On the same day MSNBC apologized for tweeting offensive remarks about multiracial families, host Alex Wagner called the “heart” of the Republican party racist.

Citing a Buzzfeed article, Wagner laid out an argument for the reason why the GOP has a hard time coalescing around any immigration fixes:

As John Stanton reports according to one southern Republican lawmaker, the reason the party has had such a hard time doing anything on immigration reform is because "it's racial. if you go to town halls, people say things like ‘these people have a different culture than we do’, and that's code for race."

Several minutes later, Wagner referred back to the Buzzfeed assertion as “this argument,” asserting its centrality to the Republican party:

Sam Stein, one would hope we have moved past the question of alligator-filled moats but it is a fair point that John Stanton brought up that what's driving division over immigration reform is the base itself, which makes tackling it that much harder. John Boehner came out and excoriated outside groups over the last spending bill in the fall…and seemed to maybe be putting those demons in a box. But this is very much the heart and soul of the Republican party, this argument.

Wagner spaced the two references out, so it wasn’t immediately obvious what she was saying. But make no mistake—Wagner knew what she was doing. Sadly, calling the GOP’s heart and soul racist is just another day at the office at MSNBC.