joining us now niklas chris of the for "the new york times" and brian claus, a fellow of global politics at the london school of economics and author of "despots apprentice." and careen jean-pierre for moveon.org. corhine, i want to start with you. your country of haiti attacked in the cruelest possible language today and i'm -- i really am out of words about what to say about this. and i just like to go to you first for your reaction. >> yeah. lawrence, it's been almost 365 days since his inauguration and it's continuously all of us being out of words because of what donald trump has done in the oval office and with his presidency. look. i mean, what we heard today, the comments we heard today is just proves what we have known for a long time. that the man who occupies the oval office, the man who is supposed to be the president of the united states, who sits behind the resolute december senior citizen indeed a racist. we have known that for a long time. sadly for us, this is nothing new. we have to remember he started his business career as a racist. he started his political career as