DISCUSSING A COUPLE LINES LATER

IN THE HOUR, SO STICK WITH US

AND WATCH THAT.

THERE IS DONALD TRUMP FINALLY,

FINALLY ASKED ABOUT HIS GREAT

CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN POLITIC

POLITICS

POLITICS, WHICH IS A LEVEL OF

LYING UNSEEN BEFORE AT ANY POINT

IN OUR HISTORY.

AND HE'S FROZEN.

HE DOESN'T HAVE A DEFENSE FOR

IT.

HE'S UTTERLY SPEECHLESS.

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HE COULD SAY. >> WELL, THE REASON THAT WAS

>> WELL, THE REASON THAT WAS

REMARKABLE IS THAT ONE OF OUR

MYTH

MYTH THOLGYS IN AMERICAN POLITIC

POLITICS IS THAT GEORGE

WASHINGTON ALWAYS TOLD THE

TEETH.

WHOEVER YOU ARE, WHETHER YOU ARE

RICH, POOR, HAVE NOTHING FROM A

BACKGROUND, THAT WHAT WE EXPECT

IN OUR INTEGRITY AND OUR ABILITY

TO STAND AS OUR OWN PEOPLE IS TO

SPEAK THE TRUTH.

AND DONALD TRUMP NOT ONLY

FUMBLED, BUT HE IS THE

JUXTAPOSITION OF WHAT WE DEEPLY

BELIEVE IS HONORABLE IN OUR

COUNTRY.

AND THAT IS WHY THIS WAS SO

DIFFICULT FOR HIM.

AND I THINK THAT THAT REPORTER

WHAT HE DID WAS EXPOSE A

FUNDAMENTAL JUXTAPOSITION OF

WHAT WE BELIEVE AS AMERICANS AS

HONORABLE AND AS RELIGIOUS AS

DONALD TRUMP LIKES TO PRETEND

THAT HE IS AND WIPED IT AWAY.

SO THE ONLY FOLLOW-UP QUESTION

THAT I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE

HEARD FROM HIM TODAY WAS, ARE

YOU SENDING YOUR CHILDREN AND

YOUR GRANDCHILDREN TO SCHOOL IN

THE FALL?

BECAUSE THAT WOULD, AGAIN,

EXPOSE THIS INABILITY OF DONALD

TRUMP NOT ONLY TO SPEAK THE

TRUTH BUT HIS FUNDAMENTAL

HYPOCRISY WITH THE AMERICAN

PEOPLE.

>> PROFESSOR, ONE OF THE THINGS

I NOTICED WAS HE DIDN'T EVEN

CALL IT A NASTY QUESTION.

WHEN YOU THINK OF THE QUESTIONS

YAMICHE ALCINDOR AND OTHERS HAVE

ASKED IN THAT ROOM FOR WHICH

THEY GET SLAMMED BY DONALD TRUMP

AS ASKING A NASTY QUESTIONS, HE

WAS SO FLATTENED BY IT, IT'S

LIKE HE COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT HE

HAD JUST HEARD.

>> RIGHT.

THE IMAGE THAT CAME TO MY MIND,

LAWRENCE, IS SOMEONE GETTING

POPPED IN THE MOUTH AND JUST,

YOU KNOW, TOUCHING YOUR LIP

TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S

GOING ON.

>> YEAH, YEAH.

>> THIS WAS AN AMAZING MOMENT,

THE FACT THAT WE HAD BEEN TRYING

TO TREAT DONALD TRUMP'S

PRESIDENCY AS IF IT'S NORMAL,

TRYING TO NORMALIZE WHAT CAN'T

BE NORMALIZED.

AND SO THE FACT THAT SOMEONE

FROM THE PRESS ACTUALLY ASKED

THE QUESTION AND THEN FOLLOWED

UP WITH CLARIFICATION WHEN HE

WAS ASKED WHAT EXACTLY DID HE

SAY, THIS IS PRECISELY WHAT THE

STATES SHOULD BE DOING AS A

CRITICAL COMPONENT OF OUR

DEMOCRACY BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP'S

LYING HAS NOT ONLY DIMINISHED

THE WHITE HOUSE, WE SEE IT IN

THE DATA, LAWRENCE, THE BROAD

TRUST THAT THE EVERY DAY PEOPLE

HAVE IN THE GOVERNMENT, WE'RE

SEEING THAT DECLINE

PRECIPITOUSLY, PRECISELY BECAUSE