Huckabee: Will Hillary ‘Answer’ About Her Relationship with KKK’s Robert Byrd?
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SCARBOROUGH: " I certainly do. Let me ask you a couple quick questions. What do you think of David duke and the Ku klux Klan?"
HUCKABEE: "David duke and the Ku klux Klan are absolutely abominable. I don’t think anybody I know or have ever known supports them. Look, I know it’s an incredible overwhelming fascination that I’ve been watching this morning. But let me ask you this, do you think Hillary Clinton is going to have to answer with her relationship with senator Robert Byrd who was an actual member of the KKK? I’m not trying to defend —"
SCARBOROUGH: "You’re trying to do something, Mike, I don’t know what you’re trying to do but there are a lot of "
BRZEZISKI: "And you were doing so well."
SCARBOROUGH: "No, Mike this is pretty simple. Donald was asked two simple questions and he didn’t answer them. There’s no fascination here: I’d just like to hear him say the — I’d like to hear him say about Ku klux Klan what you just said about the Ku klux Klan, I don’t think that’s hard. Do you?"
HUCKABEE: "No and I think he’s said that. I listened to the clip on the “Today” show. I’ve read the things he said and I looks to me that he totally disavowed the endorsement. I don’t think — does anybody think Donald Trump is a racist? I don’t. I don’t. I didn’t know of anything in his life that indicate this is man has racist tendencies."
BRZEZINKI: "That’s not what we said."
HUCKABEE: " If that’s the implication —"
SCARBOROUGH: "Mike, you and I have campaigned across the deep south and we have seen people that have done the nod and the wink and used the race card. I’ve never done it or seen evidence that you do it but —
HUCKABEE: "I would not."
SCARBOROUGH: "But we’ve both Ben around people who have played to people’s worst instincts on issues of race and would shrug their shoulders or let a question or comment pass by. So I don’t think Donald Trump is a racist. I’ve known the guy for ten years. I do think, though, he may be playing to people’s most base instincts. I also think he’s misjudging people from our region of the country. Fair?"
HUCKABEE: "You know, here’s the thing. I doubt he is as sensitive about just how deplorable David duke is to many of us in the south. I think because I’m from the south I’m more sensitive and, frankly, more repulsed by racism than people maybe who didn’t grow up here. I saw the transition from the Jim crow era in there I grew up to a time in which really race relationships, I believe, are not only dramatically better but I think in many cases better than they are in other parts of the country. And I think this continuing perceptions but that the south is still a hotbed of racism, Joe, that’s nonsense and you know it."
SCARBOROUGH: "I agree. I understand in many places across the deep south race relations are better there than places I’ve seen in the northeast or the midwest. I just don’t if Donald Trump knows that."
