BROOKE BALDWIN (HOST): So that was a piece of it. Here's my question out of that. It was just Friday where he said, “Listen, everything I say is a suggestion.” He recently, obviously, sort of walked back his Muslim ban as a suggestion. I think he said to you there will be a big beautiful door in my wall. Do you think with Donald Trump what's done is done, or, I don't know, is there middle ground with him?

COKIE ROBERTS: Well, what's done has certainly had an impact, and it's a very hateful impact, and you've had -- I just came, just this second, from a conversation for ABC Digital with some women in New York. One of them is a teacher, and she's a Trump supporter, basically. But she says on her playground, that the Muslim kids have been taunted, and she's had to do a whole sort of lesson with her children. So it's done. What he's done is create a lot of hatred and hostility between groups in this country after a half-century of us trying to bring people together. I mean, Brooke, I come out of the Jim Crow South. I've lived through this history and had a cross burned on my parents’ lawn because of supporting civil rights. Having this whole two generations trying to bring America together and be one country and to suddenly have a leader come in and try to break that all apart and pit groups against each other is very discouraging.

Previously:

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Watch MSNBC's Chris Matthews Slam Trump For His Muslim Ban That Will Give “Exceptions” To His “Very Rich” Muslim Friends