WHETHER
PRESIDENT OBAMA WHO THE
QUESTIONER CALLED THIS GUY, IS A
CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES.
HERE WAS MARK MEADOWS’ ANSWER.
>> YES.
>> YES. >> SO THERE YOU SEE MARK MEADOWS
RUNNING ON THE RACIST PLATFORM
OF SEND THE BLACK PRESIDENT BACK
TO AFRICA.
TO AFRICA. AND LYING TO A VOTER WHO WANTS
HIM TO DO THAT.
MARK MEADOWS TOLD HIS VOTERS
THEN, YES, HE WOULD PURSUE A
CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S BIRTH
CERTIFICATE AND THAT WAS A LIE.
HE NEVER DID THAT.
AND BECAUSE MARK MEADOWS IS A
POLITICIAN, HE WASN’T FINISHED
WITH THAT ONE WORD ANSWER TO
THAT QUESTION.
THAT QUESTION. >> I SEE IT AS -- IF WE DO OUR
JOB FROM A GRASSROOTS
STANDPOINT, WE WON’T HAVE TO
WORRY ABOUT IT.
YOU KNOW WHAT, WE’LL SEND HIM
BACK HOME TO KENYA OR WHEREVER
IT IS.
IT IS. WE’LL SEND HIM BACK HOME.
AND SO IN DOING THAT, I BELIEVE
THAT WHAT WE WILL FIND IS THAT
WE WILL GET A NEW COMMANDER IN
CHIEF.
CHIEF. >> MARK MEADOWS GREW UP IN THE
1960s IN FLORIDA.
IT’S HARD TO SAY WHICH PLACE WAS
MORE RACIST THEN, PROBABLY ABOUT
THE SAME.
THE SAME. HERE’S MY BOSTON IN 1976, THE
MAN IN THE THREE PIECE SUIT IS
TED LANDS MARK, THE GUY WITH THE
FLAG IS FROM A NEIGHBORHOOD JUST
LIKE MINE.
LIKE MINE. ALL WHITE AND JUST ABOUT ALL
RACIST IN THOSE DAYS.
I GREW UP WITH GUYS WHO WANTED
TO DO THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND NO ONE WHO GREW UP IN MY
NEIGHBORHOOD IN BOSTON WAS
SURPRISED THE DAY WE SAW THAT
PHOTOGRAPH ON THE FRONT PAGE OF
THE BOSTON GLOBE.
BOSTON HAS CHANGE ADD LOT SINCE
THEN.
THEN. WE HAD SOME WHITE RACIST
POLITICIANS IN BOSTON WHEN I WAS
GROWING UP AND WE HAD EVEN MORE
BLATANT WHITE RACIST POLITICIANS
IN THE SOUTH WHEN MARK MEADOWS
WAS GROWING UP.
A WHITE RACIST GOVERNOR WHO
STOOD IN THE DOORWAY AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA TRYING TO
KEEP IT A RACIST CONSTITUTION.
BUT HE WAS CRUSHED THAT DAY BY
PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S
PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S ADMINISTRATION WHO FORCED HIM
OUT OF THAT DOORWAY.
AND JUST AS WE’VE SEEN IN
BOSTON, MANY WHITE POLITICIANS
IN THE SOUTH GREW AND CHANGED
AND WERE EVENTUALLY REPLACED BY
MORE ENLIGHTENED POLITICIANS,
BUT THERE ARE MORE MODERN DAY
EVENTS OF THE KIND OF RACISM
THAT SOUTHERN POLITICIANS
DEMONSTRATED WHEN MARK MEADOWS
WAS A KID.
WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, IT SEEMED
LIKE EVERY OTHER DAY IT WAS SEND
THEM BACK TO AFRICA.
HEARD THAT EVERY OTHER DAY IN MY
NEIGHBORHOOD.
NEIGHBORHOOD. NOT FROM A POLITICIAN, JUST
SOMEONE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD
SPEAKING FROM A HARD CORE RACIST
HEART.
HEART. SEND THEM BACK TO AFRICA IS ONE
OF THE OLDEST RACIST REFRAINS IN
THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN RACISM
AND THAT IS WHAT MARK MEADOWS
CHOSE TO ECHO WHEN HE DECIDED TO
RUN FOR CONGRESS.
HE USED RACISM TO GET HIS JOB.
THAT IS RACIST.
SEND PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BACK
TO KENYA.
TO KENYA. YOU DON’T GET TO USE RACIST
TOOLS IN YOUR POLITICAL CAMPAIGN
AND THEN COME CLOSE TO TEARS IN
CONGRESS WHEN YOU THINK SOMEONE
JUST CALLED YOU A RACIST WHICH
YOU MOST DEFINITELY ARE.
SEND PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA HOME
TO KENYA IS A CLASSIC RACIST
POLITICAL PLAY.
POLITICAL PLAY. AND THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO
APOLOGIZE FOR CALLING MARK
MEADOWS A RACIST ARE THE PEOPLE
HE GOES TO WORK WITH EVERY DAY
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
BECAUSE OF THE RULES OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
BUT UNTIL MARK MEADOWS
APOLOGIZES FOR RUNNING A RACIST
CAMPAIGN TO GET HIS JOB IN
CONGRESS, THEN EVERYONE OUTSIDE
OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HAS THE RIGHT AND THE MORAL
AUTHORITY TO CALL HIM A RACIST
BECAUSE IF WE PRETEND THAT THE
PEOPLE WHO SAY AND DO RACIST
THINGS AREN’T RACIST, THEN WE
ARE DENYING THE VERY EXISTENCE
OF RACISM AND THAT IS A GRAVE
CRIME AGAINST THE TRUTH OF LIFE
IN AMERICA AND AMERICAN HISTORY.
IF MARK MEADOWS ISN’T A RACIST,
NO ONE IS.
EVEN GEORGE WALLACE EVENTUALLY
APOLOGIZED FOR HIS RACIST
TACTICS OF GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA
BEFORE HE DIED.