On Wednesday’s New Day, CNN co-hosts Alisyn Camerota and John Berman brought on senior legal analyst Laura Coates and chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin to predictably attack Attorney General William Barr for daring to disagree with the Democrats and Black Lives Matter. The Democratic shills assaulted Barr for not hiring people of color and Camerota, a typical white, woke liberal, asked how can Barr “say there's no systemic racism?”
Berman and Coates began the attack on Barr by suggesting that he is not in touch with reality:
BERMAN: William Barr was on a different planet, and I'll let you decide whether that was a good planet or bad planet, from where the Democrats in that committee were.
COATES: It was the bad planet, spoiler alert, John. And the reason it was the bad planet is because it tried to pull the wool over the nation's eyes and the eyes have already seen it.
How incredibly rich coming from CNN, as it has consistently argued that the anarchists committing violence and destroying property across the country are few and far between as most are peaceful. It seems like CNN is “on a different planet.”
Sounding like woke white saviors, Toobin and Camerota bemoaned Barr not acknowledging systemic racism:
TOOBIN: Well, I -- I -- I just wanted to say, you know, there is a substantive disagreement between Democrats and Republicans about these protests, is that -- that -- that Barr, the President, they don't believe that there is systemic racism in this country. They don't believe in the basic premise of the Black Lives Matter movement. And you saw that yesterday, is that they just reject the idea that these protests are even based in any sort of reality. And I think that's really, you know, something people ought to think about, about which way this country is going to go, because that's at the core of a lot of these disagreements about the Black Lives Matters protests.
CAMEROTA: I'm glad you brought that up, Jeffrey, because William Pelham Barr weighing in on systemic racism, it -- it's like me talking about sports. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He has no experience. How can he say there's no systemic racism? He would not have been subject to it.
That crazy Barr for not supporting a Marxist organization which has caused violence and destruction throughout the U.S. How dare he not support a group whose base chants to “fry” cops “like bacon” and whose New York leader stated that “if this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.” Why would he not think there is such a thing as systematic racism when some of the most powerful people and companies in the world have expressed support for BLM and the average black family lives well over the U.S. poverty line?
Toobin then praised the Democrats who questioned Barr:
Well, and -- and I also thought the hearing was at its best when it was about facts, not about people yelling at each other. Like, I thought, you know, Representative Swalwell, Representative Cicilline, they pointed out that, you know, the -- the Attorney General was very concerned about the excessive sentence to Roger Stone, the President's friends. And they asked, are there any other sentences in the entire federal system that you have intervened to try to lower?
Did Toobin watch the hearing? The Democrats mostly yelled at Barr and interrupted him so much that he had to complain about him not being heard at his own hearing.
Berman then praised Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-LA) for challenging Barr on systemic racism; boasting that his attack on Barr’s staffing decisions “made people just sit back and go, huh, there's something to this.”
In response, Coates painted Barr as a racist:
Well, the idea that they're pointing out, of course, is that in the ranks of the higher -- upper echelon of the Department of Justice, that you don't have anybody who is a person of color, who is walking into a room when you know you're going to be talking about issues of systemic racism, about justice in America, about criminal justice reform, about a whole host of issues that touch upon issues that are particularly prevalent -- relevant -- relevant to communities of color, it is very telling.
Desperate to single his virtue, Toobin interjected to praise Obama for hiring people of color:
And can we just say the White House staff too. I mean, when was the last time you saw a senior White House staffer -- staffer who's a person of color? The Obama administration.
CNN has long been the woke news network, and will attack anyone who disagrees with the Democrats and their woke talking points.
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Read the full July 29th transcript here:
CNN New Day
07/29/20
7:18 AM ET
JOHN BERMAN: All right joining us now is CNN Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin and CNN Legal Analyst Laura Coates. That was representative of five hours yesterday. That encapsulates, I think, what we saw. And, Laura, when you heard the Attorney General say, I don't agree with your characterization, I think that is even more representative of the entire five hours, which is to say that William Barr was on a different planet, and I'll let you decide whether that was a good planet or bad planet, from where the Democrats in that committee were.
