Hey, it's Glenn Frush with this week's off message podcast here at Politico.

If you were a kid growing up in New York in the 1980s, it was the meanest, nastiest, most every man for himself decade in the history of the city.

The two names you couldn't avoid, even if you wanted to, were Donald Trump and the Reverend Al Sharpton.

We're still working on Trump, but we were fortunate enough to get 45 minutes last week with the Reverend Al in his office at NBC.

And we did an awful lot of talking about Trump, who the Reverend knows really well.

Despite his disgust with what he said were Trump's racist and xenophobic statements, the Reverend Al can't

quite get past some positive feelings he has for him, kindred spirit feelings, kind of views him as a

fellow outer borough interloper in the big city and in the country. And he offered what I think is

probably the best and most clear-eyed assessment

of Trump's motivations I've heard anywhere. And he also issued a challenge to Bernie Sanders,

who is very much courting his endorsement right now, as is Hillary Clinton, telling me that Sanders

should come on this podcast to talk about growing up in my Brooklyn neighborhood. Sharpton grew up in a very different

part of the borough, and he thinks Brooklyn is the most racist part of the most racist, racist

northern city in the country. We're working on the Sanders campaign also, so stay tuned on that one.

Before we get to the Rev, a little bit of business, subscribe to us on iTunes and rate us.

We've already gotten a lot of feedback on my Obama podcast and the bus ride we took

with Jeb Bush last week.

And by the way, you can always email me your comments, suggestions for questions, suggestions

for subjects for the podcast at g thrush at politico.com.

And we're going to have an episode every Monday morning during busy times like next week with

the South Carolina primary we are very likely to post multiple episodes so stay tuned without

any further ado here's Al Sharpton so good afternoon Reverend how. How you doing?

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