Jay Inslee chokes up in call for non-violence, decries 'ranting' of Trump

Gov. Jay Inslee, almost never without words, briefly choked up Monday as he recalled hearing from his father of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, and later evoked words of Sen. Robert Kennedy to address the nation's current racism-caused turbulence.

"My dad cried that night, I miss him," the governor said.

The Kennedy speech, delivered to a largely African American audience in Indianapolis, many learning that King has been assassinated, included these lines quoted by Inslee:

"What we need in the United States is not division: What we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."

The words were used as Inslee reacted with contempt to a Donald Trump tirade delivered earlier Monday over the phone to governors. "Most of you are weak," Trump told them. "You have to arrest people ... You have to track people. You have to put them in jail for 10 years and you'll never see this stuff again."

He was "astounded by the ranting of the president today," Inslee told a press briefing.

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