Republican Rep. Mark Meadows brought a black White House staffer to the Michael Cohen hearing — hoping to disprove claims that the president is a racist. It didn't go as planned.
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00:00To prop up one member of our entire race of black people and say that that nullifies that is totally insulting.
00:10You made some very demeaning comments about the president that Ms. Patton doesn't agree with.
00:28In fact, it has to do with your claim of racism.
00:32Yes, I know what Mr. Trump is. He is a racist, he is a con man, and he is a cheat.
00:42She says that as a daughter of a man born in Birmingham, Alabama, that there is no way that she would work for an individual who was racist.
00:55How do you reconcile the two of those?
00:57Neither should I as the son of a Holocaust survivor.
01:02But Mr. Cohen, I guess what I'm saying is, is I've talked to the president over 300 times.
01:08I've not heard one time a racist comment out of out of his mouth in private.
01:14So how do you reconcile it?
01:22I just want to put on the record as being a black American and having endured the public comments of racism from the sitting president as being a black person,
01:34I can only imagine what's being said in private and to prop up one member of our entire race of black people and say that that nullifies that is totally insulting.
01:49And in this environment of expecting a president to be inclusive and to look at his administration speaks volumes.