Keeping them honest: words matter

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Former President Donald Trump said in a recent interview that undocumented immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country," using language that is often employed by White supremacists and drawing rebuke. Conservative attorney and Washington Post Contributing Columnist George Conway joins AC360 to talk about the comments coming from the standard bearer of the Republican Party and the 2024 GOP frontrunner. Plus, CNN's Elle Reeve has an in depth look at what some Florida students and parents are doing to stop books from being banned at schools.

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360, new, in dangerous language for the once and possibly future President of
0:06.7	the United States.
0:07.7	Also, tonight, new details on a fatal car crash involving the then-girlfriend, now wife
0:12.5	of New Jersey Senator Bob Mnendez, plus a live report from Ellie Reeve about how some
0:17.5	parents and students of Florida are pushing back against the bookbans in that state.
0:21.7	Good evening.
0:22.7	Thanks for joining us.
0:23.7	We begin tonight keeping them honest by taking a step back, a step back from what seems like
0:29.2	a flood of words lately that the former President has said and followed by a flood of stories
0:33.8	about those words and subsequent outrage that one side or another has about those stories.
0:40.9	Before the whole cycle then repeats itself and the latest outrage is forgotten because
0:44.6	it's old news by then.
0:46.6	His former strategist, Steve Bannon, had a phrase for this.
0:49.2	He called it flooding the zone with excrement, though he used a different word for excrement.
0:54.5	He considered it a feature, not a bug, a plus in that it never gave anyone the time
0:59.9	to stop, take a breath, and take stock of what just happened or what someone just said.
1:07.0	So tonight, we want to just stop for just a moment and give us something that the former
1:12.3	President said, the consideration it deserves, to cut it out if he will of the flow or flood
1:17.7	of daily utterances.
1:19.1	And I'm talking about what the former President said, the words he used during a recent
1:23.3	interview with a right-wing outlet, talking about migrants coming into America.
1:29.7	Nobody has any idea what these people are coming from and we know they come from prisons,
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