'"I now see I've been manipulated by the party that I voted for all my life." He then ticked off some of the points I made in my speech.'

'Then-Sen. Kamala Harris, in September, said, "There is very little that we can trust that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth."'

Larry Elder examines the disastrous consequences that would come with professional sports leagues doing away with merit-based standards.

'Even during slavery, a black child was more likely to live under a roof with his or her biological mother and biological father than today.'

'In 1940, 87 percent of black Americans lived below the federally defined level of poverty. By 1960, that number had fallen to 47 percent.'

'It is also interesting that we are having this hearing at a time when racism as a barrier to success has never been so insignificant.'

'About slavery, do our mostly left-wing educators teach that slavery was not unique to America and is as old as humankind?'

'Once upon a time, normal people found Sharpton offensive. Take former Rep. Joe Scarborough, now a cozy colleague of Sharpton on MSNBC.'

'Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York said in 2014, "Some [Republicans] believe that slavery isn't over, and they think they won the Civil War."'

'When did the Democrats practice the very civility to which they seek to return? Let's go to the videotape.'