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Who You Calling Racist?; Turning On Trump; Conspiracy Theorist-In-Chief; Limiting Legal Immigration?

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Anthony Scaramucci Speaks Out; Conspiracy Theorist-In-Chief; Andrew Yang Breaks Down Over Gun Violence; Pres. Trump Promotes Epstein-Clintons Conspiracy Theory, The Latest In A Pattern Of Baseless Claims Spread By The President; Feds Charge Friend Of Dayton Mass Shooter, Say He Bough 100-Round Magazine, Body Armor Used In Attack; Andrew Yang Brought To Tears At Gun Safety Town Hall; Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Urges New Gun Control, Explains Tearful Moment In Iowa; New Details In Epstein Death Investigation; NY Times: One Of Jeffrey Epstein's 2 Jail Guards Was A Substitute, Not A Full-Fledged Correctional Officer; Trump Admin. Announces New Rule That Could Limit Legal immigration; Trump Administration Moves To Make Citizenship More Difficult For Immigrants Who Receive Medicaid, Foods Stamps Or Housing Assistance; Trump Administration Announces New Rule That Would Use Financial Status As One Benchmark For Green Card Approval; "Meaningful Background Checks"?To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening, President Trump vix.

0:03.2

Tonight, according to the Washington Post, after repeatedly telling crowds of voters at

0:07.4

rallies across the country how not racist he is and how much he's done for minorities

0:11.7

across the country, including taking credit for lowering the unemployment rate for black

0:16.2

Hispanic and Asian Americans, the president finds himself with a problem.

0:20.8

People think he's racist.

0:21.8

Majority of them, 51 percent, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll, and that's from

0:25.7

two weeks ago.

0:27.1

And this angers the president.

0:29.0

According to the Washington Post, quote, President Trump considers himself a branding wizard,

0:33.1

but he's vexed by a branding crisis of his own, how to shed the label of racist.

0:38.0

Now keep it in mind, before we go through a laundry list of reasons that a majority Americans

0:42.2

might feel this way, before we point out the second anniversary of the white nationalist,

0:46.6

white supremacist violence and Charlotte Philovergene that killed a young woman and for

0:51.2

which the president declared there were very fine people on both sides the night of a torch

0:55.4

lit march by neo-Nazi is chanting Jews will not replace us.

0:59.2

Let's remember how the president sees himself on the issue of race.

1:02.3

I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world.

1:08.2

I'm the least racist person there is in the world as far as I'm concerned.

1:13.6

Before, while in since he's running for president, and this is the reason, according to a

1:17.0

presidential adviser who spoke to the Washington Post and I'm quoting, the president views

1:21.2

the characterization largely through the lens of politics, said one close adviser who

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