Ben Carson on Don Lemon: ‘We the People Get To Decide Are We Going To Listen To the Purveyors of Hatred and Division’

‘It’s a little bit humorous’

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EARHARDT: "The media still pointing fingers at the president and Republicans for recent violent attacks, and now a CNN anchor facing some backlash for going even one step further. Listen to this."
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LEMON: "We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right and we have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban on, you know, they have the Muslim ban. There is no white guy ban. So what do we do about that?"
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DOOCY: "Don Lemon doubling down on those remarks, refusing to apologize claiming, quote, 'cold hard facts' back up his claims."
KILMEADE: "All right. Let’s see if we can find some of those facts. Here to talk about that is Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson. Dr. Carson, always great to see you. Let's start off with that."
CARSON: "Good morning."
KILMEADE: "If you would tackle that issue. Do you think white men are the major threat in this country, male?"
CARSON: "Actually it’s a little bit humorous. You know, this is the most powerful nation that the world has ever known a juggernaut moving toward prosperity for everybody, solving a lot of our problems. And the only thing that can really destroy us are ourselves. You know, Jesus said it best, a house divided against itself cannot stand. It was echoed again by Abraham Lincoln. And it’s absolutely true today. So we get to decide and this is the great thing. We, the people get to decide are we going to listen to the purveyors of hatred and division, or are we going to listen to our higher angels and start working on ways that we can create real fairness and use logic and common sense to solve problems and learn from our history? You know, we have a history of dividing people into different segments and that has caused a lot of problems in the past. And we've paid big prices for that let’s don’t sweep it under the rug. Let’s acknowledge it, but let’s learn from it and move in a positive direction not a negative direction."
KILMEADE: "So it’s not true, Dr. Carson. You do not think that white men are the biggest threat?"
CARSON: "Of course not. That’s ridiculous."

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