I know as U.S. attorney in Arkansas, you personally prosecuted white supremacist groups.

What's your reaction to seeing a former U.S. president associate with someone like that?

Well, I hope someday we won't have to be responding to what former President Trump has said or done.

In this instance, it's important to respond.

And that is what it all boils down to.

Republicans in a position again to have to respond to Donald Trump's embrace of white supremacists and anti-Semites.

We're going to break down the controversial dinner at Marlago as the Republican

Party finds itself in a familiar spot with former President Donald Trump. Well, you know,

the thing is, really quickly, I mean, Governor Hutchinson, who's spoken out time and again in

very important ways, he goes back to a familiar refrain about Republicans and always

saying, oh, why do we have to respond to this? Why do you always ask me questions about Donald Trump?

Well, I'm not speaking to Ace here because he does speak out, but the Republicans, because he's the leader of the

party.

Yeah.

It's because he had dinner over Thanksgiving weekend with not only a white supremacist, but a neo-Nazi,

someone who said the most vile things about Jews and, and other Americans, with a, you know, with Kanye, who has said one anti-Semitic remark after another.

And so why do they have to respond to that?

Because he's still the leader of their party.

And it's very easy.

It's very easy for Kevin McCarthy to say he should not be sitting down with white supremacists.

It should not be easy.

But it's not easy because Kevin McCarthy may owe his speakership to people who also hang out with white supremacists, who go to where there are groups of white supremacists and give speeches. So, you know, Trump's

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