Hillary Clinton: 'Too Many Women' Face Sexism.
CUOMO: Former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton back in the spotlight defending a journalist and a black congresswoman over too many women facing sexism in her most political speech since the election. Take a listen.</s>CLINTON: April Ryan, a respected journalist with unrivaled integrity, was doing her job just this afternoon in the White House press room when she was patronized and cut off, trying to ask a question. Maxine Waters was taunted with a racist joke about her hair. Now, too many women, especially women of color, have had a lifetime of practice taking precisely these indignities in stride. But why should we have to? And any woman who thinks this couldn't be directed at her is living in a dream world.</s>CUOMO: All right. Let's bring back our panel: Mark Preston, Errol Louis and Jackie Kucinich. Want to split the pieces of sound that led to this?</s>CAMEROTA: Yes, listen, all right, so you have the Maxine Waters one first. She was giving a speech on the floor. Bill O'Reilly of FOX was sitting there listening with "FOX & Friends" crew. Here's what happened.</s>REP. MAXINE WATERS (D), CALIFORNIA: Fighting for the democracy. We're fighting for America. We're saying to those who say they're patriotic, but they turn a blind eye to the destruction that he's about to cause this country. You're not nearly as patriotic as we are.</s>BRIAN KILMEADE, CO-HOST, "FOX & FRIENDS": So what does that mean, Bill? We've been listening all morning.</s>BILL O'REILLY, FOX NEWS HOST: I didn't hear a word she says. I was looking at the James Brown wig. If we have a picture of James Brown. It's the same...</s>KILMEADE: The same one.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've got to defend her on that.</s>O'REILLY: You are all wrong.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have to defend her on that. You can't go after a woman's looks. I think she's very attractive.</s>O'REILLY: I didn't say she wasn't attractive. I love James Brown.</s>CUOMO: He wound up apologizing, I think, to the "International Business Insider." He said he didn't mean it that way; she's welcome on the show. He likes her. But the point was made.</s>KUCINICH: Yes, what do you say to that? That's a horrible thing to say.</s>CAMEROTA: But -- but let's bring it back to Hillary Clinton. Because Hillary Clinton is back with a vengeance. She's wearing her black leather. She's ready to rumble. And she has...</s>CUOMO: Is that allowed, by the way?</s>CAMEROTA: Black leather?</s>CUOMO: Yes.</s>CAMEROTA: She's going punk rock. OK? And so Jackie, what does this mean for her appearance back on the stage? Is this the beginning of something?</s>KUCINICH: It's hard to say with Hillary Clinton. Because you do hear -- you hear all sorts of rumors about how she's coming back. This very much was in line with the Hillary Clinton that we knew before when she was on the speaking circuit, before she ran for president, talking a lot about women empowerment. And that is her comfort zone. So it does make sense that she is coming out on this particular issue, because it's something that she knows a lot about. And she's frankly good at talking about it.</s>CAMEROTA: What do you guys think? Does it mean something bigger? Do we know what's happening with Hillary?</s>PRESTON: We don't know what's happening with her. But I would say this. And, you know, people will get mad at me for saying it. But I think there's something to be said about that Democrats should look for the next generation of leaders right now.</s>CUOMO: Look, we did the debate for -- with Perez and Ellison and everybody, the DNC chair. Dana and I kept baiting them with questions about whether Hillary is the past or the future. They didn't want to touch it. I don't think that there's any -- new path.</s>PRESTON: ... politics. I mean, to be critical of her.</s>CAMEROTA: You are saying that youth...</s>PRESTON: I'm saying there's a voice for her, and she's certainly a leader and, quite frankly, is probably the leader in many ways and President Obama, who's still very young. The fact of the matter is for the Democratic Party to -- to rebuild and to battle back against Republicans, they have to look to a new leader.</s>LOUIS: Really, there's a vacuum there. Right? I mean, this is the big news of the day. And anybody else could have found a way to put themselves in front of the camera and say something pithy or something that's right on target and start to try to redefine who's going to lead a -- the Democratic progressive side of politics in America. Nobody has chosen to do that. Tom Perez didn't do it. Nobody else did it. So Hillary Clinton will still be there, and that's always been the case. Let me just say real briefly about -- about that disgusting comment by Bill O'Reilly. I teach journalism part-time, as you know. Tons and tons of young journalists of color who are out there waiting and trying to get a break. For FOX News to promote that kind of garbage and to sort of leave it out there. It is not just discouraging, but I think it adds a lot of fuel to people who are really, I think, going to change this business over the next few years. Ten years from now, we'll be telling our kids and students then, you know, what it used to be like in the bad old days when people would kind of spew this kind of racist garbage on national television.</s>CUOMO: It wasn't the only example in times of fuel for the fire. You have Sean Spicer. He is getting a lot of pick up for talking, making the silly comment about Russian dressing leading to more connections between Trump and Russia if the president uses Russian dressing. But he said something else that drew criticism and for good reason. Here it is.</s>APRIL RYAN, JOURNALIST: You've got Russian. You've got wiretapping. You've got...</s>SPICER: No, we don't have that.</s>A. RYAN: ... on Capitol Hill.</s>SPICER: No, no. I get it. But I've said it from the day that I got here until whenever. There is no connection. You've got Russia. If the president puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow, that's a Russian connection. No, at some point, the facts are that every person who has been briefed on this subject has come away with the same conclusion. Republican, Democrat, so I'm sorry that that disgusts you. You're shaking your head. I appreciate it. At some point, April, you're going to have to take "no" for an answer with respect to whether or not there was collusion.</s>CUOMO: First of all the reason I joke-called him Captain Credibility is because he's got some nerve saying that everyone who's heard these questions come to the same conclusion. What are you talking about? Jim Comey just admitted they have an open investigation into this. You have Adam Schiff thinking that there's something in this that should be before a grand jury. You have this whole deception play with Nunes. It's just without context for Spicer to say that. But then, Errol, he goes at April to stop shaking her head. What did that mean?</s>LOUIS: I mean, it was one of the worse people that he could try and target. And I understand that the banter, you know, it can get intense in that briefing room. And so he'll get personal. That's his style. I don't think it particularly works. She's the last person you should try that with, because she's respected. She's a bit of an institution. She's a straight shooter. You know, in the back and forth, you know, she's shaking her head saying, you know, basically, "I don't believe you." And for all of the reasons that you just suggested. He says things from the podium that are not believable. The reporters are there to challenge him. It gets -- you know, like I said intense. Sean Spicer is going to have to figure out somebody else to beat up on. She's not the one.</s>KUCINICH: This is the same week that he called a reporter from Politico an idiot. There just needs to be some professionalism, frankly, injected.</s>CUOMO: You don't see it as a female issue? A race issue. You see it as just decorum between professionals?</s>KUCINICH: I mean, not really -- it really does seem respect has gone out the window at this point. It is too bad.</s>PRESTON: It's actually not a race issue, and it's not a gender issue. I mean, I've known him for a million years. That's not the case. What it is, it is a respect issue, quite frankly. And where he lost it with the fork in the road. And he said the French dressing thing. Excuse me, Russian dressing. What he should have said is try to make a joke of it and try to go down that road. But he went down the other road, and it got nasty.</s>CAMEROTA: Here's the good news. We have April Ryan on our program in the 8 a.m. hour. So she can tell us her impressions of that exchange with Sean Spicer. Thank you very much, panel.</s>CUOMO: All right. Up next, very troubling face. More than 100 civilians killed in Mosul by a coalition airstrike. What a top commander is saying about the U.S. role and why he believes ISIS may also have blood on its hands here. We'll give you the facts, and you can decide.