Rep. Rashida Tlaib: Trump "must do better" to condemn white nationalism | Video



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Representative Rashida Tlaib, one of two Muslim women sitting in Congress, called on President Trump to take a stronger stand against white supremacists in the aftermath of the New Zealand mosque shooting last week.

"The leaders, the administration – when they stay silent, it will increase," she told CNN's Jake Tapper on "the state of the Union."

In response to President Trump's statement that white nationalists are "a small group of people who have very, very serious problems," Tlaib said, "He has to pick up the phone and call the Ministry of Justice."

"He can not just say that it's a small group of people," she said. "There are too many deaths."

"He has to do better by us and by the country," she added. "He must speak and condemn this very loudly and very clearly."

REPRESENTATIVE. RASHIDA TLAIB: He has to pick up the phone and call the Ministry of Justice. There is real data and information on the rise of white supremacy here in these United States of America. He must examine the data, information and facts and listen and understand the enormous responsibility he has to assume as president.

Our leader of our country. He can not just say it's a small group of people. There are too many deaths. Not only from the synagogue to the black churches to the temples to the mosques, we must express ourselves against that, and it must begin with it. Reiterate the importance of information and real data indicating that they are on the rise. Justice can not say that this is not the case when the facts say the opposite.

He must do better by us and by the country. He needs to speak and condemn this very loudly and very clearly.

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