MSNBC’s Harris-Perry Likens Flint Water Crisis to Fugitive Slave Act

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HARRIS-PERRY: "I mean, maybe. But, look, for me its not a first lady moment. It is -- it is the Department of Homeland Security making a decision. And I presume that is a decision that is coming from the administration. I don't really know. Because I have asked Mr. Johnson repeatedly to be on my TV show, and he will not. So that is why I keep calling on Mr. Johnson. Any time he would like to sit down with me -- maybe I'm all wrong. But I want to come back to Maria's point here. This does feel to me like potentially a black/brown coalition moment. Because I don't want the Obama Administration's final year to be marred by a fugitive slave law around the question of, this deportation that leads in the context of Flint to actual children actually children being poisoned because the parents are too afraid to open the door for clean water." 
LEMIEUX: "You know what is one of the most terrifying moments for me is the possibility that a Republican could become the next president and that this precedent has been set by a Democrat. That we can come into your house at 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning while you're asleep, take you and your family away -- so that if a Democrat is doing that, what happens next when we have candidates that have said, I'm not letting Muslims in, and I have no problem putting all of your brown people out. That's terrifying."