LAURA COATES (CNN LEGAL ANALYST): It was the bad planet, spoiler alert, John. And the reason it was the bad planet is because it tried to pull the wool over the nation's eyes and the eyes have already seen it. The idea that you could not definitively say that you should not use a chemical irritant, a tear gassing agent of some sort to try to push back peaceful protesters who are exercising their First Amendment right on one of the most iconic public forums in the entire world, the area in front of the White House, all for a ham-handed photo-op, this is telling you that he cannot help himself but to try to deflect and to try to use a monotone way of speaking to try to somehow, I don't know, make everyone believe there is credibility to what he's saying, when our eyes have already shown that his credibility has been belied by the facts.
ALISYN CAMEROTA: Jeffrey, you know what --
JEFFREY TOOBIN (CNN CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST): If -- if -- if --
CAMEROTA: Yeah?
TOOBIN: Well, I -- I -- I just wanted to say, you know, there is a substantive disagreement between Democrats and Republicans about these protests, is that -- that -- that Barr, the President, they don't believe that there is systemic racism in this country. They don't believe in the basic premise of the Black Lives Matter movement. And you saw that yesterday, is that they just reject the idea that these protests are even based in any sort of reality. And I think that's really, you know, something people ought to think about, about which way this country is going to go, because that's at the core of a lot of these disagreements about the Black Lives Matters protests.
CAMEROTA: I'm glad you brought that up, Jeffrey, because William Pelham Barr weighing in on systemic racism, it -- it's like me talking about sports. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He has no experience. How can he say there's no systemic racism? He would not have been subject to it. And that is -- the larger point is that he engages in this sort of willful blindness, you know, in terms of well, I didn't see it. I didn’t -- I didn't see the President's tweets about Michael Flynn or Roger Stone. I didn't know that those existed. I don't think that the National Guard used tear gas on protesters. Yes, they did. Last ---- yesterday, we also heard from the most senior guardsmen on the scene outside of Lafayette Park, who said, yes, they did use tear gas. So, Jeffrey, Bill Barr could know those things, if he chose to look into them. But he didn't seem to have that kind of intellectual curiosity.
TOOBIN: Well, and -- and I also thought the hearing was at its best when it was about facts, not about people yelling at each other. Like, I thought, you know, Representative Swalwell, Representative Cicilline, they pointed out that, you know, the -- the Attorney General was very concerned about the excessive sentence to Roger Stone, the President's friends. And they asked, are there any other sentences in the entire federal system that you have intervened to try to lower? And the answer was no. So I think that's really what was revealing, is that out of all the sentences in the United States courts, the only one that the Attorney General has intervened in his tenure in office was one for the President's friends. That tells you more than Congressmen and -- and Attorney General yelling at each other.
BERMAN: Yeah, and, look, again, that's William Barr's planet, which might be different than the planet that other people live on when they think about equal justice. Laura Coates, Cedric Richmond, Democrat from Louisiana, to the point that -- that you were all just making about systemic racism, had one of the moments in five hours that I think made people just sit back and go, huh, there's something to this. Listen.
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REP. CEDRIC RICHMOND (D-LA): When you all came here and brought your top staff, you brought no black people. That, sir, is systematic racism. You should -- really should keep the name of the honorable John Lewis out of the Department of Justice's mouth.
(Cuts to live)
BERMAN: So, Laura, what about that point?
COATES: Well, the idea that they're pointing out, of course, is that in the ranks of the higher -- upper echelon of the Department of Justice, that you don't have anybody who is a person of color, who is walking into a room when you know you're going to be talking about issues of systemic racism, about justice in America, about criminal justice reform, about a whole host of issues that touch upon issues that are particularly prevalent -- relevant -- relevant to communities of color, it is very telling. But it goes beyond just that. It also goes beyond the idea that the Attorney General himself, without talking about the actual data that we could see if the Attorney General was -- was accountable and transparent, we aren’t talking about the whole millions of anecdotes and research that is out there. He instead shows, you know, I can legitimize what you're experiencing, because I've spoken to Senator Tim Scott. I've spoken to an unidentified prominent black professional in the area. Well, thank God he talked to these two people. Otherwise, the experience of so many people would have never been legitimatized by this Attorney General. And so you have somebody who is at the helm of a department that includes the civil rights division, and it's breaking news to them that there is not systemic racism in this world.
CAMEROTA: Laura Coates --
TOOBIN: And can --
CAMEROTA: Yeah quickly.
TOOBIN: -- we just say the White House staff too. I mean, when was the last time you saw a senior White House staffer -- staffer who's a person of color? The Obama administration.
