ALISYN CAMEROTA (CO-HOST): All right let's talk about the judge that Donald Trump went after. He said he was Mexican. In fact, he's American. Donald Trump obviously trying to turn the page away from that, but that story has legs, and that story continues to reverberate. Now that judge's legal association, the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association has finally put out a statement. They had been silent for a long time while Donald Trump was going after him, and the judge himself cannot actually go back after him. But his association has written a statement. Let me read it to you: “Contrary to what Trump has stated, we are not affiliated with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). That is a wholly independent civil rights and advocacy non-profit organization. The San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association has not been involved in organizing any Trump protests, nor do we work in conjunction with the other La Raza.” They felt that it was important to say that because all of Trump's surrogates continue to come on our air and elsewhere and say, 'Well they're an advocacy group. Well, they are for illegal immigration.' Errol, does this put this to rest?
ERROL LOUIS: It won't put it to rest, because people who don't want to understand it won't understand it. Right? But yeah, there are any number of basically ethnic affiliated groups. I mean it starts at law school, frankly. You have the Black Bar Association and the Columbian Association for the Italian lawyers.
CHRIS CUOMO (CO-HOST): A great organization by the way.
CAMEROTA: And by the way, they were set up to try to counter discrimination that these lawyers were feeling, that they were being denied judgeships.
LOUIS: Right. I mean, it's partly networking, and it is partly, depending on the law firm you're talking about --
CUOMO: Well why rationalize their existence? Isn't the point here that you're making that they're wrong, this isn't the group that you think you're talking about?
CAMEROTA: Absolutely.